Memetic Hazard

Memetic Hazard

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Memetic Hazard episodes

  • Series 6 Episode 12: The 'Experience Party'

    This episode we talk about:

    • Changing Seasons
    • Equinox (the game)
    • Spanish Monk Game
    • Old Game Effort
    • The British Games Press
    • Oddworld
    • Lorne Lanning interview
    • "My Religion Is Yoda"
    • Corporate negotiation strategy
    • Master & Commander
    • The Idea Of Care
    • Columbo
    • American Comedy As Stress Reduction
    • Power Broker Chat
    • Slow Detective
    • Robert Caro Simulator
    • Great Man Vs Systems
    • Fortifications Around Policy

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      Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

      1 hr 32 min
    • Series 6 Episode 11: A Lot In A Lamp

      This episode we talk about:

      • Amberley Working Museum
      • National Railway Museum
      • Linotype & labour
      • A Print Shop Story
      • The Televisor
      • Train extension
      • The Tobacco Turbine
      • Sinclair C5
      • Micro Men
      • Miniaturisation
      • National Enterprise Board
      • British Aerospace
      • Olivetti
      • Bread & Butter
      • Word Processing
      • Big Jim
      • Yellow Text (On A Black Background)
      • Street lamp collectors' paradise
      • Hat Chat
      • The Shape Of Safety
      • Planes

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        Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

        1 hr 59 min
      • Series 6 Episode 10: The Tyranny Of Convenience

        This episode we talk about:

        • TRON
        • People At Work
        • The Cruiserweight Surveyor
        • A Fraught Negotiation
        • The Dripping Tap
        • Birds From Portugal
        • Holiday Locations
        • Typing Machine
        • OWL
        • Diet Chat
        • Approach Tree
        • Forest-to-time
        • too much content
        • Novelty Sources
        • The Optimisation Hole
        • Clipper Instant Coffee
        • Energy Drinks
        • Coffee bags???
        • Vanilla yoghurt & blueberries
        • Nothing Works Forever
        • Early broadband
        • Half-Lag 2
        • Just Drag It Onto Flash
        • What Are Files
        • Pigeon Density Effect
        • Lemma Demon
        • A Man Like This
        • The Convivial Technology
        • Google internal competition
        • The perils of networking
        • The Thing Itself
        • Text Flow
        • iPod Refurbishment
        • Programme
        • Bob Moses
        • Reality Detail
        • Everything Is Unique
        • Sometimes Things Just Happen
        • And Sometimes People Make Them
        • The World At War
        • Oliver Reed

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          Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

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        • Series 6, Episode 9: Sock Plus

          This episode we talk about:

          • Beko
          • The joy of clean clothes
          • Historical bathing
          • Outsourcing
          • Principals Agent Problems
          • Transaction Cost
          • Maintenance
          • Saw Tooth
          • Fire Fighting
          • Systems-level problems
          • The Odyssey (2026)
          • Tartaria
          • Hornimania
          • Baloons
          • Washing machine codes
          • Appliance convergence
          • Two knobs
          • Microwave manual
          • Ironing
          • Tools Not Walls
          • Large Laundry Management
          • Sock Plus
          • Vegetables in a washing machine
          • Desiccation
          • Caring
          • The Moral Goodness Of craft
          • Fansubs
          • Virtue
          • Humans be varied
          • The Power Of Specialisation

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            Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

            1 hr 58 min
          • Series 6, Episode 8: Banfields

            This episode we talk about:

            • Specialist shops
            • Local history
            • Owning the building
            • Natural monopolies
            • Economic drift
            • Old Person Annealing
            • Political Colours
            • Broadcast News
            • Adam Curtis Clones
            • Institutional Gothic
            • Kirby Instinct
            • Officialations
            • Language and rules
            • Dan Davies post
            • Cross-pollenation
            • WolframAlphra
            • 3D Constraints
            • Fashion Cycles
            • Japanese Music
            • Mystery Train
            • Name issue-addressing
            • Function of identity
            • Reifying behaviours
            • Conflicting values
            • Moral rupture
            • Bad Stuff
            • How to help

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              Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

              2 hr 7 min
            • Series 6, Episode 7: Made In China 2

              This episode, we talk about:

              • Cutting one's losses
              • Explore/exploit
              • Forcing functions
              • External productivity support
              • Brushing My Teeth Thoughts
              • Middlemen
              • Wireless Mice
              • More of a G than the real G
              • Knock-offs
              • Mazes & Labyrinths
              • Inverse Phase
              • Flying Snakes
              • St John's takedown
              • Kid Gaming Training
              • PS2-compatible USB keyboards
              • Learning To Code
              • Seeing the earlier thing
              • The Residual
              • Monastic
              • Revealed Truth
              • Small Luke
              • The Unfinished Story
              • Lobot
              • Don't You Like This Thing

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                Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

                1 hr 25 min
              • Series 6, Episode 6: Priority: Economic Targets

                This episode, we talk about:

                • Organising trays
                • Hygrometer lifestyle
                • Square 2
                • MGS2
                • Unexpected systems depth
                • The Isometric Adventure Game Boom
                • The silliness of games
                • Will Wright turning into Serge Gainsbourg
                • Things that seem fully formed
                • Flash MX 2004
                • Fatalities
                • Overclocking
                • QWOP vibes
                • Extreamly
                • Power Broker chat
                • Video GAmes
                • Australian English
                • Possibly Haunted Rug
                • Space Music
                • The Gerard Way Effect
                • Quoting unmemorable phrases
                • MP3 players
                • Support your local theatre
                • Steerable rounds
                • Culture of disposability
                • Surplus
                • The Ikea Version
                • The Good Simple Apps
                • Step Count XML
                • SUckless
                • Camera People

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                  Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

                  1 hr 49 min
                • Series 6, Episode 5: Titanic Alternate Ending

                  you should really watch that titanic alternate ending, it's quite something

                  This episode, we talk about:

                  • Correct weather
                  • Substack article genii
                  • tooft
                  • Claude monospace font
                  • Data munging
                  • Clock radio collector
                  • Brown Hardboard
                  • Domestic electronics production
                  • New Macbooks
                  • Alumium
                  • The Big Twisst
                  • Highball cocktail films
                  • Titanic In Minecraft
                  • Digital Antiquarian
                  • The Power Broker
                  • James Cameron
                  • Titanic Alternate Ending
                  • On there
                  • Outside stuff
                  • Metal Gear
                  • Fresh feeling
                  • Babby boy graphics
                  • Retrospective detail appreciation
                  • Freeze-dried strawberries
                  • Virtues
                  • Water the garden
                  • Not everything is a reference
                  • Who I am
                  • Dubstep central heating

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                    Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

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                  • Series 6, Episode 4: The Management Crisis In British Industry

                    forgot to take notes for this one

                    This episode, we talk about:

                    • mostly To Play The King but probably some other stuff too

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                      Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

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                    • Series 6, Episode 3: Peter Kay Anki

                      garlic bread? garlic bread.

                      This episode, we talk about:

                      • 'gangsta'
                      • Sleep Times
                      • Flat Chat
                      • Memories
                      • Teen Boys
                      • Information Stack
                      • Kings & Queens Ruler
                      • Temporal thinking
                      • Thinking Like An LLM
                      • Objectivism & Objectivity
                      • Toy Philosophy
                      • Orange, Nostalgia
                      • Keep Steering The Boat
                      • Non-stalgia
                      • Contemporary Or Rustic
                      • The Future
                      • Nostalgia accumulators
                      • Demographic confusion
                      • Zoomer reccs
                      • Feedback loops of life
                      • Building life stories
                      • Modern Chinese blog post

                        • Don’t forget to review and subscribe and follow us on Twitter and Mastodon (and Bluesky I guess)!

                        Also, read Adam’s blog and Josef’s blog.

                        1 hr 24 min

                      About Memetic Hazard

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                      a slow, sometimes-clumsy but always-heartfelt grasping-towards-truth