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I think Ian's suggestion in that article is great -- to create a national development fund to find/build the "too small, too uncertain, too weird, or too inconvenient." There is absolutely a way to make/find/fund stuff that give people a deeper connection to public radio

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What I do hear about are the weirder more adventurous radio pieces. Listeners are smart and like surprising stuff. Many feel like their local station is a conduit for something interesting & beautiful. I think public radio would be wise to explore that vein, not chase the NYT (or Spotify) model.

But in my experience, the listenership is very diverse. There are a ton of smart listeners, rural listeners, listeners with strange and contradictory political beliefs, etc etc.. And I have never heard one of them say they love The Daily, which airs locally. (no offense to the team there)

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As an armchair quarterback on Public Radio programming, I think the people-in-charge don't give listeners enough credit & expect them to like very produced, milquetoast programming. They think listeners lose interest if a magazine story is over 5 minutes, and that anything "weird" scares folks off.

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

Some great lines in this article about NPR acquiring a big show from NYT. "Give it just enough money to take real swings, enough independence to move before twelve committees agree, and a mandate broad enough to follow audiences instead of formats."

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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

In which I climb up to my radio shrine to lay questions at the feet of the towers

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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)

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

The Format — The Wind

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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...

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

Picon Punch — The Wind

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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

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.

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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Anyway not a particularly unique experience but it was my first interaction with AI as a bafflingly bad search tool with no basis in reality. I imagine many people would have seen chat gpt’s claim that the quotes were verified and called it a day, which is concerning.

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Since I was desperate at this point, I tried it out and it said every quote I used was correct, accurate and completely attributable to the source. But not a single one offered a verifiable primary source. They all just pointed to other quote sites, which pointed to eachother.

I found a quote verification page run by humans but the quotes I used didn’t appear, so I searched for a “quote verification tool” at which point chat gpt came up.

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Google ai kept popping up and confirming quotes were “accurate and correct” but the sources were garbage sites that were definitely unreliable

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first I used Google to search, but every quote was filtered through a million other seo articles and quote pages so I couldn’t find a single page that could confirm some of the quotes (just a million reposts of it)

Anyway, they provide assignments and a recent article assignment had me include a few “famous quotes” about the topic. The assignment said to make sure the quotes are accurate and attributable.

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Obviously not glamorous or particularly useful work but it pays well and lets me make art.

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