If Part 1 was about journalism throwing itself at gadgets, Part 2 is about something more intimate: journalism throwing itself…
Category: Alexandra Kitty
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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…
Tags: Alex Pretti, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Ellison, Deborah Cole, Donald Trump, Friedrich Merz, Germany, Israel, Jeffrey Epstein, Jessica Toonkel, Journalism, Larry Ellison, Lauren Thomas, Paramount, Propaganda, Renee Good, Russia, The Guardian, The Mind Under Siege: Mechanisms of War Propaganda, United States, Vladimir Putin, Wall Street Journal -
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…
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The Futures That Didn’t Happen, Preface: When Journalism Guesses
Journalism likes to pretend it is allergic to prediction. Reporters will tell you they deal in facts, not crystal balls.…
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Gaia Online: Time’s Teen Utopia, Web 2.0’s Cautionary Corpse
In 2008, Time magazine told the world Gaia Online was the future. It named Gaia one of its “50 Best…
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When Digital Becomes the Past, it Becomes a Pixel Eat Pixel World
I have always been an early adapter. I had a modem before anyone else I knew in my circle, and…
Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Facebook, Grok, KlueIQ, Meez, Meta, Perplexity, True Crime, Twitter, X, YouTube