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After we finish reading a book, our memories of it quickly fade and can even get distorted. Andrew Elfenbein has studied how the things we read get transformed in memory. What we remember may diverge from what’s in the book, but that doesn’t mean we’re sloppy readers – we’re actually using highly sophisticated skills without even noticing. By understanding this process we can better appreciate how books live on in our minds long after we’ve read them. Bonus clip Click here to listen to a bonus clip of Andrew discussing how people we meet in real life reshape our memories of fictional characters – and vice versa. Works mentioned – Charles Dickens, Bleak House Further reading Erica Wickerson at The Independent – Detective fiction: Why do we care whodunnit? The Guardian – Top writers choose their perfect crime Ian Crouch at The New Yorker – The Curse of Reading and Forgetting Website of Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA – links to radio and podcast interviews on childhood literacy and the psychology of reading Daniel Willingham – Cool Reading Facts 3: Reading Is Self-Taught. Partly.

Students at a Bucks County middle school learned from home on Wednesday after an 11-year-old boy fired a gun near the school building on Tuesday afternoon. NBC10's Leah Uko has more on the details on the investigation. SUBSCRIBE TO NBC10: VISIT the NBC10 channel for the latest news and exclusive reports: http://on.nbc10.com/jhXM8hP Have a Roku device? Add the free NBC10 app right now for live news updates: http://on.nbc10.com/RrHcMXP FOLLOW NBC10 PHILADELPHIA Instagram: http://on.nbc10.com/ZvgGgo2 Facebook: http://on.nbc10.com/gkeMKi3 Twitter: http://on.nbc10.com/pYka4fl VISIT OUR SITE: https://www.nbc10.com/ DOWNLOAD OUR FREE APPS: http://on.nbc10.com/sEMWgkx ABOUT NBC10 PHILADELPHIA NBC10 is the Philadelphia region's most trusted source for breaking news, exclusive local stories, in-depth investigations and most accurate weather.

With Martin Fowler and Kent Beck. At The Pragmatic Summit: www.pragmaticsummit.com. See a writeup of the talk: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cycles-of-disruption-in-the-tech Watch the session with Q&A also included: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-summit-recordings 0:00 Intro 2:11 Ideas from Agile/TDD/refactoring that stuck 9:04 Historical analogies: microprocessor, internet, OO, Agile 16:44 Why good practices still fail 21:21 How the AI shift is different 25:50 Engineers as managers of multiple agents 27:11 One-pizza vs two-pizza teams 29:07 Developer experience and agent experience

337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw April 13, 2026

In this podcast episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with artist and writer James Bridle about what we actually mean when we say "intelligence." They discuss…

As institutions unravel, Rebecca Solnit argues despair is a mistake—and that a more compassionate, just world is already being born.

Episode 353 The world might feel dark right now, but life is actually getting better, rapidly. From the rise of feminism and antiracism to environmental movements and shifting understandings of gender, the Western world looks nothing like it did 75 years ago.  Yet despite so many historic victories for rights and ideas in recent times, it often feels like we’re living in dark times - with progress that’s stalling or going backwards. In her new book, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit explores how for decades social movements reshaped the world in ways we often fail to notice. Solnit argues that we are witnessing nothing less than the slow dismantling of an old worldview. And it’s time we pay attention.  Rowan Hooper speaks to Solnit about the power of a good story, our growing understanding of the interconnectedness of nature and humanity - and why recognising progress may be essential to shaping the future. To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My conversation with Rebecca Solnit

Too often, AI feels like something that’s done to us, not with us or for us. It will affect every aspect of our lives. But AI is neither poison nor panacea. It is and will be what we make it. Now is the moment to shape the future of AI for people. This panel will explore how we build the ecosystem and infrastructure to ensure that people will benefit the most from AI. Experts in AI, philanthropy, and advocacy, will offer a new way of thinking about AI that moves from Silicon Valley’s mantra of “move fast and break things” to an alternative vision that centers our humanity. About SXSW: SXSW dedicates itself to helping creative people achieve their goals. Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, SXSW is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. An essential destination for global professionals, SXSW features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions, professional development and a variety of networking opportunities. For more information, please visit sxsw.com. Connect with SXSW: Website: sxsw.com Instagram: instagram.com/sxsw/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/sxsw TikTok: tiktok.com/@sxsw Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/sxsw.com Threads: threads.com/@sxsw

Poet Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb in 1996 as an online repository for obscure avant-garde art that, by virtue of having little commercial potential, was hard to find. Audio was an early component of the archive, owing to Kenneth’s interest in sound poetry, an even more obscure art form. Since then he’s served as the chief, […]

Interviewed by Grady Booch on September 5, 2006, in Ashland, Oregon, X3715.2007 © Computer History Museum John Backus led a team at IBM in 1957 that created the first successful high-level programming language, FORTRAN. It was designed to solve problems in science and engineering, and many dialects of the language are still in use throughout the world. Describing the development of FORTRAN, Backus said, "We simply made up the language as we went along. We did not regard language design as a difficult problem, merely a simple prelude to the real problem: designing a compiler which could produce efficient programs . . . We also wanted to eliminate a lot of the bookkeeping and detailed, repetitive planning which hand coding involved." The name FORTRAN comes from FORmula TRANslation. The language was designed for solving engineering and scientific problems. FORTRAN IV was first introduced by IBM in the early 1960s and still exists in a number of similar dialects on machines from various manufacturers. * Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102657970. Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection.

'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan Technology and AI are often thought of as being neutral, objective, technical, or apolitical. Our conversation with Dan McQuillan will examine the political stakes of AI, asking what can and should be done—particularly by students and universities. About the speaker Dr. Dan McQuillan is a Senior Lecturer in Critical AI at Goldsmiths, University of London. After a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics, Dan worked with people learning disabilities & mental health issues, created websites with asylum seekers, ran social tech camps in Kyrgyzstan and Sarajevo and worked for Amnesty International and the NHS. He is the author of 'Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'. About the series Critical AI Talks invites leading AI researchers to explore the human and societal impacts of GenAI. Join us at this and other upcoming talks and learn more about the Critical AI Talks series here: https://csma.humanities.mcmaster.ca/our-community/critical-ai/ Timeline and notes 3:15 What is AI? 7:21 How is AI political? - AI alters the distribution of power in the world, intensifying asymmetries of power - perceptions of AI’s “objectivity” have shifted with the rise of GenAI; its failings are more on display - AI is individualizing and thus extends neoliberalism; AI extends the politics of scarcity - AI excises relationships and relationality; it is individualizing and de-relationalizing - Predictive AI was tied to austerity - AI does statistical redlining - the fundamental operations of AI are based on correlation, not causation; they don’t have an understanding of ‘ground truth’ and context, what is really going on; instead it can find a group or sub-group or set of identities that can be blamed for the situation; it’s an “automated stigmatization” and, as such, dangerous in the hands of institutions and forms of politics that are keen on stigmatization 21:31 How is AI “brittle” or fragile? - AI can break down in many ways - AI relies on a huge amount of data, missing data is a “giant game of whack-a-mole”; - People can deal with the unexpected but AI can’t engineers are quite open about the fact that they don’t know what’s going on “under the hood”; we’re part of a giant social experiment - Artificial General Intelligence is the goal of AI companies—an idea based in eugenics, white and masculine supremacy, and engenders a “closed loop” that fuses with global extractivism to keep itself going. 30:55 The usual remedies proposed to solve the problems of AI are inadequate: - technosolutionism; efforts to de-bias AI, the data and number of parameters is too vast and - the world is too complex to “debias” without creating new distortions - the problems with explainability and laws that require an explanation for decisions made by AI - the inadequacy of having a “human in the loop” - the inadequacy of legislation - the problem with the false citations tied to AI search results 40:30 What should be done? - Councils, solidarity, mutual aid, collective care, decomputing, and degrowth - AI forms a feedback loop with current trajectories of society; it will make people’s jobs more vulnerable to the threat of replacement with AI - AI only functions with vast quantities of data; social media made this available - Ai requires extreme centralization; - a cottage or community version can’t really exist; AI intensifies concentrations of power - AI isn’t new; it intensifies problems that already exist, so changing AI requires changing underlying structural issues - the opposite of AI’s decontextualization is life and interdependency, which is messy - decomputing is how to bring about ecological sustainability from the bottom up - councils – assemblies – are people coming together in a horizontal peer-to-peer way to tackle the problems of their life - this deals with 1) the material conditions, and 2) the subjectivities that AI creates; this way we can come together to empower and transform ourselves and develop counter-power 49:27 What should universities do? - Universities are about imagining possibilities - Universities are fundamentally social, and can be a cradle of politics - McQuillan’s lecture “The Role of the University is to Resist AI” discussed (https://www.danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html) - Universities are being treated as having measurable outputs; - the defence against AI is a defence of education - teaching staff are targeted for staffing reductions - Use of AI for teaching and research is degrading to cognition - Decomputing involves degrowth - AI is giving up independent thought - Ivan Illich’s ideas of conviviality and tools - “in the increasingly authoritarian world that we’re slipping into, the idea of education itself, definitely the idea of critical thought, is seen as unwelcome” - AI is dependent on energy, and the geopolitics of AI centres on this; universities can reveal this and the previous ways people have failed to make change 1:08:45 Closing

How would you stay in touch if the Internet went down? Can you set up your own long-range communication network with mates? In this video, tech workers Mar, Liam, and Marissa cover what mesh network communication is, when it’s useful, and how to get started with a LoRa board and Meshcore. 📌 *Timestamps* 00:00 Welcome 01:10 Why you should set up your own communication infrastructure 05:46 Options considered and dismissed 08:57 Techwerkers use case 10:41 Centralised vs distributed networks 12:03 Mesh network communication 14:44 Intro to LoRa 18:15 Intro to Meshcore 20:00 Companion and repeater nodes in Meshcore 23:57 Live demo: send and receive messages 29:43 Questions & answers 📥 *Join the free Techwerkers newsletter* https://techwerkers.nl/en/newsletter ⚙️ *Gear mentioned in the video* - *LoRa board:* Heltec Mesh Node T114 Rev. 2.0 - nRF52840 - SX1262 LoRa 868MHz - with 1.14 inch TFT Display. The board comes with an antenna. - *Case:* Heltec Enclosure for Mesh Node T114 - *Battery:* PKCELL Li-Po Batterij 3.7V 350mAh. Though you can find batteries that last longer. If you like this video, subscribe for more videos like this! https://www.youtube.com/@Techwerkers 👋 *What is Techwerkers?* Techwerkers is a community of people in the Netherlands who are fascinated by anything tech and worker power related. Sharing everything about labour rights, worker organizing, and taking back control! ☕ *Let’s connect* Mastodon: https://mastodon.nl/@techwerkers LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techwerkers-nl/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/techwerkers Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/techwerkers.bsky.social

This live feed from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida will provide continuous views of the Artemis II Moon rocket beginning on Saturday, Jan. 17 with rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B. In the coming weeks, NASA will complete final preparations of the rocket and, if needed, rollback SLS and Orion to the Vehicle Assembly Building for additional work. While the Artemis II launch window opens as early as Friday, Feb. 6, the mission management team will assess flight readiness after the wet dress rehearsal across the spacecraft, launch infrastructure, and the crew and operations teams before selecting a launch date. Through Artemis, NASA will send astronauts to explore the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build the foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. Learn more about Artemis: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis Credit: NASA

In this episode of The Weekly Wrap, Steve Eisman breaks down the five long-term structural themes he thinks are crucial to understanding the market in 2026. He explains how tech has come to dominate the stock market and why consumer sectors matter less than ever. He also takes a look at the impact of Index Investing and answers a mailbag question on PayPal’s collapse. 00:00 - Intro 01:15 - Venezuela & Market Ramifications 02:00 - 5 Long-Term Structural Themes To Understand the Market 05:08 - Tech & Tech Related Stocks Dominate the Market 12:18 - Consumer Stocks, Consumers' Impact on Movement & Every Day Life 15:31 - The Impact of Index Investing 18:59 - Mailbag: PayPal's Recent Performance 22:14 - Outro Watch my Financial Literacy Masterclass video here: https://youtu.be/u8chA7LC8lU Watch my Masterclass on the 2008 Financial Crisis (Part One) here: https://youtu.be/4bSCdJTbR8I Subscribe 👉🏻https://www.youtube.com/@RealEismanPlaybook?sub_confirmation=1 Connect with Steve Eisman and access all things The Eisman Playbook: 🌐 https://linktr.ee/realeismanplaybook → Follow on socials, watch episodes, and get the latest updates — all in one place. Disclaimer: The financial opinions expressed are for information purposes only. The opinions expressed by the hosts and participants are not an attempt to influence specific trading behavior, investments, or strategies. Past performance does not necessarily predict future outcomes. No specific results or profits are assured when relying on this content. Before making any investment or trade, evaluate its suitability for your circumstances and consider consulting your own financial or investment advisor. The financial products discussed in ‘The Eisman Playbook' carry a high level of risk and may not be appropriate for many investors. If you have uncertainties, it's advisable to seek professional advice. Remember that trading involves a risk to your capital, so only invest money you can afford to lose. Derivatives are unsuitable for all investors and involve the risk of losing more than the amount originally deposited and any profit you might have made. This communication is not a recommendation or offer to buy, sell, or retain any specific investment or service. Copyright ©2025 Steve Eisman #wallstreet #finance #businessnews #investing #businesspodcast #investment #financepodcast #ai #tech

In this intimate conversation, visionary Jefferson Hack meets with icon Tilda Swinton to reflect on her ever-expanding artistic legacy, shaped by creative relationships that continue to redefine the boundaries of cinema. Swinton meditates on the alchemy forged when singular minds dance together – from her earliest work with avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman, filming the un-filmable with Sally Potter, and channeling her grandmother's makeup routine for Wes Anderson. Hack’s curiosity amplifies Swinton’s poetic disposition during a lively exchange about creative process and identity – and how the boundaries between art and life dissolve across friendship and collaboration. This is the latest episode of Hack’s podcast, Where It’s At, and he caught up with Swinton just as a dedicated exhibition ‘Tilda Swinton – Ongoing’ opened at Amsterdam’s @eyefilmNL (until 8th February 2026). In her curation of the exhibition, Swinton pays homage to her pioneering collaborators across art, film, and fashion. Featuring: Jefferson Hack & Tilda Swinton Producer: Noor Miah Commissioning Director: Katie Metcalfe DOP: Harold Williams Camera Assistant: Nick Chandler Audio Engineer: Craig Heptinstall Studio Assistant: Andres Albert Audio Engineer: James Nicolau Editor: Cayetano García Sahurie, Panos Agamemnos Set Designer: Ellen Wilson Florist: Hamish Powell Hair Stylist: Declan Sheils Makeup Artist: Sam Bryant _______________________________________ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness

The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software d...

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To watch other videos from the AI and the Digital series, check out the full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0BjGYn0j1l-cQJamqtohtjbbp2wJN2Ey&si=OxdXZ-hToZGiqIw3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people’s life chances, and even suggests fascistic solutions to social problems. In this event, Dan McQuillan discusses his analysis of AI’s deep learning technology and its political effects and traces the ways that it resonates with contemporary political and social currents, from global austerity to the rise of the far right. This event invites us to resist AI as we know it and restructure it by prioritising the common good over algorithmic optimization, through an anti-fascist approach to AI that replaces exclusions with caring, proposes people’s councils as a way to restructure AI through mutual aid and outlines new mechanisms that would adapt to changing times by supporting collective freedom. Dan McQuillan is a Senior Lecturer in Critical AI. He has a degree in Physics from Oxford and a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics from Imperial College, London. His book Resisting AI: An anti-fascist approach to artificial intelligence has been published in 2022 by Bristol University Press. Andrés Saenz de Sicilia is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University London and managing director of The Philosopher. His book Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society was published by Brill in 2024. #philosophy #criticalthinking #ai #artificialintelligence #PoliticalPhilosophy #democracy 0:03:47 - Can we reform the damaging aspects of AI? 0:07:37 - The fascist resonances of AI 0:12:48 - (Dis)Passionate applications 0:16:01 - Ethics and dangers of AI 0:21:39 - Methods for political resistance 0:25:27 - System contamination and path dependency 0:30:53 - New realities - what has changed since writing the book? 0:35:39 - Q&A - Timesaving productivity 0:38:42 - Q&A - Does AI architecture imply certain types of social organisation? 0:41:54 - Q&A - Humanizing AI; the use of AI by students 0:49:11 - Q&A - Use of AI in the military and policing, and the logic of suspicion 0:53:42 - Q&A - AI and fascist aesthetics 0:56:37 - Q&A - How do we survive?

Join us for a conversation with Jack Cushman from the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab about their new archive of Data.gov—more than 311,000 datasets harvested in 2024–2025, updated daily, and published on Source Cooperative. We’ll dig into two threads:- BagIt for durability: How Library of Congress–standard packaging, checksums, and signatures support authenticity, provenance, and long-term citation.- Discovery without a server: how browser-based querying over static data makes 17.9 TB of datasets findable and fast to explore. We’ll also talk about practical choices that matter when you’re archiving government data: what to bag, what metadata to preserve, how to track change over time, and how to make it usable for researchers, journalists, and agencies.

Jez Riley French is fascinated and passionate about the infinite detail and expanding vistas of life around us, its sights and sounds, often overlooked or hidden. His creative output focuses on elements such as audible silence, active listening and stillness. Jez has been exploring his enjoyment of detail, simplicity and emotive response to places and situations for the past three decades using field recording, photography and intuitive composition. His artistic contribution is recognised the world over and his new audio work has just been commissioned by Tate Modern for installation during 2013. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Professeure de français, Cassandre choisit de remplacer les classiques scolaires qu’elle a l’habitude de faire étudier à ses élèves, par un livre qui décrit l’état alarmant de la planète. Lorsqu’une de ses élèves tente de se suicider, Cassandre est alors accusée de harcèlement moral et traduite en justice. Son procès occupe le centre du récit. On y croise l’enseignante, ses avocats, ceux de la partie adverse, mais aussi un scientifique désabusé qui a participé à l’écriture du livre. Les vies de ces personnages, déjà fragiles, résonnent étrangement avec le chaos écologique qui les entoure. Ce roman choral mêle critique sociale, réflexion sur l’école et méditation sur la catastrophe climatique. L’écriture, vive et parfois ironique, met en parallèle l’effondrement intime des personnages et celui du monde tout en interrogeant la possibilité de transmettre et de continuer à vivre dans un contexte de fin annoncée. Les dernières écritures, Hélène Zimmer, P.O.L., 2025

Interviewed by David C. Brock on 2024-03-15 in The Sea Ranch, CA © Computer History Museum This is an oral history interview with Ken Thompson, created in partnership by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer History Museum, in connection with his A.M. Turing Award in 1983. The interview begins with Thompson’s family background and youth, detailing the hobbies he pursued intently from electronics and radio projects, to music, cars, and chess. He describes his experience at the University of California, Berkeley, and his deepening engagement with computers and computer programming there. The interview then moves to his recruitment to the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and his experience of the Multics project. Thompson next describes his development of Unix and, with Dennis Ritchie, the programming language C. He describes the development of Unix and the Unix community at Bell Labs, and then details his work using Unix for the Number 5 Electronic Switching System. Thompson details his Turing Award lecture, the work on compromised compilers that led to it, and his views on computer security. Next, he details his career in computer chess and work he did for Bell Labs artist Lillian Schwartz. Thompson describes his work on the Plan 9 operating system at Bell Labs with Rob Pike, and his efforts to create a digital music archive. He then details his post Bell Labs career at Entrisphere and then Google, including his role in Google Books and the creation of the Go programming language. * Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102808980 Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection. Catalog number: 102808981 Acquisition number: 2024.0045

The second show in a series of radio broadcasts that examines rural technology.

Interview on Sounds Apart podcast - Kristoffer Lislegaard

A founding engineer on Google BigQuery and now at the helm of MotherDuck, Jordan Tigani challenges the decade-long dominance of Big Data and introduces a compelling alternative that could change how companies handle data. Jordan discusses why Big Data technologies are an overkill for most companies, how MotherDuck and DuckDB offer fast analytical queries, and lessons learned as a technical founder building his first startup. Watch the episode with Tomasz Tunguz: https://youtu.be/gU6dGmZzmvI Website - https://motherduck.com Twitter - https://x.com/motherduck Jordan Tigani LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani Twitter - https://x.com/jrdntgn FIRSTMARK Website - https://firstmark.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/FirstMarkCap Matt Turck (Managing Director) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattturck LISTEN ON: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7yLATDSaFvgJG80ACcRJtq Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mad-podcast-with-matt-turck/id1686238724 00:00 - Intro 00:56 - What is the Small Data? 06:56 - Marketing strategy of MotherDuck 08:39 - Processing Small Data with Big Data stack 15:30 - DuckDB 17:21 - Creation of DuckDB 18:48 - Founding story of MotherDuck 24:08 - MotherDuck's community 25:25 - MotherDuck today ($100M raised) 33:15 - Why MotherDuck and DuckDB are so fast? 39:08 - The limitations and the future of MotherDuck's platform 39:49 - Small Models 42:37 - Small Data and the Modern Data Stack 46:47 - Making things simpler with a shift from Big Data to Small Data 50:04 - Jordan Tigani's entrepreneurial journey 58:31 - Outro

Hannes Muhleisen is the creator of DuckDB and CEO of DuckDB Labs. We finally got a chance to meet in person at the Forward Data Conference in Paris. We hit it off immediately, and at times, I felt like I was talking with my long lost brother. Hannes is a very cool guy! While at the conference, we recorded a chat about all things DuckDB, the challenges of data lakehouses and open table formats, local-first tech, and much more. 🦆 🐥

Nick Estes, Ph.D. (Kul Wicasa/Lower Brule Sioux), is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society, a group of Dakota, Nakota and Lakota writers. In 2014, he was a co-founder of The Red Nation in Albuquerque, NM, an organization dedicated to the liberation of Native people from capitalism and colonialism. He serves on its editorial collective and writes its bi-weekly newsletter. Nick Estes is also the author of "Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline" and "The Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance". To watch more talks and discussions from the 2022 Conference, visit http://www.bioneers.org

Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Ursula WhitcherTitle: Burning Bright by Melissa ScottHost: Jake Case…

Rising Up and Rising Down (McSweeney's; abridged, Harper Collins) William Vollmann's mammoth inquiry is a study of the history of violence, which fills seven large volumes...

Title: How Rust won: the quest for performant, reliable software Abstract: For a long time, high performance has been in tension with reliability. In particular, languages designed for high performance were not memory safe, with real implications for unexpected crashes and security vulnerabilities. Rust is the first practical language to address this tension, building on affine types and other principles programming language theory, synthesized with an attention to low level systems programming. Rust’s success emerged not just from a clever idea, but consistently excellent execution and the formation of a strong community around the language. This talk will discuss several aspects of what Rust got right, as well as the rocky journey of ideas from academic theory to real world impact. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SoDsm_m_pb_gS6Y98HghhzBviYZxp3F2XawhIppJQQo/edit?usp=sharing https://topos.institute/events/berkeley-seminar/

Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder of Databricks, shares lessons he’s learned from being one of seven co-founders at Databricks and leading a company that began with open-source software.

The technology industry promised us connection, convenience, and creativity. Has it delivered, or offered false promises that may never be fully realized? Scott Hanselman offers a candid look at what’s really happening beneath the surface of AI and innovation and how we must make conscious, informed decisions about the tools shaping our future. We could not do this without community support. With special thanks to the University of Oregon for their presenting partnership. The world-class stage production by For Good & Co. The incredible legacy bound Event Book provided by Premier Press. Lastly, the brand identity and creative digital craft provided by our Agency of Record - Thesis. All of our Partners and event history can be found at TEDxPortland.com. Scott Hanselman is the VP of Developer Community at Microsoft and has spent over 30 years as a teacher, programmer, and prolific blogger. In addition to writing numerous technical books, Scott has produced nearly 2,000 episodes of his popular Hanselman Minutes and Azure Friday podcasts. A passionate technologist, he focuses on empowering developers and fostering inclusivity in tech. Scott frequently speaks at conferences worldwide, sharing insights on software development, productivity, and diversity in technology. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

This past August 12th Devine gave this light-hearted talk for Critical Signals 2025, taking place in New Zealand. This talk introduces some old, some new and some eccentric ideas for keeping computers and their software running for as long as we can. It was meant to try and teach tricks to fight planned obsolescence and also build new things that might survive the onslaught of corporate capture. This talk was streamed from aboard a little sailboat adrift somewhere in the Pacific. No prior knowledge of computing required. Thank you to the organizers of Critical Signals for inviting us. Rek & Dev Critical Signals: https://criticalsignals.nz/ Image Credit: Some of the images were produced by Devine, others by Rek (https://kokorobot.ca/), the other half of HundredRabbits. The credited images below belong to their authors. 01:41 "And actually, I surf with images off". The Computer Chronicles - The Internet (1993) 03:41 [redacted genie]. c2oh 05:49 Unknown. Sourced from https://wiki.collapsible.systems/ 08:30 Shark with legs. Junji Ito, Gyo(manga) 09:14 System for converting television commercials into interactive networked video games https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en 11:02 Sufficiently advanced technology. Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology. George Strakhov https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/elvish 12:06 "I've eliminated the friction". Cat & Girl, The Genius https://catandgirl.com/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 14:39 Super Chair. Ken Isaacs, Living Structures 19:20 Google Chrome RAM Hog. Author unknown. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/google-chrome-ram-hog#fn2 26:37 Space Jam. https://www.spacejam.com/1996 33:18 MingMing II. Roger Taylor. https://thesimplesailor.com/ 36:03 GIF, RAW, DOC, TAR. Jenny Mitcham(Head of Good Practice and Standards for the Digital Preservation Coalition) 38:15 There Will Come Soft Rains. Wood, Weird Fantasy #17

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On April 13, 2018, renowned English art historian spoke at the John Adams Institute about his book, Rembrandt’s Eyes. In this book, Schama explores Rembrant’s obsession with and admiration of the Flemish painter, Peter Paul Rubens. It was only after the death of the legendary Rubens that Rembrant discovered his own style, enabling him to breathe new life into historical painting, portraits, nudes, and the art of etching. Rembrandt’s Eyes shows us why Rembrandt is such a thrilling painter and so revolutionary in his art. Schama’s understanding of Rembrant’s mind and lifestyle allows him to recreate Rembrant’s world on the page. Through a unique combination of schoalrship and literary skill, Schama shows us to see life through Rembrandt’s eyes. Schama is currently a professor of History and Art History at Columbia University in New York. Moderator: Dr. Cynthia D. Schneider

Modernity is dying within and around us, and we need to face that death with courage and compassion. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Brazilian educator, Indigenous and land rights activist, and author of Hospicing Modernity , joins us.

What happens when an internal hack turns into a $400 million AI rocket ship? In this episode, Matt Turck sits down with Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, to unpack the wild story behind the fastest-growing AI coding tool on the planet. Boris reveals how Claude Code started as a personal productivity tool, only to become Anthropic’s secret weapon — now used by nearly every engineer at the company and rapidly spreading across the industry. You’ll hear how Claude Code’s “agentic” approach lets AI not just suggest code, but actually plan, edit, debug, and even manage entire projects—sometimes with a whole fleet of subagents working in parallel. We go deep on why Claude Code runs in the terminal (and why that’s a feature, not a bug), how its Claude.md memory files let teams build a living, shareable knowledge base, and why safety and human-in-the-loop controls are baked into every action. Boris shares real stories of onboarding times dropping from weeks to days, and how even non-coders are hacking Cloud Code for everything from note-taking to business metrics. Anthropic Website - https://www.anthropic.com X/Twitter - https://x.com/AnthropicAI Boris Cherny LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherny X/Twitter - https://x.com/bcherny FIRSTMARK Website - https://firstmark.com X/Twitter - https://twitter.com/FirstMarkCap Matt Turck (Managing Director) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/ X/Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattturck LISTEN ON: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7yLATDSaFvgJG80ACcRJtq Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mad-podcast-with-matt-turck/id1686238724 00:00 – Intro 01:15 – Did You Expect Claude Code’s Success? 04:22 – How Claude Code Works and Origins 08:05 – Command Line vs IDE: Why Start Claude Code in the Terminal? 11:31 – The Evolution of Programming: From Punch Cards to Agents 13:20 – Product Follows Model: Simple Interfaces and Fast Evolution 15:17 – Who Is Claude Code For? (Engineers, Designers, PMs & More) 17:46 – What Can Claude Code Actually Do? (Actions & Capabilities) 21:14 – Agentic Actions, Subagents, and Workflows 25:30 – Claude Code’s Awareness, Memory, and Knowledge Sharing 33:28 – Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Customization 35:30 – Safety, Human Oversight, and Enterprise Considerations 38:10 – UX/UI: Making Claude Code Useful and Enjoyable 40:44 – Pricing for Power Users and Subscription Models 43:36 – Real-World Use Cases: Debugging, Testing, and More 46:44 – How Does Claude Code Transform Onboarding? 49:36 – The Future of Coding: Agents, Teams, and Collaboration 54:11 – The AI Coding Wars: Competition & Ecosystem 57:27 – The Future of Coding as a Profession 58:41 – What’s Next for Claude Code

In late 2019 I was lucky to have the opportunity to sit down and chat with Warren Burt at Brunetti’s in Carlton (Melbourne). Warren has made incredible contributions to electronic music, in both the US and Australia for several decades now as a artist, teacher, writer, instrument designer and organi

Join Spectre Journal and Haymarket Books for a rebroadcast of a discussion on ecosocialism with Kohei Saito ————————————————————— Kohei Saito's recent book Marx in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2023) has spurred renewed interest in Marx’s ecological thought and ignited further controversy around a number of key debates within contemporary left eco-theory - most notably concerning disagreements between Marxist ecomodernism and what Saito dubs “degrowth communism.” In this Spectre Live feature, Saito will be joined by prominent climate researcher and author Holly Jean Buck and Spectre ecosocialist editor Dan Boscov-Ellen in a discussion about Marxism, degrowth, technology, and left strategy. ————————————————————— Speakers: Kohei Saito is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of (in English) Karl Marx's Ecosocialism, Marx in the Anthropocene, and the forthcoming Slow Down: The Deceleration Manifesto. Holly Jean Buck is an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo. She is an environmental social scientist whose research focuses on public engagement with emerging climate and energy technologies. She is the author of After Geoengineering (Verso, 2019) and Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough (Verso, 2021), and holds a Ph.D in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Dan Boscov-Ellen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. His background is in environmental philosophy and critical theory. He is currently working on a book about the ethics of climate change, provisionally entitled Critical Climate Ethics: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis. ————————————————————— This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Spectre Journal. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.

In an era where AI transforms software development, the most valuable skill isn't writing code - it's communicating intent with precision. This talk reveals how specifications, not prompts or code, are becoming the fundamental unit of programming, and why spec-writing is the new superpower. Drawing from production experience, we demonstrate how rigorous, versioned specifications serve as the source of truth that compiles to documentation, evaluations, model behaviors, and maybe even code. Just as the US Constitution acts as a versioned spec with judicial review as its grader, AI systems need executable specifications that align both human teams and machine intelligence. We'll look at OpenAI's Model Spec as a real-world example. Finally, we'll end on some open questions about what the future of developer tooling looks like in a world where communication once again becomes the most important artifact in engineering. About Sean Grove Sean Grove works on alignment reasoning at OpenAI, helping translate high‑level intent into enforceable specs and evaluations. Before OpenAI he founded OneGraph, a GraphQL developer‑tools startup later acquired by Netlify. He has delivered dozens of technical talks worldwide on developer tooling, APIs, AI UX and design, and now alignment. Recorded at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. Stay up to date on our upcoming events and content by joining our newsletter here: https://www.ai.engineer/newsletter

On July 3, 2024, Boyce Upholt presented “The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi” as part of the History Is Lunch series. The Mississippi River is central to the United States, both physically and metaphorically. Its watershed spans almost half the country. Mark Twain’s travels on the river inspired the America’s first national literature. Blues and jazz were born in its floodplains and carried upstream. In his new book The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, Upholt tells the epic story of the wild and unruly river and the centuries of efforts to control it. For thousands of years the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of Indigenous people who regarded “the great river” with awe and respect and depended on its regular flooding. But the expanse of its watershed and the rich soils of its floodplain made Europeans view the river as a foe to conquer. “Centuries of human attempts to own, contain, and rework the Mississippi River, from Thomas Jefferson’s expansionist land hunger through today’s era of environmental concern, have transformed its landscape,” said Upholt. “And those government-built levees, jetties, dikes, and dams have not only damaged ecosystems—they may not work much longer.” John M. Barry, author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, wrote that “The Great River is easily one of the best books ever written about the Mississippi. It brings depth of scholarship to everything from geology to history to current politics, all of it elegantly written.” Connecticut native Boyce Upholt moved to Mississippi in 2009 to work with Teach for America. He earned his BA in English from Haverford College and his MFA from Warren Wilson College. Upholt is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism, and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi is his first book. History Is Lunch is a weekly lecture series of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that explores all aspects of the state’s past. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building at 222 North Street in Jackson and livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook.

Axios media correspondent Sara Fischer speaks to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince about the impacts of AI on search traffic and content compensation, and what those shifts mean for publishers at an Axios Live event at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

As all publishers face down the gaping maw of large language models gobbling their content, what can a long history of syndication and editorial IP licensing teach us about equitable and profitable partnerships? Reflecting on lessons from her years at The New York Times and now The Daily Mail Group, Alice explores the current opportunities in news licensing in a fragmented distribution ecosystem. Do we really have to reinvent the licensing wheel just for LLMs? Alice Ting VP, Global Head of Partnerships & Licensing dmg media

David Farrier's books include Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020) and Anthropocene Poetics (2019). Footprints won the Royal Society of Literature’s Giles St. Aubyn award and has been translated into nine languages. He is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the University of Edi

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Ben Zhao, Session Closing Keynote, Open Repositories 2025 (OR2025) , Chicago, Illinois, USA, 15-18 June 2025 Citation: Zhao, B. (2025, Haziran 16). Dealing with Generative AI, Harms and Mitigation Techniques. Open Repositories 2025 (OR2025), Chicago, Illinois, USA. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15790708 License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Summary: This keynote addresses two key questions: Are large language models (LLMs) the right interface for data and information access, and what harms do AI models pose to institutions like libraries today? He explains that current LLMs, while powerful, are fundamentally flawed pattern-matchers rather than true reasoning systems. New techniques like chain-of-thought processing, self-verification, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offer partial improvements but rely on the same unreliable foundations. On the second question, Zhao highlights the growing problem of AI-driven web scraping, noting that most mitigation strategies offer limited protection. He concludes that today’s generative AI LLMs are fundamentally flawed, and while composition techniques offer limited improvement, meaningful progress will require new architectures built with better understanding and ethical data sourcing. In the meantime, AI-driven crawlers pose an immediate threat, with most conventional defences proving ineffective—leaving commercial, network-level blocking as one of the few viable mitigation strategies.

In this week's episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, Dr Lyndsey Jenkins talks to the award-winning writer and historian, Richard King, about his new book, Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-1997, which was published by Faber earlier this