NPR has podcasts. Pop Culture Happy Hour is kinda good.
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I randomly stream NPR on my smart speaker during the day and will listen if there’s something interesting on. Or I’ll ask it to play the hourly news summary. Sometimes I’ll try stations other than the local one but the local people are quite competent.
Throughline is one of my favorites.
What? Why? Doesn’t that account just show animal videos?
https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1643748118499041281?t=a9Wf5x2VB1-JPDwFLtIivg&s=19
https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1643750104573284354?t=etTKbDsLBjR0A9Fy5fZ87A&s=19
I’m curious about the legal definition of loyalty.
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They had more and cancelled like four of them very recently
Wait-wait Don’t Tell Me is good
I’m getting random hardcore porn in my feed now. Also a picture that appears to be someone who was murdered and lying on the ground bleeding out. Great site A+ would do again.
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I only go to my list, which is mostly sports but some funny people that don’t post too much politics (which I can only handle a tiny amount of before I fly into a rage).
If they ever fuck with lists I’m gone.
This American life
Planet money
Serial
Among others
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The ad I’ve seen the most this week on Twitter is for some kind of “anti-woke” shopping site.
I’ve also seen a couple of ads for the Indian VC guy running for president.
At least we got our funny animal tweets back.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1643838662977757184?t=7wC9nRW2VhdFPYYBjKBPdQ&s=19
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His best route to money is making it a pornhub/only fans mash up.
Substack apparently working on a twitter competitor?
https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1644105942500507649
Luckily Twitter is “a software and servers company” so I’m sure it will be fine.
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I don’t even own a tv
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Obviously most of us don’t need the radio to hear whatever song we want to hear, or to get the news. But radio maintains a powerful “live” feeling, a sense of listening with other people, serendipity when the right song comes on, and it is inherently local and useful in emergencies. And college stations are awesome.
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I agree, mostly because terrestrial radio is overwhelmingly conservative now, and abjectly terrible. It is also dominated by iHeartMedia, which used to be Clear Channel, so that kind of explains both.