Alex Russo
@alexrusso.bsky.social
Media Studies Professor. Radio, Sound Studies, Culture Industries, Media Technologies. Husband to
@LGQ. Dad to F. Y-town raised. Views my own.
@LGQ. Dad to F. Y-town raised. Views my own.
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The whole thing here: deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
deadline.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The whole thing here: deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
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“Stuff keeps happening while we’re talking to the managers” OH REALLY
November 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“Stuff keeps happening while we’re talking to the managers” OH REALLY
Maybe Amazon web services shouldn't be advancing the narrative that we support everything after this weeks outage?
November 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Maybe Amazon web services shouldn't be advancing the narrative that we support everything after this weeks outage?
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It's the purest contemporary franchise in this way. No one really cares, the lore is inconsequential/nonsensical, but some proprietary and incorrect numbers suggest it's worth making another one. The result looks decent and gets some talented people paid. Cool. Two more Event Horizon movies please.
Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
It's the purest contemporary franchise in this way. No one really cares, the lore is inconsequential/nonsensical, but some proprietary and incorrect numbers suggest it's worth making another one. The result looks decent and gets some talented people paid. Cool. Two more Event Horizon movies please.
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This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...
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The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
presswatchers.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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“In an era where false claims are the norm, it’s much easier to ignore the fact-checkers.”
— a poignant final line from a retiring critical journalist. Gift link. Worth your time. Thank you for your service @glennkessler.bsky.social
wapo.st/41kFq2G
— a poignant final line from a retiring critical journalist. Gift link. Worth your time. Thank you for your service @glennkessler.bsky.social
wapo.st/41kFq2G
Analysis | The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning.
Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post.
wapo.st
July 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“In an era where false claims are the norm, it’s much easier to ignore the fact-checkers.”
— a poignant final line from a retiring critical journalist. Gift link. Worth your time. Thank you for your service @glennkessler.bsky.social
wapo.st/41kFq2G
— a poignant final line from a retiring critical journalist. Gift link. Worth your time. Thank you for your service @glennkessler.bsky.social
wapo.st/41kFq2G
AI bands are here.
A ’60s-flavored band blew up on Spotify. They’re AI.
The Velvet Sundown confirmed Saturday that its viral success is powered by artificial intelligence.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
AI bands are here.
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The pope posted this this morning and I’m thinking a lot about it
June 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The pope posted this this morning and I’m thinking a lot about it
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Funniest basketball team of all time.
June 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Funniest basketball team of all time.
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff. to.pbs.org/43dK17i
Pope Leo XIV calls for release of imprisoned journalists, affirms gift of free speech and press
The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, elected in a 24-hour conclave last week, called for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war and to give voice to the voiceless.
to.pbs.org
May 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff. to.pbs.org/43dK17i
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Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Holy hell this is depressing.
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Holy hell this is depressing.
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There is still no way of ensuring that AI chatbots produce accurate information, and powerful new technologies are generating more errors, not fewer: “As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier. It is not entirely clear why.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
There is still no way of ensuring that AI chatbots produce accurate information, and powerful new technologies are generating more errors, not fewer: “As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier. It is not entirely clear why.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
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Good advice here from @joshtpm.bsky.social : talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/into-...
Into the Wilds of Democratic Navel-Gazing and Big Think
About a week ago, both Matt Yglesias and Jonathan Last at The...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Good advice here from @joshtpm.bsky.social : talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/into-...
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i wrote about the longest running hip hop radio show in the world. also covered about how city scenes reach out and influence national culture in unrecognized ways and the unintentional journey from zeitgeist conduit to historian thebarbedwire.com/2025/05/02/h...
Meet the Dallas DJ Behind (Maybe) the Longest Running Hip Hop Show On Air
EZ Eddie D, host of KNON’s ‘Knowledge Dropped, Lessons Taught,’ has seen Dallas’ hip hop scene and the genre change over 40 years on the air.
thebarbedwire.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i wrote about the longest running hip hop radio show in the world. also covered about how city scenes reach out and influence national culture in unrecognized ways and the unintentional journey from zeitgeist conduit to historian thebarbedwire.com/2025/05/02/h...
Another amazing Francis nugget.
To put it mildly, I didn't know that Pope Francis was a Patti Smith fan
thunderstruck.org/patti-smith-...
thunderstruck.org/patti-smith-...
Patti Smith on Pope Francis and Her Performances at the Vatican |
thunderstruck.org
April 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Another amazing Francis nugget.
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Clear Channel has released a list of songs not to play in the wake of the stock market crash
April 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Clear Channel has released a list of songs not to play in the wake of the stock market crash
In honor of George Foreman, a bit of radio documentary perfection. kitchensisters.org/fugitivewave...
An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill | The Kitchen Sisters
kitchensisters.org
March 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In honor of George Foreman, a bit of radio documentary perfection. kitchensisters.org/fugitivewave...
Terribly saddened by the loss of Jonathan Sterne. Such a model of a brilliant scholar, dedicated mentor, and kind human being. The world is a lesser place without him.
March 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Terribly saddened by the loss of Jonathan Sterne. Such a model of a brilliant scholar, dedicated mentor, and kind human being. The world is a lesser place without him.
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Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad.
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne
We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …
dukeupress.wordpress.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad.
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...