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In the first part of the show, Leilani Albano interviews Krist Azizian, the Chief Pharmacy Officer at USC about the COVID vaccine.

(18:25) In the middle, Brittney is joined by Sophia Brueckner, she’s an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design. Sophia recently wrote a piece called, Sharing Isn’t Broadcasting, about how the word “sharing” has been co-opted by social media companies.

(39:11) To close out the show, Ric Allen is back with Brad Friedman to iron out election 2020. 

On this week's episode of Digital Village, Leilani Albano interviews USC Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Dr. Paula Cannon to talk about concerns with herd immunity as a primary strategy for tackling the coronavirus pandemic

First, it’s not just the presidential election that matters, here in California, we have quite a few propositions on the ballot - a lot of which are pretty confusing. I am joined by AI and privacy policy researcher Peter Eckersley to talk about Prop 24, which makes some amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act, and Prop 25, which is a referendum on law that replaced money bail with system based on public safety and flight risk.

In the first part of the show Ric is joined by KPFK's own Brad Friedman to talk Election 2020. Then we talk to Jenny Gottstein an experience and play designer about making voting an experience we can enjoy with her work at ballot.party and Game Save America.

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On this week's episode of Digital Village, Dr. Addison Killean Stark is back to talk about science literacy in Congress and what happened to the Office of Technology Assessment. In the last part of the show Leilani Albano is joined by the Union of Concerned Scientists Shana Udvardy to talk about FEMA and Unemployment Benefits.

But first, COVID-19 impacts have been far reaching, especially for government. I am joined by LADOT’s Colin Sweeney and CityGrows CEO and co-founder Catherine Geanuracos. To talk about how CityGrows’ technology has helped LADOT (and other governments) adapt quickly during COVID times. 

On this week's episode of Digital Village, Joanna Miller gives us A View From the Outside on Experience Design with Jenny Sauer-Klein.

Then, Leilani Albano is joined by the EFF's Alexis Hancock, to talk about immunity passports for COVID-10.

In the last part of the show, Ric is joined by Hayley Tsukayama to talk about how California’s Assembly killed the effort to expand broadband for all Californians and what we can do about it.

In the first part of the show Dr. Addison Killean Stark of the Bipartisan Policy Center is back to talk about the Crescent Dunes Solar Plant filing for bankruptcy and how we need space for failure to tackle climate change.

In the last part of the show I am joined by author Gemma Milne to talk about her book, Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It. 

On this weeks episode Ric interviews the LA Times' Ryan Faughnder about Trump vs. Tik Tok.

In the second part of the show, Digital Village reporter Leilani Albano interviews Carol Moon Goldberg the President of The League of Women Voters of California about the USPS and how we can vote safely this November.

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In the first part of the show, Brittney interviews Dr. Tim Tangherlini, a professor in the Scandanavian Department at UC Berkeley. He was formerly at UCLA where he collaborated with colleagues in the engineering and computer science department on a paper called, An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy and conspiracy theory narrative frameworks. In our conversation we talk about the difference between conspiracies and conspiracy theories, how conspiracy theory narratives fall apart computationally, and how we can slow the spread of conspiracy theories.

In the second part of the show, Digital Village reporter Leilani Albano talks to the EFF’s Danny O’Brien about the NSA’s surveillance of people in the EU. 

In the first part of the show, we talk to Shawn Shan, a PhD student at University of Chicago, who works in privacy and security specifically in emerging technology. Shawn is one of the researchers behind Fawkes, which is software that makes subtle changes to images to make it harder for machines to recognize images as the same, even if to the human eye they appear identical. 

In the second half of the show, Dr. Peter Eckersley is back to talk about Language Models. Back in July, Open AI, the AI research and deployment company based in San Francisco, released the 3rd generation of their language model, GPT-3. This version has garnered a lot of excitement. There’s been people who have used it to generate conversations between computing pioneers Claude Shannon and Alan Turing or having it generate entire stories with just a one sentence prompt. 

(00:40) We’ve already seen the launch of The Emirates Mars Mission and China’s Tianwen, but of course the veterans of Mars, NASA are set to launch their Perseverance Rover on July 30th. I am joined by Jim Bell, a professor at ASU, President of the Planetary Society. He is the principal investigator on the Mastcam-Z instrument on Perseverance about what's new on this mission (think helicopters, sample collection, and sounds) and why the technology on the rover is more advanced than it seems.

(08:50) Joanna Miller is back with a new episode of A View from the Outside. Joanna interviews Liza Gurtin about notifications.

(21:02) Digital Village reporter Leilani Albano interviews Sandy Fulton, Free Press' Government Relations Director about the FBI's surveillance of Black activists.