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    Gareth Branwyn: Beyond Cyberpunk

    by Plutopia News Network October 26, 2020
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    Gareth Branwyn contributes regularly to “Boing Boing,” “Adafruit,” and “HackSpace Magazine” and publishes a weekly newsletter, “Gareth’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales.” He is also working on volume 2 of his best-selling 2018 book, Tips and Tales from the Workshop.  Gareth is a well-known writer and editor, and a pioneer of both online culture and the “maker movement.”  Other gigs: he is the former Editorial Director of “Make:,” was a contributing editor to “Wired” for twelve years, and a senior editor of Boing Boing print.  Gareth is author or co-author of over a dozen books, including The Mosaic Quick Tour (the first book about the Web), The Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates (with the editors of Boing Boing), and the “lazy man’s memoir,” Borg Like Me (& Other Tales of Art, Eros, and Embedded Systems).

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    Patrick Lichty: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”

    by Plutopia News Network October 19, 2020
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    Patrick Lichty is a media artist, writer, futurist, curator and designer of over 30 years. He’s currently a professor of media design at Zayed University in Dubai, where he is …

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    Margot Mifflin: Looking for Miss America

    by Plutopia News Network October 12, 2020
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    Margot Mifflin, author of Looking for Miss America, discusses the history, cultural and social impact of the Miss America pageant.

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    Cyberpunk 2014: A Panel Discussion

    by Plutopia News Network October 5, 2020
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    In 2014, Plutopian Maggie Duval produced a great EFF-Austin party and event called Cyberpunk 2014 Retrofest during SXSW. A highlight of the event was an ambitious panel about cyberpunk as …

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    John D. Marks: The Cult of Intelligence

    by Plutopia News Network September 28, 2020
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    John D. Marks was the unlikely featured speaker at the 1977 Libertarian Party National Convention in San Francisco. Marks, the former staff assistant to the Director of the Bureau of …

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    Christopher Brown: Failed State

    by Plutopia News Network September 21, 2020
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    Jon and Scoop interview science fiction author and attorney Christopher Brown about his latest book, Failed State, his second “dystopian lawyer” novel. The book is set just after the Second …

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    Jeanne Mozier: “The World Had to Change”

    by Plutopia News Network September 14, 2020
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    Maggie and Scoop interview Jeanne Mozier, a popular astrologer and speaker. Her understanding of both politics and astrology inform her wide-ranging predictions. Jeanne holds degrees in political science from Cornell …

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    Eliza Evans: All the Way to Hell

    by Plutopia News Network September 7, 2020
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    Jon and Scoop interview artist Eliza Evans, who experiments with sculpture, print, video, and textiles to identify disconnections and absurdities in social, economic, and ecological systems. They discuss some of …

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    e-Patients and Covid-19

    by Plutopia News Network August 31, 2020
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    In this episode, we talk about e-Patients, participatory medicine, and Covid-19. We also talk about “long haulers,” people who have Covid-19 as more of a chronic condition. Their symptoms extend …

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    Joseph Rowe: Spiritual Community

    by Plutopia News Network August 25, 2020
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    Joseph Rowe joins Scoop and Jon in a discussion of spiritual community, evolution, and awakening.

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    Renshin Bunce: Love and Fear

    by Plutopia News Network August 18, 2020
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    Interview with Renshin Bunce, hospice chaplain and Zen priest, and author of the book “Love and Fear.”

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    Mark Frauenfelder: Make Wired Boing

    by Plutopia News Network August 11, 2020
    by Plutopia News Network

    Mark Frauenfelder, Research Director of Institute for the Future, discusses his life as editor, blogger, maker, and influencer. Mark has been a vital part of the mainstreaming of the Internet. …

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    Ed Ward and Nate Wilcox: Let It Roll!

    by Plutopia News Network August 3, 2020
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    Ed Ward and Nate Wilcox of the “Let It Roll” podcast talk about the history, business, and culture of rock and roll.

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    Bijoy Goswami and Robert Matney: The Galloping Gurus!

    by Plutopia News Network July 28, 2020
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    Bijoy Goswami and Robert Matney work with Jon and Scoop to create a “cult of punditry.” This freewheeling conversation covers cults, conspiracies, gurus, toxic soup, science (and the lack of …

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    Robert Matney: Conspiracy Theories and Information Warfare

    by Plutopia News Network July 21, 2020
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    Robert Matney is Managing Director of Government Affairs at Yonder. Yonder is a company that discovers who controls and amplifies narratives across the internet. It uses AI to identify influential …

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    Jasmina Tešanović: Europe in the Time of Covid-19

    by Plutopia News Network July 13, 2020
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    Jasmina Tešanović is a Feminist and political activist, originally from Serbia. She is also author of 15 books, a journalist, musician, translator and film director. More recently, she was one …

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