Best Runtime Radio Podcasts (2025)

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DK_en 3x04 - Empire 14:31

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The "Microsoft vs. International Criminal Court" scandal means that all US-owned companies in the EU are foreign agents. Something MUST be done if EU sovereignity as to make any sense.By Walter Vannini

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DK_en 3x03 - Idol(AI)try 20:29

6M ago20:29

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AI is making huge progress: idolatry is now officially a thing again.By Walter Vannini

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DK_en 3x02 - Agentification 19:10

7M ago19:10

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Among the many prophecies around AI, there is the creation of "intelligent agents" that will just go around doing intelligent stuff for us. It's an old dream, and nowhere nearer today than 30 years ago.By Walter Vannini

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DK_en 3x01 - Sam Altman Does Not Get ML 22:20

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When Sam Altman recently tried to explain why AI works, he managed to show he's talking by hearsay, of stuff he hardly grasps.By Walter Vannini

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DK_en 2x06 - Thoughts for the summer break 21:37

2y ago21:37

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As an end-of season treat, a bunch of questions that we'll meet again, as good as new, after the break. Good summer from Dataknightmare!By Walter Vannini

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DK_en 2x05 - The Italian Garante and chatGPT 37:39

2y ago37:39

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TL; DR: there is no "AI", only bullshit generators, and therein lies the rub. what the Italian Garante really decided (no, it did NOT block chatGPT, that was openAI's strong-arming choice), refutation of the most common objections and a few opinions as a bonus.By Walter Vannini

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DK en_2x04 - Bullshit Generators 20:53

2+ y ago20:53

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Generative AI may be all the rage right now, but it's just a marketing name. A more appropriate name? Bullshit generators.By Walter Vannini

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DK_en 2x03 - GDPR 2.0? NoThanks. 29:06

2+ y ago29:06

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"Dear EU, please change the GDPR because it does not suit our business models. XOXO, the US"By Walter Vannini

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DK_En - 2x02 Algojerks Towards the Thousand-Year Reich 27:29

2+ y ago27:29

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Lonmgtermism is a Nazi cult disguised as fashionable scientism for the megarich. Merry Christmas!By Walter Vannini

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DK 2x01 - Are there alternatives to Office365? 21:10

2+ y ago21:10

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DataKnightmare is back. And, following on the german DSK investigation report, has his own opinion on the age-old question: are there alternatives to Office365?By Walter Vannini

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College Basketball 5:47

4y ago5:47

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Sit back and relax to the patter of Dick Vitale's voice, the babble of classic cars, and the wailings of fragile masculinity.By The Trident Network

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The Masters 7:21

4+ y ago7:21

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This debut episode of the Rained Out Radio Hour features handmade American products, interesting facts about nature and a game show to help fill the void of everyday life. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By The Trident Network

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DK 1x06en - Lenin in Silicon Valley 25:16

7y ago25:16

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First it was Project Maven, then Google Duplex, and now the Selfish Ledger. Google has become the Church of the Algojerks, and it is now clear that Silicon Valley is pursuing a fundamentally Leninist project.By Walter Vannini

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DK_en 1x05 - Attack of the Algojerks 35:31

7+ y ago35:31

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Do you, like me, have the impression that things are somehow accelerating? As if we were on a car careening downhill with no brakes --and no driver either? Seems to me, the brazenness with which Silicon Valley is churning out its "solutions" (often to nobody's problems) is fast reaching its slobness. Am I overreacting? Facebook wants our nude pics …

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DK_en 1x04 - Twilight Of The Gods 21:43

7+ y ago21:43

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The DataKnightmare has issues with the ongoing deification of disruption stars. Will our future really have the intellectually unencumbered face of a Mark Zuckerberg? Are Uber, AirBnB, Google really all that innovation is about? Are these kings of disruption really the gods of our times. No. We are already witnessing their twilight of these gods an…

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DK_en 1x03 - The Mother Of All Datagrabs 18:21

7+ y ago18:21

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You thought the DeepMind/Royal Free NHS case was bad? Well, Italy has promised IBM the sum total of its 60 million citizens' health data for Watson health to train on. With no oversight, no guarantees, no financial return, and no defined goals. Welcome to the mother of all datagrabs.By Walter Vannini

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DK_en 1x02 - Dumb and Dumber 21:58

8y ago21:58

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The Equifax breach, 143 million citizens' worth of credit rating data? Or Facebook having Nazis as a targetable demographics? Or the system an Italian party uses for its internal polls and elections, Rousseau, breachable with a trivial SQL injection? The data industry is a circus where the contest is between the "merely" incompetent and the crimina…

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DK_en 1x01 - You're Looking Gay, Today 18:48

8y ago18:48

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Can AI really guess if you are gay? So far, it's a bullshit claim. Nonetheless, some are making it. They claim to be warning us, but with their bad science and their questionable ethics, they lend credibility to the practices they claim to fear. Welcome to a world where the algorithmic is politicalBy Walter Vannini

Runtime Radio Podcasts

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DataKnightmare (English Version)

Walter Vannini

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Rained Out Radio Hour

The Trident Network

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DK_en 3x04 - Empire 14:31

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DK_en 3x03 - Idol(AI)try 20:29

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DK_en 3x02 - Agentification 19:10

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DK_en 3x01 - Sam Altman Does Not Get ML 22:20

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DK_en 2x06 - Thoughts for the summer break 21:37

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DK_en 2x05 - The Italian Garante and chatGPT 37:39

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DK en_2x04 - Bullshit Generators 20:53

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DK_en 2x03 - GDPR 2.0? NoThanks. 29:06

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DK_En - 2x02 Algojerks Towards the Thousand-Year Reich 27:29

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DK 2x01 - Are there alternatives to Office365? 21:10

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College Basketball 5:47

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The Masters 7:21

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DK 1x06en - Lenin in Silicon Valley 25:16

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DK_en 1x05 - Attack of the Algojerks 35:31

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DK_en 1x04 - Twilight Of The Gods 21:43

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DK_en 1x03 - The Mother Of All Datagrabs 18:21

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DK_en 1x02 - Dumb and Dumber 21:58

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DK_en 1x01 - You're Looking Gay, Today 18:48