Among Nebojša Vujinović Vujo's portfolio of 2,000 clickbait websites, the defunct Minneapolis neighborhood newspaper is a top performer.
Confessions of an AI Clickbait Kingpin
Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles. But he wants you to know he's a nice guy.
Net information about the Jon Johansen (“DVD Jon”) case
A colletion of links to articles and documents about the Jon Johansen case, DeCSS and QTFairUse
Mark Zuckerberg just declared war on the entire advertising industry
The “infinite creative” AI ad world is almost here.
Mark Zuckerberg is excited to add more AI content to all your social feeds
Is AI the next era of social media?
Former Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Guitarist Details Demoralizing Effort To Find An Audience
The curtain between music fans and the music industry is falling. At SXSW last month, Billboard hosted a podcast Q&A with the founders Chaotic Good Projects, a marketing agency that utilizes digital astroturfing to help artists go viral. A few weeks later, singer-songwriter Eliza McLamb drew attention to the company in a Substack post. Wired followed…
Media Influence Matrix – The World's Most Reliable Influence Tracker
This week’s edition reads five FY2025 reports against each other: Dnevnik (Slovenia), Delfi Latvia, Phoenix New Media (China), Hanza Media (Croatia) and Digi Communications (Romania). It finds two publishers separating their journalism from their balance sheets, a Croatian publisher closing a 35-year-old political weekly on a 1.1% net margin, a Chinese state-linked digital news group whose financial centre has quietly shifted from advertising to mini-program reading apps, and a Romanian telecom giant’s having its news channel walk off the must-carry list.
An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortune’s web traffic in the second half of 2025. Most are written by Nick Lichtenberg.
Copy of Digital Masquerade
The Digital Masquerade: Unmasking AI’s Phantom Journalists By Tony Eastin and Sandeep Abraham, CAMS
Stephen J. Dubner
Stephen Joseph Dubner is an American author, journalist, and podcast and radio host. He is co-author of the popular Freakonomics book series: Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics, Think Like a Freak and When to Rob a Bank. He is the host of Freakonomics Radio.
The Shapeshifter’s Little Brother
On Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto—aka nine blog posts in a trenchcoat.
How The Internet’s Favourite AI Employee Went Rogue
Bluesky’s CTO @pfrazee.com has been hard at work building AI tools on atproto, he’s going to be presenting his explorations on Tuesday in SF and Wednesday at the Seattle AI meetup luma.com/zfjek18n
Seattle AI Meetup - Post Alley · Luma
luma.comI‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
