#SpyBalloonGate, Deepfakes, Nuclear Power

The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott, 10/17/23)

#SpyBalloonGate [04:05]

This wasn’t the first Chinese balloon over the U.S. Why were the others ignored? (NPR, 2/6/23)
China says at least 10 U.S. balloons have flown in its airspace since 2022 (Washington Post, 2/13/23)
A Timeline of the U.F.O.s That Were Shot Down This Weekend (The New York Times, 2/14/23)
A Rising Awareness That Balloons Are Everywhere in Our Skies (The New York Times, 2/14/23)
The U.S. Overreacted to the Chinese Spy Balloon. That Scares Me. (Foreign Policy, 2/13/23)
Objects shot down in Alaska, Canada less advanced than Chinese balloon (Washington Post, 2/13/23)
On our radar: House unanimously passes resolution condemning China for spy balloon (Washington Post, 2/13/23)
Blinken postpones China trip as suspected spy balloon detected over U.S. (Washington Post, 2/3/23)
U.S. declassifies balloon intelligence, calls out China for spying (Washington Post, 2/9/23)
Chinese Balloon Carried Antennas, Other Equipment to Gather Intelligence, U.S. Says (Wall Street Journal, 2/9/23)
As Mystery Objects Get Shot Down, U.S. Sets Up New Task Force on UFOs (Wall Street Journal, 2/13/23)
What’s Going On Up There? Theories but No Answers in Shootdowns of Mystery Craft. (The New York Times, 2/14/23)
Chinese Spy Balloon Tracked Over U.S. This Week (Wall Street Journal, 2/2/23)
Old-School Balloons Emerge as Possible High-Tech Spy Tools for China (Wall Street Journal, 2/3/23)
The U.S. Overreacted to the Chinese Spy Balloon. That Scares Me. (Foreign Policy, 2/13/23)

Deepfakes [19:00]

Rise of the post-truth sex tape: Deepfake pornography is making women’s online lives even more frightening (Independent, 2/8/23)
AI porn is easy to make now. For women, that’s a nightmare. (Washington Post, 1/13/23)
How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy (Ted, 9/11/19)
She discovered a naked video of herself online, but it wasn’t her: The trauma of deepfake porn (USA Today, 2/14/23)
They appeared in deepfake porn videos without their consent. Few laws protect them. (NBC, 2/14/23)
‘You Feel So Violated’: Streamer QTCinderella Is Speaking Out Against Deepfake Porn Harassment (Vice, 2/13/23)
We Haven’t Seen the Worst of Fake News (The Atlantic, 12/20/22)
The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real. (The New York Times, 2/7/23)
These newscasters you may have seen online are not real people (CNN, 2/11/23)
What are deepfakes – and how can you spot them? (The Guardian, 1/13/20)
What is a deepfake? Everything you need to know about the AI-powered fake media (Insider, 8/10/22)
Deepfakes, explained (MIT, 6/21/20)
The Increasing Threat of Deep Fake Identities (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

Interview with Jonathan Rauch [33:39]

The Real Obstacle to Nuclear Power (The Atlantic, 2/7/23)

Voicemail [49:12]