In this visit there is music from The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, The Undertones, The Who, Stevie Wonder, a Kiwi Classic from The Headless Chickens, and more
Start your Thursday off with an update on the situation in Rafah.
Then prepare for next week's #news.
All in 13 minutes.
Find the #FactalForecast where you listen to #Podcasts
Just dropped a new episode of The Self-Host Cast featuring a casual conversation with Ivan, the developer of the #vehicle maintenance tracking application #LubeLogger.
Would love some feedback on ways to improve or suggestions for future episode topics!
"I think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators."
"We're also competing against a lot of people in politics who come along and say... it's those rich people's fault, we'll just take even more money off them and give it to you."
This is the fundamental lie of neoliberal politics. A total inversion of the truth, which is that neoliberal parties say 'it's those poor people's fault, we'll just take the money off them and give it to you', and they do.
Our emergency replacement May episode is here! Join @McKenzie_Ben as he shares some of your stories of “starting in the wrong place” in a celebration of this year’s #TerryPratchettDay theme.
"Again, this is that lovely, quaint, sort of late 70s idea, that computers would be better than us at deciding things, isn't it. It's very, very old fashioned. But yeah, they let the computer weigh up the evidence."
And this is that lovely, quaint 2010s idea that computers deciding (or designing) things instead of humans is old-fashioned, instead of being the everyday dystopia they were already starting to live in.
Can you recommend a good open source podcasts app for Android? Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, and I don't think I want listen to podcasts on YT Music
Hey Mastodon, what are your favourite Europe-related accounts to follow? National/European politics, culture, tech, sport, science, etc.
After initially feeling very hopeful that this site could be a great home for us post-Twitter, the conversation has rather dried up over here (for us, at least!) so we’d love to find some new people to follow!
The US government wants to make sure only they can use DataFarming platforms to spy on and influence US citizens. They're following the example set by the CCP, which has been blocking foreign-owned platforms for years, for similar reasons.
As I've mentioned before, there was a time when traditional newspapers being outcompeted into oblivion by network media would have seemed like good news to me. But that was when most network media were community-controlled and non-commercial. Locally-based, commercial outlets being driven out of business by corporate-owned propaganda machines, masquerading as neutral 'social media' platforms, was not the outcome I was hoping for.
Every once in a while this happens, and I'm definitely not complaining, but over the last 3 days the daily downloads of Minimum Competence #podcast have been 4-5x the usual.
I often wonder if we're getting mentioned somewhere or something. The page views aren't up appreciably, so it seems like the listeners are coming in straight via the audio RSS feed.
A podcast about the immensely rich Patty Hearst who is kidnapped by the guerrilla group SLA as a 19-year-old (SLA= United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army). After her abduction, Hearst joins the SLA and also takes part in bank robberies. #Podcast#Podcasts#PattyHearst#StereoTotal @podcast @podcasts
"There was a desire - even on the part of some liberals - to call for the state to be even tougher in imposing lockdowns, in enforcing vaccines... [The left were] reluctant to talk about the question of policing during the pandemic, because it seemed like this would play into the conservative anti-lockdown movement but... it was a mistake really for the left or for liberals to not take up those issues."