Jay Caspian Kang

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jay Caspian Kang

Everyone, including me, has a podcast now—so it’s hard to begrudge Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, for indulging his God-given right to produce audio content. “This Is Gavin Newsom” is five episodes into its run and, outside of a four-minute emergency update on the Menendez brothers’ trial and a lengthy conversation with Governor Tim Walz, each episode has featured Newsom interviewing right-wing figures, namely Charlie Kirk, Michael Savage, and Steve Bannon.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jay Caspian Kang

Sometimes things are straightforward: the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate who was involved in the pro-Palestine protests on the school’s campus, is an affront to freedom of speech. Regardless of what you think about Israel, Palestine, or the protests at Columbia, if you regard the First Amendment of the United States Constitution as worth protecting, you must oppose the Trump Administration’s attempt to silence speech through repressive government action.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Jay Caspian Kang

In gaming, a metric called “ping” measures the time it takes for information to travel from your console to the network and back again. If you’re playing online soccer and you press the button that makes your striker shoot, the ping is how long it takes for the shot to register onscreen. The more ping, the less responsive the game feels.

1 month ago | wired.jp | Jay Caspian Kang

2017年、ドナルド・トランプがホワイトハウス入りした当初は、まさに衝撃と畏怖の様相だった。就任演説では「米国の大虐殺（American carnage）」という表現まで使い、就任早々に、イスラム諸国からの入国審査を厳格化する大統領令にも署名した。 それに比べると、再選を果たして25年のトランプは、少なくともいまのところ、比較的おとなしく、それがかえって奇妙でもあるが、突き詰めればさほど脅威には感じられない。第45代大統領としての就任演説のときは、「新しいビジョン」で「この国を統治する」と述べ、国民が「無視されることは二度とない」と約束した。第47代としての就任演説は、冷めた調子で始まり、パナマ運河、火星、そして「電気自動車の義務化の撤廃」へと進み、終始とりとめがなかった。...

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Jay Caspian Kang

Carville’s gambit would probably work in a world where patience with both Trump and the Democratic Party were in endless supply. Trump and Elon Musk, I agree, are doing some very unpopular things, including asking millions of federal employees to write work e-mails over the weekend, and I imagine both will see their favorability numbers crater in the next year. The problem is that many voters who are being asked to wait are currently, and rightfully, in a state of panic.