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The Grimace Shake Trend is Brilliant (Accidental) Marketing
That, and Smosh buys Smosh, Miranda... Sings... and a good Grimace meme
Pouring Water on the Weird AF Machines
Things are about to get way weirder, but maybe better? Stay to the end for a good tweet about academic publishing.
Why the Dril v Elon Cyberfeud Matters
I went too long without publishing again...Here's what's new!
Maybe we should just stop talking to the bots
Or at least a moratorium until we stop turning this banal computing into spectacle
AI's biggest threat is that it's actually really boring
The hype cycle around AI is what makes it exciting, but it's already fairly broken. Stick to the end for an amazing tweet.
The Shelf Life of Viral Videos Has Expired
Netflix's The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker misses the mark. Read to the end for some cool cats hanging out.
Oh the Funges We Will Go
I usually avoid the topic of NFTs, crypto and "the metaverse" in class, but we need to gain some critical tools if this is our future
Turns out studying the internet was a good idea
From robot dog kill-bots to source-code "hacks" we need to better understand how this whole future is going to work
New Media Homework
New Media Homework
A newsletter about pieces of the internet interesting enough to bring into college classrooms by an internet studies professor who really really wants the world to learn about memes and internet culture.

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