The Machinist

Podcast : University of Minnesota Press (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Algorithms of Education: Data and its role in education policy Pub date : 2022-07-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How do educational policy studies need to shift to remain adequate to the emergence of powerful forms of technology? In ALGORITHMS OF...

Podcast : New Books in Anthropology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Roberto J. González, "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future" (U California Press, 2022) Pub date : 2022-07-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology...

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 15 Years of the iPhone w/ Brian Merchant Pub date : 2022-06-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the impact of the iPhone after 15 years, including its effects on how we work, how we use technology, and what it’s...

Podcast : Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Understanding the cryptocurrency crash Pub date : 2022-07-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This year has been a disaster for many investors in cryptocurrencies. Alex Hern draws the parallels of the spreading panic in the new digital economy with the 2008 financi...

Podcast : New Books in Critical Theory (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Mark Andrejevic, "Automated Media" (Routledge, 2019) Pub date : 2022-06-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and thei...

Podcast : Science Weekly (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Shitcoins: are pointless cryptocurrencies a scam or a gamble? Pub date : 2022-06-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When the Guardian’s UK technology editor Alex Hern was contacted on Twitter to ask if he was involved in a new cryptocurrency called Tsuka, he assume...

Podcast : This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 170. Seasons in the Crypto Abyss (ft. David Gerard) Pub date : 2022-06-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We are joined by David Gerard – longtime critic of blockchain, even before it was cool – to discuss the experience of staring into the crypto abyss and hav...

Podcast : Make Me Data Literate Episode : Ellen Broad talks Cybernetics, Data Science, and Life. Pub date : 2022-06-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “I love that the thing that I work on is actually so consequential to better decision making, to solving real world problems. To understanding and evaluating forces in our world. I jus...

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Streaming Wars: Revenge of the Cinema? w/ Gita Jackson Pub date : 2022-06-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Gita Jackson to discuss how streaming has altered the film and television industry, what happens as their business models are co...

Podcast : The National Security Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Critical submarine cables: a deep dive into undersea infrastructure Pub date : 2022-06-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of the National Security Podcast , Samuel Bashfield and Anthony Bergin join William Stoltz to discuss the import...

Podcast : KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Automated Warfare Pub date : 2022-06-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Many U.S. military establishment bigwigs are pushing the development of automated and autonomous weapons systems. Roberto González questions whether this robo-fanaticism, as he calls it...

Podcast : New Models (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll on early net culture (NM44) Pub date : 2022-06-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization NM speaks with Kevin Driscoll, author of The Modem World: A Pre-history of Social Media (Yale Univ. Press, 2022), which examines the physical — and social —...

Podcast : FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence w/ Isabel Millar Pub date : 2022-06-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Psychoanalytic theorist Isabel Millar explains the role psychoanalysis can play in helping us to understand what artificial intelligence means for hu...

Podcast : Delete Your Account Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 217 - Car Wars Pub date : 2022-06-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Paris Marx, author of Road Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation...

Podcast : New Books in Art (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021) Pub date : 2022-06-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting...

Podcast : New Books in Political Science (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022) Pub date : 2022-05-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In  Heritage and Nationalism:...

Podcast : Overdue Conversations Episode : Literary Archives in the Digital Age: An Overdue Conversation with Dr. Lise Jaillant Pub date : 2022-05-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This episode grapples with the many implications of one big question: what happens to literary archives when most of the work and communications around book pub...

Podcast : A Long Time In Finance (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Cryptocalypse Now! Pub date : 2022-05-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Cryptocurrencies are collapsing across the etherspace. Neil and Jonathan talk to Izabella Kaminska, founder of the Blind Spot and keen cryptowatcher, about Terra, Luna and Tether, the...

Podcast : Ones and Tooze (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : What Does a Crypto Crash Portend for the Economy? Pub date : 2022-05-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization With the collapse of stablecoin and the blow to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin hosts Adam Tooze and Cameron Abadi take another look at crypto markets and parse ou...

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : (Un)Stablecoins and the Crypto Crash w/ Bennett Tomlin Pub date : 2022-05-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Bennett Tomlin to discuss last week’s crash of Terra and Luna, the problems with stablecoins, and whether this collapse will fin...

Podcast : Social Media and Politics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Technology Disruption, Democracy, and Principled Platform Regulation, with Prof. Lance Bennett Pub date : 2022-05-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Prof. Lance Bennett , Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Communication at the University of Wash...

Podcast : New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Who owns the internet? Pub date : 2022-05-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of union busting, shot a car into space, and bec...

Podcast : What's Left? (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Work of the Internet (w/ Justin E.H. Smith) Pub date : 2022-05-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this wide-ranging discussion, Oliver talks to philosophy and history professor Justin E.H. Smith about his new book The Internet is Not What You Think It Is. Sugges...

Podcast : New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021) Pub date : 2022-05-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In  The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web  (Indiana University Press, 202...

Podcast : Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : North Korean digital control Pub date : 2022-05-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization North Korea is known as one of the most isolated countries in the world. Yet, there are North Koreans who have access to some of the same kind of technologies that are available to t...