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Vaporware

by Vaporware Network

Bi-weekly discussions and interviews about Vaporware Network, peer-to-peer & open source ecosystems, functional programming, crypto, and fringe beliefs

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Episodes

  1. Episode 12: Alexander Bard

    Episode 12: Alexander Bard This week ⁠Daniel⁠ and ⁠Chase⁠ are joined by ⁠Jack Ek⁠ and his friend, the legendary ⁠Alexander Bard⁠, who describes himself as a “philosopher who writes f***ing books" and who is according to his ⁠Wiki⁠: a Swedish musician, author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music...

  2. Episode 11: Samuel Hammond

    This week, Daniel⁠ chats about technology, governance and culture with Samuel Hammond, senior economist for the Foundation for American Innovation, a think tank focused on bridging the cultures of Silicon Valley and DC. Additionally, Sam has an outstanding substack where he writes about topics...

  3. Episode 10: Ruby Justice Thelot

    To kick off our new weekly release schedule, we have Chase &⁠⁠ Daniel in conversation with designer, artist, NYU design/media professor & cyberethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot (@being_on_line) Ruby’s output is thoughtful, extremely prolific, and multifaceted. His writing on virtual realms…

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  4. Episode 9: Fred Scharmen

    This week, Daniel Keller and Fred Scharmen talk about the cultural legacy of space colonization and its connections to contemporary movements like e/acc, longtermism, and network states. Fred is architect, educator, and researcher whose work focuses on the history and theory of architecture and...

  5. Episode 8: Chase Van Etten

    In a bit of a departure from our normal format, Daniel Keller⁠⁠ interviews Chase Van Etten⁠⁠, founder and CEO of Vaporware about his background and vision for the company. We discuss: Absorbing the California Ideology by osmosis growing up in Petaluma How custom car culture informs Chase’s…

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  6. Episode 7: Rob Haisfield & Sean Lee (Websim)

    Chase Van Etten⁠⁠ &⁠ ⁠Daniel Keller⁠⁠ talk with Rob (@RobertHaisfield) and Sean (@infinitefun_) about their project Websim. Websim is an incredibly cool project that invites users to browse and interact with a parallel world wide web, as hallucinated by AI. Even with such a simple UX conceit…

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  7. Episode 6: Katherine Dee

    This week, ⁠Chase Van Etten⁠ & ⁠Daniel Keller⁠ talk with renowned internet culture chronicler, Katherine Dee (@default_friend). Katherine is known for her provocative commentary and insights into the psychology of internet subcultures. She has bylines in numerous publications including Tablet,...

  8. Episode 5: Orion Reed

    This episode (⁠Chase Van Etten⁠ & ⁠Daniel Keller⁠) chat with Orion Reed (@OrionReedOne), a software engineer & researcher focused on the intersection of computing, human-systems interfaces, and emancipatory politics. Orion is engineer-in-residence at tldraw, researcher at Block Science, and...

  9. Episode 4: Charles "Cab" Broskoski

    This time, we (Chase Van Etten & Daniel Keller) have a conversation with Are.na co-founder and CEO Charles Broskoski (@broskoski). We chat about our early lives online, our respective net.art pasts and his experience starting what was initially a somewhat niche site for ex-del.icio.us refugees…

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  10. Episode 3: Dexter Tortoriello

    This episode, we (Chase Van Etten & Daniel Keller) catch up with our friend musician and technologist Dexter Tortoriello, AKA Houses. In addition to his decade plus music career, Dexter is cofounder and former head of technology at FWB. He’s currently co-founder and CTO of MindPalace, an…

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  11. Episode 2: Marisa Rowland

    In Episode 2, Chase and Dan chat with product and marketing strategist Marisa Rowland about a wide range of topics including: Institutional mistrust AI wearables for dogs Agricultural infomarkets Small data Cultivating cults Real network states Methylene Blue Data portability Frog poison therapy…

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  12. Episode 1: Taking the λ

    In our first Episode, we've assembled the entire Vaporware team (all four of us) to chat about our Chief Architect Jack Ek's talk "PLAN: Purely Functional Programming With Batteries Included" which he recently gave at ⁠Lambda Conference⁠, the site where Urbit founder Curtis Yarvin first presented...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Bi-weekly discussions and interviews about Vaporware Network, peer-to-peer & open source ecosystems, functional programming, crypto, and fringe beliefs

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Bi-weekly discussions and interviews about Vaporware Network, peer-to-peer & open source ecosystems, functional programming, crypto, and fringe beliefs

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