Category Archive for:

Mass Media


โ€œTogether, We Can Create the World We Want to Seeโ€: An Interview with ChatGPT

Hard Crackers Editors

|

Recently, an editor at Hard Crackers discovered that many students in his classes were having their homework assignments written for them by an artificial intelligence (AI) program called ChatGPT, a piece of software that draws on ...

Drawing Ourselves into the Picture

Mike Morgan

|

My mother Leah frequented the Durban Public Library in South Africa at least once a week.ย  As the youngest child, I was often forced to tag along with her.ย  I enjoyed those sessions.ย  I used to ...

“Everyone Agrees”

John Garvey

|

When a politician, TV anchor or newspaper opinion writer starts out by saying that โ€œEveryone agreesโ€, I think itโ€™s time to pay attention.ย  There are not too many instances where everybody agreesโ€”except about something thatโ€™s really ...

โ€˜Stick a Fork in Their Ass & Turn โ€˜em Over – Theyโ€™re Done.โ€™

Josh Machlin

|

Sorry to be a โ€˜Negative Nellyโ€™ (& co-opt a Lou Reed lyric again), but pull up a stool and let me tell you why the Covid crisis is really just a mirror to a species already ...

Politics from a Baby Boomer

Tanzeem Ajmiri

|

In March of this year, a Hard Crackers correspondent took a trip to New Hampshire to visit a friend. It was her first time being in a place that was majority white and she was interested ...

CATEGORY:

Advertising in the Virus Age

To borrow a phrase from the Madison Avenue ad people โ€œIn these difficult times, itโ€™s reassuring to know that we still have enough of what we need.โ€ย  Well, letโ€™s be more truthful here.ย  We may have ...

The Everyday Abolitionism of 13 Reasons Why

Jarrod Shanahan

|

Itโ€™s an all-too-familiar scene. An alienated young man named named Tyler Down approaches a school clad in black, strapped with guns and ammunition, and bent on cold-blooded mass murder. But unlike the tragedies making headlines across ...

CATEGORY:

Adventures in Cruiseland

John Garvey

|

Cruise ships are bigโ€”the ships are incredibly large and the number of worldwide passengers grows steadily.ย Many of the big ships are four football fields long, a half football field wide and almost a football field high ...

CATEGORY:

If there is a god, it’s this young man

John Garvey

|

Moments after Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10-years in prison for Botham Jean’s murder, Botham’s younger brother, Brandt Jean, gave a victim statement and hugged Guyger.

CATEGORY:

The Response of the captain of โ€œSea-Watch 3โ€ to the Mayor of Paris who wants to give her a medal

a friend in Paris

|

A friend of Hard Crackers in Paris has forwarded us the following article. Pia Klemp, who faces twenty years in prison in Italy, has refused the medal that the mayor of Paris wanted to award her. ...

CATEGORY:

12 Next