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Aaron A. Dalton
@aaronadalton.bsky.social
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sound designer 🎙️mixer🎚️producer 🔊 fmr: intoamericapod nbcnews msnbc podcasts 🔈 WNYC/WQXR/ NakedSongbook 🎧 arts lover, occasional Southerner

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"I have a message for young people: I am sorry we did not leave you a world in which you are valued...

We are going to be better tomorrow than we are today. It's true for all of us, you don't have to be the same idiot that you are right now."

-- Terrance Roberts of the Little Rock Nine
Minnijean Brown-Trickey and six other other black students are denied entrance to Central high school by the AK National Guard. Photograph: Francis Miller/Life Picture Collection/Getty
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The summer that changed everything? 2016. Trump v. Hillary, Comey, her emails... and Frank Ocean's Blonde. This one's for you 🎧 @samsanders.bsky.social & @jodyavirgan.com on a new episode of Summer Album Winter Album (with Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, as always) pod.link/1795533637
Sam Sanders is the guest on this episode of Summer Album Winter Album, where he judges the winter- or summer-ness of Frank Ocean's "Blonde" from 2016
July 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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All this AI is making me thirsty! @wyattcenac.com
From Wyatt Cenac’s newsletter: “All of these companies are acting like twelve-year-old boys, who while you weren’t looking poured a bunch of salt into your soda and now, they can’t wait for you to drink it. They’re struggling to play it cool as they gently nudge you to take a drink in the ways prepubescent boys gently nudge (read: aggressively suggesting while smiling too much). Every ad for AI feels like some tween named Jordan overconfidently and clumsily saying stuff like “you look thirsty” and “soda is super refreshing. Right, guys?””
May 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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All this AI is making me thirsty! @wyattcenac.com
From Wyatt Cenac’s newsletter: “All of these companies are acting like twelve-year-old boys, who while you weren’t looking poured a bunch of salt into your soda and now, they can’t wait for you to drink it. They’re struggling to play it cool as they gently nudge you to take a drink in the ways prepubescent boys gently nudge (read: aggressively suggesting while smiling too much). Every ad for AI feels like some tween named Jordan overconfidently and clumsily saying stuff like “you look thirsty” and “soda is super refreshing. Right, guys?””
May 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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“I am a hard no.

I am desperately worried about the direction of this country. We are seeing an executive run away with authority he does not have, merely because he claims to have it, merely because our courts have often acted too slowly to stop him.”

@schiff.senate.gov
March 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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The René Magritte painting that sold for $121.2million this week was part of Ertegun collection (Atlantic records, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, etc)

Damn that fam had great taste
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/a...
“The Empire of the Light” (1954) by René Magritte sold at Christie’s evening sale on Tuesday for $121.2 million.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
November 22, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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"A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing."

J.D. Salinger in a letter to Lillian Ross
Black and white photo of reclusive author JD Salinger looking hip with a cigarette in his hand (ed note: smoking sometimes looks cool but it’s not, it’s really not)
November 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Sunday meditations: “Dada, can we listen to a picture of the ocean again?”
Pacific Ocean from the shores of Oxnard, California with the setting sun in the distance and a tiny mutt puppy named Guthrie
November 17, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Elon, he really gets us
Photo of Ben Affleck smoking on a balcony and looking dejected with the caption “Liberals realizing it’s only been a week into a four year term hasn’t started [lol emoji]” as tweeted by Elon Musk on X
November 15, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Brat boy winter is coming
Bag of unopened Halloween candy discovered on Election Day, did not survive election night
November 6, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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As implausible as it is to imagine peace, and as impossible as that feels today, this is something I still believe in #warisover
October 7, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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She's burning up the podcast interview circuit 🔥 and last week I got my chance to edit & mix the fearsome @karaswisher.bsky.social -- for Person of the Week with Charlotte Alter

#podcast from #TIME & Sugar23 #interviews #newbook #burnbook link.chtbl.com/potw33
Tech reporter and author Kara Swisher, guest on episode 33 of the podcast Person of the Week, from TIME magazine
March 8, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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On #Jan6 I was working for a major media org, and when those tourists came for journalists (and democracy) it felt personal
January 7, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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I don’t indulge in dad jokes, or listen to Steely Dan recreationally, but I do think the Norah Jones Christmas album really grooves 🙏@norahjonesofficial.bsky.social
December 10, 2023 at 5:22 PM