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John Coltrane (left) and Eric Dolphy on stage at the Village Gate in New York City in the summer of 1961. A recording of the performance, once thought lost, was recently discovered in the New York Public Library. Herb Snitzer/Courtesy of Impulse! Records A little over 60 years ago, the editor-in-chief of DownBeat magazine asked John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy a deceptively simple question: What are...

Steven Cherry Hi, this is Steven Cherry for Radio Spectrum. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed any number of weaknesses in our technologies, business models, medical systems, media, and more. Perhaps none is more exposed than what my guest today calls, “The Hidden World of Legacy IT.” If you remember last April’s infamous call for volunteer COBOL programmers by the governor of New Jersey, when h...

This session is presented in two parts. The first three speakers will provide evidence of serious and even criminal problems in scholarly publishing. The next three speakers will propose actions researchers, universities and funders are taking to move away from the old model and create a better system.

"Could a Robot Feel Pain? Race, Technology, and the Political Problem of Personhood" Presented in partnership with the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis In this lecture, recorded on April 5, Sylvester A. Johnson interprets the work of Ibn Rushd ("Averroës"), the twelfth-century Islamic scholar of Andalusia who achieved renown as the "father" of secularism, in or...

Bad closed captions can be entertaining, but they can be serious, too, because captions are a critical tool for lots of lots of people. There are the people learning a new language, the easily confused, and of course captions are essential for people who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing. In the US, that’s about 15% of the population. And with so many low quality closed captions out there, those folks a...

Invited Talk: Metric Perversity and Bad Decision-Making Lea Kissner People keep making terrible decisions. Shockingly often, bad decisions are because of perverse metrics—metrics that are technically correct but drive people to bad decisions. This is an especially bad problem for security, privacy, abuse, and related fields: we have adversaries, we have unknowns, and we have many small risks with...

Abstract: The deliberate failure of national leaders, whether in politics, business, journalism or indeed much of academia to be honest about the climate emergency has left us facing fundamental questions of every facet of modern society. Central amongst these is the issue of equity – both between and within nations. In this presentation, Kevin Anderson will unpick the policy gulf that exists betw...

Most of us, young and old, are addicted to something. Addictions can take many forms: alcohol, drugs, pornography, sex, games, work, phone, eating, shopping, etc. etc. Even patterns in our thinking can be addictive. In this sharing Sister Dang Nghiem invites us to look deeper at our addictions, and to understand the roots of it. Why are we addicted? Only when we understand the deeper emotions - an...

Psst... You've found it. This is the JavaScript meetup for mad science, hacking, and experiments. Hang out virtually on Friday at 4pm Pacific Time each week. https://speakeasyjs.com​

CONTRIBUTORSMartin O'Neill at the University of YorkJonathan Wolff at the University of OxfordFabienne Peter at the University of WarwickREADING LISTSamuel Freeman, Rawls (Routledge, 2007)Samuel Freeman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (Cambridge University Press, 2002)Gerald Gaus, The Tyranny of the Ideal (Princeton University Press, 2016)Jean Hampton, Political Philosophy (Westview Pr...

A deep dive into the game theory and exponential growth underlying our modern economic system, and how recent advancements in AI are poised to turn up the pressure on that system, and its wider environment, in ways we have never seen before. Not a conversation for the faint hearted, but crucial nonetheless. Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving...

GPT3 & Beyond: Key concepts and open questions in a golden age for natural language understanding Listen in as Professor Christopher Potts discusses the significance and implications of recent Natural Language Understanding developments including GPT-3. He describes the fundamental building blocks of these systems and describes how we can reliably assess and understand them. Learn more about t...

Pay Attention: Prevent the Tragedy of the Social Media Commons via Community-driven Governance As our society transitions more online, social media is playing an increasingly central role in public discourses and in turn, political processes. However, abuse and pollution are prevalent in these information ecosystems, resulting in polarization, extremism and erosion of trust in governments. We argu...

The Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths University of London, about his new book “Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.” They discuss how the dangers of automated bureaucracy and algorithmic cruelty, what Max Weber...

Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash. He also addresses the US government bailout (which it isn't calling a bailout), the role of the Federal Reserve and Treasury, the factor of cryptocurrency, and the danger of derivatives. TRANSCRIPT: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/...

SUBSCRIBE TO FACTUALLY PODCAST: https://bit.ly/3l4Lk6b SEE ADAM LIVE NEAR YOU: http://adamconover.net/tourdates How can creative workers and individuals defend ourselves against the largest monopolies in the US? This week author and activist Cory Doctorow joins Adam on Factually to discuss how chokepoint capitalism causes the enshittification of everything we love and how we can fight back. Repost...

In this episode, we unpack the limitations of ChatGPT. We interview Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Casey Fiesler about the ethical considerations of ChatGPT, bias and discrimination, and the importance of algorithmic literacy in the face of chatbots. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of...

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTOBookClub http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Dave Thomas - Co-Author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" Andy Hunt - Co-Author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" DESCRIPTION Join the authors of “The Pragmatic Programmer” throughout their journey of writing the book to the 20th-anniversary edition. Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt share h...

In this episode, we are honored to have Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of cURL, as our guest. cURL is a ubiquitous data transfer utility that grew into a robust library used in billions of applications worldwide. Daniel is a Swedish developer who has been involved in open source for decades. He is also the recipient of the Polhem Prize 2017 for his work on cURL. Join us as we talk...

Half a century ago, on 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong was in the final stages of the lunar descent, just a few thousand feet above the surface, when suddenly his on-board computer indicated a critical alarm. For three nail-biting seconds it looked as if the mission would have to be aborted. However, Armstrong was given a "go" to continue, and after several more alarms the Eagle touched dow...

Mitchell Baker is the chair and CEO of Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client, the Pocket newsreader, and a bunch of other interesting internet tools. Now, as you all know, Decoder is secretly a podcast about org charts — maybe not so secretly — and Mozilla’s structure is really interesting. Mozilla itself is a nonprofit foundation, but it contains withi...

Jason Hickel is an anthropologist at the London School of Economics. Originally from Swaziland, he spent a number of years living with migrant workers in South Africa, studying patterns of exploitation and political resistance in the wake of apartheid. Alongside his ethnographic work, he writes about development, inequality, and global political economy, contributing regularly to the Guardian, Al...

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