03 February 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin hosts Stephen and new guest Ana Huertas, reflecting on their 2015 experiences, the pending apocalypse, and beards
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Ana Huertas, anarchism, Barton the Armadillo, beards, board games, books, Breaking Bad, Catastrophic, climate change, Cory Doctorow, ecovillages, Emma Goldman, Formidable Vegetable Sound System, gender, J. J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, K. Tempest Bradford, Kevin, Mad Max Fury Road, New Years, Octavia Butler, oil, peak oil, permaculture, process work, regeneration, resilience, resolutions, Rian Johnson, running, salad, Serial, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Stephen, sustainability, Syrian refugee crisis, tabletop games, Tao Te Ching, The Bechtel Test, The Dispossessed, The World, Transition Towns, travel, Ursula K. LeGuin, ZEGG
06 January 2015
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Our annual New Years show! How did we do in 2014? And what do we expect for 2015? Listen to find out! Special guest Matt Legler.
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Apple Pay, Apple Watch, Attack on Titan, Austin, Bitcoin, Black Mirror, blockchain, Boing Boing, books, cable, Capital in the 21st Century, Christopher Nolan, Coin, cold brew coffee, cord cutting, Cory Doctorow, economics, Edward Snowden, EFF, EFF-Austin, encryption, Ethereum, Franklin Barbecue, Fred Wilson, Friends, Google Fiber, Google Glass, GoPRO, Gravity’s Rainbow, Homeland, Infinite Jest, Internet of Things, Interstellar, Jack Conte, Java, Kevin, Kickstarter, law, Let’s Encrypt, Linguistic Labyrinth, Lyft, Matt, Matt Damon, Narrative Clip, Net Neutrality, Netflix, New Years, Nymi, Patreon, payment processing, PBS Idea Channel, Planet Money, podcasts, Pomplamoose, privacy, quantified self, RadioLab, Robert Bapst, security, Security Now, Serial, sharks, Sony Hack, Stephen, Steve Gibson, surveillance, The Circle, The Internet, They Might Be Giants, This American Life, Thomas Piketty, tokenized payments, Turkish coffee, Uber, Ulysses, Veronica Mars, wearables
05 September 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
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
05 August 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast, Rule Set Update
Kevin and Stephen reflect on episodes 151 – 153, examine how (poorly) we adhered to Rule Set B, and refresh the rule framework of BF.
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Cory Doctorow, David Foster Wallace, FaceTime, linguistics, postmodernism, QI, Stephen Fry, video chat
17 April 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is consumer capitalism played-out? Why is Roberto Unger so angry? And could cats save us all? Kevin and I ponder these questions and more.
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activism, Alton Brown, Android, anger, Barack Obama, breast cancer, capitalism, CCC, charity, Civil Rights Movement, consequentialism, Cory Doctorow, CSR, deontology, extrinsic value, FDR, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Google, Great Depression, healthcare, idealism, Infinite Cat Project, intrinsic value, Kevin, Marxism, minimum income, PBS Idea Channel, pessimism, Philosophy Bites, Planet Money, podcasts, power, protest, RadioLab, realism, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Rosa Parks, RSA, schizophrenia, slacktivism, socialism, Spider Robinson, Stephen, The Cold Equations, Theodore Sturgeon, Tumblr, United States, WPA, Zoom
