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Coffee with JP: What's going on with copyright and the internet?
Coffee with JP returns with JP discussing current and historic events in light of the Hachette vs. Internet Archive decision. In it JP covers: 1) Singular XQ and the need for disinterested (read not financially vested) research. Help us stay independent! 2) Aaron Swartz and Open Access 3) Fair Use
Research job future #4: accessibility and inclusion researcher
The end of silicon, the horizon beyond binary.
It's the Beer O'Clock Newsletter from Knowledge Capital on Linked In. This next bid at AI hype prize made a splash recently: lab grown brains running first living computer in Switzerland. 16 lab-grown brains run world’s first ‘living computer’ in SwitzerlandThe bioprocessor platform consists of
Founder's desk: I'm still here.
Someone in a formal interview asked me today about my biggest achievement, and I thought of some things on my LinkedIn page. But the ones that I believe to be the most significant—professionally, not personally—are not on there. There are small, tiny, networked one-on-one interactions. There are individuals
Knowledge Capital, August 15, 2024
The one where Harris stays zipped about crypto, the new decentralized AI platform seems too good to be true, Gamergate haunts us making everyone seem sus, the tech layoffs approach 150k, and Crowdstrike turns the $20bn economic loss into a big joke. What's the Harris-Walz platform for crypto?
Singular XQ 4.40 Jason Merai: Will Gen AI permanently change Arts Education?
Ending on an optimistic high note, JP talks Gen AI and higher education arts training. Listen as Jason Merai reminds us not to count this generation of students out to lead and change in this field and they discuss the best uses of the tool and the possibilities for the
Singular XQ Coffee With JP
On Opium and Digital Media JP chats with everyone about some notes she has about the intersection of the history of opium and its negative impacts on society and digital technology which has both literally been an economic vehicle for delivering opiates and is it self a kind of "
Singular XQ 4:38: Celi Arias on How do we become a "grown ass business" ?
JP and Celi Arias talk about Grown Ass Business, Celi's creative and inspiring business strategy and growth consulting business. Celi shares her approach and JP offers her observations on why Celi's background in modern dance feeds directly into her skills in helping people building and optimizing
Research job future #3: AI Ethics and Bias Researcher
The Humans of Singular XQ: Dr. Guissoo Nabavian
JP interviews Founding Core Advisory Board member, Dr. Guissoo Nabavian. Dr. Nabavian is a psychologist with over 25 years in public mental health and wellness in NYC. JP and she talk about the transition from a for-profit consultancy to a non-profit social startup, and the importance of accessibility and education
A note from JP
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Singular XQ 4:38
Brian is a truth teller. He is direct, calls it like he sees it, and doesn't mince words. He and JP had an intense chat about what's been going in BPO and CX since AI hit the scene and he says a lot suprising and challenging
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Singular XQ 4:37 Farzin Farzad: "What is organizational justice?"
Farzin, a fan of crazy robot fighting movies and watching Total Recall with his grandma, is an organizational justice practicioner. He and JP talk about why it is different than DEI and moves beyond performative tokenism and empty gesture toward more equitable and democratic organizational cultures. A great complement to
Coming changes in accessibility be prepared
While of all the things to worry about, accessibility may be low on your list, there is a principle in business strategy as well as military strategy: aim small, miss small. Here is one thing to get right; now is not the time to double down on reducing accessibility and
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The one about elegant design, a taxonomy of AI abuse, the CDK attack, anti-prime day, and why tech names everything after fruit.
If design isn't how a thing looks than what is it? Steve Jobs famously said it's not how it looks but how it works. We also know that he would rather die than produce something ugly; we agree. How it works is the most important thing
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Singular XQ Podcast: Season 4, Week 7
Today: What the hell does "AI" even mean any way? Houston, we have a taxonomy problem. This week's Human's of Singular XQ is another "Coffee with JP" where JP shares some notes she has for a keyword mapping project she is doing
Pigeonholes
blockchain
It's beer o'clock
Notes from the Edges of Innovation by SXQ Founder, JP Philanthropic blockchain, a centralized internet, knowledge management's identity crisis, moral injury, and white collar workplace bullying crime What is the digital transformation potential for blockchain in philanthropy? It's not something we advertise right now because it
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Singular XQ Podcast Season 4, Week 6
What does anthropology have to do with software development? The Humans of Singular XQ presents the lovely and irreplaceable Archana Shah, founding Core Advisory Board team member, brilliant technology researcher, and certified good human. Archana and JP explore how JP's roots with anthropology compare to Archana's
Singular XQ Rewatches Silicon Valley S1E5
Do you know what a dramaturge is? In this week's episode recurring co-host Aaron Beavers and JP chat with dramaturge and full professor Jane Barnette about episode 5 in Season 1 with a controversial mural that even makes Aaron uncomfortable. Dr. Barnette does not hestiate to dive in
Five Cool Reads
Five Cool Reads: Independence Day Edition
Who is Simon Penny and how did he foretell our current AI hysteria? My colleague Simon Penny knew about this confused and irrational "AI" hysteria moment better than anyone. In 2019. That's the year he published Making Sense of Cognition, Computing, and Embodiment Because it'
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Book Review: Making Sense of Cognition, Computing, and Embodiment with Simon Penny
According to author Simon Penny, Making Sense: Cognition, Computing, and Embodiment is about intelligence, cognition, and the impact of culture and technology. However, it is also a study in numerous contrasts, among them: biological being vs. computationally simulated being, civilian research vs. military research, representation vs performance, art practice vs.
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Singular XQ 4:36: Angela Harris
Are ERGs helping or masking organizational problems that have to be addressed with more urgency? Angela V. Harris delivers a provocative interview with JP on the importance of addressing racial and gender inequity in organizations.