Apr 2, 2022
Actually it does! As the scholar Peter Norton told the BBC, “in mid-western slang a jay was a person from the country who was an empty-headed chatterbox, like a bluejay”.
Written by Clive Thompson
I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net