CS 242: Surveillance Nation feat. Yasha Levine Pt. 1 (01/28/2020) by Champagne Sharks published on 2020-02-02T02:50:04Z This is part 1 of a two-part episode. Part 1 is free and available to all; part 2 is only available to $5/month subscribers over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/33663258. Show notes to this episode, if we decide to do any, will eventually be available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/champagnesharks. This episode is hosted by T. Today we have on Yasha Levine (http://twitter.com/yashalevine). Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist and author. Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union, is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile. He is here to discuss his recent book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N809DBM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1. Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_) Genre News & Politics Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Garbage In, Garbage Out. (GiGO). 2020-02-15T20:57:42Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Underpants Gnomes: the reality. 2020-02-15T20:42:23Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder "Computer science" is kind of an oxymoron, but it was either put computer studies in the math department or make it part of electrical engineering, but once the software was good enough and IT a thing, the computer superseeded all of that. 2020-02-15T19:19:05Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder The major governments with computers by the mid-1950s were the US, UK, USSR, and France. Transistors shrank them down from rooms to the corner of a room to a desktop within thirty years. 2020-02-15T19:14:12Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder This guy is veeery interesting, he used to work with Mark Ames on "The eXile" magazine in Moscow. 2020-02-15T19:08:39Z