Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
The religious right is breaking up over Israel and Iran
Nearly a month into the joint US-Israeli war on Iran, there’s a good chance you’ve heard something about the apparent civil war on the right over the conflict. Though polling shows steady support for President Donald Trump from his MAGA base, the war has been tearing apart the MAGAsphere, pitting disenchanted MAGA influencers against fervent […]
The sneaky way Trump’s lawyers are supercharging ICE
Shortly after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, his administration started illegally detaining immigrants without giving them a bond hearing or other method of avoiding incarceration while an immigration judge determines if they are in the country legally. The overwhelming majority of federal judges have rejected this illegal practice. As Politico’s Kyle […]
Hey Google, stop trying to write my emails!
I first noticed it when, a few months ago, I opened an email from Ian, my literary agent. Before I’d had a chance to read anything he’d written, Gmail was recommending a full, fleshed-out, AI-generated reply, ventriloquizing ideas for a book and even my feelings about the job transition I’d recently made. It had mined […]
We’re entering dangerous territory with AI
Just how much is AI poised to change our world? Unless you’ve been in hibernation, the flurry of attention surrounding the latest AI models coming out of Silicon Valley has been hard to miss. AI has gone beyond a chatbot merely answering your questions to doing stuff that only human programmers used to be able […]
The elder care solution that everyone with aging parents should know about
You walk into the room and a whole crowd of people is belting out an uneven but spirited version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. A former lawyer dressed in a Beatles T-shirt taps his knees as if he were a professional drummer. Another guy, long and lanky in […]