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How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting w/ Eric Silver
Jan 25, 2024Paris Marx is joined by Eric Silver to discuss Spotify’s big plan to dominate podcasting, why it’s now pulling back from those efforts, and the difference between highly produced and more independent ...
AI Hype Distracted Us From Real Problems w/ Timnit Gebru
Jan 18, 2024Paris Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss the past year in AI hype, how AI companies have shaped regulation, and tech’s relationship to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Timnit Gebru is the fo...
What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade w/ Vincent Bevins
Jan 11, 2024Paris Marx is joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss the mass protests of the 2010s, the role that social and traditional media played in them, and why the horizontalism of those movements ultimately did...
How the Mirror World Distorts Our Reality w/ Naomi Klein
Jan 04, 2024Paris Marx is joined by Naomi Klein to discuss the problems with personal branding pushed social media, how the left’s insufficient response to the pandemic created an opening for the right, and the f...
The Year In Tech 2023 w/ Gita Jackson, Molly White, & Aaron Thorpe
Dec 28, 20232023 is over, so it’s time to go through everything! In a special year-end episode, we review the biggest stories of 2023, what we’re thinking of the AI hype, how science fiction makes us think about ...
Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor
Dec 21, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Astra Taylor to discuss how capitalism creates insecurity to sustain itself, the way tech is used to make us more insecure, and what it will take to change that.Astra Taylor is...
How Effective Accelerationism Divides Silicon Valley w/ Émile Torres
Dec 14, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Émile Torres to discuss Silicon Valley’s recent obsession with effective accelerationism, how it builds on the TESCREAL ideologies, and why it shows the divide at the top of th...
Don’t Praise Bill Gates w/ Tim Schwab
Dec 07, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Tim Schwab to discuss why the story we hear about Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation doesn’t reflect their real impact on education and health around the worl...
The Human Side of the AI Underclass w/ Joanne McNeil
Nov 30, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss her new novel dealing with the human labor behind self-driving cars and the challenges of being a good tech critic.Joanne McNeil is the author of Wrong...
The Fight Over the Future of OpenAI w/ Mike Isaac
Nov 23, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Mike Isaac to discuss the drama around Sam Altman being temporarily removed from OpenAI, what it means for the future of the company, and how Microsoft benefits from its partne...