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Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud 19.04.2024 49:49
Podcast : Lives Less Ordinary (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud Pub date : 2024-04-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off. She knew how to work hard, growing up in a one-bedroom trailer, sh...
How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine 10.04.2024 58:00
Podcast : Angry Planet (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine Pub date : 2024-03-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Defense contractors and governments can run a thousand simulations, but the data they get will never be as good as what’s generated on a battlefield. When Russia invaded Ukraine...
Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism 03.04.2024 37:27
Podcast : Keen On America (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism Pub date : 2024-03-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Surveillance capitalism is ubiquitous. If we’re not being watched by Google or Facebook, then we are...
Episode 199: The Golden Age of Crybullyism 27.03.2024 1:41:16
Podcast : Citations Needed (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 199: The Golden Age of Crybullyism Pub date : 2024-03-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization "Ex-officer Amber Guyger testifies in wrong-apartment murder trial: 'I was scared to death,'" a " story reported in 2019. "Starbucks Files Complaints with Labor Boar...
Paolo Gerbaudo on algorithms, markets, China-US relations, social movements, and autonomism 13.03.2024 53:44
Podcast : culturalstudies (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Paolo Gerbaudo on algorithms, markets, China-US relations, social movements, and autonomism Pub date : 2024-03-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paolo Gerbaudo on algorithmic recommendations, closed digital communities, the market economy, China-US relations, lith...
Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024) 07.03.2024 51:09
Podcast : New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024) Pub date : 2024-02-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommun...
AI and Digital Love - Part 2 22.02.2024 30:27
Podcast : AI FYI Episode : AI and Digital Love - Part 2 Pub date : 2024-02-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Part Two! Ever wondered how your heartstrings could be tugged by lines of code? Join us as we trace the captivating evolution of chatbots and their starring role in modern romance. Fresh, controversial take? Hot take? Who knows. T...
What’s Really Killing the News Media? w/ Victor Pickard 15.02.2024 1:03:39
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : What’s Really Killing the News Media? w/ Victor Pickard Pub date : 2024-02-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Victor Pickard to discuss the continued layoffs in news media, and how they are symptomatic of a deeper, structural crisis in j...
How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting w/ Eric Silver 06.02.2024 59:42
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting w/ Eric Silver Pub date : 2024-01-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris 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 differ...
AI Hype Distracted Us From Real Problems w/ Timnit Gebru 31.01.2024 1:01:26
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : AI Hype Distracted Us From Real Problems w/ Timnit Gebru Pub date : 2024-01-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris 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...
Would a World Without Algorithms Be Better? — With Kyle Chayka 24.01.2024 47:03
Podcast : Big Technology Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Would a World Without Algorithms Be Better? — With Kyle Chayka Pub date : 2024-01-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Kyle Chayka is a New Yorker staff writer and author of FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Chayka joins Big Technology Podcast to...
Power Grab: David Runciman on the Reach of Corporations, States and AI 17.01.2024 57:03
Podcast : Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Power Grab: David Runciman on the Reach of Corporations, States and AI Pub date : 2024-01-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the author of books including The Politics of Good Intentions, Pol...
The Platform Society, Public Values, and Politics, with Prof. José van Dijck 10.01.2024 38:10
Podcast : Social Media and Politics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Platform Society, Public Values, and Politics, with Prof. José van Dijck Pub date : 2019-07-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization José van Dijck , Distinguished Professor in Media and Society at Utrecht University, guests to discuss her latest book, The...
Won't Somebody Please Think of the Workers?! 20.12.2023 31:17
Podcast : The Ned Ludd Radio Hour (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Won't Somebody Please Think of the Workers?! Pub date : 2023-12-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Jathan Sadowski, my guest today, is an academic and our conversation is going to sound a bit academic. He’s a senior fellow at the Emerging Technologies Resea...
The spy tech firm managing NHS data 14.12.2023 30:34
Podcast : Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : The spy tech firm managing NHS data Pub date : 2023-11-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Palantir, the US spy-tech firm co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, has won a contract to handle NHS data. It’s a deal that has left privacy advocates such as Cori Crid...
The Fight Over the Future of OpenAI w/ Mike Isaac 06.12.2023 49:59
Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Fight Over the Future of OpenAI w/ Mike Isaac Pub date : 2023-11-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris 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,...
How I is AI? 28.11.2023 42:57
Podcast : The Infinite Monkey Cage (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : How I is AI? Pub date : 2023-11-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Brian and Robin (the real ones) are joined by mathematician Prof Hannah Fry, compute scientist Dr Kate Devlin and comedian Rufus Hound to discuss the pros and cons of AI. Just how intelli...
19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of Knowledge 28.11.2023 53:19
Podcast : Collective Intellectualities (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : 19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of Knowledge Pub date : 2023-11-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chica...
Open, with David Gray Widder 31.10.2023 57:24
Podcast : The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Open, with David Gray Widder Pub date : 2023-10-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization While efforts to make “AI” more “open” have gained momentum lately, it seems like both concepts are worth scrutinizing and historicizing so that we can better underst...
Exploring Language Modeling and Cybernetics: A Conversation with Mark Rainey 25.10.2023 1:45:29
Podcast : Varn Vlog (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Exploring Language Modeling and Cybernetics: A Conversation with Mark Rainey Pub date : 2023-10-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ever wondered how the complexity of Language Modeling (LLMs) and cybernetics can revolutionize the way we communicate and interact? Are you...
Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library Dystopia 25.10.2023 49:05
Podcast : The Podcast for Social Research (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library Dystopia Pub date : 2023-10-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In episode six of Faculty Spotlight, Mark and Lauren sit down with R.H. Lossin, postdoctoral fell...
Platforms, Power, and Politics — with Bruce Mutsvairo 25.10.2023 38:29
Podcast : Below the Radar (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Platforms, Power, and Politics — with Bruce Mutsvairo Pub date : 2023-10-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Bruce Mutsvairo, Professor of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, and a 2023 SFU CERi researcher-in-residence, sits down with Am Johal to discuss...
Christa Laser on the Law of the Blockchain 18.10.2023 44:23
Podcast : Ipse Dixit (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Christa Laser on the Law of the Blockchain Pub date : 2023-10-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Christa Laser , Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law , discusses her article " Legal Issues in Blockchain, Cryptocurrenc...
Inside Crypto's House of Cards 11.10.2023 31:06
Podcast : What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Inside Crypto's House of Cards Pub date : 2023-10-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried marks the end of an era where crypto rose to dizzying, Super-Bowl-commercial heights. Where does the industry go from here? Gue...
Disinformation In Warfare with Olga Tokariuk 03.10.2023 1:06:06
Podcast : The Last Question Episode : Disinformation In Warfare with Olga Tokariuk Pub date : 2023-09-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How is Russia deploying disinformation following its full scale invasion of Ukraine? What's the difference between disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda? Can memes win wars? Check out this fascin...
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