Podcast appearances and mentions of jon lebkowsky

This episode of Plutopia News Network’s podcast features hosts Scoop Sweeney, Jon Lebkowsky, and Wendy Grossman discussing skepticism, trust, and current societal issues. We explore the erosion of trust in…

This week, we cover the Sonos executive shake-up, AWS CEO Matt Garman's take on AI, and check in on OpenTofu's growth. Plus, some thoughts on broken windows and Emacs no longer being preinstalled on macOS. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 502 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flerIIV5OW8) Runner-up Titles Anecdote Investigations. The Software Defined Elves are gonna send you a RØDECaster. Well, maybe we should talk about emacs more! I still have a box of cables Buy One, Pay for One If it's fine, it's fine Rundown Sonos' interim CEO hits all the right notes in first letter to employees (https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342354/sonos-interim-ceo-tom-conrad-employee-letter) Breaking: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch (https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342179/sonos-ceo-patrick-spence-resignation-reason-app) Sonos Chief Product Officer to Leave; Interim CEO to Take Role (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-14/sonos-chief-product-officer-to-leave-interim-ceo-to-take-role?utm_medium=email&utm_source=author_alert&utm_term=250114&utm_campaign=author_19842959) AI's payoff will be massive, says AWS CEO Matt Garman (https://www.theverge.com/24338171/aws-ceo-matt-garman-ai-chips-anthropic-cloud-computing-trainium-decoder-podcast-interview) OpenTofu Turns One With OpenTofu 1.9.0 (https://thenewstack.io/opentofu-turns-one-with-opentofu-1-9-0/) macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs (https://batsov.com/articles/2025/01/12/macos-no-longer-ships-with-emacs/) Relevant to your Interests The 8 worst technology failures of 2024 (https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1108883/the-8-worst-technology-failures-of-2024/) 41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/business/ai-job-losses-by-2030-intl/index.html) How I Replaced Notion with Reminders, Numbers, and Notes (https://archive.ph/2024.11.16-053045/https://medium.com/westenberg/how-i-replaced-notion-with-reminders-numbers-and-notes-38282543b29b) Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine (https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24340717/automattic-wordpress-contribution-hours-cut-wp-engine) How Fidelity's “chaos buffet” pushed AWS to new Lambda tools (https://www.thestack.technology/fidelity-chaos-buffet-aws-lambda-fis/) Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984" (https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-facebook-censorship-biden) Meta Reorientates Itself Around ‘Masculine Energy' – Pixel Envy (https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-masculine-energy/) #6907 Kong-ingress-controller 3.4 has high CPU usage when running 2 pods (https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/issues/6907) Survey: AI Tools are Increasing Amount of Bad Code Needing to be Fixed (https://devops.com/survey-ai-tools-are-increasing-amount-of-bad-code-needing-to-be-fixed/) Exclusive | Hanging Out at Starbucks? You Now Need to Order Something (https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/starbucks-new-cafe-policy-dining-room-e9ab07bf) A new AI-powered security tool is promising to reinvent how companies secure login credentials (https://www.axios.com/2025/01/14/ai-cybersecurity-startup-intel-funding?utm_term=emshare) Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform (https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/) Mullenweg's Grip On WordPress Challenged In New Court Filing (https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mullenwegs-grip-on-wordpress-challenged-in-new-court-filing/537416/) Apple's AI feature just can't get it right (https://www.mindstream.news/p/apple-s-ai-feature-just-can-t-get-it-right) Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/technology/texas-allstate-driver-data-lawsuit.html) Mastodon's CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization (https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko) Nonsense DirecTV to offer 'MySports,' a smaller streaming package of 40 channels (https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6059981/2025/01/14/directv-mysports-small-channel-package/?source=freedailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=56655) Drake Sues His Label, Calling Kendrick Lamar's ‘Not Like Us' Defamatory (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/arts/music/drake-kendrick-lamar-lawsuit-not-like-us.html) Hanging Out at Starbucks? You Now Need to Order Something (https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/starbucks-new-cafe-policy-dining-room-e9ab07bf) Listener Feedback Capture AI's Low-Hanging Fruit with Agents (https://bweagle.medium.com/capture-ais-low-hanging-fruit-with-agents-904b00eb6860) The Ethics of Using AI Tools at Work (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2025/01/the-ethics-of-using-ai-tools-at-work.html) ****## Conferences CfgMgmtCamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/), February 2-5, 2025. 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In this episode of the Plutopia podcast, hosts Scoop Sweeney, Wendy Grossman, and Jon Lebkowsky have an open discussion without a guest, considering what’s buzzing at the moment. The conversation…

In this episode of the Plutopia podcast, hosts Jon Lebkowsky, Wendy Grossman, and Scoop Sweeney discuss with guest Mike Nelson, a senior fellow at Carnegie Asia, the evolution and impact…

In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with writer, editor, & vocalist/lyricist Ken Goffman (aka R. U. Sirius) about Psychedelic Transhumanism, Singularity, and more. • • • R.U. at Mindplex https://magazine.mindplex.ai/author/rusirius/   Interview: Has The Silicon Valley Ruling Class Gone To Crazy Town? https://magazine.mindplex.ai/__tescrealism-has-the-silicon-valley-ruling-class-gone-to-crazy-town-emile-torres-in-conversation-with-r-u-sirius/   R.U. at bandcamp https://rusirius.bandcamp.com/   RU's favorite: “The Party Dogs album "It's A Groove" is me singing at 29-30 years old in 1982” https://rusirius.bandcamp.com/album/zeitgeist-savant-idiot-glee   Mondo 2000 https://www.mondo2000.com/   Enshittification at wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification   Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2024 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/540/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html • • • Hilaritas Press Podcasts: http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/ Producer Richard Rasa: http://www.pelorian.com/rasa.html Host/Producer Mike Gathers: https://linktr.ee/mgathers23

This week, we delve into the Stack Overflow Survey, compare AWS and Azure, and discuss why everyone loves "Coding at Google." Plus, thoughts on the new Mobile Passport Control App and Global Entry. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9W_WdnDWMg) 449 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9W_WdnDWMg) Runner-up Titles That is part of the podcast I am going to have a change of pants for that They're very good notes “Buildies” Of course they are The Internet is a series of tubes… filled with money The easiest way to make money is to have a lot of money Gobsmacked Rundown Mobile Passport Control (MPC) (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-control) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#ai-sentiment-and-usage) Amazon's Silent Sacking (https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sacking/) AWS Overhauls 60,000-Person Sales Team to Fix ‘Fiefdoms,' Customer Complaints (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aws-overhauls-60-000-person-sales-team-to-fix-fiefdoms-customer-complaints) Coding at Google (https://textslashplain.com/2024/01/02/coding-at-google/) Relevant to your Interests Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/) Exclusive: GM's Cruise robotaxi unit dismisses nine execs after safety probe (https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gms-cruise-robotaxi-unit-dismisses-nine-people-after-safety-investigation-2023-12-13/) Apple Makes Security Changes to Protect Users From iPhone Thefts (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-iphone-ios-update-stolen-device-protection-698d760e) Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998665/apple-stolen-device-protection-face-touch-id-icloud-account-vulnerability-ios-17-3-beta) The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way' (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/ibm-greatest-capitalist-tom-watson/676147/) Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot (https://apnews.com/article/tesla-autopilot-recall-driver-monitoring-system-8060508627a34e6af889feca46eb3002) Want to Store a Message in DNA? That'll Be $1,000 (https://www.wired.com/story/store-a-message-in-dna/) Google's GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/duet-ai-for-developers-googles-github-copilot-competitor-is-now-generally-available-and-will-soon-use-the-gemini-model/) Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available (https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-is-generally-available) The Besties' Revenge: How the ‘All-In' Podcast Captured Silicon Valley (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-besties-revenge-how-the-all-in-podcast-captured-silicon-valley) Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (https://retool.com/pipes) InfoWorld's 2023 Technology of the Year Award winners (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3711524/infoworlds-2023-technology-of-the-year-award-winners.html) DHH on LinkedIn: This is our cloud spend over the last 12 months. Can you tell when we… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-heinemeier-hansson-374b18221_this-is-our-cloud-spend-over-the-last-12-activity-7142603347013844992-MseI/) Apple Plans Rescue for $17 Billion Watch Business in Face of Ban (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-18/apple-plans-rescue-for-17-billion-watch-business-in-face-of-ban) Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement (https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-to-pay-700-million-in-play-store-settlement-28bed6b6?st=gof21ww45isoe8a&reflink=article_copyURL_share) The Rule of X (https://x.com/BessemerVP/status/1736814812292952557?s=20) Practical Magic: Improving Productivity and Happiness for Software Development Teams (https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2023/practical-magic--improving-productivity-and-happiness-for-softwa) The Big Cloud Exit FAQ (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010) Pro Take: The Cloud Isn't The Answer to All IT Problems—At Least for Now (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pro-take-the-cloud-isnt-the-answer-to-all-it-problemsat-least-for-now-2af43219?st=nwqof55uzxml475&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink) Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/comcast-xfinity-hackers-36-million-customers/) Who will buy VMware's end-user compute products? (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/vmware_euc_sale_speculation/) Deploy web apps anywhere (https://kamal-deploy.org/) A Look Back at Q3 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q3-23-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=139963148&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email) End of Life (https://endoflife.date/) VMware's Cheaper New Bundles May Drive Up Costs (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2023/12/21/why-your-costs-may-go-up-with-vmwares-cheaper-new-bundles/?sh=3098f0d61b14) Intel CEO says Nvidia's AI dominance is pure luck (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-ceo-says-nvidias-ai-dominance-is-pure-luck-nvidia-vp-fires-back-says-intel-lacked-vision-and-execution) Sam Altman's Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68?st=7ut2w92w2px1b9c&reflink=article_copyURL_share) Reddit's CEO takes a victory lap (https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/C1N-ilELo9Y/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/26/the-eternal-struggle-between-open-source-and-proprietary-software/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content) New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/new-york-times-sues-microsoft-and-openai-alleging-copyright-infringement-fd85e1c4?st=z5d54e5urzlthil&reflink=article_copyURL_share) Broadcom Hands VMware Partners ‘Termination Notice' (https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/broadcom-hands-vmware-partners-termination-notice) Investors Who Amassed The Most Unicorns Stepped Way Back In 2023 (https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/top-unicorn-investors-eoy-2023/) What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/) Clouded Judgement 12.29.23 - Year End Review (https://open.substack.com/pub/cloudedjudgement/p/clouded-judgement-122923-year-end?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post) EU CRA: What does it mean for open source? - Bert Hubert's writings (https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/) OpenAI's Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-annualized-revenue-tops-1-6-billion-as-customers-shrug-off-ceo-drama?utm_source=ti_app&rc=giqjaz) 2023 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights (https://seroter.com/2024/01/01/2023-in-review-reading-and-writing-highlights/) The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2024 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/540/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html) Remembering the startups we lost in 2023 (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/30/remembering-the-startups-we-lost-in-2023/) Windows boss pledges to 'make Start menu great again' (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/03/windows_11_start_great_again/) Amazon eliminated his role. Four months later, he's still getting paychecks. (https://www.businessinsider.com/senior-amazon-employee-aws-quiet-firing-remote-work-severance-package-2023-12) Nearly Half of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor's Degree Requirements in 2024 (https://www.intelligent.com/nearly-half-of-companies-plan-to-eliminate-bachelors-degree-requirements-in-2024/) Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion (https://thenewstack.io/observability-in-2024-more-opentelemetry-less-confusion/) LastPass prompting users to set a stronger master password (https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/03/lastpass-stronger-master-password/) Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store (https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-rejects-the-hey-calendar-from-their-app-store-4316dc03) This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karrisaarinen_this-might-be-the-end-of-carta-as-the-trusted-activity-7149219878837583873-M2ea) Command line csv viewer (https://github.com/YS-L/csvlens) Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide' theater outage on Sony projector fail (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/1/24021915/alamo-drafthouse-outage-sony-projector) Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX (https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1?reflink=share_mobilewebshare) Elon Musk's SpaceX launches first phone service satellites (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/03/spacex-elon-musk-phone-starlink-satellites) Elon Musk is not understood (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/elon-musk-is-not-understood/) Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity (https://www.axios.com/2023/12/31/elon-musks-x-fidelity-valuation-cut) 2024 Predictions (https://medium.com/@profgalloway/2024-predictions-a16e3cae1596) US fines Southwest Airlines $140M for 2022 IT meltdown (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/18/us_fines_southwest_airlines_140m/) Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scooter-company-bird-global-files-070507154.html) 'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/everything-blocks-devs-from-removing-their-own-npm-packages/) Office vacancy rate hits record high (https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/economy/office-space-vacancies-hit-a-record-high/index.html) The robots will make us more human (https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-robots-will-make-us-more-human/) Amazon's Twitch plans to slash staff: report (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazons-twitch-plans-to-slash-staff-report-ff30ddeb) Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better? (https://newsletter.cote.io/i/140504484/got-java-apps-stay-on-top-of-security-patches-upgrades-and-out-of-support-apps) Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorp) Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_quarterly-results-hashicorp-inc-activity-7141026556419682304-BV66?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorp) Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_quarterly-results-hashicorp-inc-activity-7141026556419682304-BV66?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) DocuSign surges amid report it is exploring buyout deal (DOCU) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4046964-docusign-surges-amid-report-it-is-exploring-buyout-deal) Adobe walks away from its $20 billion Figma acquisition amid regulatory scrutiny (https://www.engadget.com/adobe-walks-away-from-its-20-billion-figma-acquisition-amid-regulatory-scrutiny-132203336.html?guccounter=1) IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/18/ibm-to-acquire-streamsets-and-webmethods-from-software-ag/) Thomas Graf on LinkedIn: Cisco to Acquire Cloud Native Networking & Security Leader Isovalent (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas-graf-73104547_cisco-to-acquire-cloud-native-networking-activity-7143601826083356672-jmSP/) Flexera enters into definitive agreement to acquire Snow Software (https://www.flexera.com/about-us/press-center/flexera-enters-agreement-to-acquire-snow-software) Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twilio-ceo-lawson-steps-down-after-bruising-activist-battles.html) Cisco to Acquire Isovalent to Define the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security (https://investor.cisco.com/news/news-details/2023/Cisco-to-Acquire-Isovalent-to-Define-the-Future-of-Multicloud-Networking-and-Security/default.aspx) HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13 billion (https://x.com/BradCasemore/status/1744522655913357340?s=20) The companies employees don't want to leave in 2023 (https://resume.io/blog/the-companies-employees-dont-want-to-leave-in-2023) Nonsense ‘You didn't just succeed, you Exceled': Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/15/you-didnt-just-succeed-you-exceled-sydney-man-dubbed-the-annihilator-wins-excel-world-championship) The 52 definitive rules of flying (https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/interactive/2023/flying-airport-etiquette/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAyNzAyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA0MDg1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDI3MDI4MDAsImp0aSI6ImNmM2M2ODZhLTA4MzItNGM0YS1iYWRjLTg0N2M1NzRhNDJkYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90cmF2ZWwvaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMy9mbHlpbmctYWlycG9ydC1ldGlxdWV0dGUvIn0.IdztKBztAJw-CjJhPX2ne2tzRLtA2zP8-YTUfrbwPkg&itid=gfta&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Neither Overhead nor Underground, PG&E Pilot Program Evaluates the Benefits of Putting Powerlines Right on the Ground (https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3901-overhead-underground-pg-e-pilot-program-evaluates-benefits-putting-powerlines-right-ground) Airline Amenities (https://www.threads.net/@airlineflyer/post/C1fKNbNOfjq/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/iphone-survives-16000-foot-fall-after-door-plug-blows-off-alaska-air-flight-1282/) Reacting to Blackstone's holiday video (https://twitter.com/goodworkmb/status/1735458629921206521?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A) The Generation Gap | 2024 Lamb ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1e0apyGASc) Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8) CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) - Coté speaking. SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) - Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), and there's still sponsorship slots. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté's book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: The Quick Flip Go Bottle | 24 Oz (https://www.stanley1913.com/products/the-quick-flip-go-bottle-24-oz) How a 40-ounce cup turned Stanley into a $750 million a year business (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/23/how-a-40-ounce-cup-turned-stanley-into-a-750-million-a-year-business.html) Cup Fever (https://www.chartr.co/stories/2024-01-10-otc-the-stanley-cup-is-surging) Matt: Apple Watch 9 Coté: Patagonia 3-in-1 Parka. It is fucking expensive (https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-tres-3-in-1-parka/28389.html) and iPhone 15 Pro Max Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-hand-holding-a-book-YybJHvU-GOQ) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/man-holding-white-ceramic-teacup-QLqNalPe0RA)

Plutopia’s own Jon Lebkowsky was an early adopter of digital technology and the internet. On this episode of the Plutopia podcast, Jon presents a personal history of digital tech, life…

Rancher, author, activist and punk rock knitter Spike Gillespie joins Plutopians Maggie Duval, Scoop Sweeney and Jon Lebkowsky to talk about the challenge of small town politics in the crazy…

Doc Searls and Jon Lebkowsky talk reality, social constructs, the internet, and disinformation. Reality 2.0 around the web: Site/Blog/Newsletter (https://www.reality2cast.com) FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/reality2cast) Twitter (https://twitter.com/reality2cast) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdvdT3quikpi9sd5SxTGk3Q) Mastodon (https://linuxrocks.online/@reality2cast) Special Guest: Jon Lebkowsky.

Plutopia News Network’s Jon Lebkowsky gave this talk on “truth in the time of the Internet” on November 3, 2020, at a virtual EFF-Austin meeting. Jon had been thinking about…

Long-time author, activist, and web strategist and developer, Jon Lebkowsky joins us for a look at how the internet evolved to what it is today. We also look at how propaganda spreads and changes the nature of politics today.Jon Lebkowsky has been managing technology projects and companies for over 25 years. His long resume includes projects with the likes of SXSW Interactive, EFF-Austin, Wired Magazine, Boing Boing, Mondo 2000, the Whole Earth Catalog, and Fringeware. He is currently focused on strategic digital consulting and development, as well as business vision and management. He is also known as an activist and writer/blogger focused on strategic foresight, Internet evolution, digital culture, cyber liberties, media, and society.You can find him at weblogsky.com or plutopia.io See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week’s a treat – not one, but FOUR amazing guests, in Future Fossils Podcast’s first live taping at EFF-Austin, 10 July 2017. Heather Barfield (Head of EFF-Austin Digital Arts Coalition and Director of Development, Vortex Theater); Maggie Duval (Chief Experience Liaison, 7th Generation Labs & Senior Developer, Polycot Associates, LLC); Paul Toprac (Associate Director of Game Development at UT, RTF Department, and Senior Lecturer); and Kevin Welch (President of EFF-Austin, Fullstack Web Developer at Texas Legislative Council) joined me for one of the most visionary conversations this show’s ever published – and certainly the most politically aware episode to date, as well.Yes, this is about “The Pre- and Post-History of Virtual Reality, Surveillance, and Swarm Intelligence” – and a lot more else, to boot. Just strap in and enjoy…The whole event was streamed live if you’d rather watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN2hNX9eM6kFull bios for each panelist and more info about EFF-Austin:https://www.meetup.com/EFF-Austin/events/240796194/We discussed:How for Maggie, growing up at Guantanamo Bay as a form of preparation for living in the 21st Century.The psychological and moral implications of living in a simulated reality.What is the humanest human? What are we aiming for?Challenging the colonizer narrative of space as a “frontier.”Narrative collapse!Pernicious, ubiquitous, intelligent and coercive, ambient AI manipulation as the nexus of this talk’s three topics.Guest spot from Jon Lebkowsky on emergent democracy.Guest spot from an audience member who grew up in communism.What is it about our internet as it is now that is keeping a global swarm intelligence from emerging?Let’s not just talk about making NEW things…let’s talk about MAINTENANCE.The side effects of automation.“I’m a technologist that makes social media software. So it’s all my fault…we knew when we created the net as a publishing medium that we did not think through the human connections or other values that should have gone into it. We broke the community; we broke the BROADER community. I think the fact that a Trump voter doesn’t think they can talk to me is part of my sin. The wrongness isn’t their Trumpism; the wrongness it that they don’t think they have a connection to me as a human. And the technology that I built has failed them. So I’d like the panel to talk about, ‘How do we fix it?’”- Random Audience Commentator“The future is messy technology that is aggravating to deal with. We don’t spend our days in paradise or dystopian hell; we’re trying to get the dang computer to work. And maybe the problem is in the stories we’re telling. Maybe we’re setting up false narratives and false expectations for how to live and how to communicate with each other. Maybe we need to be telling better stories again.”- Kevin WelchStable background levels of deceit in the system.The way we teach history is a mistake because it doesn’t make history palpable and thus unrepeatable.Topher Sipes of Sound Self chimes in.Heather challenges the assumption that virtual reality will solve any humanitarian issue.(Cover photo taken from http://www.iaacblog.com/programs/swarm-intelligence/)Support this show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/michaelgarfieldJoin the Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/futurefossilsSubscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505?mt=2Subscribe on Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/future-fossils-googleSubscribe on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/michael-garfield/future-fossilsSubscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2eCYA4ISHLUWbEFOXJ8C5vSubscribe on iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-FUTURE-FOSSILS-28991847/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For this week's Team Human, Douglas is out on the road in Austin, Texas where he caught up with longtime friend and cyberculture pioneer, Jon Lebkowsky. Jon and Douglas first look back on the promise of the early cyber revolution, and then look forward to the ways in which those quirky fringe elements might be folded back into the work of promoting justice, solidarity, and even a bit of ambiguity... Whether manifested in platform cooperatives, consensus building tools like Loomio, or in the spirit of Occupy, Lebkowsky and Rushkoff retrieve the thread of radical potential as it has evolved from those early days of the internet.Douglas begins today's show discussing his recent meeting with a group of billionaires whose fears of future social unrest have left them scrambling for apocalypse strategies to protect their wealth and lifestyle. Find out what the "insulation equation" is as Douglas challenges these executives to forgo the Walking Dead scenarios and join team human!Today's episode features intro music thanks to Mike Watt. At the top of the interview is a song from Mondo 2000 creator (and Episode 31 guest) R.U. Sirius, and the closing credits feature a track from Fugazi, thanks to Dischord Records.Team Human is entirely listener supported. Check you patreon.com/teamhuman to subscribe to the show.Please review Team Human on iTunes. Your review helps us "find the others." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's episode is brought to you by Visionary Magnets, the refrigerator poetry magnets that turn your boring old kitchen appliances into the substrate for woke invocations, tantric pillow talk, and other occult goofery. Support their Kickstarter and "enlighten your fridge" today! Or tomorrow. Subscribe to Future Fossils on iTunes Subscribe to Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook Group This week is part one of a special double-length episode with Jon Lebkowsky, founder of EFF-Austin – one of the unsung heroes of Internet culture, whose tale stretches through the earliest web communities and reads like a list of landmark moments in the history of digital rights and culture. http://weblogsky.com/ https://twitter.com/jonl https://www.facebook.com/polycot/ https://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/495/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html We talk about the early days of hacking in the Wild West of the 1990s, how the World Wide Web has changed since then, and the promises and perils of the Internet in the 21st Century. It’s a winding tale of pseudonymous keyboard-slingers and federal raids, roleplaying game empires and sci-fi visionaries, centered on the unsuspecting hippie cowboy outpost of Austin, Texas, Once Upon A Time. Enjoy this special conversation on the history of the Internet we know today, and a snapshot of the hopes and fears of life online in the dawn of our digital era… TOPICS: - The threat of Internet-empowered fascism and “participation mystique” (or maybe worse, a corporate plutocracy) eroding rational civil discourse and the dignity of the individual - The problems with “Net Neutrality” and how it makes more sense to focus on “The Freedom to Connect” - Connectivity vs. Interdependence (OR) Networks vs. Buddhism - Does the Noosphere already exist, and we’re just excavating it? - The History of Electronic Frontier Foundation-Austin and how it was connected to the secret service’s raid of legendary role-playing game designer Steve Jackson (GURPS) - The hilarious, troubled Dawn Age of e-commerce before secure web browsing - Jon’s work with a Gurdjieff group and his encounters with esoterica as an editor of the Consciousness subdomain for the last issue of the Whole Earth Review - Cybergrace, TechGnosis, and Millennial concerns about the mind/body split in the first Internet and our need to humanize technology with whole-body interfaces and MOVEMENT - Embodied Virtual Reality & Other Full-Sensory Immersive Media - Cory Doctorow’s new novel Walkaway as a banner book for the maker movement and a new form of cyber-social-liberation. - The movement of political agency back into city-states in a digital era - “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” - Shaping the future of wireless infrastructure in the early 00s of Austin - Getting our values right before we imprint the wrong ones into superhuman AI - Putting together diverse conversation groups to solve “wicked problems” - New forms of participatory open-source politics suited for an internet age SOME OF THE PEOPLE & STUFF WE MENTIONED: Whole Earth Provisions, Whole Earth Review, The WELL, Whole Foods, William Gibson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hakim Bey, William Irwin Thompson, Alien Covenant, Terminator, John Perry Barlow, Mitch Kapor, Mike Godwin, Bruce Sterling, Clay Shirkey, WIRED Magazine, Fringeware, RoboFest, Heather Barfield, Neal Stephenson, Terence McKenna, Church of the Subgenius, Mondo 2000, Erik Davis, GI Gurdjieff, The National Science Fiction Convention, Rudy Rucker, Greg Bear, Jon Shirley, Jennifer Cobb, Robert Scoville, Greg Egan, Ernest Cline, Octopus Project, The Tingler, Honey I Shrunk The Kids (Ride), Charles Stross, Glass House, Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow, Alan Moore, Project Hieroglyph, Arizona State University, Jake Dunagan, Plutopia Productions, The Digital Convergence Initiative, Chris Boyd, South By Southwest, Boing Boing, Make Magazine, Dave Demaris, Maggie Duval, Bon Davis, DJ Spooky, Forest Mars, OS Con, RU Sirius, Shin Gojira, Open-Source Party, JON LEBKOWSKY QUOTES: “The Noosphere can certainly have pathologies…” “The Internet was originally a peer-to-peer system, and so you had a network of networks, and they were all cooperating and carrying each other’s traffic, and so forth. And that was a fairly powerful idea, but the Internet is not that anymore. The Internet has, because of the way it’s evolved, because it’s become so powerful and so important and so critical, there are systems that are more dominant – backbone systems – and those are operated by large companies that understand how to operate big networks. That’s really a different system than the system that was originally built.” “SO FAR we’ve managed to keep the Internet fairly open…the absolute idea of net neutrality might not be completely practical.” “Science fiction is a literature of ideas, but a lot of those ideas do not manifest in exactly the way that they did in the book.” “I don’t have a real high level of confidence that anybody understands exactly what the fuck is going on.” “You couldn’t get a consumer account to get access to the Internet at that time. And in fact I think the first companies to do that were here in Austin.” “At the time, we were the only game in town for internet stuff…” “One thing I learned was, if you’re at the very cutting edge, it’s hard to make money.” “There are a lot of people who aren’t in touch with themselves internally. Because it’s hard. It’s hard to do that.” “I know that that’s sort of the goal in VR development: to give you a fully immersive experience where you’re really in a completely other reality, like in the Holodeck. But, you know. I’m still dealing with THIS reality. I don’t want another one.” “In an online community, people are always itching for ways to get into real human proximity with one another. They’re always looking for ways to meet.” “That’s my idea of what works now: is to have events that are experiences, you know, versus people just like, going to movies, or watching television, or going to a concert and watching a band play.” “I keep thinking that we won’t be able to solve our problems with bureaucracy or the kind of governance structures that we’ve been living with, but I look around me and see people who are doing just fine, and doing great work, and living their lives…and I’m sort of feeling hopeful and a little bit confident that those people will step up and do what they need to do to make things work, even if our so-called elected officials aren’t doing it.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the “losers” are. Also, the low-down on CostCo in Australia! Mid-roll Coté: I’m speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/agenda/), day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off! Matt: Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group (https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/events/232172236/) Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk (https://events.chef.io/events/microsoft-ignite-australia/) ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84) Coté: much self-promotion to catch up on: I’m writing more “original content” on my blog (https://cote.io/), and plan to write more; subscribe to my newsletter for a round-up of stuff I blog, sent out on Sunday night (http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=806adba588), will tweak more. Also, in the “grim” vein, Coté reviews some books on "automation," (http://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics) which John Allspaw rightly says (https://www.facebook.com/drunkandretired/posts/10155023406864169?comment_id=10155023650914169&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D) should be called "new technology," fair enough. The 1983 paper on automation and humans (http://www.bainbrdg.demon.co.uk/Papers/Ironies.html) is a good read too. CostCo field report: Australia It’s great! US: No need for a hot pizza sign holder. US: Rayban Wayfarers are like $130 now! AppDynamics files for IPO… Cisco says NOT SO FAST IPO filing... (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/appdynamics-files-ipo-133542304.html) “Our revenues for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016 were $23.6 million, $81.9 million and $150.6 million, respectively” Cisco (http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-announces-enterprise-news) $3.7 billion, about a 14-17X multiplier (https://cote.io/2017/01/25/at-3-7bn-appdynamics-sells-to-cisco-at-17-3x-estimated/) Atlassian Buys Trello for $425 Million Wired coverage (https://www.wired.com/2017/01/trello-simple-app-worth-425-million-dollars/) 451 report, paywall (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=91333). Public blog from 451 (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/atlassian-inks-its-biggest-buy-with-425m-collaboration-software-deal/). Oracle Buys Apiary “API Integration Cloud” (https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/apiary/index.html) Coté’s coverage, with plenty more links (https://cote.io/2017/01/19/oracle-acquiring-apiary-api-design-for-the-660m-in-2020-api-market/): small asset working on a $660m API management market. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. HP Buys Stuff Cloud Cruiser for management/chargeback, $650 million (http://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-to-acquire-cloud-cruiser-for-measuring-it-usage/) SimpliVity for converged systems, $650 million (http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2017/01/17/hewlett-packard-enterprise-pays-650-million-in-cash-for-simplivity/) You Know What DevOps Needs? An IEEE Standard They’re working on it (https://standards.ieee.org/develop/wg/DevOps.html) Twitter Google buying Fabric. Facebook still king. Do We Talk About Trump? OpenStack Summits leaving the US (https://www.openstack.org/blog/2017/01/supporting-our-global-community/) Red Hat, Microsoft, others making announcements against the Muslim ban Coté says: these people are proven idiots. Don’t work with them (https://cote.io/2017/01/30/tech-must-rethink-working-with-the-hobgoblins-cf-scorpions-turtles-trumptech/). Trump’s Twitter Moves Markets Apparently he watches Fox and parrots their lines (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/every-trump-tweet-activates-thousands-of-computer-algorithms-2017-01-12), so maybe someone at Fox is making a killing with “insider trading”? RethinkDB: Why We Failed Good read for how hard it is to crack the DB and OSS markets (http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html). “In hindsight, two things went wrong – we picked a terrible market and optimized the product for the wrong metrics of goodness.” Coté follow-up: be careful with TAM picking (https://cote.io/2017/01/21/choose-your-tam-wisely-and-remember-to-charge-a-high-price-rethinkdb/). Yahoo is Altaba … wut? (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-m-a-verizon-idUSKBN14T2I7) Dreams $45bn (https://twitter.com/IvanTheK/status/818810602839744512) Google’s AI Awakening “How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.” Extensive article on Google’s AI push from back in December (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html) Alexa Amazon’s OS (https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-operating-system/) Also, there’s an estimated 24.5m of these voice things around (https://cote.io/2017/01/26/alexa-how-many-of-your-type-exists/). ClusterHQ Shutting Down Docker storage startup shuts down (http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/start-ups/start-up-clusterhq-shutting-down/) Facebook’s 2016 Open Source Contributions Open source continues to be great for recruiting (and probably code) (https://code.facebook.com/posts/1058188987642144/facebook-open-source-2016-year-in-review/) Google buys Twitter’s Fabric CASH! (http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-buys-fabric-from-twitter-1201962640/) Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky “State of the World” Always a good read (http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/495/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html) Recommendations Brandon: RTIC 30oz Tumbler (http://amzn.to/2kNhcrw). Matt: Donate to the ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/). RTJ3 is out, and free (https://runthejewels.com/)! My 2016 year in the air (http://cem.re/year-in-review/3b675cc593dc326ec6d2835144db5800d0b28e35.html) Tennis ball making video (http://mentalfloss.com/article/83414/mesmerizing-video-shows-how-tennis-balls-are-made) Coté: big jar of green hatch! Get a 40 (http://amzn.to/2kHP6hQ)! Also, how to feed three people with one bean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEVYbPw9lI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m26s).

Hi there folks! Creatives Meet Business is an event and podcast series based out of Austin, Texas for creatives of ALL disciplines to get from zero to one in thinking of themselves as business owners (in the creative sector). This episode features Jon Lebkowsky, founder and CEO of Polycot Associates. Jon is a fascinating fellow and is beyond knowledgable about all things web and development (and on ALL things internet).  Jon shares about the different types of platforms out there (and the difference between them) and what questions you should be thinking about if you're ready to work with a developer. Because there's so so much that's exciting about this episode - let's hop in and hear what Jon has to say! 0:00 to 2:16 - Ashland Opening Remarks and Intro of Jon Lebkowsky 2:20 to 5:23 - Four Categories of Platforms   Hosted Service - examples include Squarespace, Wix, Tumblr Light Content Management System - you arrange the hosting yourself. WordPress is an example. Note - WordPress does have a hosted version, but Jon is talking about the software, not the service. More Complex Content Management Frameworks. An example is Drupal Web Application Development Frameworks - Ruby on Rails is an example. Basecamp is an example of a site built with Ruby on Rails Rails is good for rapid prototyping and web application development 5:24 to 7:11 - Web Development is less about building from scratch and more about re-tooling to increase and customize functionality. Two ways to extend functionality: Themes, free or purchase - configure to customize based on needs Additional functionality that's not in the core platform: WordPress - plug-ins Drupal - modules Be careful of the plug-ins or modules you attach to your site as they increase complexity to site and potential for conflicts. There could be security flaws with the plug-ins or modules, so be cautious. 7:12 to 11:32 - Questions to Ask When Decided on a Platform What are you trying to do and who are you trying to reach with the platform? Brochure sites - basic information Considered Purchase site - informative, repeat traffic from same visitor Information site or portal - very information dense E-commerce site - can be simple or complex Web application - application that's served over the web (Basecamp is an example) How are you going to choose a developer? If you have someone in mind, get to know their platform proficiency. Recommended to get developer first and include them in the conversation about platform selection that will work for your project How much can you afford to spend? How much are you willing to spend for ongoing maintenance? How often will your website and content change? 11:36 to 12:36 - Content Management System For Self-Maintenance  Open source allowed more freedom for customers to change  developers, no longer locked into a developer if the client was dissatisfied  12:37 to 13:57 - Ashland Closing Remarks If you like what you hear, share the podcast with your friends, rate and review. To stay in the loop - follow us on Twitter, Facebook or subscribe to the newsletter. We'll be moving over to PR next, so start getting excited. Stay tuned for more! Thanks! Ashland, Creatives Meet Business