Awhile back, I was asked how I avoid using AI in marketing. My first thought was, “well, I just… don’t use it?” Abstaining from chatbots and LLMs is probably easier for me than some folks. For one, I’m in the creative industry, and a lot of AI efforts have been focused on stealing creative work …
Lately, Meta and TikTok have been doubling down on invasive privacy policies. Some users are even describing those policies as a shift to surveillance tactics. Why are harmful policy updates like these popping up so often? As it increasingly becomes “the norm” for billionaires to control how we exist online, big tech is taking the …
With dramatic changes in the political and social media landscape, it’s hard to know what to do as a human – let alone as the boss of your business’ online presence. How do you exist ethically on social media? Our businesses give us a platform to seed and amplify radical ideas on social media. That …
What’s With All the Major Changes Happening in Online Marketing? Over the past few months, it seems like online marketing (social media) has been turned upside down. From the latest (infuriating) Meta updates to the TikTok ban, to the possibility of breaking up Google’s search and advertising tools, major changes seem to be hiding around …
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar. It was not the first time this particular establishment suffered the indignity, but for whatever reason it was on that night that the Stonewall’s patrons – many of whom were Black and Latinx …
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