Jeremy Littau
@jeremylittau.com
I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com
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Jeremy Littau
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· Dec 12
Teaching the soul of AI
There’s a sentence I’ve been staring at all week in a student’s final paper:
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For the AM crowd, I wrote about a human-centered technology course I teach at Lehigh. The class focuses on finding your purpose in a time of automation and AI, and it's probably the most important class I teach nowadays.
12-18” …. Everything is awesome
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺...
View it here~> epawaweather.com/weather-aler...
Ranges of snow are defined today with a full synoptic discussion about this system, including timing, impacts, and precipitation-type breakdown
View it here~> epawaweather.com/weather-aler...
Ranges of snow are defined today with a full synoptic discussion about this system, including timing, impacts, and precipitation-type breakdown
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
12-18” …. Everything is awesome
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Entirely appropriate that anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis are singing a song from the anti-slavery movement in the 1840s.
MSP airport. Clergy risking risking arrest and a huge gathering of protesters. The song is, “Down to the River to Pray.”
January 23, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Running off to work on a story.
In the meantime:
Religious left: still a thing.
In the meantime:
Religious left: still a thing.
Arrests calmly ongoing.
This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.
This is going to take a while. There are a lot of clergy risking arrest.
January 23, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Running off to work on a story.
In the meantime:
Religious left: still a thing.
In the meantime:
Religious left: still a thing.
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The 2-year-old saw K-Pop Demon Hunters and is obsessed.
REPORT FROM DAYCARE: "He had a good day. He's been rapping a lot though. He needs to work on stopping rapping and listening to the teachers."
REPORT FROM DAYCARE: "He had a good day. He's been rapping a lot though. He needs to work on stopping rapping and listening to the teachers."
January 23, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The 2-year-old saw K-Pop Demon Hunters and is obsessed.
REPORT FROM DAYCARE: "He had a good day. He's been rapping a lot though. He needs to work on stopping rapping and listening to the teachers."
REPORT FROM DAYCARE: "He had a good day. He's been rapping a lot though. He needs to work on stopping rapping and listening to the teachers."
It's the Year Of Our Lord 2026 and my institution is telling students they have to have a Facebook or Instagram account if they want updated dining information during this weekend's snow emergency. Every year I have a greater % of students who say they aren't on Insta. And they were NEVER on FB.
January 23, 2026 at 7:10 PM
It's the Year Of Our Lord 2026 and my institution is telling students they have to have a Facebook or Instagram account if they want updated dining information during this weekend's snow emergency. Every year I have a greater % of students who say they aren't on Insta. And they were NEVER on FB.
Honest to god unsure if PBS News knows what peace is.
The president's first year back in office has been a year of breaking norms, snatching and bombing adversaries, pushing peace and threatening allies. https://to.pbs.org/4sCEQtg
Trump's worldview and a rapidly changing global order - Compass Points
Donald Trump, the disruptor. The president's first year back in office has been a year of breaking norms, snatching and bombing adversaries, pushing peace and threatening allies. Compass Points modera...
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January 23, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Honest to god unsure if PBS News knows what peace is.
Slow clap for all the progressives and centrists who got caught up in a moral panic about TikTok and showed no imagination for how the so-called remedy would play out in the hands of the world's worst people.
Trump's buddies now control TikTok in the U.S. www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/t...
The deal to secure TikTok’s future in the US has finally closed | CNN Business
The joint venture acquiring TikTok’s US assets has been formally established and has announced its leadership team, according to the company, one day before the deadline set by President Donald Trump ...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Slow clap for all the progressives and centrists who got caught up in a moral panic about TikTok and showed no imagination for how the so-called remedy would play out in the hands of the world's worst people.
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I urge leaders of democracies worldwide to step forward and stand with Americans fighting on the ground.
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I urge leaders of democracies worldwide to step forward and stand with Americans fighting on the ground.
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This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
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January 23, 2026 at 1:45 PM
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
Jack has been all over the story about the prominent clergy response to the ICE operations in Minneapolis. Worth your follow (his religious left book is good too).
Shoutout to the now double-digit number of Minnesotans who have looked at me this morning before I left to go out into the cold and said, with grave seriousness, “please be careful out there.”
January 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Jack has been all over the story about the prominent clergy response to the ICE operations in Minneapolis. Worth your follow (his religious left book is good too).
@bmoritz99.bsky.social Don’t let anyone tell you America has lost its ability to innovate.
January 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM
@bmoritz99.bsky.social Don’t let anyone tell you America has lost its ability to innovate.
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I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
January 23, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
A tradition unlike any other: the pre-storm grocery panic.
January 23, 2026 at 2:43 PM
A tradition unlike any other: the pre-storm grocery panic.
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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NEW: Earlier today, DHS Sec Kristi Noem posted a photo of federal agents arresting civil rights attorney and ICE protestor Nekima Levy Armstrong.
The White House then posted the same arrest image -- but digitally altered Levy Armstrong's face to depict her sobbing.
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The White House then posted the same arrest image -- but digitally altered Levy Armstrong's face to depict her sobbing.
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White House Uses AI to Alter Protester's Face So That She's Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest
The White House published an image on X featuring an AI-altered image of an ICE protester crying during her arrest.
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January 22, 2026 at 9:34 PM
NEW: Earlier today, DHS Sec Kristi Noem posted a photo of federal agents arresting civil rights attorney and ICE protestor Nekima Levy Armstrong.
The White House then posted the same arrest image -- but digitally altered Levy Armstrong's face to depict her sobbing.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
The White House then posted the same arrest image -- but digitally altered Levy Armstrong's face to depict her sobbing.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
I am not good at remembering my history. What happened to the Titanic again?
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I am not good at remembering my history. What happened to the Titanic again?
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Three AI executives admitting everyone hates their product this week.
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is 'probably' a bubble, expects correction in coming years
OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is 'probably' a bubble, expects correction in coming years
Taylor said the free market will ultimately determine where the value is and which AI players have the best products.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Three AI executives admitting everyone hates their product this week.
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When we replaced our old-school doorbell, we went with Eufy, which only sends to the cloud if you opt in. We didn’t and it still works great for us.
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
When we replaced our old-school doorbell, we went with Eufy, which only sends to the cloud if you opt in. We didn’t and it still works great for us.
Crazy times when "we might NOT invade Greenland" is now the day's hopeful news.
January 21, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Crazy times when "we might NOT invade Greenland" is now the day's hopeful news.
Saw possibly two feet of snow in the forecast and noped myself into finally buying an electric snowblower.
January 21, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Saw possibly two feet of snow in the forecast and noped myself into finally buying an electric snowblower.
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Do you all know the joys of the Danish Voice Actor for Starscream in the original Transformers cartoon? I promise you aren't ready for it.
November 26, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Do you all know the joys of the Danish Voice Actor for Starscream in the original Transformers cartoon? I promise you aren't ready for it.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Congrats to Andruw Jones for being elected to the Hall of Fame. On this day in 2017, I wrote for @fangraphs.com that Jones deserved to be a Hall of Famer. Only took the BBWAA nine years to catch up, which is pretty good for them. blogs.fangraphs.com/in-defense-o...
In Defense of Andruw Jones’ Hall of Fame Credentials
The Hall of Fame ballot is going to be crowded again next year, and Andruw Jones is a big reason why.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Congrats to Andruw Jones for being elected to the Hall of Fame. On this day in 2017, I wrote for @fangraphs.com that Jones deserved to be a Hall of Famer. Only took the BBWAA nine years to catch up, which is pretty good for them. blogs.fangraphs.com/in-defense-o...