Implausipod

Jan 17 2025 48 ep. 23 mins 9
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Art, Technology, Gaming, and PopCulture

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E0042 Incipient Diaspora

Jan 17 2025 22 mins  
What happens when a change is on the horizon, one that is approaching that will force you to move but is outside your control? When a community knows it will be disrupted, it may be facing an Incipient Diaspora. For the US denizens of the TikTok app, facing a ban in that country on January 19, 2025, we can observe how they reacted and prepared, and what lessons can be learned from

E0041 Dr Who Xmas 2024

Dec 30 2024 26 mins  
Joy to the World, the 2024 Dr Who Christmas Special, gets a deep look in this episode of the Implausipod. This is the part two of our Dr Who double header. If you haven't already, check out our discussion of the 14th series, or 1st Disney series in the previous episode. Our cyber-series will continue in 2025. Thanks to Dr Aiden Buckland for joining us once again. They can be reache

E0040 Dr Who Goes Boom

Dec 29 2024 44 mins  
We welcome a special guest back to the podcast to discuss the 14th series of the new Dr Who era, which aired in May and June of 2024, and highlighted the adventures of the 15th Doctor played by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday.This is the part one of a Dr Who double header, as we'll discuss the 2024 Christmas Special in the next episode. Our cyber-series will continue in

Grats 2024

Dec 24 2024 8 mins  
Twice is enough for it to be a tradition, right? Yeah, I think we'll go with that. Welcome to our second annual end-of-year holiday thank you episode, something to offset the Festivus celebrations you may be having on this day before the day before Christmas. Thanks for stopping by whenever you do. :)The Newsletter and the archives are here: https://implausi.blog/newsletter/Dr Impl

E0039 The California Ideology

Dec 07 2024 35 mins  
What do you think of when you heard the word California? What do you think it's "ideology" might be? If you work in or on high technology, that California ideology may be shaping the way that you work, the projects that you work on, and the business models that high technology pursues. What does it all mean? The thinking that is driving the pursuit of certain developments in techno

ICEBreaker 004 - Opti-minus

Oct 23 2024 4 mins  
Was the reveal of the Tesla Optimus 3 at the recent We Robot event a miss? How can you fail when unveiling a potentially groundbreaking technology? By using it to fake the appearance of a different tech, one that you're not even close to bringing to market.Support the show

ICEBreaker 003 - Joker 2 Joke Harder

Oct 07 2024 5 mins  
Is Joker 2 "anti-content", or is it just a challenging watch? Join us for a quick ICEBreaker to discuss our first impressions of the film, and some thoughts that have crossed my mind in the day since. Consider this a spoiler warning.Support the show

E0038 AI Refractions

Oct 05 2024 39 mins  
Looking back in the year since the publication of our AI Reflections episode, we take a look at the state of the AI discourse at large, where recent controversies including those surrounding NaNoWriMo and whether AI counts as art, or can assist with science, bring the challenges of studying the new medium to the forefront.Links and Referenced Episodes:ALS.org story on Casey Harrell

E0037 Soylent Culture

Sep 22 2024 23 mins  
What is Soylent Culture? Whether it is in the mass media, the new media, or the media consumed by the current crop of generative AI tools, it is culture that has been fed on itself. But of course, there's more. Have a listen to find out how Soylent Culture is driving the potential for "Model Collapse" with our AI tools, and what that might mean.BibliographyMcLuhan, M. (1964). Under

ICEBreaker 002 - Excession

Sep 21 2024 5 mins  
Whoops! Somehow the details of an Excession - an Unknown Unknown - got cut from Episode 36. Fans of Irony will be enjoying this, I'm sure. Kick back for another Icebreaker in this bonus episode, an addendum to Nescience and Excession, with an actual explanation of the thing that was in the title.Support the show