Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
SUBSCRIBE ‘Cet esprit de mensonge et d’ erreur—De la chute des rois funeste avantcoureur’ (This spirit of lies and error—a fatal herald of the fall of kings), which Racine spoke about, is today no longer the monopoly of sovereigns. It embraces all classes of the population; it takes
When Nigeria rises to the surface of America's (mis)information streams and you're even asked a question by a family member on the South Side, you need to write. After my first time in Nigeria a decade ago, the number of times I've had
Dem use sorrow, tears, and blood Dem regular trademark Two days ago, I forwarded a piece to several Nigerians and a former South African on the American Grammy's amusingly giving an award to Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti. Wouldn't have happened no way, no how back in the
It’s sort of incredible, although maybe simply nothing more than a manifestation of the technology, the more information technology, the greater the bullshit produced. Yesterday, when the merger of Trump Media and Google backed fusion firm TAE was announced, you might think we reached some sort of peak, but
I did a great interview on The Politics of Ape and Machine with Ben Tallman at WUSB, the radio station for Stony Brook University out there on Long Island. Thanks Ben! He brought up Bernie Sanders at one point. Afterwards, I was thinking I should have told a good story
Deep and Dirty SUBSCRIBE It's clear any sort of American small “d” democratic revival requires Americans coming together face to face to discuss and decide. This essential democratic tradition is largely lost across the political landscape, yet it still thrives at the top. JPMorganChase just announced the formation
SUBSCRIBE Saturday talk in Chicago was well attended and enjoyable. Special thanks to Jim Geoghegan. Below, I focused my remarks on a short history of compute. The latest technology reshaping society for which we have no politics.
Well the politics of technology around Tech's data center push, or is it putsch, continue to bubble-up across the country. The latest action occurring in Port Washington, WI, a town of 12,000 on Lake Michigan, just south of Milwaukee. Seems the citizenry discovered the Mayor and
SUBSCRIBE The politics of AI are beginning to bloom, an opportunity for its use as a lever to revive and help reform democracy in America. To be used as such requires an understanding there is no Democratic or Republican position on AI. It is either an issue that helps redefine
SUBSCRIBE Well, since Nigeria breached, hopefully briefly, the tidal line of the American information tsunami, maybe there’s a small opportunity for an ignorant people to learn a little about a part of the world they helped shape over the last half-century. Coincidentally and conveniently, the FT has a
A reminder next Saturday, December 6th is Chicago book event. Due to popular demand and fire codes, and fire codes in Chicago are nothing to sneeze at, we had to move the venue. No worries, it's right down the street with plenty of room, same time: Saturday, December
As far as American holidays go, Thanksgiving is about as good as it gets, not militarized or hyper-consumptive. Of course getting together and sharing food is as old a community tradition as this species has, cutting across all modern lines of separation, stretching back to the African savannas. Not