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I think there is a simple reason for this claim from @garbageday.email — most people don’t choose what they listen to on Spotify. The platform has done a decade of work to convince most users to choose a mood or playlist and then make no more choices

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Streaming does not measure relevance

Here's your Garbage Intelligence for September 2026

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...

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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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The Wind @thewind.org · 04/09/2026

an episode about this moment in making things and then putting them on the internet // featuring Alex Sujong Laughlin (defector), Janus Rose (404 and others), Dennis Funk (written in air), Amber Devereux (Tim Can Audio)

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The Format — The Wind

A hazy cloud of questions about our shared digital space sends me up the mountain to ask the radio towers.

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For $15, I got a used DVD player. It was so liberating to watch a movie with no interruptions. No ads! Nobody trying to sell me dubious meds with more side effects than benefits. I can get DVDs at the library anytime I want! How did anyone ever convince me paid subscriptions WITH ADs were okay?!

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AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) @airmedia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day 🌍 Celebrating climate audio storytellers: Frank Oscar Weaver, Thomas Schueneman, Sara Harris Ben-Ari. Their podcasts explore land, community + climate as deeply human stories. Listen + support. What environmental podcasts are you listening?

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The Wind @thewind.org · 20/03/2026

Picon Punch: the story of Nevada’s state drink as a winding path into the sage — thewind.org/episodes/pic...

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Picon Punch — The Wind

a winding path into the brush: the story of Nevada’s State Drink.

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 02/03/2026

TODAY: we welcome our NEWEST HYDRA @mcmansionhell.bsky.social with a look at fascist aesthetics. “Fascists rarely make art. Instead, the fascist aesthete’s job is to appropriate existing art for the purpose of aestheticizing a political goal.” flaminghydra.com/r/161364b8?m...

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Crashing in the same car

Kate Wagner opens a new series on fascist aesthetics

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Good one by new @flaminghydra.com @katewagner.wehwalt.net flaminghydra.com/issue-513/

Vampiristic. Fascists rarely make art. Instead, the fascist aesthete’s job is to appropriate existing art for the purpose of aestheticizing a political goal. Because fascism relies on the fetishization of the past—whether real or imaginary—nothing truly new can come from fascist art.
Violent. Dehumanization, augmented by technological abstraction—the sublimation of man into machine—creates under fascism an extreme predilection for violence. In Italian Fascism, this role was played by the automobile, as evidenced by the fascination of Futurist artists like Marinetti with car crashes. (Today, AI deepfakes play a similar role.) Fascist aesthetics are ruthlessly hierarchical and their satisfaction is derived from the maintenance of that hierarchy. They are antisocial and rely on shock value.

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The Wind @thewind.org · 17/02/2026

New episode • “Walking Tour for Anywhere” produced by friend of the show Matt Bunk. Lace up your boots (literally or metaphorically) and take a tour of the city. Doesn’t matter which, as long as you’re there. // link in bio or in your podcast app

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Walking Tour for Anywhere — The Wind

Matt Bunk takes the mic // lace up your boots.

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The Wind @thewind.org · 19/01/2026

a podcast about sound, made at a desk in the mountains. More at thewind.org/subscribe

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404 Media @404media.co · 15/01/2026

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

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Transom @transom.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

On the latest “Sound School,” listen to the story Champika Fernando produced at a Traveling Workshop this summer in Amherst, MA. And be sure to listen for the surprising maneuver they pulled at the end of the piece. transom.org/2025/its-mag... @prx.org

The Wind @thewind.org · 16/12/2025

Year 6 Episode 1 : walking a big circle around the mountain where the radio comes from. Wild fire, Mark Twain-penned real-estate battle and a suicidal Frank Sinatra all make an appearance.

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The Circumambulation of a Sacred Mountain — The Wind

Walking a circle around Slide: a mountain named for its own downward motion.

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The Wind @thewind.org · 09/12/2025

Listened to this new Scott Carrier piece on a dark walk up the mountain. Highly recommended. Really excited for this new @transom.bsky.social series

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Old La Sal

Old La Sal - Transom

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Caroline Losneck @carolinelosneck.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The acoustics of a snow storm!

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Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

An aspen grove in the Jarbidge Wilderness, Nevada, USA in Autumn 2019 – by @thewind.org fieldrecordings.xyz/2025/11/30/a...

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The Wind @thewind.org · 06/11/2025

I’ll be at resonate this weekend if anybody wants to say hey! Will have a bag of cassettes

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The Wind @thewind.org · 15/10/2025

Won Gold for "Best Writing" www.signalaward.com/winners/#202...

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 04/10/2025

Well One Battle After Another was as good as everyone says, if not better

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The Wind @thewind.org · 22/06/2025

On the insane inaccuracy of AI and a new realization of information dystopia… In addition to the show, I pick up freelance work to pay the billz. Most of it is audio editing, mixing, engineering, etc.. but one gig is writing SEO articles for a big brand company.

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The Wind @thewind.org · 20/06/2025

In early 2021, the federal government approved a new Lithium Mine in northern Nevada. Almost immediately, a protest camp went up in the sagebrush about 65 miles north of Winnemucca, the nearest sizable town.

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The Wind @thewind.org · 09/06/2025

Hey y'all, I've been directing a new youtube show called Giant Leap, shot in Taylor Wilson's nuclear lab. If that sounds like your thing, check it out!

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The Wind @thewind.org · 20/05/2025

When I was a kid in rural Nevada there was a 24-hr diner in the local casino. After punk shows in high school (or just any night) we'd go there and drink coffee and eat hash browns in the smoking section (still legal in NV as of mid 2000s)

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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

[Chicken cowboy billboard wreck, B-80, Elko, Nevada. 1991] www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

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The Wind @thewind.org · 15/05/2025

When I called him he appeared, at the crossroads, flat dirt beneath a heavy half moon. The night was clear, as was my intent. I didn’t need to explain my position, he simply offered the deal and I took it.

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The Wind @thewind.org · 09/05/2025

Snow fully melted off the meadow. Spiders gone, now ants in the tree where I sit against to read. Fairly friendly, large black ants, don’t seem to bite. Warbler, Robin, song sparrow now

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The Wind @thewind.org · 09/05/2025

Great time performing this week at the Martin hotel in Winnemucca, Nevada. Love it when the honorarium includes a steak

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mollyfication.bsky.social @mollyfication.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The Divided Dial @onthemedia.bsky.social is back for Season 2!!!!! This season reporter Katie Thornton is looking at the battle underway in the world of shortwave radio. Pirate broadcasters, rw militia, cults, and Wall Street bros all make an appearance. Listen: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 1: Fishing In The Night | On the Media | WNYC Studios

Season Two of On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial is the untold story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radi...

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The Wind @thewind.org · 03/05/2025

The snow’s melting off the meadow, Hundreds of spiders below, running around in the occasional sunlight

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The Wind @thewind.org · 21/04/2025

New episode of The Wind: thewind.org/episodes/the... #video #blueskyvideo #silverlake #losangeles skylight.social flashesapp.bsky.social #videopost #podcast

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The Wind @thewind.org · 19/04/2025

I recently held a sound hike in Winnemucca, Nevada.

4 people in a cold desert mountain scape, listening to the breeze in the bunch grass.

A line of people walk down a trail in a cold desert mountainscape

Several people in a cold desert mountain scape, listening to the breeze in the bunch grass.

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The Wind @thewind.org · 19/04/2025

A few years ago, a punk house in Los Angeles woke up to a demolition notice taped near their front gate.

"notice of demolition" sign taped over a punk looking mural on a cinderblock wall

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The new White House press release going after NPR and PBS links multiple times to Media Research Center, a right-wing group which was founded by Brent Bozell, Trump's nominee for Ambassador to South Africa. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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The Wind @thewind.org · 14/03/2025

A whole lot of news, folks. Gonna post it as a thread:

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