George Beebe is Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute, he was formerly the director of the CIA’s Russia analysis unit, and he worked as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. He joins us to analyze the progress of the war in Ukraine with special emphasis paid to the threat of nuclear weapons ... a threat he worries is being ignored. Plus, the Turkish strongman gets a bookish opponent.
Jack just dashed to the hospital with his wife to have their 2nd baby — So we’re taking a week off for Jack to dad-it-up with his family. Here’s our plan:
- Friday 3/10: Bonus Interview Episode with the co-founder of Warby Parker and Harry’s
- Wednesday 3/15: Our 1st daily pod back
We’ll be back with our daily shows next Wednesday 3/15. In the meantime, enjoy the interview bonus pod we’re dropping on Friday 3/10. And absolutely, positively celebrate Jack and Alex’s big win: Their 2nd baby boy.
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On this week’s show, Kamz is joined by Gwendolyn Regina!
Gwendolyn has spent 17 years living in the worlds of media and technology across Asia Pacific, Paris and Silicon Valley.
She currently leads investments at BNB Chain and is also an angel investor.
Before that, she was an intrapreneur at Facebook (now Meta Platforms), building up a new business unit of venture capital partnerships and startup growth.
Gwendolyn also founded OnQuestions, where she spends her time exploring “What is a good question?”
Gwendolyn has been speaking internationally, giving keynotes and moderating for 10 years across Asia, Europe, and the US.
Gwendolyn built her first website when she was 12. She has lived in Singapore, Paris, Silicon Valley and Ho Chi Minh City. She speaks three languages and is a certified rescue diver, has jumped off a plane twice and almost fell to her death into an ice crevasse in Chile.
This episode was produced and edited by Michele Musso with executive producer Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is ‘Twennysomething’ by Daniele Musto. Other music used is ‘Mind and Soul’ by Stefano Vita and ‘Electrolove’ by Lunareh.
In the early 11th century, a group of merchants from the Amalfi Coast of Italy received permission from the Caliph of Egypt to rebuild a church and hospital in Jerusalem to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land.
They called themselves The Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Fast forward almost one thousand years later, and this group still exist. Not only do they still exist, but they have a unique status in the world of international diplomacy.
Learn more about the Knights of Malta and their thousand-year history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Today were chatting about Fauci’s Covid origin cover-up, the department of transportation’s efforts to keep families together on planes, an Ivy League’s abandonment of standardized tests and AOC’s met gala controversy.
Time Stamps:
12:44 Fauci Cover-up
21:42 Department of Family
36:02 Standardize Tests
44:23 AOC
49:40 Cologne
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The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age.
Whether we interact with video games or spreadsheets or social media, playing with software shapes every facet of our lives. In Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture (MIT Press, 2023), Miguel Sicart delves into why we play with computers, how that play shapes culture and society, and the threat posed by malefactors using play to weaponize everything from conspiracy theories to extractive capitalism. Starting from the controversial idea that software is an essential agent in the information age, Sicart considers our culture in general—and our way of thinking about and creating digital technology in particular—as a consequence of interacting with software's agency through play.
As Sicart shows, playing shapes software agency. In turn, software shapes our agency as we adapt and relate to it through play. That play drives the creation of new cultural, social, and political forms. Sicart also reveals the role of make-believe in driving our playful engagement with the digital sphere. From there, he discusses the cybernetic theory of digital play and what we can learn from combining it with the idea that playfulness can mean pleasurable interaction with human and nonhuman agents inside the boundaries of a computational system. Finally, he critiques the instrumentalization of play as a tool wielded by platform capitalism.
Rudolf Inderst is a professor of Game Design with a focus on Digital Game Studies at the IU International University of Applied Science, editor of “Game Studies Watchlist”, a weekly messenger newsletter about Game Culture and curator of @gamestudies at tiktok.
Here’s a special episode of another podcast, Story of the Week. Each week, journalist Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about it, and then interrupts a good conversation by talking about himself. In this episode, Joel is joined by Allison Davis who wrote “My Tinder Decade,” a New York Magazine cover about being on the dating app from the very beginning. And never going on more than five dates with anyone. Listen to new episodes of Story of the Week every Thursday at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/sotw?sid=lotg
