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As speech shrinks — thought starves. Cognitive effects of digital orality
Digital orality: fewer words, more interaction, less abstraction
Feb 27
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Andrey Mir
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The New York Times isn’t winning the news business. It’s escaping it
The Times found a business solution for journalism. It’s not selling news, and it’s not replicable.
Feb 21
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Andrey Mir
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The only four truly immortal qualities of good old journalism
The last virtues of journalism: completeness of the story, panoramic agenda, credentials, and limited edition
Feb 19
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Andrey Mir
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The acceleration problem: exponential AI upends incremental history
History is compressing into years, then months, then now—and we have no ability to see it
Feb 16
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Andrey Mir
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Four pounds of a single issue of The Washington Post from 2013
How local advertising survived newspaper extinction, went digital, and returned to print
Feb 13
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Andrey Mir
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The Washington Post: will the endowment save the day? (A day, maybe.)
Assuming Bezos agrees to give billions (or hundreds of millions, no biggie) to save WP – why it will not work
Feb 7
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Andrey Mir
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January 2026
Does polarization really pay off for the media?
No. Postjournalism was a last resort, not a profitable strategy.
Jan 30
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Andrey Mir
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Digital orality: the return of speech
How texting is changing thought and society
Jan 25
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Andrey Mir
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There is no “I” in AI (but not that “I” that you think)
Debate on the fate of humankind. Does AI need agency to become the next intelligence? (The answer is “No.”)
Jan 21
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Andrey Mir
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Why we think villains are always more efficient at using the Internet
Media and responsibility for their effects: Instrumental vs. environmental approaches
Jan 11
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Andrey Mir
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Journalism in search of a cute little monkey
Selling "something else," the new media turn into sellers of "something else," not news
Jan 7
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Andrey Mir
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What's wrong feels real. Instagram AI Panic (in the form of a New Year’s resolution)
How tech leaders become media ecologists
Jan 2
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Andrey Mir
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