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Currents 013: Rob Malda on the Slashdot Story

Posted October 8, 202000:44:41

Rob Malda (AKA: CmdrTaco) talks to Jim about the history & tech of Slashdot while speculating on what social media could learn from it. In this Currents episode,...

EP82 Hanzi Freinacht on Building a Metamodern Future

Posted October 5, 202001:33:15

Hanzi Freinacht talks to Jim about political metamodernism, Gameb, sensemaking, conspiracy, top-down vs bottom-up tactics, coherent pluralism, and...

EP81 Renée DiResta on Social Media Warfare

Posted October 1, 202001:28:52

Renée DiResta talks to Jim about social media dynamics, foreign influence, disinformation vs misinformation, political ads, conspiracy, and much more... Renée...

EP80 Daniel Schmachtenberger on Better Sensemaking

Posted September 28, 202001:38:27

Daniel Schmachtenberger talks to Jim about sensemaking & how it's impacted by algorithms, addiction, authority, conspiracy, education, and much...

EP79 Seth Lloyd on Our Quantum Universe

Posted September 24, 202001:49:04

Seth Lloyd talks to Jim about the fundamentals of quantum physics, quantum computing, seeing the universe as a quantum computer, and much more... Seth...