... But really, what I got from it was, whoa, this is 50 minutes of painfully beautiful music about the unpredictable, uncontrollable inevitability of aging and dying.

I'm sure I'll get more from relistening! But...that's enough?!?! 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb

I also lean in to the argument that "even if the Nazi stuff doesn't persuade you, they have made ridiculous promises to their investors that they can't keep, making enshittification inevitable (indeed already in process), so you'll have to bail eventually anyway, why not get it over with"

Email is a river, Emily! dip into it to grab the shiny fish you really want and the big ones you know you have to deal with, let the rest flow past you with no regret. Gmail was designed to work that way but people keep insisting on "inbox zero"

Very sad to hear this! He was such a wonderful combination of sharpness on the page and effervescence in person.

I still edit this to make it right wherever possible. I would say I do it at least once a week.

I mean "Abundance" is as much a manifesto or position paper as a work of journalism. Klein wears a journalist hat at times when he interviews people, and he can be really good at it, but increasingly he is playing the faction-organizer role. Which kind of harks back to the old "journolist" days

Was it the way pianos were miked? the compression for vinyl? or... ?

The opening chapter of "Say Everything," my history of blogging, chroincles how the bloggers of 2001 recorded and reacted to the 9/11 attacks. www.sayeverything.com/excerpt/say-... I guess you can always argue about "blogs" vs "social media" but I mean it's a continuum.

if "grandpa with fox on in the background" made you sad, wait until you meet "grandpa who watches 2000 daily reels of slop algorithmically targeted at his worst impulses and fears"

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one.

AIKilledMyJob@pm.me

You're mistaking a point about "track records" (your phrase) for an age-related put-down. I've always learned from people younger than me. I may be unfamiliar with your pre-AI work. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with my pre-Ed work. Fewer snap judgments of people would serve you better.

Come on. You write a valuable AI newsletter. But you mouthed off ignorantly about a media scholar whose work deserves better. You *didn't* pay attention to Jay's record. It was worth pointing out, and now you're just making yourself look pettier.

Um, *you* asked about my "track record?

How's my track record? Sheesh. Where have you been man. I was writing about the web when you were in elementary school. I'm still doing so. I appreciate that you're up to speed on AI but you're revealing yourself to be ignorant about the media in your thoughtless dismissal of Jay Rosen's work.

His analysis of "the view from nowhere" was crucial to understanding media failures in the Iraq War era. Jay's value as a media critic is immeasurable. I'm not sure what part of this isn't obvious if you've been paying attention to the Web for the last 25 years. (2/2)

Jay has a many-decades-long record of trying to understand the relationship between journalists and their communities. He started studying this before the era of the popular internet. He continued to explore it as the Web emerged and challenged media norms in the '90s and early aughts. (1/2)

The second part looks at a variety of strategies people are deploying to create and maintain preserves of human agency in a digital realm that's rapidly being overrun by bots. www.axios.com/2025/08/25/a...

I mean, it's getting painful to see so much of the past just sidelined or ignored. This debate's outlines were clear 50 years ago, we don't have to keep mapping them again, we need to find ways to actually apply the principles we espouse in the work we do