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Helen and Andy are on a deeply critical quest to understand our technological society. The show is punk - sassy, sceptical, creative, humane and irreverent, but also prescient with remarkable insights on serious subjects.
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Colonised By Wankers
Andy talks to senior software developer Jay Little about what's eating tech
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Dick-Tech : The Rise of Weaponised Antisocial Technology
Socially hostile tech is being pushed as a way to "improve" yourself. It does the opposite.
The Fall
After the tech collapse, where should be start rebuilding?
A Small Victory For Dignity
The Lampard Inquiry exposes a fundamental problem with thinking we can offload care to "AI" and surveillance.
Consumer protection and the war on children
Consumer law is in tatters, it protectes neither children nor adults
Robot CEO
DAOs are a ploy for unprecedented takeovers
Technology as mass psychosis
Anthropology and the healthy technological sceptic
Sex, Lies, and Tape Delay
Porn, deception, and social media mayhem
Mad Dogs
We must exercise conscious resistance against the hypnosis of technology
And Deliver Us From Tech Evil
A reluctance to name truly awful and horrible things as "evil" holds us back from progress toward humante technology
Escaping Prisons For Your Mind
What happens in US prisons is a blueprint for the rest of us
Guardians of the grid
Critical infrastructure, resilience and risk measurement
Dumb Data: From child abuse in plain sight to the politicisation of science
Scientists are still being paid to debate what was self-evident a decade ago
After Social Media?
Helen and Andy think the battle has only just begun. Will any of the real issues about social control media make it to the mainstream?
Tech should adapt to the needs of society
Sir Keir Starmer leaves a most important legacy
Why I code (Part 10)
Individuation and change as the coder becomes aware of her power and skills as a political force.
Humaxing: How I met the real-life Yoda
Recalling an encounter with the super-human
Hackers In Your House
Ken Munro of Pentest Partners UK is our guest talking about embedded security
Living Code
We updated some AV software at the Cyber Show and it was a train-wreck. Moving too fast breaks a lot of things!
Why I code (Part 9)
The power of digital literacy as a political force.
Why I code (Part 8)
The power of digital literacy as a political force.
Why I code (Part 7)
The power of digital literacy as a political force.
Why I code (Part 6)
The power of digital literacy as a political force.
Why I code (Part 5)
The power of digital literacy as a political force.
Why I code (Part 4)
The power of digital literacy as a political force.
Why I code (Part 3)
The power of digital literacy as a political force.
Why I code (Part 2)
The power of digital literacy to personal agency.
Why I code (Part 1)
The power of digital literacy is as a life-skill and nothing to do with employment or careers.
Why I code: The Fight Against Technofascism
The power of digital literacy is as a life-skill and nothing to do with employment or careers.
Measuring Security
Discussion about automation of compliance and vulnerability estimation
Grow your own ISP
We talk to Cris Verinder, founder of internet companies on the Isle of Wight
Moral competence
A Heideggerian account of moral competence as what technofascism seeks to annihilate. Moral competence is therefore a powerful weapon in the fight against technofascism.
Every time you say "AI" a kitten dies.
Changing our vocabulary can change negative perceptions of technology
Notes for our guests on Cybershow (updated)
Help for guests to get the best possible show quality
Gemini Adventures
Building a Gemini Capsule for Cybershow
What "AI" means (part 2)
Seeing through the shell of "AI" marketing speak
At sea with technology
As civilian and military tech converge we can't have it both ways with tech and safety.
GNU Health
Luis Falcon MD talks about GNUHealth and why the world needs software for hospitals and GPs that is not linked to Big TEch
What "AI" means now
"AI" is a now term of propaganda not technology
Fantasy versus reality
"AI" is just the most recent step in a fugue from reality
Art or wank?
"AI" is the modern art period for computing.
You can't say that! Until suddenly you can.
People are afraid to name evil until others speak up too
Political thinking on the Cybershow
The Cybershow is not about Software Freedom, it is such an obvious good we simply assume the necessity of it.