paranoia

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. To close out the year, I wanted to sit down with a venture capitalist and riff on the coming year. On today’s episode, we’re joined by Deepka Rana from Northzone to chat through a bevy of key topics for the new year: Where venture capital is heading in the new year; The prognosis for startups at different stages of maturity; Why 2023…

Foundation, a gloriously over-the-top space epic from Apple TV+, is back for a second season. Based on the series of stories by science fiction legend, Isaac Asimov, the series takes the original ideas and tweaks them to fit in with contemporary sci-fi considerations, creating a massive saga about the inevitable downfall of the Galactic Empire.Foundation — Season 2 Official Trailer 2 | Apple TV+Season two takes place over a century after the first season’s finale. Lee Pace stars as a clone of the emperor Cleon, who has…

When Christine and the Queens first appeared in the anglophone world in 2015, the name was an alias for Héloïse Letissier: a French artist with an extraordinary line in immaculately cool, obliquely catchy, 80s-flavoured synthpop that mused on queer identity. By 2018, Letissier had become Chris – the eponymous, androgynous protagonist of her funky second album. Then, last year, the musician announced he was now using male pronouns as well as another moniker: Redcar, also the title character of his third album, Redcar les…

This atmospheric thriller stars the always compelling Guy Pearce as recluse Bruce Cogburn, a gruff novelist living alone with only his north of England accent for company. (The accent has no relevance to or effect on the story, but Pearce has cultivated it so lovingly for the film it practically feels like a supporting character.) Cogburn lives alone because back in the 1980s, he wrote a novel called The Infernal Machine, a fable-like story about a priest who meets God. Somehow, Cogburn’s book inspired a young man named…

Amid the debate on moonlighting by tech employees who are working from home after more than two years of the pandemic, a Microsoft report has revealed that 85 percent of business leaders say that the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive.As some organisations use technology to track activity rather than impact, employees lack context on how and why they're being tracked, which can undermine trust and lead to "productivity theatre"."This has led to productivity…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence and text mining techniques can be used to detect paranoia among social media users. Specifically, work published in the International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, has examined the behavior of Twitter users in their updates regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in order to detect personality disorders associated with paranoia.…