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Join us for a conversation with Jack Cushman from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab about their new archive of Data.gov—more than 311,000 datasets harvested in 2024–2025, updated daily, and published on Source Cooperative. We’ll dig into two threads:- BagIt for durability: How Library of Congress–standard packaging, checksums, and signatures support authenticity, provenance, and long-t...

Jez Riley French is fascinated and passionate about the infinite detail and expanding vistas of life around us, its sights and sounds, often overlooked or hidden. His creative output focuses on elements such as audible silence, active listening and stillness. Jez has been exploring his enjoyment of detail, simplicity and emotive response to places and situations for the past three decades using fi...

Professeure de français, Cassandre choisit de remplacer les classiques scolaires qu’elle a l’habitude de faire étudier à ses élèves, par un livre qui décrit l’état alarmant de la planète. Lorsqu’une de ses élèves tente de se suicider, Cassandre est alors accusée de harcèlement moral et traduite en justice. Son procès occupe le centre du récit. On y croise l’enseignante, ses avocats, ceux de la par...

Interviewed by David C. Brock on 2024-03-15 in The Sea Ranch, CA © Computer History Museum This is an oral history interview with Ken Thompson, created in partnership by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer History Museum, in connection with his A.M. Turing Award in 1983. The interview begins with Thompson’s family background and youth, detailing the hobbies he pursued intently...

The second show in a series of radio broadcasts that examines rural technology.

Interview on Sounds Apart podcast - Kristoffer Lislegaard

A founding engineer on Google BigQuery and now at the helm of MotherDuck, Jordan Tigani challenges the decade-long dominance of Big Data and introduces a compelling alternative that could change how companies handle data. Jordan discusses why Big Data technologies are an overkill for most companies, how MotherDuck and DuckDB offer fast analytical queries, and lessons learned as a technical founder...

Hannes Muhleisen is the creator of DuckDB and CEO of DuckDB Labs. We finally got a chance to meet in person at the Forward Data Conference in Paris. We hit it off immediately, and at times, I felt like I was talking with my long lost brother. Hannes is a very cool guy! While at the conference, we recorded a chat about all things DuckDB, the challenges of data lakehouses and open table formats, loc...

Nick Estes, Ph. D. (Kul Wicasa/Lower Brule Sioux), is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society, a group of Dakota, Nakota and Lakota writers. In 2014, he was a co-founder of The Red Nation in Albuquerque, NM, an organization dedicated to the liberation of Native people from capitalism and colonialism. He serves on its edit...

Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books. Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! Guest: Ursula WhitcherTitle: Burning Bright by Melissa ScottHost: Jake Case…

Rising Up and Rising Down (McSweeney's; abridged, Harper Collins) William Vollmann's mammoth inquiry is a study of the history of violence, which fills seven large volumes...

Title: How Rust won: the quest for performant, reliable software Abstract: For a long time, high performance has been in tension with reliability. In particular, languages designed for high performance were not memory safe, with real implications for unexpected crashes and security vulnerabilities. Rust is the first practical language to address this tension, building on affine types and other pri...

Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder of Databricks, shares lessons he’s learned from being one of seven co-founders at Databricks and leading a company that began with open-source software.

The technology industry promised us connection, convenience, and creativity. Has it delivered, or offered false promises that may never be fully realized? Scott Hanselman offers a candid look at what’s really happening beneath the surface of AI and innovation and how we must make conscious, informed decisions about the tools shaping our future. We could not do this without community support. With...

This past August 12th Devine gave this light-hearted talk for Critical Signals 2025, taking place in New Zealand. This talk introduces some old, some new and some eccentric ideas for keeping computers and their software running for as long as we can. It was meant to try and teach tricks to fight planned obsolescence and also build new things that might survive the onslaught of corporate capture. T...

Summer Series BOB - Dream Askew

On April 13, 2018, renowned English art historian spoke at the John Adams Institute about his book, Rembrandt’s Eyes. In this book, Schama explores Rembrant’s obsession with and admiration of the Flemish painter, Peter Paul Rubens. It was only after the death of the legendary Rubens that Rembrant discovered his own style, enabling him to breathe new life into historical painting, portraits, nudes,...

Modernity is dying within and around us, and we need to face that death with courage and compassion. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Brazilian educator, Indigenous and land rights activist, and author of Hospicing Modernity , joins us.

What happens when an internal hack turns into a $400 million AI rocket ship? In this episode, Matt Turck sits down with Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, to unpack the wild story behind the fastest-growing AI coding tool on the planet. Boris reveals how Claude Code started as a personal productivity tool, only to become Anthropic’s secret weapon — now used by nearly every engi...

In late 2019 I was lucky to have the opportunity to sit down and chat with Warren Burt at Brunetti’s in Carlton (Melbourne). Warren has made incredible contributions to electronic music, in both the US and Australia for several decades now as a artist, teacher, writer, instrument designer and organi

Join Spectre Journal and Haymarket Books for a rebroadcast of a discussion on ecosocialism with Kohei Saito ————————————————————— Kohei Saito's recent book Marx in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2023) has spurred renewed interest in Marx’s ecological thought and ignited further controversy around a number of key debates within contemporary left eco-theory - most notably concerni...

In an era where AI transforms software development, the most valuable skill isn't writing code - it's communicating intent with precision. This talk reveals how specifications, not prompts or code, are becoming the fundamental unit of programming, and why spec-writing is the new superpower. Drawing from production experience, we demonstrate how rigorous, versioned specifications serve as t...

On July 3, 2024, Boyce Upholt presented “The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi” as part of the History Is Lunch series. The Mississippi River is central to the United States, both physically and metaphorically. Its watershed spans almost half the country. Mark Twain’s travels on the river inspired the America’s first national literature. Blues and jazz were born in its floodp...

Axios media correspondent Sara Fischer speaks to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince about the impacts of AI on search traffic and content compensation, and what those shifts mean for publishers at an Axios Live event at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.