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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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00:12:42

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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00:28:52

The Environmental Inequity of AI

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2025/02/07

Podcast: Building Local Power (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The Environmental Inequity of AIPub date: 2024-12-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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00:47:09

Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the...

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2025/01/29

Podcast: Keen On (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalismPub date: 2025-01-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIs it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s another anti tech book. In Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, digital activist Mike Pepi argues that major tech companies like Meta, Amazon, Tesla, and OpenAI are all driven by "platform

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00:29:08

Algorithms create a dull conformity — off and online

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2025/01/22

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Algorithms create a dull conformity — off and onlinePub date: 2025-01-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAlgorithmic feeds are meant to personalise our online experiences, but increasingly they're flattening our culture and fostering a dull conformity, according to best-selling author Kyle Chayka. And the influence they exert on our lives is increasingly physical not just

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00:51:20

Live! Silicon Valley's Class War and the New...

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2025/01/15

Podcast: The Un-Diplomatic Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Live! Silicon Valley's Class War and the New Defense-Industrial Complex w/ Max Read | Ep. 215Pub date: 2025-01-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat is the role of crypto and AI in the new American oligarchy? What does it mean that Mark Zuckerberg has declared a re-embrace of "politics?" And what do Palantir, Anduril, and the new defense-industrial cartel have

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00:30:36

Big money, big tech: The new rules of the political...

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2025/01/09

Podcast: The Sunday Magazine (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Big money, big tech: The new rules of the political playbookPub date: 2025-01-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAs tech giants end the year by cozying up to Donald Trump, and TikTok faces the possibility of demise - 2024's biggest tech stories expose growing power alliances and global rivals in our digital and geopolitical landscapes. Tech journalists Louise

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00:58:29

AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli

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2024/12/11

Podcast: The Verso Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo PasquinelliPub date: 2024-11-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Matteo Pasquinelli. Of course, we’re still working hard to bring you more roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The

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01:11:35

"AI, Art and New Technology: Threat or Opportunity

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2024/12/11

Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: "AI, Art and New Technology: Threat or OpportunityPub date: 2024-12-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationExplore the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, and new technology. Through the diverse perspectives of three incredible artists, we will delve into unique opportunities that new technology presents for creative expression, activism, and

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00:04:05

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?

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2024/11/26

Podcast: Tech News Radio: Cutting-Edge UpdatesEpisode: Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?Pub date: 2024-11-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationhttps://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-4-is-silicon-valley-libertarianWIRED takes a look at one of Silicon Valley’s most influential ideologies. Powered by

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01:04:42

Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian...

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2024/11/20

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian MerchantPub date: 2024-11-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the fallout from the US election, what it means for the tech industry, and more importantly, what it might mean for all of us. They also celebrate the show hitting 250 episodes!Brian Merchant is a longtime

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00:58:57

AI in Hiring: The Promise, Perils, and Unintended...

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2024/11/14

Podcast: Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: AI in Hiring: The Promise, Perils, and Unintended ConsequencesPub date: 2024-11-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis conversation features an interview with Hilke Schellman, author of "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, Fired, and Why We Need to Fight Back Now." The host, Nola Simon, shares her personal experiences and

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00:36:37

Angela Zhang: What’s Really Happening with AI (and AI...

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2024/11/07

Podcast: The Road to Accountable AI (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Angela Zhang: What’s Really Happening with AI (and AI Governance) in ChinaPub date: 2024-10-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, Professor Werbach is joined by USC Law School professor Angela Zhang, an expert on China's approach to the technology sector. China is both one of the world's largest markets and home to some of the world's leading tech firms,

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01:00:15

The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias &...

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2024/10/30

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick CouldryPub date: 2024-10-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry to discuss how Silicon Valley's extractive data collection regime and the power it grants them resembles a much older form of exploitation: colonialism.Ulises A. Mejias is a professor of

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00:59:58

Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon...

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2024/10/29

Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-FeudalismPub date: 2024-10-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPart 1. Fascism, History, and EducationGuest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing

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00:35:00

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire...

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2024/10/19

Podcast: Tactics&Practice [podcast]Episode: The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA]Pub date: 2024-08-28Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene? Can you entertain players with such hard-hitting matters? Can you use games to make players reflect on ethics, politics and the economy? Since 2003, MOLLEINDUSTRIA

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00:48:36

“Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive...

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2024/10/09

Podcast: Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal AroraPub date: 2024-10-03The news about emerging technologies often sounds alarming as well as discouraging. Headlines talk about how algorithms control and oppress people. There are fears that AI could harm democracy, damage our social connections, or even cause human extinction. While these fears come from real

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00:31:10

FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja...

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2024/10/04

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja Komljenovic)Pub date: 2024-09-15We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support-- Today we explore how univeristies are turning into data-driven institutions. My guest is Janja Komljenovic. Janja Komljenovic is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh

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00:32:01

FreshEd #367 – Digital Infrastructures of Education...

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2024/09/26

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #367 – Digital Infrastructures of Education (Ben Williamson)Pub date: 2024-09-08We are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support-- Today we explore the digital transformation of and in education. My guest is Ben Williamson who argues that we are witnessing a new digital infrastructure being built beneath

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00:39:40

Episode Three: Memory and Diaspora | 'Balkanism' and...

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2024/09/18

Podcast: Diasporas SpeakingEpisode: Episode Three: Memory and Diaspora | 'Balkanism' and Digital Geographies of Cultural ObjectsPub date: 2024-09-15In recent years, Balkan social media has increasingly focused on diaspora memory and perseverance through a digital inventory of cultural artefacts. Digital maps of meaning-making can reproduce and reshape memory, revealing a complex relationship between knowledge production in the diaspora and the culture of origin. This process is dynamic, reflecting

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