Short: UK Groups Sue To Block Data Center Expansion
Foxglove and Global Action Plan have just sued the UK government over their YOLO hyperscale data center plans.More like this: Net0++: Data Centre SprawlLocal government rejected the data center. But S...
22 Aug 202513min
Big Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris Marx
What’s the deal with Silicon Valley selling imagined futures and never delivering on them. What are the consequences of an industry all-in on AI? What if we thought more deeply than just ‘more compute...
22 Aug 202541min
Consciously Uncoupling from Silicon Valley w/ Cori Crider
How do we yank power out of tech oligarch hands without handing it over to someone else?More like this: Is Digitisation Killing Democracy? w/ Marietje SchaakeCori Crider is a fearless litigator turned...
15 Aug 202553min
After the FAccT: Labour and Misrepresentation
Did you miss FAccT? We interviewed some of our favourite session organisers!More like this: Part One of our FAccT roundup: Materiality and Militarisation.Georgia, Soizic, and Hanna from The Maybe team...
25 Jul 202550min
Short: Musk: Reanimating Apartheid w/ Nic Dawes
In May, Grok couldn’t stop talking about white genocide. This injection of right-wing South African politics triggered a conversation with a Musk contemporary, Nic Dawes.In this short Nic shares his p...
23 Jul 202514min
After the FAccT: Materiality and Militarisation
Georgia, Soizic, and Hanna from The Maybe team just went to FAccT. Georgia and Soizic interviewed a bunch of amazing researchers, practitioners, and artists to give you a taste of what the conference ...
18 Jul 20251h 4min
Making Myths to Make Money w/ AI Now
AI Now have just released their 2025 AI Landscape report — Artificial Power. Alix sat down with two of it’s authors, Amba Kak and Sarah Myers-West for a light unpacking of the themes within.This repor...
11 Jul 202538min
Is Computer Science Made for Dudes? w/ Felienne Hermans
Felienne Hermans calls herself an ‘involuntary ethnographer of computer science’. She studies the culture behind programming, and challenges the dominant idea that learning to program has to be painfu...
4 Jul 202554min
