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We Brought Back Vine to Fight AI Slop
Season 1
Rabble and Alice Chan, Revolution.Social’s host and executive producer, talk about the launch and surprise success of diVine, a new video app that resurrects the six-second looping format of Vine. Th…
Published on 2 hours ago
Building Human Rights Into the Social Web (with Mallory Knodel)
Season 1 Episode 18
Mallory Knodel is the executive director of the Social Web Foundation and former CTO of the Center for Democracy & Technology. Her roots go back to the activists, anarchists, and dreamers who built t…
Published on 5 days, 2 hours ago
How to Overthrow Dictators Without Violence (with Srđa Popović)
Season 1 Episode 17
Political activist Srđa Popović led the movement that overthrew Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević in 2000. Since then, his organization, Canvas, has trained activists in over 50 countries how to bu…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
Banning Kids From Social Media Isn’t the Answer (with Pamela Wisniewski)
Season 1 Episode 16
Pamela Wisniewski is one of the leading researchers on how social media affects teens, working at the UC Berkeley-affiliated International Computer Science Institute. In an era of moral panics around…
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Jeff Jarvis on the Death of Mass Media, Twitter vs. UberMedia, and Section 230’s Brilliance
Season 1 Episode 15
In books like The Web We Weave and podcasts such as Intelligent Machines, journalist and educator Jeff Jarvis — formerly the director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Ci…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Harper Reed on Building for Obama, Social Media for Bots & Why Tech Isn't Always the Solution
Season 1 Episode 14
2389 Research CEO Harper Reed was previously the CTO of President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, where he helped redefine modern political technology. Before that, he was CTO of Threadless,…
Published on 1 month ago
“Think Like a Commoner" Author David Bollier on the Commons & Why Open Platforms Aren't Enough
Season 1 Episode 13
When a community wants to organize itself, it might decide between private ownership and state control. David Bollier has spent decades arguing that that’s a false binary, and that there is a better …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
“The Etymology Nerd” Adam Aleksic on Algospeak, AI Slop, and the End of Writing
Season 1 Episode 12
Adam Aleksic, known to his social media followers as the “Etymology Nerd,” has built a massive audience by decoding the origins of words, accents, and memes. In his new book Algospeak: How Social Med…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Rudy Fraser on Blacksky, Mutual Aid & Reclaiming Social Media
Season 1 Episode 11
Rudy Fraser is the founder of Blacksky, a community-driven project building on top of the AT Protocol while remaining independent of Bluesky, where that protocol originated. At Blacksky, he and his t…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on Growing Bluesky, Clueless Regulators & the Case for Optimism
Season 1 Episode 10
Techdirt founder & editor Mike Masnick has long argued that the internet’s power should lie with its users. In his landmark 2019 essay, Protocols, Not Platforms, he laid out a vision for how decentra…
Published on 2 months ago