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Zack Stiegler

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Professor of Communications Media

Co-Author, Musical Intimacy - out Sept. 2023 via Bloomsbury Academic

Host, Jazzish - 10pm-mid ET Saturdays on WIUP-FM

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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Melissa Ryan's avatar Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social
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SCOTUS is clearly banking on a Trump win and giving him the tools to remain in power once he does. This is a do or die moment. We either stop squabbling amongst ourselves and beat MAGA or it's over. Those are the stakes.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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Molly Shah's avatar Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social
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I keep on thinking about how John Roberts messed up nitrogen oxide with nitrous oxide in a ruling on how the courts were better suited to provide expertise than experts.

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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On this week's Jazzish: the latest from Deron Johnson, Kamasi Washington, Nicole Johänntgen, and much more! 10pm-midnight ET on WIUP; 90.1FM in Indiana, PA, wiupfm.org everywhere else.

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Dave Infante's avatar Dave Infante @dinfontay.bsky.social
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A coffee table book explaining America based on its beer floor-displays at supermarkets. This is my retirement plan.

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David Slack's avatar David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social
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Every “person” you see in this is a job an actor didn’t get. Every “object” you see cost prop masters work. Every “set” you see is a place no crew was paid to work. The machine that made it was trained with stolen images. Fuck this video. Fuck the ghouls who made it. And fuck Toys-R-Us forever.

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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It's not the reason I followed you, but your occasional jazz recommendations are always a welcome bonus. Thanks for this!

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Critical Nostalgia's avatar Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social
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The final boss of 1984.

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Lauren's avatar Lauren @laurenkayes.bsky.social
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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~Tilda is short for Miss Tall Spurtilda's avatar ~Tilda is short for Miss Tall Spurtilda @hulcricket.bsky.social
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bitch you ain't even got quals scheduled yet ain't no way you're defending in two years

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Cooper Lund's avatar Cooper Lund @cooperlund.bsky.social
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You can say that you’re tired of being told this is The Most Important Election Of Our Lives, but the reality is that preventing a coup is going to take overwhelming numbers of votes for the foreseeable future and if you aren’t willing to vote all the time you have to be ready for The Consequences.

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Joe Dunman's avatar Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social
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This law is of course unconstitutional under Stone v Graham but passed purposely to give the Fifth Circuit an opportunity to ignore it, triggering Supreme Court review and Stone’s overrule.

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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To everyone who’s brave enough to continue grilling through this heat wave, let me remind you: These are the exact conditions for which our best scientists created the tall boy. Don’t let their hard work and sacrifice go to waste.

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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Maybe as good as Ezra.

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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On tonight's Jazzish, I chat with Portland-based pianist Kerry Politzer about her new album, Ruminations! Plus music from Jessica Carlton, Jon Batiste, Karriem Riggins, and much more. 10pm-midnight ET on WIUP: 90.1FM in Indiana, PA, www.wiupfm.org everywhere else.

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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Those third floor spaces are tough! We had an apartment that was essentially a converted attic. A reasonable 75 outside meant a stuffy 85 or so up there. And in the dead of summer, we could never get the thermostat below like, 80.

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Katherine (Kate) Rye Jewell's avatar Katherine (Kate) Rye Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social
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Want to revel in some more indie rock and college radio history? This photo (and more) are in Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio ;) uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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House sitting for my parents, fuckin' up their YouTube algo with the Butthole Surfers videos.

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Caryn Rose's avatar Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social
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I just saw a guy walking down the street in Ann Arbor wearing a Yankees hat and a Red Sox jacket. And when a woman wears a velvet underground shirt she’s required to give a deposition to prove her fandom

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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On tonight's Jazzish: new music from Arooj Aftab, Nduduzo Makhathini, Julius Rodriguez, and much more! 10pm-midnight ET on WIUP: 90.1 FM in Indiana, PA, wiupfm.org everywhere else.

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Caryn Rose's avatar Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social
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Man there is nothing a bunch of White people like more than Seven Nation Army

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Nothings Monstered's avatar Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
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If they can afford this, they can afford a wealth tax.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Journalism peeve: "allegedly" as a qualifier is not only unnecessary, but actively wrong, once a guilty verdict is reached for that claim

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hannah gais's avatar hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social
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please, for the love of god, i need this to happen

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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Tonight's Jazzish features a belated David Sanborn tribute in hour 2, plus great music in hour 1 from Shamarr Allen, Lauren Henderson, Christian McBride, and more. 10pm-midnight ET on WIUP - 90.1FM in Indiana, PA, wiupfm.org (or TuneIn, Radio Garden, etc.) everywhere else.

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Tim Carmody's avatar Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social
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I'm not a prison guy but maybe we can put the former President in stocks and let New Yorkers take turns kicking him in the nuts

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K. Liakos's avatar K. Liakos @liakos.bsky.social
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You might think the populace is dumber now than ever before, but in 1993 people paid an inflation adjusted $6.30 per minute to get Ugly Kid Joe tour dates.

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professional agitatormama's avatar professional agitatormama @pnutsmama.bsky.social
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ALL KIDS SHOULD BE FED BREAKFAST LUNCH AND SNACKS AT SCHOOL FOR FREE. “LUNCH DEBT” IS AN ABOMINATION IN THIS COUNTRY MY GOD

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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On tonight's Jazzish: new music from Kerry Politzer, Bobby Broom, and Ron Miles, plus classics from Nina Simone, Stanley Turrentine, and much more. 10pm-midnight ET on WIUP - 90.1FM in Indiana, PA and wiupfm.org everywhere else.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)'s avatar Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social
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Here's to "Lodger," released 45 years ago today

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Melissa Johnson, PhD's avatar Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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Gonna have to add an entire unit to my history classes on "how to look things up now that Google is useless"

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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the media matters layoffs are a grim sign. it feels like every decent independent lefty media outlet is just going to get sued into the ground by right wingers.

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JZS's avatar JZS @jzsamm.bsky.social
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You absolutely need to read this. But politicians aren't just "helping". It has been a decades long goal of the Republican party to destroy education and make it only for the privileged few. And foolish, selfish people sold out their children and let them.

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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The Massachusetts "millionaires tax" has vastly surpassed projections, bringing in more than $1.8 billion in revenue so far this fiscal year — with the prospect of a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on transportation and education

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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Didn't buy it until I needed to attend commencement as a faculty member - amd used my startup money to buy it.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)'s avatar Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social
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"needs more necromancy": Bowie and Harry Maslin, mixing Station to Station at Cherokee Studios, LA, ca. Nov 1975

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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On this week's Jazzish, new music from Yelena Eckemoff, Troy Roberts and Idit Shner, plus Freddie Hubbard, Dam-Funk and more. 10pm-midnight ET on WIUP. That's 90.1FM in Indiana, PA, wiupfm.org everywhere else!

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Zack Stiegler 's avatar Zack Stiegler @gonzeux.bsky.social
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Lots of discourse about gated snare as a defining sonic element of the '80s (and rightly so). But at a bar playing Steve Perry's "Foolish Heart," and wondering if there's discourse out there on the "soft snare" of the same era.

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