Podcast: The MIT Press Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Moving Innovation: A History of Computer AnimationPub date: 2023-07-06Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad, the first true computer animation program. Sutherland noted: "Since

Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Technology and Surveillance on Migrants, with Austin Kocher and Jake Wiener, Pt 2Pub date: 2023-07-06James continues his interview with Austin and Jake, this time discussing ICE's Alternatives to Detention program, and the impacts this has on privacy and the wellbeing of people in the program.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cool Zone Media and

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Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael GrohmannPub date: 2023-06-21Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification"Pub date: 2023-07-02Amazon now feels more like a racket than an open shopping platform; you can't find posts from your friends on Facebook because it's clogged with unsolicited advertising; and Uber no longer seems like a cool, efficient taxi service, it's morphed instead into a global machine for turning gig workers into the new underclass – it's all part of a

Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael GrohmannPub date: 2023-06-21Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His

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Podcast: CYBER (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us AllPub date: 2023-06-16Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of

Podcast: CYBER (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us AllPub date: 2023-06-16Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Dark History of the Information AgePub date: 2023-05-23Hacking and cybersecurity are evergreen issues, in the news and on Lawfare. Scott Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, has a new book on how and why hacking works and what to do about it, called “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks.”Scott joined

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Podcast: Pretty Heady StuffEpisode: Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AIPub date: 2023-05-12Dru Oja Jay is an author, organizer and web developer who currently serves as Executive Director of CUTV and Publisher of The Breach. He’s also a co-founder of the Media Co-op and Friends of Public Services. He wrote a book with Nikolas Barry-Shaw called Paved with Good Intentions: Canada's Development NGOs from Idealism to Imperialism. James Steinhoff is an

Podcast: Pretty Heady StuffEpisode: Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AIPub date: 2023-05-12Dru Oja Jay is an author, organizer and web developer who currently serves as Executive Director of CUTV and Publisher of The Breach. He’s also a co-founder of the Media Co-op and Friends of Public Services. He wrote a book with Nikolas Barry-Shaw called Paved with Good Intentions: Canada's Development NGOs from Idealism to Imperialism. James Steinhoff is an

Podcast: The Codcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The promise and the pitfalls of everyday artificial intelligence.Pub date: 2023-05-01This week on the Codcast, Jennifer Smith explores artificial intelligence’s growing prominence in our everyday lives with Dr. Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Eisikovits founded the school’s Applied Ethics Center (https://www.umb.edu/ethics) and has spent the past years thinking about the impact of

Podcast: Data Nation (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: AI, Avatars, and Augmented RealityPub date: 2023-05-02Liberty Vittert and Munther Dahleh dive into the world of augmented and virtual reality this month with Professor Fox Harrell.  Harrell is Professor of Digital Media & AI in both the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.  Is the world ready for what’s coming? Will augmented reality and virtual reality be a force

Podcast: The Codcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The promise and the pitfalls of everyday artificial intelligence.Pub date: 2023-05-01This week on the Codcast, Jennifer Smith explores artificial intelligence’s growing prominence in our everyday lives with Dr. Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Eisikovits founded the school’s Applied Ethics Center (https://www.umb.edu/ethics) and has spent the past years thinking about the impact of

Podcast: Data Nation (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: AI, Avatars, and Augmented RealityPub date: 2023-05-02Liberty Vittert and Munther Dahleh dive into the world of augmented and virtual reality this month with Professor Fox Harrell.  Harrell is Professor of Digital Media & AI in both the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.  Is the world ready for what’s coming? Will augmented reality and virtual reality be a force

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Does Banning TikTok Make Sense? w/ Shoshana Wodinsky & Daniel GreenePub date: 2023-04-27Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss the unconvincing arguments being made for a TikTok ban in the United States, then by Daniel Greene to explore how the turn against Chinese technology signals a shift in US policy on the internet and technology. Shoshana Wodinsky is a freelance reporter, previously at Marketwatch and

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Does Banning TikTok Make Sense? w/ Shoshana Wodinsky & Daniel GreenePub date: 2023-04-27Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss the unconvincing arguments being made for a TikTok ban in the United States, then by Daniel Greene to explore how the turn against Chinese technology signals a shift in US policy on the internet and technology. Shoshana Wodinsky is a freelance reporter, previously at Marketwatch and

Podcast: Philosophical Disquisitions (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: 106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentientPub date: 2023-04-11In this episode, I chat to Robert Long about AI sentience. Robert is a philosopher that works on issues related to the philosopy of mind, cognitive science and AI ethics. He is currently a philosophy fellow at the Centre for AI Safety in San Francisco. He completed his PhD at New York University. We do a deep dive on the concept of