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Is AI snake oil?
An interview with Princeton Professor Arvind Narayanan
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The potential of public AI
An interview with Mozilla's Nik Marda and Jasmine Sun
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Jasmine Sun
39:40
OpenAI’s mythology, Meta’s secret, and Microsoft’s hypocrisy.
An interview with AI writer and reporter, Karen Hao
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35:51
Fragment the media! Embrace the shards!
For this election, think less about our ‘shared reality’ and more about information integrity
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Untangled is three years old!
PLUS: The largest discount I’ve ever offered, and a new partnership.
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🔮 Artificial Intelligence

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41:47
Is AI snake oil?
An interview with Princeton Professor Arvind Narayanan
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Charley Johnson
1
The potential of public AI
An interview with Mozilla's Nik Marda and Jasmine Sun
 • 
Charley Johnson
 and 
Jasmine Sun
39:40
OpenAI’s mythology, Meta’s secret, and Microsoft’s hypocrisy.
An interview with AI writer and reporter, Karen Hao
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Charley Johnson
35:51
No, OpenAI’s new model is not ‘reasoning.’
Happy 10 Year Anniversary, Data & Society!
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A world overrun by AI agents w/Evan Ratliff
My conversation with the host of the fascinating and funny new podcast, Shell Game
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32:01

⚒️ Practical Tools & Frameworks

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What does it mean to ‘train’ AI anyway?
A survey of how individual datapoints become large, training datasets
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📖 Crypto Reading List
PLUS: The problem(s) with the Apple Vision Pro.
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📖 AI Reading List
My favorite articles, papers, and books on AI and how it is entangled in social systems like race, gender, and power.
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🖼️ The Primer
Frameworks, themes, and daily actions - oh my!
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🤯 Technically Social
A special issue! What actually IS technology? How does it shape social systems?
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📺 Media & Tech

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Fragment the media! Embrace the shards!
For this election, think less about our ‘shared reality’ and more about information integrity
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🎧 Unfollow your friends!
An interview with Louis Barclay, creator of Unfollow Everything.
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24:14
🧠 Synthetic social media
Internet users, brace for the emergence of E-Swift
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Pretty privilege, appearance labor, and worthiness.
PLUS: Get a free, signed copy of Elise Hu's new book, Flawless.
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36:10
⚖️ How can we govern speech fairly on anti-democratic platforms?
Maybe citizen assemblies are a start!
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🤑 Crypto

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🧠 In crypto, everything is a ponzi
…until sometimes, it’s not.
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Who are you?
A wonky romp through identity, classification, and power.
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What connects crypto and ‘Love is Blind’?
The sociology of speculation and how it is shaping crypto communities and modern life.
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Venture capitalists are the new narrators of crypto
That’s a big problem, and not for the reason you might think.
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Tech for... what, exactly?
How ‘tech for good’ launders the expertise, interests, and beliefs of technologists.
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