a nearly forgotten dj fiftybag mix. aired on @solid-rotation end of '19. thank you to @solid_wuh for the trust back in the day and to @ditschaymaik for securing the file. soundquality is far from perfect but there's some nice moments in there.

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Sorradio 54 DJ Fiftybag

My guest today is Kevin Kelly, one of the original gang of people at Wired magazine back when it was not just reporting on but helping to create digital culture and cyberspace (he remains listed on the masthead as a "senior maverick"). He's a longtime techno-optimist who worked with people like Stewart Brand at the Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, and CoEvolution Quarterly and has published a shelf's worth of books such as Out of Control, which helped popularize the idea of emergent orders and self-regulating systems as preferable to traditional, top-down systems of control. 

Since 2000, he has published Cool Tools, "which recommends the best/cheapest tools available" and he is one of the people behind a weekly Substack newsletter that suggests interesting gadgets, books, and offerings. He is one of the founders of The Long Now Foundation, which pushes people to think in 10,000-year-long increments, and he maintains a comprehensive database of the writing, art, presentations, blogs, and other material he's generated over the past several decades.

His new book is Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier, a collection of 450 aphorisms and insights gleaned from a life spent traveling the globe and at the intersection of technology and culture. We talk about his body of work, how his Christianity informs his scientific beliefs (and vice versa), and not only why he believes optimism wins in the long run but also why he believes it's warranted by the facts on the ground.

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Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living From the World's Leading Optimist

This is the audio version of The Reason Livestream, which takes place every Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the government's response to it cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars and resulted in a major hit to global freedom. What should governments, private companies, and individuals do differently next time disaster strikes?

Alec Stapp, co-founder of the Institute for Progress, has assembled a team devoted to analyzing and applying the lessons of the pandemic. The institute has published papers arguing that Operation Warp Speed was a success that should be duplicated, for greater investment in indoor filtration, and for better biosurveillance. Stapp joined Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe for a live conversation about how to prevent the next global catastrophe.

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Alec Stapp: Give Trump Credit for Operation Warp Speed

first hour from my opening for @juliussteinhoff for the first Scenery at Strand 22 in Jena.
amazing artwork by Ferdinand.

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On this episode of The Rundown, the host, Vereena Bishoy, and producers  Lelah Tarek and Dana Wael El Mankabady discuss current events in Science and Technology.
Topics discussed in the Roundtable Discussion:
1. An annular solar eclipse occurred on Saturday, October 14, 2023, across North America.
‘Ring of fire’: Annular solar eclipse will be partially visible in Canada | Globalnews.ca 
2. Egypt achieved "gold tier" status according to WHO criteria for eliminating Hepatitis C, making it the first country to do so.
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/509862/Egypt/Egypt-receives-WHO-gold-tier-status-for-eradicatin.aspx  
3. UAE uses AI to diagnose health issues
UAE hospitals to use AI to diagnose health issues - Arabian Business 

For the interview Segment, Vereena Bishoy interviewed Dr. Nour Zaki, Assistant professor at AUC, and a leading researcher in attachment and pre/peri/postnatal psychology in the MENA region. The interview will discuss the basics of attachment and attachment theory. She will also walk us through her journey of replicating a very famous study in psychology
Dr Nour Zaki's Bio: https://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/nour
Podcast Credits:
Music: Sleepless Nights by Anitek
www.jamendo.com/track/802176/slee…ights?language=it
Image: We've Got Audacity members Dana, Lelah, and Vereena posing for a photo in the AUC Production Studio. Image taken by TA Maria Awad.
Professor:  Kim Fox @ohradiogirl
Teaching Assistant: Maria Awad
Host: Vereena Bishoy
Content Producer: @Lelah Tarek 
Technical Producer: @Danaelmankabady

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XqSoHNZcFQE6_T8AmVQnxajyjqz1Dobxhq_0MgcmfI4/edit?usp=sharing

Recorded on the 15th of October, 2023

The Rundown, We've Got Audacity :: Episode 4

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman laud the election of libertarian economist Javier Milei in Argentina and parse the results of the federal case involving the online advertising platform Backpage.

0:31—Javier Milei elected president of Argentina

16:25—Verdicts in the Backpage trial

36:43—Weekly Listener Question

46:44—Sam Altman out at OpenAI

54:48—This week's cultural recommendations

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The World's First Libertarian President

This is a bonus episode, hosted by Reason Features Editor Peter Suderman. A few weeks back, at our Washington, D.C. HQ, he moderated a discussion with former Reason Editor in Chief Virginia Postrel (Reason archive here)and American Enterprise Institute Fellow James Pethokoukis about the future—why it matters, why it's misunderstood, and how we might get a better one.

Both have written extensively on the topic. Postrel is the author of many books, including The Future and Its Enemies. Pethokoukis is the author of the just-released The Conservative Futurist—How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised. 

It's a great conversation about economics, progress, science fiction—and kitchen gadgets.

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Virginia Postrel & Jim Pethokoukis: How To Get a Great Future

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman weigh in on the approved House bill that could potentially usher in a ban on popular social media app TikTok in the United States.

01:49—Legislation to ban TikTok

16:39—California's continued high-speed rail boondoggle

33:48—Weekly Listener Question

43:25—Elon Musk launches Starship rocket

46:31—This week's cultural recommendations

Send your questions to roundtable@reason.com. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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The CCP Sucks. So Does Banning TikTok.

"I discovered something remarkably similar to an alien co-intelligence," wrote Ethan Mollick in his new book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, describing the "sleepless nights" he experienced upon first encountering ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022.

Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of the One Useful Thing Substack, has studied, taught, and written about the effects of artificial intelligence on work and education for years. He joined Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions to discuss the ways in which large language models like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are already transforming the workplace, the classroom, artistic production, and the truth-seeking process itself.

In this episode, they discuss why you should treat your chatbot like a person even though it's not, how AI is "decomposing" jobs, what tools like OpenAI's Sora mean for the future of filmmaking, how to protect one's identity in the age of deepfakes, The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, the prospects for AI "doomsday," and whether regulation of AI is necessary or even possible.

Watch the full conversation on Reason's YouTube channel or on the Just Asking Questions podcast feed on Apple, Spotify, or your preferred podcatcher.

Ethan Mollick: How Will AI Change Us?

On this episode of The Earth Is A Test podcast, hosts Doctor Alistair Brooks and Doctor Evelyn Reed dive into the Internet of Bodies (IoB), exploring the fascinating evolution of connected devices from external wearables to internal implants and even "body-melded" technologies like smart tattoos. They discuss the transformative potential of IoB for personalized healthcare and security, while also unearthing the profound ethical dilemmas, security risks, and privacy concerns that come with integrating the human body with the internet.

Hosted by two theoretical physicists, The Earth Is A Test podcast is your guide to the theories, discoveries, and conspiracies that challenge everything you think you know.

Earth is a Test Podcast: Episode 001 - Internet of Bodies (IoB)

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"maar ik been niet down met de fake shit"
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