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- Richard Smoley: Kabbalah and the Nature of Consciousness · 1 h 1 minAuthor and philosopher Richard Smoley joins the Plutopia podcast to discuss Kabbalah: Treasure House of Secret Wisdom, drawing on five decades of study to explore this mystical…
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- J. M. Logan: Monsters, Myths, and Moviemaking · 1 h 2 minFilmmaker J. M. (Josh) Logan joins Plutopia to discuss how his experience in special effects, sound, and post-production shapes his approach to directing. Exploring his feature…
- Jen Thompson: Wild Pivot · 1 h 3 minOn the Plutopia News Network podcast, former Republican strategist Jen Thompson discusses her memoir, Wild Pivot: Notes from a Political Life Rewritten, and the near-fatal car…
- Cory Doctorow: AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control · 1 h 0 minCory Doctorow returns to the Plutopia podcast to discuss The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI and the struggle over who controls technology in the workplace. He…
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- Patient Power in the Age of AI · 1 h 1 minThree longtime patient-empowerment advocates — e-Patient Dave deBronkart, Hugo Campos, and Gilles Frydman — join Plutopia to discuss how AI is transforming participatory medicine…
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- Roy Casagranda on Iran, War, and Global Fallout · 1 h 7 minIn this Plutopia News Network episode, Jon and Scoop talk with political scholar Dr. Roy Casagranda, joining from Dubai, about Iran’s modern history, the rise of the Islamic…
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