Kalli Anderson
@kallipearl.bsky.social
Documentary-maker, writer, sound artist
Associate professor and director of audio journalism at Newmark J-school at CUNY
Editor @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social
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Associate professor and director of audio journalism at Newmark J-school at CUNY
Editor @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social
kallipearl.com
soundfields.org
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Thanks XMTR Fest for an incredible gathering in St Leonards on Sea last week.
Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event.
And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm!
Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event.
And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm!
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Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
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thinking about potato house this halloween
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
thinking about potato house this halloween
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Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
FREE PODCASTING EVENT IN NYC NOV 12
I'm looking forward to speaking with @brihreed.bsky.social @yoweishaw.bsky.social and @evrat.bsky.social about what it really takes to run an independent narrative podcast.
RSVP here: www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/how-t...
I'm looking forward to speaking with @brihreed.bsky.social @yoweishaw.bsky.social and @evrat.bsky.social about what it really takes to run an independent narrative podcast.
RSVP here: www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/how-t...
How to Run an Indie Podcast - Newmark J-School
Want to learn what it really takes to run a successful independent narrative podcast in the post-boom era of podcasting? Join Newmark J-Schools Audio Journalism program for a candid discussion about i...
www.journalism.cuny.edu
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
FREE PODCASTING EVENT IN NYC NOV 12
I'm looking forward to speaking with @brihreed.bsky.social @yoweishaw.bsky.social and @evrat.bsky.social about what it really takes to run an independent narrative podcast.
RSVP here: www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/how-t...
I'm looking forward to speaking with @brihreed.bsky.social @yoweishaw.bsky.social and @evrat.bsky.social about what it really takes to run an independent narrative podcast.
RSVP here: www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/how-t...
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AI has been creeping into the news all of us read, often without any disclosure. We call for clearly defined standards for U.S. newsrooms:
1️⃣ Clearly define what counts as acceptable use of AI and publish these standards openly
2️⃣ Require AI-use attestations for all writers
1️⃣ Clearly define what counts as acceptable use of AI and publish these standards openly
2️⃣ Require AI-use attestations for all writers
October 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
AI has been creeping into the news all of us read, often without any disclosure. We call for clearly defined standards for U.S. newsrooms:
1️⃣ Clearly define what counts as acceptable use of AI and publish these standards openly
2️⃣ Require AI-use attestations for all writers
1️⃣ Clearly define what counts as acceptable use of AI and publish these standards openly
2️⃣ Require AI-use attestations for all writers
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Appreciating all the yeses here…so I’d better see all of you sending big $$$ to NPR whenever we decide to do this.
Question: Would you view a news organization as more trustworthy, with a more appealing brand, if it declared that AI would not be used in creation of its content? Also, would you be more inclined to pay for reporting and journalism that's specifically offered as human-created and human-curated?
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Appreciating all the yeses here…so I’d better see all of you sending big $$$ to NPR whenever we decide to do this.
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lede = introductory section in journalism
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
lede = introductory section in journalism
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information
Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
Thanks XMTR Fest for an incredible gathering in St Leonards on Sea last week.
Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event.
And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm!
Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event.
And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm!
October 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thanks XMTR Fest for an incredible gathering in St Leonards on Sea last week.
Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event.
And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm!
Thanks to everyone who came to my discussion with Sarah Kate Kramer at our @soundfieldsjournal.bsky.social event.
And huge thanks to the 90 of you who participated in the Sea Change audio swarm!
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Some exciting news: Kodak announced two new types of film today, and, notably, said it would be directly selling the film to shops, sidestepping a complicated licensing agreement where Kodak hasn't had the right to sell its own film to stores
www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade
Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Some exciting news: Kodak announced two new types of film today, and, notably, said it would be directly selling the film to shops, sidestepping a complicated licensing agreement where Kodak hasn't had the right to sell its own film to stores
www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
www.404media.co/kodak-is-sel...
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www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.
Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers find
When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is...
www.psypost.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
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Calling all freelance fact-checkers!
We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project.
Email Chris (chris@hellgatenyc.com) for more details.
We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project.
Email Chris (chris@hellgatenyc.com) for more details.
September 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Calling all freelance fact-checkers!
We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project.
Email Chris (chris@hellgatenyc.com) for more details.
We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project.
Email Chris (chris@hellgatenyc.com) for more details.
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"The arch of the moral universe may not, after all, bend towards justice, but it bends towards archives. Collect the scraps, I hear in my head like a whisper.
Do not let them rewrite the world.
Save all the evidence you can."
Do not let them rewrite the world.
Save all the evidence you can."
September 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"The arch of the moral universe may not, after all, bend towards justice, but it bends towards archives. Collect the scraps, I hear in my head like a whisper.
Do not let them rewrite the world.
Save all the evidence you can."
Do not let them rewrite the world.
Save all the evidence you can."
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sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...
September 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...
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You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
www.aaup.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
fact checking great journalists wa one of the main ways I leaned to be a journalist. I loved the job and getting to be professionally correct. And this fact checking piece in the New Yorker really get to the heart of it .
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department
Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.
www.newyorker.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
fact checking great journalists wa one of the main ways I leaned to be a journalist. I loved the job and getting to be professionally correct. And this fact checking piece in the New Yorker really get to the heart of it .
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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I love my 404 Media subscription and this piece is so illuminating and also funny! There's a real "pay no attention to the entire team of human contractors behind the curtain" energy to the folks using generative AI!
The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.
www.404media.co
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I love my 404 Media subscription and this piece is so illuminating and also funny! There's a real "pay no attention to the entire team of human contractors behind the curtain" energy to the folks using generative AI!
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A third of jobs related to race, diversity, and equality that were created in U.S. newsrooms since 2020 are gone as of this summer.
@hanaatameez.bsky.social with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
@hanaatameez.bsky.social with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline
Diversity-related newsroom jobs haven't totally disappeared — but they also haven't stuck.
www.niemanlab.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A third of jobs related to race, diversity, and equality that were created in U.S. newsrooms since 2020 are gone as of this summer.
@hanaatameez.bsky.social with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
@hanaatameez.bsky.social with a months-long investigation and new data on American journalism's turn away from DEI initiatives. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
This is in line with my observations around the people in podcasting/audio industry who are the most excited about LLM style podcast “innovations” are never the people who already make excellent podcasts.
So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌
This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
www.wsj.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is in line with my observations around the people in podcasting/audio industry who are the most excited about LLM style podcast “innovations” are never the people who already make excellent podcasts.
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The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
August 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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new NPR podcast alert -- sources & methods will look at national security news & why it matters. hosted by the incomparable mary louise kelly. check it out each thursday.
August 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
new NPR podcast alert -- sources & methods will look at national security news & why it matters. hosted by the incomparable mary louise kelly. check it out each thursday.
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Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose.
August 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM