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Keith Plocek

@keithplocek.com
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USC Annenberg professor. Independent journalist. Huckleberry. links.keithplocek.com

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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 29/09/2026
It’s been too hot for my long walks down Los Angeles streets, so I hung out at the mall instead
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11 Hours at the Mall
No third spaces anymore?
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 28/09/2026
On my deathbed: “At least I won‘t have to download any more apps.”
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 24/09/2026
Manbun at True Value
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Cole Nowicki @colenowicki.com · 23/09/2026
The inaugural issue of SAUCE, "A DIY journal dedicated to the cultural, social, aesthetic, and athletic contributions of skateboarding," is now live. Stoked to work on this with such a talented, smart group of people. www.saucejournal.org/issues/issue...
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Issue 1: Magical, Realism
Welcome to the inaugural issue of SAUCE, a journal for skate studies. Skate studies is a field of serious academic research that covers the activities, cultures, and institutions of skateboarding, av...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 22/09/2026
She was a beaut
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 18/09/2026
"AI is rotting the bonds of trust that keep us working, playing, and being together." — Nathan Munn in @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com
Thinking partner
Metal machine thinking repudiated by Nathan Munn
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 17/09/2026
In The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of the characters describes himself as "a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean," which seems like a wonderful way to engage with the world. (Then he asks Sherlock Holmes if he can run his fingers over his skull.)
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
dailyiowan.com
Uncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual Freedom
In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...
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Tar @tar.land · 15/09/2026
Some people see the LA River and think of Grease or Terminator 2. Others are reminded of Jackass.
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The Jackass Guide to LA
Nothing shows the streets of Los Angeles as they really are quite like Jackass
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 16/09/2026
I'm sure this happens to you far more often than I, but I've gotten emails before where the artist asked me to issue a correction and basically change my review of their work back into artspeak, and all I could think was, I was doing you a favor, dude. And also, no.
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 14/09/2026
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than a slight modification of capitalism
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 14/09/2026
I think about this guy all the time because, dangit, I am this guy sometimes
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 12/09/2026
Also, isn’t the analogy supposed to be about movement and not growth? Not to mention that some species are totally fine chilling on the ocean floor
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 09/09/2026
It's the combination pizza hut and taco bell of civic meetings
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 08/09/2026
My dad died in November. He showed up in one sentence of an essay I published in March. And now he’s busted through the wall of an art review I published today.
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Big Taix
Sometimes grief will surprise you
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 08/09/2026
I’m loving the mascots on the freeways
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 07/09/2026
Oh, you broke the sink! Whoa
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 06/09/2026
Ain’t no party like an indoor piñata party…
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Assholocene.
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 03/09/2026
Y’all love talking about quicksand, but I was also raised to believe there would be more limbo parties in my life
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 01/09/2026
Beep beep!
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Honking at Waymos
The future is not written, and don't let anyone hoping to profit tell you otherwise
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 31/08/2026
Life is too short for all the good books!
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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Finally got around to reading this one, and damn: “The more we suspect that each other’s words and images have been generated by machines, the less we value each other’s humanity. And the more we dehumanize each other, well, you know where this is going, because in many ways we’re already there.”
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 26/08/2026
This year’s first-day-of-class walk-up song is…
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Your Silent Face (2015 Remaster)
YouTube video by New Order - Topic
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 25/08/2026
Many people seem to think AI can do everyone else's job but theirs
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 25/08/2026
I tracked down the guy who's been painting pigs along my morning commute
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Trump Pigs on the 10 Freeway
Like many folks, I sank into a hole two Novembers ago. I’m not saying I was hiding in that hole, but I slid far enough down in there that I might as well have been. Eventually I began climbing back ou...
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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'm thrilled to share "Series: One Thing After Another," the online exhibition I juried for Site: Brooklyn Gallery. I selected 35 artists who use seriality, repetition, and sequence in their work to explore formal, narrative, and conceptual themes. www.sitebrooklyn.com/series-one-t...
sitebrooklyn.com
Series — Site:Brooklyn Gallery
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 18/08/2026
I wrote about my favorite script for @tar.land
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Santa Monica Cursive
It loops, because it’s cursive and that’s what cursive does, but it doesn’t stay between the lines, instead climbing up, up to the end of the word. It’s Santa Monica cursive, and you can see it on the...
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 17/08/2026
That logo
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 16/08/2026
Not gonna lie, that first year or two, it felt pretty good to have all those randos wishing me happy birthday on Facebook
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 11/08/2026
But once you have the lede, the story is like 75% done
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 11/08/2026
Police officers typed the wrong license plate into the computer and smashed a guy's car window before pulling him out of the car and pepper-spraying him. When they realized it was a mistake, they charged him anyway. Those charges remained until he committed suicide.
latimes.com
A typo by San Francisco police led to a violent arrest of an innocent driver, officials say
A police watchdog found that San Francisco police officers threw a man to the ground and pepper-sprayed him after they entered the wrong license plate into their computer.
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Dr Sarah Hewitt @s2hewitt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Well worth a read, and an excellent example of critical reading and thinking. Why can't journalists do the same?
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 07/08/2026
Hey reporters, if you load your notes or audio into an AI cloud service (ChatGPT, Claude, Otter, etc), there’s a good chance those companies will comply with a court order and hand that info over. “The rule is simple: Don’t share anything you wouldn’t the service provider or a court to see.”
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 06/08/2026
We use Brightspace, so they just drop the same link over and over again in the submission field for each assignment. But I also make them all use the same naming taxonomy, including course number and year, for the doc, so I can search for them all easily. OK, I'll stop typing now!
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 06/08/2026
For my writing classes, I have each student create one Google Doc for the whole semester and share it with me. Then they submit each assignment as a new tab. It works out well, because I can see how their writing has progressed over time (and if they are incorporating my feedack)
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 05/08/2026
Or the reporters are also tooted out of their minds
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 04/08/2026
Out of my walk videos so far, this one easily has the most views, with some people calling me a wuss for not walking further and others calling me crazy for walking what I did
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Keith Plocek on Instagram: "After walking to Santa Monica Airport for my previous video, I took a flight to Las Vegas. Upon landing at the JSX terminal at Harry Reid International, I could see the Veg...
328 likes, 48 comments - keithplocek on July 25, 2026: "After walking to Santa Monica Airport for my previous video, I took a flight to Las Vegas. Upon landing at the JSX terminal at Harry Reid Intern...
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 28/07/2026
I haven’t seen y’all this excited about a negative review since that takedown of Guy Fieri’s restaurant in Times Square
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 26/07/2026
I didn't say anything in that first scene but in the second one I definitely was the guy in my theater yelling, "OH!!!!!"
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Mallory Carra @mallorycarra.com · 24/07/2026
One of my passions is helping people learn about the business of freelancing, so I was excited to help organize this event with AAJA-LA & @lapressclub.bsky.social Featuring UC Irvine Prof. Erika Hayasaki & Robert Lopez, McGraw fellow 🍕 & 🧋 provided. RSVP: lapressclub.wufoo.com/forms/zzspwh...
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"AAJA-LA AND THE LA PRESS CLUB PRESENT
The Business of Freelancing
Want to kickstart your career as a freelance journalist or go independent, but you're not sure where to start?
Learn from our speakers about the basics of the business side and how to fund your independent journalism.

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Robert J. Lopez
ndependent investigative reporter and fellow, McGraw Center for Business Journalism at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY

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Erika Hayasaki
Independent journalist and professor in the Literary Journalism Program at the University of California, Irvine

2535 W Temple St, Los
Angeles, CA 90026
Thursday, August 6 at 3pm"
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 22/07/2026
Every independent coffeeshop in Colorado Springs is also a church
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 20/07/2026
“50 bucks more says he eats it”
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 19/07/2026
Let’s see the other dog though
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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 10/07/2026
I was visiting Houston, a place I lived for almost 30 years, and I put a restaurant I knew very well into GPS, but I accidentally picked a different location of the same restaurant, and I drove the wrong way for at least 10 minutes, thinking all the while, What a weird route, but OK...
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