Media Bits and Bytes — June 24, 2025
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Surveillance and self-protection
Surveillance and self-protection
Surveillance and self-protection
labor
AI Surveillance Won’t Stop Theft, but It Might Stop Unions
The American Prospect
The loss prevention industry is excited about using technology to combat shoplifting. But workers are getting caught up in the dragnet.
Friday Nite Videos | May 30, 2025
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Driverless Trucks In Texas Should Scare You. Colossal Did NOT De-extinct the Dire Wolf. Hit Single - Taco Taco Taco. Trump Blows Up Over TACO Nickname | Jimmy Kimmel. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber On Building A Better Social Ecosystem.
Driverless Trucks In Texas Should Scare You
Driverless trucks just hit the highway in Texas. Truckers warn, “your job could be next.”
Media Bits and Bytes – May 27, 2025
Portside
Public and private media under fire
Media Bits and Bytes – May 13, 2025
Portside
How to win a Pulitzer
tv
Plaything – How Black Mirror Took On Its Scariest Ever Subject: A 1990s PC Games Magazine
The Guardian
This story from Charlie Brooker’s dystopian series is set at PC Zone magazine and thrillingly close to true events at one dingy London office in the 90s
film
Studio Ghibli Faces Its Biggest Villain Yet: An Ironic Onslaught of AI
AV Club
Hayao Miyazaki's environmentalist masterpiece Princess Mononoke returns to theaters while his style is stolen by AI.
Media Bits and Bytes – March 18, 2025
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MAGA media mishigas
How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations
ProPublica
When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
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