Catch up on last season’s Ars Technica Live with our podcast!

Cyrus Farivar (left) and Annalee Newitz (right) interview law professor Elizabeth Joh about surveillance. It's hard to look serious with tiki furniture everywhere, but we managed.

Means again in February 2016, I had a loopy concept. Like many loopy concepts, it was partly the fault of Ars staffer Cyrus Farivar. We have been internet hosting an Ars meetup at Longitude, a unbelievable tiki bar in Oakland, California, when the occasion become an impromptu interview with Nick Farmer, the creator of the futuristic Creole language spoken by Belters in The Expanse collection on Syfy. We had a lot enjoyable, I assumed to myself: why do not we do that once more someday? Cyrus was simply persuaded to hitch within the insanity. And so Ars Technica Live was born.

On the third Wednesday of each month, we returned to Longitude to interview fascinating individuals who work on the intersection of know-how, science, and tradition. We talked to regulation professor Elizabeth Joh about the way forward for surveillance, and we talked to anthropologist Krish Seetah concerning the historical past of meat consuming in human tradition. Pc safety researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire informed us about defending journalists towards state hackers, and area activist Ariel Waldman defined her position on the Nationwide Academy of Sciences Human Spaceflight Committee. We recorded every little thing (you'll be able to see video of the 2016 season here) because of videographer Chris Schodt and Ars' intrepid producer Jennifer Hahn. Ars editors Joe Mullin and Dan Goodin pitched in, too, bringing their experience to discussions of patent reform and safety. And by chance, Longitude bar proprietor Suzanne Lengthy stored letting us come again. She appears to have a weak spot for nerds.

Now we're celebrating the top of 2016 and the dawning of our 2017 season by releasing all our interviews as podcasts. For those who ever subscribed to the Ars Technicast, you might have already gotten these episodes in your feed. If not, now's the time.

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