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May 14, 2024
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_ TikTok, AI, iPad and Black Twitter _

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* Big Tech’s Walled Gardens
* Social Media for the Revolution
* Superhero Fatigue
* The Beginning and the End of the iPad
* Divergent Paths on AI
* Black Twitter
* How E-Commerce Took Over TikTok
* Journalists and Cops
* Saving NPR from Congress Cuts
* Digital Guillotine

BIG TECH’S WALLED GARDENS
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By Cory Doctorow
Canadian Dimension

The history of technology is one long guerrilla fight where the
established giants wield network effects against scrappy upstarts
whose asymmetrical warfare weapon of choice is low switching costs.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE REVOLUTION
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By Reina Sultan
Yes!

Corporate monopolies, increasing authoritarianism, and dangerous
legislation have tightened control over the digital public square that
once organically fostered grassroots organizing and real-time access
to information.

SUPERHERO FATIGUE
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By Zack Sharf
Variety

“You know, it’s a very different moment in time than it’s ever
been. And so I think everyone, including Marvel, is experiencing the
same thing, this transition. And I think that really is probably
what’s at play more than anything else.”

THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF THE IPAD
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By David Pierce
The Verge

People seem to _really _hate Apple’s new ad in which the company
crushes centuries of creative tools because, in the future, there is
only iPad.

DIVERGENT PATHS ON AI
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By Mathew Ingram
Columbia Journalism Review

Last July, the Associated Press became one of the first outlets
to sign an agreement with OpenAI. In return for giving OpenAI access
to its archive of news stories, the AP said, it would gain the ability
to “leverage OpenAI’s technology and product expertise.”

BLACK TWITTER
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By Angie Han
The Hollywood Reporter

While Black users have been on Twitter as long as Twitter has existed,
a _Wired_ article and a documentary series on Hulu pin the start of
Black Twitter as a distinct phenomenon to around 2009, with Ashley
Weatherspoon’s #UKnowUrBlackWhen as one of its first uniting viral
moments. 

HOW E-COMMERCE TOOK OVER TIKTOK
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By A.W. Ohlheiser
Vox

TikTok has long been good at guessing what its users might want to
see, but less good at monetizing that trick. When the
platform launched its Shop feature in the United States last fall,
the For You page shifted, pushing video after video like those made by
@tybuggyreviews in the hope that its users will start buying the
products that go viral on TikTok directly from their store.

JOURNALISTS AND COPS
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By Neil deMause
FAIR

Videos from several recent incidents, and countless others from over
the years, have shown what many Black Americans have long maintained:
that police officers lie.

SAVING NPR FROM CONGRESS CUTS
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By Craig Aaron
Free Press

While Congress has a role in overseeing the operations and financial
management of NPR, threats to defund it based on a perceived failure
to cover certain topics or hire certain people strike at the heart of
journalistic freedom.

DIGITAL GUILLOTINE
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By Angela Yang
NBC News

Hundreds of celebrities are on the “digital guillotine” as social
media users campaign for a #blockout — urging one another to block
the social media accounts of big names who have remained silent about
the ongoing humanitarian atrocities in Gaza.

* Big Tech
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* social media
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* Social Movements
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* Superheros
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* movies
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* iPad
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* artificial intelligence
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* Black Twitter
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* TikTok
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* TikTok Shop
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* Journalists
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* Police
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* NPR
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* Cancel culture
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* Israel/Gaza
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