Notices by rose eveleth (roseveleth@xoxo.zone)

Way way way back in season ONE of Flash Forward I did an episode about what would happen if we got rid of all the mosquitoes on the planet. One of the plans floated back then was to use genetic engineering to make them infertile. After that episode went out, a biotech company tried that. It... has not gone according to plan. https://gizmodo.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-are-breeding-in-brazil-1838146152

VICE killed my column this afternoon, which is a bummer! If anybody knows of a publication that might want to pick up Design Bias, I think it's good and important. You can see past columns here: https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/design-bias

So one cool thing I learned from the Flash Forward listener survey is that my audience is only 50% dudes. Which is rare for a tech/science show! (also hey advertisers who might not think about advertising on a science/tech show because of demographics, get at me)

I'm morbidly curious to see all the ways people eventually manage to turn Mastodon instances to the dark side.

You could set up a Mastodon instance for free, grow it to be huge, and then sell all the instance's data for money. You could do all kinds of weird shit.

Do you talk to your pets? Do you have different voices for them? Wanna be featured in next week's episode of Flash Forward? Record a "conversation" with your animal and send it to info@flashforwardpod.com by noon on Monday. ♡ love you all can't wait to hear your weird animal convos!

Hello friends! I'm working on something that's set in a high school so I'm looking for some real life inspiration in two forms:

1. Tell me a story about a time in high school where you got away with something you... probably shouldn't have?

2. If you're a parent with a kid in high school, what has been surprising to you about their experience? Both good and bad stuff -- anything that you were like "oh wow, that's... different from when I was in high school."

Thanks!

I wrote about how beavers are actually the perfect mascot for tech culture but not in the way tech people probably want: http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2018/08/09/on-beavers-natures-perfect-tech-analogy/

meep hello I've never used Mastodon before!

I'm Rose I make Flash Forward which is a podcast about the future.

I also do other stuff: http://roseveleth.com/