This is part one of a two-part interview with Finn Brunton (https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/finn-brunton) , author of 'Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency' (https://www.amazon.com/D

In this episode, we meet anthropologist Joshua Reno (https://binghamton.academia.edu/JoshuaReno) , author of 'Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness' (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520316027/military-waste) to discuss Jo

In this episode of Stolen Headlines, Jamie hangs out with patrons Tim Reutemann and Mattias Rubensson to discuss: why the phony Marxist Greek government is evicting horizontally organized refugee shelters; how centralised statism is leading to bad softwar

This is part two of our interview with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan. We discuss the technology behind the Sunflower Movement,  which radicalized democracy in the country, and how the Taiwanese government is using Free Software such as Discourse

In this second installment of Stolen Headlines, cybersecurity experts Sean Lynch and Adam Burns discuss why Peter Thiel thinks Google's co-operation with China on AI is treasonous; how governments around the world are increasingly employing internet shutd

This is the first of a two-part interview with Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan. We discuss Taiwan's 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, which marked the first time the country's legislature has been occupied by citizens, and which led to a radical ne

This is the pilot episode of a new format in which Jamie discusses the news with invited patrons and guests.

In this episode we meet Sean Tilley (aka @deadsuperhero) of We Distribute (and formerly the Diaspora project) to discuss: early days at Diaspora, the first Facebook alternative to really reach critical mass;  the steady rise of Mastodon and why the Fedive

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Tim Tayshun, bitcoin entrepeneur and activist, who dedicated himself to exposing the crypto ponzi scheme, OneCoin. We discuss: how the internet changed the business of running a ponzi; the simlarities b

In this episode we meet Josephine Wolff, author of a new book on financial and economic cybercrime, You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late. We discuss two important case studies from the book....