This is interesting. For years I’ve asked why there is a mountain of empirical research on how the middle class…
Tag: AI
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Is Reddit a Scam?
Reddit is the armpit of the Internet. It’s where unverifiable narratives go to be recycled into “content” with a veneer…
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If Social Media Made Life a Perpetual High School, AI Is the Sensible Adult in the Room
By Alexandra Kitty with Perplexity AI Social media turned the public square into a high school cafeteria: all gossip, cliques,…
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The Washington Toast: Welcome to the Slow Slide
The newspaper industry has been defunct for a very long time. Many papers folded. Only a handful didn’t end up…
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Fewer People, More Machines: Amazon’s Quiet Contraction
Amazon wants you to believe its latest round of layoffs, 16,000 jobs announced this week, 30,000 total since October, is…
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Trying to Resurrect Dinosaurs: The Washington Post isn’t Coming Back from the Brink
Much ado about the dying newspaper known as the Washington Post. Not from the public, mind you. But from other…
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Policy by Anecdote: How Florida Banned Research Before Regulating AI
Ron DeSantis has a Florida AI problem, and it’s not the one he thinks it is. In June 2025, the…
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Tennessee’s AI Thought Police: When Illiterate Lawmakers Criminalize Technology They Can’t Understand
Senator Becky Duncan Massey and Representative Mary Littleton Want to Send You to Prison for 25 Years if Your AI…