Mike Serazio

Don’t Mourn the Death of Alt-Weeklies. They’re Alive and Well. In some communities, alt-weeklies have outlasted the daily paper.

Hell yeah - viva alt-weeklies

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What College Graduates Need Most in the Age of AI What students need the most, beyond LLMs, is space to strengthen those muscles of focus, writes Michael Serazio.

Kicker ‘graph goes on my gravestone

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A performance that would, by late afternoon, make North Korea’s information ministry tip its cap:

The “free speech” facade fronting political censorship The more censorship Trump pursues, the louder his boasts about “free speech” will get

The doublespeak farce covering for our 1st Amendment crisis

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The articles from the forthcoming SI on Political Authenticity - edited by myself, @sofiabrei.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck - at @polityalsberuf.bsky.social are now online. In the introduction (doi.org/10.1086/734784) we set out its contribution and summarise each article 1/12

In physics as in governance, it is so much faster and easier to break things than to build them.

Just once in my life I’d love to uncheck the “email me about sales and promotions” box and have it actually mean something.

Opinion | On the brink of an unimaginable AI future Technological change is about to speed up, perhaps beyond our ability to adapt.

“A quick glance over the past 200 years suggests that most people will eagerly substitute cheap, mass-produced anything for a lovingly handcrafted version that’s more expensive…. Political and cultural elites [will] fight to maintain their status.”

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I used to do this but then I asked an IT dude when he was setting up a new laptop and he absolved me of the habit. As metaphor for work routine hygiene, though, I salute you 🫡

Opinion | Pope Francis: There Is Faith in Humor The best thing to do in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.

“Irony is a medicine, not only to lift and brighten others, but also ourselves, because self-mockery is a powerful instrument in overcoming the temptation toward narcissism…The best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.”

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The year the memes took over reality – and marketing followed Subcultures aren’t niche anymore -- they’re the culture. And for marketers, that changes everything.

“[Memes are] the lingua franca of modern audiences. They’re how we share ideas, signal belonging and make meaning.”

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I always feel like a fraud when using “Cheers” as a email sign-off, but never more so than when corresponding with an actual British person.

Artificial intelligence and the efficiency trap - The Boston Globe AI systems that summarize everything from newspaper articles to novels herald the time you’ll save. By forsaking real reading, here’s what you stand to lose.

An abiding, anxious befuddlement, post-GPT: If reading and writing are no longer skills that education should practice and idealize, because you can outsource that intellectual work… what the heck is education for now? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyhow, the AI version of this would be like, TL; DR, bro

I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.

Among many post-election journalism takes, this one feels especially wise

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Bluesky brings the fun, weird vibes of old Twitter back to life As more users flee X, a clearer, sunnier social media age is dawning.

Feels very Elder Millennial to still nostalgically long for social media that recreates late-aughts Facebook vibes - though, prolly less the platform as the phase of life…

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