How Tech Wields Its Power in San Francisco w/ Dean Preston

How Tech Wields Its Power in San Francisco w/ Dean Preston

Paris Marx is joined by Dean Preston to discuss the havoc robotaxis are wreaking in San Francisco and the wider impacts the tech industry has had on the city. Dean Preston is the District 5 Supervisor in San Francisco and the first democratic socialist elected in the city in 40 years. He’s also a tenant attorney and founder of Tenants Together. You can follow Dean on Twitter at @DeanPreston.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode: Paris interviewed one of the activists placing cones driverless cars to disable them and draw attention to the California Public Utilities Commission’s pro-corporate regulatory decisions. In 2011, Twitter got a massive tax break to stay in San Francisco instead of moving its offices elsewhere in the Valley. Salesforce CEO Marx Benioff was a rare tech mogul to support San Francisco’s ballot measure to create a new tax to fund help for homeless residents. A ballot measure to increase the transfer tax on properties over $10 million won in 2020, despite industry opposition. The campaign against progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin was bankrolled by tech and real estate money. Jacob Silverman put this into wider context in a piece about the rise in the political influence of David Sacks. Support the show

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Will the Pope Be An Ally Against AI? w/ Paolo Benanti

Will the Pope Be An Ally Against AI? w/ Paolo Benanti

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What Google Zero Means for Journalism w/ Matt Pearce

What Google Zero Means for Journalism w/ Matt Pearce

Paris Marx is joined by Matt Pearce to discuss how Google’s use of generative AI is sending far less traffic to all manner of websites, but especially news publications, and what that might mean for t...

7 Elo 20251h 1min

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Decomputing For a Better Future w/ Dan McQuillan

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Paris Marx is joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss the global push by governments to rapidly adopt AI at all costs and how citizens can critically rethink our dependence on these technologies while imag...

24 Heinä 202558min

Microsoft is Gutting the Video Game Industry w/ Nathan Grayson

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Paris Marx is joined by Nathan Grayson to discuss the latest round of Microsoft layoffs and how the company’s ambition to remake the video game industry around its streaming service has had significan...

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How the US Weaponizes Tech in the Middle East w/ Laleh Khalili

How the US Weaponizes Tech in the Middle East w/ Laleh Khalili

Paris Marx is joined by Laleh Khalili to discuss how the United States uses its control of key technologies to shift global power dynamics, and how that specifically plays out in the Middle East.Laleh...

10 Heinä 202553min

The Geopolitical Fight Over Huawei w/ Yangyang Cheng

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Paris Marx is joined by Yangyang Cheng to discuss how Huawei became one of the most powerful companies in China and how current geopolitical narratives distract from the issues at the heart of surveil...

3 Heinä 202554min

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Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how AI companies are preying on users to drive engagement and how that’s repeating many of the problems we’re belatedly trying to address with social me...

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