Favorite Podcasts
An eclectic mix of story telling and design-thinking. Many made me feel big feelings. A few changed my life.
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| Episode | Notes |
|---|---|
| Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic Ezra Klein Show | The creation of AI models is a philosophical *and* political question. The how the AI will understand its sovereign, whether it will respect that, and what alignment will look like are deeply political questions. If the president wants an AI to do something that the AI deems harmful, can the AI say no? What does it mean to live in a world where the AI would always agree? Should the fact it would be unmoored from a strong moral code make it a potential risk for the very people trying to “pilot” it? Is this some of what’s wrong with how we conceptualize AI right now? We imagine we’re driving it, pointing it, pulling a trigger? |
| I Want What I Want (881) This American Life | The bees! There's a part of me that aspires to be so curious about pain, so open to discomfort. |
| What’s that song Reply All | Thought the episode was going to be about OCD but took a turn and still really came through. An improbable rollercoaster about a man's pursuit to find a song he cannot name. |
| Interview with Timothée Chalemet; Ping pong movie France Inter | Not sure this is a best of all time, per se, but I laughed out loud when an interviewer was trying to help Timothée by supplying him with a word and he just said something totally different. Re: --- Chalamet: “il veut..." (looking for word) Interviewer: trying to be helpful "être le mauvais garçon" Chalamet: deadpan "un gars qui s’exprime.” --- trop beau. In order to find this funny, though, it is essential to watch the interview from the start. You gotta let the vibes build (have we learned nothing from Marty Supreme??). But of course this was a lesson I learned practically because I did try to watch it cold open and was like 'what on earth about this could have possibly made me break out laughing' |
| Esther Perel on Why A.I. Intimacy Feels Safe but Isn't Real NYT - The Opinions | Relationships are about having a stake in the game, and that’s something which ai doesn’t have. Implicit ongoing claim about how ai doesnt suffer, but feel like this might get complicated if we ask what is all this |
| The Official Unofficial Record This American Life | Maduro election coverage 2024. Followed by this episode which asks Venezuelan activists how they feel about the U.S. incursion: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-americans-outside-my-window |
| The Fediverse Experiment Search Engine | Far from comprehensive, but first time I had any type of intro explainer to the idea of a federated internet. |
| "Videomate: Men" (Encore) Decoder Ring | Oh man dating could be so so so weird. Or it is. But for real, though. |
| Mini-Stories: Volume 13 99% Invisible | ... Never listened (?)to but seems to include a story about DC tunnels? |
| U ls for Urbanism 99% Invisible | Robert Caro made New York what it is and this man was crazy. Just bulldozing civil rights. |
| Cars (129) This American Life | Feeling shook that I never knew all the politics between dealerships and their national brand. Also low key one of Ira Glass’s favorite shows, and that's high praise. |
| Coming Soon: Altered States Season 2 Altered States | Why is this on the list... what was season 1 like? to verify but I think I remember considering this was a weird add and deciding it was worth it. |
| Freedom House Ambulance Service: American Sirens 99% Invisible | It was private. Private. Next time you see something that's private but seems like it would be a great public service, REMEMBER: IT CAN BE. @TAG |
| Orphan Drugs 99% Invisible | Woof, classic. This is a problem worth knowing about. |
| Reversing the Grid 99% Invisible | Electricity go in. Electricity go out. Dial go spin. But then: argue about value of dial by time of day. This episode felt very specifically like continuing to zoom in--where I typically conceptualize of information as collaging together adjacently until the picture forms. I felt like I had the picture, and then I was given a higher and higher magnifying glass. |
| Invisible Women 99% Invisible | The world is not built for women. Maybe mentions the cockpit design problem. These are important problems to understand for their structural implications on how much of the infrastructure in society is conceived. |
| The Power Broker #1: Robert Caro 99% Invisible | — |
| Not Built For This #3: The Price is Wrong 99% Invisible | I think it reminds me of a book I read... Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work |
| Not Built For This #1: The Bottom of the Bowl 99% Invisible | Sqeaky floors in Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, Vermont. If you know what they sound like, you will have access to a completely unique set of feelings about this episode. |
| I'm Right, You're Wrong Hidden Brain | — |
| Embraces and Egg Timers: The Moth Podcast The Moth | — |
| The Moment of Truth The Moth | — |
| The Data Sleuth Taking on Shoddy Science (163) People I (Mostly) Admire | — |
| The Echo in the Machine WNYC Studios | — |
| The First Known Earthly Voice WNYC Studios | — |
| Tree Talk & Trading Card Art (84) Let's Learn Everything! | Just here for the trees, skip the card art. |
| S-Town Serial | The best drama/journalism/plot twist podcast I’ve ever heard. Bizzare. |
| Turning Work into Play (Update) People I (Mostly) Admire | — |
| Menorahs, Presents and Palm Trees - December Holiday Stories The Moth | — |
| How to Talk to People: 'Everyone Used to be Nicer,' And Other Persistent Myths How to Age Up | — |
| Clergy Articles of Interest | — |
| Germania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia Nice Try! | — |
| All About Time The Moth | — |
| Memory and Forgetting WNYC Studios | — |
| Finding Emilie WNYC Studios | — |
| Lose Lose WNYC Studios | Can't remember why I added this but all I can think of now is Micheal Scott's win-win-win |
| Playback: The Real-Life MacGyver in Nat Geo's Basement Overheard at Nat Geo | Just plainly tinkering and iterating in real life for a viscerally appreciable project. |
| Mini-Stories: Volume 17 99% Invisible | Of the mini-episodes, I’m here for different time and a pre-modern subscription service for music. |
| Why '90s ads are unforgettable Planet Money | — |
| 99% Noise 99% Invisible | — |
| 99% Free Parking 99% Invisible | — |
| The Accidental Room 99% Invisible | Finding the cracks in the world. Making something beautiful out of the unseen--the unappreciated. @TAG on the mind |
| Project Cybersyn 99% Invisible | — |
| The Yin and Yang of Basketball 99% Invisible | Coming from a place of having simply zero interest in basketbal, this episode has been one which gripped me, and I think it’s a testament to the storytelling that it did as much. |
| The Help-Yourself City 99% Invisible | Ohhhh, waiiitttt Temperance Alley Garden where you at |
| Maeve, Lamppost Everything is Alive | This feels like one where the concept being so weird is unto itself an accomplishment. I didn't get through too many of the others in this series, but--of those I did--this one stuck with me the most. |
| Sound and Health: Cities 99% Invisible | @ TAG again?? |