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A curated playlist of the best new podcasts on technology. Powered by The Syllabus. (To see the articles, books, reports and videos that are also part of the Machinist, check out our site: the-syllabus.com)

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00:46:14

You might be paying Amazon’s power bill

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2025/11/08

Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: You might be paying Amazon’s power billPub date: 2025-10-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBig 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 to discuss how tech is driving up electricity costs for everyone, why municipalities are scrambling to upgrade

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01:33:30

Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology...

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2025/11/08

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: 2025-10-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode I sit down with Kate Epstein, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden, as she details her research on the intersection of defense contracting, intellectual property, and

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00:29:43

546. Digital placemaking with marginalized...

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2025/11/01

Podcast: Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for PeopleEpisode: 546. Digital placemaking with marginalized communities - Sirin Hassan and Vineeta ShettyPub date: 2025-10-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDigital Placemaking with Marginalized Communities, focusing on indigenous and marginalized groups from across four regions share how placemaking becomes a form of resistance and empowerment. From Palestinian activists using digital storytelling, to

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00:46:25

Will A.I kill imagination?

The Machinist ·

2025/10/24

Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Will A.I kill imagination?Pub date: 2025-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf 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 Boyd to discuss what happens to culture when we rely on A.I. to generate visual art or music, what it means for

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01:00:28

Is Tesla Still a Car Company? w/ Ed Niedermeyer

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Is Tesla Still a Car Company? w/ Ed NiedermeyerPub date: 2025-09-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis 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 instead of cars, and how other automakers are coming for the EV market it once dominated.Ed Niedermeyer is the

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00:28:47

FreshEd #399 – EdTech Philanthropy in South Africa...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #399 – EdTech Philanthropy in South Africa (Amy Stambach)Pub date: 2025-09-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThanks 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 episodes. What sustains our effort are voluntary memberships from paying supporters. If you are enjoying FreshEd

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01:00:35

A New Economy Will Deliver Better Technology w/ Aaron...

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2025/09/19

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: A New Economy Will Deliver Better Technology w/ Aaron BenanavPub date: 2025-09-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis 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 society creates. It’s a plan to center human experience through democratic discourse while driving true social and

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00:41:53

Big Tech Emissions and the Truth About Corporate...

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2025/09/19

Podcast: Climate Confident (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Big Tech Emissions and the Truth About Corporate Climate PledgesPub date: 2025-09-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSend me a messageIn this episode of the Climate Confident Podcast, I sit down with Tom Day from the NewClimate Institute to unpack one of the thorniest issues in corporate climate action: credibility. Over the past few years, big tech companies and

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00:58:40

Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark, "Seeing Like a...

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2025/09/04

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark, "Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)Pub date: 2025-08-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization'Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity (Taylor & Francis, 2025)' by Petter Törnberg & Justus UitermarkIn my conversation with Petter

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01:15:07

417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx,...

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2025/08/26

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx, Brian Merchant)Pub date: 2025-08-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Ed chats with Paris Marx and Brian Merchant about artificial intelligence and the political coalitions behind its development in the United States and abroad. Are we all living in the same AI bubble? Europe, China, and America all

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00:47:21

Feature 6: CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY? A conversation...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Urban RadarEpisode: Feature 6: CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY? A conversation on tech & urbanism with Simon Marvin & Allan McCayPub date: 2025-07-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this month's special feature, Tom and Beth are joined by Simon Marvin and Allan McCay to discuss how advances in neurotechnology - specifically Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) - are changing the way we think about urban infrastructures and

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00:48:41

Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons--A...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Speaking Out of Place (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons--A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy LiuPub date: 2025-07-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEver since its publication, Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism has proven to be more urgent and insightful. Today I talk with author Wendy Liu about how developments like

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00:33:30

Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexism

The Machinist ·

2025/08/02

Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexismPub date: 2025-07-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, writer and activist Laura Bates joins Ellen and Alona to discuss her latest bookThe New Age of Sexism.Best known for founding the Everyday Sexism project in 2012, Laura has spent more than a decade documenting the realities of gender-based discrimination. In her new

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00:35:51

Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic Crisis

The Machinist ·

2025/07/21

Podcast: The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic CrisisPub date: 2025-06-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf 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 & Society called “Ideologies of Control: A Series onTechPower and Democratic Crisis.” The articles in the

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00:53:48

Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms w/...

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2025/07/09

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms w/ Nitasha TikuPub date: 2025-06-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis 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 problems we’re belatedly trying to address with social media companies at an accelerated pace.Nitasha Tiku is a

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00:57:52

Brazil's Battle to Rein In Big Tech w/ Laís Martins

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2025/07/09

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Brazil's Battle to Rein In Big Tech w/ Laís MartinsPub date: 2025-06-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis 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 grappling with the overreach of US tech companies, and the wider discussion about tech policy in Brazil.Laís Martins

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00:45:06

Technology, Labor Rights, and Political Power in...

The Machinist ·

2025/07/01

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Technology, Labor Rights, and Political Power in Kenya and Across AfricaPub date: 2025-06-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Justin Hendrix speaks with Nerima Wako-Ojiwa, director of Siasa Place, and Odanga Madung, a tech and society researcher and journalist, about the intersection of technology, labor rights, and political power in Kenya and across

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00:49:00

Gaza is Silicon Valley’s Beta Test for Global...

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2025/06/30

Podcast: Rania Khalek Dispatches (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Gaza is Silicon Valley’s Beta Test for Global Repression, w/ Yasha LevinePub date: 2025-06-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe internet wasn’t made to set us free. It was designed to surveil, suppress, and control.On this episode of Dispatches, Rania Khalek speaks with journalist and author Yasha Levine to expose how Big Tech became the digital arm of empire.From

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01:08:28

The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian

The Machinist ·

2025/06/22

Podcast: Dystopia Now (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn SlobodianPub date: 2025-05-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTo 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 history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His books, which have been

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01:25:00

405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix)

The Machinist ·

2025/06/08

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix)Pub date: 2025-05-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe chat with linguist and cognitive scientist Hagen Blix about his new book Why We Fear AI (co-authored with computer scientist Ingeborg Glimmer) about how the technical qualities of AI – especially LLM chatbots – take the alienation (and seemingly alien power) of

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