Clay Shirky

1 month ago | shadihamid.net | Shadi Hamid |Sam Kriss |Clay Shirky

This is an expanded essay based on a previous short post on why smartphones are good. I hope you enjoy it. Yesterday, I re-launched this newsletter under the new name The Agonist. More on that here. I’m really excited to be writing here more often and I look forward to engaging with more of you in the coming weeks and months. — Shadi Some of us have benefited from the status quo. Others haven’t.

Jan 11, 2025 | ted.com | Clay Shirky

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Dec 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Clay Shirky

Liberals moving away from X are giving up on the 20th-century ideal of a public sphere, best described by Hannah Arendt as a place that "gathers us together and yet prevents our falling over each other."Bluesky, the destination of the moment, is experiencing a post-election surge of new users as millions of mostly liberal users of X (nee Twitter) have moved over to the Twitter-like platform, which opened to the public last year.

Apr 10, 2024 | ted.com | Clay Shirky

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Nov 30, 2023 | nyunews.com | Clay Shirky

All of NYU is adapting to the arrival of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot or Midjourney, but students are adapting faster than faculty or the administration. And despite press coverage that assumes plagiarism is the only possible use case, whenever we talk with students, we hear smart and engaged thinking about pros and cons of generative AI. Our problem is that there are not many forums where we can hear from you. So I come to you with a proposition: Tell us what you think.