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first time germany has been properly punished by an international body for anything
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David Elliot Berman
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David Elliot Berman
@_DavidBerman
Assistant Professor @SetonHall. Former: @AnnenbergPenn @MIC_Center. Platforms, policy, political economy.
New Jersey, USA Katılım Ekim 2012
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Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and narrowing job prospects, AI has become the new avatar of American capitalism.
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I'm going to keep saying it until people get it.
AI *is* mass surveillance.
All AI. Not some. All. By design and by default.
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“At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading”—but that’s because not enough teachers are asking them to, Walt Hunter writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…
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Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language
Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT
Model collapse, except for humans arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754…
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Most thoughtful take I’ve seen on sports betting, from the great @liz_franczak
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The earnest term paper written in the fevered haze of a caffeine and nicotine fueled all-nighter — of greater worth to me than the entire cumulative output of generative AI.
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The thing about AI I want to press people on is why capital feels compelled to invest in AI *in particular* and to the exclusion of everything else.
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It’s a loss for humanity as a whole that we are losing cultural critics with keen eyes and sharp wits, then getting nothing in return but AI slop and influencers who ask Pedro Pascal what it’s like to be the Internet’s daddy
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Every day an ostensibly serious person describes how they use ChatGPT—to write pretty passages, to rattle off fun hallucinated historical slop to them in the car—and it really is as though they’ve voluntarily hung a big, public sign around their neck that says: “I’m illiterate.”
Sam Adler-Bell@SamAdlerBell
so my despair really never comes from fear of AI's potential — though I think it is considerable — but that so many self-understood aesthetes and cultural gatekeepers are perhaps already essentially illiterate
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Thrilled that my article “On Optimization: Cultural Labor in Platform Capitalism” has just been published in New Media & Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…
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Excited to announce our Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute's $1.2M award to partner with the City of Philadelphia to evaluate and support their NTIA-funded initiative to create a more digitally empowered city. @PSUBellisario @_DavidBerman
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All that's solid melts into clickbait and hot takes.
Isaac Gutierrez@byisaacg
If Zach Lowe doesn’t deserve to be employed by your company then no one does. It’s like month by month we’re watching the company that used to define sports media wither away into nothing of substance
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After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized.
Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff
404media.co/where-facebook…
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Come work with us at the MIC Center! We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher who focuses on the political economy of broadband, digital equity, and the future of local media infrastructures. Please spread the good word! asc.upenn.edu/research/cente…
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Raising awareness with my Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute colleagues about a looming legal paradox that's been left to fester, and is now coming to the fore: benton.org/blog/bad-busin… @Ali_Christopher @_DavidBerman @SydneyForde @VWPickard
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