Happy to go blind - by Jeremy Littau - The Unraveling
What happens when the news becomes overwhelming? How a Black Mirror episode helps me talk about it with students.| jeremylittau.substack.com
What happens when the news becomes overwhelming? How a Black Mirror episode helps me talk about it with students.| jeremylittau.substack.com
Pat McAfee ruined a person's life, but it's all just content until there are meaningful consequences for what we say.| jeremylittau.substack.com
AP's deal with OpenAI underlines the value of good journalism, and offers possibilities for a sustainable news model.| The Unraveling
The marketplace of ideas loses its effectiveness when we have debates in media formats that invite vapid exchanges and superficial understanding of what's been said.| The Unraveling
I published a piece in Slate this afternoon on the heels of Apple announcing its new Vision Pro AR/VR headset (“Apple Is Ignoring Something Big About Augmented Reality,” June 8).| The Unraveling
Forget the nightmare scenarios about killer robots and AI that self-drives us off a cliff because we were mean to it. The AI question worrying me is whether humanity is up to the coming challenge.| The Unraveling
Twitter is set to kill legacy Verified accounts starting April 1, and it will degrade network trust as a result. How does someone pay $44 billion for something they don't understand?| jeremylittau.substack.com
Elon's about to get a $44 billion education into what users love about Twitter. His ability to grasp that and make good policy will determine whether the bird app thrives or collapses.| jeremylittau.substack.com
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 taken a dark turn in the new year and no longer will be quality-assuring the community it enables. It’s weird, because their business is community and this type of content destabilizes the connections needed to build healthy communities. You’d think they would know this by now.| The Unraveling
The complaints about social network echo chambers miss the point, and privilege the advantages online trolls already enjoy| The Unraveling
I’ve not tried this before, but after a week of teaching in the aftermath of the 2024 U.S.| The Unraveling
I think a lot about this old tweet from election data guru Dave Wasserman:| The Unraveling
This semester I’m teaching a first-year seminar at Lehigh on artificial intelligence and society.| The Unraveling
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 administrative crackdown and arrests.| The Unraveling
Content warning here: this post talks a lot about mental health and has a reference to self-harm.| The Unraveling
Threads has garnered a big user base and Mastodon chugs along. Now Bluesky is officially open to all. Finally some real competition for Twitter refugees.| The Unraveling
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 information ecosystem more polluted.| The Unraveling
After four weeks off, I am back.| The Unraveling
Absolutely something. But even if it fails, it wins. Here's a theory why Threads exists, and why it doesn't matter that the app doesn't seem ready for prime time.| jeremylittau.substack.com
Twitter's user data is bleak, but it's not an isolated circumstance. We are in the middle of a social media landscape reshuffling that was inevitable as competition decreased.| jeremylittau.substack.com
Elon bought the Birdsite and it sent people to the exits, but is a fracture social media experience really our future?| jeremylittau.substack.com
A week with the New Bing has helped me see the future of answers, and it's full of possibility except if you work for outlets like Vox.| jeremylittau.substack.com
I've long argued to prospective students that a journalism is the most flexible degree you can seek, one that can prepare you for diverse careers. It's only more true with artificial intelligence.| jeremylittau.substack.com
The sky is falling, some say. But the lines of code that make up an AI really are the thing that will ruin education, maybe it's the education model that needs rethinking.| jeremylittau.substack.com
OpenAI's new generative text chat tool has gone viral. People who teach writing are afraid, but they shouldn't be.| jeremylittau.substack.com
It's looking bleak out there, folks. Brand spoofs, tanked stocks, and a verification system that is predictably bad. Here's an earnest, probably bad argument for sticking around.| jeremylittau.substack.com
With Twitter flailing, I spent a week trying to level up my experience on the major social network people are fleeing to. It has a learning curve, but that's why you've got me to help.| jeremylittau.substack.com
