Clearing the Cache: The perils of unlimited data, Tonga, and a tiny robot LBJ
Plus reporting from inside the Library of Congress
Slow Build by Nancy Scola
The journalist Nancy Scola’s guide to what’s happening at the intersections of technology, politics, and policy.
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Clearing the Cache: Legislating by tweet, “Bluebook”-ing AI, and the frontiers of chicken tech
One goes into newslettering with such high hopes.
Reviving “Clearing the Cache”: AI-powered pricing, the CFTC, and it's always Nixon
A million years ago when I was a wee baby reporter, I helped run a tiny publication that played big called techPresident, premised on the idea that this Internet thing just might change the practice of politics.
Beware the noisy bar
... and other lessons in reporting
The Case for Betting on Politics
How and why political prediction markets are having their Washington moment
“The woman leading the surging MAGA antitrust movement”
A new profile of assistant attorney general Gail Slater
Pete Buttigieg, antitrust warrior?
And other election-day distraction reading
The Biden White House’s AI Weltanschauung
“What we’re going to have to prepare for...is the potential impact of AI on our ability to tell what’s real and what’s not."
“I’m not anyone that understands the industry”
Observations from inside the COVID bubble
TikTok and the forgotten American voter
A look at the much-debated platform's surprising role in politics