Bad Philosophy

Does the “Right to be Forgotten” entail censorship? What is public or private anymore? Can PHP save us? Kevin and Stephen dive into all this and more.

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Anil Dash, Banksy, big data, Canada, censorship, Chelsea Manning, Cory Doctorow, Dan Geer, defamation, Edward Snowden, encryption, EU, European Court of Justice, Facebook, Figure8 Coffee Purveyors, Glenn Beck, Google, human rights, Justin Carter, Kate Crawford, Kevin, libel, Linguistic Labyrinth, Mario Consteja Gonzales, metadata, NSA, privacy, public, security, Stephen, Streisand Effect, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, The Right to Be Forgotten, Tor, trust

It’s a nice day to start again, folks. The end of January marked the beginning of the first Coursera MOOC purely focused on the venerable phield of philosophy. In this first application of the first week of material (what I meant but forgot to call “Coursera Diaries Part I”), Kevin and I test out Dave Ward’s […]

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Africa, Arrested Development, broadcasting, Canada, cell phones, Charlie Brooker, Choose Your Own Adventure, Contact, Coursera, David Ward, definition, Doctor Who, etymology, Halo 2, Hamlet, Hitler, house of cards, I Love Bees, Kevin, Leverage, Memento, metaphilosophy, mobile payments, My Little Pony, Netflix, Network, Oxford Dictionary, Philosophy Bites, Phineas and Ferb, Ryan North, Sherlock. radio serial, Stephen, structural dramaturgy, television, The Guild, The Hub, theatre, To Be or Not to Be: That is the Adventure, TV, University of Edinburgh, YouTube

Stephen returns to Texas Tech to analyze hipsters and counter-culture with Shawn, Matt, and Bryan.

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Amazon, Amazon Prime, Angry Birds, AOL, Apple, Arcade Fire, babies, Bryan M, Canada, Carl Young, Cars, Chipotle, counter-culture, Digital Media Studio, Dreamwidth, emo, Facebook, Ford, Foursquare, Freebirds, Google, HEB, hipsters, iPhone, iPod, iRiver H10, Kent Hance, Kia, King Supers, Kroger, Last.fm, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, maple syrup, Matt, memes, meta, Microsoft, music, pancakes, Predictably Irrational, retro, Risk, Sanyo, Saturn, sex, Shawn, Stephen, Texas Tech University, The Atlantic, The Decemberists, The Internet, Twitter, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Windows, Zune

Every once in a while we here at BF like to have a gratuitously self-indulgent show that focuses purely on our own half-baked accomplishments and personal history. This time it was all about the K-man, mister Kevin Saunders himself. We had live Skype callers on the show once again, talked a little history, and answered […]

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Bad Astronomy, Canada, census, Dollhouse, education, Foursquare, Freebirds, genealogy, high school, history, Jackass, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, Lubbock, Lubbock Tweetup, physics, questions, Stephen, Texas Tech University, theatre, time travel, Twitter