Archive - The Unraveling

Media notes on the Kirk assassination

Obviously this has been a difficult week in the U.S.

Sep 12 •

August 2025

Happy to go blind

What happens when the news becomes overwhelming? How a Black Mirror episode helps me talk about it with students.

Aug 14 •

July 2025

Apologize, cash your paycheck

Pat McAfee ruined a person's life, but it's all just content until there are meaningful consequences for what we say.

Jul 24 •

January 2025

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

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From the unpublished files: "Declaring Independence"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 •

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