Matt Frassica

susan is an icon and a legend. our world is a better, more curious and more thoughtful place because of her. rest in power.

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The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector This week, Left of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars. (Disclosure: I was invited to...

"None of these top three shows exist because their creators were trying to make a version of something already successful. They happened because their creators were game to try something new." @alexlaughs.bsky.social nails it, depressingly defector.com/the-future-o...

Everyone who submits a fluxwork will receive a free, three-month trial membership to AIR, an invaluable (and awesome) resource for independent producers.

This thread feels so right

Opinion | The Last Words of a Dying Glacier

The world is burning, but this is f-ing awesome www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

A photo of Watterson at his drawing table.

A panel of Calvin and Hobbes riding their radio flyer red wagon.

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

Atlascope Boston Atlascope Boston is a tool for exploring historic urban atlases in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time. A project of the Leventhal Map & Education Center at...

The @bpl.boston.gov's Atlascope project is one of the most ambitious historical urban mapping projects around---a tremendous resource for folks curious about urban change, land use patterns and more---just awesome!

www.atlascope.org

@theoverheadwire.com, @universalhub.com and others.

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

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I also shamelessly overuse "That's because"

My biggest scriptwriting weakness—aside from em dashes—is the phrase "Turns out"

This Elusive Antarctic Squid Was Seen for the First Time

This squid footage is mesmerizing www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s...

This looks cool (and mysteriously ocean-related)! Wish I could be there for it

People standing around a conference table room.

It’s been a long day of bargaining with Vox Media, fighting hard to get a fair contract with better salaries, AI protections, the inclusion of the Dodo in our union, and much more. Come tomorrow, there’s only two days left in our contract — Vox Media, stop dragging your feet.

Once in Dire Straits, Atlantic Sturgeon Are Staging a Comeback on the East Coast From Maine to Florida, the endangered, prehistoric fish is rebounding, but a recent study shows just how vulnerable the U.S. population remains

A fish as old as the dinosaurs is swimming back from the brink of extinction www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

"Let the science speak"

I like Reaper a lot but the process of converting sessions between Reaper and PT is like turning straw to gold. Until there's an easier way (other than stems), my professional life is yoked to PT

AVID is the absolute worst

Screenshot of a post from the Chicago Sun-times “We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak. It is not editorial content and was not created by, or approved by, the Sun-Times newsroom. We value your trust in our reporting and take this very seriously. More info will be provided soon.”

This is a teachable moment in media history. Chatbot slop makes it into print because journalism has been gutted, there are too few fact checkers or editors, and they are outsourcing articles to underpaid bot-wielding “writers.” Pay writers fairly; pay editors. Also, reader: pay for newspapers.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Oh look, Google's AI search is trying to play along

The last five titles are real books (although not new, like you'd normally see on a summer books roundup)

My broken record: I’m sure you many of you read and follow some independent or nonprofit media.

If you haven’t, make sure to choose at least one that you really enjoy & become a supporter, subscriber, or donor to help sustain them!

This thread on gen AI and the arts 👇

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

I wasn’t following Derby, but it must be an allegorical troll that Journalism got beat out by Sovereignty.

They're playing the game on a totally different level

A generative AI produced image of a soccer field. There are three goals. Players are arranged at random, with a range of uniforms. White lines on the field appear in nonsensical places.

Your genAI image of a soccer pitch with three goals does not inspire confidence in the capabilities of your brand content studio

Meme. Scene taken from Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1559 painting, "Netherlandish Proverbs." This part of the painting shows a man trying to grab an eel by the tail, which is proverbially the wrong way to do it. The eel is totally going to get away from him. The man is wearing blue. He has a deep scowl that says he knows he's doing it wrong, and he knows better, but the damned painter is making him do it this way. The eel is almost free; only the very tip of its tail remains in the man's hands. It knows that it's in the clear, and is already making plans for later. But eels are unambitious, and it's to-do list likely reads like this: 1: wriggle in the mud 2: eat something 3: swim backwards 4: wamble While this may sound pretty good to some of us, there is a reason why, "As forethoughtful as an eel" is not a paintable proverb. Mext reads: "Nice eel ya got there Shame if somethin' were to happen to it"

Ok...so you're out fishing & you've caught a bunch of big eels. Dinner's all set, yes?

Hold on...are you in medieval Glastonbury? In the 1250s Glastonbury Abbey employed a guy whose job was to go around the abbot's waterways & take the best eels from any fishermen he found. 1/2
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