By Walt Hickey
Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.
This week, I spoke to Jake Lahut, an independent journalist covering some fascinating topics about the word of politcs. Jake is out with a rebrand of his substack, The Hut. And he’s covering the tech of the politcal right and the election cycle.
We talked about canvassing approaches, the surprisingly rapid saliance of the data center issue, and a suprising twist in campaign rhetoric since the start of the year.
Jake can be found at The Hut:
This interview has been condensed and edited.
Jake, thanks so much for coming back on.
Yeah, great to be on, Walt.
You are the proprietor of a freshly rebranded The Hut. Do you want to talk a little bit about what you cover and what got you interested in this angle on politics?
Sure. I mainly viewed the newsletter at first purely as a delivery mechanism for any freelance work I was doing. And then I started to view it a little more as an extension of my time at Wired covering the influence of the tech…