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James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

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Chaos, Genius, The Information, Time Travel

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James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

I’m an author and journalist writing about science and technology and media and information. My books include Chaos, The Information, and Time Travel, as well as biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton.

I’m working on a history of the telephone.

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James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

Every public official—Trump, Vance, Bondi, Noem, and on down—lying to cover up the ICE killings is guilty as an accessory to murder. If the Trump era ever ends, there must be a reckoning.

James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

"The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises."

In the U.S. Constitution, this is bedrock.

James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

Let’s play “Imagine if …”

Imagine if a Democratic president extorted extra-legal payments (taxes, but unauthorized by Congress) from individual business leaders, according to his whims, in exchange for government approvals.

Republicans? Anything to say?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/technology/trump-chips-nvidia-intel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d08.2Xmj.4heI0Wp-kVuY&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

Your taxpayer dollars at work: New Zealand woman living and working LEGALLY in Washington state, snatched up with her 6-year-old son, transported to Texas, and imprisoned there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url

James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

Which do you prefer, copyeditors of the world.

1. “… paint a contrasting picture.”
2. “… show that Trump was lying.”

Why can’t we get past the euphemisms?

Snippet from the Washington Post: “Local and federal data, though, paint a contrasting picture.”
James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

Which do you prefer, copyeditors of the world.

1. “… paint a contrasting picture.”
2. “… show that Trump was lying.”

Why can’t we get past the euphemisms?

Snippet from the Washington Post: “Local and federal data, though, paint a contrasting picture.”
James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

Consider this weaselly framing by the New York Times.

The reality: Trump is telling a blatant lie about violent crime in DC in order to justify an illegal takeover of law enforcement in the District. He is inventing a nonexistent crime wave.

So what’s this extra clause? Some “youth crime” still exists? It hasn’t been totally eradicated?

from the NY Times: “Mr. Trump has said that crime in Washington is spiraling out of control. While statistics show that violent crime in the city hit a 30-year low last year and is down another 26 percent so far this year, youth crime has been a persistent problem for city officials.”
James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

You start a work of fiction by an author of a particular gender, and at some point you realize that the narrator is a person of a different gender. How do you feel about that?

James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

First Ukraine, now Alaska.

Putin’s team, triumphant, asks Alaskans to “respectfully remember their Russian past and their Orthodox present.”

https://wapo.st/46PwvtP

James Gleick
@gleick@mas.to

You know how sometimes you read that a celebrity has died and it’s a surprise because you actually thought they had died long ago?

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued