An earlier version of this podcast included multiple versions of the introduction. I’m a one-woman show and producing these podcasts is definitely a learning experience, involving several semi-compatible platforms/software tools. I’ve corrected the file. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel, which includes my textile-history videos as well as podcasts and assorted other material. I got very few responses to my survey about transcripts and those I received were from people who’d used the...

With this podcast I’m experimenting with a transcript option. Substack produces a good transcript that includes all the ums and ahs. You can read it by clicking the “Transcript” button. Riverside.fm, the service I use to record the podcast, also produces an excellent transcript, which it ties to its editing capabilities. It doesn’t include all the ums and ahs but does include some. Because it combines two separately recorded tracks, it also sometimes seems to have trouble with the sequence of...

In the inaugural episode of the cleverly named Virginia’s Podcast, which complements the cleverly named Virginia’s Newsletter, I talk with Dean Ball. Dean writes the excellent Hyperdimensional on Substack and is a research fellow in the Artificial Intelligence and Progress Project at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. It’s a wide-ranging conversation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Check out the show notes for an outline of the conversation and links to some of the things we...