Tech Won't Save Us
By Paris Marx
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Episodes: 191
Jan 2, 2023
Ed Goddard
Jun 30, 2022
excellent and interesting podcast
Sep 15, 2021
Mar 26, 2021
Description
Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won’t Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. It’s not your usual tech podcast.
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The Real History of the Luddites w/ Brian Merchant
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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SpaceX’s Regulatory Evasion Has Consequences w/ Eric Roesch
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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How US-China Rivalry Distracts from Tech Harms w/ Yangyang Cheng
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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How Tech Wields Its Power in San Francisco w/ Dean Preston
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Reporting Critically on Tech w/ Jason Koebler & Samantha Cole
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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AI Criticism Has a Decades-Long History w/ Ben Tarnoff
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Pondering the Orb w/ Molly White
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Abolish Venture Capital w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Right is Building Its Own Platforms w/ Jacob Silverman
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Are UFOs Really Out There? w/ Kelsey Atherton
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Big Tech Won’t Revitalize Indigenous Languages w/ Keoni Mahelona
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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How Israel Uses Occupation to Develop Military Tech w/ Antony Loewenstein
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Google and Meta Are Fighting with Canada w/ David Moscrop
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Why AI is a Threat to Artists w/ Molly Crabapple
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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We Don’t Need the Apple Vision Pro w/ Brian Merchant
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Crypto’s Final Boss Fight w/ Molly White
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The Influencer Industry Is Built on Precarity w/ Emily Hund
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Online Shopping Boom Is Over w/ Amanda Mull
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race w/ Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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May 25, 2023 |
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Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn w/ Julia Black
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May 18, 2023 |
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How Cities Sell Themselves to the Tech Industry w/ David A. Banks
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May 11, 2023 |
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Elon Musk Is Destroying Twitter w/ Matt Binder
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May 04, 2023 |
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Does Banning TikTok Make Sense? w/ Shoshana Wodinsky & Daniel Greene
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Chatbots Won’t Take Many Jobs w/ Aaron Benanav
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent w/ Emily M. Bender
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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How Amazon Reshapes Small Business to Serve Itself w/ Moira Weigel
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Celebrating Three Years of Tech Won’t Save Us!
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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What Drives Architects to Design Saudi Megaprojects? w/ Kate Wagner
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Everyone Hates VCs After the SVB Collapse w/ Jacob Silverman
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Robots Aren’t the Solution to Elder Care w/ James Wright
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Why We Must Resist AI w/ Dan McQuillan
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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What New EU Rules Might Mean for Gig Workers w/ Ben Wray
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector w/ Rosie Collington
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Untold History of Silicon Valley w/ Malcolm Harris
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The Tesla Crash is Only Beginning w/ Edward Niedermeyer
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Why Hollywood Writers May Strike Over Streaming w/ Anousha Sakoui
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Will AR Glasses Die Like Google Glass? w/ Quinn Myers
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Don’t Fall for the AI Hype w/ Timnit Gebru
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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What the US-China Divide Means for Tech w/ Louise Matsakis
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Why Tech Billionaires Want to Shape Our Future w/ Rose Eveleth
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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The Year in Tech w/ Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, & Gita Jackson
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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FTX Goes to Zero w/ Molly White
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Workers w/ Wendy Liu
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Trusting Tech Billionaires is a Recipe for Disaster w/ Douglas Rushkoff
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Tech Isn’t Fixing the Crisis on Our Streets w/ David Zipper
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Why Advertising Shapes the Tech Economy w/ Daniel Joseph
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Why Visual Effects Look the Way They Do w/ Julie Turnock
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover is a Disaster w/ Hussein Kesvani
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Tech Billionaires Are Reshaping US Politics w/ Jacob Silverman
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Mark Zuckerberg is Burning Meta to the Ground w/ Dave Karpf
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Don’t Fall for the Longtermism Sales Pitch w/ Émile Torres
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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How Tech is Remaking the Food System w/ Jim Thomas
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Why Green Capitalism Won’t Fix Climate Change w/ Adrienne Buller
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Science Fiction As Tech Criticism w/ Brian Merchant and Claire Evans
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Electric Vehicles Are Driving a Mining Boom w/ Thea Riofrancos
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Surveillance Won’t Protect Students w/ Chris Gilliard
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Amazon’s Highly Subsidized Foray Into Middle-Earth w/ Thomas Coughlan
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Who’s Winning in China’s Fight Against 996? w/ JS Tan
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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How the Modem World Shaped the Internet w/ Kevin Driscoll
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Keep Capitalism Out of Space w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Competition Won’t Fix Canada’s Telecom Woes w/ Fenwick McKelvey
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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The Real Legacy of Stewart Brand w/ Malcolm Harris
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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How the Cloud Reshaped the Internet w/ Dwayne Monroe
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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The Dangers of Tech that Tracks Everything We Do w/ Shoshana Wodinsky
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Tech Won’t Fix the Transport System w/ Paris Marx
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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15 Years of the iPhone w/ Brian Merchant
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Canada’s Digital Contact-Tracing Experiment w/ Bianca Wylie
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Technology of the Oppressed w/ David Nemer
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Streaming Wars: Revenge of the Cinema? w/ Gita Jackson
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Tech Media Needs to Do Better on Crypto and Elon Musk w/ Ed Zitron
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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The Dangerous Ideology of the Tech Elite w/ Phil Torres
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May 26, 2022 |
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(Un)Stablecoins and the Crypto Crash w/ Bennett Tomlin
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May 19, 2022 |
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The Argument for Half-Earth Socialism w/ Drew Pendergrass & Troy Vettese
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May 12, 2022 |
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How IBM Workers Took On Racism and Apartheid w/ ann haeyoung
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May 05, 2022 |
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The Financialization of Everything w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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We Can’t Allow Tech Solutions to Delay Climate Action w/ Molly Taft
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Who’s to Blame When a Self-Driving Car Kills Someone? w/ Lauren Smiley
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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How to Unionize Amazon w/ Justine Medina & Karen Ponce
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Web3 is Not Going Great w/ Molly White
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Digital Tech Didn’t Democratize the Film Industry w/ Will Tavlin
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Can Higher Interest Rates Tame Big Tech And Inflation? w/ Grace Blakeley
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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How Peter Thiel Wields His Power in Silicon Valley w/ Moira Weigel
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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War in the Content Economy w/ Ryan Broderick & Hussein Kesvani
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Can Tesla Survive Elon Musk? w/ Edward Niedermeyer
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Cringe Raps and $5 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin w/ Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation w/ Phil Jones
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Crypto Winter Is Coming w/ Jacob Silverman
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Microsoft Wants to Dominate the Games Industry w/ Rob Zacny
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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How Evangelicals Emulate Startup Culture w/ Corrina Laughlin
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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How Roblox Exploits Children w/ Quintin Smith
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Happy Holidays from Tech Won’t Save Us!
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Science Fiction w/ Annalee Newitz
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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The Video Game Industry Needs Unions w/ Gita Jackson
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Web3 is a Scam, Not a Revolution w/ Stephen Diehl
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Who Inspired Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ Space Visions? w/ Fred Scharmen
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Don’t Give Surveillance for Christmas w/ Chris Gilliard
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Net-Zero Uses Technofixes to Delay Climate Action w/ Sabrina Fernandes
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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How Amazon is Changing the Books We Read w/ Mark McGurl
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Why the Metaverse Must Be Stopped w/ Brian Merchant
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Can Nostalgia Inspire a Better Future? w/ Grafton Tanner
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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What Gig Work Means for Women in India w/ Noopur Raval
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Beating Uber at the UK Supreme Court w/ Yaseen Aslam
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Solidarity in Canada’s Gig Economy w/ Jennifer Scott & Brice Sopher
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Gig Work is Not a Novelty in Brazil w/ Rafael Grohmann
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The Fight for Gig Workers’ Rights in Europe w/ Ben Wray
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Migrant Workers in Australia’s Gig Economy w/ Tyler Riordan
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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How Race Was Central to Prop 22 w/ Veena Dubal
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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The Amazon Union Drive Comes to Canada w/ Sara Mojtehedzadeh
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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What Apple Won’t Tell You About the iPhone w/ Brian Merchant
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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The Creation of a Black Cyberculture w/ André Brock
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Big Tech Entrenches US Power w/ Michael Kwet
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Blockchain Won’t Save the Global South w/ Olivier Jutel
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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How Neoliberalism Seized the Internet w/ Dan Greene
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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How Smart is the Smart City? w/ Shannon Mattern
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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How Australia Used Tech Against Welfare Recipients w/ Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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How Streaming is Reshaping the Film Industry w/ Peter Labuza
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Demystifying the Billionaire Space Race
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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“Sleep Dealer” and the Border Politics of Tech w/ Alex Rivera
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Tech Criticism Before the Techlash w/ Zachary Loeb
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Bitcoin is a Right-Wing Technology w/ David Golumbia
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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VCs Want to Disrupt the Media w/ Eoin Higgins
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Facebook Is A Battleground w/ Avi Asher-Schapiro and Maya Gebeily
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Embracing Glitch Feminism w/ Legacy Russell
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The Sunset of the Californian Ideology? w/ Richard Barbrook
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Why the Soviet Union Didn’t Build the Internet w/ Benjamin Peters
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May 27, 2021 |
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Project Cybersyn Shows All Tech is Political w/ Eden Medina
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May 20, 2021 |
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How Many Times Has the Internet Already Died? w/ Kevin Driscoll
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May 13, 2021 |
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How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara
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May 06, 2021 |
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Celebrating One Year of Tech Won’t Save Us!
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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What’s Next for Amazon Workers? w/ Kim Kelly
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Vaccine Passports Are Not the Solution w/ Elizabeth Renieris
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Bursting the NFT Bubble w/ Jacob Silverman
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Digital Redlining in the Frictionless Society w/ Chris Gilliard
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Elon Musk Isn’t Saving Humanity w/ Manu Saadia
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Is Bill Gates a “Good” Billionaire? w/ Tim Schwab
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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How Algorithms Are Transforming Work w/ Callum Cant
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Why We Need a Luddite Politics of Tech w/ Gavin Mueller
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News w/ Lizzie O’Shea
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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How Indonesian Gig Workers Are Organizing w/ Rida Qadri
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Amazon’s Vigorous Opposition to Unions w/ Lauren Kaori Gurley
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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How YouTube Normalizes Right-Wing Extremism w/ Becca Lewis
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Why We Need a Democratic Approach to Data w/ Salomé Viljoen
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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The Frictionless World of Silicon Valley w/ Anna Wiener
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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The Complex Systems that Govern Our Lives w/ Tim Maughan
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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How Urban Tech Increases Corporate Control w/ David Banks
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Why Game and Tech Workers Are Organizing w/ Emma Kinema
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Fighting for Gig Workers’ Rights After Prop 22 w/ Wilfred Chan
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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How Spotify is Built On Artist Exploitation w/ Liz Pelly
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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The Injury Crisis in Amazon Warehouses w/ Will Evans
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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How Video Games are Shaped by Capitalism w/ Daniel Joseph
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Jobs Suck, But Not Because of Automation w/ Aaron Benanav
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Section 230 Protects Free Expression Online w/ Evan Greer
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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What Rural China Teaches Us About the Future of Tech w/ Xiaowei Wang
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Why Google’s Ad Business Could Implode w/ Tim Hwang
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Silicon Valley is Embracing Anti-China Nationalism w/ JS Tan
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Major Publishers Want to Shut Down Digital Lending w/ Maria Bustillos
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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How Google & Facebook Dominate Digital Ads w/ Shoshana Wodinsky
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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How Foxconn Treats the Workers Who Built Your iPhone w/ Jenny Chan
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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A Better Internet Requires Ending the Monopolies w/ Cory Doctorow
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Thinking about Tech in the Present Tense w/ Ben Tarnoff
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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We Can’t Talk About Tech Without Talking About Resources w/ Thea Riofrancos
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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How Tech Journalism Legitimized the Gig Economy w/ Sam Harnett
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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What the History of TV Can Teach Us About Netflix w/ Tom Evens
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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How to Defeat an Apple Store w/ Tania Davidge
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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The Boring Company is a Complete Joke w/ Alissa Walker
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Space Mining Brings Capitalism to the Cosmos w/ Julie Michelle Klinger
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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The Global South Holds a Better Future of Tech w/ Juan Ortiz Freuler
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Smart Tech Is Designed For Control w/ Jathan Sadowski
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Why Uber Failed at Micromobility w/ Aaron W. Gordon
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Technofascism in India w/ Banu Subramaniam & Debjani Bhattacharyya
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Amazon Wants to Dominate Everything w/ Brian Merchant
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Tech Giants Don't Care About Black Lives w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Art is More Than Ones and Zeroes w/ Nika Roza Danilova
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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A Cooperative Vision for Technological Innovation w/ Dan Hind
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May 28, 2020 |
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Uber's War on Drivers w/ Veena Dubal
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May 21, 2020 |
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How Tech Platforms Affect Our Digital Lives w/ Joanne McNeil
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May 19, 2020 |
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History Shows Radical Futures Are Possible w/ Lizzie O'Shea
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May 14, 2020 |
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Tech Billionaires Think They’re Better Than You w/ Rob Larson
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May 12, 2020 |
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Fighting Back Against the Tech Monopolies w/ Grace Blakeley
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May 07, 2020 |
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Elon Musk is a Cult Leader w/ Ilari Kaila
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May 05, 2020 |
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How Tech Distracts Us From the Bigger Picture w/ Bianca Wylie
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Bursting the Reality Bubble w/ Ziya Tong
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Transit is the Future w/ James Wilt
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Tech's Response to COVID-19 w/ Wendy Liu
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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A Brief Introduction
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Apr 12, 2020 |