podcast friday

[sabotabby]

I've been steeped in work hell (which is just not letting up) so I haven't really caught up with DW or formulated anything more than a wish for [REDACTED] to happen to every single ICE agent and [REDACTED, replaced with screaming into the void] in general, but in the meantime, podcasts gonna podcast I guess? Honestly that's where I get my news because the mainstream media has either fallen for the lie of objectivity or just reports on things so shallowly that it's unclear as to whether things like gunning down a mother in her car as she tries to get away or kidnapping the leader of a foreign country are actual crimes or just "controversial."

Anyway.

Today I have a new podcast for you, AI Skeptics, with Cathy O'Neil and Jake Appel. Cathy O'?Neil wrote the fantastic (and still very relevant) Weapons of Math Destruction, so I was very interested in what she had to say about AI. Neither of them really come off as Professional Podcasters but the content of this is excellent and both they and their guests are insightful. "AI Versus Artists and Educators ft. Becky Jaffe" is the most recent one and most relevant to my interests.

It should be noted that folks on the podcast are skeptics rather than professional haters like me, so there's occasionally a use case, 90% of which I still disagree with. But it's an important and intelligent discussion, and the episodes are quite short and accessible.

Comments

[dissectionist]

Honestly that's where I get my news because the mainstream media has either fallen for the lie of objectivity or just reports on things so shallowly

This is why all my news now comes from lawyers, doctors, and scientists I follow on Substack. They have skin in the game, actually understand what’s happening, and aren’t bound by journalistic “ethics” that demand “objectivity”. (I come from a journalism background and certainly understand why we’re trained to be objective, but it’s one thing to both-sides when both sides are operating in good faith. When one side is weaponizing the expectation of objectivity to promote horrors and normalize brutality, then continuing to cling to “objectivity” (which is no longer really objectivity) is no longer ethical.

[sabotabby]

Yup. That was a thing I learned to do in covid and with the plague convoy—just get it directly from the source.

[used_songs]

I will definitely be listening to that podcast and passing it on to colleagues. Thanks!

[sabotabby]

It's all worth listening to so far, but this one especially.