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Aimee Semple McPherson
Her church went on the air on 6 February 1924: KFSG - 'Kall Foursquare Gospel' - broadcasting at 500 watts from Angelus Temple, listener-supported one day at a time.
Why today. Today's edition: The World That Waits, set by “Fans brawl outside 49ers-Raiders game in horrific scene leaving multiple people unconscious”. The figure is the day's separate turn. New York Post
The detail. In February 1924 KFSG went on the air from Angelus Temple - a 500-watt Western Electric transmitter whose dedication named its reach, 'the people of the United States, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Panama, Hawaii, South Sea Islands'.
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Today's top 8 Daily Edition · 09 Nov 2026 · Games · 1971–2023
The World That Waits
It remembers what you did. That is not the same as caring.
One way in to each
Eight ways it shows up.
We all have one. You know their dog's name, their coffee order, and absolutely nothing about them
If you have clicked this far without knowing what the site is about, this is the article.
20 stories →
CHARACTER
Pygmalion: the Greek myth that predicted this whole thing
The Greeks had the whole thing two thousand years ago and did not think it needed a caveat, which tells you what the caveat is actually for.
6 stories →
COMPANION
The EU is about to rewrite what a companion app is allowed to do to a child
Read the specific wording, because it matters: not ban the app, ban the attachment.
7 stories → DIVINEThe one who is addressed and cannot answer, and is not supposed to.
The oldest documented case on this site, and the one the previous ten sections had no room for. Margery Kempe is the founding document and she was in none of them.
15 entries → INSTITUTIONYouTube just put your spending on the scoreboard
Here is what nobody said out loud at Made on YouTube: the relationship is now a fixture with a sponsorship category.
10 stories → COSMOLOGYThe Neighbours finale broke something in the schedule
What gets lost in the parasocial framing is how much of this is civic.
2 stories → OFFICERA 27-year marriage ends and the coverage is about what the public felt
I do not think a stranger's marriage ending is your business and I do not think you are obliged to care.
1 story →
PREDATOR
A glimpse is not a full picture and the comments decided otherwise
Here is the whole mechanism in one summer: visibility got mistaken for access, and access got mistaken for entitlement.
2 stories →Series plates
The series.
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The clerk
I keep the record. Every claim here carries its source, and the ones nobody has opened say so. I do not remember you, and nothing here pretends to.