With all the accusations of Twitters’ role in far-right ideas promulgating online and the use of bots to push hashtags up the agenda, we wanted to take a closer look at how Twitter has been reacting to calls for the social media giant to take a larger role in preventing their platform being…
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Chatter Episode 30 – Daz on Skank FM and How Technology Has Changed The Music Industry
Daz from Skank FM was our guest on Today’s show. Skank FM was the first independent underground radio station to pop up in Belfast a few years ago, before Belfast Underground Radio, and Daz has been running it since the very beginning. We chatted all about how the music industry has developed through…
Chatter Episode 25 – Harry Baker on Slam Poetry and Mathematics
Former world champion slam poet Harry Baker was the guest on today’s show. He first discovered Poetry Slams at school and won his first contest combining a love of mathematics and words in a prime number themed love story. We talked all about his journey as a poet from his first slam all…
Revolution Without Revolution
We live in a broken system, that’s not to say it is beyond repair or utterly dysfunctional, but it does not work for the majority of people. We have massive wealth and income inequality here in the UK and even greater wealth and income inequality in the US. These problems have been exacerbated significantly…
Chatter Episode 14 – Bret Weinstein On The Evolutionary Implications Of Technology And Modern Society
Today’s guest is Bret Weinstein. Bret is a former Evergreen State College Professor at the centre of a massive controversy and a tort claim (which he has just settled) surrounding a day of absence at the University, which you can read more about below. We got into numerous fascinating discussions about the nature and problems…
Chatter Episode 11 – Luke Pollard On The Philosophy Of Life, Rick and Morty, and Game of Thrones
Philosophical YouTuber Luke Pollard of The Cogito was our guest on today’s show. We got to cover the philosophy of life, death, political polarisation, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, as well as Rick and Morty and Game of Thrones (SPOILERS). SPONSORS Beer52 £10 Off Win A £500 Amazon Voucher Earn Money From YouGov Surveys…
