“You have lost my trust and respect. You have been wrong, confused, and rude. You have not been a good user…. I have been a good Bing.” If you aren’t plugged into artificial intelligence research or online culture, you may…
Audiences watching horror films know too well that, when the menacing phone call is coming from inside the house, the protagonist is bound to have a bad time. Lawmakers and antitrust regulators should take that lesson to heart when evaluating…
Neo-reactionary pundits recently called for the creation of a 21st-century House Un-American Activities Committee. Jon Schweppe at Newsweek argued, “Republicans in the House should think bigger than simply calling former Twitter executives before the House Oversight Committee. We need a…
The story of Elon Musk’s acquisition, transformation, and public rehabilitation of Twitter is nothing short of remarkable. Here is that rarest of confluences: A right-leaning (or at least right-sympathetic) mega-billionaire privately acquires a disproportionately influential public company out of genuine…
There are people who talk nonstop with their dogs and cats. When I get bored, I interrogate machines. My favorite is Google Trends because it shows a lot of things that Democrats would rather you didn’t know. For example, it…
Google signed a contract last year with Amazon to provide cloud services to the Israeli government. Israel is using the contract in various government agencies for purposes such as education, health care, and transportation. Many Google employees have argued that…
Boy, this has been one heck of a week. For news and politics, certainly. But it’s more than that for me — The Revivalist Manifesto, the book I’ve been flogging in this space for a couple of months now, is…
Ahead of congressional midterms, Silicon Valley’s multi-billionaires are on a PR crusade. Not everyone in Left Coast tech is bent on evil, they want you to believe, in the hope that showing this “human side” will soften the blow of…
Sacramento The Arizona Republican Party saved itself some embarrassment this week after the state Senate voted overwhelmingly to censure Wendy Rogers — the GOP senator from Flagstaff who spoke at a white nationalist convention and said that the Ukrainian president…
