3. Exploitation Über Alles

3. Exploitation Über Alles

Cold open: You come at the king, you best not miss. Main show: We're locked and loaded with stacks of earnings reports. We've got Uber's finances in our sites. We take aim at the economic underpinning of this lobbyist with an app. It's time for some Uber theory, baby. Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).

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475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit

475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit

We jump off from the OpenAI - Hugging Face hacking incident as a way to talk about the misleading, cynical, and hysterical ways we talk about AI and the stranglehold that existential risk has on our f...

17 Syys 1h 23min

Patreon Preview – 474. Gym, Tan, Leverage

Patreon Preview – 474. Gym, Tan, Leverage

We bring together two different stories about the tech sector and speculative real estate booms. First, how Netflix promises to turn the Jersey Shore into “Hollywood East”. Second, how the data centre...

11 Syys 7min

473. Tech Workers of the World, Unite (ft. JS Tan, Clarissa Redwine)

473. Tech Workers of the World, Unite (ft. JS Tan, Clarissa Redwine)

[We had technical difficulties and had to use a backup recording, sorry!] We chat with JS Tan and Clarissa Redwin — both veteran tech workers and labor organizers — about their new book which chronicl...

3 Syys 1h 28min

Premium – 472. Australia’s AI Pitch Deck

Premium – 472. Australia’s AI Pitch Deck

We turn our sights down under by taking a closer look at the new all-of-government strategy for AI in Australia’s Interests. Australia has plotted out a bold, progressive vision where AI enthusiasm is...

27 Elo 8min

471. Breaking the Leviathan

471. Breaking the Leviathan

We take a deep dive into New York’s police-surveillance infrastructure, a sprawling leviathan that Mayor Zohran Mamdani was outspoken against during his campaign, but has now inherited and is even war...

22 Elo 1h 47min

Patreon Preview – 470. Choking on Data Exhaust

Patreon Preview – 470. Choking on Data Exhaust

We chat about Ed’s engagement with communities pushing back against data center development in Tulsa, plus some major reporting showing the sheer scale of fossil-fuelled data center development in the...

12 Elo 8min

469. The Maniacs are Running the Asylum (ft. Nikhil Suresh)

469. The Maniacs are Running the Asylum (ft. Nikhil Suresh)

We’re joined by Nik Suresh, director of Hermit Tech and excellent blogger on the software industry. You might know Nik for an incredible essay he wrote a couple years ago about piledriving anybody who...

6 Elo 1h 39min

Patreon Preview – 468. Vibes Make the World Go Round

Patreon Preview – 468. Vibes Make the World Go Round

First we get into a very circular (the strongest shape in nature) deal between Nvidia, OpenAI, and Softbank to finance a $250 billion 10-gigawatt data center complex, powered by a natural gas plant bu...

30 Heinä 9min