In this week’s Plutopia podcast, Jon and Scoop make a deep dive into death… also Halloween, sex, pagan celebrations, and Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). “Everyone is…
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Just in time for Halloween – scary stories from the world of big tech!! Thanks to our friends at EFF-Austin, we present a session with author and tech veteran Vahid…
Hugo award-winning author Pat Cadigan joins Jon and Scoop to discuss her novelization of William Gibson’s first screenplay for Alien 3, the third movie in the Alien franchise. The final…
This time, we dig deep into the archives for a flashback to the final episode published prior to our seven-year “sabbatical”. “Miller is as quirky and delightful as ever, treating…
Stephanie Vale, the pen name of a longtime WELL member, is a semi-retired attorney and part-time university instructor in the US Pacific Northwest. She has loved Jane Austen for more…
Johannes Grenzfurthner discusses discuss nerd culture, context hacking, sex and technology, cocktail robotics, and his new film.
Chris Zappone: Media, Social Media, and Politics
Chris Zappone works as a foreign news editor in Australian media. Chris has written about geopolitics, space, technology, ideology, and the future. He has consulted with universities, think tanks and…
Suzanne Stefanac talks about her work on low power FM radio, Covid and conservatives, the current state of journalism and education, and a new mantra, “Be good. Do good.”
Rock and roll! Plutopia News Network cohosts Scoop and Jon talk about their internet radio show, Radio Free Plutopia. They also discuss their lifetime love of rock and roll, vinyl…
Artist Eliza Evans returns with an update on her activist art project, “All the Way to Hell.” We also talk about fracking, the oil industry, nonprofit organizations, hybrid art forms,…