Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

you there! would you like to see the excessive number of fonts available at the Stanford AI Lab in 1976? including multiple elvish options? www.saildart.org/allow/pdf/fi...

Tidal says it won't monetize AI-generated music

Kil reinstated! “Kil was one of several university professors and staff to be suspended, investigated and in some cases dismissed or forced out in connection to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that swept US campuses in the first year of Israel’s war in Gaza.”

The Routledge Companion to Social Media Influencers is out! Next up: The Routledge Handbook of AI Slop.

3 hours of Cosmic Music and talk with @obsofdeviance.bsky.social and @wfmu.bsky.social: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Renato Rosaldo, Anthropologist Who Disrupted His Discipline, Dies at 85 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/s...

This is super www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Heidi Grundmann, Robert Adrian, "Toward a Definition of Radio Art", 1998. Manifesto; written on the occasion of ImmersiveSound/kunst in der stadt II/ Bregenz 1998

some of you not naming names could be said to be interested in music that is an "agitation of the atmospheric air" (Abraham Moles 1966) #cybernetics

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

RIP Carlo Ginzburg, an extraordinary historian. His work on serendipity explains a lot about freeform radio. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...

The WFMU Summer 2026 schedule, in glorious color.

When I interviewed Pat Brodie last month about his co-edited collection, I realized that he actually had ANOTHER book out this year with @dukepress.bsky.social. So of course we had to talk about that too. Check out "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland," it's a keeper.

Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.

Read the World Humanities Report. Vanderbilt report is fake news.

Will assign this to my students, for their first day of class. AI writing is just bad, embarrassing writing. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Popular Music Books in Process ends its 2025-2026 program tomorrow at 530p ET with a song for America. Gus Stadler will be talking to Will Kaufman about his forthcoming book, American Songs and Struggle from World War II to MAGA. Join us, won't you? iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Wed Jun 10, 5:30pm ET, UK historian Will Kaufman and his fellow Woody head, our own Gus Stadler, talk Will's forthcoming book, AMERICAN SONG & STRUGGLE FROM WORLD WAR II TO MAGA. Join us for a replenishing end to the Popular Music Books series' season: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

i'm reminded of when spinal tap released their reunion CD in an extra-big cardboard long-box so there was more to be recycled.

Sometimes you gotta pop out and show people… www.jazztimes.com/blog/how-bla...

If you like longform criticism like this, please show you do by signing up for the newsletter www.npr.org/newsletter/m...

In this week's NPR Music newsletter I wrote about guitarist Marisa Anderson's new Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, a beautiful work and an exercise in patience. Follow this ugly link to read it. Bonus material on a fave Kiarostami film, The Wind Will Carry Us. view.nl.npr.org?vawpToken=O3...

You can read my full written testimony here: pianofighter.substack.com/p/my-full-co...

We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert

“The people of Georgia, faced with a political assault on their universities, did the hard work of rebuilding the structure that had been compromised...The lesson from 1941 is still available to us. We have already learned it, if we can remember.”

The University of Michigan has sent a legal threat over a yearlong pause that would prevent water hookup to a proposed nuclear weapons research and AI data center. www.404media.co/university-c...

I taught @carlzoilus.bsky.social's "It's About Love" alongside @lizpelly.bsky.social on Spotify, Maria Sonevytsky on Ukrainian punk & @wfmu.bsky.social radio archive last semester. Students were into punk, metal, hip hop, free jazz, soul, EDM, Arab pop--all loved the book cdn.blot.im/folder/v-6d4...

They caught me! The Jacobin poptimism-interdiction squad has defeated my nefarious schemes! carlwilson.substack.com/p/my-attempt...

PSA: the Douglas Wolk piece on rockism is from May 4 2005–thank you @archive.org! web.archive.org/web/20060523...

this is because the "judas!" bit was included on the pregap track on the CD, where it'd appear at like -0:04 on the counter (or something). whoever ripped the CD for spotify was probably just oblivious. almost def not an intentional edit but certainly dumb/ahistorical. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregap

the gen Xers are fighting about poptimism and rockism again when we really need to be fighting about📢unchecked corporate consolidation in the music biz 📢 cmon guys

private details of health and social vulnerabilities students disclose in comms to their faculty are precisely what makes data of young people - soon to make the largest spending decisions of their life like more education debt, car ownership, home ownership - valuable enough to force platform use

Just realized that @versobooks.bsky.social includes a link to an epub version of the book with each paperback order (no DRM!). Amazing, thank you! This brings us one step closer to a Bandcamp for books. Are any other publishers doing that?

Next week in Search & Discovery we discuss music discovery. Liz Pelly joins us for a trip to WFMU, and we document our own musical discovery memoirs — how we cultivated our tastes across phases of our lives :) crossreference.wordsinspace.net/spring2026/w...

This is tomorrow, and I am super-psyched 🤗

Tomorrow (Wed Apr 1, no fooling) it's the CLUBLANDS edition of the Popular Music Books online series, w/ Maren Hancock & Charity Marsh on Canadian DJ culture and Al Shipley on Baltimore club music. Get out on the floor w/ us at 5:30 pm! Here's how: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Tomorrow, Thu, Somerville MA!

WFMU's 2026 Fundraising Marathon ends tomorrow! Support listener-sponsored, freeform radio! Pledge here and help us reach our goal: pledge.wfmu.org/donate?step=...

what a charming bunch of jim-jims.

BTW, also at the same gallery is a show of paintings by Jean Dubuffet and John Fahey, paired up for some reason.

A judge threw out Columbia's expulsion orders last week, and this week, a court has ruled that students can sue the shitty little organisation that defamed them. hellgatenyc.com/group-that-c...

WFMU's 2026 Fundraising Marathon, which ends Sunday, is now in its semi-final stretch! Pledge now, win prizes, and support amazing listener-sponsored radio! See our beautiful new swag (wfmu.org/swag) and all the DJ premiums we're offering (wfmu.org/dj-premiums). Pledge here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate

Gaylord Fields drops by Music To Spazz By for week two of WFMU’s Fundraising Marathon. Expect prizes and shenanigans with a double dose of stupid. In other words, appointment radio. Tonight at 9 ET on 91.1 FM WFMU (photo by Jean Schwarzwalder) @wfmu.bsky.social pledge.wfmu.org/donate/MS

See here for expert analysis: www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-wild-day...

Tonight's special fundraising edition of my show, "It's Complicated," with guest co-host Matt Fiveash, hits the airwaves at 7 p.m. Listen at wfmu.org, and make a pledge to support listener-funded @wfmu.bsky.social and my show here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX

Tonight (7 p.m. ET), tune in as Matt Fiveash joins me for my second of two shows in WFMU's 2026 Fundraising Marathon. If you appreciate the amazing radio that everyone at freeform, listener-supported @wfmu.bsky.social does, support us and pledge whatever you can here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX

@wfmu.bsky.social Fundraising Marathon, Day 4 (photo tranche 2/3) Pledge now: pledge.wfmu.org Listen: wfmu.org #wfmu #wfmu2026marathon #radio #freeform #freeformradio #photography #q3mono #monochrom #leicamonochrom #leicaq3monochrom #fabio #claypigeon

I helped organize this memorial zine to my beloved doctoral advisor @jonathansterne.bsky.social. Thanks to all the contributors for their beautiful offerings. Sound ON for silly, apropos page turning sound effects. intercomzine.com