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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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00:35:51

Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic Crisis

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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...

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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

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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)

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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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01:13:44

Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: New Books in Game StudiesEpisode: Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)Pub date: 2025-05-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe're pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Krapp, the author of Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation (MIT Press, 2024), to the New Books Network. In Computing Legacies, Peter Krapp explores a media history of simulation to excavate three salient aspects of

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00:41:03

From financialized capitalism to gamified fascism

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2025/05/19

Podcast: RiVAL RadioEpisode: From financialized capitalism to gamified fascismPub date: 2025-05-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn 28 April 2025, Max Haiven presented an outline of his forthcoming book "The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism" at Brussels' Au JUS space. If fascism names a form of tyranny that incubates within capitalism and bears its' traces, what kind of 21st century fascism emerges

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01:12:59

Property Pieties - Luce deLire on digital tyrants,...

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2025/05/08

Podcast: RiVAL RadioEpisode: Property Pieties - Luce deLire on digital tyrants, trans panics, and revolutionary hospitalitiesPub date: 2025-04-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode we talked with Luce about her latest work on digitalised tyranny. About how private property structures the terms of the contract and gives rise to ever more terms; how the far right are both breaking the rules and playing by the rules to break the

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01:05:15

Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace...

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2025/05/08

Podcast: Big Technology Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace ShaoPub date: 2025-04-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGrace Shao is a Hong Kong-based writer and analyst, and author of AI Proem on Substack newsletter. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss China's rise in artificial intelligence, and whether (and how) it can be a global player. Tune in to hear how

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00:45:02

#90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology

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2025/04/25

Podcast: Critical Media Studies (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: #90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning TechnologyPub date: 2025-04-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode Barry and Mike take a different approach to Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Rather than a traditional "what does all this mean" approach grounded in historical context, they look at the essay with a specific eye towards

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00:09:30

Inside the Chip-Making Machine the World Can’t Live...

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2025/04/13

Podcast: WSJ Tech News Briefing (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Inside the Chip-Making Machine the World Can’t Live WithoutPub date: 2025-03-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOur modern world depends on chips, and our most modern chips depend on complex machines that use a process called extreme ultraviolet lithography. All of these machines are made by one company: ASML. The WSJ’s Ben Cohen met one of the machine’s mechanics

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00:30:34

A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and...

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2025/04/09

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and DemocracyPub date: 2025-03-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDr. Alondra Nelson holds the Harold F. Linder Chair and leads theScience, Technology, and Social Values Labat the Institute for Advanced Study, where she has served on the faculty since 2019. From 2021 to 2023, she was deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and

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00:55:19

AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru

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2025/03/24

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit GebruPub date: 2025-03-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss where the AI industry stands in 2025 as AI increasingly becomes a geopolitical football even as the big promises made by AI companies fail to materialize.Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the

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01:18:45

Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with...

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2025/03/06

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati SrivastavaPub date: 2025-02-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, Alina Utrata talks to Swati Srivastava,an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. They discussed Swati’s work on hybrid

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00:26:49

On the Economics, Geopolitics and Technological...

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2025/03/01

Podcast: EconoFact Chats (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: On the Economics, Geopolitics and Technological Challenges of AIPub date: 2025-02-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSince the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, improvements in large language models have continued at an impressive clip, driving a surge of investment in new models, developing new products based on them, and in constructing data centres and other

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00:42:48

AI and Public Services

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2025/02/20

Podcast: UCL Uncovering Politics (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: AI and Public ServicesPub date: 2025-02-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationArtificial intelligence is increasingly being touted as a game-changer across various sectors, including public services. But while AI presents significant opportunities for improving efficiency and effectiveness, concerns about fairness, equity, and past failures in public sector IT

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00:12:42

After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted America

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2025/02/14

Podcast: 7am (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted AmericaPub date: 2025-02-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe arrival of DeepSeek wiped more than $1 trillion off the value of America’s tech firms, topping the country from its unquestioned position at the forefront of the global AI race. The Chinese AI company also upstaged President Donald Trump’s announcement of the Stargate

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00:38:08

The impact of big tech on Brazilian politics with...

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2025/02/14

Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The impact of big tech on Brazilian politics with Marianna PoyaresPub date: 2025-01-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMarianna Poyares is a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. She is a critical theorist working on the ethics of new technologies of migration and border enforcement. Trained as a philosopher and with a background in human rights

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