‘But Mr. Zaleski said he was appalled at being replaced by a machine-generated substitute. “I was very angry that real, deep talks and real interviews with real people were replaced with something totally fake.”’https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/world/europe/poland-radio-station-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE4.7ztA.34jGWu02j_Ll&smid=url-share

‘Roughly 3 out of 4 major American newspapers have stopped endorsing for president — something that nearly all of them did just twenty years ago. A trend that began in 2012 has accelerated in every cycle since and now overtaken most of the industry.’https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/the-washington-post-isnt-alone-roughly-3-4-of-major-american-newspapers-arent-endorsing-anyone-for-president-this-year/

‘That year, Elwood received $200 from the then-unknown America Online, merely because his wife worked at a predecessor company. He was asked to simply record four voiceover lines:- "Welcome"- "You've Got Mail"- "Files done"- "Goodbye"’https://www.wkyc.com/article/life/people/elwood-edwards-wkyc-employee-voice-aol-youve-got-mail-greeting-dies-74/95-940b6ed4-b90b-4c4c-b0d5-6c57fddb6546

‘And regarding if windowing undermines the open RSS ecosystem. If it worked well, it might have. But it didn’t. The worst impact on the open RSS feed is that it just makes things confusing for listeners.They just want to find the shows they want where they expect to find them–and get lost (and then disinterested) when we start putting obstacles in their way.’https://audioinsurgent.substack.com/p/its-time-to-ask-eric-anything

@mikeneumann bleakbut if the incentive is to "produce plausible documents", why not use the new tools specifically designed to do that?will be interesting to see what language is used (if any) to tweak the incentives

@js so blueberry doing something wrong

New data: Top CDNs used by the 2.0 million new podcast episodes in October 2024https://livewire.io/podcast-cdns-by-episode-share/

@DavidMarzalC what's interesting is that everything is public, it's no secret which prefixes are used in public rss feedsAt the time that story came out, I did notice that the OP3 prefix is no longer in their feed

New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 2.0 million new eps in October 2024- Spreaker, Megaphone, and Acast with share gainshttps://livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-episode-share/

New data: Buzzsprout released their self-reported podcast stats for October, I updated my page charting them over time- new all-time high for #1 Spotify: 41.5%https://livewire.io/buzzsprout-stats-visualized/

‘Johnson and Van Wing have both decided that the best way forward for their podcasts is to reduce the number of feeds that listeners are sent to’https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/the-future-of-true-crime-sounds-like-public-radio/

@js Good riddance!

‘As seasoned authors and broadcasters, they also embraced podcasting because it put them in control. “You don’t need to dumb down to get an audience…We can rely on our listeners to be interested”’https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/how-two-irreverent-historians-made-their-podcast-a-global-sensation-81de0a1b?st=pDugvH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

‘Siri remains software I distrust. Like Federighi, I would struggle to list my usage beyond a handful of simple commands — timers, reminders, and the occasional message.’https://pxlnv.com/blog/sorry-siri/

@js “Complexifier”. Sounds like the title of a Tool song.

@js @mikeneumann I lived in Troy, Ohio, between 2000 - 2002. Here is a tune for my years in Manchester, New Hampshire (SNHU '00).GRANITE STATE OF MIND (Jay-Z Parody - The Super Secret Project)https://youtu.be/bX7nQrCgALM?si=AESKx02L65yJz0IH

official ‘Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite’https://www.sqlite.org/rsync.html

‘Across this massive expansion of scope and responsibility, the Flutter team has only marginally increased its size.To help expand Flutter's available labor, and accelerate development, we're creating a fork of Flutter, called Flock.’https://flutterfoundation.dev/blog/posts/we-are-forking-flutter-this-is-why/

‘In The Ordinal Society, Fourcade and Healy explicate beautifully the destabilizing effect of modern tech companies giving something away for free.The Gift, in Mauss’ famous theory, is dangerous: it disrupts the carefully balanced exchanges that ensure social stability.If you and I exchange objects of equal value, we know that we’re square. We don’t owe each other anything. But if you give me something for free, I don’t know where we stand. What do I owe you?’https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/theres-gold-in-them-thar-reels

a wsj podcast is called "The Journal." with a period at the end