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Welcome to Scorpio Season! A show devoted to reviewing the State of the Universe in alphabetical order, hosted by Lisa Neigut and Venkatesh Rao. Each season is 26 episodes (A-Z), and each episode explores topics under the letter of the week (LOTW).

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Season 2: Adventures in Hapless Hackery

The second season ran from Oct 23, 2020 to Jun 22, 2021. This season tightened up the episode length and focused on more concise content topics. Links are to twitter threads with show notes and listening/viewing links.

• Episode A: Air Quality, with special guest @strangeattracto. link
• Episode B: Bitcoin. link
• Episode C: Clocks. link
• Episode D: Drivetrains. link
• Episode E: Electronics, with special guest Ryan Hume of @acidraintech. link
• Episode F: Form Factor. link
• Episode G: Git, with special guest Jordan Orelli @jordanorelli. link
• Episode H: Home, with special guest Galen Wolfe-Pauly @galenwolfepauly. link
• Episode I: Initial Conditions. link
• Episode J: Joints. link
• Episode K: Kills. link
• Episode L: Losers. link
• Episode M: Mars Rover. link
• Episode N: NFTs. link
• Episode O: "O" Notation. link
• Episode P: Probability. link
• Episode Q: Quality. link
• Episode R: Risks. link
• Episode S: Selling Out. link
• Episode T: Thinking. link
• Episode U: Universal. link
• Episode V: Victories. link
• Episode W: Worlds. link
• Episode X: "x". link
• Episode Y: Yetis. link
• Episode Z: Zzz. link

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Season 1: Reviewing the Universe

The pilot season ran from April 20, 2020, to Sept 6, 2020. It was a warmup season reviewing the State of the Universe from our default Scorpio perspective. Links are to twitter threads with show notes and listening/viewing links.

• Episode A: Astrology, Aesthetics. link
• Episode B: Beefs, Bitcoin, Biden, Bernie, and Bloomberg. link
• Episode C: Cartoons, Contagion, Corona, COVID, Cleaning (as in house). link
• Episode D: David Deutsch, Doja Cat (the legibility of pop culture?). link
• Episode E: Energy, Eigenstates, Entropy, Environment, Emergency, Evilness. link
• Episode F: Feminism, Fluency, Food banks, Faraday Cages, Faster than light communication. link
• Episode G: Graphs (wolfram physics news; coronavirus curve graphs?), Gas, Gossip, Guns, Godheads / Giants. link
• Episode H: Hannah Arendt, Hitchhikers Guide, Haircuts (actual hair). Halvening, Halfway points. link
• Episode I: IQ, Insight + Innocence, Igloos (houses?), Inside/Indoors. link
• Episode J: Jokes / Jokers, Jane Jacobs. link
• Episode K: Kakistocracy, KKK, Klingon, Karaoke, K-Cups, Killjoys, Karate, Knitting, Knock offs, KO (knock outs), Kites, Kettles, K-Pop, Knudsen (William). link
• Episode L: Legibility, Legal Systems, LARPing. link
• Episode M: Mansions, Money (and bitcoin’s relationship to it?). link
• Episode N: Networking, Niftyness, Neighbor. link
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• Episode O: Ofey (feynman’s nickname, nicknames/feynman), Opera, Open plan offices, (New) Old Homes. link
• Episode P: Programming, Progressivism, Probability (connections to Doug Adams/Hitchhiker’s Guide), Postrats, Portents. link
• Episode Q: Quantum Mechanics, Questions, Quitting, Quixoticism, Quarantine, Queens, Quests. link
• Episode R: Red Pills / “Pilling”, Resentment and Ressentiment, Rightness (political spectrum), Return on Investment, Repairs. link
• Episode S: Salons, Sonya, Salience, Schools, Spot Prices. link
• Episode T: Thielism, T is for Trauma, TV, Texas, Taxes. link
• Episode U: Underworlds, Uncanny, Universe, Unboxing. link
• Episode V: V is for Vaudeville (WWE wrestling / kayfabe?), VR, Values, Vaults. link
• Episode W: White Glove, Woke, Writing, Wisdom. link
• Episode X: Xerox, Xylitol, Xylophones, Xeroscaping, X (unknowns), X (collaborations, ie niftynei x vgr). link
• Episode Y: Yuxtaposición, Y-Combinator (the institution), Y-Combinator (the math function), YC (the Yak Collective). link
• Episode Z: Zeitgeists, Zemblanity, Zen koans. Preview of Season 2. link

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About

Lisa Neigut (@niftynei on twitter) is a software developer and writer, based in Houston.

Venkatesh Rao (@vgr on twitter) is a consultant and writer based in Los Angeles.

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Contact

To get in touch, either DM us on twitter via @scorpioseasontv or contact either Lisa or Venkat. We are always on the lookout for people up to interesting things to feature on the show. Currently, we're looking for makers/hackers with intriguing builds and projects to show off.

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