Every few years, you have a spate of silly billionaires trying to make money by “saving” journalism, which has as…
Author: Alexandra Kitty
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Since when was Canada joining the EU a thing?
Until very recently, “Canada joins the European Union” belonged in speculative fiction, not on the front page. Yet in the…
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Pressed Wood Songs: From IKEA Rooms to Loop‑Pop and Fan‑Art
In the postwar era, our cultural environment was rebuilt on flat‑pack principles. We live in IKEA rooms, listen to IKEA…
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True Crime and Closure
My latest SubStack is here.
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American Dream 3.0: Built by Oddballs, Not Magazine Covers
The American Dream 3.0 Won’t Have a Leading Man Legacy media keeps trying to cast Sam Altman as the new…
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AI Doomers Don’t Preach: Lego, Disney, Madonna, and the AI Panic
We didn’t suddenly become squeamish about derivative work when AI showed up. We’ve spent decades cheering for respectable plagiarists in…
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AI is American Dream 1.0 coming back to collect on the debts of 2.0.
The original American Dream was brutal propaganda but at least it was honest. It told immigrants and citizens: endure, build…
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The Futures That Didn’t Happen, Part 2: When Journalism Let Facebook Decide What Was True
If Part 1 was about journalism throwing itself at gadgets, Part 2 is about something more intimate: journalism throwing itself…
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AI Doomers and their Warped Sense of “Creativity”
fern has an interesting documentary about Lego, but it glides past the most revealing detail. Lego didn’t invent the plastic brick; it…
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How “J‑School” Helped Kill Journalism
You don’t say you went to “history‑school” or “psych‑school.” But you do say you went to “j‑school”. That nickname isn’t…