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Can Algorithms and Empathy Coexist?
There has been a lot of talk this week about the futue of AI. But what if we’ve been asking the wrong question about AI and technology? Not “What ca…
1 year, 3 months ago
David Ulin finds hope in a burning city
David Ulin, one of Los Angeles’s most perceptive chroniclers and an editor of Joan Didion’s collected works, reflects on the city’s unprecedented urb…
1 year, 3 months ago
When the Hydrants Ran Dry in Los Angeles
Episode 657
When LA’s hydrants failed during massive fires, misinformation spread. What really happened – and the hard truths about our urban water systems.
In …
1 year, 3 months ago
When the Hydrants Ran Dry in Los Angeles
When LA’s hydrants failed during massive fires, misinformation spread. What really happened – and the hard truths about our urban water systems.
In my…
1 year, 3 months ago
Reagan: His Life and Legend' - How Far Today's GOP Has Strayed from the Gipper
Episode 656
Oh, how the party has changed.
At a moment when the Republican Party has shifted dramatically from its Reaganite roots, I talk with Washington Post…
1 year, 3 months ago
Algorithms and Empathy: The Human Cost of Innovation
Episode 655
What if we’ve been asking the wrong question about technology all along? Not “What can it do for us?” but “What is it doing to us?”
In my recent Who…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Internet’s Librarian
We begin the year by looking in the “Wayback Machine.”
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, housed in a former San Francisco church with G…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mike Davis Saw It All Coming
Welcome back:
There are brilliant new voices speaking to California's fires, climate change, and ecology - what this ongoing tragedy means for Califo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Paws for Thought: A Rescue Revolution
The last thing we need this week is another expression of alarm about events in Washington, or anywhere else for that matter. How about something pos…
1 year, 4 months ago
Red vs. Blue America: Federalism in the Fight Against Autocracy
In this recentWhoWhatWhy podcast, I talk with veteran journalist Sasha Abramsky who reveals a striking paradox: Progressives, long suspicious of stat…
1 year, 4 months ago