Hyperloop to Nowhere ft. Paris Marx
Added 2022-09-27 10:26:09 +0000 UTCThis week, Paris Marx of the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast joins us to talk about their book, 'Road to Nowhere', and how silicon valley fundamentally cannot imagine a future without cars. We check in on the progress of long-time archenemy of the show Elon Musk's hyperloop, and examine his ongoing effort to escape his obligations to purchase twitter.
Get your very own copy of Paris' book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3995-road-to-nowhere
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).
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If you want to cover BookTok (and also not get accused of being a misogynist lol), you could interview Amanda Golka of Swell Entertainment. She covers a lot of the same sorts of things as 10k Posts, except that she covers TikTok instead because she is one of “the youth” as opposed to us geriatric 30-somethings. (I’m sure there are other people who do the same, but she’s the person I watch religiously to get my news about The Kids These Days.) She also reviews IRL influencer events and reviews products that sponsor a lot of other people’s posts, if those are variations on “everything is posting” that you’d be interested in covering.
Elsie Hupp
2022-09-28 15:51:59 +0000 UTCThis is interesting, thank you!
Ten Thousand Posts
2022-09-28 05:26:26 +0000 UTCAt 26 minutes Phoebe et al discuss scientists making up particles to get funding. This is very much true https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physics-particles-physicists but the standard model of physics has already predicted all the ones that seem to matter - the article linked does cover that as well. The theoretical goal is to create a new model of physics that explains away uncertainties, but the bullshit particles are mostly that: bullshit.
Tess
2022-09-27 21:29:56 +0000 UTCIn my experience the company cars I've seen are not an executive thing per se, they're more for people who need to travel a lot for work (eg you work for a government agency like the Parks Department of a state and you need to visit each state park a few times a month). That or you work in repairs. Technically, a cop car is a company car.
Jordan Clementi
2022-09-27 14:01:08 +0000 UTC
