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Trying Google's NotebookLM, Part 2
The personalized AI research assistant finds its voice, but maybe not yours
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Subject: Getting Back In Touch
Little postcards to you all before we get down to business.
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Product Managing the AI Media Free-For-All
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Forcing You to Listen: The Supreme Court vs. Content Moderation
It’s about forcing speech on you, and forcing platforms to host speech they otherwise wouldn’t want to.
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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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Paper Notes: Trying Google's NotebookLM
Ironically, I’m writing this particular post in the default 'notes' app on Mac.
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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.
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MoP #3 - The Future of Search (and OpenAI 🎪)
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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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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."