John's private podcast feed ~ betaworks events & things I'm listening to.. enjoy 👂

Software as the New Media 29.04.2026 1:03:53 ↓

Event at betaworks Dan Shipper, Iris, Mike Rothman and John April 2026

Designing Freedom #6: Stafford Beer, 1973 Massey Lectures 22.12.2025 34:55 ↓

The Free Man in the Cybernetic World Source CBC

Designing Freedom #5: Stafford Beer, 1973 Massey Lectures 22.12.2025 32:18 ↓

The Future That Can Be Demanded Now Source CBC

Designing Freedom #4: Stafford Beer, 1973 Massey Lectures 22.12.2025 29:49 ↓

CBC. Science in the Service of Man

Designing Freedom #3: Stafford Beer, 1973 Massey Lectures 22.12.2025 32:48 ↓

A Liberty Machine in Prototype

Designing Freedom #2: Stafford Beer, 1973 Massey Lectures 16.12.2025 30:23 ↓

Designing Freedom: The Disregarded Tools of Modern Man, CBC

Designing Freedom #1: Stafford Beer, 1973 Massey Lectures 15.12.2025 29:33 ↓

by distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer.: The Real Threat to "All We Hold Most Dear"

Founder + startup Guide to to the Restructuring of the Global Trading System in the Midst of an AI Revolution. 06.05.2025 23:09 ↓

otebookLM summary of substack post

Facebook's Rise, Careless Power, and the Future of AI 🤖 23.03.2025 29:43 ↓

Source articles, 🤖 generated: Careless people (Book) & Zuck on Joe Rogan (Pod)

The Age of the Dense network and Averaging ... 🤖 22.03.2025 19:20 ↓

Source articles, 🤖 generated: Seeing Like A Network The age of average The New Control Society: The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?

Discussion of notes from week 12, 2025 22.03.2025 18:51 ↓

An experiment

🤖: Hugging Face submission re: AI Action Plan 21.03.2025 15:36 ↓

Highlight's discussion on Hugging Face submission re: AI Action Plan

Emad Mostaque and David Salle at Founders Forum, Oct 2022 14.10.2022 35:06 ↓

Emad Mostaque and David Salle at Founders Forum, Oct 2022

Psychedelics, Transitioning, and De-Conditioning ... 16.08.2022 1:47:28 ↓

Finders, with Jonathan Robinson

Two talks by Alan Watts 07.08.2022 1:32:45 ↓

You Must Do It in Order To Understand It Essential Lectures Part 1: Out of Your Mind - 

Gregory Bateson - From Versalles to Cybernetics (1966 20.06.2022 1:10:13 ↓

Gregory Bateson - From Versalles to Cybernetics (1966) discussion

Gregory Bateson - From Versalles to Cybernetics (1966) 19.06.2022 2:13 ↓

lecture

Asking A Theoretical Physicist About The Physics Of Consciousness | Roger Penrose & Jordan Peterson 07.05.2022 1:40:38 ↓

Roger Penrose & Jordan Peterson in discussion source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi9ys2j1ncg

The Cathedral w/ Curtis Yarvin 01.05.2022 55:25 ↓

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub02qqoaFoU

Extract from the Melvyn Bragg interview with playwright Dennis Potter 16.04.2022 50:04 ↓

A short extract from the Melvyn Bragg interview with playwright Dennis Potter a few months before he died.  recorded on 15th March 1994.   "it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. 

Madeline Albright -- On Fascism and Freedom & Democracy 24.03.2022 1:55:49 ↓

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tboOmm-Vp3Q

Alexander Dugin deep dive: 3x key tapes 12.03.2022 2:45:08 ↓

#1: Michael Millerman: Who is Alexander Dugin? (INTRO) #2: The Fourth Political Theory w/ Aleksandr Dugin (HIS THEORY) #3. Bernard-Henri Lévy vs. Aleksandr Dugin – Nexus Symposium 21 September 2019, Amsterdam (DEBATE w/ LEVI, WESTERN LIBERAL IDEAS)

Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs 17.02.2022 2:18:22 ↓

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

David Graeber vs. Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go? 02.02.2022 1:03:06 ↓

source: https://davidgraeber.org/videos/david-graeber-vs-peter-thiel-where-did-the-future-go/

Core Studio Public Lecture: Virgil Abloh, “Insert Complicated Title Here” 24.01.2022 1:10:30 ↓

source video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qie5VITX6eQ