New Techtonic: Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers.

Full episode:
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Below: my comments on Techtonic about Tesla and its Grok chatbot that, as reported by the CBC, made sexual comments to a 12-year-old boy.

Episode page with links to the story:
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Really enjoyed speaking w/ @paulmozur.bsky.social, global tech correspondent for the NYT, about the water & power draw of data centers worldwide.

Full episode:
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From my interview with @aramsinn.bsky.social - a bit of good news in the techno-surveillance state.

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NEW Techtonic episode: widening inequality, due in part to the use of Big Tech surveillance (and pricing). We discuss how Disney World designs for inequality.

Also mention @greenwell.bsky.social's book.

Full ep:
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New Techtonic: Amanda Hanna-McLeer is making a film about the Luddite Club. Conversation included admiring mentions of @bcmerchant.bsky.social & @jennitaur.bsky.social .

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Excited to share this field recording of the "SHITPHONE" protest in Manhattan, which I aired on Techtonic.

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Thanks to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for tipping me off to the event.

New techtonic.fm episode: AI and surveillance infrastructure keeps spreading. Stories about data centers, chatbots having dumb conversations, and the "Friend" surveillance device.

Podcast:
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Excerpt below:

I spoke w/ @greenwell.bsky.social on techtonic.fm about "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream."

LISTEN (click "pop-up player"):
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Below, how hospitals have been taken over by private equity:

New techtonic.fm interview with Glenn Adamson, author of “A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present.”

Good reminder that the future didn't always look so depressing.

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Excited to share my interview w/ @faineg.bsky.social on Techtonic - discussing AI chatbots, Joseph Weizenbaum's warning from 50 years ago, and why you can't trust Apple.

Full episode:
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Zuck, at the White House, pulled a number out of thin air to please the Dear Leader.

On the new techtonic.fm episode I read an excerpt from "The Hot Mic and the Monsters" by @brockm.bsky.social - see below.

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Below, an excerpt from my techtonic.fm interview with Cory Doctorow about his upcoming book "Enshittification."

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