sam greenspan

Last year, I released BELLWETHER, a podcast of speculative journalism. It's everything I know about radio, sci-fi & being a human. I hope you listen over Pride—for its imagining of future queer ancestors, and the struggle for trans health in the present. bellwether.show

Hello old pals, I’m heading over to the bluer sky place (@greenspan) and am also on the gram place (@os_greenspan) let’s hang out and catch up

@kenrudin Ken, I used to work with you at NPR. Influential journalists who "didn't have political views" is how we got here. The Post opted out of an endorsement for the same reason as NPR—fears of alienating big donors + looking too liberal. Now we're here.

(PART 2 OF 4): I didn't have political views. But, sitting here, stunned by the results of Tuesday and alarmed by the direction Trump says he will take us, I have deep trouble understanding how the editorial page of such a great newspaper could possibly sit out the election

@meat__angel Nicole Kidmans gonna fix it

@bartona104 whoop there it is

IYKYK!

I call podcasting "radio", and I call this place "twitter dot com."

@rabonour no one ever said it was designed well!

People love to say that Los Angeles was built for the car, but that's obviously untrue. In places built for cars, driving is fast and easy. Driving in LA is terrible because it's *not* what the city was designed for.

learning that What I Missed On Twitter was venture capitalists/podcasters having nuanced feelings about school shooting disinformation. cool.

@macohibs Don’t do it for the listeners.

@samlistens Yep. But most listeners don't care.

podcast = media file + rss feed spotify is not podcasting. apple is not podcasting. joe rogan is not podcasting. most things that people say is podcasting is not actually podcasting.

@matthdonovan tbh research on normal people detransition is more important now more than ever.

I'm still trying to understand what it means to be a detransitioner that is being researched, often not considered legitimate among news outlets wanting more sensationalized subjects, a detransition researcher, and someone who considers the study and term useless to a certain point.

@matthdonovan there are detransitioners, and there are detransitioners who are opportunists and sellouts. a venn diagram, but not a circle.

@openendedfilms @ashleyrcarman @heavyweight @nytimes @aoamovie move quick

@ashleyrcarman @heavyweight @nytimes We’re making a documentary film that explores this issue and others in the #podcastindustry @aoamovie More info: aoamovie.com

Scoop: Spotify is canceling two critically acclaimed podcasts -- @heavyweight and Stolen. Stolen won a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award for its most recent season while Heavyweight just appeared today on the @nytimes's best podcasts of the year list bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

something to think about: years ago, my friend & favorite musician @emperorx had a podcast called DIRTCASTER/SONGSPEWER. he'd record a song and put it on the feed whenever he felt like it. no intro, no credits, definitely no ad buys. let's have more of that. now is the time

i don't know if my tweets go anywhere anymore. the algo punished me for going quiet long ago. but on the off-chance you get this and you're among the laid off: i'm so, so sorry. you'll get through this. and: now is the time to make the thing you've been dreaming about.

so chronically offline i thought #dwts was DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM

just gonna drop this here again

@trufelman hi from film school

please dont pick my brain about the podcast industry- I have no idea what is going on

Been thinking a lot about descriptors. If Hamas is not a sovereign nation, then Israel can’t really be at “war” with them. And so if the Israeli state is in a conflict with territory over which they control—wouldn’t that make this a civil war?