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Elon Musk: part Thomas Edison, part Iron-Man, part annoying dude in the group chat. He's eccentric, terminally online, but also anything but the standard CEO. 

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Saagar reacts to the breaking news of Tucker Carlson's announcement that he will be doing a new show exclusively on Twitter as he sues Fox News.

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and journalist David Zweig discuss his role in breaking the Twitter Files, government censorship in society, the extent to which lockdowns were effective, how they affected children in particular, and how one renegade church would not bow to overzealous regulation.

David Zweig is a writer and journalist, with multiple books published, such as “Invisibles” in 2014 and the upcoming “Abundance of Caution” that centers on the effects of the COVID-19 response on schools and children. He was also one of the journalists who helped break the Twitter Files, focusing on the suppression of information to the satisfaction of the U.S. government and the public health establishment.

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For David Zweig:

Substack: https://davidzweig.substack.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidzweig

Website: https://davidzweig.com/

Read David’s article that we discussed in the episode:

“When a Renegade Church and a Zealous County Health Department Collide”

https://davidzweig.substack.com/p/when-a-renegade-church-and-a-zealous

Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he has brought about sweeping changes – but how successful have they been? And what impact has his purchase of the social media platform had on his many other businesses?

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Clips: BBC News, CBS News, Space X, NBC News, NBC, Fox News, Channel 4 News, Yahoo! Finance, Neuralink, MIT.

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Marco Rubio thinks he's in office just to send tweets, No Labels couldn't have picked a worse time for a third-party candidate, and DeSantis' war on woke knows no end. Plus, Fox's 24-hours of fear and paranoia feeds gun violence, and Charlie Sykes issues a mea culpa to Tim Miller. Your weekend pod.

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Elon Musk says that running Twitter is very painful, but it's a pain he brought on himself with firings, stunts, and overpaying for the company. Plus, Kara Swisher and Charlie Sykes discuss the art of podcasting, and the potentially much bigger goal behind the expansion of 'Don't Say Gay.'

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Aric Toler untangles the web of teens, gamers and memes at the heart of the latest intelligence scandal.

Then, an update on Twitter — where things have gone from bad to worse.

Plus: How A.I. is bringing us closer to “Westworld.”

On today’s episode:

• Aric Toler is the director of research and training at Bellingcat, the Dutch investigative site. He worked with journalists at The New York Times to identify the man who allegedly leaked top secret documents on Discord, a social media chat platform.

Additional reading:

• A 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard was arrested for his alleged role in the leak of military intelligence on Discord.
• A Discord member shared details with The Washington Post about how the hundreds of pages of classified material were leaked.
• Twitter took steps to block Substack newsletters from circulating on the platform after Substack, a publishing start-up, started a Twitter-like service.
• NPR announced it was suspending all use of Twitter.
• Researchers at Stanford used generative A.I. agents to simulate human behavior.

Hasan Minhaj tackles the day's biggest news including many McDonald's chains not offering the Cardi B and Offset meal, and the partisan blame game around the East Palestine train derailment.

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Vinny and Sunny joined Molly on another segment of Crypto Roundtable! Highlights included how Twitter could have integrated crypto  (2:02), the benefits and controversy of a national ID system (23:00), and Spotify's NFT experiment.


(0:00) Molly kicks off the show

(2:02) The future of Twitter payments 

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(14:21) What does an ideal Twitter identity system look like? 

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(23:00) The benefits and controversy of a national ID system 

(32:20) Predictions about the latest Yuga drop 

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(41:54) Vinny breaks down the future of Coinbase and its active users 

(48:07) Molly sees the connection between K-Pop and crypto 

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It’s easy to tell ourselves we’re living in the world we want – one where Darwinian evolution drives competing technology platforms and capitalism pushes nations to maximize GDP regardless of externalities like carbon emissions. It can feel like evolution and competition are all there is.

If that’s a complete description of what’s driving the world and our collective destiny, that can feel pretty hopeless. But what if that’s not the whole story of evolution? 

This is where evolutionary theorist, author, and professor David Sloan Wilson comes in. He has documented where an enlightened game, one of cooperation, rather than competition, is possible. His work shows that humans can and have chosen values like cooperation, altruism and group success – versus individual competition and selfishness – at key moments in our evolution, proving that evolution isn’t just genetic. It’s cultural, and it’s a choice. 

In a world where our trajectory isn’t tracking in the direction we want, it's time to slow down and ask: is a different kind of conscious evolution possible? 

On Your Undivided Attention, we’re going to update the Darwinian principles of evolution using a critical scientific lens that can help upgrade our ability to cooperate – ranging from the small community-level, all the way to entire technology companies that can cooperate in ways that allow everyone to succeed. 

RECOMMENDED MEDIA

This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution by David Sloan Wilson

Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups by David Sloan Wilson

Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III by David Sloan Wilson

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom

Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella

WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace & Jim Erickson
 

RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES 

An Alternative to Silicon Valley Unicorns with Mara Zepeda & Kate “Sassy” Sassoon

A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved with Daniel Schmachtenberger 

Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on Twitter: @HumaneTech_

Nearly three months into Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, things are in a "shambolic" state. Is the rest of Elon’s empire also in trouble? Then, an artist fighting generative A.I. sets the stage for a legal clash.

Plus: what goes wrong when A.I. becomes a reporter.

On today’s episode:

• Sarah Andersen, a cartoonist and the illustrator of a semi-autobiographical comic strip, “Sarah’s Scribbles.”

Additional reading:

• A look inside Elon Musk’s first 90 days as chief executive of Twitter.
• The artist Sarah Andersen on finding her art in the databases behind text-to-image A.I. platforms.
• Three artists, including Ms. Andersen, filed a class-action lawsuit against the creators of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DreamUp.
• CNET’s A.I.-written articles contained errors.

Welcome to our first-ever Ask Us Anything episode. Recently we put out a call for questions… and, wow, did you come through! We got more than 100 responses from listeners to this podcast from all over the world. It was really fun going through them all, and really difficult to choose which ones to answer here. But we heard you, and we’ll carry your amazing suggestions and ideas forward with us in 2023.

When we created Your Undivided Attention, the goal was to explore the incredible power technology has over our lives, and how we can use it to catalyze a humane future. Three years and a global pandemic later, we’re more committed than ever to helping meet the moment with crucial conversations about humane technology - even as the tech landscape constantly evolves and world events bring more urgency to the need for technology that unites us, invests in democratic values, and enhances our well-being.

We’ve learned from our guests alongside all of you. Sixty-one episodes later, the podcast has over 16 million unique downloads! That’s a lot of people who care about the promise of humane technology and are working to construct a more humane version of technology in their lives, their family’s lives, and within their communities and society at large. We’re a movement! 

Thank you to everyone who submitted questions and comments for us. We loved doing this, and we’re looking forward to doing it again!

Correction:

When discussing DeepMind’s recent paper, Aza said the premise was four people entering their views and opinions, with AI finding the commonality between all of those viewpoints. It was actually three people entering their views and opinions.

RECOMMENDED MEDIA 

CHT’s Recommended Reading List:

Foundations of Humane Technology

Our free, self-paced online course for professionals shaping tomorrow’s technology

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff 

Foundational reading on the attention economy

Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble 

Seminal work on how algorithms in search engines replicate and reinforce bias online and offline

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman 

Written in 1985, Postman’s work shockingly predicts our current media environment and its effects

Attention Merchants by Tim Wu

A history of how advertisers capture our attention

Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth 

A compass for how to upgrade our economic models to be more regenerative and distributive

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

This excellent primer shows us how to develop systems thinking skills

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel

Sandel explores how we can prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don’t belong

Essay: Disbelieving Atrocities by Arthur Koestler

Originally published January 9, 1944 in The New York Times

Humane Technology reading list

Comprehensive for those who want to geek out

ORGANIZATIONS TO EXPLORE 

Integrity Institute

Integrity Institute advances the theory and practice of protecting the social internet, powered by their community of integrity professionals

All Tech Is Human job board

All Tech Is Human curates roles focused on reducing the harms of technology, diversifying the tech pipeline, and ensuring that technology is aligned with the public interest

Denizen

Denizen brings together leaders across disciplines to accelerate systemic change

New_Public

New_Public is place for thinkers, builders, designers and technologists to meet and share inspiration

Psychology of Technology Institute

PTI is non-profit network of behavioral scientists, technology designers, and decision-makers that protects and improves psychological health for society by advancing our understanding and effective use of transformative technologies

RadicalxChange

RxC is a social movement for next-generation political economies

The School for Social Design

The School for Social Design offers three courses on articulating what’s meaningful for different people and how to design for it at smaller and larger scales

TechCongress

TechCongress is a technology policy fellowship on Capitol Hill

RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES 

An Alternative to Silicon Valley Unicorns

https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/54-an-alternative-to-silicon-valley-unicorns

A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved

https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/a-problem-well-stated-is-half-solved

Digital Democracy is Within Reach

https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/23-digital-democracy-is-within-reach

Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on Twitter: @HumaneTech_

Bringing you all a podcast with some important breaking news segments from today including the latest Twitter Files scandal and Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema defecting from the party!

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Krystal and Saagar bring the news about the DOJ's Trump special counsel, 2024 GOP primary battles, Elon's Twitter chaos, Democrat's infighting, Ticketmaster, World Cup corruption & MORE! 

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