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https://tomroeradio.substack.com/ One of founders of 87x, free103point9, and Wave Farm. Radio artist, journalist, radio pirate, in favor of Democracy and satire.a
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This Week in Radio Art: The most famous broadcast signal intrusion The Max Headroom mask-wearing 'D.B. Cooper of media hacking' has never been identified. Plus, Chris Burden's commercials, and interrupting this year's World Series. at tomroeradio.substack.com

At long last, my stupidly long post on how Brendan Carr is aiming to be America's top censor. www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/b...

Donald Drumpf Theatre: Television Oligarchy or a Series of Distractions This week the president-elect loses his first soldier, but keeps the idiot box on. With Black Flag, Rick Blaine, Victor Laszlo, Talking Heads, and Randy Savage. Listen at: tomroeradio.substack.com

This Week in the Hudson Valley: Nov. 25- Dec. 2 Surrealist poet Will Alexander and The Last Poets speak locally this week, while Albany's Matt Weston, and Catskill's Camp Saint Helene release new music. tomroeradio.substack.com/p/this-week-...

Alice Brock, of “Alice’s Restaurant” fame, has died. Read about the song and other Thanksgiving radio traditions here: tomroeradio.substack.com/p/thanksgivi...

This Week in Radio Art at tomroeradio.substack.com Martin Scorsese presents a profile of Poland's radio saint. Plus, the story behind WKRP's turkey drop; and new transmissions from DinahBird, Ka Baird, Dan Tapper, and Aromatherapist.

Hearing tones at 13.56 MHz? A World Series radio broadcast this year went low-power after the transmitter was vandalized by someone claiming to hear tones tomroeradio.substack.com/p/hearing-to...

WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit. It's an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.

Donald Drumpf Theatre: The Cabinet of Curiosities and the Ineffective Democrats Will our fearless leader eliminate the oversight in choosing his department heads? tomroeradio.substack.com/p/donald-dru...

what I look like while I'm making my FIELD RECORDINGS

a fond and funny look back at lower Manhattan’s late, lamented fanzine (and other things) repository, See Hear animalnewyork.com/2024/11/18/t... ,

This Week in the Hudson Valley: Nov. 18-Nov. 25 at tomroeradio.substack.com • Souled America comes to Catskill. • Another Catskill-for-Asheville fundraiser. • A rally for renewables in Albany. • New book: “A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros.”

Don't get excited about a progressive Hudson Valley Congressional caucus Days after Trump's election Pat Ryan has already voted against political dissent, and Josh Riley's campaign ads imply he will vote with Trump's immigration plan. tomroeradio.substack.com

Donald Drumpf Theatre: Political Technology or Why The Fascist is the 47th President Listen to the radio show at: tomroeradio.substack.com Episode 212: Heather Cox Richardson and Jon Stewart get 'Vertigo;' Kent Brockman asks if it is time to panic; and Michael Corleone gets pulled back in.

The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

It’s Orson Welles’ birthday Seen here in Rome, 1974

Palestine has stripped all the ideological plaster of US liberal hegemony down to the studs No commitment to international humanitarian law No commitment to First Amendment rights Open collaboration among elites to crack down on widely popular calls to stop a genocide Use this moment of clarity

The student journalists covering the protests on their respective campuses have been consistently so much better than major national news publications. Wild to think how few jobs are available for those student journalists once they graduate.

For the free market defenders, horrified at the idea of govt regulation for music streaming… here’s where we’re at from platforms on their own dadadrummer.substack.com/p/656-unexpe...

"Off The Hook" airs at 7 pm EDT on 99.5FM in NYC & at wbai.org followed at 8 pm ED with "Overtime" on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxSp....

All of you in music saying/thinking sure it would be great but how could it happen the answer is sign up and help build power to make it happen weareumaw.org/make-streami...

D majorities is *one* of the reasons NYS has climate policy the other is that a bunch of rabble-rousers and annoying nerds never let the NY Dems sleep about it

NEW: DC Circuit rules that Donald Trump CAN be sued for inciting the Jan. 6 crowd. He is not "immune" because he was president. The ruling comes in the case of Capitol Police officers suing Trump for damages. — via Kyle Cheney, Politico t.co/984JPuhpMS

Personally, I cannot imagine a more appropriate day for a march calling for the end of a war than Armistice Day.

Who else had to sell these cups in the 1970s? I did for little league.

From Ed Ruscha show at MOMA.

Snackpoint Charlie, for when you need a reminder that the sun is always setting somewhere. This has all happened before, and it all happened again this past Weds night on WGXC, 90.7 FM but you can download and listen NOW at wavefarm.org/wf/archive/n... (playlist as always at snackpointcharlie.net)

Story: A near-total internet and phone blackout has engulfed Gaza

It’s very unfortunate that drone mapping is now more expensive than it was in 2016 because the best thing about consumer drones is how they make it incredibly easy for people with minimal technical experience to make really good maps (which are incredibly useful for things like disaster response)

Lightning Bolt and Glockabelle last night at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock.

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1...

he's furious because it's a reliable source of information and he can't use his money to control and/or destroy it

This kid performing at a piano recital in a chicken costume is my new hero. Photo credit: @christenrexing.bsky.social

So of the nine declared candidates for House Speaker, only two voted to uphold the results of the 2020 election.

just thinking about how little of the analogue infrastructure that made the independent scene so viable in the 80s is left (and affordable). and how little of the nascent digital world that did the same in the 90s then 00s still exists.

The Marvel preview before Killers of the Flower Moon was nice.

We now have a record of members of Congress calling for a ceasefire: –Cori Bush –Rashida Tlaib –André Carson –Summer Lee –Delia Ramirez –Jamaal Bowman –Bonnie Watson Coleman –Chuy Garcia –Jonathan Jackson –Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez –Ilhan Omar –Ayanna Pressley –Nydia Velázquez

One thing I worry about a lot is how we, as a society, feel an obligation to take security experts at their word when an awful lot of the job is professionalized paranoia produced by people so steeped in partisan media that they think it’s normal information

It’s important right now to remember propaganda and Psyops are coming from *official sources*. Take every single thing you see with skepticism. Israel, Russia, Hamas, the US, Iran, literally everyone is doing propaganda and psychological warfare right now. Covertly AND through official channels.

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu said. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

it's cool how Netanyahu is on record saying they have to prop up Hamas to undermine Fatah, and Hamas's funding comes mostly from gulf oil monarchies, and the American press looks at this situation and decides the ultimate responsibility for Hamas's terrorism lies with American College Students