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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 26/09/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: A South Korean border town near the DMZ is torn apart by a giant humanoid alien. What follows is a story of survival, fate, and "Hope." youtu.be/zXUdRQPLBjk?...
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HOPE Official Trailer (2026)
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 23/09/2026
Preview of our discussion with Paulina Borsook focusing on the re-release of her book "Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech." youtu.be/ing-Equ02tk?...
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This Week on The Plutopia News Network-Paulina Borsook
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 22/09/2026
What did Cyberselfish see coming? Paulina Borsook returns to Plutopia to revisit her critique of Silicon Valley’s libertarian culture and discuss tech billionaire power, AI hype, and an industry’s troubled relationship with the society that sustains it. plutopia.io/paulina-bors...
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Paulina Borsook: Cyberselfish Redux | Plutopia News Network
Paulina Borsook revisits Cyberselfish on Plutopia, exploring Silicon Valley’s libertarian roots and the rise of tech billionaire power.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 21/09/2026
From Linotype to AI: what can printing’s past teach us about media’s future? Jeff Jarvis joins Plutopia to discuss Hot Type, Mark Twain’s costly bet on typesetting, and the possibilities for media built around communities. plutopia.io/jeff-jarvis-...
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Jeff Jarvis: Hot Type | Plutopia News Network
Jeff Jarvis explores how the Linotype helped launch mass media—and what its decline means for journalism, technology, and community.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 19/09/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Lanterns" evolves from slow burn to wild ride as one mystery follows another. youtu.be/-05WmSAmLK4?...
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Lanterns | Midseason Trailer | HBO Max
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 29/08/2026
Tripping back in time, here's a highlight reel from the 2010 Plutopia "Science of Music" event: vimeo.com/11506968?fl=...
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Plutopia 2010: The Science of Music - Highlights of Show - Review
This video features the highlights from Plutopia 2010: The Science of Music, held on Monday, March 15, 2010 at the Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, TX during SXSW Interactive. The event fea...
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 26/08/2026
Finn Myrstad explains how Big Tech exploits our data and attention—and how stronger rules could help us reclaim the internet. Preview: youtu.be/CFcJ6cRysT0?...
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This Week On The Plutopia News Network Podcast
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 17/08/2026
Excerpt from last week's Plutopia podcast: youtu.be/l6NB3XgxYqc
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This Week On The Plutopia Podcast:-Leonie Tanczer: Technology and Control
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 12/08/2026
Dr. Leonie Tanczer discusses how smartphones, connected household devices, surveillance tools, location trackers and AI can facilitate domestic abuse, allowing perpetrators to monitor, manipulate and intimidate victims. plutopia.io/leonie-tancz...
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Leonie Tanczer: Technology and Control | Plutopia News Network
Leonie Tanczer on how smartphones, connected household devices, surveillance tools, location trackers and AI can be repurposed to facilitate domestic abuse.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 08/08/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Richard Wolinsky's SPACE SHIPS! RAY GUNS! MARTIAN OCTOPODS is a book of interviews with legendary sci-fi authors and editors outlining the origin and growth of the genre. bookshop.org/a/52607/9781...
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Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends
In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about the Golden Age of science fiction. Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, ...
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 07/08/2026
And you did one of his favorites, which was published in the Austin Chronicle. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/cybe...
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Cyberculture Evolution
From Zines to Zen With R.U. Sirius and Jon
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 07/08/2026
This week on Plutopia News Network: Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case talks about calm technology and much more. youtu.be/96wDV2IUCvc?...
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This Week on The Plutopia Podcast.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 25/07/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is back with season 4. In episode 1, "Valles Marineris," a space-storm induced time shift throws the Enterprise and crew to the distant past in a familiar place. youtu.be/7FaPm2QTy5w?...
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 4 Official Teaser | Paramount+ (CCXP Mexico 2026)
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 18/07/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: On YouTube, an HD restoration of "Not of This Earth," a Roger Corman low-budget sci-fi film about a literally bloodthirsty alien. youtu.be/jVWN2Tx8ABk?...
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NEW HD RESTORATION🍕 Not of This Earth (1957)🍕 ROGER CORMAN
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 14/07/2026
Counselor Candy Marcum discusses providing affirming mental health care and her belief that LGBTQ people need support in accepting themselves. plutopia.io/living-your-...
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Living Your Truth: Counseling, Community, and LGBTQ Resilience | Plutopia News Network
Counselor Candy Marcum discusses providing affirming mental health care and her belief that LGBTQ people need support in accepting themselves.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 11/07/2026
Team Plutopia looks at the changing political landscape in Texas as foundation for a broader discussion of democracy, public policy, and the state’s future. plutopia.io/texas-at-a-c...
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Texas at a Crossroads | Plutopia News Network
Plutopians take a wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas and beyond, discussing democracy, public policy, and the state’s future.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 11/07/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Backrooms" is a horror film that manifests a wicked maze of surreal rooms that open on rooms that open on other rooms. A building that needs a psych evaluation. youtu.be/0HjdiohVOik?...
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Backrooms | Official Trailer HD | A24
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 11/07/2026
Team Plutopia looks at the changing political landscape in Texas as foundation for a broader discussion of democracy, public policy, and the state’s future. plutopia.io/texas-at-a-c...
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Texas at a Crossroads | Plutopia News Network
Plutopians take a wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas and beyond, discussing democracy, public policy, and the state’s future.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 08/07/2026
A wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas, using Jon Lebkowsky’s experience as a delegate to the Texas Democratic Convention as a springboard for a broader discussion of democracy, public policy, and the state’s future. plutopia.io/texas-at-a-c...
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Texas at a Crossroads | Plutopia News Network
Plutopians take a wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas and beyond, discussing democracy, public policy, and the state’s future.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 22/06/2026
Hugh Forrest reflects on four decades helping shape South by Southwest and the challenges of scaling creative communities without losing authenticity. plutopia.io/hugh-forrest...
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Hugh Forrest: Growing Experiences | Plutopia News Network
Hugh Forrest reflects on four decades helping shape South by Southwest and the challenges of scaling creative communities without losing authenticity.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 20/06/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: After re-watching "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (before seeing "Disclosure Day"), it occurred to us that those aliens might be stocking an interplanetary zoo. youtu.be/dSpQ3G08k48?...
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND - Official Trailer
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 16/06/2026
Security researcher and educator Steve Bellovin discusses the increasingly centralized and balkanized internet, practical and social problems with age verification, the limited role of consumer VPNs, and the history and evolution of cryptography. plutopia.io/steven-bello...
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Steven Bellovin: Don’t Get Hacked! | Plutopia News Network
Security researcher and educator Steve Bellovin discusses the increasingly centralized and Balkanized internet and the history and evolution of cryptography.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 14/06/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: In "Disclosure Day," a government contractor fights to prevent full disclosure of the truth about aliens visiting earth, while a hacker and a meteorologist rush to revelation. youtu.be/icDuEHSxE-w
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Disclosure Day | Final Trailer
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 06/06/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Is "The Mandalorian and Grogu" science fiction, space western, or film noir? However classified, it's a great way to blast through the post-Star-Wars worlds created for the original Mandalorian stories. Pulp cinema. youtu.be/uwild1rw7Aw?...
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu | Final Trailer | In Theaters May 22
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Society for Participatory Medicine @participatorymed.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Discussion of how AI transforms participatory medicine by giving patients new tools to understand medical research, manage personal health data, challenge institutional failures, and act with greater agency. #participatorymedicine #patientsuseAI plutopia.io/patient-powe...
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Patient Power in the Age of AI | Plutopia News Network
How AI transforms participatory medicine by giving patients new tools to understand medical research, manage personal health data, and act with greater agency.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 30/05/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" is a wild romp through a surreal version of the techn-mediated present with a mission-driven man from the future. youtu.be/Nm4WbapDzDQ?...
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GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Official Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 23/05/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Cheesy but prescient "Creation of the Humanoids," with its comicbook production design Andy Warhol's favorite sci-fi film, features a human/AGI love story in a future where AGI robots fill in for humans lost in a nuclear war. youtu.be/pAaJsPTDvp0?...
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Creation of the Humanoids (1962) SF film
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 19/05/2026
Cindy Cohn discusses her new book, “Privacy’s Defender,” and reflects on her decades of work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, from the landmark Bernstein encryption case to fights against NSA mass surveillance and national security letters. plutopia.io/cindy-cohn-p...
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Cindy Cohn: Privacy’s Defender | Plutopia News Network
Cindy Cohn reflects on her work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, from the Bernstein encryption case to fights against NSA mass surveillance.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 16/05/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Plutopia's Jon Lebkowsky wrote “2001 Blues” around year 2000, reflecting how "2001: A Space Odyssey" shaped his sci-fi dreams, and the more ambiguous, disappointing reality of actual year 2001. weblogsky.com/2026/05/06/2...
Three young men gaze at the night sky and dream of the 2001 film they've just seen.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 13/05/2026
Immunologist David Miles discusses his book Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold, discussing “the common cold” as a broad category of respiratory viral illness. He also comments on the recent hantavirus outbreak. plutopia.io/david-miles-...
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David Miles: The Viral Sneeze | Plutopia News Network
David Miles discusses his book "Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold," seeing "the cold" as as a broad category of respiratory viral illness.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 02/05/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Is it science fiction? Or is it an interplanetary Western? "The Mandalorian and Grogu" follows Din Djarin and his mini-Jedi pal as they work for the New Republic. youtu.be/uwild1rw7Aw?...
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu | Final Trailer | In Theaters May 22
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 28/04/2026
Dr. Edward Lenert discusses engagement with large language models and what that experience reveals about AI, thought, trust, creativity, and danger. plutopia.io/ed-lenert-ai...
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Ed Lenert: AI, Truth, and Political Kayfabe | Plutopia News Network
Ed Lenert discusses his experience with large language models and what that experience reveals about AI, thought, trust, creativity, and danger.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 25/04/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice" is a crazy sci-fi gangster buddy comedy flick. The sci-fi element is a spoiler, so you'll have to trust us. youtu.be/pI-2t18TXqs?...
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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice | Official Trailer | Hulu
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 21/04/2026
Helen Pearson (@helenpearson.bsky.social) discusses her book “Beyond Belief,” which traces the rise of evidence-based decision, arguing that evidence-based practice is both more recent and more fragile than many people realize. plutopia.io/helen-pearso...
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Helen Pearson: Beyond Belief | Plutopia News Network
Helen Pearson discusses her book Beyond Belief, on rise of evidence-based decision-making in medicine, government, education, conservation, and other fields.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 17/04/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Vietnam era soldiers fight dinosaurs, Russians, and wormhole-enabling technology in "Primitive War." Over a dozen types of rowdy dinosaurs, for fans of CGI VFX. youtu.be/ixXxdWY6d68?...
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Primitive War | Official Theatrical Trailer
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Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
📢 My book, Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works, is out 28th April. 🚨🚨 “an incredibly engaging popular science book that illustrates why we should care about good quality evidence.” Preorders *really* help! 🙏 @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Beyond Belief
The remarkable story of the global movement championing the idea that evidence, not opinions, should guide our decisions
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 14/04/2026
Journalist Tereza Pultarova discusses her path from covering space exploration to reporting on defense technology after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. plutopia.io/tereza-pulta...
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Tereza Pultarova: Space, Science, and Drone Wars | Plutopia News Network
Journalist Tereza Pultarova discusses her path from covering space exploration to reporting on defense technology after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 11/04/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "The Lost Episode of Star Trek" is actually a whacky montage of bits clipped from various episodes. "Captain, are you all right? What about the ship?" youtu.be/AUMZaR52YaA?...
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The Lost Episode of Star Trek
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 08/04/2026
Stephen Dulaney says AI is a powerful but risky partner that can boost human work, but it still needs judgment, ethics, testing, and oversight. plutopia.io/stephen-dula...
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Stephen Dulaney: The AI Ambition | Plutopia News Network
Stephen Dulaney says AI is a powerful but risky partner that can boost human work, but it still needs judgment, ethics, testing, and oversight.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 28/03/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Steven Spielberg manifests his fascination with UFO possibility in "Disclosure Day," set for summer blockbuster release. At SXSW he said "I have a very strong sneaking suspicion that we are not alone here on Earth right now." youtu.be/RWgbu7uWLw0?...
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Disclosure Day | Extended Trailer (2026) | Emily Blunt, Steven Spielberg
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 23/03/2026
In this Plutopia podcast episode, futurist and data analyst Anne Boysen argues that today’s AI systems, especially large language models and emerging AI agents, are being adopted far faster than their reliability, transparency, and testability justify. plutopia.io/anne-boysen-...
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Anne Boysen: AI Hype, Agents, and Risk | Plutopia News Network
Anne Boysen argues that today’s AI systems are being adopted far faster than their reliability, transparency, and testability justify.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 21/03/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: If the invading enemy in a film is an alien from outer space, as in "War Machine," does that make it science fiction? Or is it an explosive, mindless action film? youtu.be/AFuE1LRxm80?...
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WAR MACHINE | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 17/03/2026
Marc Abrahams discusses the Ig Nobel Prizes, awards that honor real achievements that make people “laugh and then think.” Also the “Annals of Improbable Research,” highlighting unusual but meaningful work ranging from pasta physics to fingernail growth studies. plutopia.io/marc-abraham...
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Marc Abrahams: Improbable Research and Ig Nobel Prizes | Plutopia News Network
Marc Abrahams discusses the Ig Nobel Prizes, which honor real achievements that make people “laugh and then think,” not work that is simply silly or worthless.
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 14/03/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: “Project Hail Mary” sends a mission from Earth to Tau Ceti to solve a cosmic mystery threatening our sun. The fate of two civilizations may depend on an unlikely interstellar partnership. youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?...
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Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 10/03/2026
Dr. Roy Casagranda discusses Iran’s modern history, the rise of the Islamic Republic, and the rapidly escalating conflict involving Iran, Israel, and the United States. youtu.be/1t7Z0hgntJQ?...
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Roy Casagranda on Iran, War and Global Fallout
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 07/03/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: "Paradise" season 2 begins on the post-apocalypse surface of earth, where there are a few survivors, and where Xavier Collins has gone to search for his wife Teri. Mayday! youtu.be/wQfqQ-oIXiA?...
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Paradise Season 2 | Official Trailer | Hulu
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 28/02/2026
Plutopia News Network Sci-Fi Saturday: Set in the post-Burn 32nd century, "Starfleet Academy" follows the first new class of cadets in over a century, led by 400-year-old chancellor Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter). The show's commitment to decency riles anti-woke conservatives. youtu.be/rHDDzcyNWGs?...
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 24/02/2026
Gareth Branwyn discusses “Dreaming for Creatives,” which focuses less on dream interpretation and more on mining the “dream-time mind” for creative material. youtu.be/ydATw6jinr0?...
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Gareth Branwyn: Gareth In Slumberland
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 17/02/2026
On the Plutopia podcast, Shira Chess, author of "The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse," discusses how online culture has always been shaped not just by code and commerce but by myth, ritual, and “enchanted logic.” plutopia.io/shira-chess-...
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Plutopia News Network @plutopia.io · 14/02/2026
Jon Lebkowsky sits down with @Doomscroll for a thoughtful Mastodon interview on digital culture, healthy online communities, decentralization, platforms vs. humans, and the fragility — and resilience — of democracy in the internet age. Read the full Q&A: plutopia.io/jon-lebkowsk...
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Jon Lebkowsky interviewed by Doomscroll | Plutopia News Network
Plutopia News Network's Jon Lebkowsky discusses digital culture and the evolving social web.
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