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How only "Builders" like Musk can enable a real conversation about change in America https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2271-keith-teare-on-why-hes

On May 24, 2022, a 18 year-old walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and shot to death 19 students and 2 teachers. In Uvalde’s Darkest Hour (https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648432996/uvaldes-darkest-hour/) , the owner of the local Uvalde Leader-News, Craig Garnett (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/books/uvaldes-darkest-hour-craig-garnett.html) tries to make sense of these tragic events. Although making…

On the responsibility of Uvalde Police for their shamefully slow response to the Robb Elementary School mass murder https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2270-craig-garnett-on-may

While many of us fear a future in which all our online interactions are with algorithms, the young Florida based programming prodigy, Michael Sayman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sayman) , actually looks forward to this brave new world. In fact, earlier this year he started a controversial social media app called SocialAI (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/socialai-ai-social-network/id6670229993) which…

SocialAI: Social Networking in a Time of the Ubiquitous Smart Machine https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2269-michael-sayman-looks

Yesterday, we featured a conversation (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2267-jonathan-taplin-on-the) with Jonathan Taplin about the dearth of high quality contemporary music and movies. The music writer, David Rowell (https://www.davidrowellauthor.com/) , agrees with Taplin, but goes one step further, suggesting that we no longer even like new music. In his new book, The Endless Refrain…

A few months ago, I interviewed David Leonhardt (https://lithub.com/david-leonhardt-on-the-decline-of-the-american-dream/) , author of Ours Was the Shining Future, about the death of the American dream which, he argued, can be dated from on 5 June 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. And it’s on that infamous date that I begun my…

On the week that the price of Bitcoin rose above $100,000 and Trump appointed David Sacks as his “AI and Crypto Czar”, has Silicon Valley finally succeeded in conquering Washington DC? In today’s That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/) summary of tech news, Keith Teare and Andrew review what appears to…

Yesterday, we featured a conversation (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2265-internet-hall-of-famer) with Mozilla co-founder and Internet Hall of Famer, Mitchell Baker, (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2265-internet-hall-of-famer) one of the great champions of an open web. Today’s guest, the prolific writer and journalist Jeff Jarvis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Jarvis) , is another leading defender of the internet. In his new book, The Web…

Few people deserve their place in the Internet Hall of Fame than Mozilla Chairwoman Mitchell Baker (https://www.internethalloffame.org/official-biography-mitchell-baker/) . Since co-founding the Mozilla Project in the late Nineties, Baker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker) has been one of the most consistent and articulate champions of an open internet. So looking back over the last quarter…

Few people are better at demystifying the byzantine complexities of the American healthcare system than the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente, Robert Pearl (https://robertpearlmd.com/) , MD. So what does Pearl make of Trump’s nomination of RFK Jr for Secretary of Health and Human Services? Is this a thinly veiled excuse…

If Silicon Valley has an official matriarch, it might be the Palo Alto based educator and writer Esther Wojcicki. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Wojcicki) Popularly known as the “Godmother of Silicon Valley”, Wojcicki is the mother of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, 23andMe founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki and anthropologist and professor Janet Wojcicki.…