Saltzshaker
@saltzshaker.bsky.social
internet researcher, sound artist/dj, bog enthusiast, inveterate lurker
emilysaltz.space
in nyc & mtl
emilysaltz.space
in nyc & mtl
Wholesome skeet 🚨
“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.
September 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Wholesome skeet 🚨
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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
wfmu.org
September 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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...
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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...
it’s for @saltzshaker.bsky.social’s and my trip to the bog snorkeling competition….!!
www.green-events.co.uk/world-bog-sn...
August 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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...
it’s for @saltzshaker.bsky.social’s and my trip to the bog snorkeling competition….!!
www.green-events.co.uk/world-bog-sn...
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if you use Claude Code and are curious on how to deploy web sites using it, I've published this:
disco.cloud/blog/deploy-...
disco.cloud/blog/deploy-...
Deploy Any Web App Directly from Claude Code
TLDR: I just deployed a web app by asking Claude to do it. No config files, no CI/CD setup, no cloud console clicking. Just "create a React app and deploy it using disco" and boom, live URL. The Probl...
disco.cloud
August 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
if you use Claude Code and are curious on how to deploy web sites using it, I've published this:
disco.cloud/blog/deploy-...
disco.cloud/blog/deploy-...
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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
wfmu.org
July 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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
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clowns neutralize jerks by stealing their spotlight.
June 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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
June 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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
www.tiktok.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
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.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read.
May 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read.
@greg.technology, after not recognizing pictures of Shakira (!) or Beyoncé (!!!!):
“But I *would* recognize the top Kardashian. What’s her name. The top dog”
“But I *would* recognize the top Kardashian. What’s her name. The top dog”
May 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
@greg.technology, after not recognizing pictures of Shakira (!) or Beyoncé (!!!!):
“But I *would* recognize the top Kardashian. What’s her name. The top dog”
“But I *would* recognize the top Kardashian. What’s her name. The top dog”
“Slop merchant” implies the existence of:
May 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“Slop merchant” implies the existence of:
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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
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
May 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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
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
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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.
jacobin.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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...
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??
has anyone overcome this specific brand of pseudo-generosity flakiness?? I feel too old for this??
May 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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??
has anyone overcome this specific brand of pseudo-generosity flakiness?? I feel too old for this??
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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!)
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!)
April 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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!)
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!)
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If you do not think it is possible to eke out extraordinary wins that change the country and people’s lives, piece by piece against a hostile legal apparatus, over decades and decades, you do not know the legal history of this country.
April 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you do not think it is possible to eke out extraordinary wins that change the country and people’s lives, piece by piece against a hostile legal apparatus, over decades and decades, you do not know the legal history of this country.
THE ABSOLUTE DREAMIEST RESOURCE
Glad to see all this discussion of community education. Just a reminder that I’ve made all of my course material — 40 classes, from methods to maps, knowledge infrastructures to local media, digital ethnography to digital urbanism — freely available for 20+ years :)
wordsinspace.net
April 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
THE ABSOLUTE DREAMIEST RESOURCE
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New research confirms that monkeys, due to a vocal membrane humans lack, are capable of "ultra-yodels" with leaps up to 5 octaves. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
‘Monkey yodels’—frequency jumps in New World monkey vocalizations greatly surpass human vocal register transitions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
We investigated the causal basis of abrupt frequency jumps in a unique database of
New World monkey vocalizations. We used a combination of acoustic and electroglottographic
recordings in vivo, excise...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
New research confirms that monkeys, due to a vocal membrane humans lack, are capable of "ultra-yodels" with leaps up to 5 octaves. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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surprisingly one of my visual poems was used to train metas AI (without my consent of course). i hope it fucks it up a little bit:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
here you can have a look yourself, if your work is included:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
here you can have a look yourself, if your work is included:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
March 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
surprisingly one of my visual poems was used to train metas AI (without my consent of course). i hope it fucks it up a little bit:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
here you can have a look yourself, if your work is included:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
here you can have a look yourself, if your work is included:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Tired: garage sale
Wired: serving your friends mulled wine and letting them bid on all of your household items. You will not regret it!!
Also you should dress up as a moose! Bye
(@saltzshaker.bsky.social co-organized)
Wired: serving your friends mulled wine and letting them bid on all of your household items. You will not regret it!!
Also you should dress up as a moose! Bye
(@saltzshaker.bsky.social co-organized)
March 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Tired: garage sale
Wired: serving your friends mulled wine and letting them bid on all of your household items. You will not regret it!!
Also you should dress up as a moose! Bye
(@saltzshaker.bsky.social co-organized)
Wired: serving your friends mulled wine and letting them bid on all of your household items. You will not regret it!!
Also you should dress up as a moose! Bye
(@saltzshaker.bsky.social co-organized)
Wish this was alarmist but 💡
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Wish this was alarmist but 💡
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i am organizing "QR Show" on March 16th in NYC
it's a show about qr codes
its website is bonkers, designed by a bonkers person - qrshow.nyc
do you make/create/curate/know of/love/hate/breathe/smoke qr codes?? art?? qr code art??
submit your art!! to the show! and then join the show as an artist.
it's a show about qr codes
its website is bonkers, designed by a bonkers person - qrshow.nyc
do you make/create/curate/know of/love/hate/breathe/smoke qr codes?? art?? qr code art??
submit your art!! to the show! and then join the show as an artist.
qr show ✶︎ 03.16.25 ✶︎ nyc
qr show ✶︎ 03.16.25 ✶︎ nyc
qrshow.nyc
March 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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here, have some fish from 2002
January 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
here, have some fish from 2002
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David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.
January 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.