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Plutopia News Network@plutopia.io · 4w ago

Dr. Leonie Tanczer discusses how smartphones, connected household devices, surveillance tools, location trackers and AI can facilitate domestic abuse, allowing perpetrators to monitor, manipulate and intimidate victims. plutopia.io/leonie-tancz...

Leonie Tanczer: Technology and Control | Plutopia News Network

Leonie Tanczer on how smartphones, connected household devices, surveillance tools, location trackers and AI can be repurposed to facilitate domestic abuse.

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Plutopia News Network@plutopia.io · last mo.

Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Richard Wolinsky's SPACE SHIPS! RAY GUNS! MARTIAN OCTOPODS is a book of interviews with legendary sci-fi authors and editors outlining the origin and growth of the genre. bookshop.org/a/52607/9781...

Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends

In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about the Golden Age of science fiction. Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, ...

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Plutopia News Network@plutopia.io · 2mo ago

A wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas, using Jon Lebkowsky’s experience as a delegate to the Texas Democratic Convention as a springboard for a broader discussion of democracy, public policy, and the state’s future. plutopia.io/texas-at-a-c...

Texas at a Crossroads | Plutopia News Network

Plutopians take a wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas and beyond, discussing democracy, public policy, and the state’s future.

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Plutopia News Network@plutopia.io · 3mo ago

Security researcher and educator Steve Bellovin discusses the increasingly centralized and balkanized internet, practical and social problems with age verification, the limited role of consumer VPNs, and the history and evolution of cryptography. plutopia.io/steven-bello...

Steven Bellovin: Don’t Get Hacked! | Plutopia News Network

Security researcher and educator Steve Bellovin discusses the increasingly centralized and Balkanized internet and the history and evolution of cryptography.

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Society for Participatory Medicine@participatorymed.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Discussion of how AI transforms participatory medicine by giving patients new tools to understand medical research, manage personal health data, challenge institutional failures, and act with greater agency. #participatorymedicine #patientsuseAI plutopia.io/patient-powe...

Patient Power in the Age of AI | Plutopia News Network

How AI transforms participatory medicine by giving patients new tools to understand medical research, manage personal health data, and act with greater agency.

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Plutopia News Network@plutopia.io · 4mo ago

Cindy Cohn discusses her new book, “Privacy’s Defender,” and reflects on her decades of work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, from the landmark Bernstein encryption case to fights against NSA mass surveillance and national security letters. plutopia.io/cindy-cohn-p...

Cindy Cohn: Privacy’s Defender | Plutopia News Network

Cindy Cohn reflects on her work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, from the Bernstein encryption case to fights against NSA mass surveillance.

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Plutopia News Network@plutopia.io · 4mo ago

Immunologist David Miles discusses his book Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold, discussing “the common cold” as a broad category of respiratory viral illness. He also comments on the recent hantavirus outbreak. plutopia.io/david-miles-...

David Miles: The Viral Sneeze | Plutopia News Network

David Miles discusses his book "Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold," seeing "the cold" as as a broad category of respiratory viral illness.

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Plutopia News Network@plutopia.io · 5mo ago

Helen Pearson (@helenpearson.bsky.social) discusses her book “Beyond Belief,” which traces the rise of evidence-based decision, arguing that evidence-based practice is both more recent and more fragile than many people realize. plutopia.io/helen-pearso...

Helen Pearson: Beyond Belief | Plutopia News Network

Helen Pearson discusses her book Beyond Belief, on rise of evidence-based decision-making in medicine, government, education, conservation, and other fields.

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Helen Pearson@helenpearson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢 My book, Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works, is out 28th April. 🚨🚨 “an incredibly engaging popular science book that illustrates why we should care about good quality evidence.” Preorders *really* help! 🙏 @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Beyond Belief

The remarkable story of the global movement championing the idea that evidence, not opinions, should guide our decisions

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