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This week, we discuss the ever expanding CNCF Landscape, bundling and unbundling, and the latest cloud earnings. Plus, some thoughts on soap dispensers in Europe vs. U.S. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pg_rXxn1YQ) 454 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pg_rXxn1YQ) Runner-up Titles Are we streaming. I have the whole earth to roam, so I'm not going to get space madness. If you watch it long enough every movie represents all of life. The sound track to walking the dog. At least it's open source. The Magic Quadrant of Fashion. I guess everyone's cool? What pair of pants do I need? The AirPods Pro pocket. Go down the metaphor hole. I was eating steak, and now I'm eating OpenTofu. Not good, but good enough. The Metaphor Hole Rundown CNCF Landscape (https://landscape.cncf.io) Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/02/bundling-unbundling-and-enshtification.html) (Cloudcast Pod) Earnings Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/meta-beats-sales-forecast-estimates-announces-first-dividend) Amazon Projects Profit Topping Estimates on Further Cost Cutting (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/amazon-projectsprofit-topping-estimates-on-further-cost-cutting) Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-2224-cloud-giants?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=141292535&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email) Alphabet: Cloud Rebounds (https://www.appeconomyinsights.com/p/alphabet-cloud-rebounds?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective (https://platformonomics.com/2024/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2023-retrospective/) Relevant to your Interests Shift Happens: A book about keyboards (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens) Broadcom's strategy ignores most VMware customers (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/broadcom_strategy_vmware_customer_impact/) Allen Institute for AI releases ‘truly open source' LLM to drive ‘critical shift' in AI development (https://venturebeat.com/ai/truly-open-source-llm-from-ai2-to-drive-critical-shift-in-ai-development/) OLMo - Open Language Model by AI2 (https://allenai.org/olmo) Threads is growing steadily with more than 130M monthly actives. (https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C20tMr8Pjeh/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024 (https://snyk.io/blog/leaky-vessels-docker-runc-container-breakout-vulnerabilities/) From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding (https://fortune.com/longform/failed-unicorn-startups-billion-dollar-valuation-unicorpses/) Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office mandate (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/03/dell_return_to_work/?td=rt-3a) Weaveworks shuts down (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richardsonalexis_hi-everyone-i-am-very-sad-to-announce-activity-7160295096825860096-ZS67?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) A Giant Reborn: Satya Nadella's Decade as Microsoft CEO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KzIKFpKZKM) Is the $139 Amazon Prime Subscription Still Worth It? (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/is-the-139-amazon-prime-subscription-still-worth-it-83a597c7?reflink=integratedwebview_share) Everbridge Agrees to $1.5B Buyout Offer From Thoma Bravo (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/everbridge-agrees-to-1-5b-buyout-offer-from-thoma-bravo-179db224?mod=newsviewer_click) Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork (https://www.wsj.com/articles/adam-neumann-looks-to-buy-back-wework-86ee5f2b) NinjaOne Notches $1.9 Billion Valuation in Deal Led By Iconiq (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/ninjaone-notches-1-9-billion-valuation-in-deal-led-by-iconiq) YouTube TV says it has more than 8 million subscribers (https://www.axios.com/2024/02/06/youtube-tv-subscribers-cable-satellite) Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup. (https://twitter.com/alexrkonrad/status/1755278551828300162?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A) ESPN, Fox, WBD shake up media with plans for new sports streaming service (https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/02/06/ESPN-Disney-Warner-Bros-Discovery-Fox-pay-joint-streaming-service) Arm shares surge 48% after SoftBank-controlled chip designer issues strong forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/08/arm-shares-soar-after-reporting-strong-earnings-and-forecast.html) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-dollars-to-reshape-business-of-chips-and-ai-89ab3db0?page=1) Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe” (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/epic-working-with-disney-on-new-gaming-universe-after-1-5b-investment/) Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering (https://www.thestack.technology/dynatrace-hits-1-4-billion-arr-grabs-customers-from-appdynamics-aims-to-grow-logs-offering/) Google and Yahoo Are Cracking Down on Inbox Spam. Don't Expect Less Email Marketing. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-and-yahoo-are-cracking-down-on-inbox-spam-dont-expect-less-email-marketing-dd124c19) Cloudflare's crowd-sources another patent troll case victory (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/cloudflare_patent_troll/) (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup (https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/) 2024 State of Internal Developer Portals | Port (https://www.getport.io/state-of-internal-developer-portals) Amazon's Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing (https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazons-cloud-crisis-how-aws-will?ck_subscriber_id=1141233388) Yandex: The end of an era for Russia's most innovative firm (https://en.thebell.io/yandex-the-end-of-an-era-for-russias-most-innovative-firm/) How Mastodon made friends with Meta (https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/?ref=platformer-newsletter) The Vision Pro (https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/the_vision_pro) Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple's Vision Pro at launch (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/31/24057122/microsoft-apple-vision-pro-office-apps-microsoft-365) Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/31/24057392/apple-vision-pro-battery-lightning-cable) Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/tim-cook-apple-vision-pro?mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=vf) the thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvkgmyfMPks) Working in the Vision Pro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9Xy6L_rlM) Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro's Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-05/forgot-your-apple-vision-pro-s-passcode-you-may-have-to-take-it-back-to-store) Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68215614) Nonsense Cynical book summaries (https://www.plg.news/p/aoapm-002-cynical-book-summaries) H-E-B's North Texas impact starting to become clear across groceries, real estate (https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/h-e-b-stores-north-texas-impact-starting-to-become-clear-across-groceries-real-estate/287-86836f22-e000-4d67-83d7-42e66ac01542?fbclid=IwAR1feOapOO7kMdv-xH3oBATelXpoKvf2ioNJEGt5MUzvA_X8C4nYMYPNquI_aem_AUUb7ZEwow8o6qAELGm8Xwb8eYCBdezDAdIpe-9nCSanh6MKQWpd8RIZRqMgBJekf6U#ls972nf7ju9xufblh6q) The 10 Best-Selling Vehicles in America in 2023 (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/best-selling-vehicles-in-america-in-2023/) One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking (https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/quora-what-happened-ai-decline.html) Stanley Made Reusable Cups Huge. Now It Has to Make Them Sustainable (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/stanley-made-reusable-cups-huge-now-it-has-to-make-them-sustainable) Most accurate video I've ever seen (https://x.com/anothercohen/status/1756181201847509392?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A) Listener Feedback Brian recommends Subprime Attention Crisis (https://www.audible.com/pd/Subprime-Attention-Crisis-Audiobook/0593454103?ref_pageloadid=Dsqv0n17FOwUqOpK&ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_0593454103_0&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=7C4TQFGZXK856S6W40BH&pageLoadId=Fo0QcV8X3KEf9ys4&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225) Andrew recommends the Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SJ8SQ6Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share) Conferences SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté's hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming). If you're an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:cote@broadcom.com) if you want to hear more about it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us: Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/softwaredefinedtalk.com), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk), Threads (https://www.threads.net/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured). Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté's book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Recommendations Brandon: Chamberlain Smart Garage Control (https://www.myq.com/products/smart-garage-control) Matt: FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: OpenCost — We Spent How Much? (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/07/floss-weekly-episode-769-opencost-we-spent-how-much/) Coté: chocolate covered dates at Tree of Dates (https://maps.app.goo.gl/QRc9Zj89cn4CZmMbA). Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-row-of-books-sitting-on-top-of-a-shelf-HqA7l8IbhmY) Artwork by Google Gemini

This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 451 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CnW_RciZ4) Runner-up Titles Enshittification The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization Wait for Wifi Taxes by beef rib It's actually not fine Smoking crack in Disneyland AI is accelerating the crappiness. Why don't you just sell more cloud? Generated Garbage I can't tell if it's a coffee mug or a ballistic missile. Accidentally upgraded Jury duty…”pretty cool.” Rundown Airalo (https://www.airalo.com/spain-esim) for mobile cell phones plans when traveling. How Google perfected the web (https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization) AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To (https://adnauseam.io/) Subprime Attention Crisis (https://www.audible.com/pd/Subprime-Attention-Crisis-Audiobook/0593454103?ref_pageloadid=Dsqv0n17FOwUqOpK&ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_0593454103_0&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=7C4TQFGZXK856S6W40BH&pageLoadId=Fo0QcV8X3KEf9ys4&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225) 2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification” (https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/#:~:text=Sheraton%20New%20York%20Times%20Square,of%20the%20Year%20for%202023) Instagram's co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036539/artifact-shutting-down-kevin-systrom) Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/) Relevant to your Interests Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/15/cloud_providers_gpu_analysis/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_reshare_feed-article-content) Creating a Sales Commission Plan (https://open.substack.com/pub/onlycfo/p/creating-a-sales-commission-plan?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post) The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org (https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/) Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/broadcom_vmware_channel_disruption/) VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift (https://www.thestack.technology/vmware-is-killing-off-56-products-including-vsphere-hypervisor-and-nsx/?ref=the-stack-newsletter) Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition (https://kitsonjonathon.substack.com/p/taming-the-dragon-chinese-and-us) ‘I dreamed of blocky pixels': the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures (https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/jan/20/strange-sweaty-sociable-early-days-of-gaming-in-pictures) Lofree Flow (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/20/Lofree-Flow) — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home (https://www.nj.com/essex/2024/01/remembering-bell-labs-as-legendary-idea-factory-prepares-to-leave-nj-home.html) IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/ibm_consulting_office/) Apple Dials Back Car's Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-23/apple-car-ev-set-to-debut-in-2028-with-limited-autonomous-driving) Introducing Docker Build Cloud (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxPwXfmwHU) It's time to build (https://open.substack.com/pub/benn/p/its-time-to-build?selection=0c874398-fde8-45be-b547-f51d3c6a7c93&r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios) "And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it." (https://x.com/JoannaStern/status/1748354349116301487?s=20) For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/remembering_lotus_notes/) Campfire is ONCE #1 (https://world.hey.com/dhh/campfire-is-once-1-d2cebd12) Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian (https://www.atlassian.com/blog/distributed-work/distributed-work-report) Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/10/bosses-want-to-work-remote-more-than-employees-but-still-push-return-to-office.html) Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work (https://fortune-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/fortune.com/2023/10/14/nvidia-skips-return-to-office-sticks-to-remote-work-among-hottest-tech-companies/amp/) Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech (https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-new-normal-constant-layoffs-job-cuts-google-amazon-meta-2024-1) Culture Change at Google (https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/) Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction (https://www.threads.net/@marcslove/post/C2Y7qCPu6Gz/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story? (https://om.co/2024/01/22/bell-labs-google-same-sad-story/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) Mourning Google (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024) Nonsense We lost some real stars this past year (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8p6Tsv6/) Startups Are Shutting Down! (https://youtu.be/-V9yPGdubHQ) It's Just a Water Bottle (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/stanley-cups-valentines-day-target-starbucks/677190/) Listener Feedback Robert recomends the Zojirushi SM-SR48E Stainless Mug (https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/smsre) Conferences That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8) CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) — Coté speaking. The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 (https://stateofopencon.com) SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available. KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! 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Recommendations Brandon: Travis County Jury Duty (https://www.traviscountytx.gov/district-clerk/jury-duty) Matt: Perplexity.AI (https://www.perplexity.ai) Coté: Kantjil & De Tijger (https://maps.app.goo.gl/GC11U6FpGsoQ9A1b8?g_st=ic) or Kartika (https://maps.app.goo.gl/VqSxkb5m2zVdugLz7?g_st=ic) — which is also good and less fancy in a good way. Photo Credits Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/flat-screen-monitor-z1aLTzG2VGU) Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/flat-screen-monitor-z1aLTzG2VGU)

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/downstream/60 http://relay.fm/downstream/60 You Heard It Here First 60 Jason Snell and Julia Alexander The fate of Paramount Global hangs in the balance, and our favorites of the year. [Downstream+ subscribers get an extra half hour, including RSN collapses and potential streaming solutions, and our predictions for 2024.] The fate of Paramount Global hangs in the balance, and our favorites of the year. [Downstream+ subscribers get an extra half hour, including RSN collapses and potential streaming solutions, and our predictions for 2024.] clean 2807 The fate of Paramount Global hangs in the balance, and our favorites of the year. [Downstream+ subscribers get an extra half hour, including RSN collapses and potential streaming solutions, and our predictions for 2024.] This episode of Downstream is sponsored by: Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Links and Show Notes: Favorite movies: "Godzilla Minus One" (JA) and "Oppenheimer" (JS) Favorite TV shows: "Succession" (JA) and either "The Bear" or "Strange New Worlds" (JS) Favorite books: The Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma, and Hiroshima by John Hersey (JA) and The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler and My Murder by Katie Williams (JS) Get Downstream+ and don't miss a segment! Submit Feedback What Is Paramount Actually Worth? - Puck Puck on X: "Puck is getting into the business of sports with John Ourand (@Ourand_SBJ). Join the waitlist to receive his forthcoming private email: https://t.co/eXEnLgF2vj" / X Mavericks and Streaming Cortex #150: 2024 Yearly Themes - Relay FM (3) Your Theme - YouTube Paramount's Sale, YouTube's Trojan Horse &

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/downstream/60 http://relay.fm/downstream/60 Jason Snell and Julia Alexander The fate of Paramount Global hangs in the balance, and our favorites of the year. [Downstream+ subscribers get an extra half hour, including RSN collapses and potential streaming solutions, and our predictions for 2024.] The fate of Paramount Global hangs in the balance, and our favorites of the year. [Downstream+ subscribers get an extra half hour, including RSN collapses and potential streaming solutions, and our predictions for 2024.] clean 2807 The fate of Paramount Global hangs in the balance, and our favorites of the year. [Downstream+ subscribers get an extra half hour, including RSN collapses and potential streaming solutions, and our predictions for 2024.] This episode of Downstream is sponsored by: Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Links and Show Notes: Favorite movies: "Godzilla Minus One" (JA) and "Oppenheimer" (JS) Favorite TV shows: "Succession" (JA) and either "The Bear" or "Strange New Worlds" (JS) Favorite books: The Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma, and Hiroshima by John Hersey (JA) and The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler and My Murder by Katie Williams (JS) Get Downstream+ and don't miss a segment! Submit Feedback What Is Paramount Actually Worth? - Puck Puck on X: "Puck is getting into the business of sports with John Ourand (@Ourand_SBJ). Join the waitlist to receive his forthcoming private email: https://t.co/eXEnLgF2vj" / X Mavericks and Streaming Cortex #150: 2024 Yearly Themes - Relay FM (3) Your Theme - YouTube Paramount's Sale, YouTube's Tro

Mark Zuckerberg used advertising to turn Facebook into the first global social media giant, boasting 3bn users around the world. But today there are questions about the business model that has powered it for the past 15 years, and what Zuckerberg's new focus on building the Metaverse means for the platform that started it all. Elaine Moore speaks to veteran Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee, one-time advisor to Zuckerberg; writer and researcher Tim Hwang, author of Subprime Attention Crisis; and Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired and author of Facebook: The Inside Story. Meta declined a request for an interview for this episode, but directed us to their Q1 2023 earnings.Presented by Elaine Moore. Produced by Edwin Lane and Josh Gabert-Doyon, Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. The FT's head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Hannah MurphyClips: Meta, US Senate.We're keen to hear more from our listeners about this show and want to know what you'd like to hear more of, so we're running a survey that you can find at ft.com/techtonicsurvey. It takes about 10 minutes to complete and you will be in with a chance of winning a pair of Bose QuietComfort earbuds.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Zuckerberg used advertising to turn Facebook into the first global social media giant, boasting 3bn users around the world. But today there are questions about the business model that has powered it for the past 15 years, and what Zuckerberg's new focus on building the Metaverse means for the platform that started it all. Elaine Moore speaks to veteran Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee, one-time advisor to Zuckerberg; writer and researcher Tim Hwang, author of Subprime Attention Crisis; and Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired and author of Facebook: The Inside Story. Meta declined a request for an interview for this episode, but directed us to their Q1 2023 earnings.Presented by Elaine Moore. Produced by Edwin Lane and Josh Gabert-Doyon, Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. The FT's head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Hannah MurphyClips: Meta, US Senate.We're keen to hear more from our listeners about this show and want to know what you'd like to hear more of, so we're running a survey that you can find at ft.com/techtonicsurvey. It takes about 10 minutes to complete and you will be in with a chance of winning a pair of Bose QuietComfort earbuds.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What was the first ever internet ad? When was the last time someone actually clicked on one? What happened to all the proper ads with catchy jingles?Today Dallas investigates one of the most infuriating aspects of modern life, online advertising. We discover how they started and the mind-boggling ways they work.Is it possible that online advertising is a bubble that will one day burst? A world without online ads might sound appealing until you consider all the free services they underwrite, from emails, to search engines, to this very podcast (please don't skip the ads guys!).Our guest today is Tim Hwang author of the book Subprime Attention Crisis.Produced by Freddy Chick, edited by Aidan Lonergan. The Executive Producer is Charlotte Long.If you'd like to learn even more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad-free podcasts, and audiobooks at History Hit - enter promo code PATENTED for a free trial, plus 50% off your first three months' subscription. To download, go to Android or Apple store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/finance

In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

David Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Talking Politics. In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, he speaks to Alina Utrata about why corporations are robots, how singularity might have already come about, why we should think seriously about the political philosophy of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, and what technologies he worries about in the future.You can follow, Alina Utrata on Twitter @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XAll episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4 For more articles, sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XArticles mentioned in this podcastSilicon Valley's Vampire: David Runciman on Peter ThielI read Dominic Cummings blog so you don't have to: David Runciman on Dominic CummingsElon Musk, Sea Turtles and the dangers of long-termismDangerous ideas of longtermismNick Clegg in profile in Politico The Evening Rocket: Jill Lepore's podcast series on Elon Musk's ideologyA long-read in the FT about how the US shut down Facebook's crypto-currencyBooks mentioned in this podcast:The Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim HwangThe Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim Hwang is the most interesting man on the internet. He runs a project called the Trade Journal Cooperative, which I've subscribed to for years. We talk about how the Trade Journal Cooperative got started it, how Tim *secretly* went to law school, and several other projects Tim is working on including an academic journal dedicated to bizarre images of Mark Zuckerberg. Thought that was all? That's not all. Also using bots to wage information wars on social media, and Tim's book which predicts an online advertising bubble. My favorite thing about Tim is his ability to sit on the fence between very serious and very whimsical. To start our conversation, Tim talks off the cuff about one of his heroes, Charles Fort, who compiled books of anomalous phenomena and is the source of the term “Fortean.” This explains a lot about Tim.  We then explore Tim's role as a trade journal sommelier and the Trade Journal Cooperative which provides a quarterly exploration of various industries. We talk a bit about the vastness of the trucking industry and also about the elevator, i.e., vertical transportation, industry. Tim also tells us the awkward story of how he somewhat unintentionally ended up going to law school secretly, and we explore some of the projects he started after graduating, including Rosen, Wolfe and Hwang, a boutique law practice that specializes in serving the unique needs of independent creators and small to midsize technology businesses, and Robot, Robot & Hwang, which was created off the notion of creating a fully automated law firm. Among other projects, Tim also started the academic journal The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg, which explores why Zuckerberg seems to be exceptionally good at ending up in strange images and what that says about the media and culture.  I ask Tim to talk about his 2019 paper titled “Maneuver and Manipulation: On the Military Strategy of Online Information Warfare,” which is about how bots shape discussions online and the possible strategies of combating public manipulation. We also talk about a couple of branches off the information warfare piece, the National Conspiracy Writing Month (NaCoWriMo), in which participants complete a “daunting, but straightforward challenge to develop a deep, viable and complete conspiracy theory during the 30 days of November,” and COGSEC, which is a conference on the real-world practice of countering online influence operations. We wrap up our discussion talking about Tim's recently published book The Subprime Attention Crisis that explores the bubble of online advertising and its potential implications on web2 giants.   Links:    Charles Fort Books   The Trade Journal Cooperative   Iron Clad Contract Management    Maneuver and Manipulation: On the Military Strategy of Online Information Warfare   Sub-prime attention crisis by Tim Hwang   The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber   TimHwang.org   Tim on Twitter Topics:   (1:51) - Who are your heroes?   (3:04) - The Trade Journal Cooperative: Trucking, Magicians & the Pasta Economy   (9:36) - Has this led you into any investments or is it pure voyeurism?   (11:28) - Engineering Randomness & Curating the Journal   (16:17) - The man behind the Co-Op: Secretly going to Berkeley Law School   (19:06) - Being a lawyer for the “Extremely Online” market and trying to build a fully-automated firm   (21:46) - The Legal Automation space   (26:05) - Tim's Scholarly Papers about Absurd Cultural Phenomena   (34:14) - Thoughts on AI over the next decade   (37:05) - Information warfare & the responsibility of Social Platforms   (44:30) - National Conspiracy writing month & COGSEC (Countering Online Influence Operations)   (48:50) - The premise for Tim's book: Subprime Attention Crisis   (54:07) - Web3   (55:56) - Book recommendations Additional Episodes If You Enjoyed: Sean O'Connor: How Blockchain is Changing Society with Costless Transactions If you want to support the podcast, here are a few ways you can:  >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/  >> Share the podcast with your friends and on social media  >> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners  >> Make a weekly, monthly, or one-time donation: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa  >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson >> Learn more and sign up for the “Building a Mountain of Levers” course and community: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage  I appreciate your support!     Important quotes from Naval on building wealth and the difference between wealth and money:   How to get rich without getting lucky. - Naval Ravikant   Making money is not a thing you do—it's a skill you learn. - Naval Ravikant   I came up with the principles in my tweetstorm (below) for myself when I was really young, around thirteen or fourteen. I've been carrying them in my head for thirty years, and I've been living them. Over time (sadly or fortunately), the thing I got really good at was looking at businesses and figuring out the point of maximum leverage to actually create wealth and capture some of that created wealth. - Naval Ravikant   Seek wealth, not money or status. - Naval Ravikant   Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. - Naval Ravikant   Money is how we transfer time and wealth. - Naval Ravikant   Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.    You're not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity—a piece of a business—to gain your financial freedom.  - Naval Ravikant   The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn. The old model of making money is going to school for four years, getting your degree, and working as a professional for thirty years. But things change fast now. Now, you have to come up to speed on a new profession within nine months, and it's obsolete four years later. But within those three productive years, you can get very wealthy. - Naval Ravikant     Important quotes from the podcast by Naval on Leverage:   “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”  —Archimedes    To get rich, you need leverage. Leverage comes in labor, comes in capital, or it can come through code or media. But most of these, like labor and capital, people have to give to you. For labor, somebody has to follow you. For capital, somebody has to give you money, assets to manage, or machines. - Naval Ravikant   Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media). - Naval Ravikant   Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you. - Naval Ravikant   Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep. - Naval Ravikant   If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts. - Naval Ravikant   Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment. - Naval Ravikant   Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve. - Naval Ravikant   “We live in an age of infinite leverage, and the economic rewards for genuine intellectual curiosity have never been higher. Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.” - Naval Ravikant   Important Quotes from the podcast on Business and Entrepreneurship   There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes. - Naval Ravikant   You have to work up to the point where you can own equity in a business. You could own equity as a small shareholder where you bought stock. You could also own it as an owner where you started the company. Ownership is really important.     Everybody who really makes money at some point owns a piece of a product, a business, or some IP. That can be through stock options if you work at a tech company. That's a fine way to start.    But usually, the real wealth is created by starting your own companies or even by investing. In an investment firm, they're buying equity. These are the routes to wealth. It doesn't come through the hours. - Naval Ravikant

In our last episode, we talked about cognitive technologies, or behaviors that shape our capacities to think, communicate, and imagine. Cultural artifacts like language, visual drawings, math, and art are cognitive technologies because they allow us to link our minds together and invent new ideas that go beyond what any one mind could do on its own. They allow us to stabilize and share ideas across space and time to build increasingly complex tools, systems, and societies.Today, humans are at a point in society where we're creating things that we don't understand. A few decades ago, it was said we'd reached a point where no one individual could understand things we were starting to build, such as how computers work. Instead, it took a group of specialized experts to jointly piece together new technologies we were inventing. In the past few years, with increasingly complex artificial intelligence technologies, we've crossed another threshold: we've built things that nobody can fully understand - not even groups of experts. Unlocking this Pandora's box has created a positive feedback loop: In order to coordinate the collective interactions of new, complicated technologies, we must develop even more complicated systems. Ironically, many of the technologies are intended to simplify our lives - to allow us to more easily connect with one another, manage our finances, and order our groceries. But the speed at which new technologies are evolving in fact further complicates our lives. This is one of the major paradoxes of the 21st Century. (“Hashtag disruption!”)Today we're talking with Tim Hwang about one of the most pervasive examples of these technologies. It's the one that underlies the entire business model of the internet. And it's having a profound effect on human behavior at a global scale. We're talking about programmatic advertising. Tim is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel at Substack. He's the author of The Subprime Attention Crisis, a book about the online advertising bubble that we'll be discussing today. He's also a research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a board member of Meedan, a non-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information. Previously he's served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google, as well as the director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, a $27M philanthropic fund and research effort working to advance the development of machine learning in the public interest.The ideas we'll cover are a bit jargonized and technical, but their implications are extremely broad and important. Tim believes we're in danger of another economic collapse, perhaps even orders of magnitude larger than the 2008 mortgage crisis. Given the technical nature of the topic, we're going to first review the main arguments in Tim's book and then ask him to connect his ideas to the themes we think about at Oscillations. We encourage our listeners to read The Subprime Attention Crisis, since there's a lot of information that we won't be able to cover in our conversation today. "Art is the signature of civilizations." -Beverly SillsJoin the movement from the very beginning. If you believe that #thefutureiscreative, support us with a like, a follow, and a share.subscribe: YouTube  / Instagram /

Vicente Arias es socio de Tecnologías, Media y Entretenimiento en Eversheds Sutherland, y es desde hace años buen conocedor del marco legal de la protección de datos en entornos electrónicos. A ello suma un importante palmarés de reconocimientos y publicaciones.  Con Vicente abordamos hoy un “elefante en la sala” que la mayoría de abogados tiende a esquivar en tiempos recientes: el récord absoluto de multas que la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos ostenta en el seno de la UE. ¿Prima la tutela de la ciudadanía sobre el potencial recaudatorio de los expedientes?¿Puede esta batida ininterrumpida tener impacto sobre la seguridad jurídica, o el atractivo del mercado español como espacio de innovación? Referencias: Vicente Arias en Eversheds Sutherland GDPR Enforcement Tracker Tim, Hwang, Subprime Attention Crisis

In Clear Focus: Dubbed “the busiest man on the internet”, Tim Hwang joins us to discuss his book, Subprime Attention Crisis. Tim explains how and why he believes the programmatic display advertising ecosystem resembles financial markets prior to the subprime mortgage crash of 2008. We talk about security vulnerabilities when sharing ad data, geofencing, and Washington's increasing scrutiny of Big Tech. Tim also provides his unique insights into the uses and abuses of artificial intelligence in advertising.

Tim Hwang’s 2020 book, “Subprime Attention Crisis,” argues targeted advertising is a bubble set to burst. He argues that the intricacies of programmatic and the perverse incentives of agencies and ad tech platforms to maintain a steady flow of ad dollars have created a persistent opacity in programmatic markets.  Therefore he says it’s only a matter of time before the bubble bursts and advertisers pick up their toys and go home. The result will be a collapse of programmatic ad spending and a partial collapse of the free internet.

Large companies have slashed their digital marketing budget. Airbnb and Procter & Gamble made such a cut in recent years, after coming to believe the cost doesn’t necessarily translate to increased sales. They follow in the footsteps of eBay who, in 2013, announced it would cease paying for ad sponsorship on Google. Economics professor Steve Tadelis, who led eBay’s research into this, explains how they came to conclude advertising wasn’t worth it. Also in the programme, brand safety advocate and co-founder of Check My Ads Nandini Jammi explains how the modern digital ad market works, and where some doubts lay about its effectiveness. Luke Smith of marketing consultancy Croud says companies need to be clearer in what they want from digital marketing, in order to get the most out of it. But what if the market is overvalued as a whole? Former Google employee Tim Hwang, author of ‘Subprime Attention Crisis’ says we might be looking at an inflated market that could threaten a financial crash online. Producer: Frey Lindsay. (Picture credit: Getty Creative)

In this episode I speak with librarian Barbara Fister about the growing role of algorithms in our daily lives, why the architects of these systems matter, and how the move to online learning in expanding student awareness of surveillance culture. Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national studies on what it is like being a student in the digital age. In the past decade,EPISODE NOTES:Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change, Head, Alison J.; Fister, Barbara; MacMillan, Margy, Project Information Literacy - https://projectinfolit.org/publications/algorithm-study/ Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal Was software responsible for the financial crisis? - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/oct/16/computing-software-financial-crisis Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651 Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff - - https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy, Shea Swauger - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/07/1006132/software-algorithms-proctoring-online-tests-ai-ethics/ Google and advertising: digital capitalism in the context of Post-Fordism, the reification of language, and the rise of fake news - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-017-0021-4 The History of Google Ads 20 Years in the Making (Infographic)https://instapage.com/blog/google-adwords-infographic How Bezos built his data machine, Leo Kelion, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data Automating InequalityHow High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317 Machine Bias: There's software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks, by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble - http://algorithmsofoppression.com/ Edward Snowden NSA FILES: DECODED, By EWEN MACASKILL and GABRIEL DANCE - https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded The Fiduciary Model of Privacy, Jack M. Balkin, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3700087 VPN Usage Surges During COVID-19 Crisis [Infographic], Niall McCarthy- https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/17/vpn-usage-surges-during-covid-19-crisis-infographic/?sh=7ac8e6ab7d79 Failure to Disrupt, By Justin Reich - https://failuretodisrupt.com/ CONspirituality: A weekly study of converging right-wing conspiracy theories and faux-progressive wellness utopianism - https://conspirituality.net/about/

Drawing on Tim Hwang's new book, Subprime Attention Crisis, a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation, this talk details how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself is wildly misrepresented. Audience Q&A follows the discussion.“In this well-grounded, heretical attack on the fictions that uphold the online advertising ecosystem, Subprime Attention Crisis destroys the illusion that programmatic ads are effective and financially sound. One can only hope that this book will be used to pop the bubble that benefits so few.” — danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, founder of Data & Society, and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research

In her work Moira Weigel takes a close look at the liaison between technology and nationalism. For this the dissertation of Palantir's CEO, Alex C. Karp, is a surprisingly revealing document.ShownotesMoira Weigel's Website:http://www.moiraweigel.com/Moira on Twitter:https://twitter.com/moiragweigelMoira Weigel at Harvard:https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/moira-weigel-0Weigel, Moira und Ben Tranoff (Hg.). 2020. Voices from the Valley. Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It. San Francisco: Logic:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538675Weigel, Moira. 2020. "Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School”. Artikel. b2o: an online journal (zuletzt aufgerufen Dezember 2021):https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/Moira (full article)Weigel, Moira. 2016. Labor of Love. The Invention of Dating. London: Macmillan Publishers:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713133German translation: Weigel, Moira. Dating. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Übersetzt von Anna-Nina Kroll. München: Penguin Verlag:https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Dating/Moira-Weigel/btb/e517578.rhdLogic Magazine, founded by Moira Weigel:https://logicmag.io/Homepage Data Societyhttps://datasociety.net/Literature mentioned in the Interview:Karp, Alexander. 2002. Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur. (Dissertation, Philosophie):https://d-nb.info/966060652/34Bernstein, Joseph. 2017. "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream". Blogeintrag. In BuzzFeed News (full article online):https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalismAdorno, Theodor. 1973. The Jargon of Authenticity. Übersetzt von tanowski, Knut und Frederic Will. Evanston: Northwestern University Press:https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/jargon-authenticityAdorno, Theodor W. 1964. Jargon der Eigentlichkeit - Zur deutschen Ideologie. Berlin: Sihrkamp.https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/jargon_der_eigentlichkeit-theodor_w_adorno_10091.htmlBarbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1996. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture vol. 6(1): 44-72 (PDF link and full article online):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_Ideologyhttp://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: Public Affairs:https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/Hwang, Tim. 2020. Subprime Attention Crisis. Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. London: Macmillan:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651 Additional Shownotes:Homepage Tech Workers Coalition:https://techworkerscoalition.org/Wiki on Techno-nationalism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-nationalismWiki on Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal and Palantir Technologies:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thielhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_TechnologiesWiki on Nick Land, philosopher & Co-Founder CCRU:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Landhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_UnitWiki on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_YarvinFurther Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e16-richard-barbrook(German) S01E22 | Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle und der Gesellschaft der Wearables:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e22-nosthoff-maschewski(German) S01E29 | mit Thorsten Thiel zu Demokratie in der digitalen Konstellation:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e29-thorsten-thiel(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeldIf you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #MoiraWeigel, #Palantir, #SiliconValley, #VoicesFromTheValley, #TechNationalism #Techno-Nationalism, #Tech-Nationalism, #BenTarnoff, #Interview, #Society, #PeterThiel, #AlexanderKarp, #LogicMagazine, #Democracy, #AttentionCrisis, #CalifornianIdeology, #TechWorkers, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #RichardBarbrook

In her work Moira Weigel takes a close look at the liaison between technology and nationalism. For this the dissertation of Palantir's CEO, Alex C. Karp, is a surprisingly revealing document.ShownotesMoira Weigel's Website:http://www.moiraweigel.com/Moira on Twitter:https://twitter.com/moiragweigelMoira Weigel at Harvard:https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/moira-weigel-0Weigel, Moira und Ben Tranoff (Hg.). 2020. Voices from the Valley. Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It. San Francisco: Logic:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538675Weigel, Moira. 2020. "Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School”. Artikel. b2o: an online journal (zuletzt aufgerufen Dezember 2021):https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/Moira (full article)Weigel, Moira. 2016. Labor of Love. The Invention of Dating. London: Macmillan Publishers:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713133German translation: Weigel, Moira. Dating. Eine Kulturgeschichte. Übersetzt von Anna-Nina Kroll. München: Penguin Verlag:https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Dating/Moira-Weigel/btb/e517578.rhdLogic Magazine, founded by Moira Weigel:https://logicmag.io/Homepage Data Societyhttps://datasociety.net/Literature mentioned in the Interview:Karp, Alexander. 2002. Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur. (Dissertation, Philosophie):https://d-nb.info/966060652/34Bernstein, Joseph. 2017. "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream". Blogeintrag. In BuzzFeed News (full article online):https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalismAdorno, Theodor. 1973. The Jargon of Authenticity. Übersetzt von tanowski, Knut und Frederic Will. Evanston: Northwestern University Press:https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/jargon-authenticityAdorno, Theodor W. 1964. Jargon der Eigentlichkeit - Zur deutschen Ideologie. Berlin: Sihrkamp.https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/jargon_der_eigentlichkeit-theodor_w_adorno_10091.htmlBarbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1996. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture vol. 6(1): 44-72 (PDF link and full article online):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_Ideologyhttp://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/Zuboff, Shoshana. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: Public Affairs:https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/Hwang, Tim. 2020. Subprime Attention Crisis. Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. London: Macmillan:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651 Additional Shownotes:Homepage Tech Workers Coalition:https://techworkerscoalition.org/Wiki on Techno-nationalism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-nationalismWiki on Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal and Palantir Technologies:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thielhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_TechnologiesWiki on Nick Land, philosopher & Co-Founder CCRU:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Landhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_UnitWiki on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_YarvinFurther Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e16-richard-barbrook(German) S01E22 | Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle und der Gesellschaft der Wearables:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e22-nosthoff-maschewski(German) S01E29 | mit Thorsten Thiel zu Demokratie in der digitalen Konstellation:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e29-thorsten-thiel(German) S01E30 | Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik:https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeldIf you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #MoiraWeigel, #Palantir, #SiliconValley, #VoicesFromTheValley, #TechNationalism #Techno-Nationalism, #Tech-Nationalism, #BenTarnoff, #Interview, #Society, #PeterThiel, #AlexanderKarp, #LogicMagazine, #Democracy, #AttentionCrisis, #CalifornianIdeology, #TechWorkers, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #RichardBarbrook

In her work Moira Weigel takes a close look at the liaison between technology and nationalism. For this the dissertation of Palantir's CEO, Alex C. Karp, is a surprisingly revealing document. Shownotes Moira Weigel's Website: http://www.moiraweigel.com/ Moira on Twitter: https://twitter.com/moiragweigel Moira Weigel at Harvard: https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/moira-weigel-0 "Voices from the Valley. Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It." (2020) by Ben Taroff and Moira Weigel: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538675 "Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School" (2020) by Moira Weigel: https://www.boundary2.org/2020/07/moira-weigel-palantir-goes-to-the-frankfurt-school/Moira (full article) "Labor of Love. The Invention of Dating." (2018) by Moira Weigel: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374713133 German translation: „Dating. Eine Kulturgeschichte“: https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Dating/Moira-Weigel/btb/e517578.rhd Logic Magazine, founded by Moira Weigel: https://logicmag.io/ Homepage Data Society https://datasociety.net/ Literature mentioned in the Interview: "Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur" (2002) by Alexander C. Karp: https://d-nb.info/966060652/34 (PDF) "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream" (2017) by Joseph Bernstein: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism (full article online) "The Jargon of Authenticity" (1973, orig.: 1964) by Theodor W. Adorno: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/jargon-authenticity German: "Jargon der Eigentlichkeit - Zur deutschen Ideologie" (1964): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/jargon_der_eigentlichkeit-theodor_w_adorno_10091.html "The Californian Ideology" (1996) by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004663_The_Californian_Ideology (PDF link) http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/ (full article online) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ "Subprime Attention Crisis. Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (2020) by Tim Hwang: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651  Additional Shownotes: Homepage Tech Workers Coalition: https://techworkerscoalition.org/ Wiki on Techno-nationalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-nationalism Wiki on Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal and Palantir Technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies Wiki on Nick Land, philosopher & Co-Founder CCRU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_Unit Wiki on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: Episode 16 with Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e16-richard-barbrook (German) Episode 22 mit Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski zu digitaler Verführung, sozialer Kontrolle und der Gesellschaft der Wearables: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e22-nosthoff-maschewski (German) Episode 29 mit Thorsten Thiel zu Demokratie in der digitalen Konstellation: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e29-thorsten-thiel (German) Episode 30 mit Paul Feigelfeld zu alternativen Zukünften, Unvollständigkeit & dem Sein in der Technik: https://futurehistories.podbean.com/e/s01e30-paul-feigelfeld If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #DataPolitics, #MoiraWeigel, #Palantir, #SiliconValley, #VoicesFromTheValley, #TechNationalism #Techno-Nationalism, #Tech-Nationalism, #BenTarnoff, #Interview, #Society, #PeterThiel, #AlexanderKarp, #LogicMagazine, #Democracy, #AttentionCrisis, #CalifornianIdeology, #TechWorkers, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #Überwachungskapitalismus, #ShoshanaZuboff, #RichardBarbrook

Advertising fuels much of the Internet today. But what if programmatic, targeted ads don't actually work? We read Tim Hwang's Subprime Attention Crisis.