This Machine Kills

🚨281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)🚨

Our friend @mer__edith joins us for a giant discussion that bridges her historical analysis of plantation logics and industrial computation with the political economy of "open" AI. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

🚨483. How Big Tech Captured Classrooms (ft. Jessica Winter)🚨

We have a wide-ranging conversation with New Yorker writer Jessica Winter about the total integration of big tech into schools, edtech experiments on students, pedagogical ideas of vibes-baed learning, and much more.

🚨Premium – 482. Be the Investment Risk You Want to See in the World🚨

We get into the recent downturn in the data centre markets and get into how susceptible this massive industry is to investment risk from even just local forms of community resistance and financial skepticism.

🚨481. The Data of Empire (ft. Roopika Risam)🚨

We chat with @roopikarisam about her new book, Data Empires, as we trace the very long history of data and the many ways that empires have used data to gain power, exercise control, and enforce order on the world.

🚨Premium – 480. We Need to Talk About the Forces of Production🚨

We discuss and riff on the People’s AI Assembly, organized by AI Now Institute and More Perfect Union, which just happened in New York City.