Techs on Texts

Kevin Bullock on Pluribus Kevin Bullock joins us to discuss Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. We explore individual morality, the ethics of science, AI, human nature, selfhood and memory, and ghosts.

Episode #24: @kevinbullock.bsky.social on Pluribus by Vince Gilligan

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one way I finished the year was having a fun talk about a wild Borges story & its resonances in Silicon Valley cults, with my friend @jed.co - starting it out right by sharing with you all!

Cyd Harrell on Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Cyd Harrell, devout civic technologist, joins us to discuss Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.” We talk about tungsten cubes, techno cults, and our guesses about the “horrifying or banal...

Episode #23: @cydharrell.bsky.social on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges

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Matt Price on Piranesi Matt Price – technology historian and professor – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics.

Episode #19: Matt Price on Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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Noah Iliinsky on China Mountain Zhang Noah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang.

Episode #18: @noah-i.bsky.social on *China Mountain Zhang* by Maureen F. McHugh

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Daniel X. O'Neil on The Waste Land Daniel X. O’Neil, the worldwide entertainment juggernaut of the 21st century, joins us to discuss T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

Episode #17: Daniel X. O’Neil on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

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Alex Merose on Convenience Store Woman Alex Merose extols the virtues of lazy action and calls on us to embrace Duchamp into our hearts through discussion of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman and Maurizio Lazzarato’s essay “Marcel Du...

Episode #16: @al.merose.com Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

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I really enjoyed this chat with @jed.co on his podcast @techsontexts.net

A Pattern Language is a really special book. If you’ve read it I hope this conversation deepens your appreciation for it. If not I hope it encourages you to check it out for yourself!

Johnny Rodgers on A Pattern Language Johnny Rodgers joins us to discuss Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and its timeless for humans trying to make things for other humans.

Episode #15: @johnnyrodgers.is on A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander

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George Dyson on Childhood's End George Dyson is on again, this time to talk about Childhood’s End and what it has to teach us about overlord technologies.

Episode #14: George Dyson on Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

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Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling Keith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang’s masterful “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling.”

Episode #13: Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Fiction by Ted Chiang

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Reading for February and March In February, Keith Garrett will be on to discuss “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang. In March, George Dyson returns to discuss Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.

Read ahead!

This month's episode (out sometime after the 26th), will about “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang. Next month's episode will be about Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.

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Gina Trapani on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gina Trapani, exemplary human and champion of good things on the web, comes on to talk about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. We talk about creating universes, friendship, pare...

Episode #12: @ginatrapani.org on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

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Nathaniel Raymond on The Conversation Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, joins me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola’s masterful 1974 film, The Conversation. Nathani...

Episode #11: @nattyray.bsky.social on Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation

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Mark Coatney on A Wizard of Earthsea Mark Coatney, long-suffering digital media pioneer, gets me to finally read a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin and I loved it. Topics include our changing world, what the world is for, preindustrial longing...

Episode #10: @mcoatney.bsky.social on A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

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