Never Post’s Mike Rugnetta on the creative process and the value of reliable power
…Which social media platform do you use the most (if any)? I’m in my 40s, so you already know the answer is Bluesky. What is your happy place online? It is…
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My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative
…There were, in fact, multiple Reddit and social media posts about the conspiracy theory. (Something Mitski herself refuses to discuss.) A shudder ran down my spine. I’ve conversed with many an…
All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman
…PX251 In September 2020, Musk publicly responds to a social media post linking to a VentureBeat article about Microsoft getting the exclusive license to OpenAI’s GPT-3, writing, “This does seem…
Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
…According to Enhanced, another 250 were credentialed media spanning 75 publications worldwide. The rest, as far as I can tell, were influencers. (Media were told not to interview attendees. Those who were…
Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms
…Every time you’ve come on the show, you and I have talked about how to make money in media and how to support good work in media. That’s been a…
US Elections
…One fake statement warned media against writing about violence at polls, claiming it could “provoke a spontaneous increase” in incidents. Separate videos falsely warned of “malfunctioning voting machines,” and another urged schools…
AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review
…The same study found a collective narrowing of focus as these newly productive scientists gravitated toward well-studied fields with abundant existing data for AI to synthesize. There are no easy solutions…
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
…Why couldn’t this work for a media partner?” Nilay, you know I lived this, but I went out and pitched pretty much every media company. And there were a lot of…
Trans teens want to talk about their future
…They are far more scrappy, resourceful, intelligent, cynical, and determined than they’re given credit for by the mainstream media. Trans teenagers are often skilled at advocating for their own care. In…
CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
…It does feel to me like the cutting edge of social media marketing in particular is automation in this way. I probably watched more TikToks and Instagram Reels of social media managers…