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A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx . Made in partnership with @thenation .

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SHEIN has quickly become a juggernaut in the world of fast fashion, but it’s also worsened its environmental and labor issues. This week @nicoleklipman joins @parismarx to discuss how SHEIN became so big and how its issues should be addressed. Full ep:
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“Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink is facing a legal challenge from an animal rights group that has accused the company of subjecting monkeys to ‘extreme suffering’ during years of gruesome experiments.”
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“Police in South Pasadena said in a statement Tuesday that, contrary to Musk's assertions about the incident, they believe a member of Musk's security team hit a man with his car and accused him of following him.”
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The co-creator of Dogecoin says it’s a “right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology” in this thread detailing why he’s changed his mind about cryptocurrency and who it actually serves today.
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🗳️ WHO IS THE WORST PERSON IN TECH? 🏆 2022 saw tech leaders move further to the right, crack down on workers, scam people out of their money, and find new many ways to make the world a worse place — but who was the worst? Make your voice heard and get your choice to the top!
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After five days of voting and tens of thousands of ballots cast, 32 candidates were narrowed down to two PayPal billionaires. Now, in a very tight race that came down to the wire, the votes are in and a winner has been chosen. 2022’s Worst Person in Tech is… 🔮 PETER THIEL 🩸
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A huge win for companies whose whole business model is premised on decimating workers’ rights. A massive loss for Uber drivers, Instacart shoppers, food couriers, and other gig workers. Now we have to stop #Prop22 from being replicated in other jurisdictions.
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🚨 SEMI-FINALS ARE HERE 🗳️ After starting with 32 names, we’ve narrowed it down to the final four contenders for Worst Person in Tech of 2022. How to choose from people who’ve caused so much harm? Cast your votes and get the executive you despise to the finish line!
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🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🗳️ After more than 30,000 votes in round one, the top 16 candidates for Worst Person in Tech now face off to see who will make it to the quarter finals. Cast your votes and get the person you despise most to the finish line!
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🚨 IT’S TIME FOR ROUND THREE 🗳️ 32 terrible tech industry figures have now been narrowed down the top 8 in a competition for the honor of being 2022’s Worst Person in Tech. Make your voice heard, and get your chosen ghoul to the finish line!
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“Pretty much every single monkey that had had implants put in their head suffered from pretty debilitating health effects,” says Jeremy Beckham, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s research advocacy director. “They were, frankly, maiming and killing the animals.”
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🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨 Tens of thousands of voters narrowed 32 candidates down to just two. Today, the PayPal rivals and right-wing billionaires harming the world face off. It’s Peter Thiel vs Elon Musk. Cast your vote to choose who takes the title of Worst Person in Tech.
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The stories include monkeys that were missing fingers and toes (possibly from self-mutilation), developed a bloody skin infection after having holes drilled in its skull, and that began vomiting and gasping after having electrodes implanted into its brain.
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Elon Musk wants Western consumers to think Teslas are saving the world. But electric cars don’t change fundamentally neoimperialist extractive relationships between Global North and South. It accelerates them — along with the harm to workers, communities, and the environment.
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“Technology is the active human interface with the material world. But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex & specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural & human resources.” Ursula K. Le Guin
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Prop 22 wasn’t just an attack on gig workers; it was an attack on all workers. Employers are already moving to get rid of unionized employees in favor of contract gig workers. The gig companies “third class” of worker can’t be allowed to spread.
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Vons and Albertsons stores in California just laid off every one of their full-time, union delivery drivers, and will replace them with DoorDash gig workers who receive no benefits as a direct result of Prop 22.
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The thin-skinned billionaire and his angry cult have come for the host of Tech Won’t Save Us. Jokes at his expense are no longer allowed.
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Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have a long history, when Confinity and X(dot)com became what we know as PayPal. Thiel later ousted Musk as CEO. Today, their relationship isn’t clear, but it’s been reported Musk considers Thiel a sociopath, and Thiel sees Musk as a fraud — both right!
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This week @timnitGebru joins @parismarx to discuss why we shouldn’t get distracted by all the hype around AI tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion. In this clip, Timnit explains how influential people are narrowing the scope of AI research. Full ep:
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ethan, i have some bad news…
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Ethan Hawke Teases ‘Moon Knight’ Villain Inspiration: ‘What If Steve Jobs Was a Bad Guy?’
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��Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34%—up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually—last year, which … is most likely due to increased AI training. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20% jump.”
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This week @smdiehl joins @parismarx to discuss why you shouldn’t buy into the hype about web3, crypto, or blockchain. In this clip, Stephen explains why web3 is a wealth transfer to the rich that rebrands crypto’s scams and fraud. Full ep:
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Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and the other gig companies backing Prop 22 literally bought a law to decimate gig workers’ rights for $200 million. That’s not democracy.
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“Adam Moskowitz, the lawyer handling a class action lawsuit against FTX promoters like Shaquille O’Neal and Tom Brady, said Taylor Swift was one of the only celebrities to check if the exchange was selling unregistered securities.”
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This is huge, and could be just the beginning. “Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama have filed a notice to hold a unionization vote, in what could be a major labor battle against a company that has long opposed the unionization of its workforce.”
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This week @emilymbender joins @parismarx to discuss why large language models and tools like ChatGPT are not intelligent and the dangers of thinking they are. In this clip, Emily explains why we want to believe there’s meaning in ChatGPT’s text. Full ep:
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It’s undeniable that Facebook is elevating right-wing voices on its platforms and even helping far-right politicians get into office. But now it’s denying responsibility. “Right-wing populism is always more engaging,” an exec says. “That was there in the [19]30's.” 1/
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Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have a long history, starting at PayPal. But there was bad blood: Thiel ousted Musk as CEO during his honeymoon in 2000. More recently, it was reported that Thiel considers Musk a fraud and braggart, while Musk sees Thiel as a sociopath — not wrong!
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“When each of them called to cancel their Tesla car preorders or to terminate their car leases…, saying Musk's toxic behavior was the reason, they were told pretty much the same thing from the Tesla salesperson…: ‘We're hearing a lot of that.’”
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In today’s episode, @IronicProfessor joins @parismarx to talk about billionaire philanthropy, the economics of tech, and why we need online socialism. In this clip, Rob Larson explains why billionaires are so obsessed with controlling schools. Listen:
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This week, @awalkerinLA joins @parismarx to discuss how the Boring Company doesn’t solve a real transport problem. In this clip, Alissa explains how Elon Musk’s Loop system has evolved and how his original idea was multi-level highways. Full episode:
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If you’re not a Musk fan or are interested in learning other ways his big ideas aren’t going to pan out, you might like this episode where we discuss what’s wrong with his space colonization plans:
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This week @trekonomics joins @parismarx to discuss the problems with Elon Musk’s grand visions of space colonization. In this clip, Manu explains how part of the modern push for colonization is rooted in the ideas of Wernher von Braun. Full ep:
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“The company has killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, following experiments since 2018 … The sources characterized that figure as a rough estimate because the company does not keep precise records.”
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“I lost over $450,000, I cannot pay the bank. I will lose my home soon. I’ll become homeless. Suicide is the only way out for me.” As $LUNA goes to zero, regular people who were sold the lie that crypto would make them rich are losing everything.
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welcome comrades!
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My son, who is a software engineer, just told me that people who know software just had their Elon Musk realization.
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Mozilla decided to start taking donations in crypto and the response has, as expected, been very bad.
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Over 100 Black workers at Tesla have reported being called the N-word by workers and supervisors. Marcus Vaughn tells the story of his time at Tesla and how Elon Musk sent an email telling workers to be “thick-skinned” after word of the harassment made it to him.
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Peter Thiel: Puppet master. Democracy opponent. Fascism funder. Palantir founder. Gawker destroyer. Elon Musk: Snake-oil salesman. Transit and train opponent. Monkey killer. Twitter destroyer. Journalist banner. 🗳️ VOTE NOW:
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The narrative that crypto is about challenging existing corporate and state power structures is constantly undermined by the reality that it’s just another business that wants to grow, make its adherents rich, and win public contracts.
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Powerful people in the tech industry are trying to sell us a future where everything is tokenized, and by extension financialized. They promise a revolution, yet it’s one that serves the whales, not the rest of us. Here’s a list of episodes on why crypto & web3 won’t save us 👇
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Of course, one of the wildest stories about Peter Thiel was that he wanted young people’s blood to slow his aging. When Malcolm X said, “You show me a capitalist, I'll show you a bloodsucker,” he probably didn’t know it would become so literal.
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NFTs make me feel like “the future is useless but expensive, and world-altering technology is now in the hands of a culture so aesthetically and spiritually impoverished that it should maybe go back to telling stories around the cooking fire for a while.”
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At SpaceX, Elon Musk “was surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to manipulate him into making good decisions. Managing Elon was a huge part of the company culture.”
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This is *exactly* as I imagined, and provides the most straightforward explanation for anyone still trying to grasp at complicated theories on how the "SpaceX genius" could possibly be so bad at this.
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From the start some voters predicted a Musk-Thiel match-up in the final round, and with each elimination they moved closer. When polls opened, Musk had a slight lead, but within a few hours Thiel overtook him. They stayed close, but Thiel kept a very narrow advantage to the end.
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@mountain_ghosts lol no way i was elevating that loser to the bracket
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This week @timnitGebru joins @parismarx to discuss the past year in AI hype and how it distracted from important issues. In this clip, Timnit explains how AI art shows the tech industry doesn’t understand what it means to make real art. Full ep:
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This year saw a ton of incisive, critical books on technology and the tech industry published by some fantastic authors — many of which have appeared on the show! If you’re looking for some great reads over the holidays, here’s a list of our ten favourites. 📚👇
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barbecues shouldn’t need software updates!!
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Hey @TraegerGrills - who the HELL sends a software update on thanksgiving?!?
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From last week: “Elon Musk has rehabilitated profiles of highly harmful extremists [in Brazil]. This … provides content that further radicalizes people on the extreme right—people who are … calling for a military coup to break with the democratic order.”
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Kaedim promised to use AI to generate 3D models without human labor. In reality, it was outsourcing modeling work to people making around $1 to $4 per 3D model. Once again, it shows how AI doesn’t replace workers; it degrades their profession.
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As Elon Musk continues tweeting Covid misinformation, there’s new evidence he put Tesla workers at risk. “Tesla’s Bay Area production plant recorded hundreds of positive covid-19 cases following CEO Elon Musk’s defiant reopening of the plant last May.”
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Fingers crossed it doesn’t come back! 😊🤞
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Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger
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“Despite a six-month downturn that has wiped out $1.6 trillion from crypto markets, we are seeing investors who have everything to gain rally investors who have everything to lose in a bid to prop up the crypto ecosystem.” — @bigblackjacobin
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Thiel doesn’t have Musk’s level of public profile, but that doesn’t mean he’s not influential. He founded Palantir, which pushes big-data surveillance, and is a prolific funder of far-right political causes and candidates, including Trump, and the case that killed Gawker.
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“The crypto-evangelist population skews heavily towards a sort of New Age libertarian, anti-government right wing-ism, and when they see their financial dreams evaporate, they will likely set their sights for revenge on the things they already despise.”
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This week @RobZacny joins @parismarx to discuss what Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard means for the games industry. In this clip, Rob explains how consolidation and subscriptions are reshaping the industry — and games themselves. Full ep:
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Gig economy workers may be subhuman, but they still deserve a modicum of respect. Here are things you should never say to your Amazon delivery driver.
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For anyone saying the mail-in ballots might reverse the result, even the campaign has sent out a victory press release. Drivers have lost; exploitative gig companies have successfully bought a new labor law.
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Uber’s prices have soared, proving what Hubert Horan said in 2019: it was never more efficient than taxis, just subsidized to look that way. Plus, crypto-colonialism, racism at Tesla, and more in this week’s ⚒️ THE HAMMER ⚒️ from @techwontsaveus :
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“The logical conclusion of having a society run by tech capitalists interested in elite rule, eugenics, and social control is ecological ruin and a world dominated by surveillance and apartheid.” — @bigblackjacobin
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“The idea that people are just going to open up an OnlyFans account and start raking in the dough is really misguided.” OnlyFans creators grew from 120,000 in 2019 to over a million through the pandemic. Most don’t make much money, writes @gillianreporter .
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“Twitter’s verification woes continue. It appears the company inadvertently awarded a gold verification badge to a parody Disney account that has published racial slurs.”
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“In the gaming space, where I operate, almost every major publisher seems to have been scared straight on NFTs after being lambasted by fans every time they are brought up.”
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund liquidated the majority of its Bitcoin holdings by March 2022, making $1.8 billion before crypto crashed. In April 2022, he was still pumping Bitcoin at the Miami conference, saying “we’re at the end of the fiat money regime.”
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This week @molly0xFFF joins @parismarx to discuss her great website @web3isgreat and the problems with the web3 future. In this clip, Molly explains how financializing everything isn’t going to bring back what we liked about the early web. Full ep:
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On a less serious note, I’m so happy so many people enjoyed this competition that I put together on a whim after wondering why, with so many brackets floating around, there wasn’t one targeted the ghouls in the tech industry that we’re talking about all the time.
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“Smartphone apps that identify plants from photographs can be as little as 4 per cent accurate, which could put people foraging for food at risk and also lead to endangered plants being mislabelled as weeds and eradicated.”
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As we see a larger turn against journalism in the tech industry, including Musk’s recent arbitrary banning of journalists on Twitter and how tied up his opposition of “blue checks” is with journalists having them, there’s an obvious connection to Thiel.
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There is a straight line from Peter Thiel calling Valleywag/Gawker a terrorist organization rather than a newsroom and Musk doing what he’s doing
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Crypto, blockchain, and web3 are apparently going to revolutionize the world — but should we really buy into the hype? Tomorrow @smdiehl joins @parismarx to discuss how blockchains have few real applications, crypto is a big scam, and web3 is just the latest rebranding attempt.
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This week @Quinns108 joins @parismarx to discuss how Roblox profits from the labor of children and subjects them to an exploitative in-game economy. In this clip, Quintin explains how Roblox’s model evolved and why regulation is necessary. Full ep:
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🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨 After losing to Peter Thiel in last year’s contest, Elon Musk takes the title of WORST PERSON IN TECH 2023! We only wish we could reward him with a one-way ticket to the sun 🚀☀️
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“For many people, Mr. Musk’s moves seemed like a case study in how not to manage a company. But for some Silicon Valley elites, they were a lightning bolt — a long-awaited answer to the question, ‘What if we just treated workers … worse?’”
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“What is so illuminating about the Musk messages is just how unimpressive, unimaginative, & sycophantic the powerful men in Musk’s contacts appear to be” “Many of the messages come off as fawning, although they’re possibly more opportunistic than earnest”
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This week @IBJIYONGI joins @parismarx to discuss why we need to keep capitalism and colonialism out of space. In this clip, Chanda explains how returning to space isn’t just about nationalism, but pushing capitalism into the solar system. Full ep:
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Former Google chairman pushing military AI vs monkey murderer and Twitter destroyer
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“As far as we are aware there were no Māori or Hawaiians involved in making [Whisper], and indigenous data were scraped from the web and used to create this model. We assume that OpenAI and the researchers had no right to use indigenous data in this way.”
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“You lose your agency," says Keanu Reeves about deepfakes. “When you give a performance in a film, you know you’re going to be edited, but you’re participating in that. If you go into deepfake land, it has none of your points of view. That’s scary.”
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The next step in our march toward cyberpunk dystopia, brought to you by SpaceX and the childhood interests of its billionaire leader.
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This week @dellsystem joins @parismarx to discuss how tech billionaires are radicalizing and pushing back against workers’ gains during the 2010s. In this clip, Wendy explains why we need to stop believing the myths shared by tech CEOs. Full ep:
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“We don’t trade our values for anything,” says Te Hiku CTO Keoni Mahelona. “Selling or giving away the data invites western corporations to mine [the Māori] language—and the thousands of years of traditional knowledge therein—for commercial opportunity.”
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💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS! 💥 2023 is winding down, so it’s time to choose the WORST PERSON IN TECH! 🗳️ ROUND 1 VOTING OPEN NOW:
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“In 1962, Weizenbaum…argued that the ‘success’ of an ‘artificially intelligent’ program hinged largely on its ability to fool people. And if a program could do a suitably passable job…many of those people would then project their own fantasies onto” it.
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This week @xriskology joins @parismarx to discuss longtermism, a dangerous ideology of the tech elite. In this clip, Phil explains how their supposed existential risks just so happen to be some of the few things that would affect wealthy people. Full ep:
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This week @mollycrabapple joins @parismarx to discuss why AI image generators are a threat to artists. In this clip, Molly explains how generators don’t just replace illustrators, but also discipline labor. Full ep:
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“It’s as if Musk and NASA inhabit two different realities. And it’s not as if the truth lies somewhere in between. Someone is not just wrong; someone is catastrophically wrong, and that someone is Elon Musk.”
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This week @davekarpf joins @parismarx for a wide-ranging discussion on how Zuckerberg is cratering Meta and the billionaires are destroying the world. In this clip, Dave explains the joy of watching billionaires burn companies to the ground. Full ep:
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Google is not a neutral technology.
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Amazon owns Twitch, and was running anti-union ads on the streaming platform. “Now Twitch has broken with its parent company and told Motherboard it has removed the ads, and that they should never have run in the first place.” — @mjgault
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A century later and the Tesla cult is still feeding the Modern Moloch.
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“The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it … makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material”
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3 years
This week @dgolumbia joins @parismarx to discuss the right-wing politics of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. In this clip, David outlines the anti-government cyberlibertarian thought that too often influences conversations about digital tech. Full ep:
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2 years
In 1983, Time Magazine named the computer its Machine of the Year. Detroit-based Fifth Estate responded by naming the sledgehammer its Tool of the Year. 🖥🔨
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ELON MUSK UNMASKED is a special four-part series hosted by @parismarx to change the narrative on the billionaire. In part 1, we go back to his origins to find out where he came from, what inspired him, and how he became the man he is today. Full ep:
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1 year
“Parisians have voted to rid the streets of the French capital of rental electric scooters, with an overwhelming 90% of votes cast supporting a ban, official results show.”
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When so many things seem to be going to shit, we can at least have some fun chiding the powerful people working to make our lives worse every single day. I also learned a lot, and got some great tips to make the competition bigger and better for 2023.
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3 years
“Amazon’s argument about union dues is misleading. As a right-to-work state, Alabama does not require that workers pay union dues if they work in a unionized workplace; workers must authorize unions to deduct dues from their paycheck.” — @LaurenKGurley
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This week @marwasf joins @parismarx to discuss Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and the information war that surrounds it. In this clip, Marwa explains how Israeli tech is developed on occupied Palestinians against their will. Full ep:
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“Twitter is being sued for nonpayment of $136,260 in rent on its San Francisco office, according to court papers filed Thursday in San Francisco State Court.”
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