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- 06 / 10 / 2020 -
The country has changed in the past two weeks, demonstrations are taking place all over the country, Rob and Gila attend a protest in Queens, Kyle and Emmanuel go to one in Smithtown, how cops don't seem to wear masks as a rule, listening in on scanners, Alex's adventure coming to New York City for the first time in three months to restart a server, the site of Red Wheelbarrow from "Mr. Robot" is right next door to Alex's office, the complete bedlam that met Alex in the city, there was a good response to the last show's fundraiser, the premiums that are being offered tonight, figuring out weird levels on the board, an update on planning for this year's HOPE conference, the next steps for 2600, the magazine is now appearing in some grocery stores to make up for the loss of Barnes and Noble, the move to encrypt New York City police radio traffic and why that's a very bad idea, what it's like to listen to a scanner, the amount of transparency that having open radio traffic affords, IBM has ended commercial sales of facial recognition software, Amazon has just suspended similar sales to police for one year, instances of racial profiling that have occurred with such software, the surprising number of confederate names that remain at military bases, why changing a name shouldn't be a big deal, a listing of confederate monuments in the local area. This show includes fundraising.
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June 10
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- 06 / 24 / 2020 -
Alex arrives at his destination just in time for the show, it turns out the fundraiser has continued into the present, Emmanuel tries to remember the phone number, what is being offered tonight, Alex is still in Pennsylvania, the lack of preparedness against the virus in that state, the progress made in New York, the danger of going back to normal too quickly, how everybody except the cops was wearing masks at a recent Black Lives Matter rally, a new quarantine requirement for people arriving in New York from high-risk states, how quickly the virus would disappear if everyone wore masks, why people shouldn't confuse the message with the messenger, why countries in Asia are doing better, Gila tells the story of a Starbucks barista who did the right thing, Alex has to visit the doctor, the difficulty of getting a COVID-19 test, some facts about antibodies, an update on the organizational efforts of HOPE 2020, the great toll the pandemic has had on 2600, there will be nine keynotes during the event, Jaron Lanier will be one of the keynotes, Cindy Cohn will be another keynote, Cory Doctorow and Richard Thieme are two more keynotes, the deadline for submitting a talk is coming up, Voltaire joins the conversation, how coverage of Juneteenth celebrations on Fox 23 in Tulsa contrasted with the anger of the Trump rally in that same city, the potential of technological hijinks that affected the Tulsa Trump rally, how TikTok may have helped make this possible. This show includes fundraising.
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June 24
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