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2026-01-12 17:03:54 UTC

A reminder from @sarahbecan.bsky.social of one of the many ways immigration makes our lives better
https://buttondown.com/sarahbecan/archive/tacos-al-pastor/

2026-01-09 03:10:13 UTC

I love this so much
@/tuyo.art on insta
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSXmrKqgmUG/ https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/3f82e6016d1d8f93eb07d6b67109c3744b7543e65c118a75b020775542ffeb90.webp

2026-01-07 15:34:02 UTC

“…the images create an almost surreal air. It felt as if a group of twelve-year-old boys in a basement had been handed control of the most lethal military in history—and were using it to boost their online brands.”
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under-a-clicktatorship

2026-01-06 17:08:53 UTC

“The Trump Administration is an autoimmune disorder sabotaging the things that actually made America if not great at least powerful”
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/notes-on-unbearable-stupidity-january-6-2026-edition/

2025-12-09 17:04:21 UTC

“We've compiled 12 of the biggest disputed allegations by DHS officials and the evidence or court actions that overturned them.”
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/12/08/dhs-claims-contradicted-video-court

2025-12-01 16:18:30 UTC

“The beast lashes out when he's cornered, and good on them for cornering him.”
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/an-insult-is-a-confession-notes-on-journalism-in-the-time-of-trump/

2025-11-30 17:13:41 UTC

Good closer to this segment from @onthemedia.bsky.social (repeated from earlier this year) https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/64439384f2aae72ba2c9266dc55e7a8e82d17479b3c1110f03a834a1532698fb.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/3be8fc972f0bb8990472934601acd0b576dc69179d71201f76cb65f4dec661f0.webp

2025-11-19 15:22:56 UTC

not only is Chicago lucky to have so many great independent newsrooms—but they collaborate!
@blockclubchi.bsky.social Cicero Independiente, the Investigative Project on Race and Equity, @invisible.institute @southsideweekly.bsky.social @thetriibe.com
https://chicagoreader.com/news/border-patrol-ice-tear-gas/

2025-11-19 13:04:00 UTC

“Of the 614 immigrants arrested in the Chicago operation, which began in September, just 16 had significant criminal histories, according to federal data submitted to the court by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of a lawsuit.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/trump-chicago-immigration-raid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2025-11-14 21:41:44 UTC

“Anyone who’s been involved with higher ed in America, particularly at the elite level that Bowdoin College inhabits, should already know that no one at the Times whose job is to “cover debates over freedom of speech and expression” on campus can be trusted”
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/no-one-trusts-the-new-york-times

2025-11-13 15:45:43 UTC

Here’s a small ridiculous thing that made me smile this morning
3 Friends Visit Every CTA ‘L’ Stop In 9 Hours In Effort To Set Guinness World Record
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/13/3-friends-visit-every-cta-l-stop-in-9-hours-in-effort-to-set-guinness-world-record/

2025-11-10 16:08:56 UTC

“At the Bean, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!'””
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/border-patrol-agents-pose-at-the-bean-for-apparent-photo-op/

2025-11-08 14:39:53 UTC

Phoebe Judge goes on migrawatch ridealong with Protect Rogers Park (Chicago)
https://overcast.fm/+AA2ilcGhSJM

2025-11-06 19:13:47 UTC

happy to see this collection of service journalism articles from @thedailynu.bsky.social
https://apps.dailynorthwestern.com/know-your-rights/

2025-11-04 16:05:57 UTC

“at this point anyone uncritically reporting statistics or narratives proposed by DHS is not really in the journalism business, if the journalism business is anchored on discovering and disseminating facts. Simply saying “The DHS said” is not a reasonable qualifier unless the media has more detail to report.”
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threatening-who

2025-11-02 02:03:16 UTC

"If you’re not choosing, someone else is. And that person is responding to incentives that might not align with your values or best interest."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/validation-ai-raffi-krikorian/684764/
(aside, Apple News share URLs should go to the original publisher and not Apple News 😡)

2025-11-01 12:52:09 UTC

This New Yorker cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson neatly combines two of my idiosyncratic enthusiasms https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/21fd6feff618eede6461d470dd77687a3be932a7a6ee23736e7224d1248ff448.webp

2025-10-30 17:34:23 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/post/3m4gbeaugns2b https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/7098a28ca9e9c9254a1916ae94c3451cc4b4e08deecbe6f760a9dc604197481c.webp

2025-10-26 14:25:53 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qoifzbxdd4wurvllqnark4xm/post/3m3xuevhu3k2e https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/8898f8a03fde0b4a15be0add4bcefe2f80e87a30496fe01fb7dc87df4f70d85b.webp

2025-10-18 22:24:41 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/post/3m3irzerjes2p https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/15fd2fb09d0b4f6fa470bc0745ef905186cad974418d41e932865c49a0e77771.webp

2025-10-18 16:42:00 UTC

Evanston #nokings inflatable etc census
✔️ frog
✔️ handstanding frog (or diving?)
✔️ cow
✔️ banana
✔️ sea horse
✔️ axolotl
✔️ polar bear
✔️ brown bear
✔️ chicken
✔️ handstanding clown
✔️ T. Rex x2
✔️ Finn
✔️ Jake
✔️ Cookie Monster
✔️ Snorlax
✔️ Gengar
✔️ unicorn x4

2025-10-15 18:28:18 UTC

Chicago: do you like pizza? Are you curious about ranked choice voting?
This @citybureau.bsky.social event brings the two together — next Weds, 10/22/2025
https://www.citybureau.org/events/the-great-chicago-pizza-election-an-exercise-in-ranked-choice-voting

2025-10-08 15:09:15 UTC

“It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/opinion/trump-universities-compact-civil-society.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r08.aygn.j4mgDd9_EABk&smid=url-share

2025-09-30 14:21:29 UTC

Your tax dollars at work
(you bet I left website feedback)
https://www.hud.gov/ https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/878c6d7f3b252d1fdf2ed876ee99bd7106b5e13fc2b3786d7f2ded135336ed8d.webp

2025-09-29 16:26:16 UTC

"This is what actual terrorism looks like. Not fabricated statistics about trans school shooters, but real people making real threats with real weapons against real targets."
https://www.readtpa.com/p/trump-shared-some-ai-slop-about-miracle

2025-09-24 02:09:03 UTC

“the AACM aesthetic is flexible, capacious, and fends off classification.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/dylan775/p/on-amina-claudine-myers

2025-09-22 19:16:12 UTC

Today is the last day of the match for donations to City Bureau's Documenters on Duty campaign
https://mailchi.mp/citybureau.org/keep-chicago-documenters-on-duty-0g8cfng9zr?e=9aa8e5054b

2025-09-22 14:44:19 UTC

from "Data is Political" byJoe Reis
https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/p/data-is-political https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/af51202158959879beb87f99f25115fe14566aa1c5cd798b53a41e1767877619.webp

2025-09-21 15:59:55 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sb54dpdfefflykmf5bcfvr7t/post/3lzeaknyv2c26 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/e583b8a7d7bc53464fde77f265dc38cb3a1bbe9fdefa65e11e7cf7b3ae37c258.webp

2025-09-01 14:37:26 UTC

This article is dense and there’s a lot in not sure I get, but this is 🚀
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/11/coalition-as-credit/ https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/b5cebb844a5ba3b6c9ef34c95e98804f6c71106a9037b2df9fe0af7158b5a31c.webp

2025-08-30 23:53:42 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uy2jwm7lcofy6ik2itzwbctj/post/3lxlloyy7g22o https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/e8ff085d3cff901027662ebb8af9b647b8c38c9b639daf1b80e5e4aae8bc2e2c.webp

2025-08-30 23:40:09 UTC

“I have no strong feelings about these very wealthy and successful young people, but I do have strong feelings about people who tell us that flowers are bourgeois & we can't take pleasure in what we take pleasure in.”
—Rebecca Solnit on Scold Culture
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-roses-notes-on-pleasure-and-scold-culture/

2025-08-29 14:35:10 UTC

“I have studied the federal bureaucracy for a quarter century and am not aware of any comparable period in American history where so many public service professionals across different policy domains are sending out SOS signals to the public.”
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-government-is-breaking-cdc-edition

2025-07-26 19:56:23 UTC

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‘Has it occurred to you that music might be made to bring more than pleasure? That its mysterious compelling power might be utilized to do you much practical good?’
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/resources/detail/434

2025-07-26 19:49:23 UTC

Reading Liz Pelly's Spotify book and intrigued to learn about the Edison Recording Company's 1921 "mood music," informed by customer-completed "mood change charts"
‘the company also promoted “Mood Change Parties,” where the charts could be distributed’

2025-06-20 12:42:18 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jmmjc6ln34je34zpt3gbw4n2/post/3lrxdpla2ts25 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/80acbb2c080bb203f1255319b49f5cc9841e1e48f4cfa69a7ccf31aa5793df44.webp

2025-06-20 01:52:42 UTC

I don't write music but this is really cool
Original post: https://toot.io/@andy_matuschak/114712060184294738 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/9af5e974e4589473c5cbaf627f3fa8b9f63eacf15413b4c63d90858778c705fc.webp

2025-06-19 13:27:43 UTC

Story gift link: https://wapo.st/4l7a1ch
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rogqxhzq6vy54nbuy4n6rwyd/post/3lrxjrvqbt222 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/1fcdbae4cf8981f1596d09eca98886d7f082a126c949d253277dcd26b8cbeeb2.webp

2025-06-16 17:03:42 UTC

One of my deepest personal music lines is the mostly expat South African jazz scene tracing back to the Blue Notes group. The last surviving member, Louis Moholo, passed last week.
This, his “biggest hit” was a memorial for a bandmate, and is worth a listen today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlP7nX_qtY

2025-06-16 15:34:10 UTC

“In praise of the Mangonada” from Sarah Becan’s newsletter
“So many journeys had to happen to bring this dish into being, and I can just walk up the street and buy one for $4.00 at Paleteria Arco Iris on Belmont.”
https://buttondown.com/sarahbecan/archive/in-praise-of-the-mangonada/

2025-06-12 23:27:42 UTC

In recognition of Northwestern’s announcement that they’re switching our health insurance to UHC next year
https://youtu.be/J_swGiAHhbQ?si=31QvvXPvqQmZaBXD

2025-06-12 15:42:35 UTC

Interesting piece about Wikipedia policy
“by wrong we don't just mean filled with errors—we're talking about deeper structural deficiencies that call into question the legitimacy of the crowd-sourced content development model altogether.”
https://wikify.substack.com/p/does-shaming-wikipedia-work

2025-06-08 22:38:03 UTC

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/e87fca45604806d4d07666823c85da6e7481172bac770677f07961b85bc4e8f7.webp

2025-06-05 15:19:20 UTC

Excellent analysis of story framing
“who is defined as the protagonist matters a lot to the story about free speech you want to tell.”
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-become-a-right-wing-star-harass

2025-06-02 23:07:32 UTC

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although, to be fair, "swats" is not the word. He's very careful in his speech, which is salient to the overall conversation. The overuse of fighting metaphors goes hand-in-hand with the death of empathy.

2025-06-02 22:54:58 UTC

I was leery of this “Death of Empathy” NYT Opinion video for so many reasons, but @jbouie as usual nails it, repeatedly.
Meanwhile, Michelle Cottle embodies exactly the rage-inducing NYT persona from the jump, when JB swats down her opening framing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/opinion/end-of-empathy-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.qbLP.sbQNa4l2EKB-&smid=url-share

2025-05-31 18:22:47 UTC

For some reason, from time to time lately, I think about Madeleine L'Engle's "The Wind in the Door," and the nihilistic horde, the echthroi, that want to destroy everything for no reason. But I forgot that the verb for that action is actually X
🤔 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/c601b7d1221b17eb2d5235d4fc8ff3fe80c66727e121044521b6533bde01b850.webp

2025-05-29 19:36:23 UTC

via @citybureau.bsky.social’s Documenters program: “community-powered documentation of public meetings makes a difference”
https://www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/5/28/bridging-the-civic-information-gap-how-we-record-public-meetings-matters

2025-05-28 18:09:42 UTC

“If you’re a political party, your goal is not just to know where voters stand, but to know how to move them. Instead, Democratic operatives seem content to reduce their platform to a focus-grouped ephemera, drifting whichever way the political winds blow it.”
https://stringinamaze.net/p/the-tyranny-of-public-opinion

2025-05-22 03:21:12 UTC

Even if you're sick of takes on the AI-confabulated summer books list, Martha Bayne is worth reading
https://marthabayne.substack.com/p/journalism-dreams

2025-05-14 15:44:56 UTC

“Everyone’s angry and no one’s listening, and it’s only going to get worse.”
good one from @annehelen@sfba.social
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/what-do-we-do-with-all-this-consumer

2025-05-13 11:54:49 UTC

After I got past my "of course LLM's aren't for news" reaction, this is pretty good
https://www.cjr.org/feature-2/getting-my-news-from-chatgpt-ai.php

2025-05-08 00:57:37 UTC

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/60-years-ago-congress-warned-us-about-the-surveillance-state-what-happened/ https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/340949aae87e8b1213d598d839cc299c27a251a7d20e7c787d11009de0a1b3f6.webp

2025-04-22 15:57:17 UTC

“Welcome in the strayed sheep, and work on widening the cracks in the other coalition. Leopard-face-eating memes may feel personally satisfying, but they usually do not ease the process of converting disillusioned opponents into active allies.”
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/absolute-power-can-be-a-terrible

2025-04-17 01:58:09 UTC

Plausible explanation of how tariffs will likely strengthen the Chinese economy before the US economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/trump-tariffs-china-ecommerce.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU8.fk6a.WjYNBXuLnEiH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-04-15 01:41:39 UTC

2025-04-12 19:23:23 UTC

From Evgeny Morozov's introductory essay in the book AI Futures https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2ef47d0d3f84da865dc96ee9b4044aef443e11e7cbee969572d0abb4962dd7af/613979220f2c53b050956e69c8a8de1383c3bc8ad8ce081c1ce8d086208c0813.webp

2025-03-27 14:34:22 UTC

As a lover of neologisms I was delighted to learn about the Bureau of Linguistic Reality
https://bureauoflinguisticalreality.com/
via this Long Now talk https://youtu.be/ZKIyyADx-0o?si=4YHfe5MvobqR1bhW

2025-03-25 21:36:52 UTC

music and cooperation, two of my favorite things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ft-ABCPdeA

2025-03-18 01:12:35 UTC

“Large Models are themselves best understood as a particular type of cultural and social technology. They are analogous to such past technologies as writing, print, markets, bureaucracies, and representative democracies.”
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-ai-models-are-cultural-and

2025-03-17 15:50:22 UTC

“we must grapple with the fact that the main ways that people encounter generative AI is as brute force internet pollution.”
https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/

2025-03-12 15:13:38 UTC

‘the same man who gave a blanket pardon to those convicted of violent crimes related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol called those protesting at Tesla dealerships “domestic terrorists” and promised that the government would make sure they “go through hell.”’
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-11-2025

2025-03-12 13:43:26 UTC

“Republicans in Congress are not being told that their appropriations will be ignored: they are being told that appropriations will be selectively ignored, and they will be protected.”
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-a-new

2025-02-09 18:47:01 UTC

I was reminded of the time in 1991 when ACT UP activists put a giant condom over Senator Jesse Helms's house.
I found this 2008 narrative from one of the provocateurs if you want the whole story
https://www.poz.com/blog/in-memory-of-je

2025-02-05 19:25:55 UTC

“I often get the impression that mainstream media is more concerned with presenting itself as calm and evenhanded than accurately representing reality.”
https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-should-shout-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-if-its-on-fire-the-coup-continues/

2025-02-05 16:27:20 UTC

Chicago cultural legend Marguerite Horberg got extreme scrutiny from CBP as she returned from the Havana Jazz Festival. Today’s Chicago Public Square gathers links to her story at the top https://www.chicagopublicsquare.com/2025/02/i-was-disappeared-for-5-hours-reason-to.html

2025-02-05 16:01:48 UTC

This is very good
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/meditations-in-an-emergency

2025-01-31 12:29:20 UTC

This Late Show bit is ridiculous — both the lie that launched it and the gag that resulted
https://youtu.be/cqFXC-QskY8?si=l5D3fIMwAKUzTDXQ

2025-01-28 17:41:07 UTC

“This is what the mainstreaming of hate looks like in Trump's America — not as some grand ideological project, but as something closer to a fashion trend.”
https://www.readtpa.com/p/when-cruelty-becomes-cool

2025-01-22 16:18:31 UTC

love a news story where the hero image is the subject of the investigation leaning out her own front door, giving stink-eye straight into the reporter’s camera
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/22/hundreds-of-south-and-west-side-properties-for-sale-amid-legal-fight-against-citys-worst-landowner/

2025-01-15 15:34:33 UTC

This slice of Chicago music history from @Leor Galil is great
https://chicagoreader.com/music/gossip-wolf/crazy-steve-szegho-jam-productions-aragon-obituary/

2025-01-15 13:10:41 UTC

“rawdog is a great choice for Word of the Year as we collectively rawdog the future of American politics in 2025.”
https://americandialect.org/2024-word-of-the-year-is-rawdog/

2025-01-09 22:22:41 UTC

"The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs."
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

2025-01-09 19:09:42 UTC

Chicago-area friends! I’d love to see you at City Bureau's New Year's Gathering on Jan 23 @ Whiner Beer Taproom. Good food, great music, excellent humans… pay-what-you-can tix — come out! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-bureaus-new-year-gathering-forward-together-tickets-1083319320249

2025-01-08 16:41:29 UTC

“The silver lining here is that Facebook was already increasingly a waste of our time”
https://www.404media.co/email/d8f4c3ab-47c8-4408-b896-8e8daf45c2e1/

2025-01-04 17:33:19 UTC

Is there some trick or great app I don’t know or is it still really hard to do a map search for “X on the way to Y destination”?
Seems fairly straightforward, and in any case, a very common use case

2024-12-28 15:12:13 UTC

Good one from @onthemedia@journa.host recapping recent music coverage
https://overcast.fm/+AA5_Lbm5KFU

2024-12-20 12:17:42 UTC

"According to the employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they fear losing their jobs or other forms of retaliation, the policy would be implemented quietly and would not be put in writing."
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine

2024-12-13 15:58:01 UTC

Digging this serendipitous find. @aquariumdrunkard.com likes "its phase-y/hazy Kottke-esque Takoma-style rambles, UFO ragas and homespun electronic fuckery" (2022)
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/04/19/carl-erdmann-bizarrophytes/ (paywalled)
https://carlerdmann.bandcamp.com/album/bizzarrophytes

2024-12-13 15:19:55 UTC

looking back to look forward from @dadadrummer.bsky.social
https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/plus-ca-change-plus-cest-the-same

2024-12-11 16:35:25 UTC

“For every earnest, creative filmmaker carefully using AI to enhance what they are doing to tell a better story, there will be thousands of grifters spamming every platform and corner of the internet with keyword-loaded content designed to perform in an algorithm and passively wash over you for the sole purpose of making money.”
https://www.404media.co/email/e5a7bfdd-83ef-495c-b219-450ea8b33c25/

2024-12-11 14:16:04 UTC

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More in this vein
https://overcast.fm/+AApoFALErDk

2024-12-10 09:42:28 UTC

‘2024 was the year “disinformation” outlasted its usefulness. Moving forward, we should not be concerned with isolated incorrect facts, but with the deeply-rooted stories that circulate at all levels of culture and shape our points of view.’
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-mainstream-media-will-lose-its-last-grip-on-relevancy/

2024-12-05 16:34:14 UTC

Cool to see an evolution of Knight Lab’s Soundcite powering examples in this story. Exactly the use case creator Tyler Fisher had in mind!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/arts/music/1970s-rock-1980s-pop-synths-mtv.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE4.ew6X.MoHbZ7w16oMX&smid=url-share

2024-12-05 16:02:30 UTC

knockout performance by Doechii from last night's Colbert!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggg45-e4oj0