The Vaporstate: Buy Blair, Sell AI
What does US tech billionaire Larry Ellison get when he gives the Tony Blair Institute hundreds of millions of dollars?More like this: The Vaporstate: ID in IndiaIn our third installment of The Vapors...
30 Jan 45min
The Vaporstate: Brazil is Banking on Apps
What happens when the very way you prove who you are is stolen by someone else? And what happens when a country stands up to Meta and builds their own.More like this: The Vaporstate: ID in IndiaFor ep...
23 Jan 54min
The Vaporstate: ID in India
Our first exploration of The Vaporstate takes us to India, home of Aadhaar: a mammoth digitisation project that charts a path from technical solution for public service delivery, through mission creep...
16 Jan 50min
The Vaporstate: A New Mini-Series
This is The Vaporstate, a new series on the worldwide government bonanza of enthusiastic digitisation: Digital IDs, digital payment systems, massive data exchange platforms. What are the every-day imp...
9 Jan 2min
The Age of Noise w/ Eryk Salvaggio (replay)
Infinite AI slop means we are moving away from our the age of information into what Eryk Salvaggio calls ‘the age of noise’.More like this: Straight to Video: From Rodney King to Sora w/ Sam GregoryWe...
9 Jan 48min
Gotcha! Enshittification w/ Cory Doctorow (replay)
Welcome to the final boss of scams in the age of technology: EnshittificationMore like this: Nodestar: The Eternal September w/ Mike MasnickWe’re replaying five deep conversations over the Christmas p...
6 Jan 56min
Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman (replay)
Litigator David Seligman describes how big tech companies act brazenly as legal bullies to extract wealth and power from the working class in the US.More like this: The Human in the Loop: The AI Suppl...
2 Jan 46min
Reporting on AI’s climate injustices w/ Karen Hao (replay)
Reporting on the tech industry proves a huge challenge due to how opaque it all is — Empire of AI author Karen Hao talks us through her investigative methods in a conversation from November 2024.More ...
30 Dec 202527min
