The Machinist

Podcast : Cosmopod (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer Socialism Pub date : 2023-01-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Amelia, Djamil, Christian, and Rudy join for a discussion on the history of Soviet Cybernetics and the use of computers for socialist planning. We discuss the...

Podcast : Platform Predicament – Making sense of a datafied future of work Episode : Ep 2: Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ Rights Pub date : 2022-12-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The second episode delves into the power that algorithms and data hold, in running this platform model of work. Experts exp...

Podcast : The Sound of Economics (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : The charm of central bank digital currencies in a polarised world Pub date : 2022-12-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 95 percent of the world economy (measured by GDP) is exploring the idea of launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and many count...

Podcast : The Sentience Institute Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : David Gunkel on robot rights Pub date : 2022-12-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “ Robot rights are not the same thing as a set of human rights. Human rights are very specific to a singular species, the human being. Robots may have some overlappin...

Podcast : The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Regulating AI with Alex Engler Pub date : 2022-12-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Earlier this fall, the Biden administration released what it called a “ Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights ,” a policy document that lays out a five-pillar strategy for how t...

Podcast : Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : S3, E5 Panel on Platforms for deliberation or disinformation? social media and development Pub date : 2022-12-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This panel examines the record of digital technologies and asks what we might do...

Podcast : Hagley History Hangout Episode : Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn with Alexander Liebman Pub date : 2022-11-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historians of technology once famously asked, “does technology drive history?” Their answer was, “it depends.” The phenomena of history do not float atop...

Podcast : Harvard Divinity School (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Art and Religion as Technology Pub date : 2022-11-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Professor Terrence L. Johnson facilitated a conversation with Professor Anthony Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice Universit...

Podcast : MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Moving Images In Absentia Courtroom Looking In The Age Of Hyper - Mediation Pub date : 2022-10-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Kelli Moore is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University who examines how...

Podcast : TEC Talks Episode : Al, Anti-Discrimination Law, and Your (Artificial) Immutability Pub date : 2022-11-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How could a personal characteristic like eye movement affect, say, whether you get a loan? Host Kirsten Martin is joined by Sandra Wachter, a professor of technology and regulation at the Oxfor...

Podcast : Front Burner (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : The collapse of the ‘Crypto King’ Pub date : 2022-11-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the last two years, cryptocurrency exchange FTX spent millions of dollars on advertisements with the likes of NFL quarterback Tom Brady and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David....

Podcast : Belabored (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Belabored: Courier Class War Pub date : 2022-11-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Subscribe to the Belabored RSS feed here . Support the podcast on Patreon . Subscribe and rate on iTunes , Stitcher , and Spotify . Tweet at @DissentMag with #Belabored to share your though...

Podcast : Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Episode : The Perils of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Publishing Pub date : 2022-11-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization One of the key themes that intersects across all of our episodes this season is the surveillance and highly extractive and harmful economic practices of big corporations in t...

Podcast : Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Long Reads: Aaron Benanav on Automation and the Long Downturn Pub date : 2022-11-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Science fiction has traditionally depicted a robot takeover as a conscious bid for global domination by our mechanical offspring. From The Terminator...

Podcast : New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022) Pub date : 2022-11-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our...

Podcast : UO Today Episode : UO Today interview: Juliet Schor, Economist and Professor of Sociology, Boston College Pub date : 2022-10-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Juliet Schor is an Economist and a professor of Sociology at Boston College. She discusses her research on consumer society and consumer culture, working hours and lifesty...

Podcast : Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Chip exports and US-China relations Pub date : 2022-10-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Biden administration announced a monumental policy shift earlier this month, set to limit and control the exportation of artificial intelligence and semiconductor technolo...

Podcast : New Books in Indian Religions (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : On Social Media and Hinduism Pub date : 2022-10-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Dheepa Sundaram (she/her/hers) is scholar of performance, ritual, yoga, and digital culture in South Asia at the University of Denver which sits on the unceded tribal la...

Podcast : POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Authoritarian Adaptation (S. 12, Ep. 6) Pub date : 2022-10-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Marc Owen Jones Hamad bin Khalifa University  joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss...

Podcast : Burning Platforms Episode : Dead End: How Tech is driving gridlock Pub date : 2022-10-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The future of transportation is abuzz with disruption, from ride-sharing to electric vehicles to AI traffic flows.   Burning Platforms asks - will these build transport systems for the better or worse? With spe...

Podcast : The Anti-Dystopians (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : The Anti-Fascist Approach to AI Pub date : 2022-10-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dan McQuillan, a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing in the Department of Co...

Podcast : New Books in Sociology (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022) Pub date : 2022-10-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scroll...

Podcast : This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 197. The Limits of Tech Inquiry Pub date : 2022-10-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We discuss recent events of a report by Tech Inquiry about big tech’s military contracts was pulled by its funders — a major union and a major social democratic party — over T...

Podcast : New Books in Critical Theory (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022) Pub date : 2022-10-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today I talked to Christopher Lukman about his new book  Control Machines: Toward a Dispositiv...

Podcast : Hidden Forces (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Battle Over Semiconductors & US-China Competition | Chris Miller Pub date : 2022-10-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In Episode 274 of Hidden Forces , Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chris Miller. Chris is Associate Professor of International History at the gradua...