Mitch Jeserich interviews Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She writes for publications including The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series. She is the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
Mickey Huff welcomes back media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss his new podcast Disinfo Detox and recurring special feature “The Gaslight Gazette,” which analyzes current events and media coverage of them through a critical media literacy lens aiming to deconstruct deceptive media messaging. They also discuss legacy media’s failure to adequately cover Joe Biden’s physical … Continued
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Mexodus” at Berkeley Rep Peets Theatre through October 20, 2024.
Discussed in the episode: Missouri has confirmed a case of H5N1 Avian Influenza in a person who had no identifiable contact with animals known to carry the disease, raising fears the virus may have become capable of human-to-human transmission. Several close contacts of the patient had symptoms as well, but none so far have tested … Continued
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Private Lives” by Noel Coward, at ACT Toni Rembe Theatre through October 6, 2024.
Noel Casler is a stand-up comic whose earlier career as a celebrity handler led him to work for six years on “Celebrity Apprentice.” In this interview recorded December 4, 2020 and originally posted two days later, he discusses what it was like to work with Donald Trump, and who Donald Trump was during those television years. Hosted by Richard Wollinsky.
Host Davey D gathers conversations at the Voter Registration Day in Detroit, Michigan. Community leaders, hip-hop artists, content creators, and national media personalities came together for Mobilize Justice’s “Vote or Else” event on Tuesday, Sept. 17, which is also Voter Registration Day. Hosted at Detroit’s Huntington Place convention center, Vote or Else is a full … Continued
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Francine Prose, author of “1974, A Personal History” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
The author of twenty novels and ten books of non fiction, Francine Prose is best known for such novels as “Lovers at the Chameleon Club, 1932,” “The Vixen,” “Household Saints” and “Mister Monkey.” This latest book, “1974” is a memoir about her time in San Francisco in the mid-1970s and her friendship with Anthony Russo, who. along with Daniel Ellsberg, was an activist responsible for revealing the Pentagon Papers to the world.
Discussed in this episode: Wastewater monitoring seems to show COVID levels have peaked, after a summer wave much larger than in recent years. For the first time, H5N1 avian influenza has been confirmed in California. The California Department of Food and Agriculture confirmed it in three dairy herds, all of them in the Central Valley. There are … Continued
