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Those were the days, where to be included on Yahoo’s internet link tree pages you had to submit it manually. 😂

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Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana

The people writing stuff like this were not the young people getting on and messing around on college campuses. I saw its value the day I logged on (accessed the card catalog at U Minnesota from California, again because I could). Like a sudden vision of what was now possible.

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The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

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This happened to me a lot. The only guy in the room who knew HTML and FTP and got tasked with a lot of grunt work. 😂

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God it was so beautiful and social and creative in a way Facebook never was. I taught myself HTML just so I could make a home page for my dorm’s Super Tecmo Bowl league. Why? Because I could. Some dudes with a league page in Pittsburgh found it and we became internet friends.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This Guy killed it as Claudio in his school performance of “Measure For Measure” tonight. He put in a lot of work and I’m so proud of him. It’s such a joy to see your kid do something they love.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 03/10/2026

Check out who helped make the video

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 03/10/2026

***created by the victim’s family*** And I gotta tell you as someone who spent some time living in the cultural American Southwest this is so on-brand.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

this is the rudest ad I’ve ever seen in my life and I love it so much

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Meredith 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @smoemeth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THIS. "Real" AI is doing some amazing things in specialist spaces. LLMs -- i.e. what the general public thinks of as "AI" -- are not. There is a huge difference!

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 02/10/2026

Yeah I know exactly what to do it’s just taking the time to do it. Easier to let go when I wasn’t writing.

Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

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That would be great! I went to grad school with several of Wayne’s journalism profs. Great faculty there. And thank you for the kind words. ❤️

I am leaving Substack at some point soon; it was a project I had for spring before I had to take time off. But it's coming.

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jeremylittau.substack.com

A brief word about my medical leave from earlier this year, plus some professional news. I am working on a book on AI policy and the competing forces driving governance and regulation! Subscribe to my newsletter if the book topic interests you and you'd like to read more as the book develops.

New project after a long layoff

You might have noticed (or not noticed ….

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On Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of the Community NEWS Act and the roads unexpectedly traveled.

Good from @mattdpearce.com. My read on this bill is it's calibrated to address the tension between public investment and the downsides of government subsidy (i.e. strings). Detractors will ask why invest in a failing business, but news is a public good and a vacuum left by dying news orgs is worse.

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California roadmap

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% … just breezing past the hard question of how you dialogue with someone who wants to harm you and will just use talking as a way to soften their image (so they can do more harm to you).

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And no acknowledgement that there is plenty of room for intense political disagreement and polarization if everyone agrees to the norms and laws of the democratic order. So the begging for dialogue is begging on behalf of people who don’t think, e.g., the reconstruction amendments should be honored

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One thing I admire about my friends on the left is a desire to compromise and talk through disagreement. But it does leave this side open to bad-faith manipulation from actors who try to use self-interested calls to dialogue as a way to sand off their own rough edges. It takes two to dialogue.

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The A1 example of this is to contrast ‘16 and ‘20. Lots of liberal handwringing and calls to understand the other side after Trump I ( speaks to a value many on the left have) but after Biden won in ‘20 the other side tried to overthrow the government and the left was asked to understand that too. 😂

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We are at part of the cycle where Republicans are about to lose badly, and so they pivot to talking about the rhetoric temperature as if there is no pathology to it. Every dang time, hacking a real desire for dialogue but asking nothing meaningful of the most vicious voices in the right.

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Well I guess I’ll wake up Billie Joe Armstrong.

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Think of it this way: every time AI subs for a teaching or advising process is a time a student is being deprived of human connection and interaction. And my friends, the social navigation of college is pretty damn important, and sometimes more important than course material.

This is the only good use of AI.

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A bit of inefficiency is arguably better for the student experience because learning is messy and non-linear. We should see inefficiency as an investment in their growth and human potential Related: I will never be a dean. 😂

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The push the past 30 years to run universities like businesses is one of those under-the-radar trends that affects the experience. Despite the political banter, universities are inherently conservative. Boards of trustees full of Wall St. types who think running higher ed like a hedge fund is Good.

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Office Space: That Would Be Great

Pushing faculty to use AI for grading or chatbots for office hours isn’t innovation. It’s symptomatic of a corporatizing-higher-ed trend that has saddled instructors with more TPS reports every year while cutting resources that allow us to give students a better experience. Tech to solve self-owns.

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ALT: Office Space: That Would Be Great

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 28/09/2026

Fascist aesthetic everywhere.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 27/09/2026

But also, this below is spot on. Very weird to make this argument when the media ecosystem is so ridiculously fractured. I mean, I'm pretty sure I have students who've never heard of Rolling Stone, which was much harder to do 40 years ago!

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 27/09/2026

I discover maybe 2-3 new albums a year, and it's always because my kids are listening to it. Literally have never heard of "Choosin' Texas" but I've also not felt connected to the culture around new music in two decades and who cares if you are or aren't?

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 27/09/2026

Area Rolling Stone Writer Discovers Older People Stop Discovering New Music Organically

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 24/09/2026

The opening bass/guitar work, listen to the base/guitar work on Veruca Salt’s “Seether.” This is grunge-y.