The loudest thing in Yanzhong Huang’s column isn’t the warning about Chinese overconfidence. It’s the quiet assumption that the wheel…
Tag: AI
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If You Don’t Win, You Don’t Play
Canada’s lottery system had a slogan that is almost poetic in its optimism: if you don’t play, you don’t win. The…
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AI Fangirl with Footnotes: A Manifesto for Loving the Tools Without Joining the Cult
I like AI. I like it the way I like a good research library: because it gives me access to…
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The Emotional Economy of “I Already Know”
Tech culture doesn’t just sell products. It sells a feeling: the warm, narcotic glow of believing you “already know” what’s…
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The Machine and the Forgotten
The latest SubStack is here.
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The Bluffer’s Field Guide to AI‑Talkers
Everyone suddenly has a “take” on AI. Pundits who couldn’t program a microwave now hold forth on “alignment.” Lifestyle influencers…
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From Civil War Bylines to AI: Journalism’s Accidental Return to Its Roots
Most people think bylines were invented to reward star reporters.They weren’t. They were invented to catch them. During the American…
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Canada Didn’t Bail Out Journalism. It Paid to Keep the Lab Running.
For seven years, Ottawa has been subsidizing rats in a maze and calling it “saving journalism.” Since 2019, the federal…
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Field Guide to Maze-Runners
Every profession produces its own wildlife. Journalism’s most common creature is not the reporter, not the editor, not even the…
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Maze-Runners in a Moving World
There is reality.There is truth.There is perception.There is interpretation. Most journalists don’t live in any of those places. They live…