Tech Won't Save Us
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The Case for a Digital Detox w/ Casey Johnston
May 29, 202555 min
Generative AI is Not Inevitable w/ Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
May 22, 202553 min
Elon Musk is Remaking the US Space Program w/ Tim Fernholz
May 15, 20251h 0m
The Roots of Elon Musk’s War On Empathy w/ Julia Carrie Wong
May 8, 202552 min
How Brainrot AI is Upending the Internet w/ Jason Koebler
May 1, 202553 min
How Masayoshi Son Shaped the Tech Industry w/ Laleh Khalili
Apr 24, 202552 min
Digital Sovereignty in a Time of Rising Fascism
Apr 17, 202541 min
Can Europe End Its Dependence on US Tech? w/ Aline Blankertz
Apr 10, 202547 min
The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry w/ JS Tan
Apr 3, 202553 min
DOGE Is Gutting the US Digital Service w/ Kate Green and Milo
Mar 27, 202552 min
Preview: Breaking Down Canada’s Election on Campaign Cops
Mar 26, 202536 min
Canada’s Tech Leaders Want Their Own DOGE w/ Jen St. Denis
Mar 20, 202551 min
AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru
Mar 13, 202555 min
The UK’s Misguided Embrace of AI Hype w/ James Meadway
Mar 6, 202545 min
Protesting Tesla Can Hurt Elon Musk w/ Ed Niedermeyer
Feb 27, 202553 min
How DOGE is Remaking the US Government w/ Makena Kelly
Feb 20, 202553 min
Patreon Preview: The Harms of Generative AI w/ Alex Hanna
Feb 17, 20255 min
The Tech Oligarchy’s Campaign Against the Media w/ Eoin Higgins
Feb 13, 202553 min
Patreon Preview: Sam Altman’s Self-Serving AGI Future w/ Julia Black
Feb 10, 20256 min
How Spotify Remade the Music Industry w/ Liz Pelly
Feb 6, 20251h 5m
The Problem With Cyberlibertarianism w/ Chris Gilliard
Jan 30, 202558 min
Patreon Preview: Do We Live in a Simulation? w/ Émile P. Torres
Jan 27, 20254 min
The New Tech Oligarchy w/ Gaby Del Valle
Jan 23, 202552 min
Patreon Preview: The Fascistic Solutionism of AI w/ Dan McQuillan
Jan 20, 20254 min
How to See Tech Like a Luddite w/ Jathan Sadowski
Jan 16, 20251h 2m
Patreon Preview: How Big Tech Made the Cloud w/ Dwayne Monroe
Jan 14, 20254 min
What Netflix Has Done to Movies w/ Will Tavlin
Jan 9, 20251h 6m
How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia Rikap
Jan 2, 202543 min
Maybe We Should Destroy AI w/ Ali Alkhatib
Dec 26, 202436 min
The Year in Tech w/ Molly White, Brian Merchant, & Eric Wickham
Dec 19, 20241h 18m
How Data Is Changing Air Travel w/ Amanda Mull
Dec 12, 20241h 4m
Patreon Preview: Spain Doesn’t Have Water for Data Centers w/ Aurora Gomez Delgado
Dec 10, 20243 min
Should Australia Ban Teens from Social Media? w/ Cam Wilson
Dec 5, 20241h 1m
Patreon Preview: The Crippling Energy Demand of Ireland’s Data Centers w/ Brid Smith
Dec 3, 20244 min
Patreon Preview: Fighting Data Centers in Chile w/ Sebastian Lehuede
Nov 29, 20245 min
Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands w/ MV Ramana
Nov 28, 20241h 2m
The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet w/ Becca Lewis
Nov 21, 202459 min
Patreon Preview: How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia Rikap
Nov 19, 20246 min
Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian Merchant
Nov 14, 20241h 4m
Patreon Preview: Maybe We Should Destroy AI w/ Ali Alkhatib
Nov 13, 20244 min
The Corruption of Open Source w/ tante
Nov 7, 20241h 4m
Silicon Valley is Reshaping US Democracy w/ Jacob Silverman
Oct 31, 20241h 1m
Data Vampires: Fighting for Control (Episode 4)
Oct 28, 202435 min
The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry
Oct 24, 20241h 0m
Data Vampires: Sacrificing for AI (Episode 3)
Oct 21, 202430 min
The “Dark Elf” Leading Tech’s Extreme Right w/ Julia Black
Oct 17, 20241h 1m
Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)
Oct 14, 202433 min
Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare w/ Spencer Ackerman
Oct 10, 202455 min
Data Vampires: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)
Oct 7, 202431 min
Don’t Fall for Mark Zuckerberg’s Rebrand w/ Karl Bode
Oct 3, 202458 min