The Stack Podcast

Our discussion this week precedes Andy's leaving for Asia, perhaps for good and all, and why it should be so that the people we know in tech and finance are increasingly participating in elite abandonment of the...what is it called, now? Global American Empire?

This week we're joined by Dr. Jonathan Paprocki, who explains the current state of quantum computing as well as why it is important for Urbit to consider the 'quantum apocalypse' and be prepared for it. We also discuss with him his views on how Urbit might evolve to encompass previously unconsidered forms of anarchic or communistic governance via Urbit's unique and still-developing network.

This week we speak with Jennifer Dodgson, CEO of Lexikat, a company working to bring low-code natural language processing to businesses. Jennifer is also an expert in the politics of ancient China and is renowned for her translations of The Strategems of the Warring States.

This week we speak with ~winter-dozren, a fourth member of Urbit Asia and buyer and seller of crypto since its early days. We talk to him about the Wild West of Bitcoin, life in Singapore, what to drink in India, and how to do degen right.

This week we talk with ~mirtyl-wacdec about Asian languages, developing for Urbit, and setting up Urbit Asia and Urbit Asia University. We discuss evangelizing in Asia and the mission to teach Asian languages and history to Martians.

This week we talk with Anthony Arroyo, Project Manager at Tlon, about the Futurist movement, what technology *is*, the design ethics of Urbit, how governance works in Urbit, and more.

This week, Andy and Josh take on the Great Gamestop Short Squeeze, talk about bastard bankers, horrible hedge funds, and the theft of indigenous lands from young male gamers who then turn to FINANCIAL PIRACY. Look at me. I'm the Tendieman Now.

This week we talk with ~rabsef-bicrym about learning Urbit's native programming language, Hoon. We discuss Hoon's structure and the particular challenges inherent in understanding how to work with a purely functional language. Hear ~rabsef talk about setting up Hooniversity, the Urbit community's education initiative; then find out how to sign up for the next run of the school so you can make an Urbit native app of your own.

This week, Josh and Andy talk Sichuan, land of spicy food, pandas, and...yes, yes, there is more to it than that. There are rockets and crypto mines, grand waterworks, towering mountains, Tibetan shepherds, seas of grass and bamboo, and more than one Very Large Buddha.

This week Andy and Josh discuss the tech landscapes of both China and the US--including where China lags or has surpassed the US--censorship in both political arenas, and where not to run when Twitter decides you’re persona non grata