{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Grizz Does the News","title":"King's Lost Draft, an Exploding Whale, and a Hazy Future?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1891,"description":"Gandhi went live on the radio exactly once.\n \nThat was this day in 1947, at All India Radio, and India still marks the date as Public Service Broadcasting Day. It's World Pneumonia Day, too, but the radio is what stays with me: one voice, one time, and we're still listening. I keep thinking about him in times like these, with the gap between the rich and the poor as wide as it is.\n \nOn this date in 1970, a dead whale washed up on the beach in Florence, Oregon, and somebody decided the answer was half a ton of dynamite. It went everywhere. Tragic, and kind of a spectacular way to go, and fifty-six years later there's a park for it. If that's what it takes to leave a legacy, then there you go. This week has its own whale, Jensen Huang, caught in the kind of spy intrigue we've been telling stories about since James Bond, and since long before.\n \nWe've only got one Earth, and it never looks more beautiful than from far away. The Associated Press says the oil shock from the Iran war led to a drop in carbon pollution. I had to sing that one twice. A terrible war, and people burning less gas. There are all kinds of ways to see the way things are.\n \nIn Amsterdam, protesters bring their own ladders, cut a hole in the fence around a planned Microsoft data center, and hang a banner from the crane. I censored it for you. The lay-flat book changed the world, and so did the printing press, the plow and the factory. So does AI. What does it do to us? It's like something you can't see.\n \nIn France, someone hacks the refrigerators at about 700 sites, and officials blame Iran and vow retaliation. It sounds like nothing. It isn't. War looks different than it used to, and vowing retaliation is about as human as it gets.\n \nAfter the midterms, the front page reads clear message to Trump, but hazy future for U.S. I'd make that us, all of us.\n \nI guess this is satire. Singing a headline puts a little feeling on it, a thumb on the scale, until you can tell what feels right and what...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nZ3ygIK6H3AHLwhtTtCVOkGzP12XKTDSy44PPSQVu38/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMGNi/M2YxYjc4NzFjMjkx/ZDcwMWUyOTc5NDcx/ZDQ3Ni5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}