Julia Barton
@bartona104.bsky.social
Editor, podcaster, script and research consultant at RadioWright.com. Nieman Fellow '24, founding executive editor Pushkin Industries. Newsletter: https://continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/
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Stoners Kept the Flame
A guest post from Jeremy Braddock on Firesign Theatre, the countercultural comedians who romped through the old "mecca" of Golden Age radio drama, paying tribute while also mocking the past.
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Find out how @firesigntheatre.bsky.social are the missing link between radio's creative past and present, thanks to this fantastic guest post by @jbraddock.bsky.social continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/stoners-ke...
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Every fiction podcast stands on the shoulders of Firesign, whether they know it or not.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Every fiction podcast stands on the shoulders of Firesign, whether they know it or not.
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All three major record labels — Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music — have reportedly licensed their works to a music AI streaming service
Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service
The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
All three major record labels — Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music — have reportedly licensed their works to a music AI streaming service
Find out how @firesigntheatre.bsky.social are the missing link between radio's creative past and present, thanks to this fantastic guest post by @jbraddock.bsky.social continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/stoners-ke...
Stoners Kept the Flame
A guest post from Jeremy Braddock on Firesign Theatre, the countercultural comedians who romped through the old "mecca" of Golden Age radio drama, paying tribute while also mocking the past.
continuous-wave.beehiiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Find out how @firesigntheatre.bsky.social are the missing link between radio's creative past and present, thanks to this fantastic guest post by @jbraddock.bsky.social continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/stoners-ke...
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NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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New AF Podcast ep! 🌊
In "A Wave is Coming Towards You" @mathildeurfa.bsky.social attempts to unlock feelings stuck somewhere between her chest and her throat with the help of a plot conceit.
What, you can relate?
Scream it: Listen! Enjoy! Subscribe (minus Spotify), Share!
bit.ly/AFpodlinks
In "A Wave is Coming Towards You" @mathildeurfa.bsky.social attempts to unlock feelings stuck somewhere between her chest and her throat with the help of a plot conceit.
What, you can relate?
Scream it: Listen! Enjoy! Subscribe (minus Spotify), Share!
bit.ly/AFpodlinks
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
New AF Podcast ep! 🌊
In "A Wave is Coming Towards You" @mathildeurfa.bsky.social attempts to unlock feelings stuck somewhere between her chest and her throat with the help of a plot conceit.
What, you can relate?
Scream it: Listen! Enjoy! Subscribe (minus Spotify), Share!
bit.ly/AFpodlinks
In "A Wave is Coming Towards You" @mathildeurfa.bsky.social attempts to unlock feelings stuck somewhere between her chest and her throat with the help of a plot conceit.
What, you can relate?
Scream it: Listen! Enjoy! Subscribe (minus Spotify), Share!
bit.ly/AFpodlinks
Really not following this new update to the CDC website
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Really not following this new update to the CDC website
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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If Heathcliff were a real person today, he'd be a Dateline episode.
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If Heathcliff were a real person today, he'd be a Dateline episode.
It's muttonchops vs. false eyelashes on prestige streaming TV tonight.
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It's muttonchops vs. false eyelashes on prestige streaming TV tonight.
It's raining shoes in Cambridge.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It's raining shoes in Cambridge.
"The" wins in a landslide!
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"The" wins in a landslide!
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Perhaps there's a version of the news distortion doctrine that's consistent with the First Amendment, but the version of it that Carr is wielding here is not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Perhaps there's a version of the news distortion doctrine that's consistent with the First Amendment, but the version of it that Carr is wielding here is not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.
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The name’s Parm, Parmigiano Reggiano. Want to hire me? Talk to my agent
United Talent Agency has signed literal type of cheese Parmigiano Reggiano to its roster with the goal of finding product-placement opportunities for the brand in film and TV
www.vulture.com/article/parm...?
www.vulture.com/article/parm...?
Beloved Cheese Parmigiano Reggiano Signs With UTA
The blonde Italian bombshell is about to be all over film and TV.
www.vulture.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The name’s Parm, Parmigiano Reggiano. Want to hire me? Talk to my agent
cue up a third season of The Harvard Plan pls @onthemedia.bsky.social @ilyamarritz.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com
“The review found that Harvard in 2005 admitted Mr. Epstein as a visiting fellow in the psychology department and readmitted him the following year. And the review concluded “it is likely” that Mr. Epstein visited Harvard more than 40 times after his release from jail, between 2010 and 2018.”
BRO.
BRO.
Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
cue up a third season of The Harvard Plan pls @onthemedia.bsky.social @ilyamarritz.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com
Subscribe to my newsletter today and you might just find out tomorrow how to be two places at once when you are not anywhere at all. continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/subscribe
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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yeah I really don't even think we've started to sniff the impact of the GOP's complete destruction of federal consumer protection and public safety regulatory independence, and that's just the tip of the iceberg
this stuff is going to come in concussive, brutal waves
this stuff is going to come in concussive, brutal waves
The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
we're really not prepared for what's coming
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
yeah I really don't even think we've started to sniff the impact of the GOP's complete destruction of federal consumer protection and public safety regulatory independence, and that's just the tip of the iceberg
this stuff is going to come in concussive, brutal waves
this stuff is going to come in concussive, brutal waves
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Something I've come to realize over time is there isn't some neat and tidy division between "sane" and "delusional"… and LLMs seem almost perfectly designed to push people along that gradient
I was talking with my wife about another patron who'd been passionately telling her about his revolutionary theory that would change everything, and I asked her if
he'd been talking with AI, not expecting the answer to be yes, but in the moment I asked her she realized the answer was indeed yes.
he'd been talking with AI, not expecting the answer to be yes, but in the moment I asked her she realized the answer was indeed yes.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Something I've come to realize over time is there isn't some neat and tidy division between "sane" and "delusional"… and LLMs seem almost perfectly designed to push people along that gradient
Regret Tours Activated.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Regret Tours Activated.
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One more thing to remember: this story comes as Republicans across the country are working to hide maternal mortality data. They're disbanding maternal death committees, stacking them with anti-choice activists, and obscuring the connection between deaths & bans
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
One more thing to remember: this story comes as Republicans across the country are working to hide maternal mortality data. They're disbanding maternal death committees, stacking them with anti-choice activists, and obscuring the connection between deaths & bans
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Good article.
Radical jihadist communism actually began in Iowa City. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Good article.
Monstrosity rewarded. Yet again. h/t @phillipspobrien.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...
Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war
"We feel the Russian position is really being heard," Russia's envoy told Axios.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Monstrosity rewarded. Yet again. h/t @phillipspobrien.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...
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Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account