Nietzsche with a 3D Printer
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🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus try to make sense of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s rare honest assessment of his company’s shortfalls, and what new state regulations mean for self-driving cars and trucks. Cody Wilson, the man behind the first 3D printed gun, joins the hosts to talk about his vision of a “Wikileaks for guns” and why he thinks gun control is no longer possible. And, as always, Don’t Close My Tabs: this week Will looks at the “deepfakes” video phenomenon and April discusses former Trump aide Sam Nunberg’s email inbox exhaustion.
Don’t Close My Tabs:
Twitter: Sam Nunberg on CNN with Jake TapperNew York Times: Here Comes the Fake Videos, Too
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Will Oremus. |
| 0:11.2 | And I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey everyone, welcome to If Then. |
| 0:29.8 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tenths, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:33.3 | We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 6th. |
| 0:40.2 | On today's show, we'll talk about advances in self-driving car technology, and for that matter, self-driving truck technology. |
| 0:46.7 | We'll talk about Twitter, rethinking its entire platform, and what might be next for that social network. |
| 0:54.7 | Later, we'll be joined by Cody Wilson. He'll be here in the studio in Berkeley, California. He's the person behind Ghost Gunner, which is a milling machine he designed for at-home gun making. Wilson is well known for designing and building a |
| 1:00.0 | working 3D printed gun called The Liberator back in 2013. The plans were downloaded 100,000 |
| 1:06.1 | times in two days before he had to take them down by request of the State Department. Wilson told me recently that after the tragic Parkland shooting, sales of his gun-making |
| 1:15.5 | milling machine and his gun building kits are booming. He'll join us to talk about his work. |
| 1:21.0 | And as always, we'll end with Don't Close My Tabs, our picks for the most interesting things we saw |
| 1:25.6 | on the web this week. All right, well, time for another episode. |
| 1:29.4 | How's it going? |
| 1:30.9 | I'm good. Thanks, April. |
| 1:32.4 | Hanging in there myself. |
| 1:35.1 | This week, I think we're going to start out talking about Twitter a bit. |
| 1:38.6 | I have some questions on that for you. |
| 1:40.2 | You wrote about it. |
| 1:41.7 | You know, because Jack Dorsey, the CEO, he admitted that his company is a bit broken and he said some hard truths recently. He said that they didn't, they haven't done well at addressing things like harassment or or bots. And these are two issues that have made some, you know, terrible headlines for the company over the past few years, right? Like when racist trolls bullied |
| 2:02.5 | actress Leslie Jones, you know, off Twitter in 2016, or more recently the company's bot infestation, |
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