Media Bits and Bytes – May 13, 2025
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How to win a Pulitzer
How to win a Pulitzer
How to win a Pulitzer
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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.
MAGA Newspaper Owner’s AI Bot Defends KKK
Daily Beast
An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
The New Yorker
An unelected tech billionaire has so much power over the government. Tech titans fell in line behind Trump, MAGA-style populism is giving way to an optimization-oriented vision for the country’s future. Historic parallels help explain Musk’s rampage.
Friday Nite Videos | February 6, 2025
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Trump Proposes Gaza Takeover | The Daily Show. Elon Musk: Party in the USA (Song Parody). What is Hugging Face? Could AI Wipe Out Mainstream Media? Mo: Season 2 Trailer | Netflix.
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