A Series of Tubes ft. Ben Tarnoff
The gang talks to Ben Tarnoff about his book “Internet for the People,” which looks at the present miserable state of the internet “as public utility,” and how it can be made better. But first, we look at a startup back from the dead, think about the on-purpose recession that the global north is about to tip into and (thinking about other recessions), what we can expect, and how the IMF created political monsters it can no longer control.
Buy Ben's book here! https://www.versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people
Comments (17)
TF hosts let guests talk for more than 5% of the episode challenge
epic content
Looking forward to post-Wonder 'Beat Bobby Flay' wherein the contestants have to beat the utter shit out of a panel van with their bare hands like the bonus games in Street Fighter II
epic content, poggers
man. people have been making jokes about "the Cool Zone" and "that section of the history schoolbook" for like. 7 years by now. im running out of Adam Tooze books to read about what's going on today.
Also EPIC Content!
an Epic MegaContent presentation (ltd. 1992)
The traveling salesman problem is famously easy to solve and you should make it the driver of your entire business
Make sure to throw in additional constraints, like optimizing for temperature. I’m always saying this
It feels like we turned into a book club... And I like that.
Alice is confusing the Democracy Sausage (a sausage you buy a your polling place, usually a primary school) with the Bunnings Snag (a sausage you buy in a Bunnings carpark on a sunday, usually to support a local sports team or rotary club)
Riley, mom said it was Ben's turn to use the Xbox.
Alice getting the democracy sausage and the Bunnings snag confused, SMDH
For every tech startup the first question should be, "What finance regulation is this trying to circumvent?"
The second question should be "what labour regulation is this trying to circumvent?"
Alice's Carry On Bane though lmao
I grew up about 15 minutes from westfield, NJ and there are speed bumps on almost every street. Also, they have a coffee shop, a theater that isn’t open anymore, a chipotle, and like 15 italian restaurants - pretty sure it’s also one of the richest zip codes in the country.