Techdirt Podcast Episode 359: Red Team Blues, Part Two (With Cory Doctorow)

from the book-club dept

Tue, Jul 25th 2023 01:35pm - Leigh Beadon

Okay, now we’re getting back to the plan. Two weeks ago we featured an excerpt from the audiobook of Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow’s new (and excellent) novel, and promised that we’d soon be joined by Cory himself. And now, we deliver! Listen to this week’s episode for a long and far-reaching conversation between Mike and Cory about the book and it’s themes and subjects, plus plenty of interesting tangents.

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Filed Under: books, cory doctorow, fiction, podcast, red team blues

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 358: Social Media In Chaos

(Mis)Uses of Technology

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Tue, Jul 18th 2023 01:33pm - Leigh Beadon

Last week, we promised an upcoming episode featuring a conversation with Cory Doctorow — and that conversation has been recorded and is arriving next week! But we decided to take a brief intermission this week, since things in the social media landscape are changing so quickly. Mike recently appeared on The Neoliberal Podcast with Jeremiah Johnson to talk about the ongoing nonsense at Twitter, the dawn of Meta’s Threads, the situation at Reddit, and all the other chaos engulfing the world of social media. You can listen to the entire conversation right here on this week’s episode.

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Filed Under: jeremiah johnson, podcast, social media, threads
Companies: meta, reddit, twitter

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 357: Red Team Blues, Part One

Culture

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Tue, Jul 11th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

If you’re a Techdirt reader, you’re surely familiar with Cory Doctorow: we’ve written about him often, he’s appeared on the podcast several times and, of course, he’s a prolific science fiction author whose books brilliantly engage with many of the subjects we cover. Next week, if all goes according to plan, Cory will be joining us on the podcast once again to talk about his latest novel, Red Team Blues — so if you haven’t read it yet, now’s the time! And today we’ve got a special podcast feature to get you started: a chapter-long excerpt from the audiobook, available to listen in full on this week’s episode.

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Filed Under: cory doctorow, podcast, red team blues, science fiction

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 356: FutureCast

Innovation

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Tue, Jun 27th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Recently, we announced our latest game project: FutureCast, created in partnership with the United Nations’ Global Pulse group. It’s a highly adaptable strategic forecasting tool that aims to explore “pathways of change” for different future scenarios by bringing together groups of stakeholders for a fun, insight-generating exercise. This week, we’re joined by Minke Meijnders and Tiina Neuvonen from UN Global Pulse, as well as our game design partner Randy Lubin from Leveraged Play, to discuss how the game came to be and the many things you can do with it.

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Filed Under: forecasting, foresight, futurecast, games, gaming, united nations

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 355: The Reddit Meltdown

Failures

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Thu, Jun 22nd 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

If you’re a Techdirt reader, a Reddit user, or both, then you probably know all about the chaos engulfing the site as users and moderators of popular subreddits protest CEO Steve Huffman’s recent changes to the site’s API. This week, we’re joined by Jay Peters from The Verge to talk about the situation, the protests, and Huffman’s disastrous responses.

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Filed Under: jay peters, podcast, reddit protest, steve huffman
Companies: reddit

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 354: Decentralizing Content Moderation

Content Moderation

from the doing-things-differently dept

Tue, Jun 13th 2023 01:32pm - Leigh Beadon

When talking about content moderation, it’s easy to focus entirely on centralized platforms. But now, with the rise of more federated and decentralized systems like ActivityPub and Bluesky (and many others), it’s becoming more and more important to talk about how content moderation works in a decentralized space. This week we’re joined by Yoel Roth, the former head of Trust & Safety at Twitter and now a Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley, to discuss the new and different content moderation challenges that decentralized platforms face.

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 353: Moderator Mayhem!

Content Moderation

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Tue, Jun 6th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Last month, in partnership with Engine, we launched our new browser game that puts you in the shoes of a frontline content moderation worker at a growing online platform: Moderator Mayhem. If you haven’t tried it yet, you can play it in your browser on mobile or desktop. The response to the game has been great, and this week Mike is joined on the podcast by myself, our game design partner Randy Lubin of Leveraged Play, and Engine executive director Kate Tummarello who spearheaded the project, to discuss how we built Moderator Mayhem and the impact it’s been having so far.

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Filed Under: content moderation, games, gaming, Kate Tummarello, moderator mayhem, podcast, randy lubin

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 352: Utah’s War On Porn

Legal Issues

from the won't-somebody-please... dept

Tue, May 9th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve been swamped with some big projects lately, and that put a bit of a dent in our podcast schedule. We’ve got a whole bunch of fresh new episodes lined up to record, so you can expect lots of original content soon — but to tide you over until then, this week we’ve got a cross-post of Mike’s recent segment on The New Abnormal podcast, where he and host Andy Levy discuss Pornhub cutting off Utah in response to its age verification law, and some of the other “protect the children” efforts in Congress.

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Filed Under: adult content, age verification, podcast, porn, utah
Companies: mindgeek, pornhub

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 351: Save the Children (From State Social Media Laws)

Stupidity

from the won't-somebody-please... dept

Tue, Apr 18th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve featured lots of coverage of the frankly insane deluge of “protect the children” type social media laws popping up in several states, and recently Mike was a guest on TechFreedom’s Tech Policy Podcast, hosted by Corbin K. Barthold. You can listen to the whole conversation right here on this week’s episode of the Techdirt Podcast.

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Filed Under: corbin barthold, law, podcast, social media

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 350: The Data Transfer Initiative

Innovation

from the from-here-to-there dept

Tue, Apr 11th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Data portability is an important front in the war for an open internet. A few years ago, it seemed like some major movement was coming, with the joint announcement of the Data Transfer Project from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter — but recently, news of any progress was running thin. That is, until now: the project has morphed into the nonprofit Data Transfer Initiative, with a real team led by new Executive Director (and returning podcast guest) Chris Riley, who joins us on this week’s episode to discuss the push to liberate data and make it portable.

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Filed Under: data, data portability, interoperability, podcast

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