Alex Russo

I never thought I would say Iheartradio, righton! but this seems good.

College Radio Keeps Its Cool

"Can places like KXLU survive, when the tech pull [is] squarely in the opposite direction? 'One administrator can kill a college 📻station,” @katejewell.bsky.social said, while adding that she feels the health of such stations is strong [bc] DIY camaraderie + community feel so urgent..."

Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech

The whole thing here: deadline.com/2025/11/pope...

“Stuff keeps happening while we’re talking to the managers” OH REALLY

Maybe Amazon web services shouldn't be advancing the narrative that we support everything after this weeks outage?

It's the purest contemporary franchise in this way. No one really cares, the lore is inconsequential/nonsensical, but some proprietary and incorrect numbers suggest it's worth making another one. The result looks decent and gets some talented people paid. Cool. Two more Event Horizon movies please.

Naw, musicians are more genre agnostic than their audiences. Game recognizes game so of course WS artists would borrow from everywhere.

Black-and-white flyer for WHUS 91.7 FM radio in Storrs, Connecticut. At the top, bold handwritten text reads: “SHUT UP AND LISTEN!” Below, a stylized illustration shows a strong figure with a raised fist, standing in front of a broadcast tower emitting signals. The WHUS logo is centered prominently, with “91.7 FM WHUS” written across the figure’s chest and arm. At the bottom, text reads “STORRS, CONNECTICUT.”

This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...

The Trouble With Affiliates The Jimmy Kimmel saga demonstrates that the network-affiliate relationship is due for an overhaul.

www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

an ouroboros of bullshit

This is true. Its why some LLMs believe its 2024, there was less slop then.

We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.

The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

I'd also love to see this bib. I'm working on a project that examines how the circulation of ideas about radio formatting in the 1950s anticipated contemporary dynamics of algorithmic culture

Bowser removed the BLM plaza installation months ago.

I bet they had some kind of heads up. FYI if you are writing on LR or GH, Fran Striker's papers are at the University of Buffalo.

One of the most remarkable (but saddest) things I ever found in a archive were Raymond Muramoto's hand edited scripts from the Green Hornet (he played Kato) which suddenly disappeared when he was sent to the internment camps during WWII.

Congratulations!

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Analysis | The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning. Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post.

“In an era where false claims are the norm, it’s much easier to ignore the fact-checkers.”
— a poignant final line from a retiring critical journalist. Gift link. Worth your time. Thank you for your service @glennkessler.bsky.social

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A ’60s-flavored band blew up on Spotify. They’re AI. The Velvet Sundown confirmed Saturday that its viral success is powered by artificial intelligence.

AI bands are here.

Goals

The pope posted this this morning and I’m thinking a lot about it

Funniest basketball team of all time.

Bouche, Juveniles

Pope Leo XIV calls for release of imprisoned journalists, affirms gift of free speech and press The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, elected in a 24-hour conclave last week, called for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war and to give voice to the voiceless.

Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff. to.pbs.org/43dK17i

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

2 U.S. Code § 136-1 - Appointment and term of service of Librarian of Congress

There is nothing in the statutes that gives him that ability.
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Holy hell this is depressing.

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

There is still no way of ensuring that AI chatbots produce accurate information, and powerful new technologies are generating more errors, not fewer: “As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier. It is not entirely clear why.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

Into the Wilds of Democratic Navel-Gazing and Big Think About a week ago, both Matt Yglesias and Jonathan Last at The...

Good advice here from @joshtpm.bsky.social : talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/into-...