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The National Weather Service calls for showers today. Otherwise, mostly cloudy with a high near 35. More rain likely overnight with a low around 34. In news, Buffalo Bills safety, Damar Hamlin is teaching hands only CPR to kids in Tokyo. And The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens opened a brand-new indoor Playspace on Wednesday, March 26. In sports, the Buffalo Bisons kicked off their season with a 6-2 win over the Rochester Red Wings on Friday. They'll play again today and tomorrow - weather permitting. The Sabres take on the Flyers tonight. And the Bandits host Vancouver. Trimania is back after a 7-year hiaitus, taking place at the Tri-Main building from 7 to midnight tonight. Get more details on that or find something else to do at All WNY Events dot com.
MJ has been on a deep and fast ride into sexuality since an accident catalysed a self-investigation in 2019. She has since brought forth the Joyride Sex Parties and Socials, studied with the Institute for Sexuality, and has plans for expanding the world of sex tech. Join MJ and Eva Oh for a #teakink episode through MJ's discoveries, sex doll brothels, Irish sexuality, the sexual concerns of cis-het men, boundaries and pleasure.Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/evaohMore on Eva Oh: https://eva-oh.comHIGHLIGHTS:Here are the timestamps for the video episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.(00:00) - Welcome. What is #teakink(00:23) - Meet MJ of Joyride Sex Parties and Socials(02:00) - Taking it to Ireland(03:50) - Queerness at Joyride's Centre(08:10) - An Accident as a Sexuality Catalyst(12:55) - Sex Tech and Sex Doll Brothels(14:40) - The Future of Joyride(16:30) - Irish Storytelling(17:10) - Irish Sexuality(18:35) - Merging Sex Tech and the Physical(23:00) - Cis-het Men Healthy Porn Habits, Erectile Dysfunction and Loneliness(28:05) - The Viscerality of the Sex Party Dancefloor(29:00) - Safeguarding and Freedom in Clubs in Berlin vs London(32:50) - The Laboratory Berlin and the State of Queer Cruising(34:00) - The People Behind Joyride(35:30) - The Kink Coalitipn(37:00) - What Actually is a Sex Party?(42:00) - Why MJ Stays Out of the Playspace(49:00) - Berlin Porn Film Festival and the Venus Convention(51:00) - Sexual Education?(53:10) - Pleasure
In this episode, Matt Cohen, Founder and CEO of PlaySpace, a digital... The post Can Technology Transform Mental Health Care for Children? with Matt Cohen first appeared on Startup Canada.
This is the final episode for 2024.In this episode, Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council Interim CEO Andrew Aitken discusses:Delegation formed to focus on future road sealingCouncil to take over ongoing management and maintenance of Richardson Park Playspace, SevenhillCouncil to apply for another grant to help refurbish Riverton Community HallHelping community people during the Xmas periodWe've heard countless times this year about the housing and homelessness issue statewide, the Mid North is not immune to this. According to Uniting Country SA many people are experiencing homelessness for the first time or re-experiencing this due to housing stress, affordability, and the lack of private rental properties. Many people are couch surfing with family and friends, there are reports of people sleeping rough, in tents and in caravan parks. Uniting Country SA is trying to support people in these conditions but with limited housing options its proving to be extremely difficult. You'll hear about some of the initiatives that are assisting people who are suffering socially, financially and mentally this Christmas including the Clare Valley Community Kitchen's Christmas lunch and the Clare Valley Christian Outreach Christmas Hampers.Julie Grover, Coordinator of the Clare Valley Community KitchenCathy Giersch, president, Clare Valley Christian Outreach Management CommitteeIrene Connell, Clare residentClare and Gilbert Valleys Council - December 11 Agendahttps://www.claregilbertvalleys.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/1726731/11-December-2024-PUBLIC-Ordinary-Council-Agenda.pdfClare Valley Christian Outreach https://www.facebook.com/groups/276364059198982/
Eva Oh joins Miss May at her playspace, E1 Darkroom, to talk dating, polyamory, the draw of filth and intensity, the 'ick' of the stereotypical 'dominant' man, the rarity of a good service sub and the deep deep importance of cleaning.Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/evaohMore on Eva Oh: https://eva-oh.comHIGHLIGHTS:Here are the timestamps for the video episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.(00:00) - Welcome. What is #teakink(00:23) - Meet Miss May at her play space, E1 Darkroom(01:30) - Why Start a Playspace?(02:48) - The Draw of Filth and Intensity(04:40) - The E1 Darkroom Impact(06:20) - Cleaning, The Central Tenet(07:50) - The Rarity of a Good Service Subs(09:10) - Different Client Dynamics and Friend-Zones(12:20) - Dungeons and Dating(15:40) - Sadism, Objectification and Oral Sex(17:15) - Polyamory, Cheating and Evolving Desires(19:05) - An Excuse to Ask What I Want(19:40) - Miss May's Ideal Life(21:00) - Money and Sex Work vs the Investment of Dating(22:50) - 'Dominant' Men, the Ick and the Stereotype of the Patriarchy(26:40) - Professional Domination: Germany vs the UK(34:20) - How to be a Dominatrix - Hygiene! and...(36:20) - How to Hire E1 Darkroom
Interview with saxophonist Chris Greene For saxophonist Chris Greene, turning 50 was a double milestone. It inspired him to look back on his career and the strides he has made as an independent jazz artist. It also inspired him to reflect on his life as a husband, father and family man. Little did he know how happily those two worlds would collide. Greene was working at home on music for his excellent new album, Conversance, when his attentive 12-year-old son Alex, a talented pianist and drummer and major Star Wars fan, played a melody for him inspired by one of the tunes his old man was playing. The elder Greene liked it so much, he decided to use it as the A section of the song, a six-measure blues in 6/4 time with a bridge. "It was a perfect fit," he says. "It really made the tune." Dad properly gave his son a co-writing credit and called the song "The Emperor Strikes Back," also a nod back to Chris' earlier composition, "Future Emperor of Evanston." There are numerous high points on Conversance, but none as high as this one for the older half of this rare father-son collaboration. Greene, the pride of Evanston, Illinois, has been one of the Midwest's most popular jazz artists since his quartet in 2005. The group, featuring pianist Damian Espinosa, bassist Marc Piane and drummer Steve Corley, was voted best jazz band in Chicago in a poll by the alternative weekly, the Chicago Reader. A fan friendly artist with strong ties to the community, Greene has gifted his followers with a trio of mixtapes by the group that were recorded live various clubs and jazz festivals. Those recordings, dubbed Playtime I, II and III serve as sidebars to his regular efforts, as do a pair of subsequent albums released under the tag PlaySPACE. Following the single "Beyhive Traffic Blues," featuring emcee D2G, Conversance is the first-ever jazz release for Pravda Records, a prized indie of eclectic leanings that has been releasing recordings since 1984. It is the Chris Green Quartet's first studio album in seven years. Chris Greene's Info chrisgreenejazz.com instagram.com/chrisgreenejazz facebook.com/chrisgreenejazzthreads.com/chrisgreenejazz youtube.com/@chrisgreenejazz
Goddess Reverie of Viro Playspace is this week's guest on Adult Site Broker Talk. Goddess Reverie performs on ViRo Playspace, an adult haptics-driven VR social space. She is powered by ViRo Live Studio, the only software to integrate body tracking, haptic teledildonics, and cam site API, allowing anyone on Earth to perform as an adult virtual avatar. She is a real live person who streams with an avatar using motion capture. The company developed several tools to handle her body tracking, facial tracking, voice capture, cam site integration, and many adult haptic toys so she can interact with her audience. The company wants to make her style of live-streaming accessible to anyone interested in trying it out, which is why they packaged those in-house tools into what is now ViRo Live Studio. Adult Site Broker is the most experienced company to broker adult sites. They've sold and helped people buy more xxx sites than any other broker. Adult Site Broker is the leading company to sell porn sites and buy porn sites. They help their clients work out equitable deals. Check out their brand-new website at www.adultsitebroker.com, the leading destination to broker porn sites. Adult Site Broker also has an affiliate program, ASB Cash, at https://asbcash.com, where you can earn 20% referring people to buy adult sites and sell adult sites to Adult Site Broker, the porn website broker. For more information, please visit us at www.adultsitebroker.com to help you broker adult sites. Listen to Goddess Reverie of Viro Playspace on Adult Site Broker Talk, starting today at www.adultsitebrokertalk.com
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Aspiring linguist Josh and professional guess-and-checker Bryan recently made their way up the tower featured in 2023's indie puzzle game Chants of Sennaar! Along the way they marveled at the game's superb use of color, clever language puzzles, and occasionally regrettable use of stealth mechanics. At its heart, Chants of Sennaar is a game about culture and communication, so what better way to celebrate this wonderful game than through an in depth discussion about its design, themes, and artistry. Listen in as Josh and Bryan decipher the secrets of the Tower and make their way to the top of the class in 5 different (completely fictional) languages!Three Word Reviews: Bryan - Stratification, Translation, UnificationJosh - Language as Playspace
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Broadway and Film: Hell's Kitchen Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, Hamilton, Newsies Co-founder of @PLAYSPACE.NYC Try out your own Broadway fitness program via an app at no cost and no catch! www.builtforthestage.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The show "Dondang Dongeng” started out with a simple question: do people, especially kids, still know of our local folklores? A team of creatives then got together to weave less remembered stories into a dreamscape, presented in the form of songs with a modern twist, and produced by Playspace in collaboration with RMP Productions. We speak to Irena Taib (Composer / Music Director / Arranger) and Iefiz Alaudin (Artistic Director / Storyteller) to find out more.
In this latest episode:All the latest from the Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council with CEO Dr Helen Macdonald:Modelling on a 7% rate increase Workshop on the operations budgetWatervale Institute and the Mt Horrocks Historical SocietyClare Town Hall - moves to upgrade the whole hall not just the stageYMCA secures an 3 year lease extensionStrategic Plan out for public consultation until June 7thTania Furler resigns as CGVC councillor, Owen Perry takes the positionRichardson Park, SevenhillHow did the park originate?The story behind the Sevenhill SACWA's 4 year drive to develop a nature Playspace.Richardson Park, Incorporated next fundraising initiative: a $170 thousand toilet facility. In this story you'll hear from Tin Maynard, Chair, Richardson Park Incorporated Committee; Michael McCabe, Committee memberYorke and Mid North's alarmingly high road incident tollYou may have heard in the news, the state's road toll is alarmingly high this year, more than double this time last year. There were 71 deaths last year and 41 already this year. How are these figures translating to our local Clare Valley area? The State Emergency Service attends all road accidents in the local area and volunteers are noticing a significant increase over the last three years.Heidi Grebe, Clare SES Unit Manager and Braden Henbest, Active Rescue Member discuss the figures, and the need for more SES volunteers in the local Clare Valley region. Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council: https://www.claregilbertvalleys.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/1326931/19-April-2023-Ordinary-Council-Meeting-Minutes-2.pdfMother's Day Fun Run Run/Walk: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=1041385&SES Clare Unit:https://www.ses.sa.gov.au/about-us/our-units/clare-unit/
Meet Lindsay Jones, M.S., CCC-SLP. She is a speech pathologist and owner of The PlaySpace, a drop in playcare space with locations in both Fort Worth and Willow Park. She talks with us today about how she transitioned from the pediatric in-patient setting at a major children's hospital into creating The PlaySpace. What toys work in her setting, what toys don't work, what she looks for in staff, how she sees play amongst mixed age groups and much more! Lindsay's top 5 favorite toys!https://www.thehappylark.com/collections/wobbel-board/products/wobbel-waldorf-balance-boardhttps://www.thehappylark.com/products/spin-again-by-fat-brain-toys?_pos=13&_sid=c3c595a49&_ss=rhttps://www.thehappylark.com/products/whirly-squigz?_pos=21&_sid=c3c595a49&_ss=rhttps://www.thehappylark.com/products/jumbo-domestic-pets?_pos=3&_sid=92de15143&_ss=rhttps://www.thehappylark.com/collections/connetix-magnetic-tiles/products/connetix-24-piece-motion-packCheck out more information and all of our resources at www.thespeechsource.com Follow The Speech Source on Instagram - @thespeechsource
Hvordan udvikler man rum og læringsmiljøer med fokus på legende tilgange til læring og teknologiforståelse? Hvordan udvikler skoler læringsmiljøer med fokus på legende tilgange og teknologiforståelse? Hvordan får vi pædagogik, didaktik og teknologiforståelse til at gå op i en højere rumlig enhed? Denne podcast handler om indretning af kreative læringsmiljøer, også kaldet PlaySpaces i projektet Play@Heart. Podcasten tager udgangspunkt i den proces, som Skansevejens Skole har været igennem med hensyn til at omskabe skolens fysiske rammer til et legende læringsmiljø. Første del af podcasten handler om forventningerne og forarbejdet omkring Skansevejens Skoles PlaySpace. Du kan også høre om nogen af de overordnede teoretiske overvejelser, som Kasper Kjeldgaard Stoltz fra arkitektfirmaet Nerd har rådgivet de 12 Play@Heart-skoler om i forbindelse med etablering af PlaySpaces. I den sidste del af podcasten besøger vi Skansevejens Skole en måned senere, da skolens PlaySpace næsten er klar til at blive taget i brug.
Musician Chris Greene, joined Rick Kogan to talk about his new CD, ‘PlaySPACE 2: Play Harder,’ and his upcoming concerts. He also delved into his earlier life as he elaborated on what got him into music. He addressed his switch to the saxophone, his music theory class in high school, and his introduction to the […]
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Saxophonist Chris Greene on the 2022 PlaySPACE 2: Play Harder CD .. This Evanston, IL-based tenor and soprano saxophonist leads his quartet on his home turf at the Evanston venue of SPACE. The music is both intense and refined, the sound of a band that stretches out at every opportunity while still playing the room and maintaining an overall accessibility. He talks about this music, COVID life, hope for the future and much more .. Enjoy…Click here to listen.Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. Check us out at All About Jazz @ https://kansascity.jazznearyou.com/neon-jazz.php. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/If you like what you hear, please let us know. You can contribute a few bucks to keep Neon Jazz going strong into the future. https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=ERA4C4TTVKLR4
This week we sat down with Jett Khat (she/they), a fellow Michigander, to talk about how kink became the roots of their community life. They got into kink through leatherworking, and since then have created a large online and in-person community called Arcadia Collective/The Arcade based in Detroit. We discussed the ups and downs of running a community space, leatherworking, and their experience of being polyamorous with seven seperate partners. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this one, you'd probably like episodes 285, 214, and 014. Find out more about Arcadia Collective Buy our porn on ManyVids Read our newest blog posts Check out our sponsor for this week, Terrible Toyshop. You can find The Original Snapper here! Keep us on the air by donating a buck or two to our Patreon! You can listen to an ad-free version of the show a week early, and you'll have access to our Discord server. We post a lot of fun bonus content, including monthly photosets, silly and/or kinky videos, and movie reviews. If you'd rather make a one time donation, you can do so at PayPal.me/OCPLLC. Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @ocpkink More by PODCAST JUKEBOX:Queers Next Door | Being ThereWill Sean Podcast? | The Goth Librarian PodcastDrinks with God | ProudToBeKinky | NO LOVE LOST Tags: Kink, BDSM, Fetish, Fantasy, Sex, Education, Positive, DIY, Punk, Nerds, community, polyamory, dungeon, playspace, leather, leatherworker
James Seigal, Senior Fellow at Kaboom!, talks about solving playspace inequity, his changing definition of success, and crypto philanthropy. Guest Biography James Siegal is Senior Fellow for KABOOM!, the organization dedicated to ending playspace inequity. Siegal served as KABOOM! CEO for five years, during which time he accelerated the organization's work through public-private partnerships, extended its reach with philanthropy, drove innovation in playspace design, and sharpened its focus on racial equity. Prior to KABOOM!, James served as Chief of Staff for the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that supports citizen engagement to address community challenges through AmeriCorps, the Social Innovation Fund and other programs. James has broad experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors, including serving as Vice President of Nonprofit Programs and Practice at the leading non-profit coalition, Independent Sector. He also served as Registration Section Chief and Assistant Attorney General at the New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau and associate at the global law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. James and his wife enjoy spending time playing with their three kids. In this episode, you'll learn: How spaces for play can spark change in a community Why MacKenzie Scott's gifts are different from many of her fellow philanthropists Crypto philanthropy, the intersection of web3, and social impact Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/228 Find more from our guest: Twitter LinkedIn Kaboom! www.kaboom.org YouTube Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Mentioned in this episode: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP KABOOM! Launches 25 in 5 Initiative to raise $250 Million towards Mission to End Playspace Inequity; Receives $14 Million Donation from MacKenzie Scott The Giving Block BBB GiveSafely DoinGud NFT Money Reimagined Podcast with Michael Casey - CoinDesk Future Foundation // Dave Kim Thanks for Listening and Watching! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser.com, or wherever you listen. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
In this episode we have the pleasure of being joined by James Siegel, Senior Fellow at KABOOM!, a non-profit organization with a powerful mission: to “end playspace inequity for good”. We discuss the amazing work KABOOM! is doing, and how they have embraced web3 and technological innovations.In his role as Senior Fellow, James is responsible for advising the organization, building strategic partnerships, and advancing the mission of ending playspace inequity. James previously served as the CEO of KABOOM! for five years, and has also served on the Corporation for National and Community Services, the non-profit coalition Independent Sector, and in various other public and private sector roles.About KABOOM!KABOOM! is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a powerful mission: to “end playspace inequity for good”. KABOOM! works with communities “to build kid-designed playspaces that can spark joy and foster a sense of belonging for the kids who are often denied opportunities to thrive.”For over 25 years, KABOOM! has provided joy to kids throughout the United States in their mission to end playspace inequity, and has had amazing impacts through their work:Over 17,000 playspaces built or improvedOver 1.5 million volunteers engagedOver 11 million kids servedFollow KABOOM! and learn more:Twitter - James SiegelTwitter - KABOOM!FacebookInstagramDonate cryptocurrency to KABOOM!Episode Time Stamps01:30 - What was your “Ah hah” moment that got you interested in cryptocurrency?03:35 - Tell us about KABOOM! and the programs and services you offer10:15 - I understand that KABOOM! has been redefining what a play space means, including bringing play spaces to where kids are. Can you tell me more about this?12:55 - I understand that you are finding creative ways to use technology at KABOOM!, including the development of “tech enabled play spaces”. What is a tech enabled play space, and what are the benefits for kids?17:53 - Please share with us some of the impacts KABOOM! has had through its programs (this could be stats, inspiring stories, etc.)26:25 - Why did KABOOM! decide to start accepting cryptocurrency donations? 30:50 - What has been your experience with cryptocurrency fundraising thus far?34:50 - Beyond accepting donations, what other ways do you see cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 being of benefit to KABOOM! in the future?40:00 - If you had the opportunity to share one thing with any non-profit partner hesitant to engage with cryptocurrency, what would it be? 42:58 - What's the best way to learn more about and support KABOOM!?For more exciting content exploring the intersections of web3 and social impact, check us out at cryptoaltruism.org.Buy us a coffee!Enjoy the episode? Crypto Altruism runs on the support of the community. Help us out by buying us a coffee:ETH(ERC20) - 0xac5C0105914F3afb363699996C9914f193aeDD4A
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Is a BDSM dungeon on your sexual bucket list? You might be surprised about how actual dungeons operate. In this episode, the Wives explore public BDSM dungeons, including an interview with Dungeon East owner Mistress Justine Cross. First, get ready for Halloween with this episode's cocktail: the Black Widow, while Ams shares her first experience as a unicorn to another couple. Next, the Wives discuss what a dungeon is and why you might want to visit one. A BDSM dungeon is a room or space designated specifically for BDSM (i.e. - Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism) play or scenes. Public dungeons can be found in fetish studios, sex work spaces, sex clubs, warehouses and nightclubs (sometimes during specific fetish parties and themed nights) and are usually open to the public. A dungeon is a great place to explore kinkier, edgier play, surrounded by people who LOVE to demonstrate their skills. You can learn, you can watch and you can experience kink including spanking, flogging, bondage and suspension. You can also experience toys and equipment that you might not be willing to invest in at home, such as St. Andrew's cross's (Ams' favorite!), hooks and bars or suspension play, spanking benches and impact toys. To get an expert's opinion, the Wives interview Mistress Justine Cross, owner of Dungeon East in Los Angeles, California. Finally, the Wives set themselves sexy homework: visiting an actual dungeon for newbie night...and more… About Mistress Justine Cross she/her Mistress Justine is a professional BDSM consultant and lifestyle Dominatrix based in Los Angeles. She is the owner of Dungeon East, Los Angeles's premiere dungeon studio. With over 10 years' experience as a lifestyle Dominatrix and BDSM consultant, Mistress Justine's expertise and creativity has been called on for dozens of print, radio, and video productions. She has appeared as herself on Funny or Die, A&E, Lifetime and VH1. She has appeared on numerous podcasts including Savage Love, Dear Prudie and American Sex and for a number of campaigns and projects for major brands such an educational intro to BDSM series for Yandy. Extensively interviewed and profiled, Mistress Justine has been featured in Los Angeles Magazine, Playboy, Nylon, LA Weekly, Time Out Los Angeles, Buzzfeed, Salon, Vice, Huffington Post and The Guardian. Internationally recognized and followed, she typically travels all over the world. Justine runs BDSFemme - a play party party for cis and trans women and co-hosts Deviant, an all gender queer play party. With the mainstream growing more aware of BDSM, Mistress Justine's opportunities to educate and correct the kink curious have expanded, and she's been invited to be a guest speaker or teach classes on BDSM, safer sex practices, consent, and more at places like UCLA,Los Angeles LGBT Center and Folx. Justine loves oyster happy hours, craft cocktails and cats. She is fully vaccinated and still taking COVID precautions very seriously. Subscribe to her newsletter her. Follow her on twitter: justineplays and instagram/clubhouse/tiktok: thejustinecross Contact: dungeonlosangeles@gmail.com or 323-739-4562 Website: https://www.losangelesdominatrix.com/
One of the core elements of parks and recreation is not something super profound or complicated, but it is absolutely essential. When we get down to it, parks and recreation is about play. Play is an essential component of learning, development, creativity, connection, health and well-being, and so much more – and especially for kids. But, the reality is that there is a long history of Black, Indigenous and people of color being systemically excluded from, or made to feel unwelcome, in spaces like parks and playgrounds – the primary places people go to play. This history has created barriers that have for many years denied kids in many communities the benefits of play, as well as perpetuated inequities in access to these spaces. One organization that is working to end playspace inequity for good is KABOOM! KABOOM! unites with communities to build kid-designed playspaces that can spark joy and foster a sense of belonging for the kids who are often denied opportunities to thrive. Being that KABOOM! and NRPA are very much aligned in centering equity in all we do, I'm so thrilled to welcome Lysa Ratliff, CEO of KABOOM!, to the show today to chat a little bit about her passion for play, the importance of community engagement, and a whole lot of other great things going on with KABOOM!. Tune in below to learn more about Lysa and KABOOM!, as well as: KABOOM!'s thoughtful approach to community engagement. The benefits that KABOOM!'s playspaces are providing in the communities they work with. Why Lysa believes “Play is the currency of humanity.” How KABOOM! is working with local park and recreation agencies on the ground in local communities. How partnerships play a role in the impact KABOOM! is making, and more! To learn more about KABOOM!, click here.
Can Google do Everything? Google Upgrades, Rooms, Spaces and more and the Productivity News This Week (If you're reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://anythingbutidle.com for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to continue discussing any news from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Can Google do Everything? Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Headlines & Show Notes | Can Google do Everything? Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Google Calendar will break down how much of your work is spent in meetings How to measure productivity Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk - GeekWire The Framework Laptop is the future of laptops — and that's why I'm buying one Lenovo is rebooting its Chromebook Duet with a 13.3 ... - The Verge Here's how you can install Cursive – Google's new note taking app – right now Google One adds a 5TB storage plan for $24.99 per month Productivity Resource of the Week Fibery Anyfont Featured Story of the Week Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displaysGoogle's rename of ‘Rooms' in Chat and Gmail to ‘Spaces' is now underwayGoogle Workspace goes all-in on hybrid work with Playspace acquisition | Android CentralThe Gmail app takes calls now, too, because Google wants it to do everything - The VergeGoogle debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode' | VentureBeat Announcements Apple Event: California Streaming on 9/14/21ABI 080 Apple Special Event: California Streaming with Michael SliwinskiMicrosoft Event: 9/22/21ABI 082 Microsoft Special Event: California Streaming with Art Gelwicks Locast Shutting Down After Losing Court Battle With TV Networks Other News Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 131 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements Google brings Samsung 5G modem tech to U.S. market with new Pixel phone -sources | ReutersMicrosoft acquires video-editing software start-up ClipchampApple CSAM controversy continues; Snowden chimes inAsana beats expectations for Q2, reports record revenue | ZDNetApple announces first states for Wallet drivers licenses, IDsMozilla wants to make its password manager obsolete with Firefox 93 Beta (APK Download)Notion acquires India's Automate.io in push to accelerate product expansion – TechCrunchGoogle Drive rolls out a nifty feature for offline access to everyone | Android CentralGoogle search is finally officially getting dark mode on desktopWinZip is expanding its roster of Windows productivity apps in a big way | Windows CentralSwiftKey's latest beta works a lot faster with ... - Android Policehttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/upshot/the-winners-of-remote-work.htmlYahoo Finance: Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams features to deal with the hybrid work explosion Raw Text Transcript | Can Google do Everything? Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast's audio). Read More Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00 Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community Welcome to Anything But Idle. The Productivity news podcast. Today's show is brought to you by co working space by personal productivity club. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:13 And I'm Augusto Pinaud. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:14 And we're your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is Episode 79 09 for September 13 2021. This is all about Google's upgrades to their systems with rooms,
This episode: updates about Cursive, Playspace, and a possible Tour Creator replacement - 360 Schools. Links from the episode: Cursive Google's Cursive App for Chromebooks - First Look Some Thoughts on Cursive - Google's New Handwriting App for Chromebooks (Chrome Unboxed) Playspace Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool (9to5 Google) Google Acquires Playspace in Hopes of Making Your Workspace More Fun and Interactive (Chrome Unboxed) 360 Schools Kathryn Greene's tweet praising 360 Schools
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives. How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users. German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus spyware. Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores. What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020. 'I believe it's a mental health issue': the rise of Zoom dysmorphia. Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Official Emails Show That LAPD Worked With a Controversial Social media Surveillance Company During George Floyd Protests. Australia's Top Court Finds Media Companies Liable for Other People's Facebook Comments. Yahoo is Yahoo once more after new owners complete acquisition. House Republicans wrote a letter to Yahoo 'Chief Executive Officer' Marissa Mayer, but she hasn't been CEO since 2017. Elizabeth Holmes' trial begins with opening statements. Twitter rolls out first public test of Communities. Twitter testing feature to remove followers without blocking them. Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting. YouTube reports having 50 million Premium and Music subscribers. TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK. Amazon Driver Warns New Homeowners Their House Is Not Safe in Video. Alligator eats drone. Google Rooms is now Spaces, and it's integrated into all of your favorite apps. Google Meet gets new videoconference hardware with interactive displays. Google debuts Meet features, including 'Companion mode'. Google Workspace acquires Playspace, a video, screenshare, & whiteboard collaboration tool. Chrome OS 93 is heading to your Chromebook today, and it's all about the details. Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 5 'release candidate' for Pixel as final update. September security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live. Google Clock scheduled alarms broken for many, leading to a flurry of 1-star Play Store reviews. Picks: Stacey - Swarm Eval Kit. Jeff - Tom Eveslin tests Starlink. Jeff - Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers. Ant - Another Starlink reference on FLOSS. Ant - World Travel Man: 48 Hours in.... Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Command Line Heroes - TWIG wealthfront.com/twig Melissa.com/twit
Another shoutout to another great group of tech folks on the ground in Louisiana, the Footprint Project is providing solar power and batteries to police stations, local government, locals, and other relief orgs all helping with Ida relief. Take a look at their amazing work at footprintproject.org. This is not a sponsored post, nor was the last one, just trying to get the word out about some of our amazing friends doing excellent work. Now back to our show! Published Releases Better understand how you're spending your time in Google Calendar View embedded Office files in your documents Find and share GIFs in Google Chat Easily make all files types available offline in Google Drive New beta makes it easier for admins to move folders to shared drives (Beta Signup) Use the “Inspect Groups” function to view a users direct and indirect group membership Other Topics Google is reportedly making its own ARM-based Chromebook processors Playspace That's all for this week, send us your questions and comments on Twitter @WorkspaceRecap and on our website at workspacerecap.com. Hit the subscribe button and leave us a review on your favorite podcasting platform, or all of them if you really like us! Have a great week, and we will see you next time on Workspace Recap!
On-the-ground in Toyko; Hopes for improved attitudes toward same-sex marriage in Japan; Ted Lasso returns; Reimagining the Dease Lake library; Traveling to Osoyoos; Olympic gold medalist Carol Huynh; North Peace superpark; Indigenous communities inundated with requests to search for graves.
For the rest of us, we have 24 hours in the day, but for Joshua Ferguson, he must have a few extra – that’s the only way we can figure Josh can do all the amazing things he does. On top of working a full-time job, Joshua is also a local business owner, active in several community groups, a musician (Yungrisky), a writer, and he still manages to be an amazing family man to his wife, Charrie and their four kids! How does he do it all? We sit down with Joshua Ferguson, owner of PlaySpace and the up-and-coming Ivory boutique store to try to find out how he does it all! Like PlaySpace Kenosha on Facebook here!Here’s more info on their new boutique shop – Ivory!Visit the Walkin’ in My Shoes website to see how you can help our community here!This episode was recorded on March 22nd, 2021 at Luigi’s Pizza Kitchen, 7531 39th Avenue. -Big thanks to our sponsors:Captain Mike’s, 5118 Sixth Ave.Blue Collar Tavern, 2627 63rd StUnion Park Tavern, 4520 Eighth Ave. Lucci’s Grandview 6929 39th Ave.Pine Blossom, 5925 Sixth Ave-A Coming Up Roses Cleaning & OrganizingWashed Out Hair ProductsGet your Ktown Connects merchandise thanks to The Lettering Machine, 725 50th St.Drop us an email at ktownconnects@yahoo.comFind us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – and at ktownconnects.comYour hosts are Donny Stancato and Jason Hedman - Theme music performed by Dropping Daisies, written by James “Red” McLeod.
This week: We talk about Round 1 of Council’s Community Grants Program closing soon, International Women’s Day, a Drop-in Session on the new Playspace at Rhyll and the State Government’s announcement about a return to a COVIDSafe setting with changes to restrictions.
This episode Craig and Arzur talk about designing your own play-space. What considerations you need to take into account, how to utilize space, some theme ideas how to pick equipment you will actually use and much more. We would love to see your playspaces and all the fun things you’ve done with them. just use the hashtag #kbPlayspaces so we can see and retweet/repost all your wonderful designs To contact the show, we can be found at: kinkyboyspodcast@gmail.com https://twitter.com/kinkyboyspod https://woof.group/@kinkyboyspod Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/kinkyboyspod One time donation: paypal.me/esquilax
Episode recorded 11/25/2020 This week we discuss some of the best practices and things to avoid we've learned over the last 5 years of setting up VR playspaces both privately, at meetup events, and professionally. If you are looking for tips on setting up a space THIS is the episode to listen to. If you like this podcast please rate and review us in your favorite podcast app and consider becoming a patron here.Enjoy!
We first heard from this weeks guest back in 2015, episode #61. We thought we’ed get caught up! Bruisedtonsils is a woman of a certain age, submissive babygirl, living 24/7 in the lifestyle for over ten years. She also performs burlesque and drag in the Knoxville community. Her current project is Gabbing Girl Time, a podcast for women juggling vanilla life and kink. The conversation went to everyones question, “What the hell in going on in the scene?” With play spaces either closed or very limited access, a lot of people are putting their kink on hold. Tune in and see what Bruisedtonsils has to say about this very current subject.
A mom asks about some major meltdowns from her 3 year old that go on for 20-40 minutes over small things, like food breaking. She's tried play therapy, making sure physically all is ok. She has no idea what else to try. She turns to Erin for any additional tips for helping her daughter with her emotional outbursts. But first Erin answers another mom's question looking for some tips about setting up a developmental play space for children, infants through 8. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/parenting-beyond-discipline/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Cat and Pat talk Midtown East, what not to say and do as a kid, Pat driving, IGTV, McDonald’s Playspace, finding what "x" means, when it’s a peck, and so much more!---THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY BETTERHELPGet 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/TREATMENTSUPPORT SEEK TREATMENT ON PATREON! For $5/month, you will receive full video of our current remote recording episodes, 3-part weekly eps dropped at once (ad free), and merch discounts: https://www.patreon.com/seektreatmentBUY SEEK TREATMENT MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/seek-treatmentFOLLOW CAT:https://twitter.com/catcohenhttps://www.instagram.com/catccohenFOLLOW PAT:https://twitter.com/poreganhttps://www.instagram.com/patreegsSEEK TREATMENT IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/seek-treatment
In this episode Yolonda of Playspace Solutions and Tammy of Imagine Play talk about the fear of competition in the Playspace business and how to start viewing your competition as a healthy asset to your business.
I do hope you enjoyed episode 4 of Game Consultant. In episode 5 on Saturday the following items; - Start up in Games, Joakim Achrén founded NextGames and now has a new start up “Elite Game Developers”. - Legal and Games, how boring, do you say? But so important, is my response. With Tom Buscaglia, I would say “THE” Game Attorney and Rene Otto of Van Iersel Luchtman Attorneys. - Esports! Some insights from Chris Reed. - BizTech is organizing a workshop ‘How to prepare a gaming conference’, Tuesday February 18th. Dirk Schmittanswered some questions. - My watchlist of gaming companies Fingersoft, Qutee, PlaySpace. So keep an eye open this Saturday for my new podcast of Game Consultant. Till then, stay safe and and keep sending me feedback and input. More info; https://www.game-consultant.com
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We talk to mobile growth expert Thomas Petit on ASO, conversion optimization, the duopoly, how indies can still succeed, getting featured by Google and Apple, and much, much, much more! Thomas Petite is a mobile growth consultant for Deezer, Lingokids, Playspace, AppAgent, and many more companies. He's spoken at App Growth Summit, App Promotion Summit, Mobile Growth Europe, ASO Conference, and that's just the first part of the list. And he's a frequent contributor to MobileDevMemo.
The guys (plus special guest SkyJedi) talk about topics ranging from the new rules update to the size requirements of the game. They also break down the Frenchie and they pop a crazy freshie. SkyJedi: twitter.com/skyjedi patreon.com/skyjedi https://discord.gg/G8au6FH... Read More
If you have kids and are listening to this podcast, there's a good chance you've taken them to Marbles Kids Museum in downtown Raleigh, a shining success story after its predecessors, Exploris and Playspace, merged to form what is now Marbles.And no one knows the story of Marbles better than Sally Edwards, the only director Marbles has ever known. Sally's passion for kids and play and giving access to all people in Raleigh/Wake County comes through when she talks about her work--she and Marbles go together like kids and play do! We did our best to pry a few hints out of her as to what is coming in the future for Marbles, and we learn the history of how it started in the first place, and what's happening there currently.We also take nominees and pick our #Top3Raleigh things to do with kids on a Saturday morning, and discuss the coming announcement of a BIG project coming south of downtown.Please support the local businesses who support us: Steele Residential and Express Yourself Paint. Give them your business, and tell them you heard about them on Podcast Raleigh!Subscribe/rate Podcast Raleigh on your favorite podcast sites:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-raleigh/id1458907220 Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Inzk5woxrsjwf3zhd5vv3av4yei Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/podcast-raleigh Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6b3dVvLJfO0EqvDGQaFTAP?si=QrcfEq8WSE2h3aEZSGV0pQ
Spruce Pine Alien Conference and Expo, Lost Kentucky Boy Found and Pope Lick Road CreepGeeks Podcast Episode 122 Spruce Pine Alien Conference and Expo, Lost Kentucky Boy Found and Pope Lick Road Today's podcast is brought to you by audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30-day free trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/cheapgeek -Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player. What is the CreepGeeks Podcast? Broadcasting paranormal news and fun stories from our CreepGeeks Bunker Studio in the Mountains of Western North Carolina! We’re an offbeat news podcast that takes a light-hearted approach to the paranormal, the weird, the strange, the stupid and & tech topics circulating the web. What is “Weird Wednesday” -We break down an unusual topic/subject or trending phenomena. Join us for the Georgia Guidestones Hey Everyone! You can call the show and leave us a message! 1-575-208-4025 Did you know? You can support the CreepGeeks Podcast with little to no effort! Won’t cost you anything! When you shop on Amazon.com use our affiliate link and we get a small percentage! It doesn't change your price at all. It helps us to keep the coffee flowing and gas in the Albino Rhino! https://www.amazon.com/shop/cheapgeek Subscribe on YouTube! Watch our LiveStream Podcast Every Sunday https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHr9qXQk2saJUs9cKkSY0w Website- http://www.creepgeeks.com Hey everyone! Help us out! Rate us on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/creepgeeks-podcast/id1143963925?mt=2 Before we get started: Be sure to check out the new videos from M&D Paranormal and Cryptids YT Channel as well as the CheapGeek for investigation evidence from Off the Wagon Rocks Dueling Piano Bar. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_BjvtRtIfCGDKk0RLrFcQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHr9qXQk2saJUs9cKkSY0w Interesting Random Factoid- FatCam! Watch fatberg in real time https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/fatcam-watch-fatberg-live In the News: Spruce Pine Alien Conference & Expo https://spacenc.com/ The History of Spruce Pine and UFOLOGY: Spruce Pine has significant, detailed UFO sightings reported on the National UFO Reporting Index: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlNC.html Is it UFO or Something else? Between Marion and Spruce Pine: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/116/S116580.html SkyShips Over Cashier’s has very detailed accounts of UFO and Alien encounters: http://www.skyshipsovercashiers.com/testimonies-10.htm “Golden Aliens” and Cigar Shaped UFO What’s at the Spruce Pine Alien Expo: Area 51 Playspace for kids. Alien Costume Contest Live Music Over 40 vendors VIP Speakers “Tell Us Your Story” live stage Pope Lick Road: The Road with a creepy history claims another life: http://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/pope-lick-monster/ https://www.wave3.com/2019/05/19/body-found-near-floyds-fork/ Toddler missing for 3 days found alive on a 50-foot cliffside near strip mine https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/16/kenneth-howard-kentucky-missing-child-found-safe-strip-mine/3691099002/ https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/us/missing-kentucky-toddler-survived/index.html *MandD Tess Audible is audio entertainment that entertains, educates, and inspires. For you, the listeners of [CreepGeeksPodcast], Audible is offering a free audiobook download with a free 30-day trial to give you the opportunity to check out their service. To download your free audiobook today go to www.audibletrial.com/cheapgeek Again, that's http://www.audibletrial.com/cheapgeek for your free audiobook. Enjoy this with your free trial: Get Something For Mother’s Day: https://www.amazon.com/shop/cheapgeek Cool Stuff on Amazon - Amazon Influencer! https://www.amazon.com/shop/cheapgeek?ref=ac_inf_hm_vp Here are our Latest Social Media Posts: Over on Youtube! TheOrdinaryHiker- Instagram: https://instagram.com/theordinaryhiker CheapGeek1- Best Gummy Bears, New Mexico Timelapse, and a Goal! https://youtu.be/myxVPFQ5bLE Join the CheapGeek Facebook Group- Join! Post stuff! Here's a link- https://www.facebook.com/groups/CheapGeekPage/ Instagram? www.instagram.com/creep_geekspodcast www.instagram.com/theordinaryhiker Need to Contact Us? Email Info: contact@creepgeeks.com Attn Greg or Omi Want to comment about the show? omi@creepgeeks.com greg@creepgeeks.com Business Inquiries: contact@creepgeeks.com https://teespring.com/stores/creepgeeks-podcast-store Join Us Next Time! Music Credits: Music in this Podcast- Music Credit To: Tags: Lost, Kentucky boy lost,lost Kentucky toddler,pope lick, pope lick road, Spruce pine,spruce pine NC, spruce pine ufo, spruce pine ufo expo, spruce pine alien conference expo,spruce pine space, North Carolina,creepgeeks,high strangeness, creepgeeks podcast, humanoid,spirit monster,UFO & Alien,unexplained being,unknown spirit,paranormal,paranormal podcast, cryptids,creepgeeks, wnc,wncpodcast,Paranormal
This week on After Hours, Rick Kogan starts the show off with a bomb…George the Bomb! George Freeman, Joanie Pallatto and Bradley Parker Sparrow stop by the studio to talk about Freeman’s new CD “George the Bomb!” Then, artist Patty Kirk joins in to talk about her show at the Dime Gallery. Julian Antos of the Chicago Film Society shares Tuesday night film screenings of “Power of the Press” and “The Editor’s Notebook.” Finally, saxophonist Chris Greene is in to talk about his quintet and new live album, “PlaySPACE.”
Saxophonist Chris Greene is a jazz treasure of Chicago! Chris joins WGN Radio’s Rick Kogan once again to talk about his incredible quintet and their shows at Andy’s Jazz Club. Chris also share’s his new live album, “PlaySPACE.” To learn more about Chris and his shows you can visit www.chrisgreenejazz.com.
If you’re looking for an early winter warm-up, Vivid Sydney is a festive beacon of seduction, hauling in the crowds like moths to the flame. If you’ve never “done” Vivid, you must. It’s an essential, albeit seasonal, slice of the city’s soul. Gearing up for its 11th year, this rampantly successful festival takes top slot on the cultural calendar. The PR pap now describes it as a “23-day intersection of art, technology and commerce.” Yes, there’s live music and seminars and thought-leaders. The Cure is playing at Sydney Opera House and there’s an audience with Spike Lee. It’s kind of like a Ted-X conflab with Christmas trees. But truth be told, it’s the lights, the giant projections, the trippy installations, the illuminations that woos millions to this unrivalled spectacle. And in the past few years, the lighting spectacles have fanned out far beyond Circular Quay, with a swag of locations festooned in wonder. There’s also the famous Light Walk, which curates more than 50 radiant works into the largest gallery of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. This year, there’s nine precincts to check out with large-scale installations, including Taronga Zoo. In fact, what is particularly distinctive about this year’s edition of Vivid is the huge family-friendly focus. Here’s a few examples. Taronga Zoo is staging “Lights for the Wild.” Follow the illuminated trail which winds through the zoo's grounds and meet the giant multimedia light sculptures, from the magnificent Sumatran tiger and her new cubs to a swarm of tiny buzzing bees and the larger-than-life gorilla family. Take a step into a tech-filled wonderland at the Samsung Electric Playground, inspired by the best features of the new Galaxy S10. It’s being billed as tomorrow’s playground, where you control the light patterns. The Argyle Cut in The Rocks is where to head for the new Pixar Studios Installation, pulsating with 30 years of Pixar characters. Darling Harbour's Tumbalong Park is being transformed into playSPACE, where six space themed installations have been designed to create the sensation of giving you a trip into deep space. It doesn’t often snow in Sydney, so Circular Quay is going to be staging Let it Snow, a fully immersive installation replicating the sensation of walking through a snow blizzard. And alongside the Opera House, one of Vivid’s most popular canvases is Customs House. This year it will be transformed into an underwater wonderland, a deep-dive under the harbour, heaving with neon sea creatures.And one of my Sydney friends tell me that there’s a lot of buzz about Beetopia. This is going to be installed in the Royal Botanic Gardens, a touch-sensitive, giant glowing bee hotel which emits the smell of honey. Crawling with oversized native bees, the installation is touch sensitive, so when you pat a bee, it will respond with a gentle buzz – a bit like a vibrating phone. Meanwhile, Luna Park is stepping up to the spirit of Vivid. Coinciding with the festival, they are launching Volare, their newest ride, which claims to be Australia's largest and highest wave swinger. It will mimic the sensation of flying above the lights of Vivid.Also, while you’re at Vivid, check out the massive Star Wars exhibition which has been in Sydney for a few months, but is leaving town in mid-June for Tokyo. Lucas Films has prised open its archives to showcase some of its treasures. 200 original objects used in the making of the Star Wars movies – costumes, props, models, you name, including the original R2-D2 and the Millennium Falcon. That’s on at the Powerhouse Museum until June 10.Vivid Sydney roars into life on Friday week, May 24, running through to June 15. Treat the family to a weekender in Sydney’s warm early winter glow. https://nz.sydney.com/
En este episodio hablamos con Alfonso Villar, de cómo una carrera frustrada de unos pocos meses en las fuerzas armadas desemboca en la puesta en marcha de una empresa de videojuegos que ha actualizado a nuestro tiempo los juegos de mesa tradicionales. Las creaciones de la empresa acumulan más de 23 millones de usuarios en 10 países, ha conseguido casi 3 millones de euros en financiación y ha cerrado un acuerdo de media for equity con Mediaset. Recuerda que puedes suscribirte a nuestra newsletter semanal con información sobre eventos, ofertas de empleo y noticias del sector tecnológico en www.mallorcatechnews.com Y si te ha gustado el episodio, recomiéndalo!
Saxophonist Chris Greene just released PlaySpace, a live album recorded with his long-time band. In this interview, Greene talks about the music on the album and why he likes playing with his bandmates; funk, jazz, accessibility and secret handshakes; the musicians and bands who've influenced his approach to making music; and why it's OK for people to enjoy shows. Learn more at https://chrisgreenejazz.com/. Support the show! Become a member for just $5/month at http://patreon.com/thejazzsession. You'll receive a bonus episode packed full of cool stuff every month. Like this one. Plus, 100 members = 3 episodes per month, and 200 members = weekly episodes! Let's do this!
Saxophonist Chris Greene just released PlaySpace, a live album recorded with his long-time band. In this interview, Greene talks about the music on the album and why he likes playing with his bandmates; funk, jazz, accessibility and secret handshakes; the musicians and bands who've influenced his approach to making music; and why it's OK for people to enjoy shows. Learn more at https://chrisgreenejazz.com/. Support the show! Become a member for just $5/month at http://patreon.com/thejazzsession. You'll receive a bonus episode packed full of cool stuff every month. Like this one. Plus, 100 members = 3 episodes per month, and 200 members = weekly episodes! Let's do this!
Saxophonist Chris Greene just released PlaySpace, a live album recorded with his long-time band. In this interview, Greene talks about the music on the album and why he likes playing with his bandmates; funk, jazz, accessibility and secret handshakes; the musicians and bands who’ve influenced his approach to making music; and why it’s OK for … Continue reading "The Jazz Session #475: Chris Greene"
Activity and excitement center on Games-as-a-Service (GaaS), the model that has provided video games continuing revenues and amazing success. Only this time around we’re calling it LiveOps, and we’re counting on the model to make mobile gaming apps a bundle. Our host Peggy Anne Salz catches up with Oliver Kern—CMO of Playspace, veteran growth marketer and our esteemed keynote speaker at Mobile Growth Summit (Berlin, 5-6 September)—to discuss the current obsession with the model and how games companies can tap fresh content and limited events to fuel sustainable growth.
Here is the 54th installment of the Dreams of Consciousness podcast, featuring an interview with Boka and Jão of Brazilian hardcore legends Ratos de Porão. As soon as it was announced that R.D.P. were playing Kuala Lumpur, I knew I'd have to get them on the podcast. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to interview a legendary band - a band that influenced the bands I grew up on, and who I probably won't get another chance to speak with. As fate would have it, their flight from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur was delayed several times; by the time they finished their set at Playspace, it was after 2AM and they were clearly too tired to do an interview. Not one to let something like borders stop me, I made my way to Singapore and caught up with them there. We spoke about the band's history, the nature of the Brazilian hardcore scene in the Eighties, and what it was like being a punk band in Brazil at the tail end of the military dictatorship. We also spent some time talking about the Brasil album, which was the first RDP album I heard, and is to this day one of my favourite hardcore albums. My thanks again to Boka and Jão for speaking to me, and to you for listening. TRACKLISTING: Crucificados Pelo Sistema/Caos/Obrigado a Obedecer taken from the album Crucificados Pelo Sistema Ignorância/Sentir Ódio E Nada Mais taken from the album Cada Dia Mais Sujo E Agressivo Amazônia Nunca Mais/Beber Até Morrer taken from the album Brasil Colisão/Difícil de Entender taken from the album Carniceria Tropical Stress Pós-Traumático/Neocanibalismo taken from the album Seculo Sinistro
Amy Levner, Vice President of Communications and Marketing at KaBOOM!, joins Eva and Olga to discuss the importance of play and the vital work KaBOOM! is doing to ensure that every child’s life is filled with balanced and active play. For our show notes, visit DreamBigPodcast.com/51
Susan Martin, from South Knoxville Elementary, is leading a grassroots effort to create more safe opportunities for community residents and students to exercise outdoors. The neighborhood around the school is high-poverty, and has been identified as a "food desert," with a lack of fresh, healthy and affordable food options. TruckBeat is #FindingAmerica. truckbeat.org/
Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes 00:00:00 - Speaker 1: What I think happened was that you got people who knew how to bend and to mold computers and software in the same place as people who were very efficient and effective and curious and playful around things like design and getting things done, and had real needs, right? And sort of that’s some biases there, I think is what drove Mac OS to become such a successful platform. 00:00:29 - Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Meta Muse. Use as a tool for thought on iPad. This podcast isn’t about Muse product, it’s about Muse’s company and the small team behind it. I’m Adam Wiggins here with Mark McGranaghan. Hey, Adam. And joined today by Rasmus Anderson. 00:00:45 - Speaker 1: Hello, hello. 00:00:48 - Speaker 2: And Rasmus, I understand you’re an amateur gardener. 00:00:51 - Speaker 1: Yeah, that wouldn’t be very far from a lie. I do have a little front yard, tiny tiny one, and a tiny backyard, and it is a constant fight with nature, but, you know, it’s kind of fun. 00:01:07 - Speaker 2: And I always find it funny, weeds are not particularly a thing that there’s no like clear definition other than just a plant that you don’t want to be growing there. So one man’s weed is another person’s desired plant, is that about right? 00:01:22 - Speaker 1: I think that’s right, yeah. I mean, I grew up in Sweden and I remember my parents playing this like really smart game on me and my brother, where we would have these, they’re called mscruso, which are kind of pretty, but they’re definitely weed. There’s these beautiful kind of yellow flowers, and they can break through asphalt. They’re like really strong growers. You know, and as a kid, you know, parents would be like, hey, let’s do like an adventure thing, and like you find all these in the yard, and like for each of them, we line them up and count them and we would just like, Wow, this is cool. And we would go and pick them and light them up. And our parents would be like, you know, behind the corner, that would be like, we totally fooled them. So yeah, they' weeding as a kid without really knowing that I was doing that. 00:02:07 - Speaker 2: Nice one. We lived on a farm just for a little while, while my dad was stationed at a naval station that was kind of in the boonies, you might say, and my mom was a pretty serious gardener growing her own vegetables and fruits, and we had fruit trees and stuff like that. But I certainly remember that some things, the tomato plants grew fast and easy. There was the watermelon plants that we got one summer with me and my brother just ate watermelon and spit the seeds into a nearby garden bed, and then there were some others that were endless frustration for my mom trying to coax out of the ground. So yeah, I think my strategy if I’m ever in the position of being a yard owner, will be to just identify all of the hardiest plants that grow, even if you don’t want them to, and just say these are what I’m specifically cultivating. 00:02:51 - Speaker 1: I like this strategy. This someone once said this. I’m sure that there are like children books and stuff written around this. I’m not sure, but someone said this and I thought it was kind of interesting that there’s a gardening approach to like steering a system, right? And there’s sort of like more of the plan and design approach to steering a system, meaning that if you have this sort of like organic type of system, like a garden, right? Or maybe software. It’s going to just keep changing, and the gardener’s approach is that by doing something like Adam, what you were saying, you kind of identify the things that you want to cultivate, and you give them a better opportunities. And then you look at things like weed or things that you want to move, and you sort of like give them worse opportunities, right? You sort of steer the system like that and see where it goes, whereas the I don’t know if there’s a better word for it, but the planning and the signing of the system from scratch, you’re like constantly trying to hope that it evolves in the direction you want to, which is, I think, never really the case, right? 00:03:52 - Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that is I use gardening as a metaphor often for those kinds of organic growth things for something like a community where you just can’t directly direct what’s going to happen, what you can do is encourage and nurture and create opportunities, as you said, for the kinds of things you want to see and and discourage the kinds of things you don’t want to see. But that’s part of the joy maybe is you don’t know exactly how it’s going to turn out. If you come at it from a kind of a builder, engineer, architect perspective that I’m gonna plan down to every last little detail in the blueprint, and then I’ll make reality match that exactly, you’re likely to be frustrated and disappointed. 00:04:33 - Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s right. I think this somehow we just kind of slipped into this, and that’s interesting in itself, but this is kind of what I’m trying to do with my project Playbit. See, we can get into it a little bit more in detail in a few minutes, but I think that there’s this opportunity to encourage, sort of like a different way of building software, not like radically different, but sort of like somewhere in between big scale and tiny tiny scale software, kind of like personal software. But anyhow, I think that a cultural change, right? Sort of like creating this garden where interesting like plants and stuff can grow to kind of spin off this metaphor. It’s a really interesting idea, and that’s sort of like the core of playbit. That is the idea around it. That’s what I’m trying to do with it, rather than to build on a specific type of technology. Now, software is like part of, you know, my strategy to make the change happen, or at least I hope I can. But the goal of play but this is sort of like cultural change or really like offering and, you know, a different or a slightly different at least culture to software building. 00:05:39 - Speaker 2: Culture is so important, certainly for programming communities, but more broadly just creation of any end artifact comes not just from the tools and the materials and the intentions of the creators, but also this ineffable thing we call culture. Yeah, well, I’m really excited to hear more about Playbit, which is a brand new project you’re working on, just for the listener’s sake. It would be great to briefly touch on your background. You’ve got a very impressive resume fresh off of working at FIMA. Before that you did Dropbox. You were early at Spotify, and just looking down that list, you know, I find myself thinking, well, if you were an investor, that would be pretty impressive, and I would assume you’re just sort of leaving the things out that were misses. But as someone that goes to work for companies, you don’t have the ability to do such a portfolio strategy. I’m wondering if you feel like you have a particular knack for spotting high potential companies early on, or is it more a spot of luck or some combination? 00:06:35 - Speaker 1: That’s a good question. I think it’s probably the latter. It’s a little bit of a combination. Really, it’s this kind of idea of intuition, right? You have a lot of experience. I do have quite a lot of experience at this point, and I think that has put up these neurons in such a way that I have some sense at least, at least within this particular kind of industry that I’m in. Someone was asking me this the other day actually, this little Twitter like texting back and forth, but I think that there’s a couple of things you can do that don’t require experience to build up intuition. And one thing is just to like really understand what you like to do, right? And so this is not specifically around, you know, successful technology companies, but I think it’s like a foundational sort of like a cornerstone. To being successful with like, really anything, is to understand like what you really want, right? Not what your parents told you that you should want, or not what like your peers tell you that you should want, but what you really want. No, no, that’s really hard, and maybe that’s the hardest thing in life actually to know what you really want. 00:07:37 - Speaker 2: I’ll echo that as well, which is for me, I had this experience of growing up with video games and that being my passion, and I was just convinced I would go into the game industry, and that was my path, and I actually did that and then I was miserable and I didn’t like it and I what on paper you might say, or hypothetically, I thought I wanted to do in practice didn’t actually work for me. And then when I had an opportunity to join a company. Making basically from my perspective, pretty boring business software. I jumped into that and discovered I loved it and I was much better at a thing that I loved to do or fit with my natural passion somehow. So I think it’s also a maybe coming back to our gardening metaphor, a bit of a discovery and looking for opportunities and noticing what’s growing, what’s sprouting really naturally, and then encouraging. that rather than having some preconceived notion of what you think you should do, which might come from parents, certainly could come from, you know, the tech industry, which lionizes certain kinds of companies or certain kinds of people and instead kind of paying attention to your own internal compass for this is a thing that I could really see myself spending every minute thinking about for the next 5 years, 10 years, or career. 00:08:47 - Speaker 1: That’s just so interesting to hear you say that, but you had that experience, which I think a lot of us have, right? If we had this idea, maybe we want to be a chef or an astronaut, or, you know, a fire person or whatever when we’re kids, right? And like most of us end up not doing that, right? We end up doing something else. And I think that happens a few times in life where, like you, you know, We see this thing, it’s like very exciting, we pursue it, and then we stumble upon something else, and that just, you know, we stumble upon probably 100 different things, right? But one of those things where like, whoa, damn, this is really fun, and this is really interesting. Yeah, so getting back to your question a few minutes ago, I think that if you have that sort of like cornerstone idea of the learning about myself, it’s just something that I should always work on. Then on top of that, I think what you can do is To try to learn about the people that are working at various different companies or like looking for passion in people, like finding out what incentives are driving them to make a change. And with a change, I mean like a technology startup, right, usually exists for one of two reasons, and the first reason is that people want to make a change or want to see a change in the world, right? It can be a very small scale, a very big scale. And the second thing, I think that often you have these ulterior motives, you have power, fortune, you know, impressing other people, like all those things. There’s nothing bad about those things, right? But they are usually then hidden away that there’s this facade of like, no, we’re really trying to make a machine here with this YouTube for cats or whatever. And really like someone just wanted to like build a really cool thing so they can sell it and get rich, right? And again, there’s no judgment here if that’s your thing, that’s cool, but that’s not what I’m interested in. So that’s one of the things that I tried to see and figure out and really spend time on understanding when speaking with a company or a few people who want to make a change, right? Like, are they driven by passion for this change? Like, can they see this world and like, you know, in 3 years, if we have this thing, and people are using it, like, this is how their lives are different. This is how they can like do things that they can’t do before. Like that’s the sort of thing. To me it’s like, kind of rare. It might be surprisingly rare, actually, which is kind of weird. And to find that out, I think the easiest way is just to spend a little bit of time with a lot of different people. So if you’re interviewing for a company, ask if you can spend a few hours with 1 or 2 people on the team, rather than, can I spend half an hour with like 10 different people. 00:11:20 - Speaker 2: Interesting. So it sounds like you’re, you know, come back to that investor kind of analogy I made before where going to work for a company, you’re investing your time rather than your money, which in many ways is even a more scarce and valuable resource. You think of it as less in terms of let me a value. I don’t know, the market opportunity here, whether I think this has the potential to be something good or big or what have you, and instead more is kind of looking into the souls of the people who are working on it to understand their motivation and their drive and their passion. 00:11:52 - Speaker 1: For sure, yeah. This is probably a cliche at this point, but If you have a group of good people that you’re working on, it’s not that important what you’re working on. Right, I think that’s a very extreme way of looking at it. I think in reality it’s not as clear cut as that. It’s not as true as that. But I do think that it does hold true to some extent, right, that if you flip it around, right, if you do some sort of kind of Greek philosophy approach then, you know, you say sort of like, what if everything is good, right? So you start out in like ideal scenario. So it’s every person is amazing on the team. The business is doing great. The mission is something that is so close to my heart, like, I’m just thinking about it day and night, right? And so on. And now you start like taking things away, right? You have this kind of little thing in front of you, and now you start thinking that, OK, let’s see if I take away the mission, right? And I have all the other things still, like, does this feel like something I want to do for 4 years, right? Not in day, right? It’s like, oh maybe, you know, you start taking things away, and I think If you start out in the ideal case, right, you play these different stories out, and you take away the group of people, right? So you replace that with like, people who you would consider, like, not being good, right? Like, maybe they had a bad influence on you, maybe they create a lot of stress for you, maybe they’re just not good at the craft and so on, whatever that means to you. I think for most people, like, it stops pretty early in terms of like, yeah, I would still do this. Like you would be like, well, you know. With making such a big change, and I’m really involved emotionally in this mission and everything, but like the people I work with are paying, it’s like, I don’t wanna do that, right? Life is so tiny, it’s so short, and you look back in the past and the things you remember, it’s not the bugs you squashed in code or like the pixels you made. It’s gonna be the people and like. The change that the company is trying to make and the group of people are trying to make, I think it is very important, right? And this is where it really loops back the first thing that I was talking about a few minutes ago about like learning about yourself and knowing yourself. I have a few friends who are very concerned about the environment of Earth and stuff like that, and choose to leave their traditional tech jobs to go work for, you know, uh renewable energy companies and stuff like that. And for them, you know, the mission is very important, right? And the people are very important. So, I think you want to really like look at all of these different things, like, a group of people who are amazing, who are very unsuccessful at doing what they do, is not gonna be a fun experience anyways, right? So yeah, I don’t think there’s a magic bullet, there’s no sort of golden arrow or whatever metaphor here, but I think one really good thing to look for is this sort of like passionate people, and what drives them to make that change. 00:14:39 - Speaker 2: Yeah, I’m a fan of that. Seeking opportunities in my own career and when I’m in the position of giving career advice to others, I usually say something like optimize for the people, find the team that you have that collaboration magic with, and that will be just far greater return than the exact perfect mission. Um, I do think, you know, those things related, probably because if you share values and you share passions around a particular mission, that’s likely to be a team that you work really well with. But yeah, given the choice between a thing that’s slightly off from what I might actually be my ideal, the perfect team, and the other way around, I always go for the team. 00:15:16 - Speaker 1: I’m curious here, Adam and Mark, how you’re looking at this as well. You’re both experienced in the software industry, yes I am, like, kind of flipping the question back to you. What are some of the things you might do or look for in order to understand if this, you know, company group of people are gonna be successful. It’s just gonna be like a fun ride for me, so to speak. 00:15:38 - Speaker 2: Yeah, I’d love to hear from Mark on that since he’s actually, now that I think of it, picked some pretty good ones, including for Muse, he was at Stripe. And so, yeah, I guess I never asked, did you see that as, oh, these guys are gonna be huge, I really want to be on board early. My stock will be worth a lot, or was it more, this is an interesting domain, and I want to work with these people who knows the company will be successful, or that wasn’t part of your calculation. 00:16:00 - Speaker 3: Yeah, it’s tough for me to give an answer to that, because to my mind, there’s a lot of, you know, it, when you see it, and to your point about having experience and neurons and pattern matching. I feel like I’ve been lucky enough to work in the industry for a while, so I now I’m able to have perhaps some judgment of that. I do think as a tactical matter, if people actually want to have a better chance of working at a high potential company in the classic sense, you can get a lot of information by asking people whose job it is to know these things. So, Investors and hiring managers will often have a lot of data about companies that will do well. And then it kind of becomes like investors will always say, oh, it’s, it’s actually not hard to pick the company, it’s hard to get the deals. I think there’s a similar dynamic with joining companies where often a big part of it is actually getting hired. But yeah, I think it’s a tactical matter, if you do ask around, you can get a lot of good data points. But I also have similar sentiment in terms of, at a more personal level, what I look for in a company, and I would also say it’s about the people and the mission. And I always go back to this idea of You know, we don’t have a whole lot of mortal life, and it would be a shame to spend the next 2 to 4 years of it working with people you didn’t care for. And when you say it like that, oh wow, you know, really should, uh, make sure that the people that you trust and look up to and want to become more alike, because as you spend 124 years with this team, you are going to basically become more like them. So is that something that you would be proud and excited to do, or that you would be afraid and ashamed of? 00:17:18 - Speaker 2: There’s a great patio. I think it’s even in an article writing about the culture at Stripe. He says, when you’re choosing your colleagues, these are people you’re essentially giving right access in your consciousness to. We don’t realize it, but just the people you’re around all the time, you become like them, whether you like it or not. So surround yourself with people you admire and you want to become more like, and that will come true. 00:17:42 - Speaker 1: Absolutely, I really like that. 00:17:44 - Speaker 3: This also might connect a little bit to our topic of playful software, because to my mind, one aspect of playfulness is sort of undertaking the process and the work for its own sake, without a lot of accountability to the end result and just kind of enjoying the process, you know, doing it for the memes, if you will. And I feel like you can only do that well if you actually really love what you’re working on and the discipline, but I’m curious to hear Rasmus, what your perspective on playful software is. 00:18:11 - Speaker 1: Well, I think for most people playful software, the first that comes to mind is probably games, right? And games, they’re sort of like almost the purest type of playful software. That is their primary and often only goal, right? To just be playful, to just entertain. And so I think playful software that is not games have some amount of that sort of like entertainment that, you know, a privy guest of yours that Jason was saying sort of like fidget ability, you know, the idea that There’s some quality to the software that makes you want to just like, kind of toy around and play around with the software itself, not to produce something necessarily, although that might be the main reason for the software to exist. So I think if we’re looking for a definition of playful software, it’s probably something in the realms of game like entertainment like qualities that are kind of intertwined with some sort of utility. 00:19:09 - Speaker 3: Yeah, this is really interesting, this nexus of entertainment versus playfulness versus utility. So I feel like actually there’s some relations certainly between entertainment and playfulness, but I feel like they’re also somewhat separable. Like you can have a game where it’s sort of a mindless game where you just plan to get really good at it, like a competitive game. And the flip side, you can have playfulness that is more just about exploring and seeing what you can do and what you can make and perhaps the stuff in the middle, like Minecraft is kind of in the middle there, it’s both entertaining and it’s playful, and I do think people tend to go towards games, but I think there’s another important element around what we’re calling playfulness that’s really important. 00:19:42 - Speaker 1: Yeah, that’s good points. 00:19:44 - Speaker 2: I’m suddenly reminded of a book by one of my favorite authors, Virginia Postrell. And in there is a chapter where it asks the question of what actually is the difference between work and play. And it’s one of those things where you go, oh well, it’s obvious, and then when you try to come up with a definition like, well, you get paid to work and you don’t get paid to play, and really quickly, especially if you’re someone that’s, you know, in the tech industry, a designer, a developer, whatever, you find yourself doing things that look very, very similar, maybe in your free time that you do at your work, but it’s hard to pin down really what the difference is and She ends up defining it exactly as you said there, Mark, which is play is something that’s open ended, you don’t have a specific goal in mind, you can start out with, I’m gonna paint the painting of the sunset, and by the time you get to the end, you’ve decided instead to fold the canvas into an origami. Swan and, you know, you could do that if you want, whereas work you have this specific end goal that you need to get to, often in a particular time frame, and even if you find some interesting detour along the way, you kind of have to ignore that because you have made this commitment to deliver some specific result. 00:20:54 - Speaker 1: And I’d say that as a designer, like playing is often a very important part of the understanding part of design, which I think is like a really big chunk of design work, right? You know, you have this opportunity or this kind of problem, like there’s something you’re pursuing, right, with your design project and Before you can make any decisions and any changes, right, in terms of like getting closer to solving it or changing it, you have to understand it, right? And so you take things apart, you put them back together, right? You’ll learn about things as you take things apart, you’ll find new parts so you didn’t see before, right? You’ll find new constraints of the project, you’re like, oh shoot, oh I guess this material is different, right? And so, I think, as you were saying, Adam, if you take a step back and you think about like, well, this kind of looks like play, doesn’t it? And I think in many ways it is straight up play. But it is sort of a semi open ended, closed ended play, right? It’s sort of like play for the purpose of learning. And I think this is where most of us in the tech industry, like, Can relate to playfulness in like the way we use software. So maybe on a weekend you’re like, oh, I’ve heard about this new like rust thing. Maybe I should like take the first bit, right? And you put together a whole world thing and you find a rust compiler and you write some code and you’re like, oh, what is, why can’t I borrow this thing, right, whatever. And the goal here, right, is play. You might not call it play, but unless your goal is to actually like get an output in the end or make a change or something like that, really what you’re doing, right, is learning. And I think that is often the reward, so to speak, the outcome. The product of play is to learn something. 00:22:35 - Speaker 3: Absolutely. I think it’s a great point. And just to reiterate, I think it’s really important to have this play access be separate from work versus entertainment. So that is, you can play in a domain that we typically think of as work, whether that’s design, engineering. Another example that I might throw in there is Elon Musk sending the roadster to space. It’s like, why are you doing that? I don’t know, it’d be fun, I guess. That’s also in a very serious domain where he is in fact learning a lot by undertaking that activity. 00:23:02 - Speaker 2: Also connects a bit to just our humanity, which is, of course, we’re trying to achieve things, be productive in the broad sense of the word, in our pursuits in our work life, but at the same time, we’re all people, we like stuff that’s fun, we like stuff that’s playful, and if you can find ways to do that, that fit in with the work and fit in with accomplishing your ends, I think it makes it more fun and engaging and enjoyable for everyone who’s involved. 00:23:31 - Speaker 1: Yeah, there’s something naturally even about play for sure. We can’t imagine our like ancestors running around naked in the woods with clubs, you know, kind of finding a pine cone or something on the ground or a stick and be like, oh, this kind of looks like a goat, you know, and you start playing with those things, and there’s something I think is very interesting, like when I was a kid, so I grew up in the countryside and Me and, you know, the other like 5 neighbors or whatever, and the kids, we would, you know, go into the woods and that’s how we would play, we, you know, build a little like imaginary little airplanes out of a pine cone and stick through it and stuff like that, right? And as a kid, you see a stick, and the stick is like anything. It can be anything you want, it can be an airplane, it can be a rocket, right? It can be a person, right? And as an adult we lose that, and I don’t know why, but I see a stick today and I’m like, oh, that’s a stick, right? And I’m like, damn it. You know, I wanna see the stick and I wanna feel like, whoa, this could be a weird sort of creature, you know, from a different planet that has like multiple heads, that kind of looks like a stick, but it’s not a stick. At some point I listened to someone who was trying to make a point of the educational system, at least in sort of like most of the world. Takes in one end of a machine, right? Imagine people walking in one end of the machine and they come out in the other end and like, in the end you walk in, there’s all these color and difference and, you know, different voices and stuff. And the other end is like this marching uniformed people, right? School kind of prints this pattern onto us, right? This is real, that is not real. This is play, that is not play, this is serious, right? And I’m not sure that’s like good for us, especially not for people in sort of the creative industry. Which I think is like a growing industry generally. 00:25:15 - Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that’s a great point. Another way to articulate this might be as we get older and as we go through institutional education, we tend to get annealed, that is kind of solidified, optimized, focused, structured, and play in addition to a way to learn, is a way to kind of foam roll your mind, you know, get some plasticity, break up some connective tissue so you can think of some new stuff. And so now that you make that point, I see that as a second key outcome. You know, you learn some stuff and you have some more flexibility in your head. 00:25:46 - Speaker 2: It also occurs to me that that means that play and imagination have a strong relationship and maybe this, as you said earlier, Erasmus, that like, when you talk about in design, play is very important. You might even say, this isn’t quite solved yet, let me play with it and try some stuff. And that’s connected to a little bit of an open-ended divergent thinking, imagination, out of the box, you know, looking at the stick and seeing the person of the rocket ship, and that actually is what could potentially lead you to the more practical breakthrough in doing your work. 00:26:17 - Speaker 1: It’s so true, so true, I think. If you think about cool stuff that people have made, right, like art or tools or anything, what have you, that you think it’s like, wow, this is brilliant, you know, this is so fun, or this is really smart, whatever. And you start digging into like the history of that in pretty much every single case, you’ll find that it’s a remix of other things, right? And so I think imagination and playfulness. is sort of like at least partially a practice of just exploring things, right? It’s maybe that’s a play part, right? You explore stuff, you see new things, right? And then here comes the imagination part, which is like, oh, out of all these different things, there’s like a new thing that can emerge, right? Like the iPod is a remix of this like brawn handheld radio, right? And then the iPhone is a remix of the iPod. You know, those things are very obviously remixes, because they’re, you know, visually very similar, but I think that there’s also conceptual remixes, and there’s like straight up like the word I’m using a remix, right, like from audio, there’s like, that is a very common practice. 00:27:24 - Speaker 3: This is also reminding me that there’s an important element of intellectual humility in play. So we said perhaps play is when you don’t have accountability for the end work product, but wait a second, we’re in creative fields, our entire purpose is to come up with novel ideas by definition. You don’t know how to get to that work product yet. If you did, you just go right there. So really it’s taking away some of your constraints and preconceptions about what it takes to create a novel work product and and exploring for a bit and saying, you know, press on the other side, it’ll be clear that what you were calling play was in fact work or fed into work, but you don’t know what that path is yet, so who are you to say what is or isn’t gonna have a good result eventually. 00:28:01 - Speaker 1: That is really interesting. So Mark, what level of constraints, or what level of sort of like boundaries do you think you need to define in order for that to not be like this totally open ended sort of quick detour of what I’m talking about is to make sure this makes sense. So like, I’ve seen this happening a couple of times in tech companies where you have a couple of interesting smart people who are playful, and the company recognizes that, and it recognizes the value and innovation and stuff, right? So they say, hey, you know, Lisa and Robin. Would you be interested in sitting in this corner just coming up with crazy shit, right? Maybe we’ll ship it. And I think in most cases that is like a failure, right? That will come up with all these incredible stuff, but there’s never any sort of traction around it. Maybe the constraints are way too vague, similarly to an art class, you know, if you ask someone to just paint anything they want, there’s just this paralysis, right, of like where they even start. So within that framework, like looping back to my question to you, Mark, what and how do you think about like setting up the right amount of constraints to be able to play around within there? 00:29:01 - Speaker 3: Yeah, that’s a great question. I I don’t think there’s an easy answer, but One strategy that I like a lot is to follow the energy. So if you’re undertaking this project, let’s say we’re going to relax the constraint about classically measured business output, but we’re gonna maintain the constraint around there needs to be some energy here, which could be, you’re able to get other people excited about it, you’re able to get customers excited about it, you’re able to create something that’s aesthetically interesting. That to me is an important Source of energy. And so we’re not gonna kind of constantly inorganically add energy to the system. We’re gonna give you a little bit of spark and some initial fuel, but then you need to build it up from there and kind of find your own path. But you’re free to not go directly to this end destination. It could be that you go through basically an art project, or a recruiting project or a publication project, and then you go from there. That helps a lot with kind of the mechanics of keeping the project going but again people are living their short moral lives and not gonna want to work on something that doesn’t have a lot of energy on it. So as you have more success, you tend to attract more people and it goes from there. 00:29:59 - Speaker 1: So energy that makes a lot of sense, kind of sense of urgency in different words, the sort of like things are happening. Do you think that Results or milestones, or even just celebrating like discrete moments of success or progress are important as well. 00:30:15 - Speaker 3: So this is a classic atomism back from the Hiroki days to make it real. We can link to the full list of atomisms. But it’s this idea of, even if it’s just a prototype or even a CLI session mockup, something that makes it real and makes it concrete for people, really helps people understand what it is and again build that energy. I also, I mentioned it briefly, but I think this idea of aesthetics is really important. There are good threads to pull when you have an idea that’s aesthetically exciting or appealing. That’s the way that I often draw energy on projects, even like programming type projects. 00:30:45 - Speaker 1: There’s this thing I’m thinking about now, which is And this varies in different parts of the world, but I think the same thing is sort of the financial thing is true. Like, you look at a particular industry, like hairdressers, right, or pizza joints, and you look at like the topography and the colors and sort of like styling they put on their storefronts. And there seems to be these sort of like pretty tight clusters of style, right? You’re like, why are all the pizza joints in this town using hobo for the typeface, right? It will be so much more interesting if like someone used copper Gothic, you know, or comic sense or any of the other sort of, you know, funky typefaces or something, you know, stern like Helvetica. And I think what’s going on is this recognition or this thing to like make it real, right? Imagine that we were starting a pizza joint, right? And we have ambition, right? We want this to be like the freaking best pizza in our town, right? So, you know, we look at other pizza places, and we have this intuition that we talked about before, right? Of what is like a real pizza place, right? We have our heroes, right? And chances are that they use hobo, right? We might not be aware of this, this might be unconscious. So we go to, you know, our local printing press who make a sign for us, and they show us, you know, a bunch of different typefaces, they have an option, and we see the hobo one and we’re like, oh, that just feels right, you know. So you go with that and you reinforce this idea at a real pizza place to use hobo for a typeface. And so I think this connects directly to what we’re talking about with a static being important and to make it real and a good atimus, which I’m gonna start saying now, by the way, so you’re all kind of wow, is that same thing, right? Let’s say you’re building like a MacOS app. And you have this idea for it. If you create a design, just a picture, that’s like a fake screenshot that looks real, I think that there is a similar quality to that pizza you want. People are gonna look at it and they’re gonna feel like, oh damn, this can be real, you know, we can make this happen. That looks like a real thing. I didn’t think of that, right? So yeah, I think aesthetics and presentation, and that mapping that to like your heroes and your ambitions, I think it’s super important for people to feel that this is possible, you know, and to drive the energy you were talking about, Mark. 00:32:58 - Speaker 3: This reminds me of another quick story here of kind of aesthetic and emotionally driven play session. A long time ago at Hiroku, we had an issue with the command line client being very slow, and I was very frustrated with it, and I wanted to have a faster client. So I undertook this playful project of just trying to make a very fast Hoku client that kind of only does Hello World, like it just lists your apps, but does it fast. And that ended up not really going anywhere, but by undertaking that project, I discovered Go, and then eventually will go by example, and now we use Go for some of our server stuff, and that’s a whole world that I never would have been introduced to if I hadn’t just kind of followed my nose up. It would be cool if even with relaxing the constraint that eventually needs to shift to production. 00:33:36 - Speaker 1: Wait, are you behind Gobi sample? Oh yeah, man, I love that. Oh, that’s funny. Oh, that’s brilliant. Yeah. Oh, that’s fantastic, yeah. 00:33:44 - Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually use this as a bit of, I think of it as the mark publishing style, which is static HTML, maybe a little bit of, I don’t know, did you even have some kind of like template or build script for the basic site, but otherwise it’s this very almost I call brutalist HTML but a very effective design in the sense that it has the side by side code and description, if I’m remembering correctly. And yeah, it’s this very kind of sleek, it loads fast because it’s a static site, it probably still works fine now with zero maintenance, and we were certainly inspired by that, both for the you can switch articles and later all the muse stuff. I’m just basically seeing the way that Mark does kind of HTML publishing of these essentially kind of a mini book on the web, was very influential for me and everything I’ve done subsequently. 00:34:35 - Speaker 1: Hm. In an interesting way, I think go by example is playful, right? It seems to be very uniform, right? And I think that uniformity creates this, rather than create, I think it removes some anxiety around navigation. A lot of the web, I think, has this problem of creating anxiety around like, The user interface because everything is different, right? It’s like you you jumping between different planets. Anyhow, I think what makes go by example playful is that I’m guessing here and I’m extrapolating mostly from my own experience with using it. Like, when you’re in the mode of using it or visiting it, you are exploring, right? Otherwise you probably wouldn’t be visiting it, or you are there for entertainment, right, which is kind of playful too, as we talked about. So I think that there’s this category of things that They look and smell like pure utilities. They’re very uniform, they might seem boring, but they really are these like enablers or pieces of a puzzle for playfulness. 00:35:29 - Speaker 3: Yeah, and I also think that’s often an origin story, so maybe we can use this as a way to learn more about your project where, you know, one lens on these projects is, you know, it’s a way to learn a programming language. That doesn’t sound very interesting. But the other lens is it’s the result of a path that someone walked down around the change they wanted to see in the world. So likewise for your project Playbi, you could describe it as someone’s building a new operating system, another one of those, right? But there’s much more to it in terms of where you’re coming from and why you’re building this and how you’re approaching it. So maybe you can tell us a little bit about Playbit. 00:35:59 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so this, like many things, there was no eureka moments, which is interesting, I think you guys have talked about that on the show previously. The slow hunch, the slow hunch, yeah, exactly. So this very much is what happened with Playbit. So for years and years, probably over 10 years, you know, I’ve been interested in operating systems and systems. This is one of these things that I’ve learned about myself that what I find really fun and exciting to work on in terms of software are things that enable a lot of people to make things with them, right? So tools, in other words, I mean, you guys are there with me. And so I started thinking about MacO 9, it’s so tight, you know, it’s so nice. Windows 2000 came around, I was like, wow, it’s so snappy. Anyhow, fast forwarding a little bit. MacOS 10, I think is just like this wonderful amazing operating system. And this very interesting point in time in 2001 or 2002 or so, when Mac was 10.1 or so is the first kind of usable version of it, started getting some traction. I think what happened was that this is probably mostly accidental, but You got these people who were really interested in kind of moldable, malleable software and like poking at things, hacking at things, and they were using BSD and Linux and stuff, right? And they had to give up a good user experience and sure people have different opinions about this, but this is my opinion. 00:37:19 - Speaker 2: I was a Linux on the desktop user for many years and Many things I really loved about it, but I do not miss fighting with getting the Wi Fi chip working or wake from sleep or editing. I spent so many hours of my life editing XOg.com trying to get the resolution to match the refresh rate of my monitor or whatever. And that’s the kind of pain you’re willing to go through for this hackable interface. And yet, my experience was the same. I landed on Mac OS eventually because it gave me so much of that Unix underpinning that’s very kind of powerful and moldable uh with also good hardware integration. 00:37:57 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that’s right, that Linux traditionally and still today at least the Linux kernel is most distributions, right, is configuration over convention, whereas Mark, you were talking about Go briefly and Go is sort of like the opposite of that. I’m, I’m a huge fan of Go, like the way it’s designed as a programming language too, but in particular the way it went about the design, where it’s convention over configuration, and we can talk more about that later. But I think what happened was that you have that one part, right, of people who are really interested like you had um of the moldability of software and like the ability to fully customize your computing experience. And then on the other hand, you have people who want to use a computer and be efficient as users of a computer, right? And before MacOS 10, I think you had to make a choice. You had to say, I’m gonna use Windows or Mac OS 9. I’m not gonna be able to do this like multiple hackable stuff. I can do some basic programming or whatever, or I’m gonna do that stuff, but I’m gonna live with all this pain, right? And that quiz 10 came around and it’s like, hey, you know what, you can have both, right? And so, what I think happened was that you got people who knew how to bend and to mold computers and software in the same place as people who were very efficient and effective, and curious and playful around things like design and getting things done, and had real needs, right? And sort of that’s some biases there, I think is what drove Mac OS to become such a successful platform in terms of application quality, right? You just go and look at evidence of this, right? You go and look at a lot of web apps that are trying to mimic desktop apps. In most cases you will find them using metaphors and sometimes even a statics from Macan. It’s pretty rare that you find these things that are in the absence of a native host to mimic Windows, right? Anyhow, so that happened. I think that was very interesting. It’s clear to me now that that is a slowly dying thing, right? Macco is 10:15, you can’t use the VM Nets thing unless you have a special signed certificate from Apple that you can. To get if you’re like become a partner with them, right? You actually cannot run it, even as the owner of the computer, you cannot use it, right? Sure, you can be roots, right? You can pseudo and use it, whatever, but you can’t make any apps using it. And Mac OS 11, takes that to the next step, right? And that’s fine. Anyhow. So, in the context of all of these things, I think that there is going to be a need, right, in terms of like allowing people to keep being playful and exploring. Software at this sort of like more, I own a desktop computer. I want to be able to like do crazy shit with it, even if that means breaking it, right? And so I started thinking a few years ago, I was saying to myself that I’m gonna put a bet that in the next 10 years, there’s not gonna be a Mac OS 10 more, and Apple is just gonna be about iOS. And I think that’s, I’m still believing that. And what then, right? Is there gonna be sort of a Linux based desktop thing that emerges? Is Windows kind of like, finally. Start like a skunkworks team somewhere. They’re just like, let’s throw out like 95% of all the crap and build that. I don’t know. So I was like, should I try to do something about this? It’s really hard to build a business, I think, around the idea of an operating system, especially replacing Windows MacOs, which are just so good, right? They’re just so good and asking someone to just replace that with something is a big ask. 00:41:24 - Speaker 2: Well, maybe the way I would characterize it actually is less about good or not and more just the amount of stuff that needs to go into what people would consider a modern operating system today ranging from hardware support to networking to languages and various kinds of input devices and so on and APIs and the ability to run software and browse the web. and so on is just so huge that it is not something that an individual or even a startup can easily undertake. Hence, it’s only within reach of these incumbents that have these large existing platforms and the rare case of maybe something like Google and ChromoS being able to come in and throw quite a lot of resources and quite a lot of time at the problem. 00:42:09 - Speaker 1: But I think even in the case of Chromois, you would end up in the same place, I think, right? You would have business and money driving the main incentives, right, of like, well, if we make this work for everyone and anyone, we can just make a ton of money and then You have these competing incentives, and more importantly, competing sort of like constraints on those, right? You’re gonna need sandboxing, you’re gonna need all of these safety features, right? You’re not gonna allow people to like mess around with the OS because then most people are not gonna like know what they’re doing, right? And so I think the only way to go about this is to not trying to build an operating system or computing environment that fulfills all the expectations we have. But rather to just change our expectations or offer sort of like a, imagine like a picture on the wall, right? It’s a big picture is very complicated. And you’re very familiar with this picture, and now you’re putting a smaller picture, a much simpler picture next to it on the wall. And you say, you know, you can walk around, you can look at the simple picture, still have this big picture. And I think like, offering this idea of like, what if we shift our expectations a little bit, right? Maybe we do that just in the mode of playful software. So where Playbit started out was as more of an ambitious idea of an actual operating system. And ideas of, you know, I have like a GPU and stuff like that on a remote computer and people has time shared this because GPUs, there’s a kind of, I think a very important slightly concerning environmental impact. And right now we’ve seen this with all the foundry issues, right? And, you know, TSM and stuff like that, right? Like having issues creating ships, right? Because rare earth’s limitations, and this is mostly, you know, impacted by COVID and stuff like that, to my understanding, but still, you buy like an Nvidia high-end GPU today, and it’s very possible that a year from now, you’re gonna have to replace it with a new one, right? Because that industry has moved so quickly. And how often are you gonna use all that power, right? Probably not all the time, right? You’re gonna use that in virt a little here and there. So there’s this crazy shirt on hardware, especially if you’re in the PC world, right? Macs tend to have a longer lifetime, I think. And now I’m talking about like high end kind of high-end hardware. So this is kind of where I started and I got a lot of feedback from a lot of people who I was speaking with to try to understand, you know, and try to navigate what this would mean, and if this was crazy, and I think it was kind of like, it’s probably a little too early, and I think the approach to making this kind of change needs to happen differently. And so, through a pretty slow boil and slow process of just doing a lot of iteration, what is playbit sort of like just came out of this. So the very concretely, I think that Playbit is probably more similar to a web browser or Flash, technologically speaking. And, you know, jump in here if I’m taking this too far or there’s any curiosities to it, but I think the web is successful for a couple of different reasons, right? But one of the reasons is this uniform programming environment, this uniform runtime environment. You know, if I make this little like web program, right, and I tossed it over to you, you can use pretty much any OS, any web browser, and I have a pretty good idea that C is gonna run the same way for you. And this wasn’t always true. I think in the last 10 years this is kind of solidified to be like pretty much true. And I think that’s really remarkable, right? 00:45:32 - Speaker 2: I’ll add on to that, that, yeah, not only does it fulfill the right ones run anywhere, it was a dream of a lot of platform technologies including Flash and Java and so on, but it does it in a way that is sort of instantaneous to download and run. And then, by far the most important part of it, I think, is the sandboxing. It really gets that right. I can completely trust my program to download a program from a website. A website is a program now, a very sophisticated one potentially with all the JavaScript can do. And I can trust that I can just point my browser to URL that I don’t know who’s on the other side of that, and it will download and run that because the sandboxing is essentially perfect within that tab. It can’t go out and access the rest of my computing device. As far as I know, no other computing environment has achieved that. 00:46:23 - Speaker 1: Well, I’d say the Flash did achieve that, and I think that Flash was really brilliant in many different ways. The demise of Flash, I think, has reasons that are really unrelated to its user experience or development experience is mostly, you know, kind of a monolith owned by a single corporation, right? But the model, yeah, think about Flash or think about the web, I think it’s kind of the same thing. That model is really interesting to me and I think the one. Piece of the foundation for creating a culture where you feel empowered to play around with software and to make little fun programs is some sort of safety. And I think that’s what the sandbox does. The good part of a sandbox that you’re talking about Adam is I’m never writing perfect code, right? I’m gonna do something and I’m gonna run it and maybe like delete all the things, right? If I run it on a sandbox, it’s just gonna delete all the things in the sandbox, not, you know, my passport from a Dropbox or something like that. So, I think that’s the good part of the sandbox. The bad part, of course, is like, when you want to do something interesting, like, let’s say you have a photo sensor or something connected to a USB and you want to access that, you can’t, and you’re be damn it. And that’s why you have to jump out of if you’re like a web developer, you have to just be, well, I can’t use web for, right? And then usually you’re outside of a sandbox and there’s no sandbox. And in the last couple of years, there’s been this kind of advancement with virtualization, and virtualization sometimes is Mixed up or messed up with like emulation or the idea of like a virtual machine, right? It’s a virtual machine I would think of as a super set of emulation and virtualization. So emulation, when you run a program like let’s say like a Nintendo emulator, right? You have this program that appears to have the original Nest CPU and did they have a co-processor, I can’t remember. And DSP and all these like actual hardware things, right? So the program inside that you load it up things that is running on this hardware and stuff right there. Whereas virtualization is this idea of running the program in a way so that it’s environment, not necessarily it’s hardware, but it’s environment, appears to be that of a unique computer, right? And this is kind of how AWS and Google Cloud and all these things do it, right. And this has been around for quite a long time, probably about 20 years or so as a concept, and probably in the last 15 years it’s been increasingly like common to develop software doing this. Docker is like a popular kind of virtualization environment, right? And now you have these features built into Mac OS since 10.10. You have built into in Windows 10 with Hyper-V, you have it built in in Linux with KVM. And there’s similar things for a couple of other operating systems, right? And this has happened in the last few years. And so I was thinking that why not just make that the sandbox, right? So like, instead of making the sandbox be this, you know, there’s a DOM, right? And you have a JavaScript API and you have a fetch function, you have an array type, and so on, right? That’s sort of like the uniform runtime environment then, you know, you run that in Firefox or Chrome or Safari, that’s just kind of called completely different code, right? Implemented totally different ways, right? That’s sort of like the uniformity. Like what if that’s just like Linux and then, you know. So like when you run a program, instead of running it as JavaScript or something like that, you just run it as whatever programming language you want, you know, Mark can write in Go. And Adam, you can write in Ruby, and it’s like totally fine, you can interoperate. 00:50:01 - Speaker 2: Part of the appeal there is something like Flash. You have to use a very specific programming language and APIs through for the web as well. JavaScript is not a language a lot of people love and yet because you want to be on the web, you need to write things in JavaScript and using the web APIs. And so it sounds like this virtualization method lets you use more of the standard world of desktop computing or server computing tools, uh, but with some of those same benefits of the flash or web style sandbox. 00:50:32 - Speaker 1: Exactly. So you have the ability to think about it as this portable little box, right? As a zip file or whatever kind of metaphor you want to use. This little thing that you can copy, you can send to a friend, you can put it on a server, then you can suspend, and you can resume later. That I think is a very powerful concept. Like the idea that I can open a FIMA file or a notion document or something. And I can make some changes to it, and I just close it, right? I toss it away. I evicted from my computer, right? I clean up my work desk, and a week later I go back and it’s retains most of its state, right? I can pick up where I left off. Like, why can’t I have that on a lower level, like, in my experience on the computer? Why can’t that be like below where the windows are? Why is it just taps, right? Why is it not just entire apps or in my entire desktop? What if I had like, you know, 4 buttons on the side of my screen, right? And each button was like one of my different, this is not what I’m built, by the way, but I think this would be fun to have. What if, like, yeah, each button was mapped to one kind of VM in your computer. When you push the button, it’s instantly, like a millisecond swapped your entire computer to another one, then you have 4 computers at the reach of like a thumb, right? Yeah, so I think there now is a really good time to take this idea for a spin, and this is kind of like the technical approach to Playbit, what it is as a piece of software. And again, the goal of Playbit is not to build this piece of software. The goal of Playbit is to create and encourage like the development of small scale personal software. Maybe we can get into that more a little bit later. So like, when I’m building it right now and what I’m trying to get out in the next couple of months is kind of a Macintosh application, and I’m sure I can make a Windows app and Linux up and stuff. So Macintosh application, you start it up, and what it does is that it uses the the hypervisor of Mac OS and it boots up a Playbit OS which is this kind of based on the Linux kernel. It takes like 2 seconds or so to start it, and once it’s started inside there. You have this feature of Linux called namespaces, which you can use to create these kind of little isolated processes, right? So you can run a program and the program thinks that it’s like ha ha, I’m the operating system, I have all the power, and it kind of appears as that and it doesn’t have to be bothered about it and stuff like that. And those would be the little products that you would build and you would kind of play around with. They can crash, they can write stuff to disk, they can mess with the network. None of that is like leaking out to your real computer and not even to like the playbi OS. So the manifestation of it in the first attempt to creating a piece of software that encourages this playful thing, is this very resumable, very sort of like, Kind of stop and go, pick it up, leave it off type of software that you can play around with like today, like on your computer. And the runtime environment that you have is not the web platform, but it’s the Linux OS. So if you want to write things in in JavaScript, you can do that, right? If you want to write things and see, you can do that too. If you want interoperate between these two different things, you can just like write shit to the file system, right? You can use it as a database or you can build around an actual database if you want to. 00:53:47 - Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the reasons I was intrigued by Playbit is it seems to share this aesthetic I have around kind of collapsing the stack down. So I think it’s easiest to explain this in terms of its contrast. I feel like there’s this pathology with modern software systems where we keep adding layers and layers and layers, and that’s a few things. First of all, it tends to make it slower cause you’re going through a bunch of calls. It also tends to reduce your ability to do things because in order to have access to a feature as a programmer, that feature needs to thread through all the layers. So if any layer happens to drop or corrupt a feature, you’ve lost it. This happens a lot with graphics APIs because the original middle layers were designed for bitmaps, and then we changed it out to GPUs underneath. But then the middle layers haven’t kind of fully caught up, so you get this weird like impedance mismatch that means you don’t have access to the full power of the GPU. Anyways. And there’s also this element of you don’t understand what’s going on, because you’re kind of just casting the stone into 19 layers. Of libraries and, you know, who knows what it does, and that to me really interferes with my ability to play because I don’t kind of know what’s happening. I don’t have control over my environment. And I like these platforms, these operating system ideas where you squash that way down, you kind of start from scratch again. OK, we got name spaces and we got the GPU. What can you do now? Well, it turns out it’s a lot if you have a clean slate like that. I’m curious if that aesthetic sense resonates with what you’re trying to do with Playbit. 00:55:07 - Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. It’s so fun to hear you talk about this, Mark. Yeah, I think that this is very, very real, and it’s something that I care a lot about. I was really early on working and using like no JS and I thought that was very exciting. And I think what ended up happening with MPM I think it’s still like fantastic, you know, both a fantastic group of people and culture and all of that stuff. But by making it really easy to pile stuff on top of stuff, people are gonna do that, path of least resistance, right? That’s why you have like someone who says, oh, look at my web server, it’s just 12 lines of code, wink wink, and the wink is like this package adjacent file that says dependencies, long freaking list, and each of those have a long freaking list of dependencies. And it’s a quick deter to the sandbox thing that we were talking about, like, isn’t it kind of bonkers that like, we don’t dare installing this program on our computer and just run it because, you know, it might just go and delete our hard drive, right? But we’re totally fine. We’re just pulling in some like random ass like MPM packages, right? One of those can just go and like delete your whole hard drive or upload all of
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