Podcast: The National Security Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Critical submarine cables: a deep dive into undersea infrastructurePub date: 2022-06-16In this episode of the National Security Podcast, Samuel Bashfield and Anthony Bergin join William Stoltz to discuss the importance and vulnerabilities of submarine cables.In the Indo-Pacific, submarine cables carry over 95 per cent of international data traffic, including telephone and data communications. But they are

Podcast: Make Me Data LiterateEpisode: Ellen Broad talks Cybernetics, Data Science, and Life.Pub date: 2022-06-17“I love that the thing that I work on is actually so consequential to better decision making, to solving real world problems. To understanding and evaluating forces in our world. I just love that I’m part of a way of making a difference that has applications in so many settings.” “How do we start to… Continue reading Ellen Broad talks Cybernetics, Data

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Streaming Wars: Revenge of the Cinema? w/ Gita JacksonPub date: 2022-06-16Paris Marx is joined by Gita Jackson to discuss how streaming has altered the film and television industry, what happens as their business models are coming under question, and whether cinemas have reason to celebrate streaming’s woes.Gita Jackson is a staff writer at Motherboard, Vice’s tech vertical. Follow Gita on Twitter at @xoxogossipgita.Tech

Podcast: The National Security Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Critical submarine cables: a deep dive into undersea infrastructurePub date: 2022-06-16In this episode of the National Security Podcast, Samuel Bashfield and Anthony Bergin join William Stoltz to discuss the importance and vulnerabilities of submarine cables.In the Indo-Pacific, submarine cables carry over 95 per cent of international data traffic, including telephone and data communications. But they are

Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Automated WarfarePub date: 2022-06-08Many U.S. military establishment bigwigs are pushing the development of automated and autonomous weapons systems. Roberto González questions whether this robo-fanaticism, as he calls it, is justified. He also describes efforts to address human warfighters’ distrust of machines. Roberto J. González, War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future

Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Automated WarfarePub date: 2022-06-08Many U.S. military establishment bigwigs are pushing the development of automated and autonomous weapons systems. Roberto González questions whether this robo-fanaticism, as he calls it, is justified. He also describes efforts to address human warfighters’ distrust of machines. Roberto J. González, War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future

Podcast: New Models (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll on early net culture (NM44)Pub date: 2022-06-01NM speaks with Kevin Driscoll, author of The Modem World: A Pre-history of Social Media (Yale Univ. Press, 2022), which examines the physical — and social — technology that underpinned the DIY side of networked technology’s evolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Parallel to institutional network culture were the proto-dark-forest communities of BBS networks and

Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence w/ Isabel MillarPub date: 2022-06-06Psychoanalytic theorist Isabel Millar explains the role psychoanalysis can play in helping us to understand what artificial intelligence means for humanity, what modern science fiction reveals about our fascination with sex-robots, and what is driving a desire to replicate human attributes in silicon. Dr Isabel Millar is a philosopher and cultural

Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence w/ Isabel MillarPub date: 2022-06-06Psychoanalytic theorist Isabel Millar explains the role psychoanalysis can play in helping us to understand what artificial intelligence means for humanity, what modern science fiction reveals about our fascination with sex-robots, and what is driving a desire to replicate human attributes in silicon. Dr Isabel Millar is a philosopher and cultural

Podcast: Delete Your Account Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 217 - Car WarsPub date: 2022-06-05Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Paris Marx, author of Road Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation out July 5th from Verso Books and host of the hit podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, where they cover the intersections of labor, tech and finance. Paris and Kumars discuss the significance of the union

Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)Pub date: 2022-06-03Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let [us] go…' Technology has revolutionized music, especially in the 21st century where the traditional rules and conventions of music creation, consumption, distribution,

Podcast: Delete Your Account Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 217 - Car WarsPub date: 2022-06-05Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Paris Marx, author of Road Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation out July 5th from Verso Books and host of the hit podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, where they cover the intersections of labor, tech and finance. Paris and Kumars discuss the significance of the union

Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)Pub date: 2022-06-03Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let [us] go…' Technology has revolutionized music, especially in the 21st century where the traditional rules and conventions of music creation, consumption, distribution,

Podcast: Overdue ConversationsEpisode: Literary Archives in the Digital Age: An Overdue Conversation with Dr. Lise JaillantPub date: 2022-05-30This episode grapples with the many implications of one big question: what happens to literary archives when most of the work and communications around book publishing now occurs digitally? Columbia literature curator Lina Moe sits down with Lise Jaillant--an author, researcher, and lecturer at Loughborough University--to discuss this. Lise Jaillant's

Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)Pub date: 2022-05-27What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data (UCL Press, 2022), Chiara Bonacchi, a Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer in Heritage at History, Classics &

Podcast: Overdue ConversationsEpisode: Literary Archives in the Digital Age: An Overdue Conversation with Dr. Lise JaillantPub date: 2022-05-30This episode grapples with the many implications of one big question: what happens to literary archives when most of the work and communications around book publishing now occurs digitally? Columbia literature curator Lina Moe sits down with Lise Jaillant--an author, researcher, and lecturer at Loughborough University--to discuss this. Lise Jaillant's

Podcast: A Long Time In Finance (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Cryptocalypse Now!Pub date: 2022-05-20Cryptocurrencies are collapsing across the etherspace. Neil and Jonathan talk to Izabella Kaminska, founder of the Blind Spot and keen cryptowatcher, about Terra, Luna and Tether, the death spiral of the stablecoins, and whether anyone in the real world should care..Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Izabella Kaminska.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for

Podcast: A Long Time In Finance (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Cryptocalypse Now!Pub date: 2022-05-20Cryptocurrencies are collapsing across the etherspace. Neil and Jonathan talk to Izabella Kaminska, founder of the Blind Spot and keen cryptowatcher, about Terra, Luna and Tether, the death spiral of the stablecoins, and whether anyone in the real world should care..Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Izabella Kaminska.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for

Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: What Does a Crypto Crash Portend for the Economy?Pub date: 2022-05-20With the collapse of stablecoin and the blow to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin hosts Adam Tooze and Cameron Abadi take another look at crypto markets and parse out what's behind their instability. Plus, a look at the link between air conditioning and productivity and why climate change is making cooling technology increasingly vital. Learn more about your ad

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: (Un)Stablecoins and the Crypto Crash w/ Bennett TomlinPub date: 2022-05-19Paris Marx is joined by Bennett Tomlin to discuss last week’s crash of Terra and Luna, the problems with stablecoins, and whether this collapse will finally force regulators to take action on cryptocurrency.Bennett Tomlin is a co-host of Crypto Critics’ Corner and writer of the FUD Letter. Follow Bennett on Twitter at @BennettTomlin.Tech Won’t Save Us