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…
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When Stupid Leaders Push For War
War is the greatest of misdirections. It is propaganda theatre. When a leader is screwing up, war is the biggest…
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While Legacy Media Fights AI, I’m Building With It
Hollywood is suing, lobbying, and striking over AI. Newsrooms are writing doomsday editorials about it. Everyone is fighting the technology.…
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How the Entertainment Industry Became Legacy
Hollywood has been in a decline long before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes of 2023. It suffers from the same…
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The Futures That Didn’t Happen, Part 1: Journalism’s Self‑Rescue Fantasies
Journalism loves to say it doesn’t do prophecy. It deals in facts, verification, and what can be confirmed. But every…