Josh Lauer

Wonderful media history of ghosting by Torbjörn Rolandsson & Sadie Couture in recent issue of *Social Media + Society.* Examines media avoidance practices and disconnection through history of Victorian calling culture and answering machines:
doi.org/10.1177/2056...

If only hip-hop artists could have made this argument about sampling.. surely government & industry woulf have been like “but of course”

How did filing cabinets revolutionize data storage? - Marketplace Craig Robertson, a media historian at Northeastern University, is the author of "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information."

@marketplaceapm.bsky.social asked me to talk filing cabinets for their new series on short takes on overlooked tech www.marketplace.org/2024/12/09/f...

AI Is the Black Mirror Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.

“The brain and a machine-learning model are only superficially analogous in their structure & function. In terms of what’s happening at the physical level, there’s a gulf of difference that we have every reason to think makes a difference.” “There’s no real kinship at all.”
nautil.us/ai-is-the-bl...