The Cultures: Recent Episodes
The Cultures
Adrian Hon, Andrea Phillips, and Naomi Alderman talk about technology, books, publishing, games, science, religion, films, TV, politics, and how to live a good life.
- Finnish school kids' meal bag vs. British school kids' meal bag (Twitter)
- UK Government Communication Service blog post example
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- The Progressive Case for Breaking Up the BBC – while increasing public funding for the good things it does!
- Things we're watching and reading, including:
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
- It's a Sin (Channel 4)
- Catch Me If You Can (Wikipedia)
- Kajillionaire
- Another Round
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- The Lab-Leak Hypothesis by Nicholson Baker (New York Magazine)
- Did America Use Bioweapons in Korea? Nicholson Baker Tried to Find Out (New York Times book review)
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- America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent by Zeynep Tufekci (The Atlantic)
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Sorry for the poor audio quality on Adrian’s bits, he accidentally turned down the gain on his mic, and while we were able to boost the volume, that introduced a bunch of noise!
- Jesse Singal's tweet linking to Vice's story on Penguin Random House staffers' reaction to their publishing Jordan Peterson's next book
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Sorry for the poor audio quality on Adrian's bits, he accidentally turned down the gain on his mic, and while we were able to boost the volume, that introduced a bunch of noise!
- A giant leap forward by DeepMind in AI protein-folding prediction
- How to start reading again
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Naomi's virtual travel instructions!
- Look for music from the country
- Search on BBC Sounds (there’s a prog called World Music Road Trip and also sometimes stuff in From Our Own Correspondent)
- Also try documentaries, especially Storyville
- Find the best movie you’ve never seen from that country
- Internet search for recipes from there
- Look online for specialist ingredients
- Is there takeaway from there one could get?
- Can you do a few minutes of language learning via Duolingo etc? Just enough to say hello, goodbye, please and thank you?
- Who’s their most famous writer? Read a short story
- Have they ever had a movie up for best foreign picture Oscar, or best short or best documentary?
- Where would you stay? Pick a hotel. Have a look on Google Street View to see where you “are”
- Is there a board game (or video game!) from that country to try?
- What sights would you try to see if you were there? Can you find virtual tours online?
- What do people drink in a cafè or bar there?
- Can you learn to sing something that’s popular there or written there?
- Put the radio on all day from that country
- Change your Twitter/social media localisation to that country
Is there a bath product/perfume/smell from there?
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- Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
- Ghosts (BBC)
- The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
- Upload (Amazon Prime)
- Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (Viki)
- After Life (BFI Player)
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- BBC journalists told not to 'virtue signal' in social media crackdown (The Guardian)
- Official BBC social media guidance
- What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers’ Brains? (Huffpost)
- The creation of Boris Johnson by Tanya Gold (Unherd)
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- Oculus Quest 2 VR headset
- Oculus now requires a Facebook account
- Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
- Adrian's mini-review on Twitter
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- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Wikipedia)
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We talk about books we've recently enjoyed, including:
- The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1
- Charles Palliser (including The Quincunx)
- Gilgamesh
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
- Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
- Logicomix
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Hot off the presses, we catch up with each other and talk about all the latest news!
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- Lockdown Mental Health
- British Literary Shenanigans with Baroness Nicholson, Damian Barr, and Janice Turner
- JK Rowling
- Hamilton
- Vaccine Good News
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- America Inc., Andrea's new book!
- Near-Future Writing
- QAnon and ARGs
- Being Creative Now
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- Naomi Alderman Was Writing a Pandemic Novel Before the Pandemic Hit (New York Times)
- L'Île-des-Pins in New Caledonia (Wikipedia)
- 4K Japan Videowalks from Rambalac
- America, Inc. – Andrea's upcoming new book
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- Exit: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch)
- Death Stranding/Hideo Kojima Twitter joke
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- Flatten the Curve
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- Daf Yomi (Wikipedia)
- Sefaria
- The Disputation (YouTube)
- St. John's College Great Books Curriculum
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- The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames
- OLPC XO (Wikipedia)
- Selling a Charismatic Technology (LA Review of Books)
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO documentary)
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
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- The Good Place (ending spoilers!)
- Disco Elysium
- Star Trek: Picard
- The Morning Show (more spoilers)
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- The Dating Market: Thesis Overview (PDF, Tyro Partners)
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- Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’ (NY Times)
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- Famous Authors Drag Student in Surreal YA Twitter Controversy (Vulture)
- Related Metafilter discussion
- Ghislaine Maxwell (Wikipedia)
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- Tikkun olam (Wikipedia)
- Effective altruism (Wikipedia)
- Kwame Anthony Appiah's Reith Lectures
- Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton (Wikipedia)
- Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious (The Verge)
- Note: this has now been reversed
- Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups content on December 14th (The Verge)
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- Us (Wikipedia)
- Get Out (Wikipedia)
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- Russian Doll (Wikipedia)
- Attachment theory (Wikipedia)
- Naomi's podcast on Groundhog Day (On Being)
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- Are you really the ‘real’ you? (The Guardian) on Faking It
- Related Metafilter discussion
- Who do you think you are – and how bad could you be? (The Guardian)
- Person–situation debate (Wikipedia)
- Doggerland (In Our Time)
- Why Some Americans Won’t Move, Even for a Higher Salary (CityLab)
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- How many automated notifications do you turn off?
- Adrian has a new robovac
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- The Slackification of the American Home (The Atlantic)
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- As Floods Keep Coming, Cities Pay Residents to MoveAs Floods Keep Coming, Cities Pay Residents to Move (NY Times)
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- UK officials discussed resettling 5.5m Hong Kong Chinese in Northern Ireland (The Guardian)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
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- What the Space Age taught us: Earth is the best of all possible worlds
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik
- Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (UK)
- Office of Technology Assessment (US)
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- If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?
- The Rise of the Meritocracy by Michael Young, the book that coined the term satirically
- Liquid Death sells water to punks who are too cool for alcohol
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- Alternis on Serial Box
- "A Taste of Armageddon" (the Star Trek ep Adrian was talking about)
- Memories of the Alhambra
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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OK, so it's just Adrian this episode – due to life happenings, it's been difficult for us to all get together these past few weeks and so rather than leave you hanging, we thought we should post at least something to tide you over. He's not used to recording on his own, so please forgive any awkwardness!
- Airpods Are a Tragedy
- Naomi's Twitter thread on apologies
- The Three Parts of a Meaningful, Heartfelt Apology
- John Profumo volunteering at a charity
- Naomi's Twitter thread on ending a story well
- Codecademy vs. The BBC Micro
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
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- Cruise utilisation optimisation
- Gamified Amazon Warehouses
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- Old people who spend two hours or more a day on a hobby live longer (US News)
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- The Hiddleston Centrum Ad
- A good man is hard to find: China's 'leftover women' look for love abroad (SCMP)
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- Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- How Democracy Ends by David Runciman (Talking Politics podcast)
- The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
- The Miriam Black series by Chuck Wendig
- The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
- The Lady From The Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara
- The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1
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- FT article (paywalled) about Against Empathy
- The Banality of Empathy on the NYRB
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- David Schneider tweet on "dark forces"
- Luciana Berger interview
- Labour Party leadership election rules
- Conservative Party leadership election rules
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- Andrea's viral tweet
- Assortative mating (and how it may relate to autism)
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America on The Verge
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- How to mute all retweets on Twitter
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- Fyre Festival (and the duelling documentary controversy)
- Dan Mallory article on The New Yorker
- Rory Stewart's invented Brexit statistic
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- Note: No Adrian this ep
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- How to Remember Anything Forever(ish) interactive comic by Nicky Case
- Introductory Guardian article
- Fluent Forever book
- Anki
- The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages (New Yorker)
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- That Photo 'Debunking' the Paris Protest Fires is Actually Bullshit (Gizmodo)
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- Proteins on Wikipedia
- AlphaFold @ CASP13: “What just happened?”
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective boardgame
- The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
- How do you decide what New Year resolutions to make?
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- Twitter and the impossibility of saying things without hedging
- Bullshit Jobs (Wikipedia)
- Online Patronage
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- Somebody hacked a bunch of printers?
- US lottery spending (and average credit card debt per state)
- The Eichmann Problem (Openness to experiences)
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- What is "lazy", anyway?
- Can a robot be Jewish?
- How do you survive winter?
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- Are sports sexist?
- V&A Dundee and the problem of showcase museums (Pitt Rivers Museum, Sir John Soane's Museum, Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? by Kwame Anthony Appiah)
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- A brief note on scheduling
- Solar power
- Climate change (Scotland is rising – literally)
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- The US Election: a step back from the brink
- Brexit
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- Diablo III (Diablo Mobile controversy)
- Return of the Obra Dinn(Papers, Please)
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Racists on a Plane
- The glorious diaryof a Silicon Valley HSBC exec (Metafilter discussion, Dealbreaker parody)
- Let's plan a Tiny Conference
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Andrea gets LASIK!
- So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale
- Google's self-driving car
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- Zettelkasten (Naomi's book, Notational Velocity)
- Meaningless rituals increase self-control
- Data Sabbath (Screen Time on iOS, Digital Wellbeing on Android)
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Moral foundations of DRM vs. copyleft
- XOXO Festival
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- The new Apple iPhone Xs and Series 4 Watch
- Myst's history and walking simulators
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
- How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars?
- Never Let Me Go
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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- The Riddle of the Labyrinth
- Mary Killen
- Yuval Noah Harari and gurus
- A Room of One's Own
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- Naomi and Andrea's Doctor Who bet
- Hey, let's talk about Jeremy Corbyn!
- Goop
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- Followup on escape rooms (Museum of Intrigue, London recs blog post 1 and post 2)
- Andrea's Disneyland and Cruise adventures
- Shanghai Disneyland
- Contrapoints on Incels
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- Nintendo Labo
- Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology
- Workplace Wellness Programs Don't Work
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Escape Rooms!
- The Escape Room on BBC Radio 4
- Submachine point-and-click adventure game
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century
- Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Topics from our last five years
- Changes in our personal lives
- What are the big political events of the next five years?
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- How do you sort out your work-day (now that we're all sort of working from home)!
- Jessica Price and Arenanet (bonus article from Adrian)
- Care and feeding of fan communities
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- The New Talking Machines
- The Phantom of the Opera is Reddit (Adrian Chen article on Ice Poseidon)
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- Followup from Alper Cugun: Anne Helen Petersen on people choosing to have fewer or no children
- Gay cakes and Sarah Huckabee (US case, UK case)
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- On forgetting how to ride a bike
- The World Cup and nationalism
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- "Despair is a sin"
- What do men think it means to be a man (plus the Death, Sex and Money ep)
- Note: No Naomi this ep
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- Avengers: Infinity War (redux)
- Westworld
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has the exact same characters as Rampage
- Adrian went to Scifoo 2018
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Queer Eye and Male Friendship
- Good and Evil
- Note: We may be off for a week, sorry!
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- Zelda: Breath of the Wild's narrative mechanic, how it works and doesn’t work (hot take: 1.5 years too late!)
- Get paid to write a novel (sort of)
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- Gallup careers coaching
- The experience of not following politics
- Gamify everything
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- Rituals for Secular People
- Incels (Reply All episode)
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Tesla’s predictions of the future
- What do you love that other people hate?
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Speaker fees
- Is Disobedience "authentic"?
- “Effortless” is a toxic illusion ("I know my place" video)
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- Avengers: Infinity War (SPOILERS!)
- Boxycharm & Fabricating Excitement
- On Subscriptions
- How much of Naomi's life is sustained by VC funding?
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- Naomi's experiences on the movie premiere circuit
- Nintendo's approach to creativity
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- What does it actually mean to be someone's "friend"? (Quinn Norton's post, Jeremy Corbyn's regrets)
- Andrea becomes a Redditor (/r/MakeUpAddiction)
- Adrian becomes a journalist in the Watch The Skies megagame
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- Followup from developer ethics on ep 241
- Thai restaurant diplomacy
- How we make this podcast (Auphonic, Libsyn, Audio Hijack, Blue Yeti microphone)
- Note: No Naomi this episode
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- Why The Simpsons is shit (The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened video)
- Incompetent criminal videos: why they make me super uncomfortable (Parkour video)
- A copy as good as the original (Walter Benjamin on art, aura, and authenticity)
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- China, internet censorship, fake news
- Hollywood always expects China to be much more racist than China actually is
- Wolf Warrior 2
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- Ethics in Tech (Stack Overflow Survey, Babylon Health)
- Can one use Facebook without being part of this bullshit and if so how? (Guardian article, Facebook data info page)
- When Your Social Support Networks Become Oversaturated
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- Paleo and Ritual Purity (Australian clean eating blogger who claimed to have been cured of cancer, Holy disorders)
- Mother's Day
- People don't know how to read data (Guardian childlessness edition)
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- Bullet Journals
- One Weird Trick That Would Have Fixed Black Panther
- Quinn Norton and the incredible brief sojourn at the New York Times
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- Hamilton
- Public vs. private friendships (or, it would be hard to find out we are genuine friends)
- On finishing reading books, or not finishing them
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- The Good Place (and insurance)
- Civilization VI on an iPad
- New conferences (the Visual Novel conference)
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- Coco
- Why Adrian has a problem with Werewolf (aka Mafia) and Cards Against Humanity
- Codenames is a good party game
- Is the Foldimate laundrybot more like the Little Printer or the Roomba?
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Presidents Club scandal (Adrian's viral tweet)
- Jordan Peterson (Metafilter comment from one of Peterson's students)
- Ursula Le Guin's The Matter of Seggri
- Note: No Andrea this ep
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- Pizzagate continues
- Fonduegate (Metafilter thread)
- OK but what if men REALLY DO get more sick?!
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- LitRPG
- Would you take out a loan for a pair of jeans?
- President Obama recommends Naomi's The Power
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