Threat Surface

Rurik Bradbury was a co-founder of Unison and currently the Head of Communications and Research at LivePerson. He’s also known as the satire persona @ProfJeffJarviss — a blend of all of Silicon Valley’s greatest fail-to-win thoughtleader gurus. We discuss all the ways in which Prof Jeff Jarviss’s most horrific jokes are coming true today, the persona’s influences, and more. Support the show! patreon.com/threatsurface audibletrial.com/threatsurface

Emily Gorcenski (@EmilyGorcenski) is a data scientist, a speaker on ethics in technology and an activist for trans issues. We talk about what responsibilities tech workers have in building algorithms that could profile users, the Trump dialect, using inferred behaviors to deliver a list of users to governments, trans protections now at risk under Trump, the ethics of the Internet of Things, working as a defense contractor and having once been a libertarian tech bro. https://stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies/ https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb#.31ksjt90t https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber Support the show! patreon.com/threatsurface audibletrial.com/threatsurface