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Defining authenticity and social credit systems

What “authenticity” means and Authenticity in food culture specifically and then expand on the subject to look at authenticity more broadly and The social credit system being adopted in China and the implications of it on real people.

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What analytical media can teach and an online museum cataloguing analog sounds

The importance of analytical media in connection to an op-ed written by Lawrence Ware about The Source magazine and The online museum called Conserve the Sound which carefully catalogs images and audio snippets of analog items and what is conceptually lost when new technology replaces older items.

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Community driven publications and the Kaepernick Nike campaign

The Outline’s most recent round of layoffs leads to a freelancer boycott of the publication and The New Yorker announces Steve Bannon as a speaker at their upcoming Festival and then rescinds their invite after Twitter outrage, and Colin Kaepernick is revealed as the face of the 30th Anniversary “Just Do It” Nike campaign.

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Intrusive Upwork monitoring and Advisory Board Crystals Wikipedia collaboration

Reckoning with luck, the circumstances we have no control over, in our lives and how that affects our perception of others and The origins of different parts of language and how the way we speak is both uncontrollable and can result in differing opinions on us.

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Art in space and better cybersecurity

The purpose of art in space and ways for companies to incentivize better cybersecurity.

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Intrusive Upwork monitoring and Advisory Board Crystals Wikipedia collaboration

WCharis and Eugene discuss whether a time-tracking feature utilized by Upwork that takes screenshots of a freelancer’s screen and logs keystrokes is too intrusive and what leads to healthy freelancer client relationships. The also talk about a t-shirt released by Advisory Board Crystals that raises funds to support the Wikimedia Foundation and A t-shirt released by Advisory Board Crystals that raises funds to support the Wikimedia Foundation

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Narcissism in the West and the censoring of fake news

The misperception of narcissism being newly on the rise in Western culture and the handling of Alex Jones and Infowars by various companies and publishing platforms.

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NOAH on consumer power and Reddit accepting Tencent funding

Consumer power and the responsibility that comes with spending money on anything and The potential funding Reddit might be accepting from Chinese tech giant Tencent and how that could shape the Internet in the States, in China, and globally. This episode attempts to unpack what it means to follow the origins and effect of each dollar.

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Nardwuars influence on hip hop and the evolution of CAPTCHA

The influence of Nardwuar on the hip-hop world and how his persona plus interview style gets great results and Why CAPTCHA exists, what the future of CAPTCHA looks like, and what the progress of CAPTCHA says about our pursuit to find the universal quality of humanness.

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Pizza could save the world and millennial burnout

Don Norman’s concept of how pizza could save the world—metaphorically speaking—as pizza is a way to view and solve problems and Millennial burnout and why the generation born between the early 1980’s and late 1990’s experiences errand paralysis, engages in self-destructive behaviors, and have tough mental battles to wage.