Owen Thomas
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314 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
Owen Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
Um yeah, if we if we get a chance to talk about our V C map story, uh I think that that's really interesting.
Oh yeah, from the from the Luma Priata quake, the uh you know, the f freeways coming down.
Um
Yeah, it was it really was a moment that led to kind of modern San Francisco.
Yeah.
I mean it's it reminds me of the debate aro around three D printers and, you know three D printed weapons.
Yeah.
It's a it's a tricky problem to solve.
I mean, do you remember the Clipper chip in the early nineties?
Yeah.
And you know, it's um yeah, the the government solution is is almost certainly not going to be the uh right the uh it's certainly it's never going
I mean the you know, San Francisco was very leery of uh surveillance cameras um until you know until we realized we could deploy them against the uh the problem of car theft, which was really running rampant.
Yeah, but now you know, now with the the network of cameras that was, by the way, largely funded by a uh crypto billionaire here, Chris Larson, um, you know, that's that's become um a much more managed problem.
I don't think it's it's gone away by any means, but um it's it is much harder to get away with stealing a car in San Francisco.
Yeah, I mean it's it it it I think it's very hard once you you know once you start deploying these in law enforcement to kind of wean yourself off of it.
Um it's it's a powerful tool.
And yeah um, you know, I think uh a um
uh the public is often willing to trade a lot of privacy for, you know, results.
I mean, if you're, you know
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