FFS Talk podcast

FFS Talk podcast

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FFS Talk podcast episodes

  • Episode 0093: Context in Modern Media
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: In these modern times, everyone is a reporter, though very few are journalists, and those who are may or may not be putting in the time when the next YouTube video or TikTok or Reel or whatever needs to be posted.
    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/
    • Wired Article on Chorus taking Dark Money https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
    • BTC Short on launching a new platform for left creators https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f6uwmKZ8_3I
    • BTC on focus explicitly on messaging and expanding reach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB3yvIqcwQo
    • WeAreChorus site https://www.wearechorus.com/
    • Taylor Lorenz site https://www.usermag.co/
    • Brian Tyler Cohen site https://www.briantylercohen.com/
    50 min
  • Episode 0092: Pizza
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Pizza is one of those things that is regional, somewhat tribal, and is always a topic of conversation. The same is true of a great many things, but who doesn’t like pizza? Don’t answer that.
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • Wikipedia Pizza page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza
    25 min
  • Episode 0091: Blockchain Web3 Metaverse AI Oh My
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The hype cycle is real, and we seem to be experiencing them in overlapping fashion, faster and faster, like Tarzan passing from vine to vine through modernity. Gartner Hype Curve cover art image by By Olga Tarkovskiy - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27546041
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • Gartner Hype Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
    33 min
  • Episode 0090: Ideological Platforms
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Who at this point is not on one or both of Twitter and Bluesky, or X and BS if you like, and who finds that a good thing?
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • Gizmodo on Social Media Bots Study https://gizmodo.com/researchers-made-a-social-media-platform-where-every-user-was-ai-the-bots-ended-up-at-war-2000642012
    • Ars on Social Media Bots Study (w interview) https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-media-probably-cant-be-fixed/
    • The Study preprint on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
    59 min
  • Episode 0089: Explainers
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Explainers are a real thing, on YouTube especially but on any video media, well-produced explanations about how things work, from people who might know what they’re talking about…
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    40 min
  • Episode 0088: Solipsism
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The philosophical notion of solipsism is a bit extreme, while the more practical definition or common use leans more toward individualism or egocentrism. Whatever the words we use, are we too selfish?
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • Philosophical Solipsism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
    • Prisoner’s Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
    29 min
  • Episode 0087: Civics
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: From sports to driving to preparing food and more, there are so many things we need, or want, to do each day which we choose to learn about, understand, and practice on a regular basis. Why have we made that one big thing that we all use continuously in one way or another, such a mystery?
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • Civics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civics
    38 min
  • Episode 0086: Knowing vs Not Knowing
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: If someone is supposed to know something, and others rely on them to know that something, but they do not know that something, what next?
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • Dunning-Kruger Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
    29 min
  • Episode 0085: Graph Memory
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: A graph is a collection of nodes connected in one or both directions by edges, which is a fancy way of saying we can represent notions and their interconnections and relationships with a graph. What might be nice is if we could help the memory of the masses with graphs, but how soon we forget…
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • Graph Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory
    34 min
  • Episode 0084: Reviewing Things
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Reviews are everywhere, whether stars or hearts or likes with categories or rankings and of course the long form anecdote where we get to tell our stories, relevant or not. Have we lost the plot?
    Links
    • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
    • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
    • KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
    • NPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_promoter_score
    • Bandwagon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect
    • Testimonial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimonial
    • Confirmation Bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
    • Review Bombing Incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_review-bombing_incidents
    45 min

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