Government raids: No one likes when the shoe is on the other foot

Courtroom scales balance papers against a glowing orb labeled TRUTH

While the reaction to the raid on Representative Ilhan Omar’s home is not surprising, what combination of short memories, a belief their audiences have even shorter ones, and self righteousness powers the phenomenon, where something is good when it happens to someone they don’t like, but bad, very bad otherwise? On August 10, 2022, a… Continue reading Government raids: No one likes when the shoe is on the other foot

The datacenter delusion

Illustration connecting POLICY, INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY, DATA, and INNOVATION through balanced scales

They used to say country over party.  Perhaps, we should put the future over politics, and rather than behaving like craven fools politicians should lead. If you’ve been looking for an issue that finally unites Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives alike, opposition to so-called AI datacenters might be it.  As the Associated Press characterized… Continue reading The datacenter delusion