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“Energy is general purpose freedom.”“The earth is in a void, every atom has to come from some place, and go somewhere.“Infrastructure might not be the first...

This week on Cyber Frontiers we jump into full coverage of the 6-day old public disclosures of the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities. With some issues...

Over the last few years, the idea of a carbon aware, fossil free internet by 2030, has become more than just interesting idea, and instead something that is socially and economically plausible, as well as desirable and inline with the latest climate science. In this talk we’ll cover some of the key drivers to make this possible, and what key policy changes can accelerate our transition from fossil...

Part Two of "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hooper at NSA in 1982.

Part One of "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hooper at NSA in 1982.

Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2013 More info and slides on the website: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/talks Software is difficult because the parts don't fit together. Why is this? Can we do anything about this? And what's this got to do with Erlang? Come to my talk and you'll find out!

Recorded on March 19, 2021, this video features a lecture by Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. ABSTRACT One of Friedrich Hayek's most celebrated essays — "Competition as a Discovery Procedure" (1968) — tells us tantalizing little about the existence of other such pr...

Jennifer Lin, Cameron Neylon, and I proposed The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) almost a decade ago. We drafted these principles because we were frustrated that the research community always seemed surprised when commercial organizations enclosed critical research tools that were once considered “open.” We wanted to provide the community with a set of guidelines to help them av...

On November 6th, 2010 a panel of renowned scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals gathered to discuss what impact evolutionary theory and advances in neuroscience might have on traditional concepts of morality. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral judgment, can scientists determine what is, in fact,...

Abstract To introduce Keynes’s Treatise on Probability in a short time I shall emphasize its remarkable scholarship; its debt to Russell’s logicism; and its pervasive scepticism about the possibility of applying mathematics to its subject. I then briefly consider the departure from logicism due to Frank Ramsey, and Keynes’s own generous, if unconvinced, reaction to Ramsey’s criticisms. A workshop...

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One very important thing to understand in the conversation about online speech is that there are many different kinds of online communities, big and small, and they all have their own needs when it comes to rules and governance. This fact is a key element of a new book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life by media studies professor Nathan Schneider, and this week Nathan joins the...

The Western world is in a crisis of democracy - but we learn a lot of our principles from the ways we interact online and the internet is essentially a feudal space that gives absolute power to a few and robs the many of agency. Nathan Schneider suggests that if we were able to shape a more liquid democracy online, our experience of generative interactions would spill over into the outer world. Ha...

After Jason talked about his side project last week, he tells us he had to abandon Stripe checkout and did something else instead, and Chris announced he just did a Stripe Checkout video for GoRails this week. Joining us on today’s episode...

Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained.

Cornel West—a self-described intellectual freedom fighter influenced by the Baptist church, American transcendentalism, the Black Panthers and European philosophy—seeks to revive the best of liberalism, populism and democratic socialism. In this talk, West teaches that racial division fosters the poverty, paranoia, fear and distrust that undermine our nation's democratic process. Cornel West,...

On July 15th, 2021, Third Place Books was thrilled to welcome Becky Chambers—author of the Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers novels—for the release of the first book in her new Monk & Robot series, A PSALM FOR THE WILD-BUILT. She was joined in conversation by Sarah Gailey, the bestselling author of Magic for Liars and, most recently, The Echo Wife. Purchase the book from Third Place Books: https://...

Kim Stanley Robinson at The Interval: The legacy of Ursula K Le Guin lives beyond the page
 in generations of writers who have learned from her. She used fantastic fiction to imagine ideals for the real world. Kim Stanley Robinson, her student 40 years ago and now a celebrated science fiction writer himself, reflects on Le Guin the teacher, 
her impact on his work, and how she changed the world. K...

The philosopher Kohei Saito speaks to Eric Newman and Kate Wolf about his book “Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto.”...

Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture 2024 'The Urgency of Ethical Challenges Facing the World' Presented by Professor Raimond Gaita Introduction by The Hon. Barry Jones AC from Accountability Round Table: Raimond Gaita (1946- ) is an outstanding, but controversial, moral philosopher who agonises over the state of the world. Born in Germany, son of Romulus Gaita, a Romanian metal worker, and Chris...

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here.

We meetthe founder and CEO of Kagi, Vladimir Prelovac, a subscription-based search engine that aims to prioritise user privacy and provide a more authentic…

Empty Innovation: What are we even doing? The last decade was characterized by massively hyped technologies/companies who imploded without leaving much more than scorched earth. Why and how did we end up with so much Empty Innovation and what do these systems do to their users and developers? And how can we get out of that toxic loop? Speaker: tante - https://re-publica.com/de/user/11886 Weitere I...

In her Booker-shortlisted novel '10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World', Elif Shafak entered the mind of a dying sex worker lying murdered in an Istanbul alley. The story moved from brutal realism to the magical world of the afterlife. Now Shafak has turned her attention to another part of the Levant region, and to another example of how someone’s memory can be kept alive by the peop...