The Lawyer Fighting Government Surveillance for 30 Years (With EFF's Cindy Cohn)
This week Jason brings you an interview he did with The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s executive director Cindy Cohn, who recently announced she would be stepping down from the legendary digital rig...
6 Apr 54min
Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars
This week Matthew Gault joins us to discuss his article about Iran’s AI slop and LEGO-focused propaganda, and why the creators chose LEGO. After the break, Jason tells us all about the new automated s...
1 Apr 52min
The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones
This week Joseph talks to Dhruv Mehrotra, a journalist and technologist at Bloomberg. Before that, Dhruv was at WIRED, where you probably saw a ton of his interesting work. Dhruv sits in a very unusua...
30 Mars 44min
The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts
This week we start with Emanuel’s crazy story about WebinarTV, a company that is secretly recording Zoom meetings and turning them into AI-powered podcasts. It’s nuts. After the break, Joseph tells us...
25 Mars 46min
The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"
This week, Sam talks to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna about the marketing ploys of “artificial intelligence,” why ridicule works to keep big tech’s claims in check, and what makes them hopeful for the f...
23 Mars 49min
The Disappearing DOGE Depositions
This week we start with Joseph’s series of articles about the DOGE depositions. He watched hours and hours of them, then a judge ordered them removed from YouTube. But, they’ve already been archived a...
18 Mars 47min
Google Street View's Unmappable City
There's only one city in America that isn't on Google's Street View. Documentary filmmaker Chris Parr set out to map it, using North Oak, Minnesota's byzantine rules and the help of a drone. His exper...
16 Mars 17min
How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
This week we start with Sam’s story discussing something that has come up a lot but no one has really answered: how do you speak to your friend or family member falling into AI psychosis? After the br...
11 Mars 44min
