122: White Claw Nights
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
A night call from a data scientist offers more accurate information about how our phones are “listening” to us. Then we take a road trip of the mind to the haunted Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada and find out why the graveyard next door is doubly haunted for reasons not related to clowns (hint: plague).
Then a night email prompts a fun chat about the sentience of A.I. as Molly puts forth the theory that the A.I. revolution could be stopped by making the robots neurotic. Another email endorses delicious fresh milk.
For the second half we get back into Italian Futurism and end up talking about the Bon Appetit debacle and the politics of food. After a serious discussion about food and fascism it’s cocktail time as Emily, Molly and Tess reveal our favorite non-milk beverages for the summer, both alcoholic and non. All this and Excited Pig, on an all new Night Call!
Footnotes:
- Apophenia
- Privacy International on Bluetooth tracing
- More on Bluetooth beacons
- Clown Motel
- Old Tonopah Cemetary
- 1905 newspaper article on Tonopah plague
- Italian Futurism
- Bon Appetit exodus
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | It's 1148 p.m. in Tanopa, Nevada, and you're listening to Night Call. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello, and welcome to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. |
| 0:24.5 | My name is Emily Yoshida, and I am joined on the other end of the line by |
| 0:28.9 | Molly Lambert and Tess Lynch. |
| 0:31.8 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey. |
| 0:33.5 | So we got a night call, and we want to kick things off with about contact tracing, about security and Bluetooth. |
| 0:42.6 | A lot of stuff that we were talking about with Meredith, our guest, a couple weeks back. |
| 0:46.9 | So let's kick it off. |
| 0:48.6 | It's a little long, but you might learn something. |
| 0:51.7 | Hi, Nightcall pod. |
| 0:53.5 | This is Mo. I'm in Chicago. I'm going to call it about the |
| 0:58.2 | sort of semi-conspiracy theory about the solidity of the least listening. So you don't actually |
| 1:05.1 | have to go that far away to be creepy and actually thinking that like consumer brands or like |
| 1:10.6 | Instagram or listening to your audio |
| 1:13.2 | is actually taking it so far that you're like not focusing on the right thing. |
| 1:19.4 | And the thing that's the creepiest about those is that a lot of times and I would say |
| 1:25.4 | 100% of the time that you talk about something to a friend and that adds later is because your friend did something related to that search and the, you know, sort of companies that aggregate third-party data and sell them to brands to do advertising, |
| 1:45.0 | um, uh, know that your phones are in proximity. So the reason of this is creepier than like |
| 1:51.0 | the actual milk company listening to your conversation is one, it's like milk is not a big |
| 1:58.6 | enough brand to be collecting your data yourself, themselves, right? |
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