The anthropology of tech. Hosted by Jasmine Sun and friends. Transcripts and links at jasmi.news. jasmi.news
Latest episodes
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36 min
🌻 anthropicology (ft. irene zhang & kai williams)
Live video discussing Dario's "The Adolescence of Technology" and the Claude Constitution with Irene Zhang from ChinaTalk and Kai Williams from Understanding AI. Get full access to…
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1 h 15
🌻 expanding the market for culture (ft. celine nguyen)
People are panicking about the literacy crisis, about waning attention spans and why technology is making everything worse. But some people — like writer, software designer, and li…
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9 min
🌻 don't take the bait
VOICEOVER: A short essay on how vice signaling is eating Silicon Valley. Get full access to @jasmine’s substack at jasmi.news/subscribe
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1 h 47
🌻 how dems lost the future (ft. kelsey piper)
These days I am quite stressed about the fate of “liberal democracy.” It’s not a concept I previously felt very attached to, mostly because I didn’t like the way the Dems talked ab…
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1 h 43
🌻 from counterculture to cyberculture (ft. fred turner)
Today's podcast guest is Fred Turner, a Professor of Communication at Stanford and probably the best historian of Silicon Valley culture over the past 100 years.His book, From Coun…
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35 min
🌻 forecasts vs. fiction (ft. daniel kokotajlo)
Sometimes, a piece of writing goes so viral that it becomes an event in and of itself. One of the most successful recent instances of this is AI 2027: a detailed scenario outlining…
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1 h 29
🌻 media training (ft. kevin roose)
Today’s episode is for the media nerds out there. I’m talking to author/podcaster extraordinaire Kevin Roose: New York Times tech columnist, Hard Fork cohost, and the author of 3.2…
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1 h 29
🌻 you can just do things (ft. anson & hudzah)
I invited my friends Anson Yu and HudZah to chat today, as young people thriving amid these ~unprecedented times~. Our conversation is very much about agency: how it’s nurtured by…
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55 min
🌻 notes on notes (ft. me)
I'm obsessed with web-highlighter / read-it-later app / research assistant Readwise, so I was honored when to be the first guest on Readwise’s podcast. It was a fun conversation, s…
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1 h 08
🌻 doing DOGE right (ft. audrey tang)
Today's podcast features Audrey Tang. She's the current Cyber Ambassador of Taiwan, a principal author of the book Plurality, and a major inspiration for my approach to tech.Audrey…
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1 h 24
🌻 infinite cornucopia (ft. mills baker)
Today’s podcast features the brilliant and singular Mills Baker. Formally, he’s the Head of Design at Substack, where we met, and also fallibilist, New Orleanian, and OG blogger ex…
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57 min
🌻 the china model (ft. tianyu fang)
Today’s show features my dear friend Tianyu Fang! Tian is a writer and researcher focused on tech policy and US-China relations. He’s currently a Tech and Democracy fellow at New A…
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55 min
🌻 builders vs. prigs (ft. arjun ramani)
This episode is an accompaniment to my “tech right (disambiguation)” post from last week. My guest today is my good friend Arjun Ramani. We've known each other since freshman year…
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11 min
🌻 statement of purpose
Announcing my 2025 project: an anthropology of disruption. (Voiceover) Get full access to @jasmine’s substack at jasmi.news/subscribe
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13 min
🌻 audience of one
I remember being a freshman in college and finishing the book “Young Money” by Kevin Roose, which follows eight recent graduates’ journeys into the opulent yet cutthroat world of i…