50. King of SPACs v. Hindenburg
Cold open: Chamath, Clover, CNBC https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/video/chamath-palihapitiya-addresses-some-concerns-surrounding-clover-health-spac/vp-BB19KRae SPACs are blowing up. Everywhere you tu...
10 Mar 20211h 21min
49. Of Mind Control and Revolution (ft. Cory Doctorow)(patreon teaser)
Cory Doctorow joins us again for an excellent, wide-ranging discussion about his critique of surveillance capitalism, the mind control fallacy that captures critics, how monopoly jurisprudence is trap...
6 Mar 20219min
48. Who Uses the Users? (ft. Cory Doctorow)
Cold open: excerpt from UBIK by Philip K. Dick Outro: amazing new track by Jereme, "End of Time" We’re joined by Cory Doctorow — prolific author, longtime activist, friend of the show — to learn abou...
3 Mar 20211h 30min
47. The Leviathan and The Consumer (patreon teaser)
Picking back up on the fight between Big Media and Big Tech, we dig deeper into the type of power of platforms wield, how their political influence operates, the prioritization of consumership over ci...
27 Feb 20219min
46. Banning Australia (ft. J.R. Hennessy)
After months of threats, Facebook finally hit the big red off button on the server labeled Australia and Google is making big backroom deals with media barons like Rupert Murdoch. To help us parse thr...
24 Feb 20211h 6min
45. Platform’s Republic of Facebook (patreon teaser)
We riff on the archetype of the tech guy who can’t bear his California dream being soured by the existence of other people struggling to get by in a city his industry has immiserated. Then dive into t...
20 Feb 20216min
44. How to Think About Data (ft. Salomé Viljoen)
We discuss the limitations of existing approaches – and democratic alternatives – to data governance in informational capitalism with Salomé Viljoen (https://twitter.com/salome_viljoen_), a legal scho...
18 Feb 20211h 31min
43. Libertarian Mind Palace (patreon teaser)
It’s part two of us ripping into David Friedman’s anarcho-capitalist fever dream, The Machinery of Freedom. And we get real nutty with it as we detail his libertarian transitional program where school...
13 Feb 20216min
