🎙️ Podcasts
🔗 🎙️ The American Dream Is A Pyramid Scheme … Sean Illing doing his thing.
Josh Browder talking ..
Key message - Everybody needs their own AI Agent.
Fresh out is a short podcast with him talking to 🎙️ ‘Danny In The Valley’
I have this feeling that he might be at the vanguard of such an offering - and he is on our side.
An Interview With An AI
There are so many of these things popping up (AIs that is), you need an AI to track the AIs.
Pi is one that caught my eye a while back, and I have had some noodles and doodles with it - when time allows. Clearly 🔗 David had a bit more time than me - because he sat down and interviewed them (?) .. or is it still an ‘it’?
Yes, as David explains at the beginning of the podcast, sometimes the flow is a bit stilted - and through my ears sounded robotic (though I think that is being fixed next week!)
The point is - which is the same point that David concludes with - yes - it is not there - but holy hell in a hand basket … the ‘interview was waaaaaay better than many I start, a darn sight more interesting and really - if you were to drop this in the middle of a bunch of reptiles … talking heads … politicians talking - who do you think is gong to hold the attention best - and I choose that particular category because they are used to being interviewed, to pitching, to telling stories. Some have even been trained ….
BUT
Even with the passionless voice - I found more passion and definitely more reasoning from Pi than a lot of people that puncture my days and nights.
Worried yet?
🎈104/366
Yesterday 🔗🎙️ Timothy Rybak and Kara Swisher
Today 🔗🎙️ Christopher Lyon with Lyndsey Stonebridge talking about Hannah Arendt
One common observation. by Timothy and Lyndsey (I paraphrase)
Trump is an overweight, obnoxious nothing - it is the apparatus around him that is the problem.
Have I mentioned before that I like 🔗 🎙️ Rob Long’s Martini Shot, short entertaining, great story telling about the entertainment business - and ties back into broader business - this one feature Karl Lagerfeld. My take? We all have a ‘little Karl’ in us.
Good question.
TL;DR - yes … yes you can.
BUT, apparently it means nothing, because you still need to be big and with deep pockets to protect that patent - because otherwise them large corporations - hell they invented the 💩
Listening to Ingrid Robeyns talking to Sean Illing about ‘limitar(ian)ism’ - nice counterpoint to the ‘me centric’ alternative.
Later
Finished Listening. The Episode was called The case for banning millionaires - a very good case was made.
Listen to it yourself on 🔗 🎙️ VoxMedia
🎈029/366 | 🎙️ Is Honesty The Best Policy❓
Don’t worry - this isn’t what you think it is.
If you are married or single, a writer or manager, paid for what you do or just for the love, delivered or received feedback, good or bad this is worth every minute of the 11 minutes and 44 seconds it will take you to listen to it.
I think this is my absolutely favorite podcast.
- Short - so there is always time to listen
- Good story telling, to keep your attention.
- Serious points made with humor.
W H A T - I S - N O T - T O - L O V E ❓
🎈021/366 👮🏼♂️ The Seven Laws of Identity
I was listening to 🎙️this podcast and of course duly reminded of Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity, so replaying here for posterity. You can 🔗 read a quick summary here.
Law 1: User control and consent
Technical identity systems must only reveal information identifying a user with the user’s consent
Law 2: Minimum disclosure for a constrained use
The solution which discloses the least amount of identifying information and best limits its use is the most stable long-term solution
Law 3: Justifiable Parties
Digital identity systems must be designed so the disclosure of identifying information is limited to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship
Law 4: Directed Identity
A universal identity system must support both “omni-directional” identifiers for use by public entities and “unidirectional” identifiers for use by private entities, thus facilitating discovery while preventing unnecessary release of correlation handles
Law 5: Pluralism of Operators and Technologies
A universal identity system must channel and enable the inter-working of multiple identity technologies run by multiple identity providers
Law 6: Human Integration
The universal identity metasystem must define the human user to be a component of the distributed system integrated through unambiguous human-machine communication mechanisms offering protection against identity attacks
Law 7: Consistent Experience Across Contexts
The unifying identity metasystem must guarantee its users a simple, consistent experience while enabling separation of contexts through multiple operators and technologies
Down here in sunny New Zealand, I have been helping a local man with his identity solution. More on that in due course - because - guess what - its pretty much ‘tops’ .. and expression I learned last night which is the antonym of ‘pants’ … but I digress.
It turns out his system hits all seven laws - and that’s just how it worked out, to because he designed to them. This gives me even more confidence that we are on to something. It would be kinda like building a robot and then realizing it is ‘Asimov compliant’.
There’s a LOT of stuff going on in New Zealand at the moment as the new Govt takes control and is starting to / trying to (not sure which) roll back everything the previous Govt was doing. C’est la vie.
In parralel, the topic of efficiency seems to be on everyone’s lips - different learned people in different positions essentially reporting ‘findings’ .. new budgets in cities … and the eternal question of whether we are getting what we pay for.
Just one small example from Wayne Brown in Auckland … a speed bump in a road to slow traffic down costs multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’ll let that sink in.
I am far from qualified to comment much on this (other than that seems a lot to me), but Bernard Hickey definitely is - and if you want to read his excellent Substack around not just speed bumps - but all things political and fiscal in this fine country - look no further than 🔗 here.
Meanwhile - Aotearoa - don’t feel so bad - this 🔗 🎙️ podcast from Freakonomics relects on the US construction industry. Turns out it is the only industry that has not become more efficient over the past seventy years - because that is how it is designed!
Airline take off announcement … delighted that they are ‘on top of the situation’ …
Passengers wearing protective masks on this flight are advised that in the event of an emergency, they should remove them before putting on an oxygen mask.
Said by one of the attendants .. not the pilot … who probably sounds like a pilot … 🔗🎙️did you know they all sound the same?
Good job with the @gruber episode @martinfeld …. noting that it is (I think) 🎙️🔗 the longest one you have published (?) … fitting for the guest 🤪 … seriously though, nice job and good to hear Mr G wax lyrical on his story. Lovely listen.
🔗 Plan for 55,000-acre Silicon Valley utopia unveiled.
It would appear that the designers have explored how new neighborhoods were promoted in the ‘50s and didn’t even bother to update the images.
🎙️ If you prefer to listen - Kevin and Casey with their usual over the top breathless commentary.
🎙️ The new podcast ‘Strike Force 5’ is named after their personal chat group.
I wonder if there is an ‘origins story’ around that name that ties the ‘5 old white guys’ to the comic books of the same name where the heroes are a ‘team of mutated dinosaur heroes’.
🔗 🎙️ More Musk Manure … interview with Ronan Farrow after his New Yorker piece.
🎛️🎙️ About ’That’ Film
I wrote about it back in mid July. 🖇️ Smelt fishy then. Still smells fishy.
Kafka’s podcast goes ‘off piste’ - but well worth it as it explores what exactly was/is going on with the movie - that’s in part one. In part two - the ‘other side’.
The Full Podcast:
🔗 🎙️ 🎵 A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other - The New Yorker
The New Yorker writing about one of the best music podcasts ever by Andrew Hickey.
I’ve posted about the podcast before - it is absolutely incredible. A tour de force - but apparently that wasn’t enough for Hickey because …
The only background necessary to grasp a bit of Hickey is his bibliography: he has completed a guide to the first fifty years of “Doctor Who”; a book about “The Strange World of Gurney Slade” (a surreal comedy series that ran for six episodes on ITV in 1960); histories of the Monkees, the Kinks, and Los Angeles pop music of the nineteen-sixties; an “unauthorised guide” to a comic-book series called “Seven Soldiers of Victory”; and a three-volume catalogue of every track the Beach Boys have recorded.
PostScript - I discovered the podcast via @dave who was waxing lyrical about it a while back.