Reposted by Kalli Anderson Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down. 9469147
Reposted by Kalli Anderson .chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 31/10/2025thinking about potato house this halloween 221757405
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide! 61212630
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025FREE PODCASTING EVENT IN NYC NOV 12 I'm looking forward to speaking with @brihreed.bsky.social @yoweishaw.bsky.social and @evrat.bsky.social about what it really takes to run an independent narrative podcast. RSVP here: www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/how-t...journalism.cuny.eduHow to Run an Indie Podcast - Newmark J-SchoolWant to learn what it really takes to run a successful independent narrative podcast in the post-boom era of podcasting? Join Newmark J-Schools Audio Journalism program for a candid discussion about i... 051
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025AI has been creeping into the news all of us read, often without any disclosure. We call for clearly defined standards for U.S. newsrooms: 1️⃣ Clearly define what counts as acceptable use of AI and publish these standards openly 2️⃣ Require AI-use attestations for all writers 1154
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Appreciating all the yeses here…so I’d better see all of you sending big $$$ to NPR whenever we decide to do this. 4677
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/10/2025lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type. 371448300
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Thanks XMTR Fest for an incredible gathering in St Leonards on Sea last week. Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event. And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm! 030
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Some exciting news: Kodak announced two new types of film today, and, notably, said it would be directly selling the film to shops, sidestepping a complicated licensing agreement where Kodak hasn't had the right to sell its own film to stores www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...404media.coKodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a DecadeKodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy. 431075
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Annie @anniearmstrong.bsky.social · 30/09/2025www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.psypost.orgStudents rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers findWhen philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is... 48330
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 26/09/2025OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...nytimes.comWelcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 10417145
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 23/09/2025Calling all freelance fact-checkers! We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project. Email Chris (chris@hellgatenyc.com) for more details. 78053
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 21/09/2025"The arch of the moral universe may not, after all, bend towards justice, but it bends towards archives. Collect the scraps, I hear in my head like a whisper. Do not let them rewrite the world. Save all the evidence you can." 03314
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 21/09/2025sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr... 25318
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private." 13775340
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025fact checking great journalists wa one of the main ways I leaned to be a journalist. I loved the job and getting to be professionally correct. And this fact checking piece in the New Yorker really get to the heart of it . www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comThe History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking DepartmentReporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business. 161
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I love my 404 Media subscription and this piece is so illuminating and also funny! There's a real "pay no attention to the entire team of human contractors behind the curtain" energy to the folks using generative AI!404media.coThe Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded MessesLinkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession. 212516
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 11/09/2025A third of jobs related to race, diversity, and equality that were created in U.S. newsrooms since 2020 are gone as of this summer. @hanaatameez.bsky.social with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...niemanlab.orgFrom reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in declineDiversity-related newsroom jobs haven't totally disappeared — but they also haven't stuck. 15941
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC findsThe BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire." 120
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 07/09/2025This is in line with my observations around the people in podcasting/audio industry who are the most excited about LLM style podcast “innovations” are never the people who already make excellent podcasts. 050
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good 98123082294
Reposted by Kalli Anderson casey morell @caseym.org · 25/08/2025new NPR podcast alert -- sources & methods will look at national security news & why it matters. hosted by the incomparable mary louise kelly. check it out each thursday. 2339
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose. 22935147
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · 18/08/2025fieldrecordings.xyz/2025/08/18/m... 021
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Midnight cricket party, Taughannock State Park, New York, USA on 16th August 2025 – by @kallipearl.bsky.social fieldrecordings.xyz/2025/08/18/m...fieldrecordings.xyzMidnight cricket party, Taughannock State Park, New York, USA on 16th August 2025 – by Kalli Anderson – Field Recordings 111
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Found this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social story about why AI isn’t a viable business model for journalism to be extremely well done and oddly hopeful www.404media.co/the-medias-p... 311196211
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds 4851092119
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 19/06/2025Are you a journalist writing about a current heatwave? The images you choose are critical to the story. The @climateoutreach.bsky.social team have shown some ideas here which help stress the risks rather than the typical ice creams: www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...climatevisuals.orgHow do you photograph heat? - Climate Outreach 6225101
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Thanks to all the friends and strangers who attended SEA CHANGE last week during Tribeca. Still riding that sunset high of making a beautiful ruckus through the streets to the edge of this island. Next stop XMTR fest in the UK in Sept! 010
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025So terribly sad to lose my former CUNY colleague, a journalist and generous teacher students loved and learned from. Tom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...nytimes.comTom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76 1544
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Join us on June 11 for a sound walk unlike any you’ve ever done before. Details and rsvp tinyurl.com/seachangeswarm 151
Reposted by Kalli Anderson merritt @merrittk.com · 09/05/2025this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people 2971632248
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 29/04/2025It’s honestly so weird to live in a country right next to my country where our federal election barely registers in the news cycle. 130
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22/04/2025This is the secret. Everyone - EV. ERY. ONE. - thinks they're The One who won't be bested by an incisive interview. As long as the journalist is polite & just... keeps... asking... smart... questions, every last person they interview will think they're the only one to ever be on top of it. 725946
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 09/04/2025Turn a pile of dirt into a cathedral to a God who has long abandoned you. Turn the fantastic wealth of the family that raised you into a curse that will never leave this house. Turn water into hotter water. Turn your google docs into a podcast.theverge.comGemini can now turn your Google Docs into podcastsGemini can be your editor and your data analyst, apparently. 1346
Reposted by Kalli Anderson KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 08/04/2025"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #higheredinsidehighered.comMost Higher Ed Workers Still Paid Less Than Before PandemicAlthough raises for most higher education employees last academic year beat inflation, most are still effectively earning less than they were in 2019–20, according to new salary survey data released M... 115265
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Do you want to make longform audio documentaries? No idea where to start? My class with @radiobootcamp.bsky.social is back this June! It's online, and capped at 12 people. Sign up today, this thing always sells out radiobootcamp.org/classes/how-...radiobootcamp.orgHow to make an audio doc from soup to nuts - Radio Boot CampCongratulations! Your pitch was greenlit by your favorite show! Your dream of making a longform narrative podcast or radio documentary is about to come 0148
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Julia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 31/03/2025If you've enjoyed my posts and random findings on radio history, or sincere snark about podcasting, you will probably like the newsletter I've just started: continuous-wave.beehiiv.comcontinuous-wave.beehiiv.comContinuous WaveA newsletter and site exploring the forgotten history of broadcast and all electronic media. 1157
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Ok so I was horrified when I first tried American Smart Food in 2020. Like all snack foods I thought I knew as a Canadian, it was somehow shittier here. But good news @jayasaxena.com - the original recipe still exists in Canada! (I mean it’s Canada so the oil is prob canola but cheese still #3!) 131
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Always look to see what the tech bros want for their own kids: small class sizes with human teachers, human tutors with expert content knowledge, cell phone restrictions in classrooms, high per pupil spending, the arts and humanities--and much more they say is too costly for public schools. 82010709
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I’ve been having a wide variety of really intense anxiety dreams non stop for weeks. They are getting so weirdly specific : latest is I was debuting a 5-channel sound installation at a museum and when it started to play, someone had inserted “midroll” style ads like every 60 secs. 060
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 25/02/202521 of my colleagues at New York Public Radio were laid off today. NYPR is also ending our iconic music program "New Sounds" unless the org can find financial support for the show or a buyer. A message from New Sounds host John Schaefer: www.instagram.com/p/DGgflm5xz1... 20425161
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Ariana @resonance-archive.bsky.social · 25/02/2025This was so moving and a reminder that we don’t have to live in a world without rituals, without attunement to the seasons, without ways of calling back to the Earth and offering something of ourselves. We can live an a world teeming with life💫❄️ 042
Kalli Anderson @kallipearl.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the premiere of my piece Orchard Chorus with a wassail-inspired performance on Sunday. And thank you to Nika of Greenpoint Cidery and the Oral History Summer School and Wave Farm for the support of this project. (Online audio to come) 030
Reposted by Kalli Anderson Sound Fields @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Following their listening party at On Air Fest and in anticipation of our forthcoming Archives Issue, @kallipearl.bsky.social @bartona104.bsky.social and Sonja Williams shared with us this annotated playlist of inventive vintage audio from the 1930s to 1970s. www.soundfields.org/thriftingsoundfields.orgRadio Thrifting — sound fields 033