Patreon Preview – 222. Weird That All These Canaries of Tech Capitalism Keep Dying
We do a postmortem on 2022, the year of Web3, talking about the goofs and grifts, speed and scale, crashes and canaries, with our major takeaway and theme being that just as FTX is not anomalous for W...
8 Jan 20237min
*Unlocked* – The Insurtech Will Continue Until Morale Improves
We give some personal updates, then get distracted talking about a new survey on consumer sentiments and insurance technology. It turns out that actually the vast majority of people *do not* want to u...
5 Jan 20231h 9min
Patreon Preview – 221. ChatGPT: From Fetish Object to AI Oracle
We breakdown ChatGPT, the conversational large language model created by OpenAI. How this system works. How it has been fetishized by consumers and reporters, critics and advocates. Why most of the ha...
3 Jan 20238min
220. The Landlords Who Own the Internet (ft. Dan Greene)
If we want to understand the cloud, then we need to study real estate. We are joined by Dan Greene—from the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies—who has written the premier analysis...
30 Dec 20221h 34min
Patreon Preview – 219. The Insurtech Will Continue Until Morale Improves
We give some personal updates, then get distracted talking about a new survey on consumer sentiments and insurance technology. It turns out that actually the vast majority of people *do not* want to u...
27 Dec 20226min
218. Ecosystems-as-a-Service (ft. Mél Hogan)
We take a look at the critical ecologies of the cloud with Mél Hogan – Director of the Environmental Media Lab at the University of Calgary – who researches the environmental politics of server farms ...
20 Dec 20221h 17min
Patreon Preview – 217. How ESG Investing is Making Capitalism Sustainable
We continue our analysis of all things green by looking deeper at the operations of a core mechanism directing cash flows into sustainable investments: ESG. What is ESG? How does it work? You think yo...
19 Dec 20228min
216. How Green Finance is Making an Investable Future
With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) recently happening, we dig into the political economy of green policy, green investing, green finance, green technology, green capitalism. What is driving...
16 Dec 20221h 12min
