Currently listening to the latest #TMK #ThisMachineKills podcast featuring #MeredithWhittaker

"a historical analysis of Charles Babbage and the smoking gun that directly links plantation logics of control with the industrial design of computation. Then a political economy of “open” AI and the material power that dominates the entire stack for these systems."

This Machine Kills: 281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)

Media file: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1611030858-thismachinekillspod-281-the-smoking-gun-of-techno-capitalism-ft-meredith-whittaker.mp3

This here is an outstanding #podcast episode from #thismachinekills

It goes into how certain health and wellness benefits that companies provide are practically shackles for the working class, another weapon of the rich in #classwar.

A #mustlisten

https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/279-the-power-of-wellness-capitalism-ft-tamara-nopper-eve-zelickson

#capitalism

Ergaenzung

#Podcast #ThisMachineKills

272. Locked into Starlink’s Low Earth Iron Cage

https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/272-locked-into-starlinks-low-earth-iron-cage

#ThisMachineKills talks to Alex Sammon about how car dealerships became a network of deeply entrenched fiefdoms with the power of king makers

#autoDealerships #capitalism #regulatoryCapture #lobbying

https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/264-every-car-dealer-a-fiefdom-every-middleman-a-lord-ft-alex-sammon

Speaking of Chiang's essay in this week's episode of #ThisMachineKills, #JathanSadowski expertly punctures the #ChatGPT4 hype bubble, which holds that the *next* version of the chatbot will be so amazing that any critiques of the current technology will be rendered obsolete:

https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/232-400-hundred-years-of-capitalism-led-directly-to-microsoft-viva-sales

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I have a confession: my podcast feed is more or less completely devoid of anything that deals with privacy or law or work adjacent anything. But one of the exceptions, what I think is the best explicitly antifascist coverage of tech and policy issues is This Machine Kills. This week continues their series on the political economy of generative AI . I cannot recommend this show enough. #thismachinekills #antifascist #privacy #podcast #rec https://pca.st/episode/f463032b-ba5f-4b66-ab34-fec92b18b408

”Everyone kind of become a warehouse worker.”
#ThisMachineKills

https://www.patreon.com/posts/211-living-in-of-75076702

This Machine Kills: 120. The Butlerian Jihad – Why Sci-Fi Needs Luddism https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1169723017-thismachinekillspod-120-the-butlerian-jihad-why-sci-fi-needs-luddism.mp3

#luddism #thismachinekills #dune #technology #podcast #recommendation #SciFi #luddite