How do they know how we voted?

If ballots are anonymous, how is demographic information about voters obtained? The answer: Exit polls.

Basic human rights versus your grocery bill

Why that's a false dichotomy

This is what mass deportation looks like

Think long and hard about how what this could lead to.

Join me on Bluesky

To me, it feels the most like OG Twitter - a place to read others' opinions and information - uncluttered by the bots, spam, and trolls that are ruining the other platform.

Still glancing back ..

I have been thinking a lot about diasporas lately. What it means to live long term in a society outside the one you were raised in.

Why I'm excited to vote for Kamala Harris

She will be the standard bearer for a compelling alternate vision for the future of the United States.

Still American

On loving and leaving the United States

Did Google shoot itself in the search engine?

AI Overviews prove not ready for prime time

In which I try to make 'fetch' happen

I think anyone who has ever used Google Maps to get directions can see the potential pitfalls of letting AI tell you where you go for Sunday dinner or the best local dry cleaners - let alone anything of greater consequence.

A blog by any other name ...

I read so many Substacks, in fact, that it can take up my entire morning--reading my subscriptions on the app, then commenting, then noticing who has 're-stacked' one of my articles . . . Wait, what does this remind me of?

Death by chocolate

I overindulged over the long Easter holiday - not in beer - as is the local custom - but in sugar. Family from home sent us a care package of yummy chocolate bunnies, eggs and truffles. And my 16-year-old daughter has discovered baking (thanks a lot, Preppy Kitchen!). She spent

Me and ChatGPT

I'm over here like Violet Crawley looking through her fan at this horrible electric lighting.