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The Climate Cost of AI Prophecies: How Data Centers Fuel Big Fossil w/ Ketan Joshi

Tech companies keep telling us that the answer to solving climate change lies in AI. Meanwhile, the data centers required to power AI are keeping coal plants open longer,

Beware the AI Prophets: Hype, Doom, and Prediction as Tools of Control w/ Carissa Véliz

When a tech executive says AI will be doing your job next year, it sounds like a forecast. Dr. Carissa Véliz argues it's something else: a command, delivered in advance,

The Kids Are Online: Are Social Media Bans the Answer? w/ Cori Crider and Pamela Wisniewski

Almost everyone studying kids’ safety online agrees that a blanket social media ban won't work. And nearly every government moving on the issue is passing one anyway. Thi

When Kids Can’t Consent: The Case Against Tech in the Classroom w/ Andrew Liddell

No tech that your kid uses in the classroom was designed for their benefit. Not the tablet, not the "learning app," not the AI chatbot helping with homework. It was desig

The Battle for Power Inside Big Tech: Against Tech Oligarchy w/ JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine

Over the last decade, tech workers have staged walkouts, signed open letters by the tens of thousands, and built more than a dozen new unions across the industry. And yet

Meet the Mom Winning Against AI in Schools w/ Ifeoma Ozoma

Imagine dropping your kid off at school, assuming they’ll spend the day being taught by… teachers, of course. But then you find out that part of their day is actually spe

The Digital Delusion: The False Promise of Ed Tech w/ Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath

A screen is built to do one thing well: split your attention across as many things as possible, as fast as possible. A developing brain needs the opposite— sustained, und

Meet the Guy (Actually) Passing Tech Laws

You've likely heard of the National Sexual Assault Hotline. What you might not know is that it's operated by RAINN, an organization that has become one of the more unlike

How Anduril Tried to Kill Democracy in Ohio (& How Farmers Fought Back)

In Madison Township, Ohio, families have farmed the same land for generations. Then a commercial real estate company started buying up their neighbors' fields under the c

A Sneak Peek into The Maybe Collective

We’re taking a short summer break and will be back on your feed in a couple of weeks. But we've got news before we go. Catch up on our most recent series: Computer Says

The Colossus Crossroads: Fighting for the Future of Memphis w/ KeShaun Pearson

In Memphis, companies don't come in to invest in the city. They come in to extract from its people and its land, no matter how high the human cost. That's exactly what xA

The Gig is Up: How Uber Ruined Wage Labor with Veena Dubal

In 2013, taxi drivers were beginning to notice something unusual: unmarked, black cars were cutting them off in taxi lines and picking up their passengers. Little did the

The Collective Fight for Our Humanity - REAL Resistance

Anna Bacciarelli and Shazeda Ahmed know more than anyone that there are only a handful of tech companies asserting dominance around the world by talking in high-level abs

Who's Behind Big Brother? - REAL Resistance

Mariel Garcia-Montes and Crofton Black share their stories and investigations that uncover the backdoor deals that allow the surveillance industry to thrive under the gui

The Global Fight Against Technocolonialism - REAL Resistance

Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Fernanda Rodrigues, Angela Chukunzira, and Kauna Love Malgwi make it clear that colonial powers have never gone away. The people and technology po

Against Automated Governments - REAL Resistance

Maria Pilar Llorens, Divij Joshi, Gabriel Geiger, and Purity Mukami reveal how digitised welfare is not welfare — it’s just efficiency theatre. More like this: REAL Resi

The AI Information Warp - REAL Resistance

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth? More like t

Computer Says Kill: How To Say No w/ Matt Mahmoudi and Marwa Fatafta

How do we stand up against the human rights violations that exist in the gruesome relationship between the business of AI and war? More like this: Computer Says Kill: Th

Computer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy Khlaaf

The AI industry loves to talk about safety, but their version of safety is putting us at risk. More like this: The Palestine Laboratory w/ Antony Loewenstein For our se

Computer Says Kill: The Palestine Laboratory w/ Antony Loewenstein

Israel has a long history of making new technological weapons of war and exporting them to the world. They have used Palestine as a testing ground to show how new tools c