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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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00:44:01

How to Think About the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute

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2026/03/21

Podcast: The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: How to Think About the Anthropic-Pentagon DisputePub date: 2026-02-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars — without limits. One of the United States’ leading AI companies says there are lines it won't cross. And this week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To discuss the implications of the dispute

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00:46:05

Your data, commodified

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2026/03/07

Podcast: Click Here (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Your data, commodifiedPub date: 2026-02-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationYou’ve likely received a scam call or text at some point. Some of these messages come from elaborate compounds found mostly in Southeast Asia. These compounds look like call centers but operate more like prisons. In this CyberMonday crossover with WAMU’s 1A, we return to an episode and hear from

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00:31:13

Big tech is watching (with Kade Crockford)

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2026/02/28

Podcast: The Codcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Big tech is watching (with Kade Crockford)Pub date: 2026-02-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week on the Codcast – what does online surveillance look like in 2026? CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Kade Crockford, director of technology and justice programs at the ACLU of Massachusetts. They discuss the biggest misconceptions about data privacy

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00:44:06

Building the plane while it’s flying: data centers,...

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2026/02/21

Podcast: Interchange Recharged (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Building the plane while it’s flying: data centers, utilities, and the new rules of powerPub date: 2026-02-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAfter more than a decade of flat demand, the US power sector is now facing explosive growth, arriving faster than grids, generation, and transmission can be built. In this episode, Interim host of Interchange Recharged Bridget

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00:22:47

The people vs. the cloud

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2026/02/15

Podcast: Click Here (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The people vs. the cloudPub date: 2026-02-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhen Big Tech brought plans for a giant data center to St. Charles, Missouri, one college student decided to fight back. And it raises a question that small towns all over the US are asking: What happens when the cloud touches ground?Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesThe

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01:15:22

Truth and AI in Minneapolis

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2026/02/15

Podcast: The Vergecast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Truth and AI in MinneapolisPub date: 2026-01-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLike so many others, we’re still reeling from the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. To open the show, we talk with Adi Robertson about how videos of the incident moved around social platforms, how even well-intentioned people got confused by AI imagery, and what we’ve learned about the

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01:09:46

441. The Fight Over AI Use in Mental Healthcare (ft....

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2026/02/06

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 441. The Fight Over AI Use in Mental Healthcare (ft. Ciara Keegan, Ilana Marcucci-Morris)Pub date: 2026-01-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe chat with Ciara Keegan and Ilana Marcucci-Morris from the National Union of Healthcare Workers about their ongoing contract dispute with Kaiser Permamente over the use and role of AI in healthcare, especially mental and

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00:23:55

Counter-app (2/4): What is Uberisation?

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2026/01/24

Podcast: etui.podcastEpisode: Counter-app (2/4): What is Uberisation?Pub date: 2026-01-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSTRUCTUREIntroduction: 00:00 to 00:5400:55 to 2:32: Part 1: What is Uberisation?02:33 to 07:25: Part 2: What makes an industry vulnerable to Uberisation?07:26 to 09:58: Part 3: 5 industries vulnerable to Uberisation - 1) Education09:59 to 11:58: 2) Mental health care11:59 to 14:31: 3) Music14:32 to 17:10: 4) Agency

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00:27:42

News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork...

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2026/01/18

Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in MinnesotaPub date: 2026-01-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this News Brief, we detail how CBS, Fox, WSJ, and NYT promoted an essentialized, overblown narrative on the "Somali Minnesota fraud" story, teeing up a full blown rightwing incitement campaign against Minneapolis's

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00:53:00

E240 - Manosphere Politics and the Climate Crisis w/...

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2026/01/17

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E240 - Manosphere Politics and the Climate Crisis w/ Daniel Waite PennyPub date: 2025-12-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubscribe now to skip commercials and get all of our episodes.Use the code XMAS2025 for a $45 annual subscription! Danny and Derek speak with journalist and cultural critic Daniel Waite Penny to discuss the relationship between masculinity, the

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00:52:18

Lawfare Daily: The Defense Tech Paradox, with...

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2025/12/20

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Lawfare Daily: The Defense Tech Paradox, with Susannah GlickmanPub date: 2025-12-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSusannah Glickman, an assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University who specializes in the political economy of computation and information, sat down withLawfareAssociate Editor Olivia Manes to discuss the role of defense tech in the second

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00:59:11

Europe’s Subservience to the United States w/ Ben Wray

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2025/12/20

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Europe’s Subservience to the United States w/ Ben WrayPub date: 2025-12-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Ben Wray to discuss the Europe’s capitulation to pressure from the United States on Nexperia, as well as on digital protections and labor rights that could have big implications for the future of work.Ben Wray is a researcher specializing

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00:25:35

Data center backlash!

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2025/12/20

Podcast: Today, Explained (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Data center backlash!Pub date: 2025-12-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAI data centers are driving up the cost of energy — and it's starting to get political. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore, and hosted by Noel King. This

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01:22:45

433. How to Think About Disability (ft. Becca...

The Machinist ·

2025/12/20

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 433. How to Think About Disability (ft. Becca Monteleone)Pub date: 2025-11-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe chat with Becca Monteleone — author of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority — about the critical intersection of disability and technology. Among many things, we get into the politics of how knowledge about the

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00:52:40

E334 - Silicon Valley and the Israeli Occupation w/...

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2025/12/04

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E334 - Silicon Valley and the Israeli Occupation w/ Omar ZahzahPub date: 2025-11-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubscribe now to skip the commercials and get all of our content.Derek is joined by Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor of Arab Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University, to talk about his book Terms of Servitude: Zionism,

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00:52:28

Surveillance, with Justin Hendrix

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2025/11/30

Podcast: The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Surveillance, with Justin HendrixPub date: 2025-11-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, I speak with Justin Hendrix, the CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy.We talk about ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), surveillance, and AI. Recorded Oct 21,

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01:02:46

Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah...

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2025/11/18

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah GoodyearPub date: 2025-11-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear to discuss the many ways cars have negatively affected society, how tech companies seek to entrench those problems, and what can really be done to improve mobility in our communities.Doug Gordon is a TV

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00:46:14

You might be paying Amazon’s power bill

The Machinist ·

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...

The Machinist ·

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...

The Machinist ·

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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