oh cool cool, the platform with the most garbage podcast feeds can now have AI slop up the show notes

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/wordpress-com-now-lets-ai-agents-write-and-publish-posts-and-more/

‘Dire Straits’

whelp - whatever this was, it hasn't been important since 2022

Spreaker hosts thousands of new podcast episodes every month. Their podcasters can now self-label AI-generated content.

"AGC" has a nice ring to it, no?

https://help.spreaker.com/en/articles/12458456-ai-generated-content-in-your-podcast-and-episode-descriptions

‘We invested $15,000 per episode for production and promotion of a pilot series of four episodes as an opportunity to grow the military and veteran audience and connect them to our advanced aerospace and defense and energy sectors. One episode was completed.’

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/podcast-hoss-business-connected-resignation-of-ted-carter-per-osu/530-41a4434e-8288-4d12-aded-648496808c75

‘The Neo has no notch. Instead, it has a larger black bezel surrounding the entire display than do the MacBook Airs and Pros. I consider this an advantage for the Neo, not a disadvantage. The MacBook notch has not grown on me.’

https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_macbook_neo

‘This announcement changes a downward spiral of ownership that many of us didn’t believe could be reversed. So let’s buy into it in whatever way we can, and see just how far we can take this momentum.’

https://soundsprofitable.com/article/bigger-picture-apple-hls/

New post!

"HLS video" doesn't really mean much, let's take a closer look at which features/resolutions/providers the podcast companies supporting this nascent standard are actually using...

https://livewire.io/hls-video-in-podcasts/

‘The process of code quickly becomes a game of anticipating every possible condition, and what started as a simple solution becomes one of the most dreaded things known to man.

It becomes a _codebase_.’

https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/softerware

I don't trust these app-reported podcast listening stats. Just barely 1 in 5 listeners skip the ad breaks? I find that _extremely_ hard to believe. That "scoop" ain't deep enough.

Too bad there's no way to verify, app can say whatever it wants.