Blade Runner is what?  The Replicants are the disposable essential workers that suffer for our surplus.  Replicants aren't the horrifying part of Blade Runner, but their dehumanization.

Thanks to algorithms I found this podcast....or did it find me🤔

Computer algorithms shape our lives and increasingly control our future. They have crept into virtually every aspect of modern life and are making life-changing choices on our behalf, often without us realising. But how much power should we give to them and have we let things go too far? Joanna Bale talks to Ken Benoit, Andrew Murray, Seeta Peña Gangaradhan, Alison Powell and Bernhard Von Stengel.
Research links: Hello World by Hannah Fry; 
Information Technology Law: The Law and Society by Andrew Murray; 
Explanations as Governance? Investigating practices of explanation in algorithmic system design by Alison Powell (forthcoming).

Do algorithms have too much power?

A spoken word short story by Willy Vlautin, frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine, and author of the novels Lean on Pete, Northline and The Motel Life. 

The story features characters from Lean on Pete, and music by Richmond Fontaine. 

A Motorcycle for a Horse by Willy Vlautin

Listen to Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston narrate the 1st chapter of THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, by Tim O'Brien.

Download THE THINGS THEY CARRIED here: http://bit.ly/TheThingsTheyCarriedTimOBrien

This modern classic and New York Times best seller was a finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and has become a staple of American classrooms. Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried's portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book's hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

The soldiers in this collection of stories carried M-16 rifles, M-60 machine guns, and M-79 grenade launchers. They carried plastic explosives, hand grenades, flak jackets, and landmines. But they also carried letters from home, illustrated Bibles, and pictures of their loved ones. Some of them carried extra food or comic books or drugs. Every man carried what he needed to survive, and those who did carried their shattering stories away from the jungle and back to a nation that would never understand.

This audiobook also includes an exclusive recording "The Vietnam in Me," a recount of the author's trip back to Vietnam in 1994, revisiting his experience there as a soldier 25 years before, read by Tim O'Brien himself.

The Things They Carried was produced by Audible Studios in partnership with Playtone, the celebrated film and television production company founded by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and producer of the award-winning series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change.

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Adam talks with Kathy Burke (film and TV actor and theatre director/writer) about various moments in her career thusfar. Her erratic social networking behaviour is also discussed. STRONGEST OF LANGUAGE USED!

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BE INSPIRED AND UPLIFTED IN THIS POWERFUL, PERSONAL and MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEW WITH #1 NY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & TRANSFORMATION TEACHER Dr. BARBARA DE ANGELIS  
Barbara shares how you can understand the difference between being stuck and authentic and accelerated transformation, and offers practical techniques that can help you shift into more clarity, confidence and peace in each and every moment. Recorded on Inner Visions Radio September 2016

                              

TRANSFORMATION SECRETS YOU NEED TO KNOW: An interview with Dr. Barbara De Angelis

Hello! HRU? This week we are talking all about internet slang or textese - the abbreviated language and slang commonly used with mobile phone text messaging, or other Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging. Do you use internet slang? Do you have internet slang in your language? Find out about some of the most up to date English examples, what they mean & when you can use them. The language focus this week is about pronunciation and more specifically the -ing sound. We hope you enjoy the podcast. TY!

English Across The Pond

61 - Internet Slang

སྒྲ་ཨང་། KADZU207096
མཁས་པ་གཞན། ༼གཞུང་ཆེན།༽ སྤྱིའི་ཨང་། ༡༨༡
འཁྲིད་མཁན། དགེ་བཤེས་ངག་དབང་སངས་རྒྱས།
  ཁྲིད་གཞུང་། དབུ་མ་དགོངས་པ་རབ་གསལ། ༼ང༽
མཛད་པ་པོ། རྗེ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ། ༼ ༡༣༥༧ - ༡༤༡༩ ༽  མཛད་ཆེན་བཞི་དང་བསྟན་འགྲོར་སྨན་པའི་མཛད་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་གནང་། དགེ་ལྡན་བསྟན་པའི་བདག་པོ།
འགྲེམས་སྤེལ་སྒྲིག་སྦྱོར། སེར་བྱེས་རིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ།
༢༠༡༥ ལོའི་ཟླ་ལྔ་པར་སྒྲིག་སྦྱོར་བྱས།

Uma Gongpa Rabsel

དབུ་མ་དགོངས་པ་རབ་གསལ། ང ༼༠༠༥༽

The future is becoming harder to predict thanks to climate change and a global pandemic. But a large part of what the future will look like is in our own hands. The biggest challenge to creating a better future may be political rather than scientific or technological. 

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In this episode, Diane Coyle, professor of public policy, Laura Diaz Anadon, professor of climate change policy, and architectural engineer, Ruchi Choudhary, join us to talk about how we can build a future that might not be anything like the past.

We cover topics like innovation, GDP, and how the uncertainty created by climate change can help propel policy and economic decisions. Plus, we look at some of the benefits that come with building a greener future together. 

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Creating a future that is not like the past

Anavum Piritha, Meththanisamsa Sutta, Khandha Piritha, "Mama nidukwemwa Neerogi wemwa Suwapath wemwa - Siyalu Sathwayo ...." 63 times, Karaniyametta Sutta and Jaya piritha are included in this chanting.

Anavum & Metta Chanting

Nearly half America’s children are yet to <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/02/06/large-numbers-of-pupils-are-no-longer-enrolled-in-americas-schools?utm_campaign=checks-and-balance&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">return to the classroom</a> a year after the pandemic began. President Biden says it’s a national emergency, but he has already diluted a pledge to reopen the majority of schools in his first 100 days. Why is getting <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/01/23/why-reopening-schools-in-minority-neighbourhoods-is-hard?utm_campaign=checks-and-balance&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=third-party-host&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">back to school</a> so hard? We hear from The Economist’s US policy correspondent Tamara Gilkes Borr and Adam Roberts, our Midwest correspondent. John Prideaux, our US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, US digital editor. For access to The Economist’s print, digital and audio editions subscribe: <a href="http://economist.com/USpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">economist.com/USpod</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Checks and Balance: Lacking class

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is one of the foremost social science universities in the world.

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Set up to improve society and to "understand the causes of things", LSE has always put engagement with the wider world at the heart of its mission. From its location in the heart of London, the School links communities across the world, from formal academic partnerships to advisory work with governments and international organisations.

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