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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is an entire genre of media production built around reacting to the content of others, whether movies, series, or the work of peer content creators. Check out episodes 0033 and 0063 of this very audio program for previous ponderings on this topic, but today it is Movie Reactions. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I may have spoken of this before, but lately I am really feeling the difference between being inside a car and in front of one out on our streets here in Vegas, and this really should not be the case in this twenty-first century, should it? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A tremendous amount of our individual engagement with the rest of the world, near and far, is digital, thanks to social media and search engines and now more and more, AI. We should think about this. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This year is coming to an end, is there anything that simply works so we do not need to do anything about it? Maybe, but I am seeing some patterns. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The “Smart City” concept has been around for decades, and if you ask anyone anywhere they will tell you what they think makes a city smart, the question is whether they are correct. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Smart City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city Toronto and Project S...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Certainly the expression “Us versus Them” is familiar, and is usually indicative of an adversarial relationship. Here let us consider a more neutral environment wherein one side or another must Do Something. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This happens all the time online, more and more daily, but it can happen anywhere and at anytime, and it has, and it does, and will continue, the notion of certainty regarding a topic or event about which there is none (or very little). Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dunning-Kruger Eff...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Today we record and publish on what we all hope is a Happy Thanksgiving, but what about these holidays, what are they all about? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo When is Thanksgiving anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franksgiving Hallmark Holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmar...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Predicting the weather was always something of a challenge, getting it wrong could be costly in many ways. In the modern era, filling time or feeding an audience for clicks and views makes speculation essential, whether accurate or otherwise. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Is simplicity more and more difficult to find? Look around, we depend more and more on things that are less and less transparent, more difficult to repair, and probably doing something to us we would rather they did not do. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The paradox of choice, an embarrassment of riches, how to decide, do we even want to? Too many and we might not, none and we may rebel, so we settle on… Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo The Paradox of Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice Pasta Sauce Choice (Malcolm...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Surely someone has suggested this, that the internet has made speech and conversation ubiquitous, or nearly so, for better or worse. Does it feel like worse sometimes? Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo A History of The Comment Section https://inevitablehuman.com/the-complicated-history-an...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One political hot potato that has come up many, many times in recent years, Defund The Police, is classic misdirection, but a hard look at public safety is long past due. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Copaganda book https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/206303786-copaganda Sunnyvale...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Internet is sometimes lauded as one of the greatest human inventions of all time, connecting every part of the world to every other, and the people and things occupying it. We barely need to go outside anymore, and this is a problem. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have talked about a variety of issues that are certainly adjacent to this one, but let us take a look at the so-called Algorithm and where we have some problems. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Netflix Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize Random Surfer https://en.wikiped...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about Fragility in Episode 0075 of this audio program, now is a good time to ponder Turmoil in that context. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As this episode is recorded one of the news items of the day concerns a crime committed in public, with multiple video angles, multiple witnesses, a suspect, and a variety of statements and silence from all corners. Maybe history does rhyme. Links FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Sensor Fusion...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Anyone who had never before heard of a supply chain probably did during the infamous Pandemic Lockdowns, when global supply chains were suddenly a part of the problem rather than the amazing global economy. What about your own supply chains? Links Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Recorded on a day with one so-called Political Assassination and yet another school shooting here in the US, the way we share this information is in need of some reflection and improvement. Links Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/post...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In these modern times, everyone is a reporter, though very few are journalists, and those who are may or may not be putting in the time when the next YouTube video or TikTok or Reel or whatever needs to be posted. Links Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https:...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Pizza is one of those things that is regional, somewhat tribal, and is always a topic of conversation. The same is true of a great many things, but who doesn’t like pizza? Don’t answer that. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts Wikipedia Pi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The hype cycle is real, and we seem to be experiencing them in overlapping fashion, faster and faster, like Tarzan passing from vine to vine through modernity. Gartner Hype Curve cover art image by By Olga Tarkovskiy - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27546041 Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy M...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Who at this point is not on one or both of Twitter and Bluesky, or X and BS if you like, and who finds that a good thing? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts Gizmodo on Social Media Bots Study https://gizmodo.com/researchers-made-a-social-...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Explainers are a real thing, on YouTube especially but on any video media, well-produced explanations about how things work, from people who might know what they’re talking about… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The philosophical notion of solipsism is a bit extreme, while the more practical definition or common use leans more toward individualism or egocentrism. Whatever the words we use, are we too selfish? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts Ph...