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SHALL WE PLAY A GAME? The Multiplex Overthruster crew has faced many dangers - wrathful space dictators, power-hungry fantasy wizards, horny suburban teenagers - but now they face their greatest challenge! Is it the artificial intelligence playing the titular War Games? Is it the military industrial complex that kept them in fear of the mushroom cloud for their entire childhoods… well, yes, it's those things but it's also (dun-dun-dun) NOSTALGIA! Marvel as Javi rediscovers his love for a pre-internet world that has long passed us by, thrill as Paul negotiates a much-needed social media detente with Javi, and wince as the long-suffering Producer Brad fights the never-ending battle to keep them on point! Is it Global Thermonuclear War, or is it… WAR GAMES? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nothing like the threat of Global Thermonuclear War to bring your spirits up. Instead of Oli listing '10 Things I Hate About You' to last week's Oklahoma movies, things hit a '(Dante's) Peak' with a 42 year old movie that couldn't feel more prescient - 'War Games'. How about a nice game of chess? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Shall we play a game?  How about Global Thermonuclear War?Catch up with the episode here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDmSSQgvhlc&list=PLUA9kG1DciUwY2VSvIGk3WZI_TqJMynxG&index=4If you dig our dive into "Space: 1999," please support us at Patreon, where you get episodes early with all the unedited banter, as well as live chats from time to time:https://www.patreon.com/podcastiopodcastiusWe also get into both "good" and "bad" films at Films & Filth:https://filmsandfilth.transistor.fm/The Twilight Zone:https://timeenoughpodcast.transistor.fm/And Disney:https://occultdisney.transistor.fm/And Matt makes music:https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/Coming Soon:January 17: The Last EnemyJanuary 24: The Troubled SpiritJanuary 31: Space Brain

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Welcome back to Movies that Make Us. This week we are going back into the archives to talk about one of the classic films of 1983, War Games.High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games to play. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, lightman accidentally has the supercomputer activate the nation's nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the Soviet Union. Once he realizes the danger he's created, Lightman must work with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) to alert the authorities and stop World War III from happening.Did you miss the video premier of this episode? Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, and then click the little bell to receive notifications when we add a new video or go live.You can also follow our Facebook page so you can receive notifications for new audio or video of our episodes. We're still raising money for the American Cancer Society, so please consider donating even $5 as every dollar goes straight to ACS and makes such a difference.As always, thank you for listening, and for now, we won't see you at the movies… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss WarGames (1983).  High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman leads the supercomputer to activate the nation's nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the Soviet Union.Support the show

Matt and Eric enter into a friendly game of Global Thermonuclear War with 1983's WARGAMES, starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy as teens accidentally jump-starting WWIII. Plus, we've got a new Superman and Lois Lane, Marvel's Secret Invasion shakes hands with A.I. and more...

Ruth Kelly's debut thriller, The Villa, is a sharp social commentary on the dark side of reality TV, as well as a total page turner. She tells our Mick about her time watching people in a glass box in Bristol, why the viewers of reality telly are as complicit and culpable as the stars and the TV execs, and what it's like to be the Miss World of ghostwriting. Our Hazel Davis has been on the Zoom with singer-songwriter Eddi Reader to talk singing, songwriting, playing the Balladeer in the new stage version of Brokeback Mountain, and why love is love – no matter what shape your nose is. Jen's got good news and bad news – as ever – in Jenny Off The Blocks. And in Rated or Dated, we're distrusting computers and wondering how we'll ever work out when something's made in the 1980s. Hello tiny Matthew Broderick and 1983's WarGames. Shall we play a game, listeners? Let Hannah go first though, eh – she's been waiting for aaaaages.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stock up on those rations and race to that bomb shelter, because it's Global Thermonuclear War! Or is it? Jay and Shua look back on 40 years of the classic movie WarGames with Matthew Broderick.    WarGames not only kept us on the edge of our seat wondering if WW3 was about to start, but it also helped to shape policies and events in our nation's government. Come with us as we revisit a dramatic 80s cold war movie.   News RIP to the iconic singer Tina Turner The recently renovated Brady Bunch house is now up for sale (y'know, if you have any pocket change…and really big pockets) It's not too late, for you to Whip It! Whip It Good! with a new Devo ReAction figure Plop into your bean bag with a plate of delicious brownies and get ready for the Sid and Marty Krofft channel 21st century technology gets poured into our cereal with the new Lucky Charms Hidden Dragon cereal Ferris Bueller's Day Off finally arrives on 4K BluRay (Danke Schoen!) Dive into the OASIS (…-like) virtual reality headset with Apple Vision Pro   Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends What we're Enjoying Shua recently finished another John Scalzi novel called ‘Redshirts', which is about exactly what you'd think….those poor bastards from science fiction that are always getting killed on away missions. But this one has a twist. They begin to realize it. Audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton. Jay finally returned to Pandora and watched the visually rich Avatar: The Way of Water. He agreed that it was a sight to behold.  Enjoy Movies!  1983 was a scary time in our country. We seemed to constantly be on pins and needles wondering if the Soviets were going to start an all-out nuclear war. But it was an exciting time too. The personal computer was making its way into our homes and giving us access to the outside world.   That is a brilliant recipe for a dramatic movie. Wargames became that movie, where a young computer hacker named David Lightman, played by a very young Matthew Broderick, who only had two acting credits to his name before this movie, unknowingly breaks into the military's computer system and nearly starts World War 3.   It was very well executed and made us question the possibilities of the future. It even made President Reagan a little nervous. After watching it, he requested an investigation to research the dangers of hacking and how we could take precautions against it.    And of course, it give Wade Watts an interesting challenge to accomplish in the Ready Player One novel by Earnest Cline.  Have you experienced WarGames? Did you like experimenting with computers? Who, exactly, are you going to Paris with? First person that emails me with the subject line, “Greetings Professor Falken” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com  

Stock up on those rations and race to that bomb shelter, because it's Global Thermonuclear War! Or is it? Jay and Shua look back on 40 years of the classic movie WarGames with Matthew Broderick.

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In this audience choice episode Craig and Rebecca attempt to defend Global Thermonuclear War and computers taking our jobs. Honestly, as an 80s Matthew Broderick movie, we thought it was going to be a little more light-hearted.  Produced by Andrew Ivimey as part of The From Superheroes Network. Visit www.FromSuperheroes.com for more podcasts, articles, YouTube series, web comics, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship takes a two-part look at parsha "Ha'azinu" (Deuteronomy chapter 32) and the end of the week that includes Yom Kippur, and the second-to-last portion in the Book, and thus the Torah. The sequence agains begins with the Erev Shabbat reading, in the context of the Fall Feasts, and 'the times' in which we now live: https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/SSM-10-7-22-Ha-azinu-Yom-Kippur-teaching-podcast-x.mp3 The Sabbath Day teaching is about asking some "hard questions" - especially given the events that arguably have brought us closer to Global Thermonuclear War, among other things, than ever in human history. And it really is tough to argue that whatever "Jugment(s)" that Yahuah may bring, or at least "allow," on AmeriKa - "Western Civilization" or a World that Just Plain Hates Him, aren't more than fully deserved. It is clear why He SHOULD be "angry", and what that means. But, really, what does that mean for us in the face of "fire"? Do we pray against what just may be "His Will?" Tough questions require us to take an HONEST look at Scripture, and what His Word really says. That right there, just might speak volumes. It's time to pay attention. "Ha'azinu: Give ear...Judgment is DESERVED - but THEN What?" https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/WT-CooH-10-8-22-Ha-azinu-Judment-is-SO-well-deserved-Do-we-Pray-for-AmeriKa-podcast-xxxx.mp3 The combined two-part podcast is here:

Ace of Spades baby. Put a fork in it. They don't want to hurt Putin, they want to hurt YOU. Here we go again.

Ace of Spades baby. Put a fork in it. They don't want to hurt Putin, they want to hurt YOU. Here we go again.

Ace of Spades baby. Put a fork in it. They don't want to hurt Putin, they want to hurt YOU. Here we go again.

In this Episode: Our Heroes want to play a game! It's Global Thermonuclear War this week on the show. Come for the tween romance and stay for the Defcon 1 Texarkana Hilbilly General dude... Tune in! Follow Us: Our Website Twitter Instagram Facebook Items discussed (links to more info): Note - if the below links don't work in your podcast player please visit the show page at: https://ebd.fm/episodes/171 Hawking Frampton Ice-T Tank Girl Point Break A League of Their Own Lori Petty The Offspring Dinner mon dieu Rip Torn Jack Pallance Believe It or Not Miss Cleo John Edwards Linda Cardellini Lynda Carter James Gandolfini Bill Macy Back to the Future LOTR Top Gun John Woo Mansquito Velocipastor Dinocroc Ready Player One Soylent Green Galaga Seagal King Willie Chappelle Northern Exposure A-Team No Country for Old Men Monte Walsh Yellowstone Wild Wild West Clerks Paxton Trespass Commando 9 to 5 Cloak & Dagger Short Time Boardwalk Empire Dragnet Inspector Gadget Get Smart Costner Theranos Bueller Cameron Young Guns Glory Biloxi Blues Blood Diamond Brighton Beach Memoirs Sarahca Jessica Parker Max Dugan Returns Yeast donut Cake donut Krispy Kreme Dunkin Fred the Baker Gomez Quigley Dr. Allcome Tab

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In the words of Joshua, the super-computer from the 1983 film Wargames, shall we play a game? Much like Global Thermonuclear War, when it comes to Hollywood's attempts to adapt video games into a successful movie franchise, the only way to win might be not to play. It's a world-wide billion dollar industry with a built in devoted audience, recognisable characters and visuals that should be right at home on the big screen... but despite trying and trying and trying again, it seems impossible to make a good movie based on a computer game. From moustachioed plumbers to hooded assassins to street fighters to raiders of tombs (charted and un), the response of filmgoers to most if not all film adaptations of best selling video games ranges from 'meh' to 'my God what a mess!' Always willing to accept a side-quest and level up for a big boss fight, this week your three intrepid podcast hosts are tackling video game movies! Let's hope it's not Game Over.

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Infosec Decoded Season 2 #7: Global Thermonuclear War A discussion with Elizabeth Biddlecome, Sam Bowne, Kaitlyn Handelman, Irvin Lemus, and Alan Wennersten. Links: https://samsclass.info/news/news_012522.html

Bonsoir à toutes et à tous!
 Bienvenue dans l'épisode 22 du Podcast Damoclès dédié à la problématique NRBC dans la guerre de haute intensité. On profite de cet épisode pour accueillir Francis, nouveau chroniqueur du podcast ! Au sommaire de cet épisode:
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 - Cécile: Gain-de-fonction et coronavirus 
https://theintercept.com/2021/11/03/coronavirus-research-ecohealth-nih-emails/ - Nico: Prochain directeur du NIH https://www.science.org/content/article/should-next-nih-director-hold-medical-degree -Francis : Arrêt d'Elbit en Australie https://www.journal-aviation.com/actualites/12663-la-filiale-d-elbit-systems-elisra-equipera-l-armee-francaise Recommandations
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The Soviet Union detonated their first nuclear bomb in 1949, releasing 20 kilotons worth of an explosion and sparking the nuclear arms race. A weather reconnaissance mission confirmed that the Soviets did so and Klaus Fuchs was arrested for espionage, after passing blueprints for the Fat Man bomb that had been dropped on Japan. A common name in the podcast is Vannevar Bush. At this point he was the president of the Carnegie Institute and put together a panel to verify the findings. The Soviets were catching up to American science. Not only did they have a bomb but they also had new aircraft that were capable of dropping a bomb. People built bomb shelters, schools ran drills to teach students how to survive a nuclear blast and within a few years we'd moved on to the hydrogen bomb. And so the world lived in fear of nuclear fall-out. Radar had come along during World War II and we'd developed Ground Control of Intercept, an early radar network. But that wouldn't be enough to protect against this new threat. If one of these Soviet bombers, like the Tupolev 16 “Badger” were to come into American airspace, the prevailing thought was that we needed to shoot it down before the payload could be delivered. The Department of Defense started simulating what a nuclear war would look like. And they asked the Air Force to develop an air defense system. Given the great work done at MIT, much under the careful eye of Vannevar Bush, they reached out to George Valley, a professor in the Physics Department who had studied nuclear weapons. He also sat on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and toured some of the existing sites and took a survey of the US assets. He sent his findings and they eventually made their way to General Vandenberg, who assigned General Fairchild to assemble a committee which would become the Valley Committee, or more officially the Air Defense Systems Engineering Committee, or ADSEC. ADSEC dug in deeper and decided that we needed a large number of radar stations with a computer that could aggregate and then analyze data to detect enemy aircraft in real time. John Harrington had worked out how to convert radar into code and could send that over telephone lines. They just needed a computer that could crunch the data as it was received. And yet none of the computer companies at the time were able to do this kind of real time operation. We were still in a batch processing mainframe world. Jay Forrester at MIT was working on the idea of real-time computing. Just one problem, the Servomechanisms lab where he was working on Project Whirlwind for the Navy for flight simulation was over budget and while they'd developed plenty of ground-breaking technology, they needed more funding. So Forrester was added to ADSEC and added the ability to process the digital radar information. By the end of 1950, the team was able to complete successful tests of sending radar information to Whirlwind over the phone lines. Now it was time to get funding, which was proposed at $2 million a year to fund a lab. Given that Valley and Forrester were both at MIT, they decided it should be at MIT. Here, they saw a way to help push the electronics industry forward and the Navy's Chief Scientist Louis Ridenour knew that wherever that lab was built would become a the next scientific hotspot. The president at MIT at the time, James Killian, wasn't exactly jumping on the idea of MIT becoming an arm of the department of defense so put together 28 scientists to review the plans from ADSEC, which became Project Charles and threw their support to forming the new lab. They had measured twice and were ready to cut. There were already projects being run by the military during the arms buildup named after other places surrounding MIT so they picked Project Lincoln for the name of the project to Project Lincoln. They appointed F Wheeler Loomis as the director with a mission to design a defense system. As with all big projects, they broke it up into five small projects, or divisions; things like digital computers, aircraft control and warning, and communications. A sixth did the business administration for the five technical divisions and another delivered technical services as needed. They grew to over 300 people by the end of 1951 and over 1,300 in 1952. They moved offsite and built a new campus - thus establishing Lincoln Lab. By the end of 1953 they had written a memo called A Proposal for Air Defense System Evolution: The Technical Phase. This called for a net of radars to be set up that would track the trajectory of all aircraft in the US airspace and beyond. And to build communications to deploy the weapons that could destroy those aircraft. The Manhattan project had brought in the nuclear age but this project grew to be larger as now we had to protect ourselves from the potential devastation we wrought. We were firmly in the Cold War with America testing the hydrogen bomb in 52 and the Soviets doing so in 55. That was the same year the prototype of the AN/FSQ-7 to replace Whirlwind. To protect the nation from these bombs they would need 100s of radars, 24 centers to receive data, and 3 combat centers. They planned for direction centers to have a pair of AN/FSQ-7 computers, which were the Whirlwind evolved. That meant half a million lines of code which was by far the most ambitious software ever written. Forrester had developed magnetic-core memory for Whirlwind. That doubled the speed of the computer. They hired IBM to build the AN/FSQ-7 computers and from there we started to see commercial applications as well when IBM added it to the 704 mainframe in 1955. Stalin was running labor camps and purges. An estimated nine million people died in Gulags or from hunger. Chairman Mao visited Moscow in 1957, sparking the Great Leap Forward policy that saw 45 million people die. All in the name of building a utopian paradise. Americans were scared. And Stalin was distrustful of computers for any applications beyond scientific computing for the arms race. By contrast, people like Ken Olsen from Lincoln Lab left to found Digital Equipment Corporation and sell modular mini-computers on the mass market, with DEC eventually rising to be the number two computing company in the world. The project also needed software and so that was farmed out to Rand who would have over 500 programmers work on it. And a special display to watch planes as they were flying, which began as a Stromberg-Carlson Charactron cathode ray tube. IBM got to work building the 24 FSQ-7s, with each coming in at a whopping 250 tons and nearly 50,000 vacuum tubes - and of course that magnetic core memory. All this wasn't just theoretical. Given the proximity, they deployed the first net of around a dozen radars around Cape Cod as a prototype. They ran dedicated phone lines from Cambridge and built the first direction center, equipping it with an interactive display console that showed an x for each object being tracked, adding labels and then Robert Everett came up with the idea of a light gun that could be used as a pointing device, along with a keyboard, to control the computers from a terminal. They tested the Cape Cod installation in 1953 and added long range radars in Maine and New York by the end of 1954, working out bugs as they went. The Suffolk County Airfield in Long Island was added so Strategic Air Command could start running exercises for response teams. By the end of 1955 they put the system to the test and it passed all requirements from the Air Force. The radars detected the aircraft and were able to then control manned antiaircraft operations. By 1957 they were adding logic and capacity to the system, having fine tuned over a number of test runs until they got to a 100 percent interception rate. They were ready to build out the direction centers. The research and development phase was done - now it was time to produce an operational system. Western Electric built a network of radar and communication systems across Northern Canada that became known as the DEW line, short for Distant Early Warning. They added increasingly complicated radar, layers of protection, like Buckminster Fuller joining for a bit to develop a geodesic dome to protect the radars using fiberglass. They added radar to what looked like oil rigs around Texas, experimented with radar on planes and ships, and how to connect those back to the main system. By the end of 1957 the system was ready to move into production and integration with live weapons into the code and connections. This is where MIT was calling it done for their part of the program. Only problem is when the Air Force looked around for companies willing to take on such a large project, no one could. So MITRE corporation was spun out of Lincoln Labs pulling in people from a variety of other government contractors and continues on to this day working on national security, GPS, election integrity, and health care. They took the McChord airfare online as DC-12 in 1957, then Syracuse New York in 1958 and started phasing in automated response. Andrews, Dobbins, Geiger Field, Los Angeles Air Defense Sector, and others went online over the course of the next few years. The DEW line went operational in 1962, extending from Iceland to the Aleutians. By 1963, NORAD had a Combined Operations Center where the war room became reality. Burroughs eventually won a contract to deploy new D825 computers to form a system called BUIC II and with the rapidly changing release of new solid state technology those got replaced with a Hughes AN/TSQ-51. With the rise of Airborn Warning and Control Systems (AWACS), the ground systems started to slowly get dismantled in 1980, being phased out completely in 1984, the year after WarGames was released. In WarGames, Matthew Broderick plays David Lightman, a young hacker who happens upon a game. One Jon Von Neumann himself might have written as he applied Game Theory to the nuclear threat. Lightman almost starts World War III when he tries to play Global Thermonuclear War. He raises the level of DEFCON and so inspires a generation of hackers who founded conferences like DEFCON and to this day war dial, or war drive, or war whatever. The US spent countless tax money on advancing technology in the buildup for World War II and the years after. The Manhattan Project, Project Whirlwind, SAGE, and countless others saw increasing expenditures. Kennedy continued the trend in 1961 when he started the process of putting humans on the moon. And the unpopularity of the Vietnam war, which US soldiers had been dying in since 1959, caused a rollback of spending. The legacy of these massive projects was huge spending to advance the sciences required to produce each. The need for these computers in SAGE and other critical infrastructure to withstand a nuclear war led to ARPANET, which over time evolved into the Internet. The subsequent privatization of these projects, the rapid advancement in making chips, and the drop in costs while frequent doubling of speeds based on findings from each discipline finding their way into others then gave us personal computing and the modern era of PCs then mobile devices. But it all goes back to projects like ENIAC, Whirlwind, and SAGE. Here, we can see generations of computing evolve with each project. I'm frequently asked what's next in our field. It's impossible to know exactly. But we can look to mega projects, many of which are transportation related - and we can look at grants from the NSF. And DARPA and many major universities. Many of these produce new standards so we can also watch for new RFCs from the IETF. But the coolest tech is probably classified, so ask again in a few years! And we can look to what inspires - sometimes that's a perceived need, like thwarting nuclear war. Sometimes mapping human genomes isn't a need until we need to rapidly develop a vaccine. And sometimes, well… sometimes it's just returning to some sense of normalcy. Because we're all about ready for that. That might mean not being afraid of nuclear war as a society any longer. Or not being afraid to leave our homes. Or whatever the world throws at us next.

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 30th, 2021A brief history of talking computersWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for August 30, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on August 30th included special guest Matt Campbell, as well as MattSci, TVRaman, Jessamyn West and Dan Cross. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Brian Dear's The Friendly Orange Glow Brodie Lockard created amazing software on PLATO Control Data Corp Homework [@2:47](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=167) Matt's intro  Deane Blazie created TotalTalk, a speaking terminal. See his 2004 interview. Apple IIe computer and the Echo II speech synthesizer card. [@4:15](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=255) The Echo ][ sound sample Wargames computer: GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN. Listen > SHALL WE PLAY A GAME? > Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War? > … > Is this a game or is it real? > WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? > … > What's it doing? > It's learning… > … > A STRANGE GAME. > THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS > NOT TO PLAY. [@7:46](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=466)  Prose 2000 sample DECtalk audio sample [@12:14](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=734) Apple to PC Keynote Gold, Master Touch, Zoom Text [@14:53](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=893) Keynote Gold sample Talking Moose. Watch a sample. [@17:17](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1037) GUI screen readers  outSPOKEN used QuickDraw Window Bridge 1992 [@21:58](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1318) Meeting another sight impaired person on a MUD pwWebSpeak Emacspeak [@26:44](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1604) Early programming experiences Apple IIGS [@28:47](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1727) Emacspeak user base [@31:34](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=1894) Things were getting better on the Windows side..  JAWS, patch parody sample Microsoft Narrator [@36:12](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2172) Linux  Speakup Mixing multiple sound streams, hardware limitations Slackware ZipSpeak by Matthew Campbell [@44:53](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2693) Editors for the visually impaired?  ed text editor Edbrowse [@49:36](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=2976) Working on accessibility (a11y) for pay  FreedomBox GNOME EsounD KDE aRts Gnopernicus Orca [@57:46](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=3466)  Microsoft Active Accessibility AT-SPI CORBA, D-Bus [@1:03:11](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=3791) Handheld devices  Apple VoiceOver Google TalkBack iPhone Screen Recognition article [@1:08:09](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4089) What should software engineers know about accessibility?  Use a mature UI framework! Microsoft UI Automation is the successor to MSAA. AccessKit by today's speaker Matt Campbell! [@1:12:34](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4354) DECtalk samples! [@1:15:25](https://youtu.be/b9GVJg0LRX4?t=4525) One of the most important settings a blind person will want to change in their speech synthesizer is how fast it talks. JAWS parody clip Alt text image captions Topical recent conference presentation: - Emily Shea (2019) Voice Driven Development videoIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

In this Episode Big Jay sits down with Eli, J.T. and Schnoz as they spin the Wonderful Wheel of History and discuss the year 1983.It was a Fun year full of Great TV, Great Movies and Iconic Songs - And we learned just how close we came to Global Nuclear Devastation!So join us as we look back on the year that gave us the First (American) Woman in Space, Swatch Watches, Leg Warmers and Fraggle Rock!

Harry and Rory dial in to an 80s cold war classic for an episode of WarGames on Film. High school hacker Matthew Broderick unwittingly kickstarts potential nuclear armageddon when a game of Global Thermonuclear War with a super-computer turns out to be more than just a simulation. Our hosts discuss the film's mix of teen shenanigans and apocalyptic dread, plus its more recent spin-offs, the prominent role it plays in novel Ready Player One, and other 1983 blockbuster Superman III. This podcast contains SPOILERS for WarGames (1983). Visit our Website: gamesonfilm.wixsite.com/podcast Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/GamesOnFilmPod/ Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/GamesOnFilmPod/ Music by David Lightfoot www.davidlightfootmusic.com

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Explaining the zero-sum game that American politics has devolved into using a little bit of ‘80s pop culture.Welcome to the first episode of the Self-Evident, a podcast about first principles, hosted on Substack along with the From the Hawk's Nest newsletter. Self-Evident is currently available on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.Episode TranscriptHello folks, my name is Justin Stapley, and welcome to the first episode of Self-Evident, a podcast about first principles. Some of you may have been reading my work as a writer for quite some time and others may have listened to my previous podcast endeavors. Others, I assume, well I hope, are new listeners who are open to the perspective I'm going to try and present in this podcast. This podcast isn't going to be about electoral politics, partisan bickering, or the hysterics of the culture war. It is my sincere hope that I can find a way to rise above all of that and do what little I can to bring a discussion on the first principles of the American republic into the conversation.  But before I get knee-deep in the primordial soup of America's great experiment in self-governance, I had better discuss why I've chosen not to continue my previous podcast project, the New Centrist. The Untimely End of the New Centrist PodcastI have, unfortunately, discovered that the premise upon which the New Centrist podcast was founded on was overly optimistic. The perspective I had was that America's two mainstream political parties had migrated to the margins and left a traditionally-minded political center without a voice. While this perspective remains true in many ways, I came to also discover general political dysfunction across the board, even in the purported center of American politics. If there is a constituency for founding principles, or a "new center" as I had envisioned, it's shockingly small in the face of the anxieties and agitations presented by presidential electoral politics in what has clearly become a Progressive Democracy. The Imperial Presidency has become the most consequential of political footballs, and the passions of the general electorate seem too hotly stoked by the contest for its control for principles, ideals, or values to be a present consideration. The self-evident truths of classically liberal governance have become all but forgotten. Specifically, anxieties have become so centralized in the specific person of Donald Trump, few have demonstrated the broader vision necessary to understand that nationalism and populism, the embryos of totalitarianism and fascism, are the inevitable results of central planning. Our present dysfunction is the inevitable state of dystopia and decay that represents the final result of a century-long doomed attempt to create a progressive utopia. It has been my woeful observation that there is simply no constituency for a "return to normal" in terms of the health of our Constitutional Republic because there are relatively few who understand what normal actually looks like. We are fallen from the founding ideals of the republic in heart, mind, and soul. With this new understanding of our present situation, I was forced to retire the short-lived “New Centrist” podcast. This new podcast, Self-Evident, is my attempt to embark on a new project to reassert and reaffirm the first principles of our republic that we have forgotten and communicate to a lost generation the values, ideals, and principles of the republic they have inherited. I fully understand and am painfully aware of how difficult this journey is going to be. Our nation is currently engaged in all the rancor, excitement, and hysteria of an election year. Since I have chosen to reject the choice between nationalism and progressivism, as represented by Trump and Biden, and since there is currently no viable, principled option able to slice through the hyper-partisan fog, I will probably be accused often of muddying the waters without offering an alternative. So be it. If attempting to illuminate the self-evident truths of our republic's foundation “muddies the water” then it only speaks to how very lost we all are. Shall We Play a Game?So, if I'm not going to throw my weight behind some politician and wave their banner in yet another “consequential” election year, what exactly am I trying to accomplish?  I am going to play tic-tac-toe. You heard me right. Tic-tac-toe. Pop-culture and 80s nerds who saw the name of this episode might have an idea of what I'm getting at. For those who have no clue, let's talk Matthew Broderick. Now, I wasn't born until 1987. I have no memory of the cold war or even the Berlin Wall coming down. I have faint memories of my dad getting orders to ship to Desert Storm before he got stood down, but by then the world was already a very different place. Without growing up facing the very real possibility of thermonuclear war, it's hard for me to appreciate the terror my parents' generation lived with for decades. But I caught a glimpse of what the world went through when, as a kid, I watched WarGames for the first time.  For those who are unfamiliar with WarGames, it's a 1983 movie about a young hacker who unwittingly hacks into a government computer system and starts playing a game with an artificial intelligence. He doesn't know that the AI is actually in charge of America's nuclear arsenal.  The hacker, played by Matthew Broderick, plays what he thinks is a computer game as the Soviet Union in a Global Thermonuclear War scenario. The AI reacts in real-time, not understanding the difference between reality and simulation. Long story short, spoilers to follow, the situation escalates towards Armageddon as the AI is determined to instigate a nuclear war and “win the game.” It isn't until Broderick's character has the AI play a game of tic-tac-toe with itself that the world is saved from the brink of disaster.  For those who don't know, tic-tac-toe is impossible to win if every move is followed by a perfect response. By having the AI play tic-tac-toe, Broderick's character taught it the concept of futility. After applying this new logic to its ongoing game of Thermonuclear War, the AI concludes there can be no winner in a scenario of mutually assured destruction.  The AI concludes that nuclear war is “a strange game” in which “the only winning move is not to play.” Zero-Sum GamesWhat does any of this have to do with politics? Simple. Tic-tac-toe and nuclear war are both zero-sum games. The moves taken to win are always at the direct expense of the opponent, who responds in kind. The end game is always dysfunction and destruction. The political contest in today's America has devolved into a zero-sum game. Over the last hundred years, we have created a presidency vastly more powerful than envisioned by America's founding fathers. Congress has slowly ceded copious amounts of its own power to the executive branch, aiding in the creation of a vast bureaucracy that ultimately answers only to the President. Through use of regulatory and emergency powers, the President can proceed almost with impunity in enacting national policy with or without the consent of Congress. This reality has long been hidden by the fact that many Presidents have mostly chosen to keep their actions within established norms. But in the past 20 years, situations have arisen that have provided excuses to our current and recent presidents to break established norms and reveal just how powerful the presidency has become. The American people have responded as should be expected. Recognizing just how consequential presidential elections have become, the various factions have engaged in a pitched battle for control of the presidency. And, from Obama's “elections have consequences” and “bitter-clinger” comments to Trump's constant ad-hominem attacks on anyone who doesn't support him, it's clear to see there is no respect for the rights or viewpoints of those who lose an election in our current climate. In this zero-sum game of electoral politics, there's never going to be a winner and each round is just going to bring us closer and closer to the brink of collapse. The only way to win, the only way to save our republic, is to teach the American people the futility of the game they're playing, to teach them not to play it anymore. The only way I know to do that is to try and go back to the basics, to teach the tic-tac-toe reality of human behavior and why our nation's government was established as a constitutionally limited republic with necessary checks and balances on power. As the founders knew too well, men are not angels and never will be. Expecting a government to function justly when it must rely on the best men, and women, to always hold the reins of power is an exercise in futility. Until balance in the system is restored, until the American people learn the futility of playing this partisan game of mutually assured destruction, the establishment of liberty and justice is never going come from simply removing whichever demagogue happens to have risen to the top of the ash heap. And that's going to do it for this brief but pointed episode. I hope you enjoyed this first foray into this new project. If you liked what you heard today, be sure to subscribe and offer a review of the podcast. I encourage you to also check out my writing and the writing of other liberty-minded Americans at TheLibertyHawk.com, that's TheLibertyHawk.com and to consider subscribing to my bi-weekly newsletter From the Hawk's Nest. You can find me on both Facebook and Twitter and can also email me anytime at JustinStapley@TheLibertyHawk.com.  Stay free my friends. Get full access to Self-Evident at selfevident.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode Chris and TC are joined by special guest Matt Riddle to delve deep into global thermonuclear war, the Prisoner's Dilemma, evolutionary metagaming and other cerebral subjects related to the mathematical analysis of Game Theory. All this, plus strange business practices, Space Base, Welcome To..., cannibalism, End of the Trail, Nyet, Through the Desert, deconstructing two-player game mechanics, Between Two Cities of Mad King Ludwig, Jaipur, Infamous, & more!

Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy star in this major hit from 1983, one of the first films to break through into the world of hacking and the burgeoning internet, WarGames.  Directed by John Badham, this tells the tale of a teenager who hacks into a database he thinks will allow him to play a not-yet-released video game only to discover he's in a machine used by the military to launch nuclear missiles in a time of crisis. The computer has games of its own, one called "Global Thermonuclear War", but the teenager soon discovers that the game may not be a game after all, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance, as the military brass must decide to counterattack what might be a simulation.

It's time to sit down with the boys for a friendly game of Global Thermonuclear War! Where the stakes are high and only Matthew Broderick can save the day. That's right, this week the boys watched John Badham's 1983 science fiction thriller WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, and Ally Sheedy. This is one game you won't wanna miss.Audio Master: Nuclear Strategist Christopher FordOriginal Music: Alan Loosbrock

Welcome to The Psychosemantic Podcast. Join Daeron and a revolving door of guests in discussing politics, movies, and political movies……. In this episode Doug Tilley drops by the bomb shelter for some chat about tic tac toe , Global Thermonuclear War, and a little 1983 movie called WarGames. -Resources- ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons): www.icanw.org Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: www.cnduk.org     -FB Discussion Groups- Psychosemantic: facebook.com/groups/Psychosemanticast/ Eric Roberts is the Fucking Man: facebook.com/groups/ericrobertsistheman/   iTunes : itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-psychosemantic-podcast/id1191732198?mt=2 Stitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/psychosemantic–podcast  

This week, Seth (briefly) joins Brennan and Fernando as they join the crew (Jeremy, Ivo, Kath, and Lew). Topics discussed: Best Superbowl halftime show. Nuclear war preparations. Troublesome web searches Are cars becoming too smart? Forlorn kitchen utensils  

Shall we play a game? How about Global Thermonuclear War! The opponent: Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein. In his arsenal, about 4,000 Playstation 2s to build his nuclear arsenal. How was he planning to use Sony's video game console to conquer the planet? Time to look inside the Cabinet to find out.

Ever played a video game and felt almost addicted? We’ve all been there. Then you get nauseous, have horrible nightmares, suffer from convulsions, and maybe even die? Oh wait, the Street Fighter 2 marathon didn’t do that? Well, a mysterious arcade game in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon did in the early 80’s. Polybius, allegedly only in a few arcades, was under constant surveillance by (you guessed it) men IN BLACK SUITS. Soon after it appeared, the mysterious arcade game vanished without warning—leaving no record of its existence. Did the game really exist? If so was it some sort of mind control experiment by the government, or something even more far fetched? Could it have been a testing ground to find the best and the brightest future stars of the US military? The H 51 I-Team investigates (but mostly just plays video games). Plus, is C Bot’s favorite game Global Thermonuclear War or Tic-Tac-Toe (hint: is isn’t Tic Tac Toe)? Who’s the best at Dig Dug (hint: it isn’t Brent). And is the Power Glove just…so bad (yes, of course it is). All of that and more on the podcast that’s never had our mind controlled by a video game, but HAS controlled a video game with our minds…and forearms…and fists – Hysteria 51.

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Meghan and Jose find out Global Thermonuclear War is better as a drinking game. War Games (1983) Written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes. Directed by John Badham. Music by Michael Kramer http://michaelkramermusic.com  Logo by Garret Ross http://garrettross.net Send comments and suggestions on Twitter @later2theparty and on Facebook at Facebook.com/Later2TheParty

"WarGames." - Warm up your modem and turn your nuclear-launch key—it’s time to play Global Thermonuclear War! We discuss “WarGames,” the 1983 John Badham film starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, and Ally Sheedy. Is this the ultimate film for computer nerds like us? How do the film’s Cold War themes contrast with its anti-technology themes? Can a computer make moral decisions? Why is there so much nerd shaming and sexism? And why do they let tour buses into the heart of America’s nuclear command? So many questions, Professor Falken, and so few remote-controlled pterodactyls. Host Jason Snell with Greg Knauss, John Siracusa, Andy Ihnatko and David J. Loehr.

It was like that movie, back in the day, where the machine asks the kid, "How about a nice game of chess?" / "No," he types back. "Let's play Global Thermonuclear War." / That's what the slip of paper in my hand read. "Global Thermonuclear War."