I’m curious what people here listen to, and I’m also looking for new ones to check out. I’m personally a big fan of Linux Unplugged, MBMBaM, Lateral, and Twenty Thousand Hertz!
I also cannot get Lemmy’s search to work, so apologies if this was already a recent topic.
EDIT: I have so many new podcasts to listen to now.
Ologies with Alie Ward
It’s a nice light introduction to a diverse array of fields you probably don’t know a ton about. It makes a good “drive to work” podcast.
After the host asked a bewildered scientist what his pronouns were, I just couldn’t listen any more.
The rational reaction to this is to assume that the host was introducing a guest to an audience on an audio medium as a courtesy to the listener.
Your reaction and subsequent rants are indicative of a prejudice that you should seek help for.
In the meantime, I am removing you from my life and I suggest others do the same.
That does sound like something that works sick with you for days, if not years. I’m so sorry that you’ll spend the rest of your life having flashbacks on someone asking someone else how they like to be addressed.
To ask someone their pronouns at the beginning of a 1-to-1 conversation is pretty weird. After all, the only possible pronoun is “you”, which is not gendered in English (thank goodness!).
So really this could only be ideological posturing. Appropriate for a podcast called “Ologies” maybe, but I prefer to avoid ideology.
What are you talking about? Alie constantly does asides where she talks about the interviewer in the third person or expands upon their comments.
You’re right. Next time I chat with a stranger who looks and sounds like a man I’m gonna open with “So, he-him?” If you really think this is normal and necessary and not-weird, you’re living in a place most people are not. You know this already, of course. Indeed you probably feel morally superior about being in with the weird codes. Like this host, you’re on the team, you know how to talk. And that’s the heart of the issue cos what we have here is a coded form of sanctimony, and nothing drives ordinary folks crazy like sanctimony.
Darknet diaries
Ted radio hour
Dan carlins hardcore history
Darknet Diaries is so good
I want to love Darknet Diaries, but the host has such an unexamined, lawful alignment. He tells such good stories so well, but his default interpretation is often that criminals stole from these poor, innocent companies, with no further interrogation into the human and economic systems that make this so common, or the larger ecosystem in which these companies exist and are complicit.
This is something that, in my experience, the entire cybersecurity industry struggles with. I used to do a lot of that kind of work until a few years ago, and I always found my peers uninterested in, or even incapable of, having these larger, interpretative conversations about what we’re doing, what our roles are in the world, and how we can make a safer, better internet.
