Joe Biden is a conservative just as Richard Nixon was a liberal. Only in retrospect.

Open source needs to be a bigger piece of the discussion around Threads, around Twitter, and around the business of technology generally. But 99% of the reports I’ve seen about the new service ignore it.

It doesn’t matter how much money Zuck or Dorsey has. Their reach is limited. The reach of Mastodon, and the open source concept, is not.

In my 45 year reporting career I have seen perpetual change. I have also seen enough booms and bubbles to detect their pattern.

Why are so many people, in all political camps, telling people things are hopeless, that the fascists can win, that our system is doomed? If they have lost faith, let’s find new leaders who have it.

The companies that became heirs to the studios made the previous jumps, to the small screen and then the multi-channel screen. They haven’t made this one. They don’t own clouds. The survivors will be those who can sell out.

No matter how much you may want it, a war between China and the U.S. would be a disaster. If it can be prevented, it should be.

The cause of today's trouble is the same as that of the Civil War, change happening at ludicrous speed, scaring the middle class, who are driven to their destruction by the oligarchs above them

The nature of work is changing. Technology has been doing this for 200 years. We’re creating more value with fewer people, so those people are becoming more valuable. All this is good news. Stop trying to convince people otherwise.

We’ll get past the panic, and we’ll get past the boom. The slope of enlightenment is coming.