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Hosted by Dan Slimmon · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 27 episodes
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Like a self-driving Uber at a busy crosswalk, technological innovation keeps hurtling boldly ahead.Whether you’re choking down a mug of Keurig between back-to-back Zoom calls, granting GPS permission to the iPhone app that flashes your vape pen’s firmware, or just silently praying for the haywire inventory bot at the supermarket to come out of Sentinel Mode so you can scramble to safety, Technology Blows is the audio tour guide for your information-age malaise.
Dan Slimmon hosts Technology Blows, a technology show with 27 episodes published.
In celebration of Bastille Day, enjoy this 2-part episode on the guillotine. Find out: How a death penalty abolitionist became the namesake the world's most famous execution machine What makes the guillotine such an effe
In celebration of Bastille Day, enjoy this 2-part episode on the guillotine. Find out: How a death penalty abolitionist became the namesake the world's most famous execution machine What makes the guillotine such an effe
The cash register: a machine invented because your boss doesn't trust you to count. Join me and my guest Daniel Ryan to learn: Why we can thank the father of cash registers for B2B sales, office cafeterias, and maybe eve
On this week's episode, Meg Sinick joins me for the saga of Ticketmaster: the company that swallowed up and digested the live music industry by making a product that literally no one wants. Find out: How service fees and
Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Join me and my guest Matt Johnson to find out: What Grok has in common with turn-of-the-20th-century tsarist propaganda The 3 Jewish-adjacent facts th
Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Join me and my guest Matt Johnson to find out: What Grok has in common with turn-of-the-20th-century tsarist propaganda The 3 Jewish-adjacent facts th
Marty is a fully automated dipshit that wanders around the Stop & Shop getting in everyone's way and posing for selfies. Sometimes it hugs a cancer kid. References: https://bjsantiago.focalpointcoaching.com/about-me http
Suit up, jack in, and Zuck out. I'm joined by guest Anderson Gronvold as we abandon meatspace for metaspace. Find out why you can't afford to miss out on Meta's flagship VR experience. Legs optional! 🦵 References: Harri
Suit up, jack in, and Zuck out. I'm joined by guest Anderson Gronvold as we abandon meatspace for metaspace. Find out why you can't afford to miss out on Meta's flagship VR experience. Legs optional! 🦵 References: Harri
Suit up, jack in, and Zuck out. I'm joined by guest Anderson Gronvold as we abandon meatspace for metaspace. Find out why you can't afford to miss out on Meta's flagship VR experience. Legs optional! 🦵 References: Harri
Give the gift of convenient garbage, with Keurig. This week, Xiao Yu joins us as we explore: How Keurig was born out of antisocial office culture and a deep ambivalence for quality The fascinating career of hippie-turned
The web didn't have to be this way. Friend-of-the-pod CJ Horton joins us for a look at cookies: the completely reasonable web protocol that became host to the parasitic ad industry. References: "Lou Montulli: Sexiest Int
The web didn't have to be this way. Friend-of-the-pod CJ Horton joins us for a look at cookies: the completely reasonable web protocol that became host to the parasitic ad industry. References: "Lou Montulli: Sexiest Int
Kalshi: is it "the first federally regulated prediction market," or just a shittier FanDuel? Join me and friend-of-the-pod Jeff Bonhag to learn: What modern science has in common with rolling fox knuckles How Kalshi DOSe
This week we're joined by Brandon Romano to learn about Scantron: the company that made ubiquitous standardized testing possible. Find out: How standardized tests were graded in the 1500s (hint: it involved throwing corp
This week and last, I'm joined by singer-songwriter Rachel Kiel to talk about Shazam: the massive data analytics platform that occasionally tells you the names of songs. Find out: How they use computers to turn all your
This week and next, I'm joined by singer-songwriter Rachel Kiel to talk about Shazam: the massive data analytics platform that occasionally tells you the names of songs. Find out: How they use computers to turn all your
It looks like you're trying to listen to a podcast. Would you like some help with that? Join me and my guest Dana Vannen Anderson for the bizarre and frequently cringe story of Clippy, the paperclip that us helped write
Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of squeezing/agitation! This week, Rit Breisler and I discuss washing machines. Learn: What fluid the ancient Romans used instead of detergent (hint: you're not gonna like it) What
Jira: the bloated tick gorging itself on the software industry. Join me and CJ Horton to learn about: Henry Gantt, the absolute chart simp who gave your boss the idea to ask you about your progress every half hour Infini
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Technology Blows is hosted by Dan Slimmon. The show is categorised under technology (comedy) and has published 27 episodes.
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