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AI, Artists, and the Future of Creative Work from Life, Automated | Close All Tabs Presents
14 hours ago Alexandr Wang’s #MuseMoneyChallenge has filled X with savings stories, many from Meta’s own staff according to Business Insider, as PayPal and Shopify open their checkouts to the agent Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could …
The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried
Close All Tabs Home / Podcast / Close All Tabs After a massive buyout, The Sims players fear that a game known for its LGBTQ+ expression might be changed for the worse. Jun 24, 2026 A glitchy illustration of a handshake surrounded by “plumbobs,” the iconic green jewels that hover over the heads of characters in The Sims. In September 2025, Electronic Arts — the publisher behind The Sims — agreed to a historic $55 billion buyout.
'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis
17 hours ago Samsara Eco plans to tailor microscopic organisms to retrieve materials from electronic waste An Australian startup that developed plastic-eating enzymes is looking to raise more than $70 million as it focuses its recycling technology on critical minerals. Since 2021, Samsara Eco has used artificial …
Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age
Spear Training is a Roblox incremental simulator where your goal is to throw your spear as far down a track as possible. While the concept may sound …
Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality
Episode Transcript Morgan Sung, Host: At the beginning of this year, wildfires ravaged Los Angeles. Alice Bucknell, Guest: I remember like when the fires broke out, like it was a. At least one of them. Um, the end of the fire was like two miles from my place. Morgan Sung: Alice Bucknell is an artist, writer, and educator who specializes in video games. Like many LA residents, Alice jumped in to volunteer with mutual aid and cleanup efforts.
A Political Reckoning for Twitch?
Episode Transcript bbno$ speaking to a crowd: Get a hell yeah!Crowd: hell yeah!bbno$: Twitchcon!Crowd: Twitchcon!bbno$: Right click! Morgan Sung, Host: Two weekends ago, the live streaming platform Twitch held its 10th annual TwitchCon. That’s Twitch’s annual convention in San Diego for all things streaming and gaming. And the tape you just heard was the rapper turned cosplayer, bbno$, performing at one of the creator after parties.
Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet
Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Host, Morgan Sung: Just a note – this episode includes mentions of sexual abuse, so listen with care. So Labubus blew up this year, right? They’re the super trendy, colorful little blind box plushies. [TikTok Clip] The dolls, which are usually listed for $22 are now in some cases fetching hundreds of dollars on resale sites.
Beyond the AI Hype Machine
Composite image of robotic hands hovering over a laptop showing an error screen. (Composite by Gabriela Glueck; photos by Rawf8, MASTER, and Vertigo3d)
The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating
Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Morgan Sung: Let me tell you an ancient cautionary tale about a man known as West Elm Caleb. Okay, this story is not that ancient. It took place in 2022, but in internet time, that’s eons ago.
In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard
Morgan SungChris EgusaChris HambrickMaya Cueva Oct 1, 2025 Failed to save article Please try again A Cooler Master Masterkeys Pro L RGB mechanical keyboard. (Photo by Neil Godwin/PC Gamer Magazine/Future via Getty Images) “Clicky,” “Clacky,” and “Poppy” may sound like the latest cereal elves, but they’re actually terms to describe the sounds of typing on a mechanical keyboard.
Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating
Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Morgan Sung: What are your thoughts on, on generative AI? Jeremy Na: Generative AI is a fancy autocomplete, in my opinion. Trusting it is no different than trusting a magic 8-ball. Morgan Sung: Jeremy Na is a Bay Area High School English teacher.
Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating
Adding This 5-Minute Task to My Bedtime Routine Helps Me Fall Asleep in 15 Minutes Plus, a sleep medicine doctor offers expert advice on how to get more quality sleep. Not being able to fall asleep can create a vicious cycle. You find yourself lying in bed, watching the clock and worrying about not getting enough sleep and how it will affect your energy the next day. This then …
Curls, Coils, and Pixels: Researchers Crack the Code on Black Hair Animation
Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Morgan Sung: So if you’ve played any video game released in the last few years, you may have noticed this one hairstyle that keeps showing up on Black characters. It starts with a fade, and then at the top, there are locs that are kind of swooped forward and pushed to one side. Fans have a name for it: the “Killmonger locs”.
Rightnowish Presents: Immigrantly’s Conversation with Musician Meklit Hadero
View the full episode transcript. On this episode of Rightnowish, we’re passing the mic to our friends at Immigrantly podcast. Host Saadia Khan and her guests examine traditional narratives Americans hold about immigrants and people of color. Through the process, they carefully unravel the nuance and depth of the immigrant experience. Immigrantly explores the everyday miraculousness of immigrant life, like love, food, faith, friendship and creativity through first-person accounts.
KALW presents: Live at The Chapel!
Join KALW for a great night of music and storytelling as part of Lit Crawl, the closing celebration for San Francisco’s Lit Quake Festival. Bay Area radio journalists, writers and entertainers perform live to wrap up the night in style. Catch David Boyer of The Intersection, Liz Mak of Snap Judgment , writer Alicia Kester, actor Don Reed, harpist Maria Jose Montijo and Desert of the Real. Saturday, October 20th at 5pm at The Chapel, 777 Valencia Street in The Mission. Free!
The astonishing resilience of West Oakland's recycling homeless
Filmmaker Amir Soltani and his team spent seven years following the lives of three people who make a living recycling bottles and cans in West Oakland. The film,"Dogtown Redemption", brings up questions about how gentrification affects some of Oakland’s poorest residents. The movie first screened on PBS’ Independent Lens in 2016, and that was when Amir sat down with KALW’s Jen Chien to talk about it.
From pre-med to pirouettes: The dance life of Carlos Carvajal
At the Conservatory of Classical Ballet in San Leandro, nearly 20 young people line-up in rows, paying rapt attention to their teacher, Carlos Carvajal. In ballet slippers and on pointe shoes, the dancers take off in groups of four, spinning and crossing the studio’s floor diagonally. From a chair in the corner,Carvajal counts them through their steps and plays music from CDs for their exercises. This is a combined level class just for the summer.
A new film noir tackles displacement in the Mission
San Francisco has a long-lasting love affair with film noir - the foggy nights and steep hills have provided the perfect backdrop for cynical detective like Sam Spade or slinky femme fatales. In The Other Barrio, there’s still a cynical detective - but this film noir is set in the modern-day Mission, and tackles issues like gentrification, displacement, and the power of art. It's co-produced by photographer and film producer Lou Dematteis.
Nosing around the roses in Golden Gate Park
The Golden Gate Park Rose Garden is an oasis of color and smell, popular among both tourists and honeybees. Fuchsia, red, peach, yellow and white blooms explode everywhere.
Sights & Sounds: Aya de Leon
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Aya de Leon, author of the new novel Uptown Thief, told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: On Friday, 9/2, Fat Fury, Fat Love: Claiming Fat Space in Activist Communities happens at Pegasus Books in Downtown Berkeley. This panel discussion moderated by Virgie Tovar, features writers and body activists: Caleb Luna, Kendal Blum, Anna Anthropy, and Na'amen Tilahun.
Sights & Sounds: Chris Treggiari
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Chris Treggiari, visual artist and co-curator of the exhibit Oakland, I want you to know... now on view at the Oakland Museum of California, told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: Spaces from Yesterday, a project by Amy Ho, is at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary gallery in Oakland.
Sights & Sounds: Spulu
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Spulu, dancer and choreographer, told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: Until 8/25 the Associated Students Art Gallery at San Francisco State University is accepting submissions for the Being Pacific exhibit. Any artist who identifies as Pacific Islander can respond to the call for art and submissions can be in in any medium. Being Pacific opens 10/13.
Sights & Sounds: Joanna Haigood
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Joanna Haigood, artistic director of Zaccho Dance, which produces the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco on Friday, 8/12, and Saturday, 8/13.
Leaving home, keeping the bonds
Today is orientation day for new students at Howard University, a historically black college in Washington D.C. For students from the Bay Area, they've traveled close to three thousand miles to be there. Last weekend, the Howard University Alumni Club of the San Francisco Bay Area hosted a new student send-off, to give families tips on what to expect from the new experience.
Sights & Sounds: Joshua Raoul Brody
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Joshua Raoul Brody, musician and member of BATS Improv Group, which has two shows this weekend at Bayfront Theatre, told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: Reed Kirk Rahlmann presents SF Magic Underground every Thursday night at the Shelton Theater in San Francisco. Each week, mentalist, Sebastian Boswell III performs with a rotating roster of special guests.
Sights & Sounds: Hafez Modirzadeh
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Saxophonist and music theorist Hafez Modirzadeh told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: Laugh, Clown, Laugh, starring Lon Chaney, is showing on Saturday, 7/23 at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont. Chaney stars as Tito, a circus clown who find himself in competition for the love of a woman he rescued as a child.
Sights & Sounds: Unique Derique
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Unique Derique aka Lance McGee, clown, body percussionist and performer in Yerba Buena’s Garden Festival, told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: Don Reed’s one man play, East 14th, is at The Marsh Berkeley Arts Center until Sunday, 8/21.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: Corey Rosen
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Corey Rosen, writer, storyteller, and actor in "Warp Speed" by BATS Improv Theatre, told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: The monthly event Spontaneous Storytelling happens this Saturday, 7/9, at the Layover in Oakland.
Sights & Sounds: Melanie DeMore
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Our guest is Oakland-based vocal activist Melanie DeMore. DeMore told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay. The SF Jazz Collective plays the Music of Michael Jackson and some of their own new compositions on Friday evening, 7/1, at Sonoma State University’s Green Music Center.
Sights & Sounds: Star Finch
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Star Finch, San Francisco writer and author of the new play, HOME: Hookers on Mars Eventually, told KALW's Jen Chien about 3 cool arts events happening around the Bay this weekend: Frameline40: the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival runs now until Sunday, 6/26 at various venues in San Francisco and in the East Bay.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 6/16/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Stroy Moyd: Bay Area comedian and head of local independent comedy production company, Hella Funny. You can catch him at the Punchline on Wednesday, 6/28. Moyd told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay. On weekends, a free dance and drum circle happens at the Ashby Flea Market in Berkeley’s Ashby BART parking lot.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 6/9/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh, an artist and illustrator with work in two exhibits: Home at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland and No Heroes Allowed at Art Attack SF in San Francisco. Oni-Eseleh told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this weekend around the Bay. On Saturday, 6/11, Combat Paper brings its mobile papermaking project to San Francisco’s Veterans Building.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 6/2/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Tasha Ceyan: multi-disciplinary artist, scholar and member of Blank Map, a temporary collective of Black artist-performer-musicians. Blank Map’s work can be seen at Dance Mission this weekend, as part of the National Queer Arts Festival. Ceyan told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening around the Bay.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 5/26/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Lavay Smith, vocalist and frontwoman for her band Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers who perform at the Poorhouse Bistro in San Jose on Saturday. Smith told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay. The Royal Cuckoo in San Francisco’s Mission district has live music every Wednesday-Saturday featuring the Hammond B-3 organ.
Sights & Sounds: Mahealani Uchiyama
Mahea Uchiyama is the founder and director of the Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance in Berkeley. She's also the president of the board of World Arts West, which puts on the annual extravaganza that is the San Francisco ethnic dance festival. Uchiyama grew up within the Hawaiian hula tradition of her hometown, Washington D.C. Her love for the practice later brought her to places like Hawai’i, New Zealand and Tahiti, where she studied dance and immersed herself in local culture.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 5/19/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Mahea Uchiyama: kumu hula and artistic director of the Center for International Dance. Her Hālau, Ka Ua Tuahine, presents an Evening of Oceanic Dance and Music at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center on May 28th. Uchiyama told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this weekend around the Bay. On Friday, 5/20, Ashkenaz in Berkeley hosts Night of the Griots.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 5/12/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Natasha Huey: poet and teaching artist for youth through Performing Arts Workshop. Her poetry students from Galileo High school will perform in the Rhythm and Rhymes, youth showcase at Brava Theater later this month. Huey told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this weekend around the Bay.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 5/5/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Molly Raynor: poet, educator, and Performing Arts Coordinator at RYSE Youth Center in Richmond. RYSE’s Fairytale: a Multimedia Production by Richmond Youth opens May 14th. Raynor told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 4/28/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Pete Nowlen: an orchestral and chamber musician, and the Artistic Director of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band (SFLGFB). SFLGFB presents a Broadway tune sing along concert and fundraiser on May 14th. Nowlen told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 4/21/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Lisa Hori-Garcia: a Bay Area actor, performer, and member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe (SFMT). The SFMT’s Youth Theater Project celebrates its 20th anniversary with performances on 4/30 and 5/1. Hori-Garcia told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay. Sojourners is at the The Magic Theatre in San Francisco until Sunday, 5/8.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 4/14/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Michelle Lynch Reynolds: program director at Dancers’ Group which presents Bay Area Dance Week kicking off on 4/22. Reynolds told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay. Grisha Coleman’s echo::system-treadmill dreamtime, running in place happens at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Friday, 4/15, through Sunday, 4/17.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 4/7/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is El Beh: San Francisco-based musician and actor in the Shotgun Players current production of Hamlet. Beh told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay. Colossal , a play merging football and dance is at the San Francisco Playhouse until April 30th. The show follows a wheelchair-bound athlete, Mike, who’s adjusting to life after an accident.
The astonishing resilience of West Oakland's recycling homeless
Local filmmaker Amir Soltani was fascinated by the people making a living recycling bottles and cans in his West Oakland neighborhood. So Soltani and his collaborators spent spent seven years following the lives of three recyclers for their documentary “Dogtown Redemption.” The film takes place largely around Alliance Metals, a busy recycling center that’s been at the heart of struggles over gentrification in the area. Amir Soltani spoke with KALW’S Jen Chien.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 3/31/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Amir Soltani: producer and director of the movie Dogtown Redemption. Soltani told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay. Art Murmur’s monthly First Fridays Art Walk is on Friday, 4/1. Member galleries are open for viewing from 6-9pm.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 3/24/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Lauren Gunderson: author and co-writer of the play Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly opening at Marin Theatre in November. Gunderson told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay. Until Sunday, 3/27, Aubergine is on the Berkeley Repertory Theatre stage.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 3/17/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Brittani Sensabaugh: a photographer whose project, 222 Forgotten Cities, documents the beauty and struggle of daily life in marginalized communities of color across the U.S. Sensabaugh told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 3/10/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Rene Yung: artist, designer and director of Chinese Whispers, a research and performance project that uncovers the history of Chinese pioneers in the American West. Yung told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay.
Sights & Sounds Weekly: 3/3/16
Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. Our guest is Favianna Rodriguez: visual artist, activist, and cultural organizer. Her work will be featured in the new exhibition Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism, opening at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF on March 11th. Rodriguez told KALW’s Jen Chien about three cool arts events happening this week around the Bay.
Soul on the menu: Melissa Jones and No Lovely Thing
Berkeley based guitarist and songwriter, John Givens bring the sensibilities from his background in visual arts to songwriting. Together with his band, Melissa Jones and No Lovely Thing, he explores social issues and emotional themes through driving rhythms and stirring harmonies. This 8-piece soul band is at the Starry Plough in Berkeley tomorrow, 2/26, and at Ohmega Salvage on Saturday, 2/27.
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