In this visit there is music from The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, The Undertones, The Who, Stevie Wonder, a Kiwi Classic from The Headless Chickens, and more
Start your Thursday off with an update on the situation in Rafah.
Then prepare for next week's #news.
All in 13 minutes.
Find the #FactalForecast where you listen to #Podcasts
Just dropped a new episode of The Self-Host Cast featuring a casual conversation with Ivan, the developer of the #vehicle maintenance tracking application #LubeLogger.
Would love some feedback on ways to improve or suggestions for future episode topics!
"I think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators."
"We're also competing against a lot of people in politics who come along and say... it's those rich people's fault, we'll just take even more money off them and give it to you."
This is the fundamental lie of neoliberal politics. A total inversion of the truth, which is that neoliberal parties say 'it's those poor people's fault, we'll just take the money off them and give it to you', and they do.
"...one of the biggest supporters of extra regulation is big business. If you're a big business, more regulations are a pain, but they're going to hurt and maybe wipe out your competitors and stop any upstarts coming and competing with you."
Our emergency replacement May episode is here! Join @McKenzie_Ben as he shares some of your stories of “starting in the wrong place” in a celebration of this year’s #TerryPratchettDay theme.
"Again, this is that lovely, quaint, sort of late 70s idea, that computers would be better than us at deciding things, isn't it. It's very, very old fashioned. But yeah, they let the computer weigh up the evidence."
And this is that lovely, quaint 2010s idea that computers deciding (or designing) things instead of humans is old-fashioned, instead of being the everyday dystopia they were already starting to live in.
Can you recommend a good open source podcasts app for Android? Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, and I don't think I want listen to podcasts on YT Music
Hey Mastodon, what are your favourite Europe-related accounts to follow? National/European politics, culture, tech, sport, science, etc.
After initially feeling very hopeful that this site could be a great home for us post-Twitter, the conversation has rather dried up over here (for us, at least!) so we’d love to find some new people to follow!