‘Decomputerize?’ Over My Dead Laptop! (19/09/19 19:23)
This week, I wrote a dystopia of the dystopians, an extrapolation of current wishes among the ant...

How the Dystos Defeated the Technos: A dystopian vision (18/09/19 00:09)
History 302 — Fall semester, 2032 — Final essay [This is not prediction about tomorrow; it is ext...

Worries (18/08/19 19:39)
Professor Rosen gave me homework. He told me he wanted me to prepare a list like his, of the top ...

Bad headline, small changes at the New York Times (15/08/19 22:20)
Anxiety over the core audience's rising influence helps explain events after 'Trump Urges Unity v...

Governance: Facebook designs its oversight board (should journalism?) (13/08/19 18:30)
Facebook is devoting impressive resources — months of time and untold millions of dollars — to de...

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, August 2019 (06/08/19 20:28)
These are the things I spend the most time puzzling about. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time t...

Beto to journalism: ‘What the fuck?’ (05/08/19 23:51)
This post began with Beto O’Rourke’s lesson. Then I added Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And then Eddi...

Evidence, please (26/07/19 18:12)
[Disclosure: I raised money for my school from Facebook to aggregate signals of quality in news. ...