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Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Te ...
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Here’s my reading of Bruce Sterling’s brilliant, seminal book The Hacker Crackdown, a 1992 book that recounts the events that led to the founding of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, my former employer.
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The World's Most Popular Podcast with Alan Cross and Michael Hainsworth
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Singularity.FM is the first and best known singularity podcast - the place where we interview the future. Singularity.FM is a series of singularity podcast interviews with the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, film-makers, philosophers and artists, debating issues such as the technological singularity, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, life-extension and ethics. Past guests of this singularity podcast include people such as Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, Noam Chomsky, Stuart Ham ...
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Voices: New Media Fiction brings together the pioneer short fiction podcasters. Experimenting from putting short-short fiction to novellas over their podcasts, these writers were the first to test the new medium for storytelling. Some wrote specifically for podcasts, some read previously published fiction, and some read entirely new stories. Some listeners asked if they could get just the stories in audio form, and that request brought about this podiobook. Cory Doctorow tells us a story abo ...
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Decoding copyright and bringing you enlightenment. Find out what we're up to at https://copyrightliteracy.org and follow us at @UKCopyrightLit or send an email via UKCopyrightLit@gmail.com
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Reimagining the Internet is a production of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst, asking scholars, activists, journalists, and artists what is broken on the internet and how to fix it.
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Jules is a young man, barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World. Disney World! The greatest achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches. Now, though, the "a ...
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Page It to the Limit is a podcast that focuses on what it means to operate software in production. Hosted by the PagerDuty Community Team, we cover the leading practices used in the software industry to improve both system reliability and the lives of the people responsible for supporting it.
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In this podiobook: Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth into the world.Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art's real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.The c ...
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Welcome to the Synthetic Minds Podcast, a thought-provoking podcast where the boundary between the imagined and the real blurs as we traverse from Science Fiction to Science Reality. In each episode, we delve deep into the visionary worlds of science fiction writers, uncovering the profound insights these storytellers offer about our future. This isn't just about the art of science fiction; it's a journey to explore how these futuristic narratives can inform and shape our actual world in bus ...
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Every week TWiT hosts talk to the smartest people in the world about the most important topics in technology. Join Leo Laporte and other TWiT hosts for these enlightening one-on-one interviews. Although the show is no longer in regular production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
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The MMT Podcast offers economic analysis on current issues from a Modern Monetary Theory perspective. Aimed at anyone who has ever felt lost in the jargon used by mainstream economics commentators. We believe economics is for everyone. You can help sustain this podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast
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Bite-sized clips with TED level top thinkers, founders and scientists on how advances in biotech & genomics, space travel, IoT, AI and other exponential tech converge to create our collective future and what we can do, from a research and policy perspective to shape the trends, technologies and societal norms for a better world. Main Podcast: https://disruptors.fm/itunes If in-depth, unscripted conversations with the researchers, startups and future thinkers transforming the future of all of ...
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In this diverse and innovative space, we facilitate a highly collaborative, open-minded conversation diving into the issues our society faces today, while being sure to bring corresponding resolution to the forefront . We’re here to address the problems whilst collaborating on visionary solutions, as our increasingly interdependent yet fractured global society struggles through intersecting crises in these unparalleled times of change. The monetary system is at the heart of our society. It t ...
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Let us introduce you to some of the fascinating people we work with to help you make sense of the world’s most complex challenges. In this podcast we share our research, explore alternatives to the status quo and give a platform to scholars and activists who are at the forefront of the fight against the current neoliberal order. We believe there are alternatives to this world and hope you do too.
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Interviews with people who merit a place on Chicago's new front page.
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Conversations and stories exploring the intersection between tech and privacy. Produced by MobileCoin, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency with sustainable encryption.
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Your source for real-time and on-demand professional learning, designed specifically with the independent school educator in mind. A podcast of interviews, seminars, and conference talks to listen to whenever, and wherever you like. Brought to you by the New York State Association of Independent Schools.
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Behind the scenes of #Audiblegate, the international author and narrator led fight for justice against Audible #audiblegate #antitrust #anticompetitive www.audiblegate.com
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Between audio books? Curious about the writers themselves? Listen to full-length sessions from the Bay Area Book Festival, where readers and writers meet each year in Berkeley, CA, to engage with their favorite authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners, chefs, and activists, to discuss writing, race, love, mystery, and more.
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We saw so many structural systems break over the last few months, but we’re increasingly being given opportunities to rethink these faulty systems and create something better. This is System Reboot, where we explore the big problems and learn how to fix them.
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Deep dives on agriculture, the food system, and money. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Carpool is a simple online and TV series. Robert Llewellyn gives someone a lift in a hybrid car, they talk. Like you do when you ride in a car with someone. It's not an interview, just an informal and often very funny conversation
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Joseph Fink (Welcome to Night Vale, Alice Isn't Dead) introduces a new kind of current events podcast. It's a scary year, but it doesn't have to be scary alone.
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In this series of podcasts, we hear from Thomson Reuters experts as they discuss the industry challenges facing our customers and how Thomson Reuters is creating game-changing solutions.
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Every week TWiT hosts talk to the smartest people in the world about the most important topics in technology. Join Leo Laporte and other TWiT hosts for these enlightening one-on-one interviews. Although the show is no longer in regular production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
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Dr Sandra Peter and Prof Kai Riemer meet each week to put their spin on news impacting the future of business. From Sydney Business Insights at the University of Sydney.
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TWiT Events is your window to the best tech events in the world. Whether it's the hottest announcements from CES or the latest security tech, TWiT Events is there.
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Stupid Sexy Privacy is a podcast miniseries designed to teach you how to protect yourself from fascists and weirdos. The show is produced by author and information privacy expert B.J. Mendelson. Tune in every Thursday at 9 am EST to catch the next episode.
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Tech Rights & The Future of Privacy with Cory Doctorow - Synthetic Minds Podcast EP09
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In episode nine of the “Synthetic Minds, podcast, we explore the complex relationship between digital rights, privacy, and technology with Cory Doctorow, a renowned science fiction author and digital rights activist. Doctorow delves into how privacy, once a fundamental right, has become a commodity in the digital age, traded by tech giants for prof…
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Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant
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In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about the forces that have turned the tech industry away from innovation - and how we might turn the tide against them. CORY DOCTOROW: https://pluralistic.net/ https://x.com/doctorow BRIAN MERCHANT: Blood In …
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog/newsletter: “AI’s productivity theater,” about the severe mismatch between the bosses who buy AI to increase their workers’ efficiency, and the utter bafflement of the workers who are expected to use the AI…somehow. A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute of…
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(Repeat) John F. Kennedy, 60 Years After His Death Encounters With Evil.
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(Repeat broadcast) This week, on the Global Research News Hour is the 60th anniversary of the JFK’s assassination. We will be spending the majority of the hour discussing the famous case with Jacob Hornberger, a long time author and investigator of the 1960s event. Mr Hornberger in particular explores the subject matter of two recent books he wrote…
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(Repeat) John F. Kennedy, 60 Years After His Death Encounters With Evil.
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(Repeat broadcast)This week, on the Global Research News Hour is the 60th anniversary of the JFK’s assassination. We will be spending the majority of the hour discussing the famous case with Jacob Hornberger, a long time author and investigator of the 1960s event. Mr Hornberger in particular explores the subject matter of two recent books he wrote …
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107. How could a PBS of the Internet cultivate a more human web? Laurel Schwulst on a lighter weight Internet (Good Web)
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For the final episode of our Good Web series, artist, designer, and educator Laurel Schwulst joins Mike to talk through her proposal for a PBS of the Internet. She describes how a PBS-like body that intentionally crafts the spaces, software, and information for a public good could crucial for creating an environment that rewards curisoity […]…
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Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain
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In the fourth live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron sits down with the BBC's Thomas Germain to talk about breaking up big tech, and how we can find hope in the hopelessness of multiple monopolies and algorithms. LINKS: Thomas Germain: https://x.com/thomasgermain vkgoeswild: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKM5fcSsaEFZRP-bjH8Y9w Dan Ya…
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Additional Resources Grafana Labs. Join the community Brandy’s post on monitoring AWS Fargate Get started with Grafana and Java Prometheus Network Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus Open Telemetry Raspberry Pi PagerDuty Home Page Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls
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As the AI bubble collapses, it's time for the tech industry to repent, and to recognize that the future cannot be decided entirely by four or five trillion-dollar firms that are no longer capable of innovation, only copying other people's ideas. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the generative AI boom shows how little big tech cares …
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(Repeat) JFK 60 Years After His Death The CIA, The Case Against LBJ And Beyond
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(Repeat Broadcast)This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are marking the 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination with two outstanding guests who have probed one of the most talked about moments in American history. In our first half hour, we speak with Jeremy Kuzmarov of Covert Action Magazine about the current state of affairs in th…
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(Repeat) JFK 60 Years After His Death The CIA, The Case Against LBJ And Beyond
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(Repeat Broadcast) This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are marking the 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination with two outstanding guests who have probed one of the most talked about moments in American history. In our first half hour, we speak with Jeremy Kuzmarov of Covert Action Magazine about the current state of affairs in t…
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Is the Apple Vision Pro worth a mortgage payment?By Michael Hainsworth
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After a year of opulent spending, the markets have begun to sour on big tech's $200 billion bet on generative AI, unfortunately timing with the delay of Nvidia's new AI-specialized "blackwell" chips. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the pale horses of the AI apocalypse - and what this means for the tech industry at large. LINKS: http://…
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Guest host Troy Swanson chats with Wayne Bivens-Tatum, author of Libraries and the Enlightenment and Virtue Information Literacy, about the concept of “information anarchy,” the relevance of cultivating intellectual virtues like open-mindedness, intellectual humility, and epistemic justice to thrive in today’s complex information landscape, and int…
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Copyright Waffle Episode 27 with Carl Magnus Palm - ABBA expert
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Chris and Jane (copyrightliteracy.org) talk to researcher, author and the world's leading expert on all things ABBA - Carl Magnus Palm. They discuss ABBA's origins and the division of creative labour in the band, how the band got their name, the ABBA revival in the 1990s and how they have responded to the huge number of tribute acts. They also shar…
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(Repeat) The War Is Ending, And Canada Lauds A Nazi As A Ukrainian Hero
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(Repeat Broadcast)This week on the Global Research News Hour we continue with an update on the situation in Ukraine where the war is headed and what it says about Canada’s participation in it. In our first half hour, we will be talking to peace activist Tamara Lorincz about how Canada’s foreign policy has been shaped by its involvement in NATO and …
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(Repeat) The War Is Ending, And Canada Lauds A Nazi As A Ukrainian Hero
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(Repeat Broadcast) This week on the Global Research News Hour we continue with an update on the situation in Ukraine where the war is headed and what it says about Canada’s participation in it. In our first half hour, we will be talking to peace activist Tamara Lorincz about how Canada’s foreign policy has been shaped by its involvement in NATO and…
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Harnessing Speculative Fiction for Strategic Innovation with Tobias Buckell - Synthetic Minds Podcast EP08
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Can a science fiction author provide better business insights than your average consultant?In episode 8 of Synthetic Minds, renowned speculative fiction author Tobias Buckell reveals how his narratives can help business leaders anticipate and navigate future technological and societal shifts. Buckell’s works, such as "Arctic Rising," serve as power…
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106. What You Need to Know About Web Accessibility with Lola Odelola (Good Web)
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Building a Good Web doesn’t just mean making the current Internet a nicer place, but making an Internet that everyone can use. This week Lola Odelola (Lola’s Lab, formerly of Bocoup) joins the Good Web series to talk about the fundamentals of web accessibility and the fascinating process the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) uses […]…
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As part of the Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Brian Freeman, author of THE BOURNE SHADOW and four previous Bourne novels, about his early experiences with libraries, the impact of Ludlum’s work on his work, and how he aims to modernize Jason Bourne while staying true to the original character. And in our final visit (for now!) to The …
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog/newsletter: “AI’s productivity theater,” about the severe mismatch between the bosses who buy AI to increase their workers’ efficiency, and the utter bafflement of the workers who are expected to use the AI…somehow. A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute of…
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Cutting out the Middle Man from Politics ft. Mia Jacobson
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As Moneyless Society grows we want to introduce you to more of our members and the ways we're working to build alternative systems in our communities. And with the upcoming U.S. general election, this insight from our dedicated volunteer, Mia Jacobson, couldn't be more timely. As a longshoreman and member of a historic union herself, Mia understand…
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(Repeat) Problem. Reaction. Solution. Wildfires About More Than CO2 Induced Climate Change
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(Repeat Broadcast) This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are addressing the wildfires that have ravaged much of the forests of Canada, along with Maui and other places and the tendency to blame it all on Climate Change. We ask if there are other interests at stake which are using the fight against Climate Change as a mask. In our first ha…
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(Repeat) Problem. Reaction. Solution. Wildfires About More Than CO2 Induced Climate Change
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(Repeat Broadcast) This week, on the Global Research News Hour, we are addressing the wildfires that have ravaged much of the forests of Canada, along with Maui and other places and the tendency to blame it all on Climate Change. We ask if there are other interests at stake which are using the fight against Climate Change as a mask. In our first ha…
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The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac
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In the second live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by the New York Times' Mike Isaac and The Verge's Kylie Robison to discuss the current state of tech journalism. KYLIE: https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison MIKE: https://x.com/MikeIsaac https://www.threads.net/@mike_isaac?hl=en https://ww…
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#189 Sam Levey: Monetary operations Q&A (part 1)
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Part 1: Dr Sam Levey answers listener questions about the mechanics of the monetary system. Full conversation available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-only-sam-105296626 Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast All our episodes in chronologica…
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July Book Club: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
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Additional Resources Get your copy of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir More on Larry Niven The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Charles Stross Starship Troopers PagerDuty Home Page Come hang out with us in the Hangops Slack Episode edited by Mandy Moore Transcripts by RevBy Mandi Walls
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As part of the Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with librarian Eva Jurczyk, author of That Night in the Library, about her unique journey from a bibliographer’s kid to a renowned author, the inspiration behind her gripping mystery novels, and the intersection of librarianship and fiction writing. Over on The Circ Desk, Rebecca and Yaika disc…
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This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, Unpersoned>; about the enormous power that we’ve given to tech giants to determine who can participate in modern life, and why the answer to the giants’ failure to wield that power wisely is to take it away, rather than attempting to perfect their use of it. AT THE END OF MARCH 2024, …
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This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, Unpersoned>; about the enormous power that we’ve given to tech giants to determine who can participate in modern life, and why the answer to the giants’ failure to wield that power wisely is to take it away, rather than attempting to perfect their use of it. AT THE END OF MARCH 2024, …
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Canada's Long Fight Against Democracy: Presentation by Owen Schalk and Yves Engler
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This episode of the Global Research News Hour features complete presentations by Canadian writers Owen Schalk and Yves Engler about the ousting of more than 20 elected governments around the world to which "democratic" nation Canada has contributed. The event at which they were speaking was held at the University of Winnipeg on June 20, 2024.…
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105. Slow and steady: how Are.na became the Good Web for artists, designers, and researchers who love unusual connections.
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At 13 years old, Are.na boasts a healthy, creative community and stable finances while rejecting many of the hallmarks of popular social media platforms such as a focus on video, endless push notifications, or surveillant advertising. For this week’s edition of our Good Web series, founder Charles Broskoski sits with Mike to walk through what […]…
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In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with famed MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to talk about the economics of the tech ecosystem, the ridiculousness of generative AI's promises, and the realities of tech's growth-at-all-costs ecosystem. Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Social…
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As part of the Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Gwenda Bond about her career journey, her fascination with heist stories, her experiences with licensed content, including writing for Lois Lane and Stranger Things, her approach to magic in storytelling, and the vibrant writing community she’s fostering in Lexington, Kentucky. And on The …
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On Friday July 19, millions of Windows PCs entered a doom-loop that rendered them non-functional thanks to an update sent by a little-known company called CrowdStrike - and in this emergency Better Offline dispatch, Ed Zitron walks you through exactly what happened, why it's so bad, and why both CrowdStrike and Microsoft executives should face crim…
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In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" - as defined by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt in "on BS" (and yes I'm censoring that) - and created one of the most enjoyable and prescient papers ever written. In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by academ…
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Escaping the Enshittoscene: A Lecture by Cory Doctorow
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This week on the Global Research News Hour, we air a special lecture delivered by science fiction author, blogger, and journalist Cory Doctorow on Escaping the Enshittoscene. HE discusses the rapid, precipitous decline of every digital service we depend on, which he argues is designed by specific individuals. He also explains the changes the people…
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When the money gets nervous, so should you. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through a remarkable report from global investment bank Goldman Sachs where multiple economists call BS on the AI movement - and why it's time for the rest of the world to follow suit. LINKS: https://tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: ht…
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As part of the Summer Reading Spectacular, Steve chats with Andy Runton, creator of the graphic novel series Owly, about how libraries influenced his work and life, the origins of Owly, the process of converting the series from black and white to color, and advice for educators and librarians on how to use Owly in their teaching. And on The Circ De…
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An Honest Witness: John Pilger on Truth-Telling in the Era of Mainstream Media 'Fake News' Update
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This is a 2017 interview with updated comments following John Pilger's death on Dec 30, 2023. Special guest interviewer Lesley Hughes interviews Academy and Emmy award-winning documentary film maker and investigative reporter John Pilger. Pilger, an Australian based in the United Kingdom since 1962, has produced dozens of documentaries over the cou…
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An Honest Witness: John Pilger on Truth-Telling in the Era of Mainstream Media 'Fake News' Update
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This is a 2017 interview with updated comments following John Pilger's death on Dec 30, 2023.Special guest interviewer Lesley Hughes interviews Academy and Emmy award-winning documentary film maker and investigative reporter John Pilger. Pilger, an Australian based in the United Kingdom since 1962, has produced dozens of documentaries over the cour…
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