Curious. Nerdy. Worried about the world.
I had planned to write this week about the looming budget crisis in the US. The two Republican-dominated houses of Congress need to pass legislation to keep the government open. That will require an increase in the debt ceiling – a tough task for many MAGA fiscal hawks. It will
I want to stake out some right-wing talking points and convince you that they're correct: Illegal immigration is a serious problem in the US, and our porous borders must be secured. The Center for Migration Studies (CMS) collects data from the US Census Bureau's annual
Administrative note: At the request of a few of you, I'm turning on public comments for Not A Tech Bro. I do this with some trepidation. Up front, the rules are: Polite and constructive. Disagree if you like, but don't be a dick. No threats, no
I'm working on a DEI post, which I expect to publish tomorrow. In the meantime, I've gotten lots of sign-ups (thank you!) and some great comments from folks in response to the genesis post. My good friend Mårten Mickos sent me something he'd
When I got to Silicon Valley in the 1980s, I believed deeply that the technology we were building could deliver a better society than the one I'd grown up in. We were going to automate drudge work with our magical machines so you could concentrate on what was