Jordan and Jon talk with Andrew McLuhan, the director of the McLuhan Institute, to explore the legacy of Marshall McLuhan and the nature of technology and its impact on individuals and culture. They discuss the history of the McLuhan Institute, McLuhan's literary approach to understanding media, the importance of the tetrad in analyzing media's effects, and the balance of optimism and pessimism regarding technology's role in society.

In this episode, Jordan and Hodlbod continue their discussion of Marshall McLuhan's book, 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.' They explore the impact of technology and social media on our souls and examine how McLuhan's ideas can challenge programmers as they seek to build constructive forms of media.

Jon and Jordan begin a series discussing Marshall McLuhan's book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. They explore McLuhan's concept of hot and cold media, the shift from a spoken word society to a written society and now to the electronic age, and how technology has the power to transform language and consciousness.

Jon and Jimmy discuss what Bitcoin and Nostr have to do with virtue, explore the possibility of social media platforms that encourage virtue and true community, and investigate different avenues for improving Nostr.

This week's episode is another panel from the TGFB24 Conference in which Jon participated. The panel was hosted by Paul of Mutiny and also featured Zack Mahoney and Cory Pyke of Indeehub.Studio and Skyler of Finite Supply. The panel was entitled, "Freedom Tech Stack" and addresses why and how Christians should think about and use technology.

Jon discussed the role and purpose of technology in his keynote presentation at the Thank God For Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville.

Neil and Jon talk nyms, badges, web of trust, communities, privacy, and how all those things fit together.

Hodlbod and Arkin0x talk about his new work over at FanFares, an open-source, Nostr based platform that is revolutionizing the world of content creation through Bitcoin lightening micropayments. They also discuss the theology of technology and how evolutionary theory has put its mark on technology.

Jon and David explore web-of-trust, evaluating the implementations that currently exist, examining how David is working to create a framework for contextual trust, and looking forward to the future of web of trust and what it might teach us about human society at large.

Jon and Gary talk about Bitcoin Veterans, ROSTr, identity, and how technology fits into a vision of the future.

Jon and Fabian talk about how Fabian got into nostr, custom feeds, web of trust, and more.

Alex and Jon cover the salient points of how to serve different types of communities, how to handle content reporting, and the tradeoffs of building nostr communities on top of fediverse APIs.

Jon and Chris explore what bitcoin and nostr can do for the church, and riff on the future and theology of technology.

In this episode, Jordan and John discuss the book 'From the Garden to the City' by John Dyer. They discuss the different layers of technology, including tools, manufacturing, methodology, and social usage and explore the impact of a Christian worldview on various aspects of technology. In their third installment of Parsed Nips they discuss Nip 10.

Jon is back with Jordan to discuss a series of videos from pastor and theologian James B. Jordan unpacking the movement of humanity throughout the Biblical narrative arc from gardens to cities. JBJ, who was known to read the Bible five times every year, is one of the most insightful theological minds of the 20th century and this conversation sheds a little light into why. Jon and Jordan talk about gardens and cities as technology, how and why cities frequently become monuments to pride, and how cities come to be redeemed as priorities of their inhabitants become increasingly conformed to God's own vision for the world, and much more.

Web of Trust has numerous applications in many different domains, which Jon and Pip explore in this conversation. Pip reminds us that whatever its benefits, care should be taken to consider its effect on the people using it and labeled by it.

A discussion only for the die-hards. Hzrd and Jon get into the weeds on the outbox model, Blossom, and much more.

What does permaculture have to do with nostr? A lot! Jon and Scott talk about communities, self-obsoletion, and abundance mindsets. Scott has many years of experience in permaculture design, and a ton of wisdom to share for how we might be able to apply those principles to nostr development.

Stephen gives Jon a crash course in how to think about technology and its influence on the distribution of power, its use in social contexts, and how technical solutions have to be balanced by other aspects of human society, and circumscribed by the values of a given community.

Jeff helps Jon understand that when it comes to nostr, eCash, TikTok, and bees, it almost always depends.