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DALL-E and the childlike wonder of AI learning
Playing with OpenAI's new image generator can teach us about how we learn, and why we get led astray by the things that dazzle us
Jeremy Littau
Aug 9
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Facebook's least surprising news ever
Meta confirmed it's ending subsidy payments to news publishers who invested in the platform's News Tab initiative. Now that Lucy has pulled the football…
Jeremy Littau
Jul 28
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Your hot take on Elon's Twitter purchase is probably wrong
Birds aren't real, and neither are a lot of these flash analyses of Musk's purchase of our favorite feathered app. Prepare for the worst, hope for the…
Jeremy Littau
Apr 26
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The visual information war
The most serious battle is happening in Ukraine, but for those not feeling the violence there is a war for hearts and minds in public opinion. In the…
Jeremy Littau
Mar 1
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When the news becomes the noise
Twitter can be a great way to learn and become informed if you build your network well, but it asks a lot of audiences when there is breaking news about…
Jeremy Littau
Feb 24
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Controlling the metaverse
When is a software company acquisition not just a software company acquisition? When the future of platform control is on the line.
Jeremy Littau
Jan 18
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The heroes we create (and destroy)
Simone Biles did what she did. The only thing that matters is how we react to it.
Jeremy Littau
Jul 28, 2021
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Athletes don't owe us anything
Naomi Osaka punched a giant hole in the myth that professional sports owes the public a quote or a press conference. Watching sports journalists double…
Jeremy Littau
Jun 2, 2021
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It's time for news consumers to flex
Alden Global Capital's purchase of Tribune Co. was approved this week, and that is very bad news for local communities. Now is the moment for…
Jeremy Littau
May 28, 2021
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Down the rabbit hole
The study of media helps us interrogate the media environment we are in. But we have to push back against despair and cynicism if we want to make…
Jeremy Littau
Apr 29, 2021
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When seeing is not believing
The Derek Chauvin verdict was in doubt, and that is a reminder that video evidence isn't enough to convince people of something they don't want to…
Jeremy Littau
Apr 22, 2021
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Privacy for thee, but not for me
Maybe we don't care enough about adtech data privacy to do something about it, but Apple is betting that informed consent is a better future than the…
Jeremy Littau
Apr 16, 2021
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