Curious citizen🤔Radio guy & podcast dude for NPR's Here & Now: https://xitter.cf/t.co/B7FNh0LTz6 Making noise w/CDPROM, La Croix Mystique & more
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Joined June 2009
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I went to Alaska and talked to people about the anxiety of living with the growing threat of deadly landslides. Listen to their stories:
wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/09/…
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the more time i spend in chicago the more i feel that it is to the US what vienna is to Europe which is as a place forever tied to the birthplace of modernity in the arts, sometimes if not often to its detriment. neither city can escape 1880-1930
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Chicago is great but its problems are obvious: it was built over soggy marshland and, to this day, ancient amphibians, pale salamanders the size of train cars and toads the size of houses, slumber in the soft mud beneath the water table. One day, those monsters will wake up.
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This is crazy. Tether was literally paying the guy in charge of making their company legal while he was in the White House and the WSJ has the actual signal messages and contracts to prove it because these criminal geniuses tried to stiff one of their partners out of the proceeds
SCOOP: While Bo Hines was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether—the company with the most at stake in the bill—was steering millions of dollars to a company he co-owned.
Right after the bill passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.
[Gift link] wsj.com/politics/policy/cryp…
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Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate-- then were told to lay off. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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New: Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt Don Lemon’s producer, a 21-year-old college student.
They also sought to use the technology against a journalist and a state Senate candidate.
wired.com/story/feds-got-war…
TIL Tyson bagent’s dad was a world arm-wrestling champ. Feels like they should have lingered on that fact a little longer in the “get to know Tyson” bumper lol
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New: What happens when you bet like a problem gambler on DraftKings and FanDuel? Our reporter Jake Pearson spent 10 weeks and more than $20,000 on the apps to find out. propub.li/4AXObQH
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End of an era
Some news: My heart is heavy as I share that my time at Chicago Public Media is regretfully coming to an end. My final live broadcast of @WBEZIntheLoop will be on November 6.
wbez.org/pressroom/2026/10/0…
I spent hundreds on a Chase bliss guitar pedal to make noise like this and he just… tweeted it out
🚨 NASA has successfully captured the sound of deep space — and it’s absolutely mind-blowing 🤯
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is not recorded sound from space. It's a data "sonification" of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster, where NASA translates brightness, color, and position of objects into audio tones for accessibility. Sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space. science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble… chandra.si.edu/sound/
This guy knows pokeball
They’re never throwing the ball. The WRs are TERRIBLE. Throwing to a 2.5ft TALL WR and a fast WR with literally NO HANDS
My WR room:
WR1: Mewtwo. 6’7 269lbs. Athletic freak. Megatron meets Randy Moss
WR2: Dragonite. 7’3 463lbs. Catch radius. Mike Evans with wings
WR3: Charizard. 5’7 200lbs. Catch radius. Can fly. JaMarr Chase with wings
Slot: Persian. 3’3 70lbs. JSN aka The Kanto route artist
I’m also swapping RB and not having a FB. Rhydon is too slow
RB1: Arcanine. 6’3 341lbs. Derrick Henry but with Bijan agility
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This is, of course, completely made up. In Chicago:
- Murders are down 4% from 2025, and 40% from 2022.
- Robbery is down 21% from 2025, and 43% from 2022.
- Burglary is down 9% from 2025, and 23% from 2022.
- Aggravated battery is down 1% from 2025, and 5% from 2022.
The president is awake and flinging stale shit at the wall this morning: "Chicago is suffering an unprecedented and particularly violent crime wave that is getting worse by the day. The Federal Government can extinguish it quickly and completely, but the Mayor of Chicago, or the Governor of Illinois, must ask for our help. What is wrong with them? Why aren’t they asking? TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! President DJT"
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1/ Mind blowing story about Trump accounts by @RichardRubinDC & @ashleaebeling. Under Treasury's new rules, a company can donate stock to a child's Trump account; parents can’t pick the stocks, reject donated shares, or sell for 5 years. Some possible implications...
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ProPublica is looking for at least 250 people who use DraftKings and FanDuel to bet on sports to share their data with us.
Your transaction history will help us understand how the apps respond to user behavior.
projects.propublica.org/spor…
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FIGURES: A West Virginia researcher crunching state betting numbers finds 43M bets placed by just ~16K bettors. And when does demand spike for slots? Every second, third and fourth Wednesday — Social Security payday. @MyBuckhannon mybuckhannon.com/high-roller…
The president’s Truth indeed
A @WhiteHouse spokesperson confirms to @dcexaminer that POTUS will not reimburse the federal government for the money it has already spent on its PSAs: "The President’s Truth was not referring to reimbursement."