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The Cultures Ep 310: One Laptop Per Child
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1–2 minutes·
No comments on The Cultures Ep 310: One Laptop Per ChildListen to episode 310 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames OLPC XO (Wikipedia) Selling a Charismatic Technology (LA Review of Books) The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO documentary) Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
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The Cultures Ep 309: The Good Place, Disco Elysium, Picard, The Morning Show
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Listen to episode 309 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: The Good Place (ending spoilers!) Disco Elysium Star Trek: Picard The Morning Show (more spoilers)
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The Cultures Ep 308: The Dating Market
Listen to episode 308 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: The Dating Market: Thesis Overview (PDF, Tyro Partners)
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The Cultures Ep 307: The Impossible Whopper and the rebranding of veganism
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Listen to episode 307 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’ (NY Times)
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The Cultures Ep 306: Ructions in the Young Adult books community
Listen to episode 306 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Famous Authors Drag Student in Surreal YA Twitter Controversy (Vulture) Related Metafilter discussion Ghislaine Maxwell (Wikipedia)
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The Cultures Ep 305: Tikkun olam Every Day (or not)
Listen to episode 305 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Tikkun olam (Wikipedia) Effective altruism (Wikipedia) Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Reith Lectures Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton (Wikipedia) Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious (The Verge) Note: this has now been reversed Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups…
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The Cultures Ep 304: Us, and movies that get better the more you think about them
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Listen to episode 304 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Us (Wikipedia) Get Out (Wikipedia)
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The Cultures Ep 303: Russian Doll
Listen to episode 303 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Russian Doll (Wikipedia) Attachment theory (Wikipedia) Naomi’s podcast on Groundhog Day (On Being)
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Keeping Safe on Twitter, Blackstone’s Ratio, and Ways to Support Victims
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7–11 minutes·
A lot’s happened since my “Innocent until proven guilty in a court” isn’t the end of the story went viral on Twitter. New and credible allegations of abuse in the games industry have emerged, and the pushback from those who believe all the allegations are lies has been typically fierce. And yes, there has been…
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“Innocent until proven guilty in a court” isn’t the end of the story
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“Innocent until proven guilty in a court” is, at best, childishly naive and, at worst, dangerously obtuse when it comes to accusations of abuse (which I fully believe) against game devs like @alexiskennedy. Stop saying it. Just 1.5% of rape cases lead to a charge or summons in the UK. The proportion will be even…