
Short: What Just Happened to 23andMe? w/ Jenny Reardon
Personalised genotyping company 23andMe just went bankrupt — what’s gonna happen to all that genetic data?We brought back genomics professor Jenny Reardon to discuss the crushing void that was 23andMe...
13 Mai 202514min

Terra Nullius: Who Owns the Skies? w/ Julia Powles
This is our second Terra Nullius episode. As a reminder this means ‘Nobody’s Land’ — an infamous legal fiction from the age of Empire. In this episode we ask: who owns the skies?We get into it with la...
9 Mai 202552min

Terra Nullius: Who Owns Outer Space? w/ Heather Allansdottir
This is our first in a series called Terra Nullius. Huh? It’s Latin for ‘Nobody’s Land’. We will be exploring how rules are made for contested territory. If a land belongs to no one, does that mean it...
2 Mai 202548min

How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim
Child safety is a fuzzy catch-all concept for our broader social anxieties that seems to be everywhere in our conversations about the internet. But child safety isn’t a new concept, and the way our po...
25 Apr 202548min

Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman
This week Alix interviewed David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice, to tell us more about how big tech companies act brazenly as legal bullies to extract wealth and power from the workin...
18 Apr 202546min

AI Can’t Fix This: Live in London
Last week Alix was in London to talk UK politics and broligarchy with four amazing guests:Martha Dark from Foxglove gave us the history and implications of the NHS/Palantir partnership of horrorMatt M...
11 Apr 20251h 15min

Technology Nationalism in India w/ Divij Joshi
Amidst the scrambling of geopolitics, there is increasing conversation and momentum for the concept of tech sovereignty. It basically means that countries should build their own technology rather than...
4 Apr 202550min

AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society
Two years ago, we were told that ‘prompt engineer’ would be a real job — well, it’s not. Is generative AI actually going to replace and transform human labour, or is this just another shallow marketin...
28 Mar 202543min





















