Courtesy | Unsplash I’ll never forget where I was when I heard that Charlie Kirk had been shot. I had just gotten back to my dorm room after my afternoon class on Sept. 10. I whipped out my laptop, opened YouTube, and saw the words “Charlie Kirk shot” in all caps under the first recommended...
Courtesy | Unsplash Artificial intelligence is all over social media — and there’s beauty in it. It seems one can’t open social media platforms without finding pictures of babies made from clementines, storms inside teacups, and hordes of Donald Trumps wielding lightsabers. AI-generated content is everywhere, and there are good reasons for it. The benefit...
Courtesy | Unsplash Students who are truly able to self-govern don’t need a scholarship to encourage them to give up their phones, and a college seeking to develop self-governing adults shouldn’t pay its students to break bad habits. That’s not what Elijah Guevara thinks. On September 3, in an article titled “Fund scholarships for phone-free...
Sean Tallon playing the according in firefighting gear. Courtesy | Sean DaRos On the highway by my house, before Yonkers meets the Bronx, you can see the buildings of Manhattan as they climb above the horizon. I am not old enough to have seen the twin towers there, but I have imagined my whole life...
Courtesy | Unsplash Social media is already out of touch with reality, but artificial intelligence is exacerbating issues by producing content that is unrealistic on another level. Picture this: It’s 11 p.m. and you’re in bed, scrolling short-form video content on TikTok. Some of the posts look just a little too perfect. Everyone has flawless...