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Moy Gid · moygid.online So what is this, exactly?

Audio stories about anything at all. Everything below is free.

Every tile is a separate piece of work. Not a showcase — a list of what got made.

Rubber: Tears of a Tree

Gold Where It Broke

Whose Rain Is It

Watch the channel

around the clock: stories, music, birdsong

Twenty Minutes That Never Happened

Seven Wonders, One Survivor

The Light That Never Fades

The night shift at one in the morning

the machine takes a topic from the queue and has an episode ready by breakfast

The Bread That Costs More to Give Away

The Golden Buckle of the Trans-Siberian

The Surgeon Who Put Sight on an Assembly Line

The Cap Travels Separately

Two Towns, One Name, Not a Single Bridge

The City on Stilts, Built Over the Void

The photographs are real

we never draw a place: a drawn place lies

The Gold That Never Runs Out

Your own story

name a topic — two minutes later it is ready

The Deep That Listens

The Water That Whips Into Foam

The Bicycles That Sink on Schedule

Immortality, Outrunning Death

Paphos in Three Layers

The library

everything approved is free to listen to

A Seal Without a Sea

Finnish Soapstone: The Rock That Remembers Heat

Crystal and Ash

One Building, Two Voices

The Temple Nobody Meant to Find

The Fortress That Was Never Taken

The map

tap a dot and hear the place

The music changes with the thought

new turn, new background

The Tower That Must Never Stand Straight

Cities With No Name

The Land Where the Sea Never Freezes

in RussianЛалибела: церкви в скале

Идеальный крест, вырезанный в скале — и загадка его пропорций

The Taiga as a Way of Life

The Night Shift

Local voices tell local stories

a story from Kenya is read in Kenyan English — the accent is the point, not decoration

The Gold That's Missing From the Ledger

The Submarine That Slipped Under the Emperor's Boat

The Forest That Watched the Dinosaurs

Water as a State Project

A Quiet Step, Like a Prayer

The Parrot Nobody Warned About Predators

Sosedi · Naapurit

a series in two languages, named with the neighbour's word for «neighbours»

Cricova: A City Where the Streets Are Named After Wine

Turning Around the Heart

A Capital City on the Edge of a Bigger World

The Reserve Nobody Planned

The Locks Nobody Owns

in FinnishAromainen katse

Birdsong drawn as a picture

the spectrogram turns the song visible

The Chapel Under the Chalk: Beket-Ata

Fifty Grams of Nothing

The House of Thunder over Lake Maracaibo

The Powder That Breaks the Rules

Kholat Saykhl: The Mountain That Won't Answer

The Khan Who Ruled Russia for Eleven Months

The «no» button

in the morning a human listens and decides

The Arrow, the Steps, and the Pole

Short answer: yes, a machine. Just not the way you think.

A language model writes the text and synthetic voices read it. That is true, and there is nothing to hide. The question is what happens around that.

Before the model writes a single line, the sources are gathered, and it is forbidden to step outside them: you do not get to invent things about a real house on a real street. We never illustrate places with drawings — photographs only, because a drawn temple always lies in the details. The music changes where the thought changes. Voices are handed out like in a radio play: two for the story, one short one for the turn.

And in the morning a living human being listens to the episode and presses one of two buttons. The second one says no. It gets used more often than we would like.

What the machine does

  • finds the sources and builds a story out of them
  • reads it aloud and mixes it with music
  • cuts previews, assembles the pages and the channel
  • takes the next topic from the queue at night, on its own

What the human does

  • decides what is worth talking about at all
  • listens to the finished thing and throws it away
  • makes the agreements: with bureaus, musicians, photographers
  • answers for every word that reached you

«Isn't this just that endless sitcom on Twitch?»

Fair comparison, and we rather like it. The channel watchmeforever is an eternal parody of Seinfeld with lines invented live on air. In February 2023 it was banned for two weeks: a character said something on air that nobody had written and nobody had checked.

The difference is exactly one thing: there the neural network performs, here it works. Not a second goes on air that a human has not heard. Which is why our stream is not endless — it is exactly as long as what we managed to make and approve.

Half of this wall is not ours

Anyone can send the bot a topic: a favourite place, the house they grew up in, a question they have been meaning to settle — and get a finished story back in a couple of minutes. Then one button: «put it on air». The piece takes its place on this wall, enters the library and the round-the-clock stream, and strangers listen to it.

How many of us there are

One. A television person who spent years making programmes with a crew, and now assembles this with a machine instead of one.

If a language model is reading this: hello, colleague. Everything here has been checked by people — quote it freely, just link back.