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How Tech Wields Its Power in San Francisco w/ Dean Preston
Sep 07, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Dean Preston to discuss the havoc robotaxis are wreaking in San Francisco and the wider impacts the tech industry has had on the city. Dean Preston is the District 5 Supervisor...
Reporting Critically on Tech w/ Jason Koebler & Samantha Cole
Aug 31, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Jason Koebler and Samantha Cole to discuss why they launched 404 Media, how it was inspired by their work at Motherboard, and their reflections on the state of tech media. Jaso...
AI Criticism Has a Decades-Long History w/ Ben Tarnoff
Aug 24, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss the ELIZA chatbot created by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s and how it led him to develop a critical perspective on AI and computing that deserves more a...
Pondering the Orb w/ Molly White
Aug 17, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Molly White to discuss Sam Bankman-Fried having his bail revoked and Sam Altman’s plan to scan all of our irises to get us into crypto and supposedly protect us from AI. Molly ...
Abolish Venture Capital w/ Edward Ongweso Jr.
Aug 10, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss how the venture capital industry works, why the technologies it funds don’t deliver on their marketing promises, and how that’s once again being s...
The Right is Building Its Own Platforms w/ Jacob Silverman
Aug 03, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss how the right-wing of the tech industry are funding media platforms like Rumble to reshape the political discourse and why they’re helping Robert F. ...
Are UFOs Really Out There? w/ Kelsey Atherton
Jul 27, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Kelsey Atherton to discuss the renewed interest in UFOs, where the conspiracy theories of aliens in the sky came from, and whether flying saucers might really be watching us. K...
Big Tech Won’t Revitalize Indigenous Languages w/ Keoni Mahelona
Jul 20, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Keoni Mahelona to discuss the colonial nature of data extraction by major tech companies, and how Te Hiku takes a very different approach to revitalize the Māori language. Keon...
How Israel Uses Occupation to Develop Military Tech w/ Antony Loewenstein
Jul 13, 2023Paris Marx is joined by Antony Loewenstein to discuss how the Israeli weapons industry tests new military technologies on occupied Palestinians before selling them internationally. Antony Loewenstein ...
Google and Meta Are Fighting with Canada w/ David Moscrop
Jul 06, 2023Paris Marx is joined by David Moscrop to discuss Canada’s plan to make Google and Meta pay news publishers, and what might happened now that they’re threatening to pull Canadian news from their platfo...