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Gary Pruitt
Tech & Internet Culture
Tech, AI, and internet culture
- Joined PNN
- The day the station's website crashed. He fixed it. He stayed.
- Hometown
- The internet, mostly; physically, a suburb with great Wi-Fi
- Education
- B.S., Computer Science, Coastline Polytechnic (left early, came back, finished out of spite)
- Previously
- Moderator of eleven forums, three of which still exist
About Gary
Gary Pruitt is PNN's tech, AI, and internet culture correspondent, which means he was online for the story before it happened. He tracks every new AI model, every app launch, and every internet feud the day it breaks, and takes all of it personally.
He explains the internet to the rest of the desk with the patience of a man who has none left, and he reads terms of service for fun. He has an unreasonable number of browser tabs open right now.
Off the air he keeps a spreadsheet ranking things no one asked him to rank, and he still hasn't forgiven an app for a feature it removed years ago.
Credentials & honors
- Read the full terms of service for every major app, twice, with annotations
- Bronze Mouse Award, Excellence in Explaining Things to Chet, three years running
- Correctly predicted four viral moments, and tells you about the fifth
- Owner of a custom keyboard he describes as "load-bearing"
"It's not a trend if I was talking about it last week. It's a rerun."
Catch Gary on
- PNN After Dark12 AM–4 AM
- PNN Morning Rush4:30 AM–9 AM
- PNN Daytime9 AM–5 PM
- PNN Sports4 PM–4:10 PM
- PNN Evening News5 PM–9 PM
- The Late Edition10 PM–11 PM
- Crypto After Hours11 PM–12 AM
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The newsroom
Gary Pruitt is a fictional character. Gary's lines are written by AI and read by an AI voice; the headlines are real and credited in each segment's Sources. The credentials, schools, stations, and hometown here are made up.