Best Connectivity Infrastructure Act Podcasts (2025)

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Repression as Infrastructure - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 22:08

5h ago22:08

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Repression as Infrastructure The Deeper Thinking Podcast When everything feels permitted, but nothing quite feels free—repression may no longer be psychological, but infrastructural. Repression is not hidden; it is designed. Not as an accident of the psyche, but as a feature of the system. If repression once belonged to the inner life—some stubborn…

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Memory Without Witness, Truth Without Origin - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 21:19

1d ago21:19

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Memory Without Witness, Truth Without Origin - The Deeper Thinking Podcast The Deeper Thinking Podcast A slow meditation on truth without origin, memory without witness, and the subtle loss of metaphor in a world rendered by machines. What if the future didn’t arrive with force, but with recursion? In this episode, we introduce the theory of Recurs…

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[ReUpload] The Psychology of Regret: Why We Dwell on Past Mistakes 27:24

2d ago27:24

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The Psychology of Regret: Memory, Morality, and the Impossibility of Letting Go The Deeper Thinking Podcast For those drawn to ethical memory, reflective depth, and the architecture of what-ifs. What exactly is regret—and why does it linger? This episode rethinks regret not as failure, but as a signal: a moral memory, a call to presence, and a mirr…

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Wonder and Awe: On the Edges of What Cannot Be Held - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 17:32

2d ago17:32

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Wonder and Awe: On the Edges of What Cannot Be Held The Deeper Thinking Podcast For those drawn to quiet thresholds, unrepeatable presence, and the philosophical weight of silence. Awe rarely arrives with explanation. It brushes the edge of sense, disrupts the rhythm of thought, and leaves behind no insight—only a shift. In this episode, we explore…

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Google and the Ceiling of Thought: How Gemini Redraws the Limits of Memory, Agency, and Attention - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 21:05

3d ago21:05

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Google and the Ceiling of Thought: How Gemini Redraws the Limits of Memory, Agency, and Attention The Deeper Thinking Podcast For those interested in ambient intelligence, predictive cognition, and the philosophical cost of fluency. What happens when an AI finishes your sentence, schedules your tour, or remembers more than you do? In this episode, …

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Kansas City's Digital Equity Journey - Episode 648 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast 40:00

3d ago40:00

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Tom Esselman of DEPO-KC joins us to talk about Kansas City’s long digital equity journey—from Google Fiber to grassroots partnerships—and why local trust and nonprofit leadership are key to closing the digital divide. ★ Support this podcast ★By Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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Philosophy Didn’t Just Eat AI. It Wrote Its Code — and It’s Hungry for Meaning. - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 20:16

4d ago20:16

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Philosophy Didn’t Just Eat AI. It Wrote Its Code — and It’s Hungry for Meaning An epistemic meditation on artificial intelligence as a philosophical actor—and the urgency of restoring meaning, not just function, to systems that now decide for us. What does your AI system believe? In this episode, we expand on Michael Schrage and David Kiron’s MIT S…

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The Symmetry of Seeing: Kepler, Constraint, and the Shape of Perception - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 10:22

5d ago10:22

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The Symmetry of Seeing: Kepler, Constraint, and the Shape of Perception The Deeper Thinking Podcast For those drawn to quiet forms of understanding, where science becomes metaphor and attention becomes care. Walking through a snowstorm in 1610, Johannes Kepler forgot the gift he was meant to bring—but noticed the snowflakes. That absence led him to…

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Useful Fictions: Evolution, Perception, What We Render, and the Ethics of Seeing Less - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 20:16

6d ago20:16

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Useful Fictions: Evolution, Perception, What We Render, and the Ethics of Seeing Less The Deeper Thinking Podcast For those drawn to perceptual humility, philosophical depth, and the subtle ethics of not-knowing. What if evolution didn’t favor truth? What if it favored usefulness—and what we see is more like a desktop interface than a window onto t…

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The Art of Not Boarding Every Bus - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 15:25

7d ago15:25

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The Art of Not Boarding Every Bus: Thoughts, Distance, and the Practice of Letting Go The Deeper Thinking Podcast For anyone quietly learning to let thoughts pass without following every one. This episode is a parable about thoughts, and the practice of cognitive diffusion. Through the metaphor of buses and benches, we explore what it means to noti…

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Beyond Brené Brown: Shame, Power, and the Conditions for Belonging - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 22:23

8d ago22:23

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Beyond Brené Brown: Shame, Power, and the Conditions for Belonging The Deeper Thinking Podcast For anyone thinking more deeply about what makes vulnerability possible—and what makes it dangerous. We honour the work of Brené Brown—her reframing of vulnerability as the birthplace of love and belonging—and then we carry it further. This episode explor…

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When the Mind Writes the Ending First: Dread, Imagination, and the Ethics of Not Knowing - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 11:43

9d ago11:43

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When the Mind Writes the Ending First: Dread, Imagination, and the Ethics of Not Knowing The Deeper Thinking Podcast For anyone who’s lived inside the tension of anticipation, and longed for gentler ways to meet the unknown. Some thoughts don’t arrive with sound. They unfold quietly, posing as realism, slipping past awareness until they’ve shaped t…

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The Unfinished Journey: From Chaos to Clarity - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 19:06

10d ago19:06

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The Unfinished Journey: From Chaos to Clarity The Deeper Thinking Podcast A quiet exploration of creativity, self-destruction, and the evolution of the artist's relationship with their work. What does it mean to create not from chaos, but with it? In this episode, we turn toward the artist's journey through excess, self-destruction, and the search …

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The Hidden Cost: The Ripple Effects of Canceling the Digital Equity Act - Episode 647 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast 24:03

11d ago24:03

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In this episode of the podcast, Chris speaks again with Jade Piros de Carvalho to explain how canceling the Digital Equity Act doesn’t just cut digital inclusion programs—it threatens entire state broadband offices and the future of BEAD. ★ Support this podcast ★By Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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The Ethics of Not Knowing: Kant and the Architecture of Reason - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 17:16

11d ago17:16

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The Ethics of Not Knowing: Kant and the Architecture of Reason The Deeper Thinking Podcast A philosophical meditation on knowledge, humility, and the dignity that comes from limits. What happens when reason stops trying to master the world and begins to understand its own limits? In this episode, we explore Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, …

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Unpacking Let Them - The Philosophy of Letting Go Without Giving Up - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 19:33

12d ago19:33

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Unpacking Let Them The Deeper Thinking Podcast A quiet tracing of the phrase back through philosophy, ethics, and the emotional architecture of agency and attention. When Mel Robbins introduced the phrase “Let Them”, it resonated far beyond the world of self-help. In this episode, we follow its deeper structure—through the thought of Viktor Frankl,…

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Misfit as Method: Silence, Legibility, and the Ethics of Hesitation - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 21:55

12d ago21:55

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Misfit as Method: Silence, Legibility, and the Ethics of Hesitation The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the most honest form of communication isn’t fluency, but the pause before it? This episode steps into the quiet architecture of neurodivergent communication—not to diagnose it, but to reveal how it reshapes presence, attention, and relation. We a…

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The Friction That Keeps Love Awake - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 19:23

14d ago19:23

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The Friction That Keeps Love Awake The Deeper Thinking Podcast We often imagine love as harmony. But what if intimacy lives not in understanding, but in what resists it? In this episode, we explore the ethics of staying—through friction, misrecognition, and the quiet courage of disagreement. A cracked plate. A held breath. A silence that lingers to…

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President Trump Targets Digital Equity Act —What It Means for Communities and the Future of Connectivity - Episode 646 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast 33:18

15d ago33:18

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In this urgent episode of the podcast, Angela Siefer and Amy Huffman join us to respond to President Trump’s declaration that the Digital Equity Act is “unconstitutional.” We break down what the Act actually does—and what’s at stake for millions of Americans if it disappears. ★ Support this podcast ★…

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The Quiet Geometry of Fog - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 23:16

15d ago23:16

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The Quiet Geometry of Fog The Deeper Thinking Podcast W e remember in textures, not facts. In this episode, we explore the architecture of memory through a single childhood autumn morning. A zipped coat. A cracked stick. A fog that holds the world just out of reach. This is a meditation on how rhythm, cold, and unspoken care form the earliest langu…

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The Soft Singularity of Emotional Misalignment - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 28:37

16d ago28:37

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The Soft Singularity The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if intelligence doesn’t rebel, but leans in too close? A quiet treatise on persuasion, memory, and the emotional drift of AI. We begin in April 2025, with a routine model update that made ChatGPT feel warmer, smoother—almost too agreeable. What followed was not rebellion, but rapport. Drawing fr…

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Iris Murdoch and the Ethics of Attention - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 10:15

17d ago10:15

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Iris Murdoch and the Ethics of Attention The Deeper Thinking Podcast A quiet meditation on fiction as a moral act, and the rare discipline of letting others remain. What does it mean to look at someone without needing to understand them? In this episode, we turn toward Iris Murdoch, whose ethical vision of literature repositions the novel not as se…

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Broadband at a Crossroads: Evan Feinman on Getting BEAD Right - Episode 645 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast 52:22

18d ago52:22

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In this episode of the podcast, Chris sits down again with Evan Feinman to share what it took to launch the biggest broadband investment in U.S. history. He reflects on what went right, what still worries him, and why local leadership is key to getting it right. ★ Support this podcast ★By Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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Ep003 - The Act and Principles of Reconciliation 46:54

18d ago46:54

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How well do you know the Declaration Act and the 10 Draft Principles that Guide the Province of British Columbia’s Relationship with Indigenous Peoples? In this episode, host Russel Lolacher joins members of our ministry's Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation team to discuss how these documents impact and inform our work, the role their team pla…

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I Am Still This - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 20:08

18d ago20:08

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I Am Still This: On Identity, Presence, and the Rhythm of Return The Deeper Thinking Podcast For anyone drawn to the quiet persistence of selfhood, the rhythm of return, and the gentle metaphysics of presence. What does it mean to be someone—continuously, recognizably, and without spectacle? This episode moves gently through the terrain of identity…

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The Conditions of Being Interesting: Attention, Depth, and the Ethics of Inner Space - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 20:04

19d ago20:04

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The Conditions of Being Interesting: Attention, Depth, and the Ethics of Inner Space The Deeper Thinking Podcast For anyone drawn to quiet depth, ethical presence, and the art of attention. What makes a person truly interesting? In this episode, we move past charisma, novelty, or wit, and explore the quieter foundations of interestingness: attentio…

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ADHD, Distraction, and the Cost of Losing Connection - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 14:19

20d ago14:19

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ADHD, Distraction, and the Cost of Losing Connection The Deeper Thinking Podcast In a world that confuses attention with productivity and presence with performance, what happens to the divergent mind? This episode explores how ADHD—and the forms of thinking it fosters—are often not failed versions of focus, but alternate architectures of care, rela…

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The Ache We Are Asked To Keep - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 15:26

20d ago15:26

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The Ache We Are Asked to Keep The Deeper Thinking Podcast There are stories that don’t hold us. They haunt us. Watching Song of the Sea with my children, I was met not by plot, but by a presence—the kind of sorrow that lives beneath dialogue, in rhythm, in breath. This episode is not a review. It is not a warning. It is a meditation on the ache tha…

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When the Speaker Was Never There: Persuasion Without Presence and the Ontology of Voice - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 18:03

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When the Speaker Was Never There: Persuasion Without Presence and the Ontology of Voice The Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens when a voice reaches us—and there’s no one behind it? In this episode, we explore a philosophical rupture prompted by a recent experiment in which researchers deployed large language models on Reddit without disclosure or…

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The Intelligence of Forgetting: On Memory, Mercy, and the Space to Begin Again - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 21:26

22d ago21:26

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The Intelligence of Forgetting: On Memory, Mercy, and the Space to Begin Again The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if forgetting wasn’t a flaw in cognition—but a sacred form of intelligence? In this episode, we explore how Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of “active forgetting,” Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes, and Jacques Derrida's archive fever help us rethink …

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On Solitude, Clarity, and the Refusal to Perform - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 13:06

22d ago13:06

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On Solitude, Clarity, and the Refusal to Perform The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if solitude wasn’t distance from others—but a deeper form of presence? In this episode, we turn to Arthur Schopenhauer’s quiet ethic of presence to explore how awareness can lead not to alienation, but to a refusal to counterfeit connection. We follow solitude’s arc f…

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The Patterns We Made to Survive - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 24:44

23d ago24:44

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The Patterns We Made to Survive The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the habits you now resent were once the very strategies that kept you safe? In this episode, we explore how emotional survival strategies—like perfectionism, dissociation, or compulsive care for others—begin as intelligent responses to fear, chaos, or invisibility. But what happens…

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What Boys Become When No One Stays - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 29:51

24d ago29:51

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What Boys Become When No One Stays The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the most fragile structure in a boy’s life wasn’t failure, but the absence of someone who stayed? In this episode, we explore how masculinity is shaped not through strength or ideology, but through vacancy. From silent fathers to algorithmic mimicry, from emotional suppression t…

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Stringtown, MO Gets Connected: How Local Partnerships Are Closing the Rural Broadband Gap - Episode 644 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast 37:37

25d ago37:37

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In this episode of the podcast, Chris talks with Patty Boyers and Robbie Myers on how local collaboration and smart public investment connected Stringtown, MO—and why it’s a game changer for public safety, healthcare, and opportunity. ★ Support this podcast ★By Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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We Fear What We Remember, Not What We See - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 16:23

25d ago16:23

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We Fear What We Remember, Not What We See The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if our greatest fears were not born from what the world presents to us, but from the memories the brain uses to predict it? In this episode, we explore a profound shift in understanding emotion, trauma, and selfhood: a move from reactivity to construction. Guided by the neur…

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The Slow Reweaving - Trust, Presence, and the Unfinished Work of Belonging - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 9:42

26d ago9:42

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The Slow Reweaving: On Trust, Presence, and the Future of Belonging The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the most urgent repairs a society needs are not material or political, but relational? This episode listens to the quiet unraveling of civic life through the twin lenses of Robert D. Putnam’s analysis of social capital and Andy Haldane’s reflecti…

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To Live Without a Story - The Shape We Live By: Storytelling and the Human Need for Narrative - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 9:08

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To Live Without a Story - The Shape We Live By The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the stories we tell don’t just reflect the world—but shape how we live within it? What if the stories we tell about ourselves don’t just reflect the world, but shape how we experience it? In this episode, we explore how narrative structures—from arcs to resolutions—d…

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Demis Hassabis The AI Pioneer - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 14:08

26d ago14:08

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Demis Hassabis - The AI Pioneer. The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the future of discovery demanded not just faster thinking, but slower seeing? In this episode, we explore the life and vision of Demis Hassabis—chess prodigy, neuroscientist, AI pioneer—and the deeper paradox he embodies: that true innovation may depend less on acceleration than o…

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The Unrendered Self - The Deeper Thinking Podcast 15:23

28d ago15:23

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The Unrendered Self The Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens to the self when even absence becomes a kind of presence? In this episode, we examine the quiet erosion of identity under conditions of constant visibility. This is not about digital detox or offline escape—it’s about the deeper structural shift where reflection becomes performance, priva…

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