Outside the Beltway

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

It’s the least I can do—and the most.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

Tales of threat assessment and media reactions.

A look back at two decades of blogging.

Weirdly, politicians who don’t understand the debt ceiling also don’t understand other things.

Where do we draw the line?

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

There’s training on uncomfortable subjects. Oh noes!

But did he ever really have it?

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

The biggest entertainment product in America is getting bigger.

They’re just too awful for delicate ears.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

Voting isn’t just about candidates.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

Wherein I take issue with a charactization made by Tom Nichols and discuss the politics of language.

It goes deeper than base names.

There are too many products chasing too few consumers.

Paywalls are not our problem.

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Remarkably, he had contact information on there!

For your consideration.

Pay no attention to the endorsement behind the candidate.

The company’s new AI technology looks awfully familiar.

An ugly divorce exposes a gap in our legal structure.

Are retired officers on defense boards presumed liars?

Brussels has gotten ahead of Washington in regulating mostly American-based Internet companies.

One of the great annoyances of the Internet is slowly going away.

Antiquated counting methods lead to misallocation of resources.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

A remarkable display of blaming the victim (by the victimizer).

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

His attacks are, in fact, the best case for tenure.

Out of a sense of fairness, I gave a listen.

The longtime aggregator is now serving mostly non-news content.

You pay for this but they give you that.

The Internets are terrible.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

Doing nothing is still a choice, and the legitimacy crisis is here, like it or not.

Our brains are wired to seek approval but may not be equipped to handle our modern existence.

A series of mismatches mean would-be workers can’t find employment despite an abundance of openings.

A new story archetype is all too common.

Making sense of a weird story.

Making it difficult for refuseniks works better than prizes.

The tech giant is even more powerful than you think.

The President announced a whopping 72 initiatives to rein in corporate power and lower prices.

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You know, some light weekend thoughts.