Tom Corddry

Tom is a writer and aspiring flâneur who today provides creative services to mostly technology-centered clients. He led the Encarta team at Microsoft and, long ago, put KZAM radio on the air.

Fresh Start: Here’s How Democrats Could Reset The Presidential Race

It just so happens that the DNC has been building out the infrastructure to support secure virtual polling of its convention delegates wherever they may be in advance of the convention.

Ready for it? Hunger Games meets March Madness meets America’s Got Talent!

Here’s how the DNC could produce a riveting “show” and a strong nominee over the next eight weeks.

Might Biden Dropping Out Be a Big Opportunity?

The Democrats should embrace this opportunity to produce a splendid, news-dominating American pageant. For once, horse race coverage will actually be more important than issues coverage. With the nominee unknown, Putin and Trump will have a hard time targeting or strategizing.

Go to the Transcript?

Compared to Trump he was a relative paragon of accuracy, truth, context, and detail.

High Thread Count

In it’s first week, Threads attracted over 100 million users, making it the fasted-growing new app ever, by a lot. The old record was set by ChatGPT, which took two months to reach 100 million users after launch on November 39, 2022. 

We’ve Got the Meats: Our Insatiable Quest for Protein in a Time of Climate Change

Depending on what’s included in the calculation, agriculture accounts for roughly a quarter of all human-caused greenhouse gases.

Get Smarter: A Chatbot Reader

Here’s a reading list to help your comprehension, or at least help you toss the right jargon around in social settings, much as ChatGPT itself might do.

Still A Story: Where we are with COVID (And What you Need to Know)

COVID has settled into the background noise, there but politically unpopular and largely receding in public consciousness as a threat. It doesn't mean COVID has gone away.

Could Democrats have Better Gamed McCarthy’s Woes?

Even though the twisting lasted until McCarthy squeaked into the speakership in Round 15, the Democrats chose not to throw McCarthy a lifeline, for several reasons.

Documenting: How Fascism Can Arise in Democracies

There were many chances to stop the rise of fascism and the Nazis, and none of them worked.

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