How AI Companies are Monetizing Intimacy, Ft. Bridget Todd
Garrison talks with Bridget Todd about how personally intimate AI chatbots are creating a new form of emotional surveillance and why focusing just on “AI girlfriends” overlooks the need to regulate em...
19 Aug 31min
The Dangers of Silica ft. Kim Kelly
Labor journalist and author Kim Kelly discusses the impact of deadly silica dust in the workplace, from coal mines to coffee shopsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
18 Aug 18min
Who Is Behind America's Cyclospora Summer?
James looks into the recent Cyclospora outbreak and what it can tell us about solidarity, food safety, and where our food comes from. Sources: https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/magazine/spring-2026/t...
17 Aug 25min
No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends
James talks with Molly Conger about the javelina and their installable appetite for golf courses. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65x0RvhJNa8 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov...
17 Aug 29min
How the United States Built its Colonial Empire, Pt. 1
Journalist Carlos Berríos Polanco talks with James, outlining the United States' overseas colonial empire and how it was started by a quest for bird poop. Sources: How to Hide an Empire: A History of...
17 Aug 41min
CZM Book Club: The Storming of the Bastille, by Alexandre Dumas
Margaret reads you a story about the French Revolution and the destruction of a prisonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
16 Aug 44min
It Could Happen Here Weekly 245
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The Gen Z Protests that Shook India's Fascist Government GlobeCon: The New Liberals Take on DSA GlobeCon: Can Tech...
15 Aug 4h 6min
Executive Disorder: Flock Sabotage, Tariff Refunds for Corporations, Wisconsin Election
The gang discuss sabotage of Flock cameras across the country, immigration judge training documents, DOJ lawsuits over state tuition assistance for immigrants, Trump’s new anti-vax executive order, co...
14 Aug 1h 22min
