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Established companies are laying off staff, the job market has changed, AI is a challenge. Meng and I discussed her microcommunity Glowstep, which helps people navigate the new jobs landscape together with their peers.

A chat about the future of AI and social media.

We discuss the finances, pros and cons of solar power in a country where the grid is unreliable.

Prof Sam Lawler describes the impact that huge numbers of new satellites are having on astronomy

Why inclusiveness is good for your opensource project and how to achive it.

A chat about the past, present and future of music distribution with a musician who's been at it for more than 50 years.

Vim and Tim get together to chat about techological regret, paths not taken and the decisions we are taking now.

Our guest's pilot project is using government money to fund development and maintenance of essential opensource projects.

We discuss a new style of on-line learning, self paced and voluntary along with other community driven education activities.

We discuss auditing computational models of human behavior and the large-scale datasets they are trained on. Our guest gives examples of the consequences of a badly curated model.

How can a networked community contribute to medical advances? We talk to Indu Navar about EverythingALS and the change it brings to treatment of brain disease.

What is new in cryptography? How quantum computers impact privacy? What are realistic timelines? Do we need to act today? Our guest answers all these questions and more!

What can classical stage managment teach us about the future of the Metaverse?

We talk about disinfo on social media and how to combat it.

We discuss how Science Fiction can (or can't) show us the future. We dig into the concept of an open-source panopticon and how it might work.