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Wed. 10/14 - Can Virtual Public Parks Save Democracy?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A thought-provoking proposal from Eli Pariser on how we can fix the broken parts of the internet by creating digital public parks. NASA drops their latest single: the sounds of the Milky Way. And how to make your own AR jack o’lantern using an Amazon Prime box. Sponsor: FightCamp, joinfightcamp.com/ride Links: To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks (Wired) Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky Way (NASA) How to View Augmented Reality Experiences Hiding on Your Amazon Boxes (LifeHacker) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the khaki ride home for wednesday october 14th 2020 i'm jackson bird today a thought-provoking proposal from elai parisor

0:36.3

on how we can fix the broken parts of our internet

0:39.5

by creating digital public parks. NASA drops their latest single, The Sounds of the Milky Way,

0:48.1

and how to make your own AR Jackaltern using an Amazon Prime box.

0:54.7

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:00.2

I'm one of those millennials whose entire career is pretty much thanks to the internet,

1:05.7

specifically social media, and yet, in case you haven't picked up on this from my occasional

1:10.2

commentary on this podcast,

1:12.0

I increasingly wonder if we should have just never turned it on at all, so to speak.

1:18.6

So when I saw a new article from Eli Pariser, you know, the founder of Upworthy, the dude who coined the term filter bubble,

1:25.1

saying that the thing we need to do to fix the internet is to create

1:28.6

more spaces for people to interact with each other virtually. I was more than a little skeptical.

1:35.2

But knowing the foresight and expertise Pariser has brought to the table in the past, I stuck with

1:40.1

the piece, and I'd like to share some of it with you. Actually quite a bit of it. So,

1:44.8

Percr starts with the premise we're all familiar with. The World Wide Web was supposed to be

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