FFS Talk podcast

By Dan Hugo

This is a conversational show about problems and solutions, discussing what is working and what isn't and what "we" might do about it.

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The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.

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July 25, 2024Episode 0035: News and Knowledge
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: These are interesting times, and keeping track of how interesting they are can be a challenge when there are so many people, and robots, telling us how interesting, for different reasons, and with different agendas. What to do?
Links
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Wonk https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wonk
Nyquist Frequency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency
Lies and Truths https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
Yellow Journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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51min
July 18, 2024Episode 0034: If You Can Keep It
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin ‘Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy’ – ‘A republic,’ replied the Doctor, ‘if you can keep it.’”
Links
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Elizabeth Willing Powel vs Dr Benjamin Franklin https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2022/01/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it-elizabeth-willing-powel-benjamin-franklin-and-the-james-mchenry-journal/
Intel 4004 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-story-of-intel-4004.html
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56min
July 11, 2024Episode 0033: Reaction Videos
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: On the one hand, a good reaction video, to a movie perhaps, a movie already seen, can be interesting and entertaining, watching someone in excerpts experience that which we already have, the big moment, the final outcome, and so on. When those excerpts are news stories, important presentations, or other reactions to similar things, and we treat those reactions as valid analysis of events we may ourselves not have consumed directly, we lose.
Links
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1h 22min
July 04, 2024Episode 0032: Kicking The Can
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Systemic procrastination is a problem, let us begin to discuss it now, rather than later.
Links
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Self-service Street Repairs https://news3lv.com/news/local/east-las-vegas-valley-residents-take-decades-long-road-repairs-into-their-own-hands
SeeClickFix Clark County/Las Vegas/Boulder City https://seeclickfix.com/us-nv-clarkcounty
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59min
June 27, 2024Episode 0031: Re-Engineering The Great Re-Wiring
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Phone free schools and surgeon general warning labels are all the rage, on both sides of each and still other routes to fixing the pickle in which we find ourselves, thank you social media and attention and surveillance economy platforms. Something does not seem right about these solutions, though, let´s engineer this thing.
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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Book Site https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/
Online Supplemental Notes and Figures https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research/supplements-for-each-chapter
EFF on Surgeon General Warning Labels and Phone Freedom https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/no-online-speech-should-not-have-warning-labels
Another proposed solution https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/15/im-an-expert-on-adolescence-heres-why-a-smartphone-ban-isnt-the-answer-and-what-we-should-do-instead
Simon Sinek on Raising a Generation on Dopamine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpogM_fxsQ
LetGrow https://letgrow.org/
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1h 36min
June 20, 2024Episode 0030: Attendance vs Participation
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Woody Allen of all people famously suggested that 80% of Life is Showing Up. Words to that effect, anyway, you really had to be there. If we take that suggestion literally, we may end up where we are now… perhaps we have.
Links
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1h 27min
June 13, 2024Episode 0029: Perception vs Reality
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: The availability heuristic, motivated reasoning, groupthink, and more can combine to shape the way we see the world around us, and its finer details, but should we believe what we think?
Links
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Availability Heuristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
Motivated Reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
Groupthink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
Subjective and Objective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)
Propaganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
Public Opinion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Information
Perfect Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
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1h 7min
June 06, 2024Episode 0028: Online Debates Debatable
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Online debates are all the rage, but are they even debates anymore? Should a debate have an after action smack-down session, declarations of victory, and celebrations of the crushing and ultimate destruction of the other side?
Links
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Start Here for Debates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate
Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X_KdkoGxSs
Ben Shapiro vs Destiny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYrdMjVXyNg
Chris Cuomo vs Dave Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3cdErzfQnI
Hitchens v Hitchens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjQs_QjSwc
Bonum Fidei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_faith
Fallacies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
Social Media Has Collapsed Good Debate https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/joe-rogan-rfk-jr-interview-debate/674515/
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1h 23min
May 30, 2024Episode 0027: Monoliths and Oligoliths
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: What do we do when there is only one substantive choice, when the masses accept that choice, and then the one choice fails miserably? Do we go to the next most popular and make it the new one, and do that again and again? Is it possible to take back a modicum of agency and maybe autonomy into our uncertain futures?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Oligopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
Monopsony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
Oligopsony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopsony
Information Silo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_silo
2001: A Space Odyssey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey
The Paradox of Choice (book and concept) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
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1h 22min
May 23, 2024Episode 0026: News to Me
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Some observations about modern news coverage, the non-stop news coverage situation, and cameras in the court room. The best time to be aware of biased and incomplete reporting was a few thousand years ago, the second best time is now.
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
The Blind Men and the Elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
The Club Dumas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Club_Dumas
Motivated Reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
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1h 19min

FAQs about FFS Talk podcast:

How many episodes does FFS Talk podcast have?

The podcast currently has 166 episodes available.