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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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00:56:22

Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling...

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2024/09/13

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn FriesenPub date: 2024-09-05Paris Marx is joined by Taylor Welling and Kathryn Friesen to discuss how they formed wall-to-wall unions in the video game industry and their thoughts on broader challenges like layoffs and corporate consolidation.Taylor Welling is a producer and union member at OneBGS and Kathryn Friesen is quest designer and member of the World of

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00:51:12

The End of Google As We Know It?

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2024/09/05

Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The End of Google As We Know It?Pub date: 2024-08-15This week we're taking a quick summer break, but in the meantime, we wanted to re-share a special episode that is relevant in the news again. With the recent federal court ruling that Google engaged in illegal monopolization of internet searches, we thought it would be a great opportunity to share our episode with lawyer Dina Srinivasan. She's an expert in the field of

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00:56:05

No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi...

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2024/09/05

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi SchubinerPub date: 2024-08-29Paris Marx is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it.Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner are former Google software engineers and organizers with No Tech for Apartheid.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a

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00:53:01

Behind the News: J. D. Vance's Tech Ties w/ David...

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2024/08/11

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Behind the News: J. D. Vance's Tech Ties w/ David Palumbo-LiuPub date: 2024-08-01Cole Stangler talks about the monumentally inconclusive French elections. David Palumbo-Liu explores the Silicon Valley world that launched J. D. Vance as a politician. Plus: a brief bit from the late Jane McAlevey on power.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the

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00:45:44

Lawfare Daily: Alissa Starzak on Keeping the Internet...

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2024/07/31

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Lawfare Daily: Alissa Starzak on Keeping the Internet Running in the Age of AIPub date: 2024-07-24Alissa Starzak, head of public policy at Cloudflare, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss the promises and perils of AI in the cybersecurity context. Frazier, who interned with Cloudflare while in law school, and Starzak cover the novel

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01:03:15

From Memes to Extremism: How the Internet Fueled...

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2024/07/31

Podcast: The Michael Steele Podcast (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: From Memes to Extremism: How the Internet Fueled Far-Right Movements (with Elle Reeve)Pub date: 2024-07-18Michael Steele speaks with CNN correspondent and Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, Elle Reeve about her new book, "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics." The pair discuss how internet subcultures have contributed to

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00:29:08

Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture?

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2024/07/27

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture?Pub date: 2024-07-18Global media players now dominate the entertainment business and hold the whip-hand when it comes to accessing local news content. In this program we get an update on Meta's ban on Canadian news content, specifically how it's impacted production of serious news and what's been the public reaction. We also get a reality check on just how interested the giant

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00:41:02

Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to...

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2024/07/17

Podcast: New Books in Law (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Pub date: 2024-07-14A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails that we leave behind, our identities can now be reconstructed after our death

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00:59:23

Cybernetics, Digital Surveillance, & the Role of...

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2024/07/12

Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Cybernetics, Digital Surveillance, & the Role of Unions in Tech Governance, with Elisabet HaugsbøPub date: 2024-07-02In this episode of the AI & Equality podcast, Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen is joined by Elisabet Haugsbø, president of Norway-based tech union Tekna, to discuss her journey in engineering, the importance of cybernetics, digital surveillance, and how to stay resilient in the age of AI. They also explore

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00:39:24

How China Regulates Tech

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2024/07/05

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: How China Regulates TechPub date: 2024-06-23Angela Zhang is the author of High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, published this year by Oxford University Press. With a career in the practice of law and in teaching it, Zhang has held roles King’s College London and at New York University School of Law, and most recently served as Director ofPhilip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law at the University of

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00:48:46

The geopolitics of undersea cables in the Indo-Pacific

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2024/06/27

Podcast: Ear to Asia (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: The geopolitics of undersea cables in the Indo-PacificPub date: 2024-06-18Undersea cables underpin global communication and the digital economy, with between 95-99% of data for international banking, e-commerce, video calls, and intelligence sharing travelling via these largely hidden transoceanic routes. However, this critical multi-billion-dollar infrastructure faces increasing risks from shipping accidents, natural disasters,

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00:59:57

Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI...

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2024/06/20

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha TikuPub date: 2024-06-13Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how US tech companies are flocking to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fund their expensive AI ambitions.Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture reporter at the Washington Post.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of

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00:59:57

Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI...

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2024/06/20

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha TikuPub date: 2024-06-13Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how US tech companies are flocking to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fund their expensive AI ambitions.Nitasha Tiku is a tech culture reporter at the Washington Post.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of

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00:55:28

Episode 486: The Computable City

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2024/06/15

Podcast: Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Episode 486: The Computable CityPub date: 2024-06-06This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban

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00:55:28

Episode 486: The Computable City

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2024/06/15

Podcast: Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Episode 486: The Computable CityPub date: 2024-06-06This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban

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00:40:33

A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices

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2024/06/06

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian VoicesPub date: 2024-05-26A conversation with Marwa Fatafta, who serves as policy and advocacy director for the nonprofit Access now, which has worked on digital civil rights, connectivity and censorship issues for the past 15 years. Along with other groups, Access Now has engaged Meta in recent months over what it says is the “systematic censorship of Palestinian voices” amidst

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00:40:33

A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices

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2024/06/06

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian VoicesPub date: 2024-05-26A conversation with Marwa Fatafta, who serves as policy and advocacy director for the nonprofit Access now, which has worked on digital civil rights, connectivity and censorship issues for the past 15 years. Along with other groups, Access Now has engaged Meta in recent months over what it says is the “systematic censorship of Palestinian voices” amidst

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00:31:43

Human Rights & Robot Wrongs w/ Dr. Susie Alegre

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2024/06/02

Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Human Rights & Robot Wrongs w/ Dr. Susie AlegrePub date: 2024-05-22 Human rights lawyer Dr. Susie Alegre shares her insights into the threat artificial intelligence poses to human creativity, the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in safeguarding freedom of thought, and applying existing laws to regulate the development and deployment of emerging technologies. Dr. Susie Alegre is a leading

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00:31:43

Human Rights & Robot Wrongs w/ Dr. Susie Alegre

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2024/06/02

Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Human Rights & Robot Wrongs w/ Dr. Susie AlegrePub date: 2024-05-22 Human rights lawyer Dr. Susie Alegre shares her insights into the threat artificial intelligence poses to human creativity, the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in safeguarding freedom of thought, and applying existing laws to regulate the development and deployment of emerging technologies. Dr. Susie Alegre is a leading

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00:56:47

Digital surveillance and reproductive rights

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2024/05/23

Podcast: Technically Optimistic (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Digital surveillance and reproductive rightsPub date: 2024-05-15Digital surveillance is becoming increasingly threatening to the reproductive rights of women and pregnant people in America after the fall of Roe v. Wade. Behavioral data collected from apps can be used to catalog — and criminalize — our health care choices. In this “wild west” surveillance economy, who is responsible for safeguarding our privacy? Could more

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