Post Pandemic

James is the Chief Technology Officer Asia-Pacific at SEEK, the massive online job board.

This episode was recorded on 5 June 2020

Hastened digitisation thanks to Covid-19 means the decisions CTOs make affect how everyone will work.

Behind that is corporate coding culture, expected to become more like open source coding culture without the office.

It's also a culture based on explaining yourself in the form of proposed changes to code rather than theoretical diagrams and strategies.

James says this "levels the playing field greatly."

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

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This stuff is rife during the pandemic. And not just Bill Gates, 5G, bleach or hydroxychloroquine. 

Irene, among other things, shares a rumour that started in the Philippines that spiked the price of eggs. No one wants that.

Her humanitarian experience in information is fascinating. Currently tracking rumours in South East Asia from her home in Melbourne, there's great insight into the actions and reactions of viral, ironic, worried, conspiratorial and genuine transmission of misinformation.  

 

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

The New Humanitarian: What West Africa’s resilience can teach the world about COVID-19

The Guardian: Africa facing a quarter of a billion coronavirus cases, WHO predicts

Africa Check - africacheck.org

Irene says about Africa Check, "an awesome fact-checking organisation busting all kinds of myths about COVID and everything else - they have a great podcast called 'What's crap on whatsapp' that debunks messages that are forwarded on that platform."

 

ABOUT IRENE SCOTT

On Twitter @IseeScott

Bio from Internews, which is most relevant in this context.

For the last eight years, Irene has been working across the Pacific, South Sudan, Bangladesh, and Europe in countries affected by conflict or natural disaster. She specializes in working with communities to build systems that allow them to engage with first responders and access reliable information in challenging contexts.

Before working with Internews, Irene was a radio journalist and presenter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Triple J and Paoa FM in the Solomon Islands.

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

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Footy is the thing to do for thousands of suburbs and towns around Australia.

There's often more happening off the field as teams of volunteers administer the club, the sport and the weekly social event that rules the Australian winter.

Correction: The longest trip in the Golden Rivers Football Netball League is actually between Hay in NSW and Nullawil in Victoria at around 3 hours (that makes a six hour round trip).

 

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

Farm Fit on Facebook Video

For information about Australian football in rural Victoria:  https://www.countryfootyscores.com/

 

ABOUT ANDY BELLAIRS

He's one of the Coodabeen Champions, sports journalist, broadcaster and casual aural historian (chats to people) of community Australian football, with a specialisation in Victoria.

Also a fan of the Melbourne Demons in the AFL.

Get him on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

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Food supply chains are catching up to covid eating habits in the UK.

What might become obselete because of covid-19?

Prof MacMillan says "the notion that self sufficiency is irrelevant to how secure food supply is... as a country or a region that we don't need to grow much of our own food in order to feed ourselves we can always import it."

 

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

FULL POLL RESULTS: Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

SKY NEWS: Coronavirus: Only 9% of Britons want life to return to 'normal' once lockdown is over

 

ABOUT PROF TOM MACMILLAN

SOURCE: Prof MacMillan - Royal Agriculture University

Professor MacMillan focuses on informing national and international policy relating to the land-based sector, the environment and food.

Tom is also Head of Research for the RSA Food, Farming & Countryside Commission.

From 2003-2011 he was Executive Director of the Food Ethics Council.

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

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Bumping into someone or something/s is not what it used to be, or will be in the future.

"One of the first things that will happen is that we're going to surprise ourselves by being surprised, you know, we're going to have that experience of going, 'Oh, God. That's, that's what I was missing'" - Esther Anatolitis

Post pandemic populations are likely to experience suprise, satisfaction and maybe serendipity missing from isolation life.

 

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

Esther's piece in The Guardian, with 100+ signatories, and link to all the relevant pieces including the Minister's from the day before.

Esther's ecent twitter thread bringing together all the economists.

National Association of the Visual Arts

Collingwood Yards

The Guardian: Coronavirus hit Australia’s arts industry hard and early. Our support package is designed to help

ABC News: Coronavirus has shut down Australia's arts industry but artists say the Government has ignored them

Australian Government Arts update

 

ABOUT ESTHER ANATOLITIS

Esther is the Executive Director at the National Association of the Visual Arts, Deputy Chair of Collingwood Yards, also Hon A/Professor at RMIT.

Esther's personal website

Esther on Twitter

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is card counting and gaming in casinos going to be different after Covid-19?

Sure is.

Daniel learned card counting in his later years at university around 2003 and has been politely asked to leave, restricted and known to casinos he's diligently played blackjack in.

One takeaway for anyone that visits a casino - there's little chance they wash the chips at all.

 

Links from the episode

Blackjack The Forum

Norm's free book about Blackjack 

Daniel says, "This website also has a lot of great content" about card counting. 

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's getting cut with traditional illicit drugs like MDMA, herion and cocaine.

It's killed Prince, Tom Petty and thousands of other Americans, then more around the world.

The precursers that make fentanyl mostly come from China, with Mexican drug cartels buying them to make the drug.

Ben went undercover in Wuhan China to write Fentanyl Inc.

What's going to happen to the manufacture, supply chain, sale and consumption of the most lethal opioid.

 

Ben Westhoff website

 

Ben Westhoff's book is Fentanyl Inc. Get it from his website.

“Best Books From 2019” -Buzzfeed

“Best Health and Popular Science Books of 2019” - Kirkus

“Our 25 Favorite Books of 2019” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

The Atlantic: The Brazen Way a Chinese Company Pumped Fentanyl Ingredients Into the U.S.

Graphic - Overdose death rates involving opioids by type [Wikipedia]

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sitting in a crowded room with strangers all laughing about something said on stage?

Not likely at the moment, and after Covid-19 possibly not likely then either. For a bit.

So we asked Melbourne-based comedian Sami Shah how he sees stand-up comedy in the post pandemic world.

 

Links from the episode

Watch Sami on QI, talking about mangos

Sami Shah - Website

Sami on Medium

Sami on Instagram (with white hair)

Sami on Facebook

Laughing Dead podcast hosted by Sami

 

ABOUT SAMI (from his website)

Sami Shah is a multi-award winning writer and comedian. He’s been profiled in the New York Times, ABC’s The Australian Story, BBC Radio 4, NPR, and appeared on QI with Stephen Fry, and The Project.

Sami has been performing award-winning and highly acclaimed comedy for over a decade, and used his acerbic wit to address world affairs and social issues, in comedy clubs and even international platforms like TEDx. 

 

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Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

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"Post-pandemic I do believe we'll have much more of an appreciation for the way we communicate visually" - Jamie Cohen, Cultural and Media Studies PhD

Virtual reality and now augmented reality have had a few goes at mainstream relevance beyond novelty.

Most recently with Oculus Rift, Playstation's VR gear, HTC's headset and whatever Apple are up to.

With so many people aching to experience any world outside their home, could post pandemic bring new life to a media experience that has promised so much?

Probably not.

 

OneZero: Virtual Reality Is Missing Its Moment… Again 

Mixed reality demonstration - Microsoft Hololens

Idiocracy - Trailer / Wikipedia / IMDb

 

ABOUT DR JAMIE COHEN

Founder, New Media at Molloy College NY. Cultural and Media Studies PhD.

Co-author of the first peer-reviewed article on Pepe the frog. Memologist.

jamescohen.com

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"This is a very, very strange world event with film and TV is largely not being produced at this time," Dr Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne

Thought that film and TV creators are holed up and scribbling the next pandemic blockbuster? Perhaps not.

 

ARTICLE: COVID-19, the movie? Don’t hold your breath [CRIKEY.COM]

LaurenRosewarne.com

Lauren on Twitter

ARTICLE: One podcard and one pandemic [MEANJIN]

 

ABOUT DR LAUREN ROSEWARNE

Dr Lauren Rosewarne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

She currently teaches in the areas of political science and gender studies and writes, comments and speaks on a wide variety of topics including gender, sexuality, politics, public policy, social media, pop culture and technology.

 

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The 7 questions for every guest

1. What will be different about after the pandemic?

2. What do you think will become obsolete?

3. What will be different in your daily life?

4. What positives do you see coming from COVID19?

5. How do you think you’ll describe the pandemic to someone in the future that didn't experience it?

6. If you were to write a book, film or TV series about the global pandemic what would you call it?

7. What should we be paying attention to now that will affect life after the pandemic?

 

Post Pandemic is hosted by Courtney Carthy

Production by Nearly Media

Cover artwork by Studio Baker

Theme music created by Alex Shulgin

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.