Tag: thecultures

Listen to episode 250 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Rituals for secular people
• Incels (Reply All episode)
• Note: No Andrea this ep

Listen to episode 249 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Tesla’s predictions of the future
• What do you love that other people hate?
• Note: No Andrea this ep

Listen to episode 248 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Speaker fees
• Is Disobedience “authentic”?
• “Effortless” is a toxic illusion (“I know my place” video)

Listen to episode 247 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Avengers: Infinity War (SPOILERS!)
• Boxycharm & Fabricating Excitement
• On Subscriptions
• How much of Naomi’s life is sustained by VC funding?

Listen to episode 246 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Naomi’s experiences on the movie premiere circuit
• Nintendo’s approach to creativity
• Note: No Andrea this ep

Listen to episode 245 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• What does it actually mean to be someone’s “friend”? (Quinn Norton’s post, Jeremy Corbyn’s regrets)
• Andrea becomes a Redditor (/r/MakeUpAddiction)
• Adrian becomes a journalist in the Watch The Skies megagame

Listen to episode 244 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Followup from developer ethics on ep 241
• Thai restaurant diplomacy
• How we make this podcast (Auphonic, Libsyn, Audio Hijack, Blue Yeti microphone)
• Note: No Naomi this episode

 

Listen to episode 243 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Why The Simpsons is shit (The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened video)
• Incompetent criminal videos: why they make me super uncomfortable (Parkour video)
• A copy as good as the original (Walter Benjamin on art, aura, and authenticity)

 

Listen to episode 242 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• China, internet censorship, fake news
• Hollywood always expects China to be much more racist than China actually is
• Wolf Warrior 2

Listen to episode 241 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman:

• Ethics in Tech (Stack Overflow Survey, Babylon Health)
• Can one use Facebook without being part of this bullshit and if so how? (Guardian article, Facebook data info page)
• When Your Social Support Networks Become Oversaturated