religion Quakers release podcast of silent meeting David Pescovitz

music Environments: a pioneering 1970s ambient soundscape series now in app form David Pescovitz

music The Sounds of the Junk Yard, a 1964 vinyl record David Pescovitz

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music Hear the din of cafes, showers, crackling logs, and other great ambient sound sites David Pescovitz

crime White nationalists planned to murder cops and pro-gun protesters in Virginia Cory Doctorow

music Listen to this strange and compelling mix of field recordings, cut-ups, and sound art David Pescovitz

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

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Science A "Google Street View" for the natural sounds of remote Australia David Pescovitz

music Short documentary about famous live concert bootlegger David Pescovitz

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Business Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow

floss Common Voice: Mozilla releases the largest dataset of voice samples for free, for all Cory Doctorow

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music Spectacular "Ambient Walkman Symphony" and other tape-loop, circuit bent performances David Pescovitz

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Audio A brief documentary about the sensorial wonders of field recording David Pescovitz

music Ursula K. Le Guin on vinyl! "Music and Poetry of the Kesh" David Pescovitz