just recorded a new episode of CD-ROM Safari: You Don't Know Jack.

https://cd-rom.ca/podcast/season2/episode5

brian and i bumble our way through the tangled history of hilarious YDKJ games over the past 30 years, starting with the original for Windows 3.1/Mac

#multimedia #cdrom #podcast #macintosh #win31

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The front cover art for the party quiz game You Don't Know Jack. It shows a bald man looking up at the title which has been tattooed to his forehead.

I came to Norman Fairclough late, and by accident. A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis was printed without a single reference to critical discourse analysis, which in retrospect looks less like restraint than like a gap in my reading.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/exposure-is-not-indictment

#philosophy #language #linguistics #languageInsufficiencyHypothesis #criticaldiscourseanalysis #analysis #discourse #critique #substack #blog #podcast

Is truth the most dangerous fantasy ever invented? I find myself on Manuel Delaflor’s side of the argument.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-certificate-and-the-cliff

#philosophy #language #truth #reality #buddhism #deflationism #epistemology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #substack

𝗘𝗹𝗺𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁:

#Elm #Podcast #ElmTown

https://thewhale.cc/posts/elmtown-podcast

A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.

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A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.

💃 Copyright uncertainty can keep culture out of public view, even when it's preserved.

In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi join Dave Hansen to show how communities can confidently exercise fair use.

Example: after the dance community developed a Code of Best Practices, archives began sharing excerpts of historic performance footage online. 🎞️

Hear their conversation on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/reclaiming-fair-use

Companies are hiring philosophers, and that's a good thing, right?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-philosophers-are-here-which-philosophers

#ai #ethics #philosophy #aiethics #governance #utilitarianism #selectionbias #technology #criticism #moralphilosophy #analyticalphilosophy #power #institutions #hiring #employment #perspectives #blog #substack #podcast

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Mark Sallings Playing Playhouse

https://sbblues.com/2026/08/09/dj-hairy-larry-presents-mark-sallings-playing-playhouse/

Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear an original song from a bluesman who lived in Wynne, Arkansas.

Mark Sallings and the Famous Unknowns were the house band at B.B. Kings in Memphis. Mark sang and played harmonica, sax, and keys. I got to know his wife, Sandi and Mark when he was playing at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas.

#blues #Arkansas #radio #podcast #djHairyLarry #SomethingBlue

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Album art for Mark Sallings - Let It Be Known shows a grainy high contrast black and white photo of Mark leaning against a truck.

"A bumper crop of new kids’ #books about the #HighHolidays is hitting shelves in 2026, surprising close observers of #Jewish children’s #literature.

“It is unusual for multiple #Sukkot books to be #published in the same year, especially of consistently high quality. It’s very exciting,” said #HeidiRabinowitz, a Jewish #librarian and host of the #Book of Life #podcast, which describes itself as “a podcast about Jewish #kidlit (mostly).”

#Rabinowitz noted with appreciation that one of the books was coming from a mainstream secular press, rather than from the smaller boutique presses that tend to release books about Jewish holidays.

She offered a possible explanation for the surging interest in the harvest holiday in particular: “Sukkot is family- and environmentally friendly, and I think that is a big part of its appeal.”

But the new books showcase a wide range of Jewish traditions and values..."

https://www.jta.org/2026/08/07/culture/from-fake-burps-to-reverse-tashlich-new-childrens-books-bring-the-high-holidays-to-life

How Surveillance Makes Everyone a Criminal

#privacy #Flock #podcast

#lispyGopherClimate every week since 2022 Sunday-morning-in-Europe #ARCHIVED (now!) 8am UTC Sundays.

https://toobnix.org/w/cLe5ytKW5vuhYFc9eVExWj !

[Monty] #python [1.0's flagship lisp lambda/mapreduce/filter makes it or] is a #lisp: bite me.

Sharpsign hardhitting #tech #journalism
#peertube #podcast
Miscellaneous notes

#shownotes for @gamesatwork_biz #podcast e564 with are done and publication set for tomorrow on https://www.gamesatwork.biz together with @michaelrowe01 and @andypiper. Find e564 on @Spotify @overcastfm @YouTube and all your favorite podcast feeds! Stories and discussion on #spiders with #AdTech and #lifesaving #robotic implications, #VR #MarioKart, #quantum #LawnMowing #IdentityManagement and a whole lot more! Be sure to subscribe on https://www.gamesatwork.biz so you don’t miss an episode!

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Hosted by Dave Hansen & Chris Freeland, this conversation with Vida Vojić and Alice Bridgwood brings together lessons from the series, from community archives and endangered languages to the changing ways culture is created, shared, and preserved.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE for free or purchase in print:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026

#VanishingCulture #FutureKnowledge #InternetArchive #podcast @AuthorsAlliance

The Pathology of Happiness: Job, Finland, and the Invention of the Good Life

My latest #Substack.

👉 https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-pathology-of-happiness?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I look at the pursuit of happiness relative to other aspirations by looking at the Biblical Job, Buddhism, and Finland. Don't worry. Be happy.🧐

#philosophy #happiness #ethics #buddhism #religion #goals #attachment #metrics #experience #blog #video #podcast #culture #welbeing #psychology #critcaltheory

𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁:

#Podcast #OpenSource #HopeInSource

https://thewhale.cc/posts/hopeinsource-podcast

What are the parallels between faith and open source software? Join Nadia Eghbal and Henry Zhu for an off-the-cuff conversation between friends.

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What are the parallels between faith and open source software? Join Nadia Eghbal and Henry Zhu for an off-the-cuff conversation between friends.

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Hosted by Dave Hansen & Chris Freeland, this conversation with Vida Vojić and Alice Bridgwood looks back on six episodes about cookbooks, queer archives, African folktales, gaming history, endangered languages, and the people preserving them.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE for free or purchase in print:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026

#VanishingCulture #FutureKnowledge #InternetArchive #podcast @AuthorsAlliance

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Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

We're off to Discworld Con this weekend, so the theme for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist is:

The Discworld

Songs about wizards, and flying turtles, and DEATH, and THE DEATH OF RATS, will abound. Or just songs about discs, or worlds. Are there any flat Earth bangers?

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-116-the-discworld/

Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!

// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

#Podcast #Radio #Music #NowPlaying

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This week's theme-specific artwork, which is a digital painting of the Discworld on the backs of four elephants, which are in turn riding on the shell of the Great A'Tuin, an enormous turtle flying through space.

just recorded a new episode of cd-rom safari podcast: Inherit the Earth - Quest for the Orb

https://cd-rom.ca/podcast/season2/episode4

#podcast #multimedia #cdrom #furry #adventureGames

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The cover art for Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb for MS-DOS. It shows anthropomorphic animals on the front cover - a fox, elk and boar, drawn in a realistic style. They are wearing medieval garb.

Aruba’s digital heritage collection now holds nearly 180,000 items for a community of just 110,000 people. 📚🌎

In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing of Biblioteca Nacional Aruba shares how Coleccion Aruba is preserving Papiamento, cultural memory, and the stories carried through language.

It's part of the Future Knowledge #podcast's special series #VanishingCulture.

🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-5-a-language-worth-saving-with-peter-scholing

Language is overrated. In this Substack piece, I scrutinise language and the fact that much of language is extraneous. As for spoken language, many utterances are not strictly necessary, though they are functional.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/pass-the-salt

I shake hands with #Austin, #Derrida, #Searle, #Wittgenstein, #Nietzsche, and #Barthes on this journey – even a bout with #Pinker.

#philosophy #language #languageinsufficiency #salt #justice #blog #podcast #artificialintelligence #robots #parsing

I am trying something new on Substack.

https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-306413015?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

I’ve been working on an essay about understanding.

The premise is simple enough: LLMs are routinely described as subhuman because, among other alleged deficiencies, they lack consciousness and don’t understand.

#philosophy #language #understanding #linguistics #llms #aidebate #artificialintelligence #blog #podcast #substack #essay #preview #criticalanalysis #consciousness #meaning

📚 Digital preservation isn't only about protecting collections. It's also about making knowledge accessible.

In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING from the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Peter Scholing shares how the National Library of Aruba is using digitization to overcome geographic barriers and reconnect communities with historical records.

🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-5-a-language-worth-saving-with-peter-scholing

#FutureKnowledge

How does salience affect attention and foster pessimism and anxiety before confirmation bias can even happen?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/31/salience-and-the-miles-that-count/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosphy #psychology #cognition #attention #memory #depression #anxiety #perspective #mentalhealth #focus #blog #podcast #video

I've long been fascinated with the notions of LOGIC and REASON, especially where they fall woefully short. I realise that not everyone is a philosopher or a trained critical thinker.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/reasoning-with-fossils?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #language #reason #logic #argument #debate #video #podcast #blog #history #enlightenment #foundations #fossils

In this article, I share how I approach language learning. Check it out.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/29/anki-meets-chatgpt-for-snacks-in-paris-for-lunch/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #learning #teaching #memory #psychology #blog #podcast #french #anki #italki #youtube #socialmedia #resources #advice #ai #chatgpt #claude

#Podcast : #Flock Came to My Town. Here’s What I Did

We start this week with Matthew’s experience of what happened when Flock came to his small town. It’s a microcosm of what is happening all across the United States. After the break, Sam tells us about a bunch of no phone Luddite events. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains why anti-Flock influencers making up BS are bad, actually.
#alpr #privacy #surveillance

https://www.404media.co/podcast-flock-came-to-my-town-heres-what-i-did/

📚 Digital preservation isn't just about the future. Sometimes it's what keeps education going in a crisis.

When the pandemic closed schools & libraries, students studying Papiamento needed access to books for their exams. In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing shares how librarians, authors & the @internetarchive made those texts available online. Part of the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture.

🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-5-a-language-worth-saving-with-peter-scholing

"#Jewish #children in the #UK are showing heightened anxiety around being taken #hostage and #schoolintruder alarms, a leading Jewish #child #therapist has said.

Speaking on the first episode of WIZO UK’s new #podcast Impacting Your Future, with journalist and host #RosaDoherty, childhood #anxiety specialist #SaskiaJoss said #October7, the #Israel-#Gaza #war and #UK #terror attacks had reshaped her patients’ #anxieties.

“As a Jewish person, the last few years have brought up a huge amount of anxiety for all of us,” said #Joss, who published her #book Help! My Child’s Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety last year and co-hosts her podcast Help! My Child’s Anxious with her mother, the #broadcaster #VanessaFeltz.

“I have regularly worked with Jewish children in the last few years who have huge fears of being taken as a hostage. They don’t say ‘being taken’. We all now have the word – it’s ‘hostage’."

https://www.thejc.com/community/jewish-children-are-showing-anxiety-about-being-taken-hostage-ug8mehta

You're Dead to Me.
The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about the past.
https://www.bbc.com/audio/brand/p07mdbhg #BBC #globalmuseum #history #podcast

Join us for a real non-episode today #archived on the #lispyGopherClimate 0UTC Wednesday Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas on anonradio.net powered b y @SDF ! Every week since 2022 #lisp #podcast .

I missed my #zine release deadline today. But we can hang out and talk in #lambdaMOO anyway! https://lambda.moo.mud.org/

https://toobnix.org/w/a81QeDWyq3hrNUKp7bELZa

Consider looking at this great picture of #fungi by @MarioEijkemans https://mastodon.social/@MarioEijkemans/116998991407136120 !

#understone #gamedev @mdhughes new release.

Sharpsign low energy.

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Lispy gopher show unix_surrealism banner. Gopher, lisp alien, someodd spaceship, show dates, pencil.

Is AI conscious? Check out #ACMFellow Eric Allman's thoughts in #ACMBytecast Episode 85 here or wherever you get your #podcast.

https://learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep85-eric-allman
#coding #Claude #computing #tech #innovation

📚 Research can uncover stories that even experts never had the chance to find.

🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, African folklorist Laura Gibbs explains how the Internet Archive's full-text search helped her uncover dozens of versions of a folktale, including one published in an early 1900s issue of Good Housekeeping that had escaped generations of scholarship.

🎧 Listen and subscribe ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-4-keeping-african-folktales-alive-with-helen-nde-laura-gibbs

Jesus broke traditional barriers between the Jews and Samaritans to reach a woman in need, a divine appointment he had to keep at Jacob's well. Click or tap the link to hear more.
#afaithfulsower #christianity #Jesus #dailydevotion #podcast

https://afaithfulsower.org/tearing-down-barriers-for-the-gospel-part-2/

#lispyGopherClimate Sunday-morning-in-Europe #live #technology #lisp #podcast every week since 2022. #ARCHIVED

https://toobnix.org/w/pxKfPQut7XZVpuPP3pGujH

Floating point numbers in ANSI CL very lightly and what people are talking about on irc.

@cwebber 's vibrating bobsled #ai article, #emacs and a Canadian sociologist falling for her "research ai boyfriend"
https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/whats-it-like-having-an-ai-boyfriend-2-waterloo-researchers-decided-to-find-out-9.7281399

Talking about the state of #zine issue 0 (released tuesday-in-america no-matter-what) #peertube #fedi

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A very spooky green lisp alien lispy gopher show banner, with the gopher looking on from behind.

🗣️ Myths & folklore are powerful because they evolve. Understanding those changes depends on preserving the record.

🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series #VanishingCulture, African folklore scholars Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs discuss why repositories like the Internet Archive help people trace how stories and cultural ideas have been interpreted over time.

🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-4-keeping-african-folktales-alive-with-helen-nde-laura-gibbs

#VanishingCulture #podcast

The AI-authorship debate is bollox.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/human-factors-in-authorship

The LLM-versus-human debate has been raging for several years now, and there seem to be two principal camps: human exceptionalists and agnostics. I suppose there may also be a small, misanthropic faction, but its members are remarkably quiet.

#philosophy #blog #substack #podcast #pangram #authenticity #quality #facticity #dashboard #authorship #writing #publishing #media #language #llms #artificialintelligence #debate #exceptionalism