Timo Timonen - Black Birds (Classic Mix)

In 1997, John Silveira wrote a joke classified ad in a tiny publication called Backwoods Home Magazine asking if anyone wanted to travel back in time with him. A lot of people took him seriously. What do you do when everyone wants you to fix the worst mistakes they've ever made.

#17 The Time Traveler And The Hitman

It turns out there are (at least) three ways to tell the secret history of podcasting: it is a story about technology, it is a story about a business model for audio, and it is also a story about the birth of a new art form.  What's really cool is that the whole thing is sort of a Rashomon narrative -  in this special edition to mark the radiotopiaforever campaign your host attempts to tell all three versions using the same people.  Visit radiotopia.fm to join the radiotopiaforever campaign.

Secret Histories of Podcasting

ToE instaserf Andrew Callaway gets invited to do a TED ALPHA Talk on the sharing economy.  Mary Gray (a real sharing economy expert) explains why we are anxious about the future of work and Ignacio Uriarte leaves his cubicle to make post-office art. 

After Work

We encounter algorithms all the time. There are algorithms that can guess within a fraction of a percentage point whether you’ll like a certain movie on Netflix, a post on Facebook, or a link in a Google search.

But Risk Assessment Tools now being adopted by criminal justice systems all across the country - from Arizona, to Kentucky, to Pennsylvania, to New Jersey - are made to guess whether you’re likely to flee the jurisdiction of your trial, or commit a crime again if you are released.

With stakes as high as this — human freedom — some are asking for greater caution and scrutiny regarding the tools being developed.

Chris Bavitz, managing director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School, helped draft an open letter to the state legislature of Massachusetts about Risk Assessment Tools, co-signed by a dozen researchers working on the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence. He spoke with Gretchen Weber about why we need more transparency and scrutiny in the adoption of these tools.

Read the open letter here: https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/11/openletter

When a Bot is the Judge

Derived from this bad mutha: http://soundcloud.com/resist-the-urge/rough-cut-friction

A Nice Close |S|H|A|V|E|

Timo Timonen - Shadow

Beat Battle #200
Used the original sample, doubled the bpm, tweaked the compressions, chopped/rearranged guitar, flutes and xylo, added brass and bass synth.

Xylodrone

Interviews, conversations, and stories from the intersection of the Internet, law, and society. Produced by Daniel Dennis Jones out of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

When a Bot is the Judge

The Platform