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Vocal Fry on WFMU@vocalfry.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey! The @wfmu.bsky.social Literary Guild is back! It's a quarterly reading series at the Red Room at KGB Bar featuring WFMU DJs reading essays, poems, short stories + more. Hear work @davethespazz.bsky.social, @erazlogo.bsky.social (writing a history of WFMU), me & @saltzshaker.bsky.social, +???

Jody Peyote, Eldridge, @saltzshaker.bsky.social and I will be performing Daniil Kharms’ poems in musical form at Clown Show Prison in Greenpoint, 6/27 at 7pm!!! Come through!!! X x x.

Big if true.

Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Genuinely life-changing trick for keeping mosquitoes away that I discovered by accident last summer: run a bubble machine.

here at @atproto.nyc - June 2026 [rt0gl1yg] #atprotonyc

poetry

Greg Technology ❪⎷❫@greg.technology · 3mo ago

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New op-ed with Claire Leibowicz! I'll raise my own hand for on occasion turning to an LLM for emotional sensemaking & it's clear to me that AI can have *some* role in the mental landscape, even if it's just as a stopgap or referral source to other care. At the very least, we gotta talk about it!

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For the millions who have no other access to mental health support and who may already rely on AI tools for support in times of need, we must urgently confront how such technologies can be most helpful and least harmful, write Claire Leibowicz and Emily Saltz.

this puts me in a very uncomfortable position, because i am technically speaking at this conference, but I promise you, promise-promise you, that it will be an *extraordinary* one (because of the other speakers + despite me) luma.com/localhost-rc... WILD, wild, wild, wild stuff. @recurse.com !!!!!

RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet · Luma

Come to Localhost at the Recurse Center! 🕹️ A collective arcade cabinet like no other The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built during the Fall 2, 2025…

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The stigma of using AI for therapy is the new stigma (mid-century coded) of going to human therapy

people ask why we wanted to come back to nyc it‘s tues night after a snowstorm. the pub a block from us is packed: half are waiting for a hillary duff concert at barclays, half are in a book club reading Capitalist Realism it’s that delicious high low baby 👌

Amidst all that is destructive and demoralizing, we're meeting to celebrate civic culture + public knowledge and build solidarities. Open to NYC info workers (librarians, archivists), grad students, artists, designers. Apps are due Wednesday, Jan 7, end-of-day! Confirmed sessions include:...

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"

Will this be the year I finally start a blog Such questions, hopes, hang in the air of Mamdani’s NY

i finally creative-directed a new homepage design (implented w claude code) after many years of personal website dysmorphia it has flying cranes & a little Icelandic turf house & due to whimsy is almost unreadable on mobile. in other words it's perfect. peruuuuse emilysaltz.space

should i skeet more this year: y/n? is a lurker doomed to be a lurker, never a participator?? 💡 2026 resolution to externalize my musings???

always a banger

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 8mo ago

In tumultuous times, we believe in being prepared, not scared. We’ve distilled the advice our trainers have shared with thousands of journalists over the years into the actionable, concrete steps in our 2026 journalist’s digital security checklist:

Wholesome skeet 🚨

Greg Technology ❪⎷❫@greg.technology · 11mo ago

“AirPods Detected Near You” alert, but it’s just your partner’s airpods, so you end up getting a little map of your romantic stroll together.

I can hardly believe I’m saying this but I have a NEW SHOW on WFMU which is debuting tonight. It’s about, consisting of, and inspired by field recordings. Listen tonight at 8PM! The playlist will be here: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Late Summer and Early Autumn: Out Here in the Field with Amanda

Audio & playlist from September 8, 2025

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if anyone in NYC has audio field recording gear that I could borrow (a zoom f3 or hand recorder, lav mics, etc.) Aug 21-30, I would be super super grateful it’s for @saltzshaker.bsky.social’s and my trip to the bog snorkeling competition….!! www.green-events.co.uk/world-bog-sn...

if you use Claude Code and are curious on how to deploy web sites using it, I've published this: disco.cloud/blog/deploy-...

On the air TONIGHT 9-midnight, with a special mix from the excellent DJ @saltzshaker.bsky.social who stops by the studio at 10pm! Listen plzzz wfmu.org/playlists/AN

Nazario Scenario

Playlists & archives

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clowns neutralize jerks by stealing their spotlight.

it finally happened. i switched an em-dash into a semi-colon so my (human!) writing wouldn't look AI-generated

It’s been a month since the making your bed while in the bed video and I’m here to report that THIS REALLY WORKS DON’T LISTEN THE HATERS www.tiktok.com/@cobreezzy/v...

Educational content

TikTok video by Conor O’Brien

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Don’t worry, you can still find out if it’s a David or Boris day at the Russian & Turkish Baths!! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read.

Greg Technology ❪⎷❫@greg.technology · last yr.

blog.greg.technology/2025/05/22/g... 🙏

@greg.technology, after not recognizing pictures of Shakira (!) or Beyoncé (!!!!): “But I *would* recognize the top Kardashian. What’s her name. The top dog”

“Slop merchant” implies the existence of:

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

Joseph Beuys: another unsuspecting bog fan! In Beuys' "Eine Aktion im Moor" or "Bog Action" (1971), he "directly physicalised the rich diversity of the bogscape by enveloping himself in its fabrics." www.sculptureintheparklands.org/peatlands.html

A fine tribute to America’s best radio station. I’m proud to be a @wfmu.bsky.social supporter. There’s literally no one like them. … jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu...

Tuning Out the Algorithm at WFMU

New Jersey’s storied WFMU is not just another independent radio station. It’s a rejection of algorithm-driven playlists and a lasting commitment to music as a collective experience.

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one of my toxic traits is asking friends for their address to send them little gifts & then thinking about it forever but not actually doing it has anyone overcome this specific brand of pseudo-generosity flakiness?? I feel too old for this??

tired: inviting people to come to montreal wired: registering them to the huge city-wide bike tour June 1st and letting them know they're already registered so it's just easier to come visit and have a grand time with me www.velo.qc.ca/en/event/go-... (anybody else?? they close all the streets!)