Winning Slowly

Winning Slowly

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Winning Slowly episodes

  • 6.12: Beer Rules
    Regulation as neither bogeyman nor panacea, but a way of protecting out the right spaces for genuine competition to emerge.
    41 min
  • 100!
    Our 100th episode spectacular – with a look at where we have come from and where we are going.
    41 min
  • 6.06: A Kind of Blindness

    Smart cities, “big data”, and the meaninglessness of mere information.

    Show Notes

    We attempt to take down the idea that more data is the solution to our problems. Without wisdom, and without an ethical frame, numbers mean nothing.

    Links
    • The metadata of experience, the experience of metadata – Nick Carr
    • China’s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech – Rene Chun at The Atlantic
    • “Smart” refigerators DDOS-ing things
      • Massive Dyn DDOS Attack: Experts Blame Smart Fridges, DVRs And Other IoT Devices Why Your Internet Went Down
      • KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Record DDoS
      • The Democratization of Censorship
      • Redlining:
        • Wikipedia
        • Modern-day redlining: How banks block people of color from homeownership
        • See also: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ discussion of redlining in his much-discussed piece in The Atlantic, “The Case For Reparations”
        • Music
          • “Sharalee” by Jamison Isaak, a.k.a. Teen Daze
          • “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.
          • Sponsors

            Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors:

            • Andrew Fallows
            • Kurt Klassen
            • Jake Grant
            • Jeremy W. Sherman
            • If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash.

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              32 min
            • 6.05: Crispr
              What are the limits on gene editing? Should we be doing it at all? If so, under what circumstances? Who determines where it's okay to use Crispr?
              35 min

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