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Helen and Andy are on a deeply critical quest to understand our technological society. The show is punk - sassy, sceptical, creative, humane and irreverent, but also prescient with remarkable insights on serious subjects.
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Los 20 episodios más recientes de 195
- HomeStart here
- Tech Underground Railroad: Why we should help migrants escape slaveryHelping someone escpe US Big Tech
- Confidence versus competenceSmart glasses are more than over-compensation, they signal intent to deceive
- Blues go marchingart authenticiy education life-skills communication propaganda
- Data Rape: Tech Has A Consent ProblemCoercive data extraction and resistance to it
- Cassandra's GameComputer security as an untellable truth
- Systemantics 2Part 2 of reading and comments on exerpts from John Gall's 1975 classic Systemantics
- The Fermi Paradox of "AI"Rumours of an "AI" revolution are unsubstantiated by evidence
- Systemantics 1Andy reads and comments on exerpts from John Gall's 1975 classic Systemantics
- The remuneration fallacy and the role of reluctance as a negative feedback force.Taking the buck harms your real status
- Freedom Fighters (Part IV): We're Doing Cybersecurity All WrongCurrent policies in cybersecurity will only make everything much worse
- My commitment to Sparkle Motion: Manifestos for a technological civilisationProminent technologists lead us into smaller ideas of civilisation.
- Colonised By WankersAndy talks to senior software developer Jay Little about what's eating tech
- Dick-Tech : The Rise of Weaponised Antisocial TechnologySocially hostile tech is being pushed as a way to "improve" yourself. It does the opposite.
- The FallAfter the tech collapse, where should be start rebuilding?
- A Small Victory For DignityThe Lampard Inquiry exposes a fundamental problem with thinking we can offload care to "AI" and surveillance.
- Consumer protection and the war on childrenConsumer law is in tatters, it protectes neither children nor adults
- Robot CEODAOs are a ploy for unprecedented takeovers
- Technology as mass psychosisAnthropology and the healthy technological sceptic







