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Bassey Etim
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The Fate of Social Networks in the AI Era
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Surviving the Spiral: The Internet's Collective Future
From AI appropriation to browsers that evade monetization, the foundations of the Internet teeter
The Mop Up
The Mop-Up #3: MoP Fixes the News Business
"I don’t know, but I am not ready to leave our democracy in the hands of citizen journalists on TikTok."
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MoP #6: The Murky and Evolving Ethics of AI
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On Substack and Abandoning Our Collective Morality
"It’s about believing your own hype, which, untreated, can lead to acute ego-monster syndrome."
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MoP #5: The Future of AI News Can Be Found In the Past
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Paper Notes: Trying Google's NotebookLM
Ironically, I’m writing this particular post in the default 'notes' app on Mac.
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MoP #4: Believing in Spite of Everything, With Mike Fisher
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The Fake AI Content Era Has Arrived... at Sports Illustrated
Something of a crisis for a company that needs you to, uh, read things.
The Mop Up
The Mop-Up #1 - Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley
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The Downfall of the Open Web, And What Comes Next
"I was documenting the decline and the eventual death of the open web. Our app was a eulogy."
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A Primer on Paper: The New Media Machines
"Oh god, I’m so tired, what’s going on? Did I miss anything? Am I already screwed?"
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MoP #2 - Some Regulation, as a Treat
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This Post is Not About AI Porn
"The point I will attempt to demonstrate here: The rubric for building engaged audiences around emerging media tech is nearly universal."
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The Automation of Sports Writing
"Connecting those specific error patterns to long-term reader behaviors is… harder."