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Alex Fink

Anne Reilly - The Ideasphere Hypothesis

January 12, 2025

Anne Riley has been on a lifelong quest to understand how humans logically fit into life's panorama. Her book, The Human Idea, introduces some interesting concepts that try to refine Dawkins' "memes" and Harari's "fictions" - we invited her to explore these ideas and try to poke some holes in them. Enjoy!

Rhonda Parker Taylor - What is a bestselling author and how can you become one?

December 20, 2024

Welcome to the otherweb. Our guest today is Rhonda Parker Taylor - a bestselling author, who agreed to talk to us about what it takes to become a bestselling author. Rhonda Parker Taylor is an American writer, entrepreneur, and academic researcher. You can find her bestselling book, Crossroads, here: https://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Rhonda-Parker-Taylor/dp/1958729531 or wherever books are sold.

David Griffiths - How to Stand Out On Social Media

December 14, 2024

Our guest today is David Griffiths - a name that resonates with over 1.5 million followers across social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. In his first 13 years as a content creator, David gathered only 100 followers. Then, suddenly he figured it out. Now you have a chance to figure it out, too.

Josh Brandau - AI as a Newsroom Assistant

November 11, 2024

Josh Brandau is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nota, a technology company focused on AI products for Media. Formerly, Josh was the CMO and CRO of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune, and CEO of Brand Day Media. He believes that storytelling is the greatest thing to bind us together, and that this transformational moment in technology can be harnessed to serve the public good.

Victor Kumar - Mind and Morality

November 4, 2024

Victor Kumar is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the interdisciplinary Mind and Morality Lab at Boston University. He works at the intersection of ethics and psychology. His book, A Better Ape, draws on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that morality has played in human evolution.

Charles Key - Stolen Government

October 28, 2024

Charles Key is a former Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, representing District 90 from 2006 to 2012. He served as an Assistant Majority Floor Leader. He also served as a Representative from 1986 to 1999. His recent book, Stolen Government, outlines the ways in which legislative rulemaking often prevents elected representatives from representing the people who voted them into power.

Michael Kasumovic - Is Technology Changing Us?

October 22, 2024

Michael Kasumovic is an associate professor of evolutionary biology at UNSW Sydney. His research explores the intersection of humanity and technology, with the goal of understanding how technology affects how humans perceive themselves and how that affects their behaviour. His fascination with technology has led him to create Arludo, a digital education company. Through Arludo, he is focused on empowering teachers to provide students with access to real science and real data at scale. By allowing students to practice scientific thinking in intuitive and engaging ways, Michael’s goal is to improve students’ critical and analytical thinking while helping prepare them to live and work in a world obsessed with data. Arludo is used by teachers in over 800 schools across Australia where students have helped collect over 10 million data points for science.

David Pinsof - The Evolution of Bullsh$t

October 14, 2024

Dr. Pinsof is an evolutionary social scientist at UCLA studying political attitudes, status hierarchies, and social signaling. He is one of the co-creators of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity and director of The Pulse of the Nation public opinion poll. His work has been cited in the New York Times, Business Insider, and Upworthy. He deconstructs bullshit on his blog, Everything Is Bullsh$t.

Prof. Gloria Mark - Social Computing

October 7, 2024

Gloria Mark is Chancellor’s Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine, and has spent ten years as a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research. For over two decades she has researched the impact of digital media on people's lives, studying how using our devices affect our multitasking, distractions, mood and behavior. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy, recognizing leaders in the field of HCI. She has appeared on The Ezra Klein show, NPR’s Hidden Brain, Sanjay Gupta’s CNN Chasing Life, CBS Sunday Morning, Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert, among many others. Her recent book Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity was named by The Globe and Mail as the #1 Best Business and Management book of 2023, and chosen as the Season 20 selection of the Next Big Idea Book Club.

Isaac Saul - Can Neutral Language Bridge the Left-Right Divide?

August 19, 2024

Isaac Saul is a politics reporter and the founder of Tangle, an independent, nonpartisan news outlet that covers the big issues of the day by highlighting different perspectives across the political spectrum. Before Tangle, Isaac helped build A Plus, a solutions journalism media outlet, alongside actor and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher. In 2016, Yahoo News named him one of the 16 people whose writing shaped the 2016 election, and in 2020, Forbes Magazine called him one of the 1,000 “upstart entrepreneurs redefining the American dream.”

Valerie Fridland - Finding The Good In Bad English

August 13, 2024

Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics at University of Nevada, Reno and the author of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good and Bad English. She also writes a monthly blog for Psychology Today, is a regular guest writer for the popular Grammar Girl podcast and has a lecture series, Language and Society, available with The Great Courses.

Kelly McBride - Ethics And Controversies in Journalism

August 6, 2024

Kelly McBride is a journalist and an ethicist. She works with newsrooms everywhere on their ethical standards. She is a Senior Vice President at The Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank; she is the chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership and she is the public editor at NPR.

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Tech

Georgia antidoxing bill could criminalize everyday criticism
Trump has pledged to support Tesla. His trade policies will do the opposite.
The UK government embracing AI? I’m sorry, that’s nonsense and I can prove it | Chris Stokel-Walker
Report: California continues to spend a lot of money on poor quality roads
Meta will start testing Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the U.S. on March 18
Trump's turn as a Tesla sales hack is his truest form
Biden rushed out billions for green energy projects before Trump took office
The Mask Is Really Off Now on Tech Billionaire Politics
The UK's Lammy has called for reparations for former colonies in the West Indies. Here's why
Why Does Trump Dislike the CHIPS Act?
Is China Pulling Ahead on AI? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Justice Department doubles down against Google
GE Aerospace to invest nearly $1 billion in U.S. factories and supply chain
Study: Age-verification laws don't work
Will Student Protesters Be Deported?
What’s Going On with Alabama Barker and Bhad Bhabie?
Dean Spade, author of Love in a F*cked Up World, on breaking free from toxic relationship scripts
Meghan Markle Hosts a Flower-Sprinkled Dinner Party for Mickey 17
Trump promises to label Musk protesters domestic terrorists while cutting Tesla ad at White House
Trump promises to buy a 'brand new Tesla' to support his most important political ally, Truth Social
Why the right is to blame for distrust in the media
China’s rise as a global AI power poses serious challenges to Vance’s bold vision
Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she recently ordered Doritos on DoorDash while watching the Oscars
Where has the left’s technological audacity gone? | Leigh Phillips
Cuomo Wanted To Be President. He’ll Settle For Mayor
Chinaâs 4-Stage Strategy to Surpass the USA
Anna talks to Ada Calhoun and Rosebud Baker about some of life’s big transitional moments
The Personal Is Political for Foolish Tesla Owners - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Connecticut Lawmakers Seek Overhaul of Towing Laws
The left needs to abandon its miserable, irrational pessimism | Aaron Bastani
Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that could weaken the state’s ability to compete on AI
The FAA’s aging systems are no longer able to meet the growing demands of the aviation industry
The Constitutional Truth At The Heart Of The DOGE Cases: Elon Musk can't be simultaneously leading DOGE and leading DOGE
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro has teamed up with AI search platform Perplexity
UK’s automotive industry is the UK’s largest exporter of goods
As a teenager, I was a victim of online ‘revenge porn’. Here’s how Britain should protect people like me | Isabel Brooks
Who Is Andrew Tate and Why Is The President Trying to Protect Him?
How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars
‘A Quest for Evidence’: What Drew Leading Women Data Journalists to the Field
It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human | Gaby Hinsliff
Congress must deep-six deepfake porn - Washington Examiner
I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft | Toby Walsh
Apple takes U.K. to court over demand to weaken encryption
Amy Klobuchar's Health Misinformation Act has aged poorly
Trump’s “Genocidal” Threat to Gaza: If Hamas Won’t Release Hostages, “You Are DEAD”
Redefining security in a hostile world
AIDS, Activism, and the Arena: The Gay Rodeo’s Untold Story
The Latest Trend Online Must Be Simply Devastating for J.D. Vance
Consumer Review Act to Nullify DOE Rule Could Have Unintended Consequences
Trump’s actions will benefit wild, scenic and agricultural lands in America and worldwide
Honda to produce Civic hybrid in U.S. instead of Mexico, sources say
The Trump administration has racked up at least $3 trillion in investments and trade commitments since Inauguration Day
The Meghan in Montecito Rebrand
Zero Day Makes Robert De Niro a Befuddled President
Can Publicizing a Person's "Address and Physical Appearance" in Connection with True Allegations of Misconduct Be Actionable?
Jail time for cheap rides?
Money Talks: Working Hard is Hardly Working
Spurring innovation in wireless tech
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to invest $100 billion in U.S. chip plants
First Lady Melania Trump calls out Democrats for not taking on the serious issue of online safety with the passage of the ‘Take it Down Act’
Porn isn’t just a reflection of our desires – it shapes them, putting women and girls at risk | Fiona Vera-Gray
"The Product of Impulsive, Irresponsible, Exceedingly Immature Behavior, Rather Than a Serious, Contemplated Threat to Harm Police Officers"
Libel and Allegations of "TERF"ness, DMCA Abuse, and Perjury
Why Women Kill One commonality among women incarcerated for homicide raises the question, what is self-defense?
Trump proposes a gold card, Musk resembles a techno-fascist, and black plastic spatulas are fine
YouTube author Daniel Greene was accused of sexually assaulting another social media influencer, Naomi King
FCC Chair Brendan Carr wants more control over social media
Microsoft to shut down Skype in May, directing users to its Teams platform
‘Old money’ is the new look de jure being adopted and pushed by the main players in the pro-Trump youth wing
"Total liar": MAGA loyalists melt down over Trump admin's "fake release" of Jeffrey Epstein files
“Opportunism and Fear”: Crypto Industry Sets Its Sights on Governors’ Mansions
AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett
Cruz says he plans to expose and go after big tech companies for censoring conservative media
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright will travel to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on Friday to tour nuclear facilities and take part in an AI summit
Trump orders Commerce Secretary to investigate copper tariffs to increase U.S. production
Listen & Subscribe Get Your podcast Plus: The DOGE Backlash Begins
This week, the hosts discuss Trump’s disruptions at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center
How Trump is using child protection rhetoric to push anti-trans policies
DOGE comes for California high-speed rail - Washington Examiner
"Major Technological Questions": Courts, agencies should hesitate to interpret ambiguous pre-existing legal authority
Apple rejected a resolution seeking accountability for its measures to protect children from online sex abuse
Trump’s unwavering plan to end congestion pricing: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 26, 2025
Kardashian is being sued for incorrectly identifying a New York man as a Texas man on death row
Two people with motor neuron disease use AI to "speak" in their old voices
Sanctions on Lawyers for Filing Motion Containing AI-Hallucinated Cases
U.S. And India Revamp Bilateral Energy, Trade Pacts
Apple will invest $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including building an AI server factory in Texas
GIJN Webinar: The Future of Funding Investigative Journalism: Strategies & Challenges
America Needs a Sovereign Wealth Fund
Assisted dying should be a matter of individual choice
How Trump’s mission to Mars could save the nation
Will JD Vance reach a deal on TikTok?
Are We Making an Enemy of Our Biggest Ally?
Ohio’s Gritty Fight to Reverse Decadence
My weird night with the New Right
FTC probe of Big Tech censorship must seek a LASTING end to the bullying
Court Voids Discipline of Public School Teacher for Two 2020 Anti-Bernie-Sanders Posts
Trump is using tariffs as a blunt-force tool. It won’t work | Mike Williams
Is AI really thinking and reasoning — or just pretending to?
Elon’s Endgame: What does he want?