FFS Talk podcast

FFS Talk podcast

By Dan HugoSociety & Culture
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FFS Talk podcast episodes

  • Episode 0103: Complexity
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Is simplicity more and more difficult to find? Look around, we depend more and more on things that are less and less transparent, more difficult to repair, and probably doing something to us we would rather they did not do.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    39 min
  • Episode 0102: Two
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The paradox of choice, an embarrassment of riches, how to decide, do we even want to? Too many and we might not, none and we may rebel, so we settle on…
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • The Paradox of Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
    • Pasta Sauce Choice (Malcolm Gladwell TED) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y
    28 min
  • Episode 0101: The Comments
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Surely someone has suggested this, that the internet has made speech and conversation ubiquitous, or nearly so, for better or worse. Does it feel like worse sometimes?
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • A History of The Comment Section https://inevitablehuman.com/the-complicated-history-and-frightful-future-of-the-internet-comment-section/
    • The WELL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
    • Godwin’s Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
    35 min
  • Episode 0100: Public Safety
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: One political hot potato that has come up many, many times in recent years, Defund The Police, is classic misdirection, but a hard look at public safety is long past due.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Copaganda book https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/206303786-copaganda
    • Sunnyvale DPS https://www.sunnyvale.ca.gov/your-government/departments/public-safety
    • Defund the Police wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police
    • Defund the Police website (one of) https://defundthepolice.org/
    43 min
  • Episode 0099: Armchair Experts
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The Internet is sometimes lauded as one of the greatest human inventions of all time, connecting every part of the world to every other, and the people and things occupying it. We barely need to go outside anymore, and this is a problem.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    46 min
  • Episode 0098: The Algorithm
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: We have talked about a variety of issues that are certainly adjacent to this one, but let us take a look at the so-called Algorithm and where we have some problems.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Netflix Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
    • Random Surfer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_surfing_model
    • Enpoopification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
    54 min
  • Episode 0097: Turmoil
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: We talked about Fragility in Episode 0075 of this audio program, now is a good time to ponder Turmoil in that context.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    37 min
  • Episode 0096: Open Analysis in Action
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: As this episode is recorded one of the news items of the day concerns a crime committed in public, with multiple video angles, multiple witnesses, a suspect, and a variety of statements and silence from all corners. Maybe history does rhyme.
    Links
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Sensor Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion
    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 0095: Personal Supply Chains
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Anyone who had never before heard of a supply chain probably did during the infamous Pandemic Lockdowns, when global supply chains were suddenly a part of the problem rather than the amazing global economy. What about your own supply chains?
    Links
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    • Supply Chain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain
    42 min
  • Episode 0094: Context Tools and Methods
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Recorded on a day with one so-called Political Assassination and yet another school shooting here in the US, the way we share this information is in need of some reflection and improvement.
    Links
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • FFS Talk Home https://ffstalk.com/
    1 hr 4 min

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