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Jody Avirgan

@jodyavirgan.com

Podcast person. Summer Album / Winter Album | What Now w/ Trevor Noah | This Day | Good Sport | The Puzzler | 30for30 | 538 | WNYC, more. Everybody has their own thing that they yell into a well. jodyavirgan.com

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Jody Avirgan@jodyavirgan.com · 12h ago

Might as well shoot my shot: I have a writing project that I want to make some real progress on, and think that a short writer's retreat, fellowship, or even the better part of a week at a conducive space might be the thing to get it moving. Any leads on something this winter or next spring?

Mike Rugnetta@mikerugnetta.com · 3d ago

Ok so how about: I'll make a unique piece of Ambient Electronic Music or Harsh Noise Wall (your choice) for the first ten people who show me a screenshot of the end of this (short, fun to fill out!) survey.

Mike Rugnetta@mikerugnetta.com · 6d ago

Hey, you got a sec? If so – and you *don't* listen to @neverpo.st – can you fill out this survey? Radiotopia wants to know what your FUCKIN PROBLEM IS (just kidding, we're doing audience development research, ok thanks love you byyyyeeee)

Jody Avirgan@jodyavirgan.com · 7d ago

I must have read the Odyssey in high school but I have zero recollection, and Greek mythology just never clicked for me as an area of interest. But between my daughter getting into it, and the movie discourse, I've finally been diving in. Turns out, this "xenia" thing -- pretty useful concept!

Jody Avirgan@jodyavirgan.com · last wk.

Makes me think of one of my favorite NYC moments, when *three* different people stood up on my train and started preaching at the same time. Led to a real-time war of ideas, crowd switching sides, heckling, very fun.. (to state the obvious, that is fine because you can switch cars at the next stop)

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Jody Avirgan@jodyavirgan.com · last wk.

There was probably part of me that thought "oh my kid will just eat whatever we eat" and of course that's gone out the window. It's been replaced by a theory, which I think is true, that being picky about food is one of the first/few places a child can actually exert some agency. So I get it.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

Jody Avirgan@jodyavirgan.com · last wk.

My daughter recently had the idea - completely unprompted, she thinks she invented this entire concept - to buy some Chuck Taylors and draw on them with markers. I think this is just a hard-coded human instinct.

Jody Avirgan@jodyavirgan.com · last wk.

I quite liked the movie and the big idea about guilt that Nolan lands on, but this point is well taken - it didn't feel like everything was building towards it in a cohesive way.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

6. Nolan tries to pack a lot of Incidents and Big Ideas into this film, but they do not seem to me to hang together coherently on the level of his own plot and the movie's constructed system of values. Instead, it's foisting a didactic point about Our Times onto the plot without integrating it.

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 2w ago

Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.

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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w ago

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is exactly what I run into with conspiracy theorists — a stray, unverified claim gets treated as if it debunks the real story, and it almost always falls apart under scrutiny. Wild to hear that pattern showing up at 60 Minutes as Cecilia Vega describes it.

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