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433. How to Think About Disability (ft. Becca Monteleone) 20.12.2025 1:22:45
Podcast : This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 433. How to Think About Disability (ft. Becca Monteleone) Pub date : 2025-11-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We chat with Becca Monteleone — author of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority — about the critical intersec...
E224 - Silicon Valley and the Israeli Occupation w/ Omar Zahzah 04.12.2025 52:40
Podcast : American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : E224 - Silicon Valley and the Israeli Occupation w/ Omar Zahzah Pub date : 2025-11-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Subscribe now to skip the commercials and get all of our content. Derek is joined by Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor of Arab Muslim Ethnicities...
Surveillance, with Justin Hendrix 30.11.2025 52:28
Podcast : The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Surveillance, with Justin Hendrix Pub date : 2025-11-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, I speak with Justin Hendrix, the CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology an...
Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear 18.11.2025 1:02:46
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear Pub date : 2025-11-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear to discuss the many ways cars have negatively affected society, how tech companies seek to e...
You might be paying Amazon’s power bill 08.11.2025 46:14
Podcast : Think from KERA (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : You might be paying Amazon’s power bill Pub date : 2025-10-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Big tech pretty much runs our lives; will these companies one day own power grids, too? Karen Weise, technology correspondent for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd...
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 08.11.2025 1:33:30
Podcast : Peoples & Things (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024) Pub date : 2025-10-27
546. Digital placemaking with marginalized communities - Sirin Hassan and Vineeta Shetty 01.11.2025 29:43
Podcast : Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People Episode : 546. Digital placemaking with marginalized communities - Sirin Hassan and Vineeta Shetty Pub date : 2025-10-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Digital Placemaking with Marginalized Communities, focusing on indigenous and marginalized groups from across four regions share how place...
Will A.I kill imagination? 24.10.2025 46:25
Podcast : Think from KERA (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Will A.I kill imagination? Pub date : 2025-10-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization If A.I. can write a song with just you in mind, will you still be able to share that musical experience with others? Joshua Rothman, a staff writer for The New Yorker, joins host Krys...
Is Tesla Still a Car Company? w/ Ed Niedermeyer 04.10.2025 1:00:28
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Is Tesla Still a Car Company? w/ Ed Niedermeyer Pub date : 2025-09-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Ed Niedermeyer to discuss the mission to turn Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire, Tesla’s growing interest in making robots...
FreshEd #399 – EdTech Philanthropy in South Africa (Amy Stambach) 04.10.2025 28:47
Podcast : FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : FreshEd #399 – EdTech Philanthropy in South Africa (Amy Stambach) Pub date : 2025-09-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Thanks for listening to FreshEd. It’s rewarding to produce for the thousands of listeners around the world. But it takes a lot of work to make regular epi...
A New Economy Will Deliver Better Technology w/ Aaron Benanav 19.09.2025 1:00:35
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : A New Economy Will Deliver Better Technology w/ Aaron Benanav Pub date : 2025-09-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Aaron Benanav to discuss his vision for a multi-criterial economy and how it would alter the type of technology our socie...
Big Tech Emissions and the Truth About Corporate Climate Pledges 19.09.2025 41:10
Podcast : Climate Confident - Stories And Strategies That Cut Emissions (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Big Tech Emissions and the Truth About Corporate Climate Pledges Pub date : 2025-09-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Get in touch - leave me a message In this episode of the Climate Confident Podcast, I sit down with T...
417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx, Brian Merchant) 26.08.2025 1:15:07
Podcast : This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx, Brian Merchant) Pub date : 2025-08-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Ed chats with Paris Marx and Brian Merchant about artificial intelligence and the political coalitions behind its develop...
8: CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY? A conversation on tech & urbanism with Simon Marvin & Allan McCay 18.08.2025 47:21
Podcast : Urban Radar Episode : 8: CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY? A conversation on tech & urbanism with Simon Marvin & Allan McCay Pub date : 2025-07-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this month's special feature, Tom and Beth are joined by Simon Marvin and Allan McCay to discuss how advances in neurotechnology - specifically Brain Co...
Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons--A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy Liu 18.08.2025 48:41
Podcast : Speaking Out of Place (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons--A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy Liu Pub date : 2025-07-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ever since its publication, Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capita...
Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexism 02.08.2025 33:30
Podcast : The Prospect Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexism Pub date : 2025-07-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week, writer and activist Laura Bates joins Ellen and Alona to discuss her latest book The New Age of Sexism. Best known for founding the Everyday Se...
Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic Crisis 21.07.2025 35:51
Podcast : The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic Crisis Pub date : 2025-06-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization If you’ve been reading Tech Policy Press closely over the last three weeks, you may have come across one or more posts from collaboration with Data &am...
Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms w/ Nitasha Tiku 09.07.2025 53:48
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms w/ Nitasha Tiku Pub date : 2025-06-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how AI companies are preying on users to drive engagement and how that’s repeating many of the prob...
Brazil's Battle to Rein In Big Tech w/ Laís Martins 09.07.2025 57:52
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Brazil's Battle to Rein In Big Tech w/ Laís Martins Pub date : 2025-06-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Laís Martins to discuss the recent enforcement measures against tech companies like X and Rumble in Brazil, how the country is grap...
Technology, Labor Rights, and Political Power in Kenya and Across Africa 01.07.2025 45:06
Podcast : The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Technology, Labor Rights, and Political Power in Kenya and Across Africa Pub date : 2025-06-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Justin Hendrix speaks with Nerima Wako-Ojiwa , director of Siasa Place , and Odanga Madung , a tech and soci...
Gaza is Silicon Valley’s Beta Test for Global Repression, w/ Yasha Levine 30.06.2025 49:00
Podcast : Rania Khalek Dispatches (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Gaza is Silicon Valley’s Beta Test for Global Repression, w/ Yasha Levine Pub date : 2025-06-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The internet wasn’t made to set us free. It was designed to surveil, suppress, and control. On this episode of Dispatches, Rania...
The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian 22.06.2025 1:08:28
Podcast : Dystopia Now (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian Pub date : 2025-05-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization To join our group chat or become a subscriber, go here: https://www.patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow This week we chatted with historian Quinn Slobodian , a professor of international...
405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix) 08.06.2025 1:25:00
Podcast : This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix) Pub date : 2025-05-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We chat with linguist and cognitive scientist Hagen Blix about his new book Why We Fear AI (co-authored with computer scientist Ingeborg Glimmer) about ho...
Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024) 19.05.2025 1:10:44
Podcast : New Books in Game Studies Episode : Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024) Pub date : 2025-05-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We're pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Krapp, the author of Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation (MIT Press, 2024), to the New Books Network. In...
From financialized capitalism to gamified fascism 19.05.2025 41:03
Podcast : Max Haiven (and company) Episode : From financialized capitalism to gamified fascism Pub date : 2025-05-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On 28 April 2025, Max Haiven presented an outline of his forthcoming book "The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism" at Brussels' Au JUS space. If fascism n...
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