podcast on tech and political economy /// agitprop against innovation and capital /// hosted by @jathansadowski and @bigblackjacobin, produced by @braunestahl
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🚨281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)🚨
Our friend @mer__edith joins us for a giant discussion that bridges her historical analysis of plantation logics and industrial computation with the political economy of "open" AI. soundcloud.com/thismachineki…
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A lot of people think public trust in AI can be bought off very cheaply. A few thousand bucks from an "AI dividend" is enough to make folks feel like they are now full partners in the AI transformation of society? Yeah I don't think so.
🚨461. The Book of Ludd🚨
After a story about religious exemption for using AI at work, we breakdown the policy proposals floating around from Altman, Sanders, and others for creating public wealth funds based on the government taking equity stakes in AI companies.
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🚨461. The Book of Ludd🚨
After a story about religious exemption for using AI at work, we breakdown the policy proposals floating around from Altman, Sanders, and others for creating public wealth funds based on the government taking equity stakes in AI companies.
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🚨Premium – 460. Mr. Worldspirit🚨
It's a classic news roundup. Australia seizes 20 million illegal vapes and sues 3M over forever chemicals, the Anthropic/OpenAI/SpaceX IPO bonanza will likely inject $3-4 trillion of liquidity into the tech sector, plus the pope wrote a letter.
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🚨459. One Border After Another (ft. Gaby Del Valle)🚨
@gabydvj tells us about her excursion to the Border Security Expo, the endless market for border tech, and how the border is now everywhere. Plus, Gaby's work on the eugenicist ideology that motivates immigration politics.
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Never accept that these forces of production are inevitable, undeniable, and actually already existing. You should first make them prove it! Prove their claims, prove their benefits, prove they should exist!
🚨Premium – 458. Seduced by the Slop Tsunami🚨
We argue why, rather than just be eroded into acquiescence by an overwhelming tsunami of AI, rather than being bowled over and washed out to sea, you should never give these systems and their booster the benefit of the doubt.
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🚨Premium – 458. Seduced by the Slop Tsunami🚨
We argue why, rather than just be eroded into acquiescence by an overwhelming tsunami of AI, rather than being bowled over and washed out to sea, you should never give these systems and their booster the benefit of the doubt.
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🚨457. DC3: The Terraforming🚨
Time for more data centers! We discuss how the industry is explicitly using “counterinsurgency tactics” to undermine community opposition, plus how Mr. Wonderful is turning Utah into Mars with a hyperscale data center massive gas power plant.
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🚨Premium – 456. Do Not Question Project Cannoli🚨
We go in for more critical analysis of the opposition to data centers. Reporting on these projects shows how they are being pushed through in black-boxed, stonewalled, fast tracked ways that ignore any real community concerns.
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full episode: patreon.com/posts/157671200?…
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I've got a radical position: our leftists arguments should be based in real materialist analysis of political economy and not end up ceding more ground to corporate power than they gain for anti-capitalist goals. Weird stuff, I know!
🚨455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club🚨
We deconstruct some confused arguments – from the left – against moratoriums for data centres. We push back on the false dichotomy, faulty assumptions, rhetorical leaps, and pretzel logic that underpin these arguments.
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I do not understand the argument that moratoriums are anathema, so we did an episode trying to engage in good faith with the recent Jacobin article advancing it
🚨455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club🚨
We deconstruct some confused arguments – from the left – against moratoriums for data centres. We push back on the false dichotomy, faulty assumptions, rhetorical leaps, and pretzel logic that underpin these arguments.
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🚨455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club🚨
We deconstruct some confused arguments – from the left – against moratoriums for data centres. We push back on the false dichotomy, faulty assumptions, rhetorical leaps, and pretzel logic that underpin these arguments.
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🚨Premium – 454. The Shocks Keep Coming🚨
It's a big time political economy of the polycrisis episode. We dig into two global shocks to supply chains for advanced manufacturing and synthetic fertilizers that are each on their way to being complex, interrelated crises.
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