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In an Oxide and Friends tradition, Bryan and Adam invite the community to share book recommendations.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on included Steve Klabnik, Tom Lyon, Ian Grunert, Owen Anderson, phillipov, makowski, and saethlin. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Elon Jet High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems by Southwick, Karen Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology by Paul Rabinow Sun Labs vs. SunSoft Water Fight 1992 Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town Hardcover by Stacy Horn Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust Kindle Edition by Alan Payne A History of Silicon Valley - Vol 1: The 20th Century Paperback by Piero Scaruffi H-E-B Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Arion Press) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Hardcover by Jill Lepore UNIVAC and the 1952 Presidential Election NPR: The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President Doom Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting by Judith Brett Bryan had a reading list for his wedding?! (his wife confirms) The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes Harp in the South by Ruth Park Cloudstreet by Tim Winton Death of the Lucky Country by Donald Horne 30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey Leviathan by John Birmingham The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes Barbarians Led by Bill Gates by Jennifer Edstrom and, Marlin Eller Murray Sargent's account of how his Scroll Screen Tracer got Windows to work in protected mode Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan DeviceScript Washington: A Life by Chernow California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein Acts of the Apostles: Mind over Matter: Volume Blue by John F.X. Sundman Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. Bass The Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas by Thomas A Bass Some of the other books mentioned in the Discord channel: Herr aller Dinge/Lord of All Things by Andreas Eschbach Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine Blunt The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Hardcover by Gregory Zuckerman The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street by Thomas A. Bass The Eudaemonic Pie: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took On Las Vegas by Thomas A Bass Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman It's a Nonlinear World by Richard H. Enns Not technically books, but suggested reading nonetheless by folks in Discord: The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President by Steve Henn, NPR How a brilliant debugger (Scroll Screen Tracer by Murray Sargent) turned Windows OS into the IBM OS/2 crusher and gave Microsoft its killer product. DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices Bob and Ray | Slow Talkers of America | Audio Recording (YouTube) Ursula K. Le Guin The Maintenance Race by Stewart Brand If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

When a constitution reaches a crisis, should amendments be made to address it?  That's what happens in many constitutional democracies around the world, but the United States has not had a constitutional amendment for thirty years. Article V of the U.S. Constitution, requiring two thirds of both houses of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states to amend it, makes our constitution nearly impossible to change in the twenty-first century. In Episode 5 on Article V, Constitutional Crisis Hotline explores alternative amendment processes from other constitutional democracies as well as the history of amending and failing to amend) the U.S. Constitution.Zachary Elkins is Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas-Austin.  Professor Elkins' research focuses on issues of democracy, institutional reform, research methods, and national identity. He is co-author of The Endurance of National Constitutions, and is working on a new book,Steal this Constitution: The Drift and Mastery of Constitutional Design. Professor Elkins co-directs both the Comparative Constitutions Project, a NSF-funded initiative to understand the causes and consequences of constitutional choices, and the website Constitute, which provides resources and analysis for constitutional drafters in new democracies. Jill Lepore is David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker Magazine, where she writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is the author of many award-winning books, including the international bestseller, These Truths: A History of the United States(2018). Her latest book is IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future,, longlisted for the National Book Award. She is currently working on a study of the history of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution, and is the director of the Amend Project. Discussed in this episode: Jill Lepore's recent essay, “The United States' Unamendable Constitution,” The New Yorker, Oct. 26, 2022Law professors' draft of a new amendment rule for the United States, Article VIII of The Democracy Constitution, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, June 2021 (and Julie's justification of it, in “Opening the Paths of Constitutional Change”)

Today we bring you a selection of conversations from the Portland Book Festival. Dave Miller spoke with Ruth Ozeki about her latest novel “The Book of Form and Emptiness.” We also listen back to a conversation from last year's book festival between OPB's Anna Griffin and Jill Lepore, author of “If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future.”

Off the Shelf Radio Show - July 16th, 2021 Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts George Needham and Nicole Fowles. Our special guest this week is Karen Cowan from the Friends of the Library. We also discuss the Penguin program happening next week. You can see information about the drives here and sign up for the program here. Recommendations include Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Red and If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lapore. Read more about today's episode here. Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM https://wdlrradio.com/program-schedule/off-the-shelf/  This episode originally aired on July 16, 2021

In conversation with Jill Lepore, historian and bestselling and award-winning author of These Truths: A History of the United States, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, and If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future--among many other works. Leading Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University and a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Elizabeth Hinton is one of the country's foremost experts on policing, racial inequality, and criminalization. She is the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, and her articles and essays have been published in The Atlantic, The Nation, and Time, among other places. Professor Hinton's ''groundbreaking, deeply researched and profoundly heart-rending account'' (New York Times Book Review) of police violence inflicted upon Black Americans, America on Fire explains the history of Black rebellions as a response to police violence throughout the U.S. since the 1960s and warns that rebellions will continue until society stops calling on the police and begins changing our oppressive systems. Books are available through the Joseph Fox Bookshop (recorded 6/21/2021)

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

Can Disinformation Be Stopped? Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube Picks: Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine Ant - Lupin on Netflix Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Joan - Meme War Weekly Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Joan Donovan 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: udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75 untuckit.com and use code TWIT att.com/activearmor

In this episode we talk to Dr Simon Roberts, business anthropologist and Partner at Stripe Partners, a strategy and innovation consultancy based in London. He's also the author of The Power of Not Thinking. Simon was a keynote at our inaugural summit. And Stripe Partners sponsored both the 2019 and 2020 events.During our conversation, Simon shares how he started out as a business anthropologist. We talk about his 2018 article, The UX-ification of Research in which he decried the fact that research is being squeezed into a new temporal rhythm — being thoughtful is out, speed is in — and how optimistic he feels now, at a time of economic crisis, when budgets are being squeezed.We also talk about the office, now that working from home is a reality for most of us for the foreseeable future, and how do we utilise offices to do what they do best.We discuss his article, The Age of the Ear, in which he calls for a deep understanding of how people experience the aural dimensions of life. Which leads us to think about embodiment, the subject of his book, and embodied computing more generally.Lastly, Simon shares a couple of his favourite reads from 2020.We hope you enjoy the show.Mentioned in our conversation:‘The Big Shift': Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on PrivacyWe will miss the office if it dies. Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times, May 15 2020.The rise and fall of the office, Henry Mance, Financial Times, May 15 2020.James Rebanks: nature is my office, come rain or shine, Financial Times, December 29 2020.If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore; Caste by Isabel Wilkerson; These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore; India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha; Unchartered: How to Map the Future by Margaret Hefferman; and Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. 

The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge―decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company's papers in MIT's archives and set out to tell this forgotten history, the long-lost backstory to the methods, and the arrogance, of Silicon Valley.Founded in 1959 by some of the nation's leading social scientists―“the best and the brightest, fatally brilliant, Icaruses with wings of feathers and wax, flying to the sun”―Simulmatics proposed to predict and manipulate the future by way of the computer simulation of human behavior. In summers, with their wives and children in tow, the company's scientists met on the beach in Long Island under a geodesic, honeycombed dome, where they built a “People Machine” that aimed to model everything from buying a dishwasher to counterinsurgency to casting a vote. Deploying their “People Machine” from New York, Washington, Cambridge, and even Saigon, Simulmatics' clients included the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign, the New York Times, the Department of Defense, and others: Simulmatics had a hand in everything from political races to the Vietnam War to the Johnson administration's ill-fated attempt to predict race riots. The scientists of Simulmatics believed they had invented “the A-bomb of the social sciences.” They did not predict that it would take decades to detonate, like a long-buried grenade. But, in the early years of the twenty-first century, that bomb did detonate, creating a world in which corporations collect data and model behavior and target messages about the most ordinary of decisions, leaving people all over the world, long before the global pandemic, crushed by feelings of helplessness. This history has a past; If Then is its cautionary tale.Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, and host of the podcast, The Last Archive. Her many books include These Truths: A History of the United States(2018),an international bestseller and was named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of the decade. (A recent essay considers responses to the book.) Her latest book, IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, is available on September 15, 2020.danah boyd is founder and president of Data & Society, a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, and a visiting professor at New York University. Her research is focused on making certain that society has a nuanced understanding of the relationship between technology and society, especially as issues of inequity and bias emerge. More on boyd here.