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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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00:16:11

Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied...

The Machinist ·

2023/08/15

Podcast: New Books in Architecture (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied InformationPub date: 2023-08-02The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to

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00:16:11

Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied...

The Machinist ·

2023/08/15

Podcast: New Books in Architecture (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied InformationPub date: 2023-08-02The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to

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00:37:25

Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political:...

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2023/08/08

Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)Pub date: 2023-07-30Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice. In The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media (Yale UP, 2023), Alice E. Marwick offers a new

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00:37:25

Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political:...

The Machinist ·

2023/08/08

Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)Pub date: 2023-07-30Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice. In The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media (Yale UP, 2023), Alice E. Marwick offers a new

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00:32:34

An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments...

The Machinist ·

2023/08/02

Podcast: The Irish Tech News PodcastEpisode: An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments with Dr Oriol CaudevillaPub date: 2023-07-24An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments In this episode Dr. Efi Pylarinou talks to Dr Oriol Caudevilla, an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum, about his research on the Digital Yuan and Cross-border payments, and CBDCs

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00:32:34

An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments...

The Machinist ·

2023/08/02

Podcast: The Irish Tech News PodcastEpisode: An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments with Dr Oriol CaudevillaPub date: 2023-07-24An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments In this episode Dr. Efi Pylarinou talks to Dr Oriol Caudevilla, an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum, about his research on the Digital Yuan and Cross-border payments, and CBDCs

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00:40:06

Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's...

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2023/07/25

Podcast: RiVAL RadioEpisode: Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02)Pub date: 2023-07-18Amazon's exploitation of data, robotics, and workers has created a breathtaking global empire. Charmaine Chua, a labour organizer with Amazonians United and an assistant professor at University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Global Studies, is uniquely well qualified to guide us through what that means, for workers and for the world. Her work

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00:40:06

Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's...

The Machinist ·

2023/07/25

Podcast: RiVAL RadioEpisode: Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02)Pub date: 2023-07-18Amazon's exploitation of data, robotics, and workers has created a breathtaking global empire. Charmaine Chua, a labour organizer with Amazonians United and an assistant professor at University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Global Studies, is uniquely well qualified to guide us through what that means, for workers and for the world. Her work

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00:18:20

Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation

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2023/07/18

Podcast: The MIT Press Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Moving Innovation: A History of Computer AnimationPub date: 2023-07-06Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad, the first true computer animation program. Sutherland noted: "Since motion

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00:18:20

Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation

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2023/07/18

Podcast: The MIT Press Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Moving Innovation: A History of Computer AnimationPub date: 2023-07-06Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad, the first true computer animation program. Sutherland noted: "Since

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00:39:37

Technology and Surveillance on Migrants, with Austin...

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2023/07/11

Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Technology and Surveillance on Migrants, with Austin Kocher and Jake Wiener, Pt 2Pub date: 2023-07-06James continues his interview with Austin and Jake, this time discussing ICE's Alternatives to Detention program, and the impacts this has on privacy and the wellbeing of people in the program.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cool Zone Media and

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00:39:37

Technology and Surveillance on Migrants, with Austin...

The Machinist ·

2023/07/11

Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Technology and Surveillance on Migrants, with Austin Kocher and Jake Wiener, Pt 2Pub date: 2023-07-06James continues his interview with Austin and Jake, this time discussing ICE's Alternatives to Detention program, and the impacts this has on privacy and the wellbeing of people in the program.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cool Zone Media, which

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00:46:04

Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael Grohmann

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2023/07/04

Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael GrohmannPub date: 2023-06-21Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His

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00:46:04

Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael Grohmann

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2023/07/04

Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael GrohmannPub date: 2023-06-21Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His

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00:29:08

Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of...

The Machinist ·

2023/07/04

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification"Pub date: 2023-07-02Amazon now feels more like a racket than an open shopping platform; you can't find posts from your friends on Facebook because it's clogged with unsolicited advertising; and Uber no longer seems like a cool, efficient taxi service, it's morphed instead into a global machine for turning gig workers into the new underclass – it's all part of a

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00:29:08

Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of...

The Machinist ·

2023/07/04

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification"Pub date: 2023-07-02Amazon now feels more like a racket than an open shopping platform; you can't find posts from your friends on Facebook because it's clogged with unsolicited advertising; and Uber no longer seems like a cool, efficient taxi service, it's morphed instead into a global machine for turning gig workers into the new underclass – it's all part of a

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00:38:05

Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

The Machinist ·

2023/06/29

Podcast: CYBER (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us AllPub date: 2023-06-16Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of

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00:38:05

Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

The Machinist ·

2023/06/29

Podcast: CYBER (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us AllPub date: 2023-06-16Did you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of

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01:00:53

The Dark History of the Information Age

The Machinist ·

2023/06/01

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Dark History of the Information AgePub date: 2023-05-23Hacking and cybersecurity are evergreen issues, in the news and on Lawfare. Scott Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, has a new book on how and why hacking works and what to do about it, called “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks.”Scott joined

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01:00:53

The Dark History of the Information Age

The Machinist ·

2023/06/01

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Dark History of the Information AgePub date: 2023-05-23Hacking and cybersecurity are evergreen issues, in the news and on Lawfare. Scott Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, has a new book on how and why hacking works and what to do about it, called “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks.”Scott joined

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