Podcasts about loss the internet

This episode I'm joined by my former long-time client and friend, the incredible journalist and author Virginia Heffernan. Virginia is the author of Magic and Loss The Internet as Art. On today's show discuss the substack article she wrote about Ozempic. Virginia is a warrior for humanity's human-ness. We had a wonderful conversation. Be sure to subscribe to her newsletter and find her recent writing and media appearances here. Follow her on IG here.Follow Busy Body Podcast on IG @brooklynstrength for free content to help your body feel better and opportunities to work with me directly.

Today I welcome journalist and cultural critic Virginia Heffernan back to COVIDCalls. Virginia Heffernan is an accomplished journalist and cultural critic—she is a regular contributor to The New York Times, as well as The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Politico.  She writes a regular column for Wired Magazine and the LA Times—and she is co-host of the Trumpcast on Slate.  She is also the author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art (2016) with Simon and Schuster. She hosts the This is Critical podcast.

On this week's show we have a broad ranging discussion with the well known journalist and author Virginia Heffernan. Virginia has written a bunch on the topic of technology, social media, scientism, and especially the Edge organisation. We discuss her research into Edge and related figures but also range further afield to cover debates in academia, the culture war and gurus, anthropology debates in the 90s, race & IQ rationalists, and other such topics. One short service note is that Matt is incognito for part of the conversation as he had a prior appointment so you will have to endure Chris functioning on his own but do not fear our intrepid psychologist re-emerges to offer some words of wisdom at the end. Also, the conversation with Virginia was recorded in advance of the events in Ukraine so no recent events are discussed (which is probably for the best). For those who want to do a bit more digging on the topics discussed, below are a bunch of related articles and you can also follow Virginia on Twitter (@page88) and check out her new podcast 'https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-critical/id1584858105 (This is Critical)' which encourages people to look critically at a wide array of topics, which is quite on brand for us! Links https://www.wired.com/story/an-end-to-pornography-sophistry-and-panty-raids/ (Virginia's piece on Edge & John Brockman) https://www.wired.com/author/virginia-heffernan/ (Virginia's essays on Wired) https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/what-to-do-about-jordan-peterson (Virginia's Substack piece on Jordan Peterson) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/books/review/the-contrarian-peter-thiel-max-chafkin.amp.html?referringSource=articleShare (Virginia's Substack piece on Peter Thiel) Virginia's Website Virginia's book: Magic & Loss- The Internet as Art https://www.insider.com/chris-chan-arrest-geno-samuel-youtube-series-hiatus-2021-8#:~:text=Samuel's%20%22Chris%20Chan%3A%20A%20Comprehensive,spans%20Chandler's%20life%20through%202017. (Insider article on the sordid tale of Chris chan) Two articles Chris wrote on his ancient blog about the Captain Cook debate (https://god-knows-what.com/2009/09/06/the-battle-over-captain-cooks-corpse/ (part 1) and https://god-knows-what.com/2009/09/16/the-battle-over-captain-cooks-corpse-part-2/amp/ (part 2)) This Week's Sponsor Check out the sponsor of this week's episode, Ground News, and get the app at https://ground.news/gurus (ground.news/gurus).

Today I discuss Trump, Biden, and the Path Ahead w/Virginia Heffernan.Virginia Heffernan is an accomplished journalist and cultural critic—she is a regular contributor to The New York Times, as well as The Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Politico.  She writes a regular column for Wired Magazine and the LA Times—and she is co-host of the Trumpcast on Slate.  She is also the author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art (2016) with Simon and Schuster.

As public reckonings with harassment and discrimination abound, it's becoming clear that the vast majority of these incidents go unreported. We check in with Dr. Julia Shaw, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Spot, a just-launched harassment reporting tool that aims to fix this. Along the way, hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega discuss the likelihoods for artificial general intelligence and artificial super intelligence, which some people have likened to God. We also announce the first selection for our Book Club: Brotopia. Show notes Announcing the All Turtles Book Club's first selection (1:11) The three nominees were: Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan How Music Works by David Byrne Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang   And the winner is: Brotopia. Join us next time for our debut book club discussion. Artificial narrow intelligence, artificial general intelligence, artificial super intelligence (2:42) The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence - Part One (Wait But Why) The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence - Part Two (Wait But Why) Conversation with Dr. Julia Shaw, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Spot (11:03) Spot (website) Spot launches a chatbot to combat workplace harassment (VentureBeat) A new (and free) chatbot may help employees report instances of harassment (Washington Post) This Chatbot Will Take Your Harassment Claims To HR Anonymously (Fast Company) A collision of two realities (33:29) The City & the City by China Miéville   Listener questions How can developers avoid unconscious bias and make sure that AI is respectful to everyone? (34:25) Can practical AI help virtuous people make virtuous products? (40:10) Preparing to sign-off a la Elon Musk (46:24) Live Views of Starman (YouTube) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

We kick off the show with a call for listener suggestions to select our first read for The All Turtles Book Club. Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega then dive into a “Maybe it's kinda bullshit?” segment on patents, asking whether they've outlived their usefulness. Your hosts also try to distinguish between human and AI-generated voices. This week's listener questions lead to revelations about Phil's 100,000 unread emails, Jessica's knowledge of container ship videos, and whether Blaise is named for St. Blaise or Blaise Pascal. Show notes Listener suggestions for the All Turtles Book Club (1:30) Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Safety: Car Crashes Pose Greater Risk for Women by Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times How Music Works by David Byrne Patents: Maybe they're kinda bullshit? (4:24) U.S. Constitution, Article One, Section Eight: [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” United States Patent and Trademark Office First U.S. Patent issued in 1790 Patent kings: The world's 50 most innovative companies (USA Today) Apple was Granted 39 Patents Today covering Facial Recognition and the iPad Pro's Smart Keyboard Connector and more (Patently Apple) Human voice or AI-generated voice? (18:17) Google's voice-generating AI is now indistinguishable from humans (Quartz) Fake Voices Will Become Worryingly Accurate (The Rand Blog) Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown, published 1798 Audio samples from Tacotron 2 (Google's Github page) Uncanny valley (Wikipedia) Love in the Time of Robots (Wired) Interrobang in punctuation Lyrebird.ai Listener questions How might AI be used to filter signal to noise? (36:00) Screenshot of Phil Libin's 100,000+ unread emails: Clapping during President Trump's State of the Union address Will All Turtles expand to Vancouver, British Columbia? (43:06) Containers podcast by Alexis Madrigal How do you spend your Sundays? (45:30) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website. Thanks for listening  

Virginia Heffernan, who has written for several major publications including as a television and Internet culture columnist for the New York Times, opens up for the first time about her addiction to prescription drugs and her decision to get sober. The author of "Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art" and a co-host for Slate's "Trumpcast" podcast, Heffernan talks about the turmoil she was facing in her work and personal life, her relationship with religion and her Twitter persona @Page88.

Meet Virginia Heffernan—author, bookworm, and true-blue internet friend. Her 2016 book, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, captivated us; this conversation takes our favorite threads from the book and runs with them. Listen in to hear Virginia turn the tables on us and help us figure out where friends come from. In this episode, we talk message boards, Medium, and the metric system. Press play when you’re in the mood to get to the bottom of the internet, once and for all.

"It's very, very weird to do something along with three billion other people." Cultural critic Virginia Heffernan joins the show to talk about her new book, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art (Simon & Schuster)! We talk about what's behind the screen, why the internet is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, her first experience online in 1979, what it's like to be in a piece of performance art with half the world's population, her crushing defeat at meeting Joan Didion, why she's nostalgic for landline phones, the motive motive of Pokemon Go, asking The New York Times to host a shred-guitar competition, and why there's value in Reading The Comments! More info about this episode at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Virginia Heffernan, author of the new book "Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art," talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about the physical things we risk losing as we digitize more and more of our lives. She praises Snapchat's "brilliance" for preserving impermanent media and talks about what happened when critics of an article about creationism threw her into the "Twitter coliseum." To cope with the social media onslaught, she came to imagine her Twitter handle, @page88, as a tougher, wittier persona who could take the abuse on her behalf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Heffernan, the author of “Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art,” talks about playing “1010!” on the subway, reaching the top 1,000 on the “Angry Birds” leaderboard, and why the Internet is an artwork and a massively multiplayer online game. The post Virginia Heffernan: What I Play appeared first on Shall We Play a Game?.

Aesthetics and digital technology: this week Paul and Rich talk to writer Virginia Heffernan about her new book, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art. The conversation covers Buddhism, Angry Birds, The 4-Hour Workweek, nuclear war, ancient philosophy, Bay Ridge, and wild horses. And like all the best technology podcasts, it includes both numerous references to Jony Ive and a good amount of Latin.

April 14, 2016. A session from DPLAfest 2016 dedicated to the state of writing in the digital age. What does it mean to write a book, digital or print or both? What new technologies and processes are re-defining the role of the author? Panelists will touch upon these questions and more during this exciting discussion between three prominent contemporary authors. Speaker Biography: After stints in the editorial departments of Houghton Mifflin, the Knopf group, and Little Brown, Sarah Burnes became an agent in 2001. Joining The Gernert Company in 2005, she now represents adult fiction writers (Alice McDermott and Tony Earley among them), children's fiction writers (New York Times bestsellers Margaret Stohl and Pseudonymous Bosch), and journalists and critics (New York Times Magazine contributor Jon Gertner and Freeman's John Freeman). Speaker Biography: Virginia Heffernan writes about digital culture for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Mother Jones, and The New Yorker. Her essays on digitization are regularly anthologized. Her new book, "Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art," will be published in June by Simon & Schuster. She works as an editorial strategist for startups and venture capital firms. Speaker Biography: Craig Mod is a writer and designer who splits his time between Tokyo and New York. Previously a product designer at Flipboard, he is also a TechFellow award recipient and a 2011/2012 MacDowell writing fellow. He is currently an advisor for Medium and Japan-based SmartNews. He has written for The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, Aeon, Virginia Quarterly Review, New Scientist, Contents Magazine, Codex Journal of Typography and other publications. He is the co-author of "Art Space Tokyo" and the Japanese essay collection, "Bokura no Jidai no Hon" ("The Books of our Generation"). Speaker Biography: Robin Sloan grew up near Detroit and went to school at Michigan State, where he studied economics and co-founded a literary magazine called Oats. Between 2002 and 2012, he worked at Poynter, Current TV, and Twitter. He is the author of "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore," which started as a short story and is now a full-length novel. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7261