Archive - The Unraveling

Information resliency

During inauguration week, I logged off to all Meta products to protest the company’s rollback of trust and safety standards. The company, frankly, has…

Jan 27 •

November 2024

(taps sign) Nobody owes you a listening ear

The complaints about social network echo chambers miss the point, and privilege the advantages online trolls already enjoy

Nov 22, 2024 •

A video explainer/lecture/reflection on the media and 2024 election

I’ve not tried this before, but after a week of teaching in the aftermath of the 2024 U.S.

Nov 8, 2024 •

1:08:39

How to watch election results like it's not a sporting event

I think a lot about this old tweet from election data guru Dave Wasserman:

Nov 5, 2024 •

September 2024

Notes and questions about “Her” for first-year seminar

This semester I’m teaching a first-year seminar at Lehigh on artificial intelligence and society.

Sep 19, 2024 •

April 2024

Protests in a time of media abundance

If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably seen the evolving story about the student protests at Columbia University that led to an…

Apr 26, 2024 •

"The Anxious Generation" and the false comfort of easy diagnoses

Content warning here: this post talks a lot about mental health and has a reference to self-harm.

Apr 12, 2024 •

February 2024

Begun, the Twitter clone wars have

Threads has garnered a big user base and Mastodon chugs along. Now Bluesky is officially open to all. Finally some real competition for Twitter…

Feb 16, 2024 •

January 2024

From the unpublished files: "Declaring Independence"

Happy New Year!

Jan 4, 2024 •

October 2023

Elon's Twitter is failing its first major stress test

Sorry not sorry, but I'm not calling it X. But the violence in Israel and Gaza give us a better idea of how Elon's changes to Twitter have made the…

Oct 20, 2023 •

August 2023

Me in a long-form podcast interview, talking about AI (this is not a DALL-E 2 query)

After four weeks off, I am back.

Aug 14, 2023 •

July 2023

A glimpse of an AI future

AP's deal with OpenAI underlines the value of good journalism, and offers possibilities for a sustainable news model.

Jul 14, 2023 •

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