The Exacting Clam Cephalopodcast, the podcast tentacle of Exacting Clam magazine, offers an idiosyncratic and approachable perspective on contemporary arts and literature, with readings, interviews and more.
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The Cephalopodcast is a podcast hosted by the Giant Squidstravaganza, a giant squid trying to make his way in a difficult world full of humans and pollution. Written and produced by Paul and Joe DeGeorge.
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We’re 2 4th graders learning about cephalopods!
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The original and best Urbit Podcast featuring Josh and Andy
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Today Kurt Luchs begins a series of readings of poems from Death Row Row Row Your Boat, his new collection from Sagging Meniscus. This episode's poem is the first in the collection: "A Mist in the Tree".By Exacting Clam
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Held in Taliban Custody for 8 Months - Lord Miles - The Sovereign Stack Episode 14
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Held in Taliban Custody for 8 Months - Lord Miles - The Sovereign Stack Episode 14 by The StackBy The Stack
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In this episode, Guillermo Stitch, Executive Editor of Exacting Clam, reads his editorial from the Winter 2023 issue.By Exacting Clam
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In this brief but informative episode, the host (or a pigeon, or perhaps Mrs. Brodsky herself), having damaged the sun and been bitten by a doorbell, is led to reconsider career options.By Exacting Clam
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Today we talk about the play Kinderkrankenhaus and its new production at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, with author Jesi Bender, director Nola Latty, and assistant director/dramaturg AJ Stoogenke. Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate NY. Her play, Kinderkrankenhaus, was published by Sagging Meniscus Press in late 2021 and debuted…
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The Cephalopodcast returns to life with a brief report from an appropriately mollusk-friendly region—Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Featuring "observations and admonitions" from roving, raving publisher Jacob Smullyan and proper poems by Clam regulars Mike Silverton and Marvin Cohen, its nudities of meaning are gracefully hidden behind the murmur of a c…
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Cephalopodcast {Remastered} with Quartus
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A "remastered" version of the previous conversation with ~sogrum-savluc and ~rabsef-bicrym.- added intro/outro-fixed audio inconsistencyBy The Stack
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This week we speak with ~rabsef-bicrym and ~sogrum-savluc of Quartus, makers of %peat, %gora, and other artisanal Urbit apps.By The Stack
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The Sovereign Smart Home with ~pilwyc-fastec
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This week we speak with ~pilwyc-fastec who outlines his ideas about running a smart home on Urbit. Topics include personal & data privacy as well as physical device applications.By The Stack
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Ep044 The Blind Beating Up the Blind with ~sarlev-sarsen
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This week we talk about beating up poor, helpless blind people and earning Urbit grants. These are two unrelated thoughts (so far).By The Stack
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Ep043 Probing Questions wth ~ribben-donnyl
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Welcome back to The Stack!This week we speak to ribben-donnyl, Urbit’s foremost authority on hindquarters.We talk about how ribben got into Urbit (hint: not through the front entrance), the Portugal, the note-taking app Funes, and ribben’s hardline pro-state stance.By The Stack
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This week we speak with ~midsum-salrux about average women, Urbit bots, and Ruby on Rails.By The Stack
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This week we speak to ~fabnev-hinmur about Escape, devex with Uqbar, and being Marines in Okinawa.By The Stack
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Market bedshite, Urbit & Uqbar, China nonsenseBy The Stack
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Ep039: Cincinnati Chili with ~ritpub-sibsyl
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This week we speak with Edward Amsden, engineer at Tlon and better known to the network as ~ritpub-sibsyl. We cover Cincinnati Chili, the warm dumpster runoff of Javascript, the origins of React, UrchatFM, and New Mars.By The Stack
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Ep 038: Robot Opera with ~rovnys-ricfer
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This week we speak with Ted Blackman, Engineering Manager at Tlon.We discuss Robot Opera, Inertial Navigation Systems, Y Combinator, the failure of Gesture Based Computer Interfaces, and the looming release of the remote scry protocol, which promises, upon release, to complete the system of German Idealism.…
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Ep 037 In Lehman's Terms with ~wolref-podlex
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This week we speak with Josh Lehman, Executive Director of the Urbit Foundation. We discuss Foundation initiatives for education and future projects, the art of pouring tea, and the role and constitution of the Urbit Foundation Board.By The Stack
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his week, another war story, this time with Josh's dad, who tells about 30+ years of military service and the war in Afghanistan.By The Stack
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Robert A: Recounting WWII, Bataan, and the Japanese
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Josh's grandfather recounts his experience of WWII, including the Bataan Death March and meeting the Japanese.By The Stack
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Ep 034: Mars Review with ~librex-dozryc
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This week we speak with Noah Kumin (~librex-dozryc) about the Mars Review of Books, an attempt to bring the forces of NYC and Urbit together to make a product inspired by the early NYRB.By The Stack
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This week, we speak with Neal Davis, otherwise known as ~lagrev-nocfep.Our topics this week are:The advantages of Urbit over traditional development paradigms.Hoon school and how to get some. What species of lunatic writes Hoon. And pedagogy and the performance of teaching.By The Stack
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This week we speak with Anthony Arroyo, better known on the network as poldec-tonteg.Anthony is now HMFIC at the Combine, an Urbit Foundation initiative to invest in teams who want to build businesses on Urbit. In the following episode, Andy and I will offer a masterclass in pitching a podcast. And as usual, the Stack is pitch perfect, baby.…
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This week, we speak with Logan Allen, better known to Urbit as ~tacryt-socryp.We talk ~tirrel, Uqbar, decaying cities, how Urbit fixes everything, what makes sound money, and running your own company.By The Stack
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This week we speak with Joe Bryan, engineering manager at Tlon and known to the network as ~master-morzod.Today we discuss the following.Smoking is cool and healthyWhat is Urbit?Kelvin versioningWhere is event log trimming?Why can’t I issue certificates and why do I have to use Caddy as my webserver?Little Grandma ClintonGerman ShepardsThe Bay Area…
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This week we speak with Philip Monk, CTO of Tlon and a man with a name fit for the Urbit Monasteries of the future. We talk about L2 and the projects that come after, how much traffic is too much traffic from Hacker News, how one goes about pruning events and whether ‘til nobler to increase the size of the loom or to suffer the slings and arrows of…
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This is but a cozy new year chat between your best friends Josh and Andy. We talk beards, sartorialism, weird Chinese social stuff, and Anglo-Saxonry. And as ever: manly predictions for the New Year.By The Stack
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This week we speak with Tlon cofounder and CEO Galen Wolfe-Pauly. We discuss his design theory, how his Urbit vision has changed over the years, and running a company in the Age of Covid. Per community request, we stage an intervention over his frankly alarming level of tofu fanaticism.By The Stack
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This week we speak with ~finnem, finance maven from a secret haven in the land of guns, chocolate, and sausage respecting. The lady talks to us about the possible use cases of Urbit for making bank. No, for making a bank. A Swiss bank, which everyone knows is the best sort.By The Stack
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This week we speak with ~mallus-fabres, who is both an actual Young Person and a Real Live Woman on Urbit. We allow her nearly two full hours of cleverness and sass to make the case for the distaff sex. You can be the judge of whether we, as a society, will allow them to keep it up or if this mad experiment has gone on quite long enough, thank you.…
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We speak this week with Rob, known around Urbit as ~mocrux-nomdep, who is CTO of dcSpark, developer of blockchain, the Flint wallet, and Urbit Visor.By The Stack
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This week we speak with ~rabsef-bicrym, who has made the move, recently, from employed to self-employed: doing feasibility study in freelance Hoon development.Rabsef is the creator of %gora, a POAP on Urbit that allows Martians to send tokens to one another as 'proof of attendance'. We discuss how Urbit's first POAP might further develop in the fut…
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This week we speak with Justin Murphy, who has brought his OtherLife community and work increasingly to Urbit. We discuss Assembly, arranging marriages, leaving academia, the future of the Life of the Mind, and, yes, about making that money.By The Stack
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In this episode, Kevin Philip Sirois presents C.J. Spataro’s gorgeous, moving, strange yet familiar story, “The Becoming,” available in the print edition of Exacting Clam’s Autumn 2021 issue. C.J. Spataro is the MFA program director at Rosemont College and the editorial director of Philadelphia Stories and PS Books. She is an award-winning short st…
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This week we speak with Tlon COO Erik Newton about:1. divorce lawyering which lead to a desire to be a better man which lead to2. podcasting about being better at relationships, though then he discovered that:3. tools of communication are actually somewhat broken, leading him to look for a project that fixed that on a grand scale and therefore toUr…
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In this installment of the Cephalopodcast, Kevin Philip Sirois talks with publisher Jacob Smullyan about art's futility and necessity, the origins of Sagging Meniscus and Exacting Clam, the Cephalopodcast itself, and, especially, Royce M. Becker.By Exacting Clam
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In this, the Cephalopodcast's inaugural episode, host Kevin Philip Sirois reads pieces by Kurt Luchs, Charles Holdefer, Steven D. Schroeder, and Daniel Beauregard. Books from this episode: Kurt Luchs: Falling in the Direction of Up Charles Holdefer: Dick Cheney in Shorts Exacting Clam No. 1 — Summer 2021…
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This week we speak with Reid, known more commonly around Urbit as ~sitful-hatred, who runs a blog at subject.network dedicated to making communal knowledge more accessible. Whether you want to set up minio for sharing files, figure out your routing problems, or configure your bitcoin wallet, subject.network has you covered. We discuss how ~sitful-h…
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This week's offering is on literature of the Plague. We speak in particular about Camus' La Peste, with consideration also for Katherine Anne Porter, Boccaccio, and others throughout the canon. Of particular interest: how was disease in literature a vehicle to talk about other facets of the human condition? Finally, we go in the opposite direction,…
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Our discussion this week precedes Andy's leaving for Asia, perhaps for good and all, and why it should be so that the people we know in tech and finance are increasingly participating in elite abandonment of the...what is it called, now? Global American Empire?By The Stack
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Quantum Mars Theory with Dr. Jonathan Paprocki
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This week we're joined by Dr. Jonathan Paprocki, who explains the current state of quantum computing as well as why it is important for Urbit to consider the 'quantum apocalypse' and be prepared for it. We also discuss with him his views on how Urbit might evolve to encompass previously unconsidered forms of anarchic or communistic governance via U…
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This week we speak with Jennifer Dodgson, CEO of Lexikat, a company working to bring low-code natural language processing to businesses. Jennifer is also an expert in the politics of ancient China and is renowned for her translations of The Strategems of the Warring States.By The Stack
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This week we speak with ~winter-dozren, a fourth member of Urbit Asia and buyer and seller of crypto since its early days. We talk to him about the Wild West of Bitcoin, life in Singapore, what to drink in India, and how to do degen right.By The Stack
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This week we talk with ~mirtyl-wacdec about Asian languages, developing for Urbit, and setting up Urbit Asia and Urbit Asia University. We discuss evangelizing in Asia and the mission to teach Asian languages and history to Martians.By The Stack
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Martian Futurism with ~poldec-tonteg
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This week we talk with Anthony Arroyo, Project Manager at Tlon, about the Futurist movement, what technology *is*, the design ethics of Urbit, how governance works in Urbit, and more.By The Stack
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This week, Andy and Josh take on the Great Gamestop Short Squeeze, talk about bastard bankers, horrible hedge funds, and the theft of indigenous lands from young male gamers who then turn to FINANCIAL PIRACY. Look at me. I'm the Tendieman Now.By The Stack
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This week we talk with ~rabsef-bicrym about learning Urbit's native programming language, Hoon. We discuss Hoon's structure and the particular challenges inherent in understanding how to work with a purely functional language. Hear ~rabsef talk about setting up Hooniversity, the Urbit community's education initiative; then find out how to sign up f…
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This week, Josh and Andy talk Sichuan, land of spicy food, pandas, and...yes, yes, there is more to it than that. There are rockets and crypto mines, grand waterworks, towering mountains, Tibetan shepherds, seas of grass and bamboo, and more than one Very Large Buddha.By The Stack
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Episode 9: Tech Inside and Outside the Great Wall
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This week Andy and Josh discuss the tech landscapes of both China and the US--including where China lags or has surpassed the US--censorship in both political arenas, and where not to run when Twitter decides you’re persona non grataBy The Stack
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Episode 8: Dalten Collective with ~sicdev and ~rabsef
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This week we talk to ~sicdev-pilnup and ~rabsef-bicrym. ~sicdev and ~rabsef met through Urbit and, with other friends, formed Dalten Collective, an organization dedicated to the ideals of Fellowship, Sustainability, and Sovereignty. Listen as they explain how to use Urbit as a platform for bringing people together to enrich themselves through frate…
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Josh and Andy talk books read in 2020, Turkish riots, and goals and manly prognostications for 2021.By The Stack
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