This Machine Kills
@machinekillspodpodcast on tech and political economy /// agitprop against innovation and capital /// hosted by @jathansadowski and @bigblackjacobin, produced by @braunestahl
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🚨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…
🚨Preview – 378. BYD’s Green Tech Red Scare🚨 The rise of BYD—the Chinese EV maker taking global markets by storm—is an interesting story of battery innovation, vertical integration, industrial policy, and green tech geopolitics. patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨377. The Real Cost of Uber/Lyft’s Driver Lockouts🚨 Prof Ed walks us through an in-depth investigation into how Uber/Lyft locked out drivers from their platforms— with no warning and for long periods—as a cynical response to minimum pay laws in NYC. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨Preview – 376. Silicon Valley’s Political Machine🚨 We discuss the powerful networks of influence and intimidation that Silicon Valley is creating to advance its political interests, like a $170 million pro-crypto super PAC. patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
Focusing on the overlooked political economy of video games, this conversation explores how the video game industry is often dismissed by the left due to its association with violence and anti-progressive values. With @marijamdid on @machinekillspod buff.ly/3Ypvns7
always so fun to speak with @jathansadowski, @bigblackjacobin, and @braunestahl! we had such a great discussion about data centers and why you should care about them
🚨375. Of Vampires and Empires (ft. Paris Marx)🚨 We do a deep dive with @parismarx on the geopolitics of data centers as a form of imperial infrastructure for techno-capitalism and chat about his new series at @techwontsaveus: DATA VAMPIRES. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨375. Of Vampires and Empires (ft. Paris Marx)🚨 We do a deep dive with @parismarx on the geopolitics of data centers as a form of imperial infrastructure for techno-capitalism and chat about his new series at @techwontsaveus: DATA VAMPIRES. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨Preview – 374. Bigger is Not Better in AI🚨 We analyze the politics of scale in AI by discussing OpenAI's giant funding round, Newsom's veto of the California AI Safety Bill, and a great new paper with a blistering critique: patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
Dreams continue becoming reality! I've been a fan of @machinekillspod for YEARS. An insane honour to be a guest. Also we've put my beloved 52 Commercial Road track at the beginning there, they're in my Acknowledgements,listen to this genius post-rock gem: youtu.be/-kSo7wR-BCM?si…
🚨373. Press X to Start Revolution (ft. Marijam Did)🚨 We chat with @marijamdid about her new book—Everything to Play For—which bridges radical politics and video games through a material analysis of gaming as an industry, art form, and social space: soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨373. Press X to Start Revolution (ft. Marijam Did)🚨 We chat with @marijamdid about her new book—Everything to Play For—which bridges radical politics and video games through a material analysis of gaming as an industry, art form, and social space: soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨Preview – 372. The Sin-Eater of Zero Interest Rates🚨 With the news of interest rates dropping again, we refocus our attention on Masayoshi Son, the man who perhaps most embodies the pathologies of technological capitalism. patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
Tech companies like Microsoft are selling bespoke AI systems to make fossil fuel extraction even more efficient, thus optimizing the process of socio-ecological collapse. But as long as it means AI is briefly profitable before the end of the world, then it's all worthwhile!
🚨371. Optimizing for Planetary Crisis🚨 We dig into the deep relations between the tech sector and fossil fuels. Companies like Microsoft are selling AI systems to the oil and gas industry in hopes that their dirty money will solve AI's profit problems: soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨371. Optimizing for Planetary Crisis🚨 We dig into the deep relations between the tech sector and fossil fuels. Companies like Microsoft are selling AI systems to the oil and gas industry in hopes that their dirty money will solve AI's profit problems: soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨Preview – 370. Paranoid Android🚨 We learn that Elon Musk is surrounded by a private "security apparatus” of ex-operators and threat investigators, causing a feedback loop of paranoia and isolation. Very normal and healthy. patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
We dig into the ideologies of innate biological hierarchy and genetic superiority that underpin so much of mainstream right-wing politics. This kind of heinous essentialism to justify social domination—like what we saw with the blood libel against Haitians—is so ubiquitous.
🚨369. The Third Most Amazing Race (ft. Gaby Del Valle)🚨 We are joined by @gabydvj to discuss her fantastic new essay for The Baffler—Live Free or DEI—which reports on the “eugenic foundations of the war on woke.” Great chat about bad stuff! soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨369. The Third Most Amazing Race (ft. Gaby Del Valle)🚨 We are joined by @gabydvj to discuss her fantastic new essay for The Baffler—Live Free or DEI—which reports on the “eugenic foundations of the war on woke.” Great chat about bad stuff! soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
“.The critique of technology has to be a critique of political economy, otherwise, you end up with your really silly theories …”
🚨367. A Brief History of Apocalypse🚨 We take a deeper look at Yuval Noah Harari’s impoverished thought and intellectual style, which builds doomsday scenarios out of extreme techno-determinism and disinterest in material analysis. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
🚨Preview – 368. Building the Most Lethal University🚨 Going further into the military-industrial complex, we examine how major research universities act like defense contractors and military R&D labs that also teach classes. patreon.com/thismachinekil… soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
"Although flesh and blood, Harari is Silicon Valley’s ideal of what a chatbot should be. He raids libraries, detects the patterns, and boils all of history down to bullet points," writes Daniel Immerwahr in his review of Harari's oeuvre: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
🚨367. A Brief History of Apocalypse🚨 We take a deeper look at Yuval Noah Harari’s impoverished thought and intellectual style, which builds doomsday scenarios out of extreme techno-determinism and disinterest in material analysis. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
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