Sons of Sequoyah: Recent Episodes
Sons of Sequoyah
Two educated citizens of the Cherokee nation and the son and grandson of Sequoyah discuss the topics of the day. Sons of Sequoia is not how the podcast is spelled, but how many search it.
Alexander Vindman and Dominic Cruz Bustillos wrote an article for Foreign Affairs in January of 2022 about what should occur the day after Russia attacks. Today, we read and examine that article.
We discuss a Tech Crunch article by Ron Miller which covers Microsoft's New Supply Chain Tools.
We discuss an article from the most recent Foreign Affairs entitled "America's Crypto Conundrum" by Justin Muzinich
We discuss Ian Bremmer's article in the November/December Foreign Affairs entitled "The Technopolar Moment: How Digital Powers Will Reshape the Global Order"
We discuss an article in today's New York Times by Chad Brown and Douglas Irwin regarding supply chains.
We discuss the fantastic 2018 documentary entitled The Most Unknown, which follows nine scientists as they engage on a cross-disciplinary, globe trotting journey of discovery, inquiry and understanding.
We discuss the Foreign Affairs article by the former ambassador to Afghanistan and give our takes on the situation there.
We discuss the 2020 film by Shalini Kantayya about the inherent bias in facial recognition technology and the algorithms that govern our lives.
We tried to watch the Field of Dreams game between the Yankees and the White Sox last night, but ended up watching the 1989 film instead. Today, we discuss the film.
The Senate is poised to pass a trillion dollar infrastructure bill soon. There are provisions in the bill which could have dire consequences for the crypto space. We discuss those consequences today.
The Pew Research Center published a report last year about news on Youtube. We look at it today.
All Gas No Brakes has returned as Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan and in their latest video they attend a Q Conference with extraordinary results. We discuss the channel and the video today.
Coffeezilla made a video where he raised concern about the stablecoin Tether. We talk about that video today.
We discuss the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and some interesting stories that have come out of it so far.
We use an article from BuiltIn to guide our discussion about the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence.
We use an article from Interesting Engineering to guide our discussion about the potential benefits of Artificial Intelligence.
We discuss a fascinating documentary about DeepMind, now a subsidiary of Google, and their quest to beat the human world champion at Go with a computer program.
We discuss Orville Schell's literature review of three books about the Chinese Communist Party in Foreign Affairs ahead of the CCP's 100th anniversary.
We discuss Yan Xuetong's article in the most recent Foreign Affairs about China's position in the world.
In 2018, Kashmir Hill of Gizmodo made a series of videos where she tried to block the big five tech giants - Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple - from her life. We react to the series today.
China has taken steps to eradicate it's Bitcoin mining industry in the past few weeks. We discuss the geopolitical implications.
Will Rogers was a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, just like us. Today we look at some of his most famous quotes.
In this episode we discuss how a consortium of Universities are setting up an organization that functions a lot like a patent troll according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We analyze.
In this episode we interview tech entrepreneur, consultant and documentary filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann. Torsten's 2020 film Cryptopia - Bitcoin, Blockchain and the Future of the Internet will be our focus.
Find Torsten and Crytopia here:
https://twitter.com/TorstenHQ
https://twitter.com/CryptopiaFilm
cryptopiafilm.com
We take a look at Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman's film about how Facebook's decision to switch to an algorithmically generated news feed changed the internet as we know it.
We discuss travel with renowned travel journalist Emily Frost.
You can check out her socials here:
emilyfrostwrites.com
@frostyem - Instagram
@emilylfrost - twitter
@stringandstash - craft instagram
We discuss Peter Goodman and Niraj Choksi's article about the dangers of Just in Time manufacturing and the need for more supply chain resilience.
We discuss "Data is Power" by Matthew J Slaughter and David H. McCormick from the May/June 2021 issue of Foreign Affairs
Discussing John Trimmer's summary of an article in nature about a new neural interface that allows paralyzed people to type with their minds.
Discussing Oren Cass's article entitled A New Conservatism: Freeing the Right from Free Market Orthodoxy in the latest Foreign Affairs
Discussing Ashish Jha's article in the March/April Foreign Affairs about global public health.
We discuss the Academy Award nominated documentary short Colette.
See the full movie here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7uBf1gD6JY
We discuss the Robert Malley and Stephen Pomper article in the March/April 2021 issue of Foreign Affairs
Discussing the Oscar nominated short film Feeling Through and it's complementary documentary Connecting the Dots.
We review the Oscar nominated films My Octopus Teacher, A Concerto is a Conversation and A Love Song for LaTasha
The Conservative Action Political Conference made a graven image of Trump and are worshipping him as a God in the name of Evangelical Christianity. We talk about that today.
Talking about the second impeachment trial of disgraced former president Donald J. Trump.
We discuss our reading project for the next 5 Thursdays - reading the Gospels in the New Testament.
Mike and Dave discuss Hanlon's Razor, other philosophical precepts and solve ALL of the world's problems.