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The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-brian-eno.html

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Nineteen per cent of American adults have talked to an A.I. romantic interest. Chatbots may know a lot, but do they make a good partner? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/15/playing-the-field-with-my-ai-boyfriends

The botanist, on the grammar of animacy: “Science polishes the gift of seeing, indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language.” https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-intelligence-of-plants-2022/

We look at the best of this fall's movies and TV – including some standouts from the Toronto International Film Festival. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/21/nx-s1-5536985/sci-fi-romance-and-stranger-things-what-to-watch-this-fall

Miro Dittrich erklärt, warum Medien bei der Berichterstattung über Charlie Kirk und die Entwicklungen in den USA immer wieder scheitern. https://uebermedien.de/109587/haben-rechte-takes-den-mediendiskurs-gekapert/

Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and author of “Five Minds for the Future.” https://hbr.org/podcast/2007/04/harvard-business-ideacast-37-f

Sparen ist das aktuelle Credo der schwarz-roten Bundesregierung. Heute soll in einem Koalitionsausschuss über Sozialreformen gesprochen werden. Eine andere Überlegung für Einsparungen in Millionenhöhe kam Anfang der Woche von CDU-Generalsekretär Carsten Linnemann. Er hat dafür plädiert, das deutsche Beamtentum auf wenige Bereiche mit hoheitlichen Aufgaben zu beschränken, etwa bei der Polizei oder bei Finanzbeamten. https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/der_schoene_morgen/kommentar/moritz-eichhorn-kanzler-merz-umgang-afd1.html

Twenty years after a scrappy newsroom team hacked together a framework to ship stories fast, Django remains the Python web framework that ships real apps, responsibly. In this anniversary roundtable with its creators and long-time stewards: Simon Willison, Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplett, and Thibaud Colas, we trace the path from the Lawrence Journal-World to 1.0, DjangoCon, and the DSF; unpack how a BSD license and a culture of docs, tests, and mentorship grew a global community; and revisit lessons from deployments like Instagram. We talk modern Django too: ASGI and async, HTMX-friendly patterns, building APIs with DRF and Dja

It’s been nearly two months since the launch of the Switch 2. With the release of Donkey Kong Bananza, it felt like a good time to have a long and focused di... https://remapradio.com/podcasts/episodes/the-state-of-nintendo-feat-kat-bailey/

As the 15th anniversary of 99% Invisible approaches, Rob and Britta dig into four very different episodes from the first four years of that show’s run (as well as the story of the time Rob met Roman Mars):  Episode 6: “” Episode 29: “” (Produced with Katie Mingle) Episode 103: “” (Produced with Sam Greenspan) Episode 83: “” (Produced with Alex Goldman) To support Phonograph, , which features experiments in audio storytelling, including this month’s story about a young mother’s relationship to her hearing aids, having refused to wear them since she started losing her hearing in the 6th grade. Show Notes: (featured on Transom.org) “” on 99% Invisible Alex Goldman’s new podcast Music from   https://phonograph.libsyn.com/what-a-wonderful-thing-99-invisible

I chat with Kostantsa Rangelova and Dave Jones, authors of a new Ember report, who find that solar-plus-storage costs have declined so much that it can now provide baseload-level power in sunny cities for less than the cost of new nuclear or even new gas. We discuss why even energy pros are behind the curve on this, how quickly the technology is improving, and why most of the world doesn't see natural gas as a viable option the way the US does.

As Black Sabbath say farewell with a final concert in their home town of Birmingham, the Freak Zone brings you a special show celebrating their musical genius. As the creators of the worldwide phenomena that is heavy metal Black Sabbath are arguably, after the Beatles, Britain's most influential musical act. In this show expect some of their finest tunes, some of the many acts they have influenced and some of the more unusual covers of their work. There will be Estonian medievalism, Czech chamber music, Ethiopian jazz and, of course, some very heavy guitars. Tracklist: 1. Cindy & Bert-Der Hund Von Baskerville 2. Les Baxter-Main Title (From "Black Sabbath") (feat. Sinfonia of London) 3. uKanDanZ-War Pigs 4. Jazz Sabbath-Electric Funeral 5. Digiffects Sound Effects Library-Spooky Thunder 6. Black Sabbath-Electric Funeral 7. Rondellus-Rotae Confusionis (Wheels of Confusion) 8. Black Sabbath-Laguna Sunrise 9. Black Sabbath-Supernaut 10. Soreng Santi-Kuen Kuen Lueng Lueng (Iron Man) 11. Vitamin String Quartet-Into The Void 12. The Cardigans-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 13. Black Bossa Sabbath Nova-Paranoid 14. Sleep-Holy Mountain 15. Apocalyptica-Spiral Architect 16. Hellsongs-Paranoid 17. Brad Mehldau-Sabbath 18. The Bad Plus-Iron Man 19. Electric Wizard-Funeralopolis 20. Free Nelson Mandoomjazz-Black Sabbath 21. Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath 22. Meatdripper-Homegrown 23. Alex Skolnick Trio-War Pigs 24. Shirley Collins-One Night as I Lay in My Bed Notes https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002f7cb

Roland Allen’s new book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper dives into the history and catharsis of journaling. John Dickerson, note taking, https://slate.com/podcasts/gabfestreads/2024/07/books-why-keeping-a-notebook-can-change-your-life-plus-the-history-of-bound-blank-pages

Composer Steve Reich reveals his formative musical influences. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpmn

John Gruber’s Dithering podcast with Ben Thompson was the original inspiration for Crossword’s 15-minute format. Five years later, John joins Luke and Jonathan for a wide-ranging conversation covering open versus closed platforms, the history and impact of Markdown, and a missed opportunity in WordPress. Luke goes on about the good old days, Jonathan starts thinking about a rival platform, and John makes a prediction for the ten-year follow-up episode. https://crossword.fm/s09/e13/

Shirley Collins first enjoyed success as one of the leading figures in the British folk revival of the 1960s. She initially performed with her sister, Dolly Collins, and also collaborated with other folk luminaries to create some of the era’s most beloved albums. In the past decade she has made an acclaimed return to the concert stage and the recording studio. Shirley was born in Sussex in 1935. She can still recall how her grandfather used to sing folk songs to comfort her while they were sheltering during German air raids in the early 1940s. Alongside her career as a singer, in the 1950s she travelled to the American South with Alan Lomax, where they made field recordings of blues and folk musicians, helping to create a significant archive. Later in her performing career, Shirley found that she could no longer sing, following a distressing betrayal in her private life. She stepped away from music and was silent for many years, taking on other work, including a stint in a job centre Then, in her 80s, she found her voice again. In 2016 she released her first new album after a gap of almost four decades, and she has since released two more albums. Shirley lives in Sussex, not far from her childhood home. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pf7y

Chelsea Follett: Joining me today is Maarten Boudry or Boudry is the, more American pronunciation, which he’s let me know he’s also alright with, he’s a philosopher and author. He was the first chair of critical thinking at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University and has eclectic interests including progress, cultural evolution, science, conspiracy theories and more. You should check out his substack, which we will link to in the podcast description. And he joins the podcast today to discuss a really fascinating essay, that I personally found just incredibly insightful in understanding some of the cultural trends that we’re seeing today, about what he calls the modern aversion to modernity. So, before we dive into all of that, how are you? Maarten Boudry: Great. Yeah. Thanks for having me. I’m honored to be a guest on this podcast. And yes, it is indeed the Boudry or, but everyone pronounces it Boudry in English. So I’ve gotten used to that. Chelsea Follett: So this essay is still forthcoming at the time of this recording, so the title might change, but it’s currently titled, ‘Biting The Hand That Feeds You Because It Won’t Punch You In The Face’ which is just, just a great title, so. Maarten Boudry: Long word working title. Yeah. Chelsea Follett: Let’s, just sort of walk through the whole thing. So you start with this very powerful and illustrative story about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the enlightenment era philosopher, and what you describe actually is extremely relevant to understanding cultural trends today. So tell me about Rousseau. Maarten Boudry: Yeah, so it’s relevant because I think it’s one of the first instances of the phenomenon that I’m describing because of course, it’s at the very early stages of modernity. Modernity hadn’t really delivered anything tangible for common people, yet. So people were still like poor and destitute and miserable. But of course, this was the era of the republic of letters. So people were already freely changing, exchanging ideas. So there was a relative measure of intellectual freedom already. So in that sense, we were already in the, at early stages of modernity. And so what Rousseau was doing, of course, this was before he was established or well known as an aspiring philosopher. And during a walk to the French suburb of Vincent, which is close to Paris, he describes in his autobiography that he wrote much later that he read something in a magazine that he was just casually leafing through, that really struck him like a bolt of lightning. Maarten Boudry: And it was an announcement, for a prize by the Académie de Dijon. And I don’t really have the prize question with me here, but I think it’s something to the effect of, has the improvements of the sciences also led to a betterment of the morality in our society? And Rousseau describes that the moment that he read that sentence, that he really became another man and he saw another universe. And that just in, one like flash of insight, he saw the innocence of humanity in its original state, and its supposedly ignorant or barbaric state and just the depravity and the decadence of civilization. And so he wrote his essay that which he submitted then, basically [laughter] a sweeping indictment of the whole of, so-called civilization is basically saying that, wherever the sciences are blossoming, wherever knowledge is improving, the virtue is declining, and that every supposedly great civilization is like eventually collapsing under the weight of its own useless knowledge. Maarten Boudry: And so, what I find fascinating about that, by the way, he won the first prize, this is [laughter], this is relevant also, for what comes next is that, I mean, Rousseau himself is a very cultured and educated man. I mean, he was one of the major contributors to the Encyclopédie, the Diderot and D’Alembert project, which is one of the mainstays of the French Enlightenment. He wrote most of the articles on music. So he was a very learned man, but here he is like, just in very refined and eloquent prose just condemning the whole of modernity and condemning the whole idea of being refined and learned and cultured, et cetera. So what he’s doing in effect, and that’s the title of the essay, is he is biting the hand that feeds him. Maarten Boudry: He’s basically, rejecting everything that even though it was, as I said, still the early stages of modernity. So he still had to be careful of what he was saying, of course, because it was, the Catholic church was still relatively powerful, but he knew that like the Enlightenment philosophers had already created like this refuge, this little island of intellectual freedom for themselves. So that was the hand that was feeding him, that was giving the freedom to learn and to study and to exchange ideas. And he knew that that hand a metaphorical hand would never punch him in the face. Like if actually they were inviting him, please criticize us, like Diderot, his friends, they later had a huge fallout, was basically encouraging him, even though he totally disagreed with the argument. He’s like, come on, yeah, submit this essay, because he just relished the provocation of like a philosopher, an enlightenment philosopher, basically tearing down the whole project of enlightenment and of philosophy. Maarten Boudry: And that I think is like one of the most fascinating and unique aspects of modernity that we are not just allowing or tolerating this sort of behavior, I mean criticism that is both like accurate and justified and also just completely unfair and just posturing, and that we’re even encouraging this, basically we’re, welcoming people. Like, please give us a good thrashing. So that’s, okay, that’s kinda a long winded story, but that’s the scene that I’m opening with to say that, okay, this is really a fascinating thing. Rousseau is one of the first philosophers. I mean, as you know, he’s also, he’s a kind of Enlightenment philosopher, but he’s also kind of the pioneer of the romantic movement, which is kind of the part of the counter enlightenment. And if you understand like what is behind that story, I think it provides a lot of insight of what comes next, everything that we’ve seen in the 20th century and the 21st century, about this very modern phenomenon of anti-modernity. The capitalist phenomenon of anti-capitalism and the western hatred of western civilization. Chelsea Follett: No, absolutely. Some people consider him to be a counter enlightenment figure for those reasons, but let’s bring it into the modern age. So then you move in the essay into talking about the modern aversion to modernity, sort of a cultural trend of disdain toward western civilization and modern prosperity and capitalism. Tell me about that. Maarten Boudry: Yeah. So the thing is this essay is actually based on a book that I’m writing, and it’s a kind of a, in one of the later chapters, so the book is called “The Betrayal of Enlightenment.” It’s originally written in Dutch but I hope to translate it. And so the first couple of chapters is about the different ways in which progressive people specifically have betrayed modernity. Have turned against modernity and enlightenment in different ways. I’m perhaps kind of adopting, sort of ideological bigotry of low expectations here, because I’m kind of assuming that it’s more shocking for progressives to condemn modernity or to turn against modernity than conservatives. I mean, perhaps some conservatives might be offended by that. But I think, at least, I mean, it’s in the name progressives, they believe in progress, right? Maarten Boudry: They should be the defenders, the torch bearers of enlightenment and of modern civilization. But for a variety of reasons, they have turned against it. And so in the early chapters, I described a couple of intellectual movements, different perhaps, tributaries to this grand river of anti-modernity, anti-civilization. So, for example, I have a chapter on postmodernism and the idea that we should undermine the foundations of modernity. That like the ultimate step that we take as enlightenment thinkers is that we have to attack the very notions of rationality and truth and reason. And then, of course, there’s the victim versus oppressor narratives, which is sometimes called post-colonialism. This is the idea that you can neatly divide the world into oppressors and victims, which is also something that very much originated in the left of course, among progressives, which also leads to an indictment of Western civilization, because western civilization is like basically the root of all evil according to this ideology. Maarten Boudry: And then you have a chapter on environmentalism, which is also more interesting because it was originally on the right, and then it kind of moved to the left in the ’70s, which is a different story, but which also ends up kind of rejecting the whole of modernity and also, you know, biting the hands that is feeding them, because all these people, of course, are enjoying the fruits and the benefits of modernity. But then in that chapter, so the essay that you wrote, that you read it, I’m asking like a more fundamental question. Like, okay, you can describe all these intellectual movements, and you can say, well, it’s all the fault of Foucault and Derrida, the post-modernists for example. Or it’s all the fault of what happened in the ’70s with the move towards, like deep ecology and environmentalism. Maarten Boudry: But then you can ask a deeper question. Why do these ideologies, different ideologies, I mean, it’s the whole host of different thinkers, why do they originate at all? Is there something about western modernity that like sows the seed of its own destruction? And I think what really made me think is that, you can already go back like way before postmodernism, way before post-colonialism, something that George Orwell wrote, something that also Joseph Schumpeter wrote in his f

Myke and Jason debate the merits of Jony Ive and Sam Altman's big announcement and what it means for Apple, Tariffs continue to threaten iPhone sales, and Apple may have committed to smart glasses after all. https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/565