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I’m going to need @morecivilized.bsky.social to weigh in on the Ben Solo / Adam Driver script for this months Q&A 🙏🙏🙏 Thoughts? Feelings? Is this a way to garner fan support to change Disney’s mind? 👀

There are so many reasons to sub to @morecivilized.bsky.social, but among them is their recent discussion of "Would you rather act like an uncle and think like a nephew or think like a nephew and act like an uncle" on their latest Q&A episode 😂 Yes of course it's Star Wars related!

This was so eye-opening. These tools are advancing so quickly now, I only got 50% of them correct 😳😳

Video is making podcasts a premium buy for advertisers The growing role of video in the podcast landscape has made advertisers view the format as premium — and open their wallets accordingly.

For podcasting, "pivot to video" is not really led by audiences. It's led by the advertising economy. h/t @podnews.net digiday.com/media/video-...

everything is broadcasting, and broadcasting has very old problems

I learned from someone on Threads that if you just include a swear word at the end of your google search, it automatically turns off the AI summary 😂 my Google searches now look very aggressive, but it works!

The way I make sure I’m taking long enough screen breaks while I’m mixing is by listening to All Too Well (TV) every time I leave my desk.

Correct take.

Congestion pricing has improved life in New York City by: reducing cars on the street, speeding traffic (especially at peak hours), speeding buses and making them more reliable, expanding transit ridership, reducing car crashes, reducing noise complaints, and increasing the number of visitors.

Fire response times fell in the NYC congestion zone, even as they increased in the rest of the city.

Car crashes with injuries fell citywide, but they fell especially dramatically in the congestion pricing zone from 2024 to 2025

Local buses have sped up dramatically in the congestion pricing zone.

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.

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"Golf is hard!" - JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN, James, Heavyweight #Heavyweight #James #NationalGolfDay #JonathanGoldstein

Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.

As the President, FCC and Congressional Republicans consider ending public funding for NPR and PBS, a media historian revisits why public media was founded in the first place and how it contributes to equal access to information today: buff.ly/jQ1WuLf
@joshshepperd.bsky.social @colorado.edu

Climate storytelling for the masses: The Here Now Project screening, media panel, & reception · Luma Join us for a private screening of The Here Now Project documentary followed by a panel conversation led by Molly Wood (from Everybody in the Pool) with…

There is still space to join us Monday to kick off SF Climate Week with this storytelling event and film screening! 7-10 pm April 21 at San Francisco's The Vogue Theater in the Presidio District. Get your tickets here! All sales go toward covering the cost of the event. lu.ma/g4d785v9

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

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Shocked, shocked I tell you

Don't miss my Climate Storytelling for the Masses event at SF Climate Week! 7 pm to 10 pm at The Vogue Theater in SF April 21. It's not too late to get tickets for this reception, exclusive film showing, and panel. Hope to see you there!

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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

It's a careful, well-reasoned opinion that rightly describes the exclusion of AP as retaliatory, viewpoint-based, and unconstitutional. And it reaffirms that viewpoint discrimination is off-limits even in nonpublic forums. An important opinion, especially right now.

Automation is replacing more workers than outsourcing, study says - Marketplace As automation threatens workers, new and better jobs could be created if we invest in breakthrough technologies.

The conversation on CSPAN keeps focusing on how many manufacturing jobs have been lost in the US in the last few decades.. but how many of those loses were actually just automated? I don’t think that all of those jobs even exist anymore..

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Producer II, Planet Money Summer School (Temporary) New York, New York, United States

Fun temp gig: Planet Money Summer School producer

"This is Planet Money’s annual 8 ep summer series where we adapt excerpts from classic episodes & pair them w updates, & in depth conversations about the more academic side of economics"

$50/hr, 4 month job

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This is so scary to me. Going into hurricane season? The work that NOAA does around climate and environment is not just theoretical, they make life saving predictions and do critical research that underpins policy and coastal regulations. This will have significant impact long term.

I asked Janet Yellen once whether Trump understands economic policy.

“No”

Thought that might be relevant for whatever he’s saying now about tariffs.

(Which, I’ll again remind you, end in FFS)

Crying in the gym watching history get made. I’ve been streaming it all day and I’m just in awe.

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

The record for longest filibuster on the floor of Congress is held by Strom Thurmond in OPPOSITION to the Civil Rights Act. Keep going, Cory. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

That’s what I’m saying! Better beat that record just so that it no longer stands 💪💪

Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 15 hours and counting The New Jersey Democrat has been criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. Monday. Here's what to know about his marathon speech.

Hell yeah, this is the kind of leadership we need.
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She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.

Continuous Wave A newsletter and site exploring the forgotten history of broadcast and all electronic media.

If 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.com

Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...

Remember when Trump pretended to care about coal miners? www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...