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Archive for February, 2025

Bluffing to please: ChatGPT’s sorry strategy

Posted in Media ecology, Science & society, tagged , , , on February 19, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I’m sharing an exchange between my son and ChatGPT, wherein he is asking the AI about whether bison ever lived in the northeastern United States. When he hones in on some confusing information, ChatGPT begins to respond in a way that seems calculated to please, and when he tells it its information is incorrect, ChatGPT […]

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We are all dispensable: For a revolution of the means of information

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 16, 2025 | 1 Comment »

There’s a clear lesson for us in the mass firings of federal employees, carried out as part of an administrative coup led by the world’s wealthiest tech oligarch, in the country that had up till recently been seen as the paragon of stability and prosperity. That lesson is that we are all dispensable now. In […]

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Moving fast and breaking things? Critical resources on Trump 2.0

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on February 3, 2025 | 1 Comment »

With its flurry of perplexing and often contradictory initiatives and statements, Donald Trump’s second presidency is leaving traditional media outlets, along with their tired viewers, overwhelmed and incapacitated (qualities exacerbated by the media outlets’ oligarchic owners’ kowtowing to the new administration). There are still many good journalists doing important work. But there’s also a palpable […]

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