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Should Australia Ban Teens from Social Media? Cam Wilson
Patreon Preview: The Crippling Energy Demand of Ireland’s Data Centers Brid Smith
Patreon Preview: Fighting Data Centers in Chile Sebastian Lehuede
Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands MV Ramana
The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet Becca Lewis
Patreon Preview: How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power Cecilia Rikap
Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency Brian Merchant
Patreon Preview: Maybe We Should Destroy AI Ali Alkhatib
The Corruption of Open Source tante
Silicon Valley is Reshaping US Democracy Jacob Silverman
Data Vampires: Fighting for Control (Episode 4)  Transcript Available Paris Marx
The Threat of Data Colonialism Ulises Mejias, Nick Couldry
Data Vampires: Sacrificing for AI (Episode 3)  Transcript Available Paris Marx
The “Dark Elf” Leading Tech’s Extreme Right Julia Black
Data Vampires: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)  Transcript Available Paris Marx
Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare Spencer Ackerman
Data Vampires: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)  Transcript Available Paris Marx
Don’t Fall for Mark Zuckerberg’s Rebrand Karl Bode
What Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? Tamara Kneese
Will Google’s Monopoly Be Broken Up? Rob Larson
Google and Meta Are A Threat to Journalism  Transcript Available Matt Pearce
Unionizing the Video Game Industry  Transcript Available Taylor Welling, Kathryn Friesen
No Tech for Apartheid  Transcript Available Mohammad Khatami, Gabi Schubiner
Crypto Is Spending Millions to Sway the US Election  Transcript Available Molly White
Is Social Media Fueling Far-Right Riots?  Transcript Available Hussein Kesvani
Shopify’s Right-Wing Inner Circle  Transcript Available Luke Lebrun, Rachel Gilmore
Escaping the Processed World  Transcript Available Chris Carlsson
Silicon Valley is Backing Donald Trump  Transcript Available Jacob Silverman
Generative AI is a Climate Disaster  Transcript Available Sasha Luccioni
Jack Dorsey’s Embrace of Crypto-Libertarianism  Transcript Available David Gerard
Facebook Is the Zombie Internet  Transcript Available Jason Koebler
How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology  Transcript Available Jason Hickel
Can Europe Chart Its Own Path on Tech?  Transcript Available tante
Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI  Transcript Available Nitasha Tiku
How the FBI Tapped the Encrypted Chats of Criminals Around the World  Transcript Available Joseph Cox
GoFundMe Profits from People’s Pain  Transcript Available Nora Kenworthy
Tech’s Plan to ‘Ethnically Cleanse’ San Francisco  Transcript Available Gil Duran
How BYD is Upending the EV Market  Transcript Available Paolo Gerbaudo
Tesla is Choosing Hype Over Substance  Transcript Available Edward Niedermeyer
How SHEIN Took Over Fast Fashion  Transcript Available Nicole Lipman
The Religious Foundations of Transhumanism  Transcript Available Meghan O’Gieblyn
How Sports Betting Is Fueling Gambling Addiction  Transcript Available Alex Shepard
Kara Swisher Shows Tech Journalism’s Flaws  Transcript Available Edward Ongweso Jr.
Deepfake Abuse is a Crisis  Transcript Available Kat Tenbarge
What Elon Musk Won’t Tell You About Settling Mars  Transcript Available Zach Weinersmith
What the TikTok Ban Reveals About US Tech Policy  Transcript Available Jacob Silverman
Time for a Butlerian Jihad?: A ‘Dune’ Chat Edward Ongweso Jr, Brian Merchant
Silicon Valley Deserves Your Anger  Transcript Available Ed Zitron
Plastic Recycling Is a Scam  Transcript Available Dharna Noor
A Setback for Gig Workers’ Rights in Europe  Transcript Available Ben Wray
How Foreverism Degrades Our Culture  Transcript Available Grafton Tanner
How Interfaces Shape Our Relationship to Tech  Transcript Available Zachary Kaiser
France’s Start-Up Nation Is a Neoliberal Hell  Transcript Available Nastasia Hadjadji
What’s Really Killing the News Media?  Transcript Available Victor Pickard
How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting  Transcript Available Eric Silver
AI Hype Distracted Us From Real Problems  Transcript Available Timnit Gebru
What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade  Transcript Available Vincent Bevins
How the Mirror World Distorts Our Reality  Transcript Available Naomi Klein
The Year In Tech 2023 Gita Jackson, Molly White, Aaron Thorpe
Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure  Transcript Available Astra Taylor
How Effective Accelerationism Divides Silicon Valley  Transcript Available Émile P. Torres
Don’t Praise Bill Gates  Transcript Available Tim Schwab
The Human Side of the AI Underclass  Transcript Available Joanne McNeil
The Fight Over the Future of OpenAI  Transcript Available Mike Isaac
The Information War in Gaza  Transcript Available Marwa Fatafta
Sam Bankman-Fried is Guilty  Transcript Available Jacob Silverman
Elon Musk Unmasked: Shaping the Future (Part 4)  Transcript Available Paris Marx
Elon Musk Unmasked: Building An Empire (Part 3)  Transcript Available Paris Marx
Elon Musk Unmasked: Creating the Genius Myth (Part 2)  Transcript Available Paris Marx
Elon Musk Unmasked: Origins of an Oligarch (Part 1)  Transcript Available Paris Marx
Sam Bankman-Fried On Trial  Transcript Available Jacob Silverman
The Real History of the Luddites  Transcript Available Brian Merchant
SpaceX’s Regulatory Evasion Has Consequences  Transcript Available Eric Roesch
How US-China Rivalry Distracts from Tech Harms  Transcript Available Yangyang Cheng
How Tech Wields Its Power in San Francisco  Transcript Available Dean Preston
Reporting Critically on Tech  Transcript Available Jason Koebler, Samantha Cole
AI Criticism Has a Decades-Long History  Transcript Available Ben Tarnoff
Pondering the Orb  Transcript Available Molly White
Abolish Venture Capital  Transcript Available Edward Ongweso Jr.
The Right is Building Its Own Platforms  Transcript Available Jacob Silverman
Are UFOs Really Out There?  Transcript Available Kelsey Atherton
Big Tech Won’t Revitalize Indigenous Languages  Transcript Available Keoni Mahelona
How Israel Uses Occupation to Develop Military Tech  Transcript Available Antony Loewenstein
Google and Meta Are Fighting with Canada  Transcript Available David Moscrop
Why AI is a Threat to Artists  Transcript Available Molly Crabapple
We Don’t Need the Apple Vision Pro  Transcript Available Brian Merchant
Crypto’s Final Boss Fight  Transcript Available Molly White
The Influencer Industry Is Built on Precarity  Transcript Available Emily Hund
The Online Shopping Boom Is Over  Transcript Available Amanda Mull
The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race  Transcript Available Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn  Transcript Available Julia Black
How Cities Sell Themselves to the Tech Industry  Transcript Available David Banks
Elon Musk Is Destroying Twitter  Transcript Available Matt Binder
Does Banning TikTok Make Sense?  Transcript Available Shoshana Wodinsky, Daniel Greene
Chatbots Won’t Take Many Jobs  Transcript Available Aaron Benanav
ChatGPT Is Not Intelligent  Transcript Available Emily M. Bender
How Amazon Reshapes Small Business to Serve Itself  Transcript Available Moira Weigel
Celebrating Three Years of Tech Won’t Save Us! Paris Marx
What Drives Architects to Design Saudi Megaprojects?  Transcript Available Kate Wagner
Everyone Hates VCs After the SVB Collapse  Transcript Available Jacob Silverman
Robots Aren’t the Solution to Elder Care  Transcript Available James Wright
Why We Must Resist AI  Transcript Available Dan McQuillan
What New EU Rules Might Mean for Gig Workers  Transcript Available Ben Wray
The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector  Transcript Available Rosie Collington
The Untold History of Silicon Valley  Transcript Available Malcolm Harris
The Tesla Crash is Only Beginning  Transcript Available Edward Niedermeyer
Why Hollywood Writers May Strike Over Streaming  Transcript Available Anousha Sakoui
Will AR Glasses Die Like Google Glass?  Transcript Available Quinn Myers
Don’t Fall for the AI Hype  Transcript Available Timnit Gebru
What the US-China Divide Means for Tech  Transcript Available Louise Matsakis
Why Tech Billionaires Want to Shape Our Future  Transcript Available Rose Eveleth
The Year in Tech Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, Gita Jackson
FTX Goes to Zero  Transcript Available Molly White
Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Workers  Transcript Available Wendy Liu
Trusting Tech Billionaires is a Recipe for Disaster  Transcript Available Douglas Rushkoff
Tech Isn’t Fixing the Crisis on Our Streets  Transcript Available David Zipper
Why Advertising Shapes the Tech Economy  Transcript Available Daniel Joseph
Why Visual Effects Look the Way They Do  Transcript Available Julie Turnock
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover is a Disaster  Transcript Available Hussein Kesvani
Tech Billionaires Are Reshaping US Politics  Transcript Available Jacob Silverman
Mark Zuckerberg is Burning Meta to the Ground  Transcript Available Dave Karpf
Don’t Fall for the Longtermism Sales Pitch  Transcript Available Émile P. Torres
How Tech is Remaking the Food System  Transcript Available Jim Thomas
Why Green Capitalism Won’t Fix Climate Change  Transcript Available Adrienne Buller
Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed  Transcript Available Josh O’Kane
Science Fiction As Tech Criticism  Transcript Available Brian Merchant, Claire Evans
Electric Vehicles Are Driving a Mining Boom  Transcript Available Thea Riofrancos
Surveillance Won’t Protect Students  Transcript Available Chris Gilliard
Amazon’s Highly Subsidized Foray Into Middle-Earth  Transcript Available Thomas Coughlan
Who’s Winning in China’s Fight Against 996?  Transcript Available JS Tan
How the Modem World Shaped the Internet  Transcript Available Kevin Driscoll
Keep Capitalism Out of Space  Transcript Available Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Competition Won’t Fix Canada’s Telecom Woes  Transcript Available Fenwick McKelvey
The Real Legacy of Stewart Brand  Transcript Available Malcolm Harris
How the Cloud Reshaped the Internet  Transcript Available Dwayne Monroe
The Dangers of Tech that Tracks Everything We Do  Transcript Available Shoshana Wodinsky
Tech Won’t Fix the Transport System  Transcript Available Paris Marx
15 Years of the iPhone Brian Merchant
Canada’s Digital Contact-Tracing Experiment  Transcript Available Bianca Wylie
Technology of the Oppressed David Nemer
Streaming Wars: Revenge of the Cinema? Gita Jackson
Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake Ben Tarnoff
Tech Media Needs to Do Better on Crypto and Elon Musk Ed Zitron
The Dangerous Ideology of the Tech Elite  Transcript Available Émile P. Torres
(Un)Stablecoins and the Crypto Crash Bennett Tomlin
The Argument for Half-Earth Socialism Drew Pendergrass, Troy Vettese
How IBM Workers Took On Racism and Apartheid ann haeyoung
The Financialization of Everything Edward Ongweso Jr.
We Can’t Allow Tech Solutions to Delay Climate Action Molly Taft
Who’s to Blame When a Self-Driving Car Kills Someone? Lauren Smiley
How to Unionize Amazon Justine Medina, Karen Ponce
Web3 is Not Going Great Molly White
Digital Tech Didn’t Democratize the Film Industry Will Tavlin
Can Higher Interest Rates Tame Big Tech And Inflation? Grace Blakeley
How Peter Thiel Wields His Power in Silicon Valley Moira Weigel
War in the Content Economy Ryan Broderick, Hussein Kesvani
Can Tesla Survive Elon Musk? Edward Niedermeyer
Cringe Raps and $5 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation Phil Jones
Crypto Winter Is Coming Jacob Silverman
Microsoft Wants to Dominate the Games Industry  Transcript Available Rob Zacny
How Evangelicals Emulate Startup Culture Corrina Laughlin
Envisioning Platform Socialism James Muldoon
How Roblox Exploits Children Quintin Smith
Happy Holidays from Tech Won’t Save Us! Paris Marx
Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Science Fiction Annalee Newitz
The Video Game Industry Needs Unions Gita Jackson
Web3 is a Scam, Not a Revolution  Transcript Available Stephen Diehl
Who Inspired Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ Space Visions? Fred Scharmen
Don’t Give Surveillance for Christmas Chris Gilliard
Net-Zero Uses Technofixes to Delay Climate Action Sabrina Fernandes
How Amazon is Changing the Books We Read Mark McGurl
Why the Metaverse Must Be Stopped Brian Merchant
Can Nostalgia Inspire a Better Future? Grafton Tanner
What Gig Work Means for Women in India Noopur Raval
Beating Uber at the UK Supreme Court Yaseen Aslam
Solidarity in Canada’s Gig Economy Jennifer Scott, Brice Sopher
Gig Work is Not a Novelty in Brazil Rafael Grohmann
The Fight for Gig Workers’ Rights in Europe Ben Wray
Migrant Workers in Australia’s Gig Economy Tyler Riordan
How Race Was Central to Prop 22 Veena Dubal
The Amazon Union Drive Comes to Canada Sara Mojtehedzadeh
What Apple Won’t Tell You About the iPhone Brian Merchant
The Creation of a Black Cyberculture André Brock
Big Tech Entrenches US Power Michael Kwet
Blockchain Won’t Save the Global South Olivier Jutel
How Neoliberalism Seized the Internet Dan Greene
How Smart is the Smart City? Shannon Mattern
How Australia Used Tech Against Welfare Recipients Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran
How Streaming is Reshaping the Film Industry Peter Labuza
Demystifying the Billionaire Space Race Paris Marx
“Sleep Dealer” and the Border Politics of Tech Alex Rivera
Tech Criticism Before the Techlash Zachary Loeb
Bitcoin is a Right-Wing Technology David Golumbia
VCs Want to Disrupt the Media Eoin Higgins
Facebook Is A Battleground Avi Asher-Schapiro, Maya Gebeily
Embracing Glitch Feminism Legacy Russell
The Sunset of the Californian Ideology? Richard Barbrook
Why the Soviet Union Didn’t Build the Internet Benjamin Peters
Project Cybersyn Shows All Tech is Political Eden Medina
How Many Times Has the Internet Already Died? Kevin Driscoll
How State Funding Built Silicon Valley Margaret O’Mara
Celebrating One Year of Tech Won’t Save Us! Paris Marx
What’s Next for Amazon Workers? Kim Kelly
Vaccine Passports Are Not the Solution Elizabeth Renieris
Bursting the NFT Bubble Jacob Silverman
Digital Redlining in the Frictionless Society Chris Gilliard
Elon Musk Isn’t Saving Humanity Manu Saadia
How Britain Killed its Computing Industry Mar Hicks
Is Bill Gates a “Good” Billionaire? Tim Schwab
How Algorithms Are Transforming Work Callum Cant
Why We Need a Luddite Politics of Tech Gavin Mueller
Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News Lizzie O’Shea
How Indonesian Gig Workers Are Organizing Rida Qadri
Amazon’s Vigorous Opposition to Unions Lauren Kaori Gurley
How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power Grafton Tanner
How YouTube Normalizes Right-Wing Extremism Becca Lewis
Why We Need a Democratic Approach to Data Salomé Viljoen
The Frictionless World of Silicon Valley Anna Wiener
Platforms for Public Good Mathew Lawrence, Thomas Hanna
The Complex Systems that Govern Our Lives Tim Maughan
How Urban Tech Increases Corporate Control David Banks
Why Game and Tech Workers Are Organizing Emma Kinema
Fighting for Gig Workers’ Rights After Prop 22 Wilfred Chan
How Spotify is Built On Artist Exploitation Liz Pelly
The Injury Crisis in Amazon Warehouses Will Evans
How Video Games are Shaped by Capitalism Daniel Joseph
Jobs Suck, But Not Because of Automation Aaron Benanav
Section 230 Protects Free Expression Online Evan Greer
What Rural China Teaches Us About the Future of Tech Xiaowei Wang
Why Google’s Ad Business Could Implode Tim Hwang
Silicon Valley is Embracing Anti-China Nationalism JS Tan
Major Publishers Want to Shut Down Digital Lending Maria Bustillos
How Google & Facebook Dominate Digital Ads Shoshana Wodinsky
How Foxconn Treats the Workers Who Built Your iPhone Jenny Chan
A Better Internet Requires Ending the Monopolies Cory Doctorow
Thinking about Tech in the Present Tense Ben Tarnoff
We Can’t Talk About Tech Without Talking About Resources Thea Riofrancos
How Tech Journalism Legitimized the Gig Economy Sam Harnett
What the History of TV Can Teach Us About Netflix Tom Evens
How to Defeat an Apple Store Tania Davidge
The Boring Company is a Complete Joke Alissa Walker
Space Mining Brings Capitalism to the Cosmos Julie Michelle Klinger
The Global South Holds a Better Future of Tech Juan Ortiz Freuler
Smart Tech Is Designed For Control Jathan Sadowski
Why Uber Failed at Micromobility Aaron W. Gordon
Technofascism in India Banu Subramaniam, Debjani Bhattacharyya
Amazon Wants to Dominate Everything Brian Merchant
Tech Giants Don't Care About Black Lives Edward Ongweso Jr.
Art is More Than Ones and Zeroes Nika Roza Danilova, Zola Jesus
A Cooperative Vision for Technological Innovation Dan Hind
Uber's War on Drivers Veena Dubal
How Tech Platforms Affect Our Digital Lives Joanne McNeil
History Shows Radical Futures Are Possible Lizzie O’Shea
Tech Billionaires Think They’re Better Than You Rob Larson
Fighting Back Against the Tech Monopolies Grace Blakeley
Elon Musk is a Cult Leader Ilari Kaila
How Tech Distracts Us From the Bigger Picture Bianca Wylie
Bursting the Reality Bubble Ziya Tong
Transit is the Future James Wilt
Tech's Response to COVID-19 Wendy Liu
A Brief Introduction Paris Marx