Friday, June 27, 2025

And, by making it personal, it's a story after all.  For every person we know who has had trouble getting into the U.S. from Europe, Asia, Canada, or elsewhere, we know dozens who have experienced the opposite. Since there are only facts in "no trouble at all," and no story, the no-trouble non-story tends not to get reported. (For more on why, see Where Journalism Fails.) In I'm at the US border—but will the guards play ball, Martin Samuel of The Times shares his own experience (of entering the U.S. for a World Cup match). It's a good short read.

What? Oh that, yes. ChatGPT just interrupted my experience of it to tell me about its memory: how it works, and how best to use it. Since ChatGPT is the one chatbot I pay for,  and there are lots of past chats I would like ChatGPT to recall, I'll save this link and hope its parents don't 404 it.