nick
@nickbenevenia.com
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📻 radio and audio producer in boston | host 'Rat Fever' on WZBC 90.3
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nickbenevenia.com
absolutely smashing cases with these two
nickbenevenia.com
reject algorithms, embrace passive aggressive handwritten comments on CD labels!

also WZBC mentioned 📻
emwhitenoise.bsky.social
College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs. 

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...
nickbenevenia.com
at church on a Tuesday night (Viagra Boys)
nickbenevenia.com
are you telling me I can't do shots at the club with Crazy Frog?
stereogum.bsky.social
Crazy Frog’s debut album came out 20 years ago today.

What’s your favorite track?

www.stereogum.com/2316652/craz...
nickbenevenia.com
utility companies keep increasing delivery costs and booking record profits, but at least we get a Dominoes Pizza Tracker for outages
nickbenevenia.com
shouting this to every exec in earshot
jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
www.404media.co
nickbenevenia.com
we are not going back.
popcrave.com
The Chainsmokers will release a remix of “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan tomorrow.
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joolia.bsky.social
icymi I wrote an essay about the trumpist campaign against empathy and why it’s so disturbing. featuring elon musk, gad saad, rank misogyny, that priest who did a nazi/elon salute, and a podcaster who wrote five pages about her deliberations over posting a black square for black lives on instagram
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
www.theguardian.com
nickbenevenia.com
similar to "centrist," terms like "impartial" carry politically loaded connotations for audiences.

important read for news orgs as they navigate fractured audiences in the current media landscape
nickbenevenia.com
when I say "bring back" I'm specifically talking about the offbeat, diy, ramshackle stuff. Not the slick and sterile ones.
nickbenevenia.com
hey college radio, blogs, public stations, anyone on the internet...bring back sessions!
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amandamull.bsky.social
For my latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the enormous economic and societal risks that come along with this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Rich People Are Firing a Cash Cannon at the US Economy—But at What Cost?
Industries get recalibrated, economic signals get crossed and the social fabric begins to fray.
www.bloomberg.com
nickbenevenia.com
listened on my commute this morning. First guitar note and I knew it was right up my alley!
nickbenevenia.com
great read! imo the whole point of social media is to discover new people, places, and things that interest you

I first got online to escape the suburban jock scene. I found a Gaslight Anthem message board and it quite literally changed my life
allisonhantschel.com
In @damemagazine.bsky.social this month I wrote about echo chambers and what social media is FOR in the first place: "There’s no obligation to stay where you find nothing useful or interesting, and there’s no homework assignment that requires you to allow people to ruin your experience."
Are We Self-Segregating on Social Media? - Dame Magazine
If you went to a local restaurant expecting wait staff to bring you food and drinks, and instead a monkey screamed at you and threw its own poop, you would leave. That’s what thousands of people have ...
www.damemagazine.com
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bedford.bsky.social
Five employees at the JFK Library in Boston were laid off today in connection with a Trump administration overhaul of federal workers.

"Without them, we are unable to stay open," a source tells @gbhnews.bsky.social. "It has been chaotic and we are seeking clarity."
nickbenevenia.com
man, this is so bleak.

first, outsourcing the description of an Oscar Winning masterpiece to a chatbot.

then, censoring the reason "a man takes hostages at a bank" because it involved the word gay or trans.
ockeroid.bsky.social
Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon “a man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”
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ockeroid.bsky.social
Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon “a man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”
nickbenevenia.com
a small movie theater in Roslindale Village would go crazy!
universalhub.com
#Roslindale Square gets official city plan calling for more housing, possible realignment of key roads and a movie theater
www.universalhub.com/2025/roslind...
#Boston #housing #SquaresAndStreets