Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
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I'm a media critic. I read and point to that which I criticize.
Please don't tell me the #BrokenTimes, #BrokenPost have paywalls and registration. We know.
Please don't tell me to stop reading.
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We have more important things to worry about!
Please don't tell me the #BrokenTimes, #BrokenPost have paywalls and registration. We know.
Please don't tell me to stop reading.
If you don't want traffic to go to them, don't click.
We have more important things to worry about!
This just arrived, written in 1956 and just translated. With it came these lines, pertinent to the age of AI (attributed to "To the Cogs," Molussian Industrial Hymns):
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.
December 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This just arrived, written in 1956 and just translated. With it came these lines, pertinent to the age of AI (attributed to "To the Cogs," Molussian Industrial Hymns):
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.
Tech puritanism in B&W.
I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
Opinion | I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me.
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Tech puritanism in B&W.
I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
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The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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Happy holidays! @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and I spoke with Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET on AI Inside about open source AI, regulation, and AGI’s messy middle. He argues “open” often stops at code. Two moments stood out.
Full episode: aiinside.show/episode/ben-...
Full episode: aiinside.show/episode/ben-...
Ben Goertzel: What AGI Means Now, Open Source AI, and Compute Constraints | AI Inside podcast
This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Ben Goertzel, founder and CEO of SingularityNET,...
aiinside.show
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Happy holidays! @jeffjarvis.bsky.social and I spoke with Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET on AI Inside about open source AI, regulation, and AGI’s messy middle. He argues “open” often stops at code. Two moments stood out.
Full episode: aiinside.show/episode/ben-...
Full episode: aiinside.show/episode/ben-...
Just what I needed: a little Christmas cheer and New Year's foreboding with my bud, Pete. Join us.
December 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Just what I needed: a little Christmas cheer and New Year's foreboding with my bud, Pete. Join us.
What the hell is this, Toyota? Somebody has been hanging out with Elon too much.
Wie Toyota Porsche und Mercedes angreifen will www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Wie Toyota Porsche und Mercedes angreifen will www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Wie Toyota Porsche und Mercedes angreifen will
Toyota hat große Pläne. Während die Konkurrenz in Europa immer tiefer in die Krise rutscht, laufen die Geschäfte beim Branchenprimus so gut, dass er in den obersten Preisklassen die Offensive sucht.
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December 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What the hell is this, Toyota? Somebody has been hanging out with Elon too much.
Wie Toyota Porsche und Mercedes angreifen will www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Wie Toyota Porsche und Mercedes angreifen will www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
The Nazis tried to rewrite "Silent Night": "Our Führer for the German land...Give us Germans power."
Nobody tell Trump or next Christmas we'll have chrèches with the baby Donald and three unwoke men.
So wurde »Stille Nacht« zum ersten globalen Hit
www.spiegel.de/ausland/stil...
Nobody tell Trump or next Christmas we'll have chrèches with the baby Donald and three unwoke men.
So wurde »Stille Nacht« zum ersten globalen Hit
www.spiegel.de/ausland/stil...
(S+) »Stille Nacht«: Wie das Weihnachtslied zum ersten Welthit wurde
Musikhistoriker Wolfgang Dreier-Andres erklärt, wie das Weihnachtslied aus einem österreichischen Dorf über Sachsen nach New York kam. Und wie die Nazis damit scheiterten, das Lied ideologisch zu miss...
www.spiegel.de
December 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Nazis tried to rewrite "Silent Night": "Our Führer for the German land...Give us Germans power."
Nobody tell Trump or next Christmas we'll have chrèches with the baby Donald and three unwoke men.
So wurde »Stille Nacht« zum ersten globalen Hit
www.spiegel.de/ausland/stil...
Nobody tell Trump or next Christmas we'll have chrèches with the baby Donald and three unwoke men.
So wurde »Stille Nacht« zum ersten globalen Hit
www.spiegel.de/ausland/stil...
"Judge Pitman compared the Texas law to a requirement for bookstores to verify the age of customers at their doors and require parental consent before minors could enter or buy a book."
Right.
Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
Right.
Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"Judge Pitman compared the Texas law to a requirement for bookstores to verify the age of customers at their doors and require parental consent before minors could enter or buy a book."
Right.
Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
Right.
Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
The wonderful @rarebookschool.bsky.social just announced its courses for next year. I've taken two; loved them both. rarebookschool.org/schedule/
Schedules | Rare Book School
rarebookschool.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The wonderful @rarebookschool.bsky.social just announced its courses for next year. I've taken two; loved them both. rarebookschool.org/schedule/
I left the same institution for the same reason as my colleague, @brizzyc.bsky.social. I'm thinking this morning how I threatened to leave another job because of unprincipled editing and I did leave another because of corrupt pressure. We are watching you, Bari.
When I decided to leave my tenured academic job because my boss didn't share my fundamental principles, I thought about my great journalism mentor Bill Kovach, who left the Atlanta Journal Constitution "over a matter of principle involving the authority of the editor' www.nytimes.com/1988/11/05/u...
Atlanta Editor Resigns After Dispute (Published 1988)
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I left the same institution for the same reason as my colleague, @brizzyc.bsky.social. I'm thinking this morning how I threatened to leave another job because of unprincipled editing and I did leave another because of corrupt pressure. We are watching you, Bari.
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
Jeezus, Variety, these aren't "gaffes." They are torpedoes aimed at the heart and soul of journalism. Wake up and smell the fascism. You could be next.
Bari Weiss’ CBS News Gaffes Pile Up as Paramount Tries to Woo Warner variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Bari Weiss’ CBS News Gaffes Pile Up as Paramount Tries to Woo Warner variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Bari Weiss’ CBS News Gaffes Pile Up as Paramount Tries to Woo Warner
Bari Weiss continues to make unorthodox maneuvers at CBS News that undermine the news division. Could they hurt Paramount's quest to buy Warner?
variety.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Jeezus, Variety, these aren't "gaffes." They are torpedoes aimed at the heart and soul of journalism. Wake up and smell the fascism. You could be next.
Bari Weiss’ CBS News Gaffes Pile Up as Paramount Tries to Woo Warner variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Bari Weiss’ CBS News Gaffes Pile Up as Paramount Tries to Woo Warner variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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This headline makes it sound like there's an anti-bigotry faction of the GOP. There's not. The fight is whether to be openly Nazi or to pretend to oppose antisemitism for the sake of supporting Israel because evangelicals believe that will bring about the end times.
Oh, the credulity. Not taking sides *is* takings ides, enabling racism, white nationalism, and extremism.
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This headline makes it sound like there's an anti-bigotry faction of the GOP. There's not. The fight is whether to be openly Nazi or to pretend to oppose antisemitism for the sake of supporting Israel because evangelicals believe that will bring about the end times.
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Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants
Oh, the credulity. Not taking sides *is* takings ides, enabling racism, white nationalism, and extremism.
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Oh, the credulity. Not taking sides *is* takings ides, enabling racism, white nationalism, and extremism.
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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they moved the Pluribus finale up to Christmas Eve 🎄
December 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they moved the Pluribus finale up to Christmas Eve 🎄
It is an autocracy, a dictatorship, fascism, but but the most the Baker can label it is imperial. This is why the #BrokenTimes is so broken: It fails to recognize and thus report evident truth.
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It is an autocracy, a dictatorship, fascism, but but the most the Baker can label it is imperial. This is why the #BrokenTimes is so broken: It fails to recognize and thus report evident truth.
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Bari Weiss gives Donald Trump a "kill switch" over 60 Minutes at #BrokenCBS.
RIP 60 Minutes. September 24, 1968 - December 21, 2025.
CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment featuring investigation into El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
RIP 60 Minutes. September 24, 1968 - December 21, 2025.
CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment featuring investigation into El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment featuring investigation into El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison
Backlash after broadcaster announces the program, due to air on Sunday night, ‘needs additional reporting’
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Bari Weiss gives Donald Trump a "kill switch" over 60 Minutes at #BrokenCBS.
RIP 60 Minutes. September 24, 1968 - December 21, 2025.
CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment featuring investigation into El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
RIP 60 Minutes. September 24, 1968 - December 21, 2025.
CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment featuring investigation into El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Anybody have a PDF of Lizza part 8, just dropped?
December 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Anybody have a PDF of Lizza part 8, just dropped?
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On Sunday afternoon? After the promo was cut? And the first stop to try and place this line was Dylan Byers?
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
On Sunday afternoon? After the promo was cut? And the first stop to try and place this line was Dylan Byers?
A hoot: "Drawing on concepts such as zombie media, technostalgia, and speculative design," an LLM hooked up to a 1980s DDR Robotron Erika typewriter with "no screen and no delete or backspace:" the "mechanical body of late socialism animated by a post-digital ghost."
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16285
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16285
December 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A hoot: "Drawing on concepts such as zombie media, technostalgia, and speculative design," an LLM hooked up to a 1980s DDR Robotron Erika typewriter with "no screen and no delete or backspace:" the "mechanical body of late socialism animated by a post-digital ghost."
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16285
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16285