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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Edited a Hard Rock Casino spot with MCM Creative Studios. We used AI where it worked. When it looked wrong, we went back to Maya and After Effects. Stop prompting your way toward something that looks wrong. The old tools still work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp77...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is a person whose job includes shipping King Tut's treasures, pieces of the Titanic, and pandas. SHIPPING PANDAS! I learned about a job at FedEx called a loadmaster in the audiobook I'm editing right now. Getting paid to stumble onto facts like this is the best part of what I do.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Went into The Journalist and the Murderer knowing 0 about the actual murder, but the true-crime stuff didn't even matter. It’s a great look at journalistic ethics, free speech, and the morality of nonfiction storytelling. Full Goodreads review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching “Divorce, Italian Style” for the first time, this movie is pretty nuts. Literally, he tries to murder his wife so he can go out with his 16 year old cousin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce...

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Divorce Italian Style - Wikipedia

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's a wrap on a busy week! Finished post on another Audiobook, wrapped a commercial campaign, recorded a podcast and did some marketing and writing. Somehow have some open time on the schedule for next week. Reach out if you need post-production, mixing, or editing support.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Love is Blind UK is edited so much better than Love is Blind in the US. The pacing and storytelling are spot on. Credit to the producers too, because the difference is noticeable.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wrapping up one of the hardest audiobooks I've ever edited. Author decided to rework almost every sentence as we went, ad libbing on the fly. Asked the director how he deals with a difficult author. His answer:

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I work on a lot of audiobooks and don't want to flood feeds with "look what I edited" posts. But every once in a while one moves me enough to talk about it. Not because I edited it, because I think it's worth your time. A thread 🧵

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Fascism didn't win because it was strong. It won because the opposition wasn't unified and those with power welcomed them suppressing the working class. My review of John Foot's Blood and Power 👇

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just wrapped recording the latest Doctors in Dialogue Was a great chat about the benefits & struggles of the public & private health care systems & why doctors need to break the stigma of political neutrality. Housing and food access are mental health issues. Just need to edit it!

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

OMG my mind is blown right now. Working on a cooking show right now with some Michelin star chefs from Barcelona and I learned that tomatoes weren't introduced to Europe until colonization of the Americas. Didn't touch Italian cooking until the late 18th century.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Became a dual citizen a few years back. Figured it was time to actually learn the language — and the history — of the country whose passport I now carry. Started with Lucy Riall's Risorgimento.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Podcast version of For History's Sake's new article: Poverty as a Plague is now live. 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6jFC... 🍎 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... Working on video version nowish...

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Poverty as a Plague

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In 1916 a doctor injected himself with the blood of infected patients to prove that poverty was the contagion not the disease. It took 20 years and 100,000 American deaths before anyone in power would admit to it app.beehiiv.com/posts/f1bacb...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This REI/Meta AD story is a pretty simple reminder: don’t blindly trust AI. Have a human check the work. Also, these tools should not be forced on companies or users. They should be opt-in. Meta has spent too much money on AI that they won’t even fake a policy rethink for the public.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Crazy week! Wrapped editing for the new Statue of Liberty exhibits dropping in like... a week! Totally different challenge. Also finished editing a romance thriller and started pre-prod on the next Doctors in Dialogue podcast. Have production availability in July/August. DM me!

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Brother in law brought me to Goose on Friday night. Never really heard them before. They’re Yacht Rock meets a Jam Band. I get the appeal. Great vocals and talented dudes, but they won't be on repeat for me. Their lighting and visual setup was pretty incredible, though.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Enjoying the new Olivia Rodrigo record. She continues to impress me. Obviously a great voice. But I love how eclectic her music is.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just finished The Capital Order by Clara Mattei and realized Trump isn’t a real fascist. Mainly because he doesn’t have the discipline for austerity, balancing a budget, or paying off debt.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In 1953, Big Tobacco built a PR shield that permanently warped American media. Memos reveal how they bought journalists, reviewed drafts, and weaponized 600k reprints to delay the truth for decades. Check out my latest article on Medium medium.com/actuallythou...

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How Big Tobacco Bought the Silence of the American Press

Secret memos reveal how the tobacco industry paid journalists, buried health reports, and turned American magazines into a PR machine — and…

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Check out the latest episode of Doctors in Dialogue, the series I’m producing where psychiatrists talk to each other. This episode features a great conversation on addiction and what it means to be "cured." open.substack.com/pub/doctorsi...

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What Psychiatry Gets Wrong About Addiction

Dr. Greg Bunt and Dr. Vicente Liz discuss recovery, harm reduction, addiction as a disease, and the questions that continue to shape modern treatment

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Having worked with Claude and Gemini to help with my italian homework, I will go on a limb and say Gemini is the best LLM out there now. That's the only benchmark that matters.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Editing the audiobook on the history of punk. This quote from Daniel Miller of The Normal really nails how I have always felt about electronic music since my days of going to raves in the 90s - “I thought that [electronic music] was much more punk rock than punk rock was...

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A LinkedIn comment spat turned into an article about how “progress” often means bulldozing communities. AI companies could actually help instead of just building data centers, raising unemployment, and offering 50% off your first three months open.substack.com/pub/wesleyed...

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AI Is Building a New Highway Through Our Communities

A response to the Spotify/UMG AI deal, the economics of creative labor, and the communities bearing the costs

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Spotify makes #AI narration frictionless. Google scrapes narrator voices without consent. YouTube hosts pirated AI #audiobooks at scale. And somehow the platforms are surprised when this gets messy. open.substack.com/pub/theaudio...

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I Took Two Weeks Off and the Audiobook Industry Got Worse

Spotify, Google, YouTube, and the slow normalization of synthetic voices

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Audible heard Spotify's footsteps. So they built a bookstore with no books in it. Soulless discoverability is Spotify's lane. Audible is trying to own something different. open.substack.com/pub/theaudio... 💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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Spotify's Audiobook Growth Is Outpacing Its Own Platform. Here's What That Means.

Audible built a bookless bookstore. Spotify posted record earnings. Two giants are competing for your ears and the audiobook industry may be the winner.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Listening to the new Broken Social Scene for the first time. Definitely giving me the feels of old Broken Social Scene. Going to be on rotation for sure brokensocialscene.bandcamp.com/album/rememb...

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Remember The Humans, by Broken Social Scene

12 track album

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Real question. Would my return be better here than if I put my money in a money market fund? And what's the point of even winning this bet if it does happen. Who is putting money on the yes?

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Last night I saw Juvenile with an old friend and heard something that really annoyed me. Someone we used to work with is making "AI Archival" footage. What the hell does that even mean? also... 🧵

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

They say markets and economics are natural thus they want us to assume inequality is inevitable. But if God made us equal, then maybe there isn't anything natural about inequality — it’s a choice we keep making

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A tradwife influencer wakes up in 1855 and has to survive the life she was selling. That's this week's most interesting new release. Full Top 10 + new releases in the newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/theaudio... 💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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New Audiobook Releases & Top 10 Charts (April 21, 2026)

What’s worth your time this week — and what the charts are actually telling us

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Episode 2 of Doctors in Dialogue is out. This is a deep dive into Street Psychiatry. Only two episodes in but every one has been inspiring and makes me proud to help get these voices out there. Can't wait to do the next one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqwa...

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Can Street Psychiatry End Homelessness? | Psychiatrists Explain

YouTube video by Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The audiobook Top 10 this week is almost entirely human-narrated titles outperforming AI alternatives. The market has been trying to say this for a while now. New releases + full breakdown: open.substack.com/pub/theaudio... 💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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New Audiobook Releases & Top 10 Charts (April 14, 2026)

What's worth your time this week, and what the Top 10 is really telling us

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Saw Mario Brothers at Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn with the kids this weekend. Movie is fine — kids loved it. But Alamo asking everyone to use phones to order is an attempt to cut labor costs while still charging premium prices.

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A user found what they believed was recorded child abuse inside an Audible title. There was no way to report it. That should scare you. This week's newsletter is about the platform safety gap nobody in #audiobooks wants to talk about. theaudiobookreport.substack.com/p/audibles-b...

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Audible's Bookless Bookstore, Amazon's Arabic Expansion, and the Platform Safety Problem Nobody's Talking About

This week in audiobooks: big investments, bigger markets, and a moderation gap that puts every producer and rights holder at risk.

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Audible is spending Manhattan real estate money to signal that premium, human-made audio is worth protecting. My hope is that investment eventually finds its way to the people actually making the content. open.substack.com/pub/theaudio... 💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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Audible's Bookless Bookstore, Amazon's Arabic Expansion, and the Platform Safety Problem Nobody's Talking About

This week in audiobooks: big investments, bigger markets, and a moderation gap that puts every producer and rights holder at risk.

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Project Hail Mary stays on top, but other than that a lot of new #audiobooks hit the charts. Plus a bunch of new releases worthy of your ears and time! 💙📚🎧 All in today's newsletter 👇 open.substack.com/pub/theaudio...

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New Audiobook Releases & Top 10 Charts (April 7, 2026)

Project Hail Mary dominates plus new releases and chart movers

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

$1 billion deal. 90 days. $2.1 million in lifetime revenue against $15 million a day in costs. No money ever changed hands. Everyone moved on. Except the workers. My thoughts on the downfall of Sora and what it means for workers over on Medium: ai.gopubby.com/disneys-sora...

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Disney’s Sora Disaster Proves AI Won’t Save Hollywood

Barely three months ago, the entertainment world raved about a seemingly world-shifting deal. Today, it’s dead on arrival. Nobody’s…

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Real question: Does listening to a romance novel on a flight count as joining the Mile High Club? Word is more audiobooks are coming to your flights. More in this weeks newsletter 👇 theaudiobookreport.substack.com/p/are-we-in-... 💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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Are We In a Two-Tier World? : ElevenLabs, Volvo, and the Death of "Midlist" Audio

Why the "Silent 70%" is being triaged by AI while human-led production becomes the new authentication key

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Better late than silent. I’m a day behind on the news because the production desk was overflowing, but the wait was worth it. While the trades were quiet, the "Dutch Decay" just showed how a "Best Audiobook" winner ends up with an 8-cent royalty check. open.substack.com/pub/theaudio...

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Are We In a Two-Tier World? : ElevenLabs, Volvo, and the Death of "Midlist" Audio

Why the "Silent 70%" is being triaged by AI while human-led production becomes the new authentication key

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Yesterday we recorded our second podcast for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. The conversation was about Street Psychiatry and how it's helping the homeless. This is why producing for these doctors is so rewarding — people genuinely trying to make a difference. Inspiring stuff.

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Grown adults and companies run by adults spending any time on April Fools jokes will never make sense to me. It's just not funny. We live in a world of constant manipulation. Adding one more day of it isn't a punchline.

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The March 31 charts are in. 📈 From the "Project Hail Mary" cinematic resurgence to Liza Minnelli’s high-identity narration, the data shows one thing: Listeners are craving human friction. See what #audiobooks made Top 10 + some hot new releases: open.substack.com/pub/theaudio...

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New Audiobook Releases & Top 10 Charts (March 31, 2026)

New Releases from Tate James and Navessa Allen hit a market demanding human friction

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Stick to a niche? That's boring as hell. If Kubrick stayed in one genre, we'd have no 2001 or Shining

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The Audiobook Report @theaudiobookreport.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

With 77% of listeners are demanding AI transparency - consumers are speaking up! And the publishers might be listening because Hachette dropped a book for being 78% AI-generated text This and more in today's Audiobook Report: open.substack.com/pub/theaudio... 💙📚 #Audiobooks 📚🎧 #news

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he Week the "Human Shield" Cracked

Hachette Shy Girl AI Scandal: NetGalley 2026 Audiobook Data & AI Transparency

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Wesley Edits @wesleyedits.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Would we even watch the #Bachelorette if all the cast members were stable, healthy people? Be honest. The casting scandal isn't just the network's fault. I get some stuff off my chest over on #medium 👇 medium.com/actuallythou...

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The Bachelorette Didn’t Have a Casting Problem. It Has an Audience Problem.

A reality TV producer and editor on why the real scandal isn’t what you think

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