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“Where Should We Live” – a new class on cities, migration and climate change
Published: January 21, 2026 17:03
I’m teaching two classes at UMass Amherst this spring. One is the latest incarnation of my “Fixing Social Media” class, which I launched late in my time at MIT and brought with me to UMass. It’s becoming “Fixing Platform Power” as we’re expanding our focus…
Listening to All the Music
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/01/07/listening-to-all-the-music/
Published: January 8, 2026 02:08
When people talk about the beauty of the early web – before the Internet was “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four” – they’re often talking about reference sites like Wikipedia, remarkable collections of…
Gramsci’s Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony
Published: December 5, 2025 23:50
Ny friend Joachim Wiewiura invited me to give the inaugural talk at the Center for the Philosophy of AI (CPAI) at the University of Copenhagen this past Tuesday. It felt like a good opportunity to go out on a limb and explore a line of thinking I’ve been…
How do we communicate about climate without shaming audiences?
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/11/07/how-do-we-communicate-about-climate-without-shaming-audiences/
Published: November 7, 2025 15:31
I’m at BU today for a conference hosted by MISI – the Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact at BU, a new center led by my friend Eric Gordon. The topic of the day is “Communicating Climate”, a topic that feels pressing given not only the climate…
Govern or Be Governed: Gary Marcus on Shorting Neural Networks
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/24/govern-or-be-governed-gary-marcus-on-shorting-neural-networks/
Published: October 24, 2025 18:26
Gary Marcus, professor emeritus on psychology and neuroscience at NYU, closes the Govern or be Governed conference in conversation with Murad Hemmadi. Hemmadi begins by asking Marcus what characteristics of a bubble he sees in current AI enthusiasm. Marcus…
Cory Doctorow on the weird upside of the Trump presidency
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/24/cory-doctorow-on-the-weird-upside-of-the-trump-presidency/
Published: October 24, 2025 18:07
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, blogger and activist, who is the very best form of troublemaker. He’s got a new book out on Enshitification, and I suspect everyone was expecting a talk on the book. Nope. In a frenetic and passionate talk, Cory…
Govern or Be Governed: Donald Trump Will Seek an Unconstitutional Third Term
Published: October 24, 2025 16:34
Justin Hendrix of Tech Policy Press asks Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff of the US Department of Homeland Security, about President Trump’s attacks on him as part of his “revenge tour”. Taylor invites us to take a selfie with him if we’d like a trip to…
Govern or Be Governed: Chatbots as the new threat to Children Online
Published: October 24, 2025 15:54
Ava Smithing introduces herself as born in 2001 and tells us she’s never had a restful night due to her awareness of the ways in which technology exploits our attention, data and selfhood. Meetali Jain, the founding executive director of the Tech Justice…
Govern or Be Governed: What are the Threats to Freedom of Speech?
Published: October 23, 2025 18:12
The afternoon at Govern or Be Governed starts with two of my heroes, Jameel Jaffer from the Knight First Amendment Institute, and Kate Klonick of St. John’s Law school as well as director of Center for Countering Digital Hate Imran Ahmed, who I’m hearing…