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Podcast: Advent of Computing (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 102 - Application of Ada
Pub date: 2023-02-20

This episode picks up where we left off last time. We are looking at Ada and its applications. How does Ada handle tasking? What's the deal with objects? And, most importantly, what are some neat uses of the language? Selected Sources: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/956653.956654 - Rationale for the Design of Ada https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/45345/08-2590_A1b.pdf - Cassini's AACS computer and software http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/iAPX_432/171821-001_Introduction_to_the_iAPX_432_Architecture_Aug81.pdf - Behold the iAPX 432

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Podcast: In Our Hands
Episode: Tim Jackson on Post-Growth Economics
Pub date: 2023-02-16

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Tim Jackson, an ecological economist and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at University of Surrey. They discuss the battle between efficiency and scale, investing for prosperity, and the relationship between hope and action. Time stamps and the full transcript are below. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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Show Notes

[00:00:14] Introduction

[00:01:38] Life and Career Path

[00:11:53] Capitalism in a Post-Growth World

[00:20:36] Problems and Opportunities of Our Time

[00:24:19] Optimism about Degrowth

[00:29:27] Action Steps

[00:00:14] Ramanan Raghavendran: Hello everybody.

Today's guest in our interview series is Tim Jackson. He is an ecological economist writer and the director of the Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity or CUSP. CUSP is a multidisciplinary research center which aims to understand the economic, social and political dimensions of sustainable prosperity. Its guiding vision for prosperity is one in which people everywhere have the capability to flourish as human beings within the ecological and resource constraints of a finite planet. And right there, you can see why we're so excited, at Amasia, to speak with him. He's been at the forefront of international debates on sustainability for three decades, has worked with the UK government, the United Nations, the European Commission, numerous NGOs, private companies, and foundations to bring economic and social science research into sustainability.

From 2004 to 2011, he was economics commissioner for the UK Sustainable Development Commission where his work culminated in the publication of his, may I say, controversial and groundbreaking book Prosperity Without Growth. Most recently he's the author of Post Growth published in the United States in May 2021. And I would encourage everyone viewing this interview to go out and get those books because they're amazing. He holds master's degrees in mathematics and philosophy from Cambridge and the University of Western Ontario respectively and a doctorate in physics from the University of St Andrews.

[00:01:38] So I want to start right there with our first question in our five question format. Tim, a question about your background, your degrees and initial professional experience suggested something completely different from the path you are on now, how did you end up here?

[00:01:53] Tim Jackson: Yes, I suppose that's true. First of all, thank you for having me. It's great to talk to you. I mean, to be honest, I ran away from both physics and academia. This was in, I guess, early mid 1980s. Not exactly in disgust, but a little bit of frustration with the way in which academic science was being prosecuted at that point in time. And the bits of the science that I found the most interesting were not attracting funding, they were not attracting that much interest within the department. And I had, for a variety of reasons, I had this other side to me which was a kind of slightly artistic streak, I suppose. And I spent quite a lot of my free time during those quite dry sciences and philosophies working in the theater.

And so I kind of ran away from academia with the idea that I was going to be a playwright. And at that point, I had already sold a play to the BBC, which was kind of interesting. So I thought, well, hey, here we go. And then, I remember the day when-

[00:02:52] Ramanan Raghavendran: May we ask what kinds of plays?

[00:02:54] Tim Jackson: All kinds of things really, I mean, human story is what interests me. And I think that in some ways I've come back to that in Post Growth, because it's a book that's built around human stories and the drama that plays itself out through human lives and through which in a society, in a sense society kind of moves forward through those sort of critical points in thinking about the nature of the human condition and the nature of the challenges that face us. And although, in a scientific sense they're absolutely fascinating, they don't always come home to people unless you can sort of bring them home through the idea of human stories.

So I did write some environmental plays. I wrote some plays about sort of concepts, like the concept of altruism, for example. But all the time these stories and these plays were driven by this idea that drama is something that everybody, to some extent, can understand and has a power in our lives that sense of sort of fascination with other lives, with conflict between different kinds of individuals, different kinds of ideas, and with inspiration, with creative inspiration that leads to change, I think. So those were the kinds of plays that I started writing.

Actually my first play was a kind of protest play. It was a protest at the war that the UK government was prosecuting at that point across thousands of miles with Argentina, over a bunch of islands called the Falkland Islands. And young men of my age were dying for the territory of the flag. And the sort of futility of that sort of drove me into a kind of writing career.

And then in the mid 1980s, actually, I had worked for a couple of places at the BBC at that point and I was sustaining myself with odd jobs in cafes and bars and repair industries and that kind of thing. And then April 1986 Chernobyl melted down and it was for me, it was like a kind of wake up call I think. It was like, actually I knew people who were working in the nuclear industry because that was one of the outlets from the people who were in my cohort in the physics department where I was. And if I'd been interested in that kind of career, I might've been working there myself. And Chernobyl to me taught me about the power and the danger of human technology. Particularly when it's not integrated properly into management and governance systems.

And I began to look actually, interestingly, at technology as in a different way. And I began, the next day pretty much, I walked into the offices of Greenpeace in London and said, "Look, I don't know if you can do anything with me, I'm a physicist. I've got all this background that might be useful. Like you, I don't believe in nuclear power and I'd like you to find me something to do." And I don't know if I thought they would put me on the boats, which was the most exciting bit of what Greenpeace was doing at that point in time. There was kind of protest boats running around the ocean, putting themselves in harm's way.

[00:06:11] Ramanan Raghavendran: May I ask a personal question? I mean this was the Thatcher era and if you weren't in that camp... I guess the question is, was there a lot of anger?

[00:06:20] Tim Jackson: I had a friend who worked in Greenpeace, who used to say that campaigns run on anger.

So there was a sense in which that anger sort of informed our work, I think in those days. And it was a fairly, it was easy to maintain in a way, because we knew who the bad guys were. They were in government.

And so we knew who we had to fight, what kinds of arguments we had to put together and as I say, this kind of campaign is run on, campaigners run on anger. It was very much a part of what you'd see, and actually I still see in my activist friends. And I think where that works and where it is a constructive rather than destructive anger is when it is able to transform itself into action, into agency, into getting out and doing something and saying something. And that in itself is a task that requires a little bit of, I don't know, self-discipline, a little bit of self knowledge, a little bit of learning because anger can also, of course, be potentially quite destructive.

But I think at that point that that little bit of anger and the way in which I began to engage with Greenpeace, who did very kindly, in a way, they didn't put me out on the boats, but they put me to work on the economics of the alternatives to nuclear power. So in particular, the renewable energy technologies, solar and wind, and so on, which of course everybody now talks about and is investing in and thinking about as technological saviors but at the time no one was paying attention to. And I became almost overnight a kind of accidental economist, I suppose. That was the beginning of that story.

[00:07:56] Ramanan Raghavendran: That's amazing. And then what did that lead to next? Because as of this point, we're still at Greenpeace.

[00:08:02] Tim Jackson: Yeah, I was working as a consultant at sort of arms length from Greenpeace from a guy who then was a mentor to me in many different ways, I think, partly through that personal journey of navigating those emotions of sort of anger and frustration and the sense of loss in some ways, but also very particularly in the campaigning work and in the work that we were doing. And so I owe a lot to those kinds of early mentors, I think. The people who sort of guided me through that process, but it was almost as though, I mean, I didn't give up playwriting. I kept that playwriting career going for another couple of decades aside.

But it was almost as though the moment I'd made that decision, that I was going to walk through this office in Greenpeace and say, how can I be useful to you in this challenge we're facing, that the world kind of bit my hand off in a way, it kind of, I then found myself in an academic context, which was the last thing I expected because as I say, I sort of ran away from academia, brushing the dust from my shoes as I went, if I could sort of metaphorically put it like that, swearing never to go back and actually within a couple of years or so, I had an academic post and a few years after that, I was given a permanent position in the University of Surrey, where I've been since, and that work drew me first through the technologies themselves and the economics of the technologies themselves.

And then to a realization that there was a kind of continual battle between efficiency and scale, that the technologies helped us to become more efficient in the way that we live but the continual expansion of the economy, that question of scale was always in a tension between that efficiency gain and the impact that it has on the planet. And what you need in order to reduce your impact on the planet is for efficiency always to be winning that battle between efficiency and scale. And actually what you saw in the data was that scale was always winning it. We were always growing faster than we could improve the technology. And that played out in the statistics at the global level, carbon emissions just went on getting bigger and bigger, even as our carbon efficiency improved year upon year upon year, it didn't improve fast enough.

And that I think is what led me to these questions, these macroeconomic questions about the growth-based economy, the values of consumerism that drive it and the nature of a genuine lasting prosperity that could be conceived of as a shared prosperity in place of what I began to see around me, began to articulate around me, sense around me of a world divided between those who have, and still want more, and those who don't even have enough to live on. And that sort of dynamic around the injustice of that world. Again, an injustice that brings anger as one of the responses to it, drove me to look more in depth, I suppose, at the structure and dynamics of this growth-based economic system that is inherited.

[00:11:08] Ramanan Raghavendran: And that is a great segue and thank you for that, because I think this background is important in setting the context for what is going to follow. Because we're going to dig into some of your ideas, which I have to tell you resonate in a fairly significant way with me. So we can start with sort of the basics. Some of the viewers of this series may not be familiar, in fact, I would probably say most of them will not be familiar with the ideas of post-growth. And so would you mind just giving us, you can call it an overview or, what happens to capitalism? I am a so-called card-carrying capitalist, although, as you can tell from my preamble, I'm having all kinds of issues with that.

[00:11:53] What happens to capitalism in a post-growth world?

[00:11:56] Tim Jackson: Yeah. This, in a way it was a sort of progression for me when I wrote Prosperity Without Growth, the work that came out of the work I was doing with the UK government. Almost as soon as we raised, even notified our sponsors, because it was an agency that reported directly to the prime minister at the time. And as soon as we alerted our sponsors and our sponsor departments to the idea that we were even questioning growth, we had sort of a furious sense of, yeah, now we know what sustainability means. It just means going back to live in caves, doesn't it. And I literally had a civil servant in a meeting that I was presenting the idea, stand up and shout that at me from the back of the room. And so this challenge to the growth-based system was an extraordinary one already.

And so to come out on the back of that and say, well, actually you can't have capitalism either. We're going to question that too, at the time was something that I didn't do. I finessed that argument by sort of saying, "Well, it's capitalism, Jim, but not as we know it, once you've made these changes to this growth-based economy." And maybe you can keep some capitalism in a post-growth world that isn't a capitalism with relentless accumulation attached to it. It's a capitalism with purpose. It's a capitalism with a social conscience. It's a different kind of capitalism. And I was attacked actually at that point from both sides, both from the people who thought I was a rampant anticapitalist just trying to hide it. And also from a bunch of people who sort of said, "Well, you should have just come out and said it, capitalism itself sucks. The structure of it can never do without growth. It's part of the growth imperative."

And these arguments around the terminology and what we called ourselves and whether we did, or didn't align with capitalism or not, became in some senses, in some senses they spurred me on, in some senses, they were quite frustrating because the arguments about any questioning of capitalism, particularly at that time, 10, 15 years ago, was always deemed, particularly in the US, as being about aligning your interests with what has become a sort of nationalistic enemy of communism. And so you inevitably, you're kind of falling into this capitalism, is it capitalism? Well, if it's not, then it must be communism and therefore you, on the other side.

[00:14:26] Ramanan Raghavendran: You're absolutely correct. It is framed like that.

[00:14:30] Tim Jackson: It's a sort of extraordinary, an extraordinarily unhelpful division, I would say. And so, and yet there is this sense in which within capitalism, there's a kind of growth imperative, there's a cap—a few growth imperatives really. One is that the idea of kind of profit maximization in firms leads to a situation in which you end up underpaying your workers, disinvesting in the future and looking continually to keep your shareholders happy at the expense of people and planet. That is something that drives itself through the profit maximization principle, which is central to the way that capitalism works. And then there are the ways in which the financial system leverages itself on the back of future growth. And in particular, the ways in which it makes debt, particularly public debt, very difficult to manage in a situation where you don't have growth.

And so I began to realize that I couldn't run away from these problems, but I didn't want to address them. Post Growth is the most recent book. The one that was published in May is not a book for policymakers, really, although I hope some policymakers read it, it wasn't written in the way that Prosperity Without Growth was that was written really directly, a report to the prime minister, talking to policymakers, giving them a list of the things that could be done about the situation, very clear things that could be done in terms of environmental policy, economic policy, what has to happen inside investment, what has to happen in our social world and the dynamics of consumerism and saying, well, you can, we're not at the mercy of these forces. They are a human construct. We created this system under a certain set of ideological beliefs, and we can change it.

And these are the things that you could do in various areas. And it became clear to me though, that there was a sense that the government found that difficult to listen to, the policymakers found that difficult to listen to. In fact that came home to me very, very strongly. I've received quite a lot of robust pushback from the sponsors of the Commission. And the Commission itself was closed down shortly after that report was published, "Who needs that kind of advice, thank you very much." But it became sort of clear to me that at the same time, that there was an enormous audience of people who were incredibly interested in this debate and they were unusual suspects. They weren't, the environmental campaigners running on the anger that I had witnessed in the 1980s. They were actually from, everything from community groups in villages, to theaters, fascinatingly from my point of view, to investment houses, to inter-governmental organizations.

And the most fascinating of those in a way was the audience investment houses, because I mean, partly they're populated by very clever people. And partly those very clever people are able to understand an argument as basic as the one that I was making, this continual expanding economy, driving itself through profit maximization, neglecting the interests of people and planet, is heading society towards disaster. And of course, in those terms, that's a fairly, there were people inside the system who could see.

And I remember that one of the first conversations I had in an investment company, where a guy, and one of these very bright guys, and they had invited me in to talk about this, what was essentially almost seemed like a challenge to their entire rationale and to their entire industry. And the guy who'd invited me in sort of then sort of said to the group, "What do we make of Tim's analysis?" And a lot of them just sort of turned around and said, "Well, basically we're all fucked, but what can we do? This is our business. This is what we're doing. This is what we know how to do. We have to keep on doing it." But to their credit, they didn't just keep on doing it. They began to transform. They began to think through what investment actually means and what its rationale is within economics and what its social purpose is, what its social license is in society, which is to provide that commitment in the present towards a workable, livable future for other people and indeed for other species.

And when you transform the concept of investment in that way, it becomes something that is profoundly important to get right, and profoundly important to communicate. And so that work of, I think, on the back of Prosperity Without Growth and finding that it had this audience in a very different place, that led me to go back to this deeper critique of capitalism and where the bear pits are within capitalism that have been leading us astray and Post Growth is a sort of a prequel almost to Prosperity Without Growth in the sense that it's appealing to that wider audience that I never had expected was there. But it's also engaging in a much more philosophical conversation about not just the economy, but the nature of the society that we want to live in. Interestingly, one of the translations of, a German translation of the book, which has just been published in a couple of weeks. They changed the title. And then in retrospect, I really liked the title and the title that they chose is just How Should We Live: Ways Out Of The Growth Trap.

[00:20:11] Ramanan Raghavendran: I mean, in the end, it is the great question of philosophy, right? How should we live and what that meant for Plato and what that means for our very capitalism ridden society are different things, but I think many of the questions remain the same. Which brings us to the next question, which is that every age and every era thinks this is the crucial moment in human history, right.

[00:20:36] And questions of human flourishing and prosperity have existed since the dawn of time. What makes this moment the crux, in terms of problems and opportunities?

Can we in fact, hold a mirror up to ourselves and our planet and make the case that this is a moment like no other, so I guess that's the question.

[00:20:56] Tim Jackson: Yeah. I mean, I think if you look at those graphs that sort of those hockey stick graphs that are associated with the change of CO2 in the atmosphere, the incidents of environmental impact, the destruction of habitats, the loss of other species. Where we look over kind of millennia of what appeared to be stability, and then see the influence of the development model of the last century, century and a half, that does tend towards a, it tends to make us think that this is a moment like no other and that the forward direction of those trends is a very uncomfortable place to be. We're pushing ourselves out of the comfort zone that humanity evolved within, we're pushing the planet out of that comfort zone as well. And so we're kind of, I accept the point, there is a sense of apocalysm, if that's a word, I'm not sure it is, that is associated with that view. And I'm not sure either that it's a very helpful sense.

Because it tends to kind of blind us to possibilities for action and to deepness of thought, and we've become anxious, we're rabbits in the headlights and our sympathetic nervous systems click in and it's fight or flight, or it's getting worse, guys, it's getting worse. It's even worse today than it was yesterday. And there's nothing we can do about it. Or you've all got to change and these strategies can potentially be paralyzing, I think. And so, in some sense, I think bringing back that realization, bringing the us back from the brink of apocalysm is a kind of good thing to do. And to relativize our concern about the future is something that every society to some extent has witnessed, experienced, and may even be a part of the survival strategy of societies to have such a sense.

That's a much richer place in a way to begin a dialogue about how we should change, than one that says we've got whatever it is, 100 months left or 18 months left or 10 years left, or we have to have done this by 2030, which is rapidly approaching, or we've got to solve this in COP26 in Glasgow in a month or so's time because that's our last chance.

This kind of last chance saloon dialogue is a difficult one. It's a very difficult one, even for people working towards those goals. But it's an even more difficult one I think, for ordinary people, for whom these issues are outside, what they normally comfortably like to think about.

[00:23:31] Ramanan Raghavendran: Yeah. And I want to, in my next question, sort of explore the idea of optimism and, this has been on my mind lately, as I'm sure it has been on many people's minds because the new IPCC report came out, as you know, and it's not a report that inspires optimism, let's put it that way. And it's not written in a way that leaves room for a whole lot of hope. It feels like the most pessimistic, thus far, of all the reports. And on the one hand you want the facts and you want the truth. But on the other hand, the solution can't be, "Let's all just lay down and die." And in our work, in my day job, but even in my non day job stuff, I find lots of reasons for optimism in the sense of us fighting to make things better and different.

[00:24:19] So the question for you is why are you optimistic about the idea that degrowth ideas might actually be implemented over the next five, 15, 20 years? What gives you your optimism?

[00:24:35] Tim Jackson: Well, I think my optimism comes from the idea that actually post-growth society could be a better place. And that was very much a theme within the book Post Growth, is the richness of this world beyond our obsession with growth. And so that gives me something to strive for, in a sense, but I'm not immune to pessimism, I'm not immune to a sense of despair and what I was, and neither are the students that I work with, for example, in the university or many of those angry activists who are now suffering from crises of despair. And kind of what I tell my students at least, and I think I believe this, is that the opposite of despair actually isn't optimism, but action. And it's a very different place to be because it gives you a sense of efficacy.

If you can find a route to be doing something which is aligned with the future, and it's a way of kind of returning yourself I think, to the ability to be a change maker, to do something in the world and to have a sense that we do, at the end of the day, live inside a system which is entirely a construct of ideologies of ideas of the past that have been reified in our institutions, in our political systems and are not scientifically locking us into disaster. And that is an extraordinarily empowering sense to have, even though ideology, and this came to me very much from the philosophy that I was studying back in Canada, in the very, very early days, which taught us that scientific knowledge itself, that fact itself, is not this hard-nosed thing that cannot be changed, but is socially contextual.

It depends on our understanding of science at that time. It depends on the way in which society is organized at that time. It's very gendered at various points in time, it's become kind of masculine, hard-nosed, technological, ideological, optimism that says that the only way for progress is through the mechanism of the market. And this is the way that governments, even governments, have to operate as well is pure ideology. It's thin air, it's mirrors and—smoke and mirrors. And yet it has an enormous power on our lives. And I think to me that, that realization which comes very strongly through the philosophy of science has informed the way that I think about change, because I am never put off, if you like. I've never kind of, I'm never deterred by the idea of what appeared to be institutional hard structures.

And even sometimes, although I think there are limits to this, I think there are ways in which we should also, always, as scientists, be skeptical of scientific fact.

That's quite a difficult thing to say in a context in which scientific fact itself is being manipulated by interests that don't have the best prospects of society or of humanity or of the planet at their heart. But it's also a place where, what we should be doing as human beings and within society is taking the best knowledge that science can give us and separating that best knowledge from these ideological belief systems that somehow, sometimes are even more powerful than scientific fact because they appear to be immutable. And that I think is what capitalism has presented itself as in the ideology of, particularly of the West, over the last few decades. And it's spurious.

[00:28:17] Ramanan Raghavendran: I can obviously second and third that big time, because these are the worlds I have lived in my entire working career, right. So I'm surrounded by luminaries for whom these are laws. This is how the world should work and look at this failed experiment over there, and this failed experiment over here, and therefore this is good, and all of that was and is bad. And I think these black and white binaries are getting in the way of getting to a better place. And that brings me to my last question. We're in the venture capital business. If you strip away that verbiage, look, we're an investment company. We invest in things, well, we invest in companies.

That is a very capitalist endeavor to say the least, right. And I guess one thing that's been on my mind as we're talking, and as I've read your work as well, is how do we translate in our own lives and work the messages that you are conveying, which as you can tell from this conversation, I am largely if not completely in agreement with, how do we translate that into action?

[00:29:27] What is it that people like me should be doing?

And you may not have an answer, but if you do have a thought or two, that would be interesting.

[00:29:36] Tim Jackson: I think it does go back, to me, to thinking through, within this transformation that we need, do we still need investment? Yes, of course we do. And what is the nature of that investment? And as I was suggesting earlier, it seems to me that the fundamental, that there are a couple of things that drive investment, one is a sense of prudence, or concern for the future, bearing in mind the lessons of the past and the immediacy of the present. That's the allegory of prudence that I talk about in the book, this beautiful sort of illustration of that moment in time in which the present makes sense because we're concerned about the future, through our knowledge and our lessons about the past. And the other is this idea of commitment that under even more basic than that sort of sense of prudence over time is the sense of a commitment to the future.

And to me, that's what investment is. It is about putting aside resources in the present in order to protect wellbeing into the future. And that's a task really that, today I think makes sense across the whole gamut of investment from small scale community based crowdfunding type investments through the magnitude of institutional investments that are also providing a financing vehicle for people's income, their pensions later in life, or smoothing out the purchases that they're making that they can't afford in their younger life. And towards that sort of end of technology investment that you guys are engaged in and venture capital, which if you like, is the edge of that. And that, I don't know that I've articulated particularly where venture capital should be moving within this idea of investment as commitment, but it is a venture. It is a risk.

And I thought, almost 20 years actually I chaired a venture capital advisory board in Denmark, which was investing in cutting edge capital. And it was a labor of love that process because it was before its time. It turned round the multiple, I think, of somewhere just below one over the 20 years that we were working on it. And yet it sort of did provide a vehicle for financing the innovation that we know that we need in order to achieve the transition that will address the challenges that we're facing.

And so I think, I feel very strongly that there are definitely those elements within what we see as capitalism, which are incredibly important, but they also, they need to be challenged and they need to be transformed to become those vehicles of transition, to become those vehicles of change. And in some places, that can lead to some sort of uncomfortable questioning about the conventionally construed performance of some of those vehicles. And of course, for venture capital counts its returns in multiples. And one is just not a very good multiple by conventional standards, but it did a job over that period, that multiple actually did invest, it did a job, yeah.

[00:32:58] Ramanan Raghavendran: And I think if I were to close and just—

[00:33:00] Tim Jackson: And I think that's my, yeah. I mean, I guess I would say that in a sense to the extent that at every stage in all of those investment architectures, the extent to which you can return to that idea of investment as a commitment to the future, rather than a kind of zero sum game where the winner takes all, that's a shift in the direction that we need to see.

[00:33:27] Ramanan Raghavendran: And if I were to close us on those notes, I mean, I think the issues we're grappling with at Amasia, my firm, are on both sides. And on the one side, it's, how are we measuring returns? There is the conventional industry way, which is economic multiples, and we operate that way. That is the basis for how we operate. But then on the other end of the paradigm, and this is something that you did not touch on is, we're growing and we're being successful and all those things are happening. And on the other end that implies a concentration of economic reward in a few hands, including our own, right. And so that's really been gnawing at me that, we can't run around claiming we're doing great things for the planet when on the one end of the extreme, we're potentially going to end up making the wealth concentration issue worse.

And as you can quickly imagine the solutions to that are unconventional and require a real act of will, to say, this is how we are going to live and operate. Work in process, we'll see. You have been incredibly kind with your time. And I feel like every interview is amazingly thought provoking, this is right up there. And it has touched on topics that we have not covered with other people. You're a busy person and you've been very kind and gracious. And I want to thank you for the time you've spent with us.

[00:35:07] Tim Jackson: Thank you. It's been a pleasure talking to you.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector w/ Rosie Collington
Pub date: 2023-02-23

Paris Marx is joined by Rosie Collington to discuss the consequences of outsourcing tech to the private sector, how it causes governments to lose important capacities to serve the public, and how the push for open government data empowered large tech firms.

Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. She’s also the co-author of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies with Mariana Mazzucato. You can follow Rosie on Twitter at @RosieCollingto.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Rosie wrote a paper called “Disrupting the Welfare State? Digitalisation and the Retrenchment of Public Sector Capacity” for New Political Economy, and a report calling “Digital Public Assets” for Common Wealth.
• Palantir has a massive and controversial contract with the NHS. That hasn’t stopped Peter Thiel from criticizing the UK’s public healthcare system.
• Mar Hicks wrote about the masculinization of the computer workforce in Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.

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Podcast: Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video
Episode: Global Energy Politics and Cost of Living Crisis
Pub date: 2023-02-20

Contributor(s): Professor Helen Thompson | The war in Ukraine, mounting cost of living crisis and the looming threat of climate change all underscore the importance of energy to contemporary politics. To help make sense of this vital aspect of 21st century political economy, the Ralph Miliband Programme is joined by Helen Thompson to discuss how many of the defining dislocations of our contemporary world are best understood through the lens of energy politics.

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Podcast: The Received Wisdom (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 31: Science and Society at the White House, ChatGPT, and the Paradox of Data-Driven Agriculture
Pub date: 2023-02-15

Happy New Year!! In this episode, Jack and Shobita discuss Alondra Nelson's departure from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the meaning for the position she created, Deputy Director for Science and Society. We also try to get beyond ChatGPT's hype to talk about some of the long-term implications. And we chat with Kelly Bronson, Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa, about her book The Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future.

• Kelly Bronson (2022). The Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future. McGill-Queen's University Press.

• Kelly Bronson (2022). "The dangers of big data extend to farming." The Conversation. June 27.

• Kelly Bronson (2022). "Four reasons we should think twice about a data-driven approach to agricultural sustainability." September 26.

• Kelly Bronson (2017). "Look twice at the digital agricultural revolution." September 7.

• Billy Perrigo (2023). "Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic." Time. January 18.

• Jill (2022). "ChatGPT is multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values." December 6.

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Podcast: Burning Platforms
Episode: Chokepoint Capitalism
Pub date: 2023-02-12

We speak with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of new book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' and explore how creatives can break free of Big Tech and Big Content

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Podcast: New Books in African Studies (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
Pub date: 2023-02-06

Laura Ann Twagira, an associate professor of history, head of African Studies, and an affiliate with science in society program and feminist gender sexuality studies program at Wesleyan University, talks about her book, Embodied Engineering: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Embodied Engineering examines how women in rural Mali have used technology to ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental crises, and postcolonial rule. Twagira charts how women in Mali resisted some technological changes in agriculture and kitchens while embracing others, often in the name of pursuing their own notions of how food should taste. Twagira and Vinsel also talk about the need to redefine concepts, such as engineering and technology, in different contexts, and how doing so challenges reigning paradigms, such as that the goal of technology adoption should be increasing productivity and replacing labor - two values that women in Mali rejected.

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Podcast: Odd Lots (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Jan Toporowski Explains Why Capitalists Dislike Full Employment
Pub date: 2023-02-10

In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, the work of John Maynard Keynes experienced a revival, as people sought answers to the problem of sluggish growth. In this cycle, sluggish growth isn't the problem. If anything, you hear business leaders and central bankers talking about the labor market being "too hot," and the need for the unemployment rate to rise. So what explains the current dynamic? And how can we sustain a hot economy without the pain of inflation? Perhaps the work of the lesser-known Polish economist Michał Kalecki holds the answers. Like Keynes, he also viewed the free market as being inherently unstable, but he came to different conclusions about why. He also explored the political economy of full employment and why this condition frustrates business leaders. On this episode, we speak with Jan Toporowski, professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS University of London, about Kalecki's work and how it can help us understand today's economy.

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Podcast: Macrodose (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 10: The largest wave of strikes in a generation, but will they win?
Pub date: 2023-02-01

On this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the economics behind the UK’s recording-breaking wave of strikes (0:42), how these compare to other strike movements around the world (4:43), and a new report from the BBC that finds issues with the “impartiality” of its economics reporting (12:32). 

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Podcast: CUNY Graduate Center
Episode: Architect Marta Gutman on How to Build a Better City
Pub date: 2023-02-09

Architect and historian Marta Gutman became dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York last May. She is also a professor of Art History and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. In her research, she examines ordinary buildings and neighborhoods; the history of cities; and issues of gender, class, race, and especially childhood as they play out in everyday spaces, public culture, and social life. Long committed to promoting social justice, she began her architecture career designing public housing for the New York City Housing Authority and shelters for battered women, abused children, and unhoused New Yorkers for nonprofit organizations. She talks to The Thought Project about her research and advocacy and what advice she’d give New York City Mayor Eric Adams on addressing the city’s homeless issue.Listen in to hear her ideas on building a better future.

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Podcast: The Take (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The human cost of ChatGPT
Pub date: 2023-02-01

ChatGPT is taking the world by storm with AI-generated text that rivals actual literature – but there’s a price. For its parent company, OpenAI, to get this quality product, human beings are paid to help teach it to identify the bad stuff: hate speech and violence of all kinds. We hear about the good, the bad, and the ugly of ChatGPT, including from one person who did the job and has real questions about whether it’s worth the price.

Note: This episode contains elements that were generated using ChatGPT.

In this episode:

• Nanjala Nyabola (@Nanjala1), author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era Is Transforming Politics in Kenya
• Michael Kearns (@mkearnsupenn), author of "The Ethical Algorithm"
• Muphat Ochieng,former AI content moderator

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
Pub date: 2023-02-04

Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The Promise of Access examines how the “digital divide” became a policy problem, and draws on fascinating ethnographies of a “tech” startup, a public library, and a charter school to examine how organizations come to chase technological solutions to social problems.

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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: A Deep Dive into the Digital Public Goods Revolution
Pub date: 2023-02-01

Over the last few years, a wide range of stakeholders across the world have developed a new approach to governance mechanisms and public service delivery. This new model is centred around the concept of digital public goods - open-source digital solutions - that adhere to minimum privacy criteria and user security and do no harm by design. This episode of All Things Policy features IIC fellows (University of Chicago Trust), Ritul Gaur and Arjun Gargeyas, who are joined by Liv Nordhaug (Co-Lead at Digital Public Goods Alliance) to discuss the concept of digital public goods, the challenges and opportunities they present, and how they can be used to benefit society at scale.

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Podcast: Free Thoughts (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Free Market: The History of an Idea (with Jacob Soll)
Pub date: 2022-09-23

After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. Inhis new bookFree Market: The History of an Idea, MacArthur Fellow and USC professorJacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market thought. He helps us answer questions such as; what role did early market theorists believe that states had in building and maintaining free markets? How do many get John Stuart Mill, John Locke, and Adam Smith wrong? And what do stoicism, Christianity, friendship, and love have to do with free markets?

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Podcast: LSE IQ podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Do we always need to pay our debts?
Pub date: 2023-02-07

Contributor(s): Dr Joseph Spooner, Sara Williams | Borrowing is a fundamental part of our world, but with millions considered over-indebted before the pandemic and a deepening cost of living crisis fueled by stagnating wages and high inflation, for many the burden of debt looks only set to increase.This month, LSE iQ asks “Do we always need to pay our debts?”, exploring the reasons people might find themselves with problematic levels of debt, the options open to those in financial trouble and how bankruptcy laws could be used more impactfully to the benefit of both individuals and society.Jess Winterstein talks to: Dr Joseph Spooner, Associate Professor in the LSE Law School and author of Bankruptcy: the case for relief in an economy of debt, and Sara Williams, founder of debt advisory website Debt Camel. https://debtcamel.co.uk/

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Podcast: Scientific Sense ® (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Prof. Julia Lane from NYU on AI policy
Pub date: 2023-01-30

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Julia Lane is a Professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She served in the National AI Research Resources task force and also on the advisory committee on data for evidence building. Her book democratizing our data a manifesto was published in 2020 and she was one of the early guests on this podcast. 

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Podcast: Beverage Report Podcast
Episode: Carlota Perez | Technological revolution, government regulation, UBI and the Green Golden Age
Pub date: 2023-01-30

In our third episode, Raza Rasool takes a deep dive into the state of the technological revolution and its impact on the environment with Carlota Perez, the author of “Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital”. They discuss the theory of technological revolutions, the current state of the technological cycle, the role of government in technology, Universal Basic Income and the future of a green golden age.

Carlota Perez is a British-Venezuelan researcher, lecturer and international consultant. She studies the mutual shaping of technical change and society and the lessons provided by the history of technological revolutions for economic growth and development.

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Podcast: Theory of Change podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Theory of Change #057: David Golumbia on the political ideology behind Bitcoin and crypto
Pub date: 2023-01-28

“The personal is political” was one of the early rallying cries of the Second Wave feminist movement. Decades later, the universal adoption of the internet has led to a new culture around cryptocurrencies with an ethos that could be summarized via similar phrasing: “The personal financial is political.”After decades of languishing in rightful obscurity, extreme forms of anti-government libertarianism have seen a massive influx of converts by melding crank views about the Federal Reserve and fiat currency with a desire to get rich quick through buying and selling made-up digital tokens like Bitcoin, Ethereum, even joke ones like Dogecoin.Most people don’t understand how cryptocurrencies work as a technical matter. But they also don’t understand the politics behind cryptocurrencies either. That’s a serious problem because underneath all the hype is a radical anti-government ideology that seeks not just to overthrow government currency but even democracy itself.Our guest in this episode is David Golumbia, he’s the author of a book “The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism.” He’s also a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.MEMBERSHIP & BENEFITSWe need your help to keep "Theory of Change" sustainable, so going forward, only subscribers will be able to access the second half of most episodes. Please become a member today to get the second half of this conversation. Subscriptions begin at just $3 per month.Your support will help us continue producing the show and take it to new audiences. We're not funded by fat cats, universities, or corporate media so we need your support. Thanks so much for everyone who is chipping in!Subscribe Link:https://www.patreon.com/discoverfluxIf you don't want to use Patreon, you can still support the show via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theorychangeAUDIO, VIDEO, & TRANSCRIPT (Patreon membership required for full text)https://flux.community/podcasts/theory-of-change/57GUEST INFODavid Golumbia's official website:http://www.uncomputing.org/The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-wing Extremismhttps://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-politics-of-bitcoinOn Mastodon:https://mastodon.world/@dgolumbiaOn Twitter:https://twitter.com/dgolumbiaABOUT THE SHOWTheory of Change is hosted by Matthew Sheffield about larger trends and intersections of politics, religion, media, and technology. It's part of the Flux network, a new content community of podcasters and writers. Please visit us at https://flux.community to learn more and to tell us about what you're doing. We're constantly growing and learning from the great people we meet.Theory of Change website:https://theoryofchange.showTheory of Change on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TheoryChangeMatthew Sheffield on Twitter:https://twitter.com/mattsheffieldTheory of Change on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theory-of-change-podcast/id1486920059

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Podcast: Today, Explained (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: “Okay, Google, what’s a monopoly?”
Pub date: 2023-01-30

The Department of Justice wants Google to break up its advertising business. The Wall Street Journal’s Keach Hagey explains how the DOJ’s antitrust suit could reshape the internet.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited and fact-checked by Matt Collette, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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Podcast: "Be Bold America!"
Episode: Inequality Kills Us All with Stephen Bezruchka, M.D.
Pub date: 2023-01-31

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Note: What does inequality look like today in America? It is 50 trillion dollars moved from the middle class to the 1% since Reagan took office in 1981. It looks like only three billionaires owning as much wealth as the bottom half of America. It looks like one Millennial owning more money than all the other millennials in the country! Inequality is killing us ... literally!

“Inequality Kills Us All”

“Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 5:00pm (PST)

The aim is to have a society that treats everyone well – and health will follow.

The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base, one pervasive issue: the United States has by far the highest levels of inequality of all the rich countries. The antidote must start with a broader awareness of the nature of the problem.

Inequality Kills Us All details how living in a society with entrenched hierarchies increases the negative effects of illnesses for everyone. Dr. Bezruchka states that health in the United States is not what should be expected for such a rich country, one that spends a fortune on medical care.

He now looks at the country as the patient in need of treatment.

Interview Guest:

Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H. is the author of Inequality Kills Us All and he is an Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Health Systems & Population Health and of Global Health at the School of Public Health, University of Washington.

Due to decades as an emergency physician and his years of community health experience in Nepal, Dr. Bezruchka discovered that health in the United States is not what should be expected for such a rich country, one that spends a fortune on medical care. To understand why that was true, he obtained a Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins University, where he was exposed to the social and political factors that matter most to advance health.

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Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Local Climate Action with 350 Wisconsin’s John Greenler and Emil...
Pub date: 2023-01-30

Continuing our coverage on climate change, we are joined by 350 Wisconsin‘s John Greenler and Emily Park. John is the Executive Director at 350 Wisconsin. Emily is the Communication Action Team representative on the Coordinating Council and also is a Fossil Free Fed Campaign Organizer with 350 US. They join us to talk about climate activism and approaches to climate activism and communication

350 Wisconsin (formerly 350 Madison) mobilizes grassroots power to change hearts and minds, laws and policies, and humanity’s massive systems to make transformational progress toward environmental justice and solving the climate crisis by 2030.

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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Environmentalism of the Fossil Fuel Industry
Pub date: 2023-01-31

Fossil fuels lie at the center of contemporary life — powering, despoiling, and altering everything around us. And that includes environmentalism itself, according to anthropologist David Bond. He discusses how concepts like toxic thresholds and environmental impact assessments are an accommodation to the continued existence of the oil and petro-chemical industries, rather than ways to address their inherent harms.

Resources:

David Bond, Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment UC Press, 2022

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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ajay Agrawal et al., "Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (HBR Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-01-24

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare. Banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology, retail. Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way into many industries around the world. But the truth is, it has just begun its odyssey toward cheaper, better, and faster predictions to drive strategic business decisions--powering and accelerating business. When prediction is taken to the max, industries transform. The disruption that comes with such transformation is yet to be felt--but it is coming. How do businesses prepare?

In Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence (HBR Press, 2022), they go further to reveal AI as a prediction technology directly impacting decision-making and to teach businesses how to identify disruptive opportunities and threats resulting from AI. Their exhaustive study of new developments in artificial intelligence and the past history of how technologies have disrupted industries highlights the striking phase we are now in: after witnessing the power of this new technology and before its widespread adoption--what they call "the Between Times." While there continue to be important opportunities for businesses, there are also threats of disruption. As prediction machines improve, old ways of doing things will be upended. Also, the process by which AI filters into the many systems involved in application is very uneven. That process will have winners and losers. How can businesses leverage, or protect, their positions? Filled with illuminating insights, rich examples, and practical advice, Power and Prediction is the must-read guide for any business leader or policy maker on how to make the coming AI disruptions work for you rather than against you.

Interviewee Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare and a professor of marketing at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Avi is also Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab and the CDL Rapid Screening Consortium, a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute and the Schwartz-Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Avi’s research focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the digital economy.

He has published academic articles in marketing, statistics, law, management, medicine, political science, refugee studies, physics, computing, and economics. Avi is a former Senior Editor at Marketing Science. His work on online advertising won the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award. He testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on competition and privacy in digital advertising. His work has been referenced in White House reports, European Commission documents, the New York Times, the Economist, and elsewhere.

Peter Lorentzen is economics professor at the University of San Francisco. He heads USF's Applied Economics Master's program, which focuses on the digital economy. His research is mainly on China's political economy.

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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: When States Make Tech Policy
Pub date: 2023-01-23

Tech policy reform occupies a strange place in Washington, D.C. Everyone seems to agree that the government should change how it regulates the technology industry, on issues from content moderation to privacy—and yet, reform never actually seems to happen. But while the federal government continues to stall, state governments are taking action. More and more, state-level officials are proposing and implementing changes in technology policy. Most prominently, Texas and Florida recently passed laws restricting how platforms can moderate content, which will likely be considered by the Supreme Court later this year.

On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, our occasional series on the information ecosystem, Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic spoke with J. Scott Babwah Brennen and Matt Perault of the Center on Technology Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. In recent months, they’ve put together two reports on state-level tech regulation. They talked about what’s driving this trend, why and how state-level policymaking differs—and doesn’t—from policymaking at the federal level, and what opportunities and complications this could create.

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Podcast: Finance & History (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Leverage
Pub date: 2023-01-25

Broken promises?

This episode is about the world's growing dependence on debt financing and current challenges to the world economy. The promise once made that deeper and larger financial markets would make our economies more stable did not hold true. What happened instead? What is meant by the paradox of stabilisation policies and central bank safety nets? What can history teach us about risks and structural matters in the financial system? Do we need a re-assessment of the Great Financial Crisis? And if so, should we look towards psychology for answers rather than maths?

Moritz Schularick (Bonn, Paris) & Carmen Hofmann (eabh)

discuss financial leverage, fragility, central banks' balance sheets and new economic thinking.

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Podcast: The Weekly Tradecast by UNCTAD
Episode: 29. Dirty money: How it undermines the global economy and how we can fix it
Pub date: 2023-01-19

In this episode of The Weekly Tradecast we talk about illicit financial flows with UNCTAD’s officer in charge of statistics, Anu Peltola. 

Dirty money from terrorists and criminal groups fuels violence and instability, while the Panama Papers have exposed how secretive offshore companies allow corrupt politicians and the wealthy to stash away huge amounts.  

Apart from being illegal, the murky transactions deprive governments of revenues to invest in hospitals, education and services. 

Tune in to Anu to find out why illicit financial flows are so damaging and how we can fix the problem. 

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Podcast: Six Pixels of Separation Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: SPOS #863 - Cory Doctorow On The Future of Business, Technology and Society
Pub date: 2023-01-22

Welcome to episode #863 of Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast - Episode #863. It's hard to describe the work that Cory Doctorow does. One part author, one part journalist, one part activist, one part media theorist, one part thought leader... how many parts is that? How about we just settle on the term, "Polymath." Cory is as known for his thought-provoking science fiction novels and he is for doing his best to level the playing field for all consumers and businesses. He works and explores the intersection of technology, society, and politics. He was the co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing, and has written numerous books, including the bestselling Little Brother and Homeland. He maintains a daily blog at Pluralistic.net. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. He is also a frequent speaker at technology conferences and events, and is known for his engaging and thought-provoking presentations. His latest book, Chokepoint Capitalism (which he co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), argues that we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. Ultimately, his work will leave you questioning the role of technology in our lives and the future of our economy. Enjoy the conversation...

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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Politics of Digital Technology
Pub date: 2023-01-14

Meredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her role in the Google walkout, and her hopes for the future, including the role of social movements in fomenting political change.

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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 225. How AI Makes Living Labor Undead
Pub date: 2023-01-19

We spend more time talking about the political economy of AI – the production and application of AI within a capitalist system and how it might (and should) differ within a socialist or communist system. We pay particular attention to discussing the growing and specialized industries for producing, supporting, propping up, and stepping in for AI in a variety of applications. Living labor creates the machinery of dead labor, which then acts as an agent of capital to discipline and dominate living labor, making it more machine-like, thus turning the living into the undead.Stuff we reference••• Seven questions to ask about AI https://maxread.substack.com/p/seven-questions-to-ask-about-ai ••• Human_Fallback https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/essays/human_fallback/••• The Worldwide Data Annotation Tools Industry is Expected to Reach $13.2 Billion by 2030 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220824005423/en/The-Worldwide-Data-Annotation-Tools-Industry-is-Expected-to-Reach-13.2-Billion-by-2030---ResearchAndMarkets.com Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab TMK gear: https://www.bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

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Podcast: On the Media (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: It’s a Machine’s World
Pub date: 2023-01-13

Schools across the country are considering whether to ban the new AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On this week’s On the Media, a look at the ever-present hype around AI and claims that machines can think. Plus, the potential implications of handing over decision-making to computers.

1. Tina Tallon [@ttallon], assistant professor of A.I. and the Arts at the University of Florida, on the love-hate relationship with AI technology over the past 70 years, and Nitasha Tiku [@nitashatiku], tech culture reporter for The Washington Post, on history of the tech itself. Listen.

2. Geoffrey Hinton [@geoffreyhinton], a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, on holograms, memories, and the origins of neural networks. Listen.3. Matt Devost [@MattDevost], international cybersecurity expert and CEO and co-founder of the global strategic advisory firm OODA llc., on the rise of AI-powered weapons and what it means for the future of warfare. Listen.

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Podcast: LawPod (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Surviving the Climate Crisis with Professor John Barry
Pub date: 2023-01-19

In a frank and open conversation, lawpodders Zoe and Charlotte talk to Professor John Barry about climate change and climate activism in this era of climate crisis.

From advocating for combining street activism with legal activism as a means to challenge governments, corporations and institutions to criticising the neoliberal framing of the climate crisis, the wide-ranging conversation calls for fundamental change in all parts of our society. It is a clarion call to action for academics, students and the wider community.

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Podcast: Serpentine Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: REWORLDING: Reimagining
Pub date: 2023-01-18

Can fiction remake reality? In the first episode of REWORLDING, we hear from artists, musicians and writers who use dreaming and imagination to remake worlds.

This episode features Tai Shani, Irenosen Okojie reading 'Black Planetarium', Heavens by Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, the Holorama soundscape by Perez & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster from Alienarium 5, Kostas Stasinopoulos (Associate Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine), and The Whole Earth Chanting by Libby Heaney & Nabihah Iqbal.

You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

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Podcast: The Inside Story Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Is globalisation coming to an end?
Pub date: 2023-01-16

World leaders at this year's gathering in Davos are debating ways to revive the global economic order. But after Covid-19 and with the war in Ukraine ongoing, how realistic is that? And can the geopolitical challenges be overcome?

Join host Laura Kyle.

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Max Lawson - Head of inequality policy and advocacy at Oxfam International.

Shirley Yu - Senior practitioner fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

Inderjeet Parmar - Professor of International Politics at City University of London.

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Podcast: Post-Growth Planning
Episode: Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #16: Sofia Greaves
Pub date: 2023-01-16

Episode #16 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Sofia Greaves (Post-Growth InnovationLab, University of Vigo in Pontevedra). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

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Podcast: The Gray Area with Sean Illing (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Is ethical AI possible?
Pub date: 2023-01-09

Sean Illing talks with Timnit Gebru, the founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute. She studies the ethics of artificial intelligence and is an outspoken critic of companies developing new AI systems. Sean and Timnit discuss the power dynamics in the world of AI, the discriminatory outcomes that these technologies can cause, and the need for accountability and transparency in the field.

Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area

Guest: Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru), founder, Distributed AI Research Institute

References:

• “The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence" by Adrienne Williams, Milagros Miceli, and Timnit Gebru (Noema; Oct. 13, 2022)
• “Effective Altruism is Push a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’” by Timnit Gebru (Wired; Nov. 30, 2022)
• Datasheets for Datasets by Timnit Gebru, et al. (CACM; Dec. 2021)
• “In Emergencies, Should You Trust a Robot?” by John Toon (Georgia Tech; Feb. 29, 2016)
• “We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says” by Karen Hao (MIT Technology Review; Dec. 4, 2020)
• “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” by Timnit Gebru, et al. (Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency; March 2021)

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Secret Power: WikiLeaks and its Enemies / Stefania Maurizi
Pub date: 2023-01-10

Stefania Maurizi is an investigative journalist currently contributing to the major Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano after working for the last 14 years for la Repubblica, consistently rated among the top two Italian newspapers, and for the italian newsmagezine l’Espresso. She has worked with Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks since 2009, teaming up with large teams of international media to cover and investigate all WikiLeaks' secret documentsStefania speaks with host Chuck Mertz about her book "Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies" recently published by Pluto Press. This episode also features new responses to the Question from Hell and this week in Rotten History. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347615/secret-power/https://stefaniamaurizi.it/en-idx.htmlhttps://twitter.com/SMauriziwww.fattoquotidiano.it twitter.com/fattoquotidianwww.repubblica.it twitter.com/repubblica

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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Shedding Light on Google's Dark Side
Pub date: 2023-01-08

Imagine a company that hides who it works with and where billions of dollars flow around the world. That earns its profits financing a global network containing piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation, even doing business with figures sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury, including Russian companies that may access and store data about people browsing websites and apps in Ukraine, potentially opening a mechanism for Russian intelligence to target individuals there. A company that tells the public that it doesn’t make money from guns that nevertheless does business with the maker of the AR-15, the weapon used in so many horrific mass killings, including the recent massacre of teachers and students in Uvalde, Texas.

Is this some organized crime syndicate or shady offshore shell company? No, it’s Google, one of the biggest and most prominent technology companies on the planet.

This episode features a conversation with Craig Silverman, a journalist who has spent years uncovering fraud in the opaque world of digital advertising and media manipulation. With his colleagues at ProPublica, in a recent series of articles Silverman employed a unique investigative approach to uncover just exactly how Google operates in a shadowy realm of deceit and disinformation.

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Podcast: Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Cloud Empires: Governing State-like Digital Platforms & Regaining Control with Prof Vili Lehdonvirta
Pub date: 2023-01-08

The rise of the platform economy puts state-like power in the hands of platform owners with little or no accountability. Over the past few decades, the chaotic and lawless early Internet evolved into a digital reality where e-commerce and digital services platform owners dictate decisions that affect millions living in different countries and jurisdictions. In his book “Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control” professor Vili Lehdonvirta explains how tech platforms got to where they are. The book outlines the history and evolution of tech platforms by telling the stories of individuals, the role they played in shaping and reshaping the Internet leading to the present day digital reality. Lehdonvirta emphasises that we can only begin to democratise digital platforms if we recognize them for what they are: institutions as powerful as the state. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps, I speak with Professor Vili Lehdonvirta; we discuss the book, the new social order established by the digital platform companies, and how the accumulated power of platforms could be challenged to hold them more accountable and to regain control. Vili Lehdonvirta is Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. His research examines how digital technologies are used to reshape the organisation of economic activities in society. His research focuses on the questions such as what are the implications to workers, entrepreneurs, and states, and how can this digital economy be governed? His research draws on theories and approaches from economic sociology, political economy, industrial relations, new institutional economics, and science and technology studies.We begin by discussing the chaotic and lawless days of the early Internet. We explore the emergence of the underlying theme to resist the undue influence of outsiders and to resist government regulations in favour of giving users more control, even in the early days of Usenet. We then discuss the emergence of Bitcoin in the context of a number of historic parallels such as the medieval economy and the Athenian peasant revolt. We explore the possibility, or perhaps the impossibility, of achieving true neutrality and privacy using BitCoin. At this point we start looking at the true nature of state-like powers accumulated by today’s cloud empires. An interesting point we touch upon is that similar to independent states and sovereign countries, are these state-like cloud empires protecting their users. We then look at the legal rights of employees working in these giant organisations. Finally we look at the two questions that emerge from the subtitle of the book “How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control”. The first question is why it is important that we take back control, and the second question is, how should we do this. This has been an enlightening and thought provoking discussion. Complement this discussion with ““Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration” with Professor Thomas Davenport and Professor Steven Miller” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2022/10/working-with-ai-real-stories-of-human-machine-collaboration-thomas-davenport-steven-miller/And then listen to ““Philosophy of Technology” with Professor Peter-Paul Verbeek” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2021/01/philosophy-of-technology-with-professor-peter-paul-verbeek/

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Podcast: The Roundtable
Episode: #2. Steve Rolf on State Platform Capitalism
Pub date: 2023-01-12

In this episode with Dr. Steve Rolf, we the deepening connections between states and platforms in the two heartlands of the digital economy.

In a recent paper, Steve Rolf and Seth Schindler develop the notion of State Platform Capitalism (SPC) as an emergent logic of competition for both states and firms, in which platforms are increasingly mobilized by the US and Chinese states as geopolitical-economic agents. Far from simply undermining state authority in a zero-sum power struggle, they look at the ways in which Beijing and Washington instrumentalize domestic platform firms in pursuit of geopolitical–economic objectives, while platforms become increasingly interdependent with their home state institutions. Competition in the global political economy is increasingly centered on the recruitment of users and nations to these rival state-platform nexuses (national ‘stacks’) as a means of establishing and exercising extraterritorial economic and political power. Our conversation explores variations between American and Chinese modes of SPC. Dr. Rolf explains two main domestic varieties of SPC - in China, state venture capital and tough regulation are driving platforms toward compliance with state goals. In the US, the 'hidden developmental state' based on the military-industrial complex uses contracts as carrots to enlist platforms for geopolitical-economic ends. We also discuss the paper's examination of three spheres of SPC competition in the global political economy: digital currencies, technical standards, and cybersecurity.

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• The paper: The US–China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
• Big Tech Sells War: https://bigtechsellswar.com/
• America's Frontier Fund: https://americasfrontier.org/
• State of Innovation The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development, by Fred L. Block, Matthew R. Keller

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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 2023 Crisis is the new normal w/ James Meadway
Pub date: 2023-01-10

James Meadway returns to discuss his predictions for the world economy in the year ahead, and why the notion of the polycrisis - while in some ways useful - fails to reckon with the fact that in a world of increasingly frequent severe weather events, climate disasters, and greater interstate rivalry, the notion of any kind of time-bounded crisis is increasingly at odds with reality. We talked about the prospect of debt defaults in the global south, why mainstream economics is failing to factor the deteriorating ecosphere into its modelling, and finally we talked about the UK and the question as to whether or not the country is now in a unique moment of economic decline.

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Podcast: Notes from America (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Future of Work As We Know It
Pub date: 2023-01-09

The Great Resignation. Quiet quitting. These concepts allegedly defined the way we worked last year. Will anything change in 2023?

Journalist Anne Helen Petersen, co-author of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home and host of the Crooked Media podcast Work Appropriate, has made a name for herself examining Americans’ relationships to work. She joins host Kai Wright to discuss these relationships and how they are shaping our culture, economy and politics. They also take questions from callers about balancing work and life.

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Podcast: The McGill International Review (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Dig Deeper: Building Climate Utopias
Pub date: 2023-01-11

Host Anzhu Wei sits down with Alizé Carrère to discuss how cities have adapted to climate change. Alizé is a researcher, filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer, and PhD candidate at the University of Miami. In this episode, they discuss how architects, urban planners, and policymakers have responded to environmental concerns.

This episode also covers the rise of aspirational city-making plans, or 'climatopias', as Alizé has termed in her research.

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Podcast: Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 414: Speculative Futures and Cities
Pub date: 2023-01-05

This week we’re joined by Johanna Hoffman to talk about her book Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need. We chat about thinking longer term about planning problems, people’s emotional reactions to the future, and ways to imagine a different way of interacting in cities.

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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Climate or Corruption? - Spencer Roberts, The Intercept
Pub date: 2023-01-05

What happens when corrupt incentive structures and incorrect ecological assumptions crash into each other? A billion crabs vanish, and everyone blames it on the nebulous effects of a changing climate. Everyone, that is, except for Spencer Roberts - freelance journalist with bylines at the Intercept, Jacobin, Nautlius, and The New Republic. Roberts started looking into the hyperbolic headlines and discovered a predictable mess of corrupt incentive structures, questionable ecological practices, and a bottomless appetite for exploiting ever-deeper, colder waters. We talk greenwashing, corrupt incentives, government as corporation, nuclear power, and what to do about everything that's wrong.

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Podcast: 55 Voices for Democracy – The Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Antonia Juhasz on the Impact of Fossil Fuels on Democracy
Pub date: 2023-01-05

“Part of what has led the movement against fossil fuels is the increased number of people being confronted with the effects of oil drilling and fracking,” argues energy analyst and investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz. The Senior Researcher in the Environment and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch talks about how our dependency on fossil fuels impacts the environment, politics, social justice and human rights worldwide. What can be done to bring about a just transition to renewable energy more quickly? Juhasz regularly writes for outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian and National Geographic, and is the author of Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill (2011), among others.

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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 2997 - "Data Cartels": Who Has All Our Data w/ Sarah Lamdan
Pub date: 2023-01-04

Sam hosts Sarah Lamdan, Professor of Law at the City University of New York (CUNY), to discuss her recent book Data Cartels: The Companies that Control and Monopolize Our Information.

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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-12-17

The boundary that once protected our intimate lives from outside interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st, we have embraced a vast array of technology that enables constant access and surveillance of the most private aspects of our lives. From non-consensual pornography, to online extortion, to the sale of our data for profit, we are vulnerable to abuse. As Citron reveals, wherever we live, laws have failed miserably to keep up with corporate or individual violators, letting our privacy wash out with the technological tide. And the erosion of intimate privacy in particular, Citron argues, holds immense toxic power to transform our lives and our societies for the worse (and already has).

With vivid examples drawn from interviews with victims, activists and lawmakers from around the world, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (Norton, 2022) reveals the threat we face and argues urgently and forcefully for a reassessment of privacy as a human right. And, as a legal scholar and expert, Danielle Citron is the perfect person to show us the way to a happier, better protected future.

Jake Chanenson is a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Previously, Jake has done some research in mixed reality, human-robot interaction, and AI ethics.

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Podcast: Writers Festival Radio (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S5 E14: The Pursuit of Urban Utopias with John Lorinc
Pub date: 2022-12-15

Steven W, Beattie sits down with renowned author and journalist John Lorinc to discuss his Balsillie Prize-winning book Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias.Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year.But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrative about cities ? one defined by utopian ideologies, architectural visions, and technological fantasies.Smart streetlights, water and air quality tracking, autonomous vehicles: with examples from all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, and Chicago, Dream States unpacks the world of smart city tech, but also situates this important shift in city-building into a broader story about why we still dream about perfect places.The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a donation to support our programming and children’s literacy initiatives.SUBSCRIBE:https://writersfestival.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8c60faf808d54738144cc85de&id=d2443cdbd3DONATIONS:https://writersfestival.org/about/donations

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Mathew Gandy, "Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space" (MIT Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-12-30

In his new book,Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space(MIT Press, 2022), Mathew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered material and symbolic entity. The book examines the articulation of alternative, and in some cases, counterhegemonic, sources of knowledge about urban nature produced by artists, writers, scientists, as well as curious citizens, including voices seldom heard in environmental discourse. The book is driven by Dr. Gandy’s long-standing fascination with spontaneous forms of urban nature ranging from postindustrial wastelands brimming with life to the return of such predators as wolves and leopards on the urban fringe. Dr. Gandy develops a critical synthesis between different strands of urban ecology and considers whether “urban political ecology,” broadly defined, might be imaginatively extended to take fuller account of both the historiography of the ecological sciences, and recent insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.

In this episode, Tayeba Batool talks to Dr. Mathew Gandy about his inspiration to write this book, and how an attention to spontaneous ecologies adds to the critical discourse on “new cultures of nature” and the “constellation” of diverse ecological relations, ideas, and assemblages. Moving beyond planned urban spaces (such as parks), Dr. Gandy argues that an attention to the “marginal or interstitial spaces of urban nature” or wastelands brings forward the most compelling assemblages of relations, biodiversity, and life in cities. The conversation also highlights the role of language in setting up taxonomic borders and ideological agendas for species and diversity, and advocates caution against global theories of urban change. Dr. Gandy also shares his thoughts on future direction of urban political ecology and how the book innovates across disciplines of botany, geography, cultural history, and urban studies.

You can also learn more about his film project, “Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin” here.

Dr. Mathew Gandy is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography and Fellow of King’s College at University of Cambridge. Tayeba Batool is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tayeba Batool is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania

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Podcast: EXALT Podcast (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Mariko Frame - What is ecological imperialism? (And why is it a dirty word in some of US academia?)
Pub date: 2022-12-30

This month on the pod we are delighted to be joined by Mariko Frame, who is Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College in Massachusetts. Dr. Frame is a political economist who focuses on ecological imperialism, which occurs when one country subjugates another country by controlling the resources, politics, labour, military, and the very ideology or ways of worlding. This dynamic is often found between countries in the global North and global South due to the history of colonialism that underpins these relationships. Dr. Frame introduces the idea of ecologically unequal exchange and how that can help to empirically understand the inequalities between the global North and South. She uses this as a jumping off point to understand how, why these relationships are perpetuated and the power relations that drive them. While sometimes the outlook can be bleak, Dr. Frame reminds us to think about where your money is going and support the local environmental and Indigenous groups resisting the world-system in your local community.

If you would like to engage with more of Dr. Frame’s work, check out her new book from Routledge, Ecological Imperialism, Development, and the Capitalist World-System: Cases from Africa and Asia.

If you would like to hear another great talk by Dr. Frame, check out her contribution to Global South Encounters from the Global South Theme of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Development and the Environment.

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Podcast: City Road Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 79. Platform Urbanism
Pub date: 2022-12-13

Cities and regions across the world have experienced profound disruption from the rise of digital platforms across all areas of urban life. From housing, to transport, shopping, and the way we work, global firms such as ‘Airbnb’ and ‘Uber’ typically evade local (place based) policy and regulatory settings. However, their impacts have large socio-spatial footprints which need to be understood and factored into future urban policy and planning. Understood within the wider prism of technological innovation and emerging forms of digital automation across the urban sector, this session engages critically with notions of the ‘smart city’. Will the future city be dictated by ‘techno-capitalist’ firms or are ‘smart’ and socially accountable forms of urban governance still possible?PanelDr Niels Van Doorn, Amsterdam University Dr Sarah Barns, Urban Strategist & ResearcherDr Justine Humphry, University of Sydney Rory Brown, Smart Places at Transport for NSW Chaired byDr Sophia Maalsen, University of SydneyNiels van Doorn is an Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture in the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, and the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Platform Labor research project (2018-2023). His research asks how digital platforms are reshaping how people work, earn a living, and care for each other in urban environments. Niels holds PhD in Communication Science (2010) from the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Sarah Barns brings two decades of experience navigating and shaping the impacts of digital transformation for cities and communities. She is author ofPlatform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities (Palgrave, 2020) and a practitioner, researcher and strategist in place-based media and urban digital governance. Currently a Co-Director of urban media practice Esem Projects, Sarah is also an Industry Fellow at the QUT Design Lab and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne Centre for Cities.Dr Justine Humphry is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. Justine researches the cultures and politics of digital media and emerging technologies with a focus on the social consequences of mobile, smart and data-driven technologies. Her recent research addresses the materialisation of smart cities and the datafication of urban life with a focus on the mediation of home and urban space through smart street furniture, smart voice assistants and robotics. Rory Brown is the A/Executive Director Smart Places at Transport for NSW. In this role he leads the NSW Government to deliver great places and outcomes for people using connected technologies and data solutions, working collaboratively across all tiers of government, with the research and academia sector and industry. He was also the architect of the flagship Smart Western City Program to co-create the Western Parkland City as a future-focused, digitally enabled city. Sophia Maalsen is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. Her research is predominantly situated at the intersection of the digital and material across urban spaces and governance, housing, and feminism, with particular interest in the digital mediation and reconfiguration of relationships across these spaces.

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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 561: New thinking on surveillance society
Pub date: 2022-12-09

From paying for the privilege of "luxury surveillance" to workplace monitoring for long-haul truckers, this week, we're tracking the growth of surveillance solutionism – the idea that we can solve personal, social and economic problems with mass monitoring. With guests Karen Levy, Chris Gilliard and Albert Fox Cahn.

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The charm of central bank digital currencies in a polarised world
Pub date: 2022-12-08

95 percent of the world economy (measured by GDP) is exploring the idea of launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and many countries including Nigeria and China are entering into the close-to-launch or fully launched phase. But what is the hype about?

In this episode of the Sound of Economics, Maria Demertzis invites Grégory Claeys and Josh Lipsky to discuss the purpose of having a CBDC from both a retail and a wholesale perspective. Particularly, they raise the geopolitical importance of CBDCs, with the example of the G7’s financial sanctions against Russia that ruled out several Russian banks from the SWIFT system and froze Russian Foreign Exchange Reserves.

However, if CBDCs are largely implemented, whilst they could help the EU achieve more autonomy in international finance, they could also be used by countries to bypass western sanctions and challenge the dollar hegemony in the current international financial system.

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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Beveridge 2.0: tax justice
Pub date: 2022-12-09

Contributor(s): Professor Jonathan Hopkin, James Murray, Dr Andy Summers, Dr Kate Summers | The panel will reflect on what shapes public demand for tax justice, its relation to tackling inequality and the challenges posed by taxing the super-rich.

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Podcast: The Future, This Week (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The 4-day work week with Juliet Schor
Pub date: 2022-12-12

This week: what if we all worked four days a week? We talk with Professor Juliet Schor about her research into the 4-day work week and the trials happening around the world.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Matthew Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-12-10

Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. In No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World(Cambridge UP, 2021), Mathias Thaler examines expressions of the utopian imagination, with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains: political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both uncover the key utopian and dystopian tendencies in contemporary debates around the Anthropocene; as well as to develop a political theory of radical transformation that avoids not only debilitating fatalism but also wishful thinking. This book juxtaposes theoretical interventions, from Bruno Latour to the members of the Dark Mountain collective, with fantasy and science fiction texts by N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, debating viable futures for a world that will look and feel very different from the one we live in right now.

Louisa Hann recently attained a PhD in English and American studies from the University of Manchester, specialising in the political economy of HIV/AIDS theatres. She has published work on the memorialisation of HIV/AIDS on the contemporary stage and the use of documentary theatre as a neoliberal harm reduction tool. She is currently working on a monograph based on her doctoral thesis. You can get in touch with her at louisahann92@gmail.com.

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Podcast: PUSHBACK Talks (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Architects for Public Good
Pub date: 2022-12-08

The neoliberal prioritization of profit in the development of cities is drastically impacting the appearance and function of cities worldwide. Social and government housing providers are told to follow the lead of private housing providers, taking away the government's ability to innovate and push the envelope in the housing space. At the same time, in some countries, private developers rely on commercial and retail space in apartment buildings being rented out to stable, high-earning tenants like banks and corporations, limiting cities' potential for growth and space optimization.

For decades, more than 50% of architects worked for the public sector, but today that's down to just 0.2%. Where did all the architects go? How can we balance the urgent need for more housing with the need for more intentionally designed, community-oriented spaces? How can architects help us create the future we want to see?

Fredrik & Leilani sit down with architect, strategic and philosophical designer at Dark Matter Labs, and author of REopening of a city, Jenny Grettve, and Finn Williams, city architect of Malmö and co-founder of Public Practice to discuss the role of architects in designing cities that improve our quality of life.

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Podcast: City Road Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 78. Decarbonising the City
Pub date: 2022-12-13

Many of the built environment’s peak industry associations recognise the need for rapid decarbonisation and have publicly stated their commitment. But what does it mean in reality? What are the barriers that we need to urgently address? How do we support innovation and accommodate rapid technological advances through our planning system? What opportunities should we leverage now and what preparation do we need for future changes? This Panel will focus on the practicalities and challenges facing those working towards zero carbon outcomes through the planning system, and the opportunities they see to advance this ambition.This event has been co-organised with the Planning Institute of AustraliaPanelPeter Murrell, Senior Sustainability Advisor, Infrastructure, Strategy & Planning, VPAEuan Williamson, Environmentally Sustainable Development Advisor, City of YarraNatasha Palich, Executive Officer, Council Alliance for a Sustainable Built Environment (MAV)Ellen Witte, Principal & Partner SGS Economics and PlanningModeratorJane Keddie, Director Hansen Partnership & Vice-President PIA Victoria.Co-organised with the Planning Institute of Australia

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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Julia Ticona, "Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-12-09

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.

In this episode, our host Florence Madenga discusses the book Left to Our Own Devices

Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age (2022) by Dr. Julia Ticona.

You’ll hear about:

• Dr. Ticona’s intellectual trajectory and how her first monograph has been transformed from a dissertation project into a book
• What audience the book is intended for and what critical scholarship means for the author
• The design of the research project and the processes and ethics of conducting research about the gig economy
• How the ongoing pandemic has changed or altered the way Dr. Ticona thinks about this book
• The core arguments and take-away points from the book around keywords such as “digital inequality,” “precarity,” “platform economy,” and “digital hustle”
• The global implications of a study on low-wage gig economy workers in the American labor market
• The question of agency in workers’ everyday life and how people survive in the global platform economy
• The gendered nature of labor in the gig economy and what Dr. Ticona calls “tethered care work”
• How we can better understand the complexity of our mediated worlds and precarious work beyond the tech companies and digital platforms

About the book

Over the past three decades, digital technologies like smartphones and laptops have transformed the way we work in the US. At the same time, workers at both ends of the income ladder have experienced rising levels of job insecurity and anxiety about their economic futures. In Left to Our Own Devices, Julia Ticona explores the ways that workers use their digital technologies to navigate insecure and flexible labor markets. Through 100 interviews with high and low-wage precarious workers across the US, she explores the surprisingly similar "digital hustles" they use to find work and maintain a sense of dignity and identity. Ticona then reveals how the digital hustle ultimately reproduces inequalities between workers at either end of polarized labor markets. A moving and accessible look at the intimate consequences of contemporary capitalism, Left to Our Own Devices will be of interest to sociologists, communication and media studies scholars, as well as a general audience of readers interested in digital technologies, inequality, and the future of work in the US.

You can find this book on the Oxford University Press website.

Author: Julia Ticona is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Host: Florence Madenga is a doctoral fellow at CARGC at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Editor & Producer: Jing Wang is Senior Research Manager at CARGC at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Our podcast is part of the multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media and communication. We aim to bridge academic scholarship and public life, bringing the very best scholarship to bear on enduring global questions and pressing contemporary issues.

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Podcast: The Dig (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Modern Housing w/ Gail Radford
Pub date: 2022-12-11

Featuring Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system that won out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of noncommercial housing that would appeal to and house the majority of Americans.

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Podcast: Platform Predicament – Making sense of a datafied future of work
Episode: Ep 2: Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ Rights
Pub date: 2022-12-15

The second episode delves into the power that algorithms and data hold, in running this platform model of work. Experts explain how algorithmic management and control by platform apps has major implications for working conditions and worker autonomy, and how workers’ groups, through new-age organising, are negotiating workers’ rights in this algorithmmified world of work.

This podcast series is brought to you by IT for Change, and supported by Friederich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and Fair Green Global (FGG).

Host – Sonakshi Agarwal (IT for Change)

Expert Speakers:

• Shaikh Salauddin (Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers)
• Basudev Barman (International Transport Workers’ Federation)
• Spandan Pratyush (All India Gig Workers Union)
• Gayatri Singh (Senior Advocate)
• Salonie Hiriyadur (SEWA Cooperative Federation)
• Uma Rani (International Labour Organisation)

References and Additional Reading:

1. Workers’ Data Rights in the Platformised Workspace (IT for Change) - https://itforchange.net/node/2031

2. The Macro Frames of Microwork: A Study of Indian women workers on AMT in the post-pandemic moment (IT for Change) - https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1739/The-Macro-Frames-of-Microwork-Full-Report-ITfC-2021.pdf

3. WeClock – The app for workers (The Why Not Lab) - https://www.thewhynotlab.com/post/weclock

4. 10 Principles for Workers’ Data Rights and Privacy (UNI Global Union) - https://uniglobalunion.org/report/principles-for-workers-data-rights/

5. R198 - Employment Relationship Recommendation, 2006 (International Labour Organisation) - https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_INSTRUMENT_ID:312535

6. ‘We’re being pushed into poverty’: Voices of women who took on the unicorn start-up Urban Company (Scroll) - https://scroll.in/magazine/1014700/were-being-pushed-into-poverty-voices-of-women-who-took-on-the-unicorn-start-up-urban-company

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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Power, domination and the ethics of global philanthropy
Pub date: 2022-12-08

When billionaires want to make a positive difference in the world, many of them turn to philanthropy. Which is fine in principle, but this week we're asking if giving away money via huge global philanthropic foundations is really an unalloyed good.

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Podcast: The History of Literature (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 466 Kurt Vonnegut, Planetary Citizen (with Christina Jarvis)
Pub date: 2022-12-08

When novelist Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, the planet lost one of its most creative and compelling voices. In this episode, Jacke talks to Vonnegut scholar Christina Jarvis (Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship) about Vonnegut's ethical, environmental, and planetary teachings.

CHRISTINA JARVIS is Professor of English at State University of New York at Fredonia, where she teaches courses in sustainability and twentieth-century American literature and culture, including several major author seminars on Kurt Vonnegut. She is the author of The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II, and has published in journals such as Women’s Studies, The Southern Quarterly, The Journal of Men’s Studies, and War, Literature, and the Arts. She lives near the shores of Lake Erie in Western New York.

Additional listening suggestions:

• 362 Kurt Vonnegut (with Tom Roston)
• 141 Kurt Vonnegut (with Mike Palindrome)
• 436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani)

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Podcast: Working People (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Embodying Degrowth (w/ The Maintainers)
Pub date: 2022-12-14

The planet we share, the only home we’ve ever known, has its limits. Its resources, its ability to sustain all life, are not infinite—and every day we are bearing witness to the disastrous consequences of mortgaging our collective future on the false belief that they are. The path we are on now is untenable, something’s going to give. Whether it comes from us or for us, change is coming nonetheless.

As an ecologically and civilizationally sustainable alternative to an unsustainable global system driven by the economic necessity of infinite growth, "degrowth" can mean many things and could take many practical forms. But “degrowth” is perhaps less useful as a prescribed solution, a blueprint for the future, than as a frame for thinking and acting differently in the present. “What does degrowth look like in practice? How are different people, in different parts of the world, already embodying and enacting degrowth in their daily lives?” These questions have no single answer, but posing the questions in the first place, and searching for the numerous potential answers, is an essential process that can help us better diagnose what is off balance in our world and what it would take to heal. For the past year, Max has had the honor of participating in a fellowship program for The Maintainers, "a global research network interested in the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world." In Part II of our special two-part episode produced in collaboration with The Maintainers, we meet some of the other members of The Maintainers team as well as the 2022 Maintainers Movement Fellows, and we take a deep dive into their cornerstone group project, "Embodying Degrowth."

Featuring: Andy Russell, Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Maintainers; Lauren Dapena Fraiz, Project Manager for The Maintainers; Liliana Coelho, Community Outreach and Events Coordinator at The Maintainers; Rheanna Chen, 2022 Maintainers Movement Fellow; Tona Rodriguez-Nikl, 2022 Maintainers Movement Fellow; Sam Bennett, 2022 Maintainers Movement Fellow; Leila D. Behjat, 2022 Maintainers Movement Fellow; Maximillian Alvarez, 2022 Maintainers Movement Fellow.

Additional links/info below...

• The Maintainers website and Twitter page
• Dec. 15: Embodying Degrowth: An Event with The Maintainers Movement Fellows
• Working People, "What Could a Worker-Focused Just Transition Look Like? (w/ Megan Milliken Biven, James Hiatt, & Clarke)"
• The Maintainers: Andy Russell
• The Maintainers: Lauren Dapena Fraiz
• The Maintainers: Liliana Coehlo
• The Maintainers: Rheanna Chen
• The Maintainers: Tona Rodriguez-Nikl
• The Maintainers: Sam Bennett
• The Maintainers: Leila D. Behjat
• The Maintainers: Maximillian Alvarez

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• Working People Patreon page
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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Regulating AI with Alex Engler
Pub date: 2022-12-07

Earlier this fall, the Biden administration released what it called a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a policy document that lays out a five-pillar strategy for how the United States intends to wrestle with and regulate the challenges arising from the increasingly common use of artificial intelligence. In recent weeks, the European Union has been wrestling with its own AI regulation challenges and is now on the verge of releasing its own similar strategy.

Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Alex Engler, a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, who has been closely tracking these policies. They talked about the challenges AI poses to policymakers, the strategy the United States is set to pursue, and how it is both different from and similar to the EU’s approach.

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Podcast: Unauthorized Disclosure (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Italian Journalist Stefania Maurizi On Her Book, 'Secret Power: WikiLeaks And Its Enemies'
Pub date: 2022-12-05

NOTE: This interview was not produced as part of the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast, but it is shared here to help give Stefania and her book some additional exposure.

Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi partnered with WikiLeaks and covered military reports on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and US diplomatic cables related to Italy and the Vatican. She met WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange multiple times. She saw firsthand how WikiLeaks worked on publications, even as the United States government ramped up its efforts to target and suppress the media organization.

Now, the English-translation of Stefania's book, "Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies," is out from Pluto Press, and she joins Shadowproof's Kevin Gosztola to discuss this chronicle centered on her time as a media partner. The book also details her efforts to pursue freedom of information lawsuits against the US, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia for denying her access to documents related to the prosecution of Assange.

Stefania kindly endorsed Kevin's forthcoming book on the Assange case, and Kevin is pleased to be able to show his support for Stefania's work and share this interview.

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Podcast: The Empty Chair by PEN SA (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S6E2: Climate Crisis & Compassion in the Digital Age
Pub date: 2022-12-01

Akil Kumarasamy and Alistair Mackay talk to Abdul-Malik Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana about their novels Meet Us by the Roaring Sea and It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, respectively. They explore ways of writing about the future and imagination as resistance. Their expansive conversation refers to climate collapse, Artificial Intelligence and technology, popular culture, care and hope.

Abdul-Malik Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana is a writer of short fiction, essays and children’s books and is currently working on his debut novel. Akil Kumarasamy is the author of the novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), and the linked story collection, Half Gods, (FSG, 2018). She is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program. Alistair Mackay is the author of It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, published by Kwela in 2022. He lives in Cape Town.

In this episode we stand in solidarity with Egyptian poet and activist, Ahmed Douma. You can read more about his case here: https://pen-international.org/news/prison-writing-by-ahmed-douma

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Tech Isn’t Fixing the Crisis on Our Streets w/ David Zipper
Pub date: 2022-12-01

Paris Marx is joined by David Zipper to discuss how Silicon Valley pitched new technologies as the fix for a whole range of transport problems, and how that really just distracted us from solutions while allowing issues like road deaths, emissions, and traffic to get even worse.

David Zipper is a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government and a contributing writer at Bloomberg CityLab. You can find his articles and sign up for his newsletter at DavidZipper.com and follow him on Twitter at @DavidZipper.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• David wrote about why traffic safety is getting worse in the US, and compared it to Canada, Finland, France, and Japan. He also wrote about the history of self-driving cars, the danger posed to pedestrians on the roads, the problem with infotainment systems, and what’s wrong with positioning car tech as the solution to our problems.
• Paris wrote about how Elon Musk designed the Hyperloop to try to get California’s high-speed line canceled.
• AAA puts the annual cost of car ownership in the US at over $10,000 a year in 2022. In Canada, CAA put it at $8600 to $13,000 a year in 2017 — a number that is surely even higher now.
• Peter Norton wrote about how the auto industry took over US roads in the early 1900s in Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.

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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Sidewalk Planning and Politics
Pub date: 2022-12-05

Sidewalks take us places, but they’re also places of their own, where all sorts of people come together and interact. Shannon Mattern, who has written about the history of the sidewalk, claims that we’re entering a new era of sidewalk planning, use, and politics, driven in large part by advances in communications, surveillance, and smart technologies. (Encore presentation.)

Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh, eds., Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan Duke University Press, 2022

Shannon Mattern, A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences Princeton University Press, 2021

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Podcast: Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People
Episode: 349. Issues of power, democracy and policy - Nazem Tahvilzadeh
Pub date: 2022-12-01

Nazem Tahvilzadeh (Associate professor political science, Senior lecturer in public administration Södertörn University)

We are talking about:

-Issues of power, democracy, and policy regarding contemporary urban development politics in Stockholm.

-What are the reasons for this issue? is it people? the system?

-What is segregation? is it caused by architecture and urban planning or not?

-How do we empower people and bring more democracy to cities?

-Participatory governance, citizens’ participation. How do we move from Monolog to Dialog as Nazem usually says?

-What should urban planners stop doing when they plan cities? why?

-What skills should urban planners learn? why?

-Does Nazem see in the future like 30 years from now, cities in Sweden will become inclusive and less segregated? why?

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Podcast: Nature Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Gaia Vince on how climate change will shape where people live
Pub date: 2022-12-02

In the second episode of Nature hits the books, science writer and broadcaster Gaia Vince joins us to talk about her new book Nomad Century, which looks at how climate change could render large parts of the globe uninhabitable, and how surviving this catastrophe will require a planned migration of people on a scale never seen before in human history.

Nomad Century, Gaia Vince, Allen Lane (2022)

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Podcast: Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The global race for semiconductor hegemony
Pub date: 2022-11-25

The semiconductor industry has become the cornerstone of the structure of the global economy and the balance of geopolitical power. And Europe has now joined the United States and China in a ‘chip war’ for global semiconductor domination.In this week’s episode, Janka Oertel, head of ECFR´s Asia programme and senior policy fellow, is joined by Chris Miller, assistant professor of international history at Tufts University, and Andrew Small, senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund and ECFR alumnus. They discuss how chips decide power in today’s geopolitical competition. What role does Taiwan’s leadership in semiconductor production play in tensions with China? And to what extent will Europe align and integrate with the United States’ China policy in the upcoming years?This podcast was recorded on 16 November 2022.Bookshelf:•“Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology” by Chris Miller• “The Rupture: China and the Global Race for the Future” by Andrew Small - One of the FT Best Books on Politics 2022• “Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao” by Joseph Torigian• “The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the End of America's Domination of Finance and Technology” by Martin Chorzempa

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Advertising Shapes the Tech Economy w/ Daniel Joseph
Pub date: 2022-11-24

Paris Marx is joined by Daniel Joseph to discuss why advertising is central not just to the tech economy, but modern capitalism itself, and how the business models of companies are increasing shaped by serving ads and collecting data to inform them.

Daniel Joseph is a Senior Lecturer of Digital Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He’s also written for a number of publications, including Briarpatch Magazine, Motherboard, and Real Life Magazine. Follow Daniel on Twitter at @DanjoKaz00ie.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Daniel wrote about how advertising and the need to create audiences is much more central to the tech economy than is often discussed.
• Shoshana Wodinsky explained why so many companies are getting into advertising, including hotel chains, retailers, and more.
• Unity faced criticism for merging with IronSource, a known advertising malware distributor.
• After reporting a subscriber decline earlier this year, Netflix launched an ad-supported tier in October.
• Companies like Apple and Uber are expanding their efforts to increase advertising revenue.
• Ramon Lobato wrote Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution.

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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-11-30

Digital platforms controlled by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Tencent and Uber have transformed not only the ways we do business, but also the very nature of people's everyday lives. It is of vital importance that we understand the economic principles governing how these platforms operate. Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz's book The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy (Cambridge UP, 2021) explains the driving forces behind any platform business with a focus on network effects. The authors use short case studies and real-world applications to explain key concepts such as how platforms manage network effects and which price and non-price strategies they choose. This self-contained text is the first to offer a systematic and formalized account of what platforms are and how they operate, concisely incorporating path-breaking insights in economics over the last twenty years.

Martin Peitz is professor of economics at the University of Mannheim (since 2007), a director of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation – MaCCI (since 2009). He has been member of the economic advisory group on competition policy (EAGCP) at the European Commission (2013–2016), an academic director of the Centre on Regulation in Europe, CERRE (2012–2016) and head of the Department of Economics (2010–2013). Martin has widely published in leading economics journals. He also frequently trains and advises government agencies in Europe and abroad on competition and regulation issues.

Peter Lorentzen is economics professor at the University of San Francisco. He heads USF's Applied Economics Master's program, which focuses on the digital economy. His research is mainly on China's political economy.

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Podcast: Democracy in Question? (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Charles Taylor on Degenerations and Regenerations of Democracy
Pub date: 2022-11-23

Guests featured in this episode:

Charles Taylor, one of the most preeminent contemporary philosophers of our times. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal. He was Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University. His remarkably vast oeuvre includes landmark monographs on Hegel, social theory, religion, language, and multiculturalism. Among his books let me mention Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (1989), Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition (1992), or A Secular Age (2007) which have decisively shaped contemporary debates in their respective fields. His latest book, co-authored with Craig Calhoun and Dilip Gaonkar is called Degenerations of Democracy.

Glossary

What is the murder of George Floyd?
(08:51 or p.3 in the transcript)

On May 25, 2020, white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck for almost 10 minutes. The death, recorded by bystanders, touched off what may have been the largest protest movement in U.S. history and a nationwide reckoning on race and policing. After video of the incident was posted on Facebook, protests began almost immediately in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the nation. Demonstrators chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe” took to the streets from coast to coast, and police departments around the country responded at times with riot-control tactics. By early June, protests were so widespread that over 200 American cities had imposed curfews and half of the United States had activated the National Guard. Marches continued and spread throughout June, despite the restrictions on gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic and militarized resistance from federal and local law enforcement. More than 2,000 cities and towns in all 50 states saw some form of demonstration in the weeks after Floyd’s death, as well as major cities across the globe: source

What is the Hungarian Revolution of 1956?
(13:06 or p.4 in the transcript)

Hungarian Revolution was a popular uprising in Hungary in 1956, following a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in which he attacked the period of Joseph Stalin’s rule. Encouraged by the new freedom of debate and criticism, a rising tide of unrest and discontent in Hungary broke out into active fighting in October 1956. Rebels won the first phase of the revolution, and Imre Nagy became premier, agreeing to establish a multiparty system. On November 1, 1956, he declared Hungarian neutrality and appealed to the United Nations for support, but Western powers were reluctant to risk a global confrontation. On November 4 the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution, and Nagy was executed for treason in 1958. Nevertheless, Stalinist-type domination and exploitation did not return, and Hungary thereafter experienced a slow evolution toward some internal autonomy: source

What is the Ukrainian refugee crisis?
(15:16 or p.4 in the transcript)

The ongoing Ukrainian refugee crisis began in February 2022 immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At present, around 8 million of Ukrainians fled the country as Russia indiscriminately targeted civilian populations with rockets and artillery strikes. By late March some four million Ukrainians had fled the fighting; this represented Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II. The overwhelming majority would find safety in Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. 90% of the refugees are women and children as Ukrainian men between 18 and 60 are banned from leaving the country: source

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
(18:13 or p.5 in the transcript)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), foundational document of international human rights law. It has been referred to as humanity’s Magna Carta by Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the United Nations (UN) Commission on Human Rights that was responsible for the drafting of the document. After minor changes it was adopted unanimously—though with abstentions from the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), Czechoslovakia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian SSR, and Yugoslavia—by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948 (now celebrated annually as Human Rights Day), as a “common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.” The French jurist René Cassin was originally recognized as the principal author of the UDHR. It is now well established, however, that, although no individual can claim ownership of this document, John Humphrey, a Canadian professor of law and the UN Secretariat’s Human Rights Director, authored its first draft. Also instrumental in the drafting of the UDHR were Roosevelt; Chang Peng-chun, a Chinese playwright, philosopher, and diplomat; and Charles Habib Malik, a Lebanese philosopher and diplomat: source

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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Conquering Sociopaths
Pub date: 2022-11-28

Michele Pridmore-Brown on the troubled dreams of the gods of the digital universe

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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the planet’s physical features shape global affairs
Pub date: 2022-11-29

Geopolitics is more than international relations – it’s also rooted in the very real maps and boundaries that define places. Daniel Immerwahr, associate professor of history at Northwestern University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why map reading is key to understanding hot spots around the globe and how topography is related to history. His article “Are we really prisoners of geography?” was published by The Guardian.

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Democracy does not die with a bang but a whimper
Pub date: 2022-11-30

Authoritarianism is becoming increasingly normalised in the 21st century. As anti-democratic movements take root globally in a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic groups, democracy is constantly under threat. In many countries, democratically elected autocratic movements threaten to erode the foundations of the systems they work within, aiming to sow division while offering no real change. Will this be the final retreat of global democracy?
In this episode of the Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro invites Pranab Bardhan who is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Heather Grabbe who is a senior adviser to the Open Society Foundations, to discuss democratic backsliding in the world, its economic underpinnings and what can be done to combat these challenges.

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Heather Ford on Can We Trust Wikipedia? How to Nurture Truth in the Digital Age
Pub date: 2022-11-18

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Heather Ford, author of Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age.

Heather Ford is Associate Professor and Head of Discipline for Digital and Social Media, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney.

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Podcast: International Horizons
Episode: What is the Future of Populism?
Pub date: 2022-11-21

The world's wealthier countries have in recent years faced challenges from right-wing populist parties and movements that may rejuvenate origins from relatively far in the past, such as in the case of Italy, or they may constitute new formations disturbingly reminiscent of earlier movements of their kinds. So, for example, the Alternative for Germany, in Germany. So where does populism go from here?

This week on International Horizons, Umut Korkut from Glasgow Caledonian University discusses the goals and findings of the D.Rad De-Radicalization project in Europe and why and how people become radicalized from being alienated from the rest of society. Korkut also delves into other causes of radicalization, such as educational policies and political literacy gap and the manipulation by the elites. He goes on to discuss the nuances of populism in Europe and its variations in the imaginary of people. Finally, he argues that, because of trauma of recent events, voters are paralyzed and cannot see different political alternatives, which is applicable to the American, European, and Turkish cases.

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Podcast: The Taxcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Uncommon Wealth and the 'boomerang effect'
Pub date: 2022-11-18

In this episode, Taxcast host Naomi Fowler discusses sovereignty, the 'boomerang effect' and the relevance of the 'Third World Movement' today to our global economic system, with Dr Kojo Koram, author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. "Decolonisation, from the 1950s and 1970s, was quite simply the greatest multiplication of democratic power that the world has ever seen"

Plus, we look at two big failures this month:

• the collapse of crypto exchange company FTX (secrecy jurisdictions, enablers, investigations...)
• the Tax Justice Network writes an open letter to alert the G20 to the failings of the OECD as global tax rule-setter, as they miss another deadline.

A transcript of the podcast is available here: (Some is automated) https://taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/The-Taxcast-transcript-Nov-22-1.pdf

"The kind of loss of feeling of control in the United Kingdom, that loss of feeling of sovereignty, that loss of feeling of democratic accountability is connected to the erosion of sovereignty and erosion of democratic accountability that was allowed to happen to the former colonies of particularly the British Empire but all empires. What happens in the colonies doesn't simply stay there, but it comes back on the homeland and it starts to impact how its economy, its society, and its politics operates. And I think that's a lot of what we see in Britain right up until today.”

Featuring:

• Dr Kojo Koram of Birkbeck, University of London and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire.
• Alex Cobham, Tax Justice Network
• Professor Nouriel Roubini speaking in the UAE
• Taxcast host and producer, Naomi Fowler, Tax Justice Network

Further reading:

• Kojo Koram's book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire is published by John Murray Press: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/uncommon-wealth-britain-and-the-aftermath-of-empire/9781529338621
• Governments can recover billions from tax havens by publishing withheld transparency data https://taxjustice.net/press/governments-can-recover-billions-from-tax-havens-by-publishing-withheld-transparency-data/
• UN Secretary General signals support for UN tax convention: https://taxjustice.net/press/un-secretary-general-signals-support-for-un-tax-convention/
• Tax Justice Network's Open letter to G20 on OECD failure to deliver on G20 mandates https://taxjustice.net/2022/11/15/open-letter-to-g20-oecd-failure-to-deliver-on-g20-mandates/
• Why Didn't the Government Stop the Crypto Scam? by Matt Stoller: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-didnt-the-government-stop-the
• The World Series of Crypto Rackets, by Judd Legum: https://t.co/wEh4TihGYz
• Seven politicians are returning FTX's tainted money — others are keeping quiet, by Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby: https://popular.info/p/seven-politicians-are-returning-ftxs

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Podcast: Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People
Episode: 346. Post Growth Urban Planning & Placemaking - Sofia Greaves
Pub date: 2022-11-22

Sofia Greaves (Postdoctoral Researcher, Pontevedra, Spain)

In collaboration with Placemaking Week Europe in Pontevedra.

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Links from Sofia

• The Transdisciplinary Journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)
• A History Of Degrowth
• The University of Vigo’s Post-Growth Innovation Lab

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Podcast: Lifeworlds
Episode: 9. Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City?
Pub date: 2022-11-15

With Gavin Van Horn & John Thackara.

How can people living in urban settings engage with a teeming animal world – right on their doorsteps? Can we design cities from the perspective and the lifeworlds of other species? And by the way, where does the city even begin? How can animals disrupt our associations of what cities are?

Gavin Van Horn is the Executive Editor of the Center for Humans and Nature Press, and is the author of City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness and The Way of Coyote. His story teaches a potent medicine for urban alienation, by honing our awareness to species like coyotes, robins, pollinators, and degraded urban forests. We talk about everyday intimacies, wild mutual gazes, the resplendence of pigeon feathers and examples of mutual healing when people repair urban lands and make nature whole.

John Thackara, writer, curator and professor, develops design agendas for ecological restoration, urban-rural reconnection, and multi-species environments. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, and was commissioner of the UK Social Innovation Biennial and the Urban-Rural Expo in Shanghai. John’s expertise lies in the realm of futures design and next economies, and in our chat he shares compelling examples of urban rural reconnection, such as designers experimenting with microbial lives, the viral phenomenon of weed watching, celebrity farmers in china, and placefulness as a doorway into caring.

Episode Website Link

Show Links:

• John’s website
• Design for Multi Species Cities
• Back to the Land Summer School
• Urban Rural Connection in China
• Gavin’s website
• The Way of the Coyote Book
• Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
• Greencorps of Chicago
• Chicago Wilderness
• Being Salmon, Being Human

Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.

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Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Facing climate change: action and optimism
Pub date: 2022-11-16

At the climate summit in Egypt, United Nations secretary general António Guterres told world leaders that we are on a “highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” He explained that our planet’s future will be decided by how we act this decade. This frightening warning reinforces what some have experienced in our own lives – devastating hurricanes, wildfires and droughts – and what others have seen on the news and in headlines.

This year also saw record levels of carbon dioxide emissions and the past seven years have continued to be the hottest on record. So, as heads of state, advisors and activists hammer out an agreement, is our climate future really that bleak, or has the world made some real progress?

We start our hour off with Time Magazine’s JUSTIN WORLAND, who is in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt covering the UN climate summit. We’ll talk about the negotiations, the sticking points and if an agreement is emerging. Then, MICHAEL MANN, director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to share his climate optimism and explain that while it’s not too late, we need action now.

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Podcast: Front Burner (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The collapse of the ‘Crypto King’
Pub date: 2022-11-15

In the last two years, cryptocurrency exchange FTX spent millions on advertisements with the likes of NFL quarterback Tom Brady and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David.

FTX also sponsored the MLB, the Mercedes Formula One racing team and Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary. Earlier this month, Bloomberg ranked the platform’s founder – Sam Bankman-Fried – as one of the world’s 100 richest people. He was sometimes referred to as the “King of Crypto.”

But now, after financial leaks triggered mass withdrawals and a halt in trading, Bankfried-Fried is worth effectively nothing. FTX has gone from a recent $32-billion US evaluation to bankruptcy. Today, CBC senior business writer Pete Evans returns to explain how one of the world’s three biggest crypto exchanges was brought down so quickly.

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Podcast: Odd Lots (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Isabella Weber On Germany's Plan to Cap the Price of Gas
Pub date: 2022-11-10

The surge in gas costs in Europe threatens to impose massive pain on households and cripple energy-intensive heavy industry. So there has been a lot of urgency on the part of governments to figure out a way to ease the pain. Of course, when the problem is a scarcity of energy itself, you can't just throw money at the problem. You can't print more gas molecules. On this episode, we speak with Isabella Weber, economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has been serving on an independent government commission in Germany to formulate a plan to ease the burden. We discuss her work and how price controls in energy play out in practice.

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Podcast: Energy Policy Now (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: COP27 Dispatch: As Climate Impacts Grow, Cities Explore Paths to Adaptation
Pub date: 2022-11-15

Three experts on cities discuss the efforts of urban communities to navigate climate change.

Experts from the University of Pennsylvania are on the ground at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In this special series from Energy Policy Now, they share their observations from the global climate conference and insights into key issues under negotiation.

Eugenie Birch, Bill Burke-White, and Mauricio Rodas of the University of Pennsylvania explore the challenges that climate change, and effects ranging from extreme heat to flooding, present to cities in an era of rapid urbanization. They also discuss how cities are acting in concert to address climate impacts.

Eugenie Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. Her recent work focuses on global urbanization.

Bill Burke-White is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an expert on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and international law.

Mauricio Rodas is a Visiting Fellow with the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. From 2014 to 2019 he was the mayor of Quito, Ecuador.

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Podcast: Science Weekly (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cop27: Is it time to rethink endless economic growth?
Pub date: 2022-11-09

A key goal of governments around the world is economic growth – continually increasing production and consumption to keep GDP rising. But can our economies grow on a rapidly warming planet with finite resources? According to a recent UN report, the only way left to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies”. In our third Cop27 special, Ian Sample speaks to ecological economist Tim Jackson about the myth of eternal growth, other ways to think about progress and prosperity, and what an economic system in balance with our planetary system might look like. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Crisis Policies: What We Need From COP27 | Laurie Laybourn
Pub date: 2022-11-10

Laurie Laybourn is a policy researcher and author. He leads Cohort 2040, which explores how to deepen rapid action toward a more sustainable and equitable world even as the effects of the environmental crisis get far worse. Laurie is a visiting fellow at Chatham House and at the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, as well as an associate fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He is a regular commentator on TV and radio and co-author of Planet on Fire (Verso 2021).

We discuss the opportunity in crisis moments throughout history, with Laurie revealing the best policies for navigating the climate crisis, nationally and internationally, as well as those for a sustainable future. He also explains how the our current fiscal ideologies, including our relationship to debt, impedes necessary climate action around the world whilst hobbling the global south’s capacity to respond to increasing catastrophes. Laurie says the climate crisis is a fiscal problem—could reimagining fiscal policies keep 1.5 alive?

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Podcast: Sustainability @ Work
Episode: S@W Episode 3 - Everyday Environmentalism: Tiny Actions Create Waves of Change (Feat. Ocean Bottle)
Pub date: 2022-11-16

It’s easy to envision the ocean as endless, vast, and empty. But in reality, our oceans are teeming with life. Billions of people worldwide rely on them every single day – and careless dumping of plastic pollution threatens to put countless lives (and livelihoods) into jeopardy. Case in point: At the current rate of pollution, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050.

But what can we do as regular people? Combating climate change is a colossal effort, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed thinking about it. But there are steps anyone can take that can make our daily routines a little more environmentally-friendly. After all, one drop of water might not be much… but put enough drops of water together, and you get an ocean.

In this episode of Sustainability @ Work, we’re discussing the importance of ocean cleanup, how everyday actions can empower us in the fight against climate change, and how one nonprofit organization is stepping up to aid local communities and keep plastics out of the ocean.

Key Quotes 0:33: “The problem is that we're destroying this very thing that brings us life.” 2:58: “In the UK, for example, the average Briton consumes about 150 plastic bottles every year.” 4:07: “[You hear about the impact of pollution], and you're just thinking, ‘Somebody has to do something about this.’” 6:02: “[The ocean] is an environment we are being allowed to be in, and so with that, you need to respect it and leave no traces… leave it better than when you went in it.” 7:54: “What would you do if your sink was overflowing? Would you start mopping the floor, or would you go and rush to the top and turn it off? [Ocean Bottle’s] goal is really to ‘turn off the tap’ of ocean-bound plastic.” 9:07: “Every single one of [Ocean Bottle’s] products funds the collection of 11.4 kilos of ocean bound plastic, which is equivalent to 1000 plastic bottles in weight.” 14:06: “It doesn't occur to me to go buy a million water bottles anymore, right? If you thought about how much water we drink, that would probably equate to 10 plus regular plastic water bottles a day.” 16:28: “I think it really goes to show that to create the biggest change, we don't need a few people doing good perfectly, but actually, you need millions doing it simply.” 19:28: “[Ocean Bottle has] provided income opportunities for over 5000 collectors and their families… in over 300 communities across Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and the Philippines.” 21:42: “I would just encourage everyone to never think that they can't have an impact on something. So no matter how small it is, it's one more person doing that thing doing that action. And so collectively, we really do make a difference.”

Guest Bios Emilien Henrotte, Impact Manager, Ocean Bottle Emilien is a sustainability advocate and environmentalist who dedicates his time, energy, and business expertise to furthering ocean cleanup. For the last year, he's dedicated himself to managing projects, developing value-partnerships, and, as he puts it, “being part of the solution, not the problem,” as Impact Manager at Ocean Bottle. Founded in 2019, Ocean Bottle is a nonprofit organization that funds the collection of ocean-bound plastic waste through the sale of specially-designed reusable water bottles. Funds raised by the organization support collection efforts to prevent plastic waste from entering the ocean, with the sale of just one Ocean Bottle funding the equivalent of 1,000 plastic bottles collected.

Marina Jackman Director, Health & Life Sciences (Providers), Gerent Marina has been immersed in the healthcare world for nearly a decade, and has been a lover of the ocean for her entire life. Her name, Marina, even comes from her father’s passion for the ocean, which he passed down to her at a young age. An avid diver, she regularly participates in ocean cleanup efforts in her own community of Monterey, California.

References https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202209

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Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How we win a new economy - changing the rules
Pub date: 2022-11-07

Note to listeners: this episode was prerecorded in September 2022.

Over the last five episodes we’ve looked at how the UK is being torn apart. Our economy is built on huge inequalities: between working people and big business, between families and fossil fuel giants, between tenants and landlords, and between marginalised groups and law enforcement.

Are such massive divisions in our society inevitable? Can we share the wealth hoarded by the rich? And what do we need to do to build a better future?

Ayeisha is joined by Jeevun Sandher, head of economics at the New Economics Foundation, and political economist and author of The Case For A Green New Deal Ann Pettifor.

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Researched by Margaret Welsh. Produced by Becky Malone.

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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 557: Data centres in a time of climate crisis
Pub date: 2022-11-04

When it comes to adapting to climate change, we tend not to think about the energy demands of our digital technologies. But data centres – the physical structures that store and process our digital information – are very resource-intensive and vulnerable to extreme weather events. Host Nora Young discusses data centre design with Lauren Bridges, critical data studies researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; Chheng Lim, an associate at Chicago-based Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects, who specializes in data-centre design; and Simon Harris, head of critical infrastructure at Business Critical Solutions, a data centre consultancy firm in the U.K.

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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Long Reads: Aaron Benanav on Automation and the Long Downturn
Pub date: 2022-11-07

Science fiction has traditionally depicted a robot takeover as a conscious bid for global domination by our mechanical offspring. From The Terminator to The Matrix, we’ve been invited to picture a war to the death between man and machine. More recently however, figures like Elon Musk have spoken about the rise of the robots as a more insidious threat to humanity; the machines may bear us no ill will, but they’ll cast us on the scrap heap of technological unemployment anyway.

Aaron Benanav, author of Automation and the Future of Work, joins Long Reads to discuss what this conventional wisdom around technology and jobs gets wrong—and what a realistic path to a post-scarcity world might look like.

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

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Podcast: Sur-Urbano

Episode: Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies? With Prof. Eduardo Marques
Pub date: 2022-11-04

Second, we are starting Season II with an interview with the University of Sao Paulo's Eduardo Marques and cohosted by Marcela Alonso Ferreira. This was an timely conversation, in that Eduardo’s work examines the conditions and dynamics of redistributive urban policies and their changes in Sao Paulo. Understood broadly, it accounts for how progressive urban agendas become policy, and the conditions for their continuity, disruption or oscillation - a pretty fundamental question for the left. It was a hopeful message laced with fear, since we recorded just days before the October 30 presidential election. Now on the other side of the election, Eduardo and Marcela’s analyses are useful in understanding the significance of Lula’s victory.

Eduardo Marques is a full professor at the Department of Political Science and Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the University of São Paulo. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering (UFRJ, 1987), a specialization in Public Health (Fiocruz, 1988), an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (UFRJ, 1993) and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Unicamp, 1998). He recently published the book “The Politics of Incremental Progressivism Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo” (Wiley/SUSC-IJURR, 2021), which I recommend to anyone interested in urban policies in Latin America.

In this episode, we discuss two of Eduardo's recent articles: "Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies?" and "Continuity and Change of Urban Policies in São Paulo: Resilience, Latency, and Reanimation".

Marcela Alonso Ferreira is PhD candidate in Political Science at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, Paris interested in urban governance in Latin American cities. Marcela investigates the changes in land regularization policy and politics in São Paulo and Mexico City.

Marcela also mentions a research group called Cities are back in town, a seminar series convening urban scholars from various disciplines to discuss recent publications on cities worldwide. Many seminars are online so if you're interested, write to citiesarebackintown@sciencespo.fr to receive our mailing list.

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Podcast: The Brian Lehrer Show (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: David Wallace-Wells on the 'New Climate Reality'
Pub date: 2022-11-04

The world is warming, though not as much as some of the most apocalyptic predictions had warned. David Wallace-Wells, columnist for the New York Times Magazine and the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Tim Duggan Books, 2019), talks about how the world might respond, adapt, and grow in response to our future climate.

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Podcast: The Science Hour (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What peat can tell us about our future
Pub date: 2022-11-06

The Congo Basin is home to the world’s largest peatland. Simon Lewis, Professor of Global Change Science at UCL and the University of Leeds, tells Roland how peatlands all around the world are showing early alarm bells of change. From the boreal Arctic forests to the Amazon, Simon helps us understand how they could action huge change in the climate. Simon is joined by Dr Ifo Averti, Associate Professor in Forest Ecology at Universite Marien Ngouabi in the Congo who helps us understand what this landscape is like.

Hurricane Ian, which recently caused devastating damage to Cuba and the United States, may signify a growing trend of increasingly powerful storms. Karthik Balaguru, climate and data scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, explains how climate change is causing hurricanes to rapidly intensify, making them faster and wetter.

On Sunday 6th November, COP27 will begin in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dr Debbie Rosen, Science and Policy Manager at CONSTRAIN, breaks down some of the jargon we might hear throughout the conference.

We know the Earth's atmosphere is warming and it's thanks to us and our taste for fossil fuels. But how quickly is this melting the ice sheets, ice caps, and glaciers that remain on our planet? That's what listener David wants to know.

With the help of a team of climate scientists in Greenland, Marnie Chesterton goes to find the answer, in an icy landscape that's ground zero in the story of thawing. She discovers how Greenland’s ice sheet is sliding faster off land, and sees that the tiniest of creatures are darkening the ice surface and accelerating its melt.

CrowdScience explores what we're in store for when it comes to melting ice. In the lead-up to yet another UN climate conference, we unpack what is contributing to sea level rise – from ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, to melting mountain glaciers and warming oceans. There's a lot of ice at the poles. The question is: how much of it will still be there in the future?

Research Professor and climate scientist Jason Box from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland shows us how much ice Greenland we've already committed ourselves to losing, even if we stopped burning all fossil fuels today. His team, including Jakob Jakobsen, show us how these scientists collect all this data that helps feed climate models and helps us all to understand how quickly the seas might rise.

Professor Martyn Trantor from Aarhus University helps us understand why a darkening Greenland ice sheet would only add to the problem of melting. And climate scientist Ruth Mottram from the Danish Meteorological Institute breaks down how the ice is breaking down in Antarctica and other glaciers around the world.

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Podcast: Open Source with Christopher Lydon (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Polycrisis
Pub date: 2022-11-04

Finally, there’s a word for it: the polycrisis, to describe the multiple messes we’re in. Our guest the historian Adam Tooze says it’s a polycrisis when old crises like war, weather, and disease are breeding deadly new variants of anxiety and danger. It’s a polycrisis when you feel the old world you knew is undergoing not change but transformation. It’s symptomatic of the polycrisis that the three giant military powers in the world today sit apart and aloof, each one suffering its own identity crisis, each one on the defensive about looking and acting so aggressive. You’re feeling this polycrisis when you realize you can’t go home again, because home’s not there anymore.

Adam Tooze.

Adam Tooze is our rat-a-tat talker on the tightrope, our English-American historian of this age of waking nightmares: pandemic, mega-storms, migration, inflation, grain war, energy war, “war war” in Ukraine. He’s our polymath in what he has just decided to call the polycrisis. The “poly” part refers not just to many crises but to the variety of shapes and sizes and origin stories that come with the disruption. Together they are transforming the world faster now than ever in history, he says. But they are not together, meaning that no common remedy will treat them. One more key thing about the polycrisis, Adam Tooze will tell you, is that nobody really has a handle on this monster: not the bankers, or the military men, or the experts, not even Adam Tooze.

This is the latest installment of In Search of Monsters, our limited series collaboration with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The Quincy Institute and the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord recently hosted a discussion with Ambassador Jack Matlock, Svetlana Savranskaya, and Tom Blanton from the National Security Archive on the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The full discussion is available on quincyinst.org— but here are some excerpts.

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Podcast: Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The high cost of a strong dollar
Pub date: 2022-10-22

When it comes to international trade and finance, everyone pretty much speaks one language: the U.S. dollar. So when the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates and the dollar suddenly gets strong, it can cause huge headaches all over the world.

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Podcast: Local Futures Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 21 - Vandana Shiva - The Power of People
Pub date: 2022-10-24

In this episode, Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to her friend and colleague of 40 years, Vandana Shiva. Vandana trained as a quantum physicist, but turned her attention to campaigning for the rights of small farmers, seed savers and local communities in her home country of India when she witnessed the imposition of industrial agriculture and its tragic impacts on health, biodiversity and livelihoods. Today, she is one of the most powerful voices challenging corporate rule.

In their conversation, Helena and Vandana reminisce about friends who inspired them both, delving deep into the stories and personalities of the environmental and anti-globalization movements. They explore the structures of corporate globalization - from its roots in colonialism to the present day - as well as ecofeminism, movement building and deep ecological wisdom. Their conversation highlights the importance of focusing on economic structures, on scale and on the power of people to build a better world from the ground up.

Please write to info@localfutures.org with any comments and ideas for future topics/guests.

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Podcast: Böll·Europe
Episode: Böll·Europe Podcast #5 | The future role of gas in a climate-neutral Europe
Pub date: 2022-10-20

Achieving a climate-friendly Europe by 2050 is the EU's long-term goal. In the short run, it means stopping using fossil gas almost entirely much sooner. To limit global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels and stay in the Paris Agreement, the demand must end by 2035. Yet, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine where gas is one resource caught in the war, is Europe phasing it down? We have seen how climate security and energy security have become two sides of the same coin. Although the EU's answer is renewables, ahead of a cold winter the European Commission has opened the door to a new wave of gas projects. This Böll·Europe Podcast thus focuses on the future role of gas in a climate-friendly Europe. Gail Rego speaks with:

• Julian Schwartzkopff, policy advisor on EU energy policy at Environmental Action Germany, focusing on gas market regulation and energy efficiency, the author of The Future role of gas in a climate-neutral Europe, a report based on the discussions of an Expert Group convened by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union and Environmental Action Germany.
• Tara Connolly, a Senior Gas Campaigner with Global Witness. With over 10 years of experience in EU energy policy, she has worked with several environmental NGOs such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Europe.

Did you know...? To stay within the Paris Agreement target of 1.5ºC, the use of fossil gas must end by 2035. But how far are we from the climate target? According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, we currently live in a 1.1°C warmer world. A level that is already affecting Europe. We have all seen heatwaves and droughts becoming more frequent and worse. To get net zero, the European Union has approved several regulations. For instance, the Fit for 55 package, which is a set of proposals to update the EU legislation in areas such as transportation or energy efficiency. In the context of Russia's war against Ukraine, there were measures put in place to avoid gas shortages this winter, such as REPowerEU or the Gas Storage Regulation, which allow EU Member States to look for alternatives in gas supplies.

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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The scramble for rare earths, part 2
Pub date: 2022-10-26

Misha Glenny finds out whether the European Union can end its dependency on China for rare earths and critical raw materials and he discovers that Russia's interest in Ukraine might be partially motivated but the huge mineral deposits there.

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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 197. The Limits of Tech Inquiry
Pub date: 2022-10-06

We discuss recent events of a report by Tech Inquiry about big tech’s military contracts was pulled by its funders — a major union and a major social democratic party — over Tech Inquiry’s refusal to censor its criticism of Microsoft. We offer our own critical analysis of organizations focused on building short-term, self-interested alliances with capital instead of ones focused on building long-term, worker power that is antagonistic to capital.

Some references: ••• On the censorship of our report on government purchasing from Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet https://techinquiry.org/?about=UNI-censorship&guard= ••• Labor union censored report criticizing Microsoft’s military contracts https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/microsoft-military-union-cwa/ ••• German SPD politician justifies murder of Rosa Luxemburg https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/18/thie-j18.html

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Podcast: Autonocast (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #264: Paris Marx on Silicon Valley's Road To Nowhere
Pub date: 2022-10-12

Paris Marx is the host of the popular tech-critical podcast Tech Won't Save Us, and the author of a new book called Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. On this week's episode, Paris joins Kirsten and Ed for a wide-ranging look at his left-of-center critiques of the mobility technology sector and his arguments for a less "solutionist" approach to our mobility challenges.

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Podcast: The Dig (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Europe w/ Anton Jäger & Dominik Leusder
Pub date: 2022-10-10

Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.

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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hegemony Now (part one) - w/ Jeremy Gilbert
Pub date: 2022-10-11

Jeremy Gilbert returns to PTO to talk about his new book - co-authored with Alex Williams - Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back).

In part one of our three part conversation we talked about Antonio Gramsci's notion of Hegemony and how, in the view of Jeremy and Alex, we live in an era in which an alliance between big tech and finance structures the global economy and whose values suffuse the cultural field. We talked about why tech and finance play the leading role in the global economy, in a way that does not characterise the energy sector or other extractive industries. We also discussed why - in contrast to tech and finance - neither the New Left of the 1960s, nor the New Right associated with the Reagan and Thatcher administrations got the world they wanted by the century's end, even if they achieved certain partial victories. We also talk about why Jeremy and Alex argue that the left should appeal to people on the basis of shared collective interests, rather than on the basis of moral values.

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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sanctions As Siege Warfare w/ Manu Karuka
Pub date: 2022-10-07

This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries (check out our earlier episodes from the series if you've not already!). In this episode, we lay out some very interesting historical and analytical parallels between sieges throughout history and modern sanctions regimes. A fascinating conversation with a great scholar and committed anti-imperialist, you don't want to miss this! Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!

Manu Karuka is Assistant Professor of American Studies affiliated faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. He is author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019).

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Podcast: Fresh Air (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Exploring The History Of Money
Pub date: 2022-10-12

Author and podcaster Jacob Goldstein says we don't think of money as a technology, but we should. He traces the first paper currency to China's Sichuan province, and ponders the Fed's next move. His book is Money: The True Story of a Made Up Thing.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Green Capitalism Won’t Fix Climate Change w/ Adrienne Buller
Pub date: 2022-10-06

Paris Marx is joined by Adrienne Buller to discuss how the tech and finance industries are selling us false solutions to the climate crisis that are designed for their own benefit.

Adrienne Buller is the Director of Research at Common Wealth and the author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Follow Adrienne on Twitter at @adribuller.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Adrienne originally wrote about the problem with the finance industry’s approach to climate change for Novara Media. She recently wrote about the failure of green capitalism for the Guardian and the power BlackRock wields for Jacobin.
• Common Wealth recently produced a report on Asset Management Capitalism.
• Elon Musk called ESG a scam after Tesla was booted from the S&P 500’s ESG fund.
• Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen wrote The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism.

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Podcast: Bad Gays (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Magnus Hirschfeld (with Laurie Marhoefer)
Pub date: 2022-10-05

It's the Magnus Hirschfeld episode. We invited Laurie Marhoefer – Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington, and one of our most-cited historians ever – to discuss their new book on Hirschfeld, called Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love. On the episode, we touch on Hirschfeld's life story as a pioneering doctor who helped invent modern homosexual identities and worked on some forms of trans-affirming health care –– while also discussing the ways he integrated racism into the homosexual identities he was creating, collaborated with eugenicists, and was often willing to accept more rights for some at the expense of others.

Our intro and outro music are, respectively, a tune written for us by DJ Michael Oswell Graphic Designer and Arpeggia Colorix, by Yann Terrien

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Podcast: Matrix Podcast
Episode: Shifting Inequality and Mass Incarceration
Pub date: 2022-09-30

On this episode of the Matrix Podcast, Julia Sizek spoke with two scholars whose work focuses on explaining how mass incarceration has changed over the last 30 years.

Alex Roehrkasse is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Butler University. He studies the production of racial class and gender inequality in the United States through violence and social control. He was previously a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University and at the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University.

Christopher Muller is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the political economy of incarceration in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. He is particularly interested in how agricultural labor markets, migration, and struggles over land and labor have affected incarceration and racial and class inequality in incarceration. His work has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Social Forces, and Science.

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Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 443: Journalism at War in Colombia
Pub date: 2022-10-04

Hallo and welcome to another episode of Colombia Calling - I’m Emily Hart and this week I’ll be chatting to Nubia Rojas about journalism at war – how journalists fell victim to, but also took part in, Colombia’s civil conflict. Nubia is a journalist and researcher who has worked on conflicts across the world both as a correspondent and an analyst, working for the United Nations, Doctors without Borders, and Oxfam, as well as numerous Colombian outlets. Most recently, Nubia authored a chapter of the final report of Colombia’s Truth Commission – a historic publication which was the outcome of an unprecedented investigation into the causes and consequences of Colombia's internal armed conflict – the final report was the result of nearly four years’ work and tens of thousands of interviews. Today we’ll be chatting about Nubia’s chapter – digging in to the historical and present relationship between journalism and Colombia’s political elites, paramilitary PR, rebel elites, corporate takeovers and more

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Podcast: POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Imperial Mecca, Protests in Iran & Local Politics (S. 12, Ep. 3)
Pub date: 2022-09-29

Michael Christopher Low of the University of Utah joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj. The book analyzes the late Ottoman hajj and Hijaz region as transimperial spaces, reshaped by the competing forces of Istanbul’s project of frontier modernization and the extraterritorial reach of British India’s steamship empire in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. (Starts at 1:07) Mohammad Ali Kadivar of Boston College discusses the current waves of protests in Iran. (Starts at 32:23) Sarah El-Kazaz of the University of London and Lana Salman of Harvard University discuss their chapter in The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings, which focuses on a relational approach to local politics and the lack of subnational literature that engages with the MENA region. (co-authored with Mona Harb and Janine Clark). (Starts at 47:13)

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Podcast: Deep Dish on Global Affairs (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Protests for Women, Life, and Freedom Are Reshaping Iranian Politics
Pub date: 2022-09-29

Iran has entered its 12th day of protests following the death of #MahsaAmini in morality police custody. On Deep Dish, women in the Iranian diaspora share firsthand the severity of what is transpiring, and Narges Bajoghli of Johns Hopkins University unpacks why these demonstrations are different and strike at the core of Iran’s regime.

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Podcast: Governance Uncovered: Local Politics and Development
Episode: I Don't Vote in the Mass of a Group: Ethnic Voting & Everyday Identity in South Africa
Pub date: 2022-09-30

The podcast guest of the month is the GLD associate Dr. Adam Harris. Adam is an Associate Professor in Development Politics at the Department of Political Science, University College London. He is also an associated researcher at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg.

Adam's research focuses on development, ethnic, and African politics, and his work has been published in several political science journals.

Ellen and Adam will be talking about his book Everyday Identity and Electoral Politics: Race, Ethnicity, and the Bloc Vote in South Africa and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2022), in which he seeks to understand why some voters do not vote along ethnic lines.

You can find Adam's book here:https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Identity-Electoral-Politics-Ethnicity/dp/0197638201

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Google’s Toronto Smart City Failed w/ Josh O'Kane
Pub date: 2022-09-29

Paris Marx is joined by Josh O’Kane to discuss how Sidewalk Labs decided to build a city “from the internet up” in Toronto, the concerns that existed with the project, and why it ultimately fell apart.

Josh O’Kane is an award-winning technology reporter at the Globe and Mail and the author of Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy. Follow Josh on Twitter at @joshokane.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• An excerpt of Josh’s book was published in the Globe and Mail.
• Josh wrote about how Canada’s Liberal government under Justin Trudeau isn’t as friendly with tech companies as it was earlier in its time in power.
• Around the time of Sidewalk Toronto, opponents were able to defeat Amazon’s HQ2 project in New York, Google’s Berlin startup hub, Apple’s planned central Stockholm store, and its planned store in Melbourne’s Fed Square.
• Bianca Wylie was one of the prominent critics of the project, and was called the “Jane Jacobs of the smart city.”
• In 2019, documents leaked showing Sidewalk Labs wanted a lot more power and access to more land than was agreed upon, and that further fueled opposition.
• In May 2020, Wylie wrote about the cancelation of the project and the lessons that should be learned.

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Podcast: The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: How anti-science disinformation spreads poison
Pub date: 2022-09-28

Sixty years ago this week, author Rachel Carson published the landmark book, "Silent Spring." Carson argued that pesticides, especially DDT, were poisoning people and the environment. and that the chemical industry was spreading disinformation in order to profit from this disaster. "Silent Spring" inspired the modern environmental movement and led to the banning of DDT in 1972.

Today, DDT is back, thanks in part to a new era of industry disinformation.

Elena Conis argues the current science denialism movement — led by anti-vaxxers, climate deniers and Covid-19 skeptics — has its roots in efforts by industry and right-wing think tanks to cast doubt on science. Conis is a professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of “Vaccine Nation” and a new book, “How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT.”

“Way back in the 1950s, the chemical companies had employed these PR firms that essentially began to sketch out what's now known as a playbook on how to defend your product and undermine public faith in evidence that your product might be causing harm,” Conis said on The Vermont Conversation. “This involves things like casting doubt on the scientists who are talking about the hazards of a particular chemical or technology. It involves courting journalists and encouraging them to see your side of the story and to cover your side of the story. It also involves creating scientific debate where there is none or making a debate seem consequential even though scientific consensus falls almost entirely on one particular side of the issue.”

The result is the situation today where people say, “I'm only going to trust this, or I'm going to reject that. I'm going to take Ivermectin, or I'm not going to wear a mask or whatever it is. … We've lost sight of the fact that science is a process. It's about experimentation. It's about asking questions about the world we live in, coming up with answers that make sense for the moment and then adjusting those answers when the moment or the situation changes,” she said.

“We've shifted from a country that appeared to trust in science and institutions of science to one that has been encouraged to question everything to the point where … you can readily find the evidence or justification you need,” Conis said.

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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ricardo López-Pedreros, "The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies" (Routledge, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-10-05

As a collective effort, The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies (Routledge, 2022) locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuring scholars from different places across the Americas, it is an interdisciplinary contribution to the world histories of the middle classes, histories of Latin America, and intersectional studies. It also engages a larger audience about the importance of the middle classes to understand modernity, democracy, neoliberalism, and decoloniality. By including research produced from a variety of Latin American, North American, and other audiences, the volume incorporates trends in social history, cultural studies and discursive theory. It situates analytical categories of race and gender at the core of class formation. This volume seeks to initiate a critical and global conversation concerning the ways in which the analysis of the middle classes provides crucial re-readings of how Latin America, as a region, has historically been understood.

Rachel Grace Newman is a historian of modern Mexico with particular interests in migration, childhood and youth studies, and social inequality. She is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University.

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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: AI for Information Accessibility: The Ethics of “Intelligence Augmentation,” with László Z. Karvalics
Pub date: 2022-09-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

This conversation touches on the Google/AI sentience debate, information preservation, social media, and the concept of ‘intelligence augmentation’.

In this episode of the AI for Information Accessibility podcast, host Ayushi Khemka discusses the deep history behind artificial intelligence with László Z. Karvalics, founding director of the BME-UNESCO Information Society and Trend Research Institute. Their conversation touches on the Google/AI sentience debate, information preservation, social media, and the concept of “intelligence augmentation.”

The AI4IA podcast series is in association with the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility 2022 Conference on September 28, which will commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information. The AI4IA Conference and the podcast series are also being hosted in collaboration with AI4Society and the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, both at the University of Alberta; the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy at the Observer Research Foundation in India; and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica.

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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding Digital Dragnets: Surveillance in the Age of Smartphones
Pub date: 2022-09-14

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Exploring how law enforcement and other government agencies in the US acquire data drawn from commercial data brokers for investigative purposes, and the questions raised by these practices.

In this episode of the Tech Policy Press podcast, we’re going to explore how law enforcement and other government agencies in the United States acquire data drawn from commercial data brokers for investigative purposes, and the questions raised by these practices.

This is an issue that is still at question in the nation’s courts and is under active discussion on Capitol Hill. For instance, this summer the House Judiciary Committee hosted a hearing it titled Digital Dragnets: Examining the Government's Access to Your Personal Data.At the hearing, experts witnesses testified that government agencies at all levels, including federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Defense (DOD), as well as state and local law enforcement are collecting a massive amount of personal data on American citizens, sidestepping constitutional protections against unwarranted search and seizure provided in the Fourth Amendment. The hearing included discussion of the proposed Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, which would restrict government entities from engaging in such practices.

But while the courts and Congress deliberate, government agencies are acquiring this information from software providers, including one such firm that was the subject of a recent investigative report from the Associated Press titled Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget. Today, I’m joined by the two reporters who spent months trying to understand how a little known company in Virginia goes about acquiring commercially available data and selling it to police in departments across the country- global investigative journalist Garance Burke and national investigative reporter Jason Dearen.

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Podcast: Bridges to the Future (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why my internet is gone forever
Pub date: 2022-09-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She claims her generation were the first who properly grew up online, riding the waves of those chaotic and experimental early years of the internet. But when the pandemic hit and we were all forced to log on, she realised that the internet of her youth was gone. She explains why the death of that early DIY spirit, replaced by a corporate experience driven by the algorithm, is to the detriment of us all.

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.

Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She claims her generation were the first who properly grew up online, riding the waves of those chaotic and experimental early years of the internet. But when the pandemic hit and we were all forced to log on, she realised that the internet of her youth was gone. She joins Matthew to explain why the death of that early DIY spirit, replaced by a corporate experience driven by the algorithm, is to the detriment of us all.

Marie Le Conte is a French-Moroccan political journalist based in London. She has worked for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard. Her latest book is, 'Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet'.

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Podcast: The Global Agora
Episode: Sweden: The far-right Sweden Democrats are the second-strongest party. How did it happen?
Pub date: 2022-09-19

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The Social Democrats led by PM Magdalena Andersson won over 30% of the votes, but this was not enough to govern due to the fact that the far-right Sweden Democrats are the second-strongest party, gaining 20,5% of the votes in their best-ever election performance. How did this happen? What contributed to the success of the Sweden Democrats? Will they directly join the rightist government? And should we call them far-right?

The election just took place in Sweden and the result is that the country will be run by the rightist government. The Social Democrats led by PM Magdalena Andersson von over 30% of the votes but it's not enough to govern due to the fact that the far-right Sweden Democrats are the second-strongest party, gaining 20,5% of the votes in their best-ever election performance. How did it happen? What contributed to the success of the Sweden Democrats? Will they directly join the rightist government? And should we call them far-right? I talked to Nicholas Aylott, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Södertörn University. Listen to our conversation. And if you enjoy what I do, please support me on Ko-fi! Thank you.https://ko-fi.com/amatisak

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Podcast: You Don't Have to Yell (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Financial System, Income Inequality, and Climate Change: The Case for a New Bretton Woods | Kevin Gallagher & Richard Kozul-Wright
Pub date: 2022-09-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

In 1944, 44 nations came together to create a set of economic reforms designed to promote economic stability and a lasting peace. Almost 80 years later, this order has given way to a runaway financial sector that has destabilised the world economy with repeated financial crises and asset bubbles, and increasing hazards created by climate change.

In 1944, 44 nations came together to create a set of economic reforms designed to promote economic stability and a lasting peace. Almost 80 years later, this order has given way to a runaway financial sector that has destabilized the world economy with repeated financial crises and asset bubbles, and increasing hazards created by climate change.

In this episode, Kevin Gallagher of Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and Richard Kozul-Wright of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development discuss their new book, The Case for a New Bretton Woods, which lays the groundwork for moving the global economy away from ever-increasing levels of financialization and instability to one that promotes global prosperity and a stable climate.

You can find their book here: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Case+for+a+New+Bretton+Woods-p-9781509546541

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Podcast: Public Anthropologist Podcast
Episode: Are we in the age of Anthropocene?
Pub date: 2022-09-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A conversation with the environmental historian and historical geographer, whose work radically upsets the Nature-Society dualism of capitalism both materially and symbolically manifested in the logic of Anthropocene. Topics covered include the periodisation of history, and how the framing of these periods helps shape our interpretation of climate change and the inanimate world.

In the 6th episode of PUAN podcast, co-host Saumya Pandey interviews environmental historian and historical geographer, Jason W. Moore. Moore's work radically upsets the Nature-Society dualism of capitalism both materially and symbolically manifested in the logic of Anthropocene. We discuss the periodization of history, its framing and the kind of role it played in shaping our interpretation of climate change and the inanimate world.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Electric Vehicles Are Driving a Mining Boom w/ Thea Riofrancos
Pub date: 2022-09-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Detailing how the push for electric vehicles is driving governments in the US and Europe to onshore mining after decades of doing the reverse, what that means for companies in the sector, and how movements are pushing back against this resource-intensive vision for a green transition.

Paris Marx is joined by Thea Riofrancos to discuss how the push for electric vehicles is driving governments in the United States and Europe to onshore mining after decades of doing the reverse, what that means for companies in the sector, and how movements are pushing back against this resource-intensive vision for a green transition.

Thea Riofrancos is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, and a member of the Climate + Community Project. She’s also the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador. Follow Thea on Twitter at @triofrancos.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Thea wrote about the push to onshore mining activities and what it means for climate justice, and recently published an academic article on the “security-sustainability nexus” relating to lithium onshoring.
• EV raw material costs doubled during the pandemic, forcing many automakers to raise prices.
• A lithium mine in Portugal was scrapped after local opposition, but other projects continue to move ahead.
• The US Inflation Reduction Act included many benefits for mining companies and tied EV tax credits to mineral supply chains.

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Podcast: Manchester Green New Deal podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: "Bargaining for the future" Trade Unionism & fighting for climate in the workplace
Pub date: 2022-09-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing how the University and College Union (UCU) brought climate into their bargaining agenda, the green pay claim at University of Liverpool, the tensions of traditional trade unionism and climate protection, and how trade unions can keep institutions honest when it comes to their Net Zero commitments.

For the last three years we've been discussing how climate breakdown needs to be drawn into all areas of life, if we are to stand a chance of surviving it. This weeks guests have picked up the gauntlet and are intertwining there workplace fights and the climate.

We are delighted to be joined by two organisers from UCU, Marianne Quick Bargaining and Negotiations Official (Prisons and Sustainability) and Ben Crawford a Green rep at the University of Liverpool to discuss UCU's Green New Deal pay claim.

We discuss how UCU brought climate into their bargaining agenda, The green pay claim at Liverpool university, the tensions of traditional trade unionism and climate protection and how trade unions can keep institutions honest when it comes to their Net Zero commitments.

**Links

UCU- Green New Deal**
The German Union Marianne mentions is DGB, here's a link to their just transition paper

Students organising for Sustainability

Shout out

Save Rimrose Valley https://twitter.com/saverimrose

Students organsing for Sustainability
All UCU members at the ballot or the picket at the moment.

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Podcast: Debunking Economics - the podcast (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Energy, a free market failure
Pub date: 2022-09-14

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

It’s clear – when energy becomes short in supply, free market forces can't look after all of society. Just the wealthy. That’s why governments are having to step in, propping up an industry that is raking in massive profits. But could free market forces drive a more efficient delivery of energy by making lower cost renewable energy able to compete on a more level playing field?

It’s clear, when energy becomes short in supply, free market forces can’t look after all of society. Just the wealthy. That’s why governments are having to step in, propping up an industry that is raking in massive profits. But could free market forces drive a more efficient delivery of energy, by making lower cost renewable energy able to compete on a more level playing field. Whilst there’s no doubt pricing is distorted in favour of fossil fuel provides, Steve tells Phil there’s still no option but to nationalise the provision of energy, something we know will never happen.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Surveillance Won’t Protect Students w/ Chris Gilliard
Pub date: 2022-09-08

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Every time surveillance fails, there’s always push for more – rather than a reassessment of whether it even works as intended. This push to expand surveillance technologies has especially been felt in schools – both during the pandemic and in response to school shootings. Could these technologies really be making life worse for students without addressing the problems they claim to solve?

Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss the push to expand surveillance technologies in schools during the pandemic and in response to school shootings, and why they’re making life worse for students without addressing the problems they claim to solve.

Chris Gilliard is Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council at a recurring columnist at Wired. Follow Chris on Twitter at @hypervisible.

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The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Chris recently wrote about why school surveillance won’t protect kids from shootings.
• Chris and David Golumbia wrote about luxury surveillance for Real Life.
• Pia Ceres wrote about how students’ school devices are still tracking what they do on them.
• Amazon is launching a new show called “Ring Nation” to make Ring surveillance videos seem less invasive.
• Studies by the Center for Democracy and Technology have found negative effects from surveillance on student expression and increasing their contact with police.
• After nine members of Axon’s AI ethics board resigned, plans for a taser drone in schools seem to still be inching forward.
• Todd Feathers reported on how school monitoring tools could flag searches for sexual and reproductive health resources.
• Pasco County in Florida deployed a predictive policing system targeting children.
• Some books mentioned: David Noble Progress Without People and Forces of Production, and Dan Greene wrote The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.

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Podcast: In our Tech Society
Episode: The Quantified Worker
Pub date: 2022-09-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

What does evermore tracking and surveillance mean for workers? This discussion covers everything from the origins of quantification to algorithms and responsibility in management, and asks whether productivity (especially in ideas-generating and teamwork-based work) is actually measurable?

What does evermore tracking and surveillance mean for workers?

I'm joined by Dr Phoebe V. Moore, a Senior Policy Adviser at the International Labour Organisation and Professor of Management at the University of Essex.

2.15: Origins of quantification

7.22: Algorithms and responsibility in management

13.15: Is productivity (especially in ideas-generating and teamwork-based work) actually measurable?

20:10: Who are AI Trainers?

27.45: Automation and content moderation

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Re-revisiting The European Union’s energy crisis
Pub date: 2022-09-08

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Europe’s energy system faces unprecedented physical and institutional stress. The guests argue that an integrated European approach and a coordinated plan is essential to address the crisis.

Europe’s energy system faces unprecedented physical and institutional stress. Jeromin Zettelmeyer sits down with Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann to discuss the causes of the problem, and what solutions could be offered. Simone and Georg present their recent paper ‘A grand bargain to steer through the European Union’s energy crisis’, where they argue an integrated European approach and a coordinated plan is essential to address the crisis.

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Podcast: City Road Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 69. Visions of Nature
Pub date: 2022-09-13

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate 'nature' with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness – a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance.

Dallas talks with Jarrod Hore about Visions of Nature, which revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate “nature” with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial contexts and repositions it within a new comparative frame.

Author Jarrod Hore is an environmental historian of settler colonial landscapes, nature writing, and geology, and is currently postdoctoral fellow with the New Earth Histories Research Program, University of New South Wales, Sydney. His work on wilderness photography, early environmentalism, and the Romantic tradition in the antipodes has been published in Australian Historical Studies and History Australia. His first book, Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism is published by University of California Press.

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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Science Fiction & Social Justice — with Walidah Imarisha
Pub date: 2022-09-13

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest describes her creative works involving ideas and futures of police and prison abolition, including her book ‘Angels with Dirty Faces’, and her current work developing ‘Space to Breathe’ – a film that looks back on our present moment of the abolitionist movement from a future where police and prisons have been abolished.

Situated within the current context of police brutality, for-profit prisons, and excessive incarceration rates, Am Johal sits down with educator, writer, and public scholar, Walidah Imarisha.

Walidah describes her creative works involving ideas and futures of police and prison abolition, including her book Angels with Dirty Faces, and her current work developing Space to Breathe – a film that looks back on our present moment of the abolitionist movement from a future where police and prisons have been abolished. She also shares her collaboration with adrienne maree brown in the creating the Octavia's Brood, an anthology inspired out of their desire to push movement organizers beyond ideas if “realistic” change.

Throughout the interview Walidah also speaks about science fiction as an avenue to inspire greater imaginings for social change, and discusses white supremacy, imperial colonialism, and white “progressiveness” within the past and present histories of Oregon and The United States.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/185-walidah-imarisha.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/185-walidah-imarisha.html

Resources: Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements: https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html Walida’s website: https://www.walidah.com/ Below the Radar with adrienne maree brown: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/166-adrienne-maree-brown/ Space to Breath film: https://www.walidah.com/blog/2021/3/24/grant-recipient-for-sci-fi-documentary-film Angels with Dirty Faces: https://www.akpress.org/angelswithdirtyfaces.html What a City Is For by Matt Hern: https://www.akpress.org/angelswithdirtyfaces.html

Bio: Walidah Imarisha is an educator, writer, public scholar and spoken word artist.

She has co-edited two anthologies, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements and Another World is Possible. Imarisha’s nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption won a 2017 Oregon Book Award. She is also the author of the poetry collection Scars/Stars, and in 2015, she received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing.

Imarisha is currently an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Department and Director of the Center for Black Studies at Portland State University. In the past, she has taught at Stanford University, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts and Oregon State University.

For six years, she presented statewide as a public scholar with Oregon Humanities' Conversation Project on several topics, including Oregon Black history. She was one of the founders and first editor of the political hip hop magazine AWOL.

She has toured the country many times performing, lecturing and challenging, and has shared the stage with folks as different as Angela Davis, Cornel West, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Kenny Muhammad of the Roots, Chuck D, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Robin D.G. Kelley, Umar bin Hassan from The Last Poets, Boots Riley, Saul Williams, Ani DiFranco, John Irving, dead prez, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuri Kochiyama.

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Podcast: Upstream (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 14: The Green Transition – The Problem with Green Capitalism Part 1 (Documentary)
Pub date: 2022-09-13

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Exploring what happens when we simply paint capitalism green without addressing its fundamental global operating principles and processes. What is the dark side of the energy transition – particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?

It’s clear that we need to decarbonize our economy as quickly as possible in order to avoid the worst of climate change — but carbon isn’t the only problem we’re facing. As the world moves towards renewables and away from fossil fuels as an energy source, we can’t forget that the technology and minerals behind this green transition need to come from somewhere — and that somewhere is primarily countries in the Global South.

The supply chains which carry the lithium, copper, cobalt, and other minerals essential for renewable technology from the peripheries to the imperial cores — from places like Chile and Bolivia to places like the United States and Europe — are built upon a foundation of colonialism, imperialism, hyper-exploitation, and ecocide: all essential components of our current economic system — capitalism.

In part one of this two-part series on the green transition, we’re going to explore what happens when we simply paint capitalism green without addressing its fundamental global operating principles and processes. What is the dark side of the energy transition — particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?

In part two, we dive deeper into some solutions, but in this episode, we start our journey in the Atacama desert of Chile and end all the way in the Arctic Circle, exploring the global extractive machine and the communities that exist on its frontiers.

Featured Guests:

Max Ajl: Associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, author of A People’s Green New Deal

Ana Julia Aneise: Youth climate activist with Youth for Climate

Sergio Chaparro: Colombian human rights activist and researcher

Jason Hickel: Economic anthropologist and author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Beaska Niillas: Northern Sámi traditional handicrafter, hunter and gatherer, activist, Sámi school kindergarten teacher, politician, and the host of the SuperSápmi Podcast

Thea Riofrancos: Associate professor of political science at Providence College and co-author of A Planet To Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

Matthias Schmelzer: Economic historian at the University of Vienna and co-author of The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism

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Podcast: Rising Up With Sonali (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Pub date: 2022-09-08

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The pandemic revealed in stark terms that when disaster strikes it does not affect people equally. Today’s billionaires, especially those in the technology industry who believe modern innovations can save us from anything and everything, are struggling with climate change and other similarly inevitable disasters. They are not, it turns out to no one’s surprise, trying to figure out how humanity will survive, but rather how they as individuals will survive.

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FEATURING DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF - The COVID-19 pandemic revealed in stark terms that when disaster strikes it does not affect people equally. Although many people insisted that “we are all in this together,” disparities became starkly visible along lines of race, gender, immigration, and of course wealth. Today’s billionaires, especially those in the technology industry who believe modern innovations can save us from anything and everything, are struggling with climate change and other similarly inevitable disasters. They are not, it turns out to no one’s surprise, trying to figure out how humanity will survive, but rather how they as individuals will survive.

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Podcast: Manchester Green New Deal podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Climate & Revolution: How do we transition from catastrophe?
Pub date: 2022-09-12

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

It could be argued that the climate movement is split into two camps: those studying effects of climate change, and those who are drawing the new worlds we could live in when the catastrophe is finally over. Could the Leninist tradition of anti-imperialism be a key component in the political battles that will take place to stop climate breakdown? This conversation also discusses why institutions are key battle grounds for the climate movement, and how the establishment is already adapting to climate breakdown. "How do we get from here, to there?" This week on the show we are joined by GND Media stalwart Kai Heron and his co-author on a new piece about transition for the climate movement Jodi Dean. We discuss how the Leninist tradition of anti-imperialism should be a key component in the political battles that will take place to stop climate breakdown, why institutions are key battle grounds for the climate movement and how the establishment is already adapting to climate breakdown.

This episode was recorded on the 28th of July 2022
It could be argued that the climate movement is split into two camps. Those studying and discussing the affects of climate change and those that are drawing the new worlds we could live in when the catastrophe is finally over. So the question we should really be asking is

"How do we get from here, to there?"

This week on the show we are joined by GND Media stalwart Kai Heron and his co-author on a new piece about transition for the climate movement Jodi Dean.

We discuss how the Leninist tradition of anti-imperialism should be a key component in the political battles that will take place to stop climate breakdown, why institutions are key battle grounds for the climate movement and how the establishment is already adapting to climate breakdown.

Links
Jodi and Kai's article "Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition"

Shout outs
Tina Landis and there book climate solutions beyond capitalism

Party of Socialism and Liberation

Mick Lynch - General sec of the RMT

Thea Riofrancos review of Andreas Malms work at the Nation "Should the climate movement embrace sabotage?"

Rank and file union workers on strike

Dont Pay UK

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Podcast: Meet The Education Researcher (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Education in an era of pervasive automation (Mark Andrejevic)
Pub date: 2022-08-31

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Ever-expanding digital monitoring has combined with algorithmic decision-making and machine learning to create new forms of power and control that pose challenges to democratic forms of accountability and individual autonomy alike. How are these dynamics playing out in the realm of education?

Mark Andrejevic (Monash University) is a leading commentator on surveillance, information and digital media.

In this interview Mark looks back on his highly acclaimed 2020 book ‘Automated Media’, and considers how these issues are beginning to play out in the digital technologies now being taken up across schools and universities.

Full transcript available: https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Education_In_an_Era_of_Pervasive_Automation/20744332

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Amazon’s Highly Subsidized Foray Into Middle-Earth w/ Thomas Coughlan
Pub date: 2022-09-01

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Reporting on Amazon’s foray into Tolkien’s fantasy world, the big subsidies it received to film in New Zealand, and how its decision to move the series to the UK is giving fuel to demands to reassess the support for Hollywood productions.

Paris Marx is joined by Thomas Coughlan to discuss Amazon’s foray into Tolkien’s fantasy world, the big subsidies it received to film in New Zealand, and how its decision to move the series to the UK is giving fuel to demands to reassess the support for Hollywood productions.

Thomas Coughlan is a senior political reporter at NZ Herald, and formerly was a journalist at Stuff and Newsroom. Follow Thomas on Twitter at @coughlthom.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Thomas wrote for Stuff about the effort by the New Zealand government to attract Amazon to New Zealand and how it hoped the relationship would go beyond the TV series. For the NZ Herald, he also wrote that Amazon’s decision to move the series away from New Zealand will have implications for tourism and wasn’t communicated to the government until the last minute.
• Benjamin Clark wrote about how film subsidies have been essential to attracted big Hollywood productions to New Zealand.
• Madelaine Chapman dug into how much Peter Jackson has benefited from those subsidy schemes.
• Amazon is spending about $464 million on the first season of The Rings of Power.
• Amazon announced it was moving future seasons of the show to the UK in August 2021, causing frustration in New Zealand.
• There were concerns about safety on the set of The Rings of Power after stunt workers were injured and they didn’t seem to be properly reported to authorities.
• In November 2021, Unity acquired the technology division of Jackson’s Weta Digital.
• There’s also a growing debate in New Zealand over whether it should be the site of major data centers.

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Podcast: Bloomsbury Academic Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Your Boss is an Algorithm, part two
Pub date: 2022-09-02

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Examining the effect that robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the world of work. This episode also explores what algorithms have to do with labour, how Covid has impacted certain platforms and algorithms, how digital spaces and technology can replicate power structures, and much more.

If you would like to buy your own copy of Your Boss is an Algorithm, go to the Bloomsbury website and use code pod35 followed your respective country code, US, UK, CA, AU, depending on where you are located.

Antonio Aloisi is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and Assistant Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law at IE Law School, Madrid, Spain, and Valerio De Stefano is Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada. Together, they are the authors of Your Boss Is an Algorithm. In part two of this episode, we discuss how to address the pervasive power of AI-enabled monitoring, the likelihood that the gig-economy model will emerge as a new organizational paradigm, what social partners and political players can do to adopt effective regulations that protect workers, and even what a future without work could look like. Take a listen.

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Podcast: LSE IQ podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: What’s the future of capitalism?
Pub date: 2022-09-06

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On defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics, and defying the Bolsheviks.

Contributor(s): Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg, Tomila Lankina | Joanna Bale talks to Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg and Tomila Lankina about defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics and defying the Bolsheviks.

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Podcast: Activist #MMT - podcast (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Modern Money Doughnuts, seas2-ep12: Fadhel Kaboub: climate justice and monetary sovereignty (audio podcast)
Pub date: 2022-09-05

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing the factors driving global food prices, and delving into the guest's role in climate change discussions among African politicians and diplomats.

Welcome to season 2, episode 12 of Modern Money Doughnuts (MMD), hosted by Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. MMD is an international show about modern monetary theory and ecological economics. This week, Steven and Gabie talk to Fadhel Kaboub, the President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and consultant to Modern Money Lab , is one of the world's leading MMT economists and an expert on sustainability, and the global south. We asked Fadhel about what has been driving global food prices, about his role in climate change discussions among African politicians and diplomats.

(All episodes of Modern Money Donuts can be found on this page by Modern Money Labs.)

Here's the video from which this audio comes from. (The audio is unedited.)

MMD is hosted by Kerberos Media, and the audio podcast is, for now, hosted by Activist #MMT. So if you'd like to be automatically notified of each new MMD episode, then subscribe to Activist #MMT on your favorite podcast platform.

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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Heterodoxy: The Secret Club that Sparked the Feminist Movement
Pub date: 2022-09-01

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On a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich Village restaurant, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of a secret social club whose members were passionate advocates of free love, equal marriage, and easier divorce. They were socialites and socialists; reformers and revolutionaries; artists, writers, and scientists. Their club, at the heart of US bohemia, was a springboard for parties, performances, and radical politics.

Guest: Joanna Scutts is a literary critic, historian, and author of The Extra Woman and her latest, Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism. Her writing appear in several outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and the Paris Review series Feminize Your Canon.

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Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Does Software Actually Slow Innovation?
Pub date: 2022-08-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Why have labour and productivity growth slowed? The guest argues the problem isn't fewer productive startups, or M&A activity (which has actually slowed), but big corporations dominating by mastering ‘proprietary’ software – the intersection of technology and data – which has had major negative societal consequences.

Why have labor and productivity growth slowed?

Software entrepreneur-turned-academic researcher, James Bessen, argues the problem isn't fewer productive startups, or M&A activity (which has actually slowed), but big corporations dominating by mastering "proprietary" software — the intersection of technology and data — which has had major negative societal consequences. He walks Luigi and Bethany through examples such as IBM, Amazon Web Services, Volkswagen, and more to discuss what's wrong with our current patent system and makes a case for opening up technology, data, and knowledge in order to restore competition.

Bessen is the Executive Director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University and his book, "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation", is out now.

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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Power of Organizing with David Van Deusen
Pub date: 2022-08-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The president of the Vermont State Labour Council, AFL-CIO, talks about their radical ten-point program, adopted in 2019. He explains why they were spurred to develop the plan and breaks down what it means in practice as they move away from lobbying and expand their focus on the rank-and-file.

David Van Deusen, president of the Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, talks to Steve about their radical ten-point program, adopted in 2019. In the interview, he explains why they were spurred to develop the plan and breaks down what it means in practice as they move away from lobbying and expand their focus on the rank-and-file. This includes training workshops for non-union workers – How to Organize 101.

David describes their approach to building a social justice-oriented labor movement. They work with groups like Migrant Justice to support efforts to ensure safe and fair working conditions for undocumented farm workers. They seek to build bridges to non-labor organizations, “be they farmer or environmental groups, (who) are ready and able to embrace our core working class values.”

The fifth item of the ten-point plan calls for a Green New Deal. This is followed by item number six, “Electoral Politics,” which begins: “The time of the VT AFL-CIO endorsing candidates simply because they are a Democrat is over.”

Below are excerpts from the preamble to the Vermont AFL-CIO Ten Point Program:

A NEW PATH TOWARDS PROGRESSIVE CHANGE FOR LABOR

Organized Labor has been the most powerful force for change in the History of the United States of America. From the 8 hour day/40 hour work week, the establishment of the weekend, livable wages (in Union shops), to workplace safety standards; Labor has won these foundational victories through collective action and solidarity. However, for some decades Labor, nationally, has been on the decline.

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This wilting of Labor does not have to be. We can (and must) be a social and political power once again; one capable not only of defending against the attacks we now face from DC, but also of going on the offensive and delivering positive life altering changes for working people. But we will not achieve our potential if we stay on the road more traveled. We cannot continue to do what we have always done and expect a different result. Nor can we be satisfied with candidates that run for Union office who support all the good things, but who neglect to tell us how we will get there. Instead we must be bold, we must experiment, and we must forge a way forward which not only transforms the Vermont AFL-CIO, but also delivers a powerful Labor Movement with the muscle needed to transform Vermont as a whole. And here, the Vermont we intend to deliver is one wherein working class people not only possess the means to live a secure and dignified life, but one where we, as the great majority, wield the democratic power required to give social and political expression to the many. Such a transformative potential presupposes first a unity around an effective program, and second the development of our immediate political power.

To learn more about Vermont AFL-CIO and see the ten-point plan in its entirety, go to https://vt.aflcio.org/news/vermont-afl-cio-ten-point-program

David Van Deusen, President of the Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, was elected to office in 2019 as part of the progressive United! Slate. He is a member of AFSCME Local 2413 (Northeast Kingdom), serves on the Labor for Single Payer national Advisory Board, and is a member of Labor Against Racism & War's national Representatives Assembly. Van Deusen is also a member of Democratic Socialists of America and a past member of Anti-Racist Action.

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Podcast: The Science Hour (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Deadly drought
Pub date: 2022-08-20

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East Africa has endured more than two years of continuous drought. The latest predictions suggest the drought is not likely to end any time soon. This episode looks at why climate change and weather patterns in the Pacific and Indian oceans are largely to blame.

East Africa has endured more than two years on continuous drought. The latest predictions suggest the drought is not likely to end any time soon. We look at why climate change and weather patterns in the Pacific and Indian oceans are largely to blame.

Andrea Taschetto, chief investigator at the Centre on Climate Extremes at the University of New South Wales discusses the latest predictions Drought has also been an issue in Europe, comparable with events nearly 500 years ago.

Chantal Camenisch at the Institute of History at Bern University in Switzerland has been delving into European drought history and says despite the vast differences in living conditions there are many parallels with today. When a dinosaur killing asteroid hit the earth did it have company? A suspected impact crater discovered off the coast of West Africa may have been caused at around the same time . Heriot Watt University geostratigrapher Uisdean Nicholson and University of Texas geologist Sean Gulick have been investigating. And we have some of the answers to why T Rex had such small eyes for the size of its skull, Stephan Lautenschlager at the University of Birmingham has the gruesome answer.

Also, Have you ever wondered why waterfalls appear white when still water is transparent? Why clouds, or snow, appear white when they too are essentially just water molecules in different states? What makes something white, opaque or transparent? These are the questions CrowdScience listener Gerardo has been pondering ever since taking in the beauty of fallen water on a hiking trail in his home of Cantabria, Northern Spain. Presenter Marnie, sets off on a quest to find out the answers to all of those questions and more. What even is white? Is it a colour, the absence of colour or all the colours of the rainbow combined? Is black really the opposite of white? And what colours do we mix to make white or black paint?

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons from the rise in self-employment
Pub date: 2022-08-24

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

What does the future look like for the self-employed and what does it mean for traditional workers?

Independent work, self-employment and the gig economy have been evolving in the past decade, changing our understanding of traditional employment. However, with the rise in self-employment comes the need to adapt our laws and legislation to accommodate pension schemes and benefits that many self-employed do not have, compared with their traditional counterparts.

In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Diane Mulcahy and Milena Nikolova of Bruegel, to discuss the future of self-employment, what it means for traditional workers, and what it entails for policymakers.

This podcast was produced within the project “Future of Work and Inclusive Growth in Europe“, with the financial support of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.

Relevant Publications:

• Nikolova, Milena (2022) ‘Can working solo be good for entrepreneurs?’, Bruegel Blog, 13 July
• Gruber-Risak, M., Hatzopoulos, V. and D.Mulcahy (2022) ‘Policies to support the self-employed in the labour markets of the future’, Policy Contribution 08/2022, Bruegel
• Christie, R., M. Grzegorczyk and D. Mulcahy (2022) ‘Better pensions for the European Union’s self-employed', Policy Contribution 05/2022, Bruegel

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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Judging Platform Responses to Election Mis- and Disinformation
Pub date: 2022-08-28

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A discussion on the relationship between social media, message apps and election mis- and disinformation.

In last Sunday’s podcast, I promised an occasional series of discussions on the relationship between social media, message apps and election mis- and disinformation. In today’s show, I’m joined by two guests who just did a deep dive into the issue, producing a 'score card' that compares the policies and performance of the tech companies on multiple dimensions for New America’s Open Technology Institute:

• Spandana (Spandi) Singh, a policy analyst at New America's Open Technology Institute, and
• Quinn Anex-Ries, a PhD candidate in American Studies at USC and an intern with the Open Technology Institute this summer.

Their findings are summarized in a report, Misleading Information and the Midterms: How Platforms are Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation Ahead of the 2022 U.S. Elections.

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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Future of the European Union: A Discussion with Luuk van Middelaar
Pub date: 2022-08-30

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The Brexit debate has been so all-consuming and filled with so much misinformation that many Brits and others can overlook some of the challenges facing the EU itself. Looked at in broad terms, it has been an astonishingly successful political project, having delivered 70 years of peace and prosperity. But what lies ahead? What issues does it need to tackle to maintain that kind of success?

The Brexit debate has been so all-consuming and filled with so much misinformation that many Brits and others can overlook some the challenges facing the European Union itself. Looked at in broad terms, it has been an astonishingly successful political project, having delivered 70 years of peace and prosperity. But what lies ahead? What issues does it need to tackle to maintain that kind of success? Luuk van Middelaar is a Dutch historian, Professor of EU law at Leiden University. He has worked at the heart of EU institutions and give his observations and analysis of the underlying tensions in the EU and what lies ahead.

Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.

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Podcast: EconoFact Chats (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Jeffry Frieden on the Plateauing of Globalization
Pub date: 2022-07-03

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Looking from the early 2000s, the rise in international trade and financial flows seemed almost inexorable. Yet, political opposition to greater integration grew significantly over the past decade. This opposition intensified with the pandemic, which led people to question how dependent they should be on other countries for supplies of essential goods. What does this growing opposition portend for the future of globalisation? And how does it play out in the political sphere in the US and in other countries?

Looking from the early 2000s, the rise in international trade and financial flows seemed almost inexorable. Yet, political opposition to greater integration grew significantly over the past decade. This opposition intensified with the pandemic, which led people to question how dependent they should be on other countries for supplies of essential goods.

What does this growing opposition portend for the future of globalization? And how does it play out in the political sphere in the U.S. and in other countries? To discuss these issues, EconoFact Chats welcomes back Jeffry Frieden of Harvard University.

Jeff is a Professor and Chair of the Government Department at Harvard University.

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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Long Reads: Adrienne Buller on the Rise of Asset-Manager Capitalism
Pub date: 2022-07-16

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Since March 2020, we have witnessed the extraordinary growth of asset manager capitalism and the explosive concentration of wealth within the hands of the super-rich. The systemic change we need to overcome this hinges on a new era of democratic ownership: a reinvention of the firm as a vehicle for meeting social needs; against the oligarchy of the platform giants; and a new agenda of green decommodification.

Adrienne Buller joins Long Reads for a discussion about "asset-manager capitalism" and the climate crisis. Adrienne is senior research fellow at Common Wealth, a progressive think tank, and co-author of the forthcoming book Owning the Future.

Read Adrienne's review of Trillions here: https://jacobin.com/2022/03/index-funds-blackrock-vanguard-stocks-ownership-democracy-concentration/

And her report for Common Wealth here: https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/asset-manager-capitalism-where-next

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Heejung Chung, "The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation" (Polity Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-07-26

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Setting out the paradox that even though flexible working seems to offer more control over work, it leads to a worse work/life balance and makes more demands on staff.

Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation (Polity Press, 2022), Heejung Chung, a professor of sociology and social policy at the University of Kent, looks a contemporary employment practices to tell the story of the rise of flexible working and its impact on workers, individuals, and families. The book sets out the paradox that even though flexible working seems to offer more control over work, it leads to a worse work/life balance and makes more demands on staff. The paradox is also not evenly distributed, and the book pays close attention to the importance of gender in understanding how flexible work interacts with domestic labour to impact on women’s lives. Packed with rich, cross-national data, along with analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the book is essential across social science disciplines and for anyone interested in contemporary working life!

Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield.

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Podcast: Darts and Letters (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: EP61: Enter the Metaverse (ft. Sandrine Han and Ian Bogost
Pub date: 2022-07-15

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Exploring the metaverse: First, through a love story from the glory days of Second Life, and then via a deep dive into the corporatisation of the metaverse. This episode covers how the metaverse has grown from a dystopian warning from science fiction to a sinister data-mining reality – and how even the shiniest of tech utopias are still functioning under the same old capitalism.

The term “metaverse” was coined in a 1993 science fiction novel. Since then, it’s grown from a dystopian literary concept to a reality that corporations want to sell you. Strap on some VR goggles and escape your tired analog life! Except that the systemic issues we already have seem to be creeping into the metaverse, too.

As the lines between virtuality and physicality continue to blur, companies like Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta are setting their sights on virtual worlds. It’s a new frontier, full of potential – and full of our valuable data. Metaverses like Second Life or World of Warcraft can be positive and even game-changing experiences on the individual level, but when it comes to the navigating a virtual society with a capitalist backdrop…things get a bit dicey.

On this episode, guest host and producer Ren Bangert explores the metaverse. First, we hear a love story from the glory days of Second Life, told to us by Sandrine Han – a scholar of virtual worlds and a long-time Second Lifer. Then, writer and game developer Ian Bogost takes us on a deep dive into the corporatization of the metaverse. We’ll hear how the metaverse has grown from a dystopian warning from science fiction to a sinister data-mining reality – and how even the shiniest of tech utopias are still functioning under the same old capitalism.

——————-FURTHER READING, LISTENING AND WATCHING——————

• Check out Ian Bogost’s article “The Metaverse is Bad” in The Atlantic. Ian’s got lots of excellent reading content listed on his website – perfect for a deep dive into game theory. * For a further imagining of democracy in a metaverse, check out Eliane Boey’s short story “The Forgotten”. You can read it in Clarkesworld Magazine, or listen to an audio version on the Clarkesworld podcast. * Watch the Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern get trapped in the metaverse for 24 hours. It’s a an emotional rollercoaster.

——————-EVEN MORE READING——————

• Han, H. C. (2013). Visual learning in the virtual world: The hidden curriculum of imagery in Second Life. Immersive Environments, Augmented Realities and Virtual Worlds: Assessing Future Trends in Education. http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/visual-learning-virtual-world/74048* Stephenson, N. (1993). Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books.

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Podcast: IRL: Online Life Is Real Life (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Tech We Won’t Build
Pub date: 2022-07-18

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Where should tech builders draw the line on AI for military or surveillance? Just because it can be built, doesn’t mean it should be. At what point do we blow the whistle, call out the boss, and tell the world? This episode finds out what it’s like to sound the alarm from inside a big tech company, and more.

Where should tech builders draw the line on AI for military or surveillance? Just because it can be built, doesn’t mean it should be. At what point do we blow the whistle, call out the boss, and tell the world? Find out what it’s like to sound the alarm from inside a big tech company.

Laura Nolan shares the story behind her decision to leave Google in 2018 over their involvement in Project Maven, a Pentagon project which used AI by Google.

Yves Moreau explains why he is calling on academic journals and international publishers to retract papers that use facial recognition and DNA profiling of minority groups.

Yeshimabeit Milner describes how the non-profit Data for Black Lives is pushing back against use of AI powered tools used to surveil and criminalize Black and Brown communities.

Shmyla Khan, describes being on the receiving end of technologies developed by foreign superpowers as a researcher with the Digital Rights Foundation in Pakistan.

IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla, the non-profit behind Firefox. In Season 6, host Bridget Todd shares stories of people who make AI more trustworthy in real life. This season doubles as Mozilla’s 2022 Internet Health Report. Go to the report for show notes, transcripts, and more.

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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TBD | Silicon Valley's Hidden Discrimination
Pub date: 2022-07-17

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The guest was scheduled to give a talk at Google for Dalit History Month. It led to vicious attacks against her from some of its employees.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan was scheduled to give a talk at Google for Dalit History Month. It led to vicious attacks against her from some of its employees.

Guest: Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Host: Lizzie O'Leary

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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind
Pub date: 2022-07-20

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Trolling, conspiracy theories, racist algorithms, cyberwarfare – every day our headlines are ablaze with negative stories about the internet. The problem? The unaccountable power of the big tech companies.

Trolling, conspiracy theories, racist algorithms, cyberwarfare – every day our headlines are ablaze with negative stories about the internet. The problem? The unaccountable power of the big tech companies. That’s the view of bestselling author and barrister Jamie Susskind. His new book is The Digital Republic, which sets out his vision for a different type of society in which humans can take power back and reshape the digital world into a space where we can all flourish. Joining Jamie in conversation is another writer and strategic advisor working where culture and technology meet, Nina Schick, author of Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse.

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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Citizens' Ledger with Robert Hockett
Pub date: 2022-07-23

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Just about everyone acknowledges that digital payment systems offer enormous convenience, but we're equally aware they come with a cost – we lose all claim to privacy. The guest presents sound arguments for halting the private takeover of the public commons.

Robert Hockett joins Steve to talk about his latest book, The Citizens’ Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Future. The episode is right at home in our archive of interviews around the topics of fintech, digital wallets, cryptocurrency, CBDCs, and privacy. We urge our listeners to look up past episodes featuring Brett Scott and Rohan Grey.

Just about everyone acknowledges that digital payment systems offer enormous convenience, but we’re equally aware they come with a cost – we lose all claim to privacy. Bob presents sound arguments for halting the private takeover of the public commons.

“If we think in terms of the commons ... you might say that what the private sector fintech industry is trying to do, and what the private sector crypto industry seems to be trying to do, is to displace actual physical cash; in effect to take away that commons and replace it with a bunch of proprietary fiefdoms.”

Cryptopians, as Bob calls them, are touting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as creating some kind of democratic new world of sovereign selfhood. This is patently absurd. Bob makes the case that we could develop a digital system – a digital wallet – with all the attractive attributes of cash, including privacy and universal accessibility.

Bob describes a way for individuals to pay, receive, and save, while completely bypassing private banks and financial institutions. He says it could be run by the Fed, the Treasury, or both. The Fed would have new monetary tools that directly benefit people instead of banks.

Steve and Bob discuss concerns about government overreach and consider the kinds of regulatory laws that would need to be in place.

As for privacy, well, do you have a smartphone with GPS? Are you making purchases online? Or with a credit card? It’s already too easy to peer into our lives. Unlike private entities, neither the Fed nor the Treasury are profiting from our transactions.

“Obviously it's like a never-ending quest to get our data protected and to prevent overreach by federal agencies ... But all I mean to say is that I don't think that introducing the system introduces new vulnerabilities that aren't already there.”

Bob usually has a rosier view than we do at Macro N Cheese, but he always gives us something to chew on. This episode will have you thinking about history, policy, and possibilities.

Robert C. Hockett is an American lawyer, law professor, and policy advocate. He holds two positions at Cornell University and is senior counsel at investment firm Westwood Capital, LLC. His latest book is The Citizens’ Ledger: Digitizing Our Money, Democratizing Our Future.

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Podcast: From Here Forward (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Gig Economy: Friend or Foe?
Pub date: 2022-07-18

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A conversation with the director of 'The Gig is Up', a documentary that uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of people working for companies around the world, including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo. Hear about the ways the global gig economy is impacting not only the future of work, but society as a whole.

Carol and Rumneek speak with Shannon Walsh, an associate professor in the Department of Film and Theater at UBC, and also a filmmaker. Her fifth and latest film is The Gig is Up. Hear about the ways the global gig economy is impacting not only the future of work, but society as a whole.

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ariel Ezrachi: How Cities, Rather Than Big Tech, Should Be the Engine for a More Equitable Digital Future
Pub date: 2022-07-25

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Deconstructing the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explaining how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assessing the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outlining policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Ariel Ezrachi, co-author of of How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—And How to Strike Back.

Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He serves as the Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (OUP) and the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of numerous books, including Virtual Competition – The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm Driven Economy (2016, Harvard), EU Competition Law – An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases (6th ed, 2018, Hart), Global Antitrust Compliance Handbook (2014, OUP), Research Handbook on International Competition Law (2012 EE), Intellectual Property and Competition Law: New Frontiers (2011, OUP), Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement (2011, Hart), Article 82 EC – Reflections on its recent evolution (2009, Hart) and Private Labels, Brands and Competition Policy (2009, OUP).

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Episode: skeptechs 3.10: A Tale of Two Tech Firms
Pub date: 2022-07-15

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Uber was hit with revelations about its corporate practices and cosiness with politicians after a leak and faces a new lawsuit over scores of sexual assault allegations. Meanwhile, Twitter is suing the Indian government to protest against censorship, and is suing Elon Musk to force him to close a deal to buy the company.

Josh and Nayana are back to beat the heat, illness and dodgy wifi to discuss news involving Uber and Twitter. Last week Uber was hit with revelations about its corporate practices and cosiness with politicians after a leak, and faces a new lawsuit over scores of sexual assault allegations. Meanwhile, Twitter is suing the Indian government to protest against censorship, and is suing Elon Musk to force him to close a deal to buy the company.

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Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: We can redefine worker power (with Elizabeth Anderson)
Pub date: 2022-07-19

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What are the ethical limits of the market? How do we shift the balances of power back towards workers? What does true freedom really look like?

What are the ethical limits of the market? How do we shift the balances of power back towards workers? What does true freedom really look like? Nick and Goldy explore these questions and more in a fascinating conversation with Philosophy Professor, Elizabeth Anderson.

This episode was originally released in September 2020.

Elizabeth Anderson is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk About It), and a recipient of the 2019 MacArthur Fellowship.

Private Government: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691176512/private-government

The philosopher redefining equality: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/the-philosopher-redefining-equality

Website: https://pitchforkeconomics.com

Twitter: @PitchforkEcon

Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics

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Podcast: The Decibel (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: City Space: How can cities prepare for climate change?
Pub date: 2022-07-15

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Climate change isn't just coming – it’s here. And cities are uniquely susceptible to its effects because of their population density and infrastructure. So how can they better prepare for the increasingly devastating impacts of the climate crisis?

Today we're bringing you an episode of City Space, a Globe and Mail podcast about how to make our cities better, hosted by Adrian Lee.

Climate change isn’t just coming, it’s here. And cities are uniquely susceptible to its effects because of their population density and infrastructure. So how can they better prepare for the increasingly devastating impacts of the climate crisis? In this episode, we explore the concept of climate resilience — how prepared are cities to anticipate, prepare for and respond to natural disasters? We hear from Thaddeus Pawlowski, an urban designer, professor and managing director at the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes at Columbia University, who was on the ground helping New York City rebuild after Hurricane Sandy. Plus, Adrian speaks to Toronto’s former Chief Resilience Officer Elliott Cappell about how he helped Toronto develop a plan to deal with climate disasters and what gives him hope for our future.

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Saleem H. Ali: Do We Need a Science Party to Confront Existential Problems Like Global Warming?
Pub date: 2022-07-17

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Humanity has either tried to conquer or capitulate to natural order, whereas we should be seeking to understand latent structures and patterns that permeate all systems and develop an earthly order that is socially functional and sustainable.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Saleem H. Ali, author of Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life.

Saleem H. Ali was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts but grew up in Lahore, Pakistan until his college years, receiving his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Tufts University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in environmental policy and planning at Yale and MIT, respectively. He currently holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware (USA) and is Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia). Dr. Ali's laurels include being a National Geographic Explorer (having travelled for research to over 150 countries); being chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serving on the seven-member science panel of the Global Environment Facility (the world's largest multilateral trust fund for the environment held in trusteeship by the World Bank).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art sand the Royal Geographical Society in the United Kingdom and also serves on the boards of Adventure Scientists and Mediators Beyond Borders International. Along with his wife Maria and sons Shahmir and Shahroze, the family are citizens of Australia, Pakistan, and the United States.

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-07-27

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Exploring the political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a fringe research interest for a handful of scientists in the 1950s to a centrepiece of cybernetic capital fifty years later to argue that the popular theory of immaterial labour does not adequately describe the situation of high-tech digital labour today.

Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning. It includes a political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a fringe research interest for a handful of scientists in the 1950s to a centerpiece of cybernetic capital fifty years later. It also includes a political economic study of the scale, scope and dynamics of the contemporary AI industry as well as a labour process analysis of commercial machine learning software production, based on interviews with workers and management in AI companies around the world, ranging from tiny startups to giant technology firms. On the basis of this study, Steinhoff develops a Marxist analysis to argue that the popular theory of immaterial labour, which holds that information technologies increase the autonomy of workers from capital, tending towards a post-capitalist economy, does not adequately describe the situation of high-tech digital labour today. In the AI industry, digital labour remains firmly under the control of capital. Steinhoff argues that theories discerning therein an emergent autonomy of labour are in fact witnessing labour’s increasing automation.

James Steinhoff is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Reuben Niewenhuis works as a software developer for a warehouse automation company. He double majored in computer science and philosophy at Calvin University. In addition to philosophical theory, he is interested in interdisciplinary topics.

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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TBD | Smart City: Dumb Idea?
Pub date: 2022-07-24

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Waterfront Toronto was supposed to be a smart city. A subsidiary of Google had big ambitions for Toronto: it would come in and transform the neighborhood with everything built on top of the tech. It would be robotaxis, autonomous trash pickup, and an extensive system of data monitoring. But the project failed spectacularly. What are the lessons?

Toronto’s Quayside project is a telling example of how smart cities have failed. Could it also show how to make them better?

Guest: Ben Green, Jennifer Keesmaat

Host: Lizzie O'Leary

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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Grassroots data – holding the powerful to account
Pub date: 2022-07-26

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There are many investigators on the internet that are gathering Open Source Intelligence and conduct research and verification, much of it focussed on war zones. The most prominent collective in this field is the NGO Bellingcat. This episode explores how they crowdsource part of their investigations, and we hear from several hobbyists who rose to prominence on Twitter about why they spent much of their free time on this type of research.

Open source investigators We live in an age where there is data on almost everything, and a large chunk of it is publicly available. You only need to know where to look. There are many investigators on the internet that are gathering Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT for short, and conduct research and verification, much of it focussed on war zones. The most prominent collective in this field is the NGO Bellingcat, but there is a whole ecosystem of amateur sleuths online. Gareth speaks to Charlotte Godart who leads the volunteer programme at Bellingcat, on how they effectively crowdsource part of their investigations, and we hear from several hobbyists who rose to prominence on Twitter about why they spent much of their free time on this type of research.

Data tackling gun violence Brazil has a gun violence issue, and a public data issue. In the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, there were, on average, 13 shootings every single day last year, and the only reason we know this is because of open data platform Fogo Cruzado. They collect data in real-time on shootings happening in Rio and other cities across Brazil via their app, social media, and public police reports, and they make that data publicly available for ordinary citizens, organisations, and journalists to use. The founder of Fogo Cruzado, Cecília Olliveira, explains how it all works, and how having data can help set the public agenda.

The blue map: environmentalist action in China Only 10 years ago, Beijing was a city covered in smog with many residents opting to wear pollution masks. Now, the situation has, remarkably, improved, with blue skies being a normal sight. One possible reason for this drastic change is environmentalist Ma Jun, who, in 2006, started the blue map database aggregating government data and making it more easily accessible to the public. Since then, the blue map project has grown into an app that lets users check many types of environmental data and even contribute to the database themselves by simply taking a picture of a dirty river, a cloud of smog, or a factory that isn’t following environmental guidelines. Gareth speaks to Ma Jun, founding director of China’s Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs and founder of the Blue Map, about how this crowdsourcing approach works, and how environmental activism in China differs from Western countries.

The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Angelica Mari.

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Artificial intelligence and job quality
Pub date: 2022-07-27

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Artificial intelligence and automation are increasing in their roles, and no industry is immune. From doctors to gig workers, advances in AI are becoming a key determinant of job quality. This episode discusses how technology affects work, whether in a good or bad way, and what we should take into consideration for the future.

Artificial intelligence and automation are increasing in role, and no industry is immune. From doctors to gig workers, advances in AI are becoming a key determinant of job quality. This week on The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Laura Nurski and Mia Hoffmann, to discuss how technology affects work, whether good or bad, and what should we take into consideration for the future?

This podcast was produced within the project “Future of Work and Inclusive Growth in Europe“, with the financial support of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.

Relevant Publications:

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/german-facebook-probe-links-data-protection-and-competition-policy | German Facebook probe links data protection and competition policy

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/uber-and-economic-impact-sharing-economy-platforms | Uber and the economic impact of sharing economy platforms

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/economic-value-personal-data-online-platforms-firms-and-consumers | The economic value of personal data for online platforms, firms and consumers

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/rise-sharing-economy-indonesia | The rise of the sharing economy in Indonesia

https://www.bruegel.org/comment/european-union-course-become-big-loser-global-tech-race | Is the European Union on course to become the big loser in the global tech race?

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/practical-arrangement-cooperation-between-digital-economy-regulators | A practical arrangement for cooperation between digital economy regulators

https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/market-power-and-artificial-intelligence-work-online-labour-markets | Market power and artificial intelligence work on online labour markets

https://www.bruegel.org/podcast/technology-product-unequal-power | Technology: a product of unequal power?

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/opening-digital-platforms-and-reducing-anticompetitive-risks | Opening up digital platforms and reducing anticompetitive risks

https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/platform-mergers-and-antitrust-0 | Platform mergers and antitrust

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/self-employment-covid-19-and-future-work-knowledge-workers | Self-employment, COVID-19, and the future of work for knowledge workers

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/regulating-big-tech-digital-markets-act | Regulating big tech: the Digital Markets Act

https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/platform-mergers-and-antitrust | Platform mergers and antitrust

https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/digital-platforms-and-antitrust | Digital platforms and antitrust

https://www.bruegel.org/report/effect-digitalization-energy-consumption-passenger-transport-analysis-future-scenarios | The effect of digitalization in the energy consumption of passenger transport: An analysis of future scenarios for Europe

https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/bridging-divide-new-evidence-about-firms-and-digitalisation | Bridging the divide: new evidence about firms and digitalisation

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/work-protection-digital-age-towards-new-social-contract | Work Protection in the Digital Age: Towards a new social contract

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/era-digitalisation-single-market-needs-software-update | In an era of digitalisation, the Single Market needs a software update

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/breaking-big-companies-and-market-power-concentration | Breaking up big companies and market power concentration

https://www.bruegel.org/report/vertical-restraints-and-e-commerce | Vertical restraints and e-commerce

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/how-e-commerce-reshapes-markets-and-firms-strategies | How e-commerce reshapes markets and firms’ strategies

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/big-data-and-first-degree-price-discrimination | Big data and first-degree price discrimination

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/industrial-internet-will-transform-policymaking | The industrial internet will transform policymaking

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/apple-discord | The Apple of Discord

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/new-eu-net-neutrality-guidelines-are-pragmatic-next-step | New EU net neutrality guidelines are a pragmatic next step

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/european-e-commerce-needs-better-visibility-cross-border-delivery-prices | European e-commerce needs better visibility into cross-border delivery prices

https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/e-commerce-europe-parcel-delivery-prices-digital-single-market | E-commerce in Europe: parcel delivery prices in a digital single market

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/e-commerce-opportunity-growth-europe-people-and-business | E-commerce: an opportunity for growth in Europe, for people and business

https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/better-pensions-european-unions-self-employed | Better pensions for the European Union’s self-employed

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/inclusive-european-union-must-boost-gig-workers-rights | An inclusive European Union must boost gig workers’ rights

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/making-antitrust-work-not-against-gig-workers-and-self-employed | Making antitrust work for, not against, gig workers and the self-employed

https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/which-platforms-will-be-caught-digital-markets-act-gatekeeper-dilemma | Which platforms will be caught by the Digital Markets Act? The ‘gatekeeper’ dilemma

https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/policies-support-self-employed-labour-markets-future | Policies to support the self-employed in the labour markets of the future

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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: TBD | Europe Is Burning
Pub date: 2022-07-22

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The continent’s deadly heat wave is only the tip of the melting iceberg

The continent's deadly heat wave is only the tip of the melting iceberg.

Guest: Henry Grabar

Host: Lizzie O'Leary

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Podcast: Urbanistica - Cities for People
Episode: 301. The passion of experimenting in public spaces - Todor Kesarovski
Pub date: 2022-07-12

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest argues that we have to work to reconnect government and people, and that while this effort needs to come from both sides, we as citizens need to realise that we also make up a vital part of the government itself.

Todor Kesarovski (PhD Research Fellow at University of Stavanger (Stavanger, Norway), Placemaker at |In|Formal Association Bulgaria & Europe)

Links from our talk:

• |In|Formal Association, https://www.facebook.com/InFormal.BG;

• Tooltest Day, concept story: https://issuu.com/informal6/docs/toolteststory_final | initiative: https://placemaking-europe.eu/listing/tooltesting/;

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Podcast: The New Statesman Podcast (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Are conspiracy theories getting worse, with Jonn Elledge
Pub date: 2022-07-26

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

After Boris Johnson talked of a ‘deep state’ undermining his ability to govern, have we entered an era of conspiracy theories? This episode discusses QAnon, whether a few hundred years of European history were just made up – and why Britney Spears shows that sometimes obscure internet theories can be true.

After Boris Johnson talked of a "deep state" undermining his ability to govern, have we entered an era of conspiracy theories? Jonn Elledge, one of the authors of a new book, Conspiracy: A History of Bollcks Theories and How Not To Fall For Them*, talks to Rachel Cunliffe about how conspiracy theories are nothing new.

They discuss QAnon, whether a few hundred years of European history were just made up – and why Britney Spears shows that sometimes obscure internet theories can be true.

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Podcast: The Next Page (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Would the world be better without the UN? A conversation with author Thomas Weiss
Pub date: 2022-07-22

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Do we need the United Nations (UN)? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organisation? And where could it be had the UN’s member states and staff performed better?

In this episode of the #NextPagePod, we are joined by Professor Thomas Weiss, a renowned researcher of the United Nations secretariat and the UN system at large. Our Director at the UN Library and Archives Geneva, Francesco Pisano, explores with Professor Weiss one of his latest books, Would the World Be Better without the UN?

Professor Weiss is currently Presidential Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. In his early career, he served with various parts of the UN Secretariat and UN specialised agencies. He has published countless works on the UN system, international relations, humanitarian affairs and peacekeeping.

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Securing the supply of semiconductors to Europe
Pub date: 2022-07-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Drawing lessons from the ongoing shortages in chip supply, the US, China and the EU are adopting industrial policies to secure semiconductor supply chains, as well as economic and technological competitiveness. The EU Chips Act, announced in February 2022, represents a real break in Europe's industrial policy. Are semiconductors the new oil? The answer might be more complicated than just yes or no.

Drawing lessons from the ongoing shortages in chip supply, the United States, China and the European Union are adopting industrial policies to secure semiconductor supply chains as well as economic and technological competitiveness. The EU Chips Act, announced in February 2022, represents a real break in Europe's industrial policy. Are semiconductors the new oil? The answer might be more complicated than just yes or no. Giuseppe Porcaro, Niclas Poitiers and Pauline Weil unpack the economics and geopolitics behind the Chips Act.

Relevant publications:

Briefings de l'Ifri, Fishing for Chips: Assessing the EU Chips Act

Poitiers, N. and P. Weil (2022) ‘Is the EU Chips Act the right approach?’, Bruegel Blog, 2 June

Poitiers, N. and P. Weil (2022) ‘Opaque and ill-defined: the problems with Europe’s IPCEI subsidy framework’, Bruegel Blog, 26 January

Poitiers, N. and P. Weil (2021) 'A new direction for the European Union’s half-hearted semiconductor strategy', Policy Contribution 17/2021, Bruegel

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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Monetary Modernism
Pub date: 2022-07-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Seeking to revive hopeful and more generative impulses in modernist art and literature, challenging a persistent view of modernism as relentlessly bleak and angst-ridden and doing so, moreover, for a present moment similarly burdened by dead-end accelerationist and pessimist imaginaries.

In this special episode of Money on the Left, the MotL Collective shares an audio recording from a conference panel titled, “Monetary Modernism.” Featuring papers by Scott Ferguson (University of South Florida), Rob Hawkes (Teesside University), and Maxximilian Seijo (University of California, Santa Barbara), the panel was presented at the Hopeful Modernisms conference organized by the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) **at University of Bristol, June 22 - 25, 2022.

The conference sought to revive hopeful and more generative impulses in modernist art and literature, challenging a persistent view of modernism as relentlessly bleak and angst-ridden. It did so, moreover, for a present moment similarly burdened by dead-end accelerationist and pessimist imaginaries.**

The panel begins with Rob Hawkes. He introduces the BAMS audience to the wide-ranging contributions of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective. He also makes the case for reading Georg Friedrich Knapp’s early twentieth-century chartalist approach to money as a modernist project deeply entwined with myriad other aesthetic modernisms.

In the first presentation, Scott Ferguson explores how Len Lye’s Rainbow Dance **(1936), a short experimental promotional film for British public postal banking,embraces the abstractness, publicness, and heterogeneous plentitude of both money mediation and avant-garde cinema.

In the second talk, Rob Hawkes uncovers how tensions between fixed and fluid understandings of identity formation and history inform John Maynard Keynes’ chartalist-inspired writings on money as much as Nella Larsen’s 1929 novella Passing and Ford Madox Ford’s 1933 novel The Rash Act.*Lastly, Maximilian Seijo’s presentation carefully works through metaphors for money in Virginia Woolf’s book-length feminist essay,* A Room of One’s Own (1929), complicating the text’s appeals to monetary substances and fluids by teasing out its experimental approach to imagining non-patriarchal infrastructures for provisioning aesthetic work.**

If you are interested in the texts and images that accompany some of the presentations, see here for Rob Hawkes’ slides and here for Scott Ferguson’s PowerPoint deck.

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Podcast: Team Human (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Éliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen
Pub date: 2022-07-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guests help us see how to marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality.

UNEP co-champions of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Éliane Ubalijoro and David Jensen help us see how to marry big, top-down efforts with bottom-up reality.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us that no matter how bad things get, the basic principles of ethical behavior remain the same.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Don’t Change the Picture, Change Reality, on Medium.

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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Internet for the People: A Conversation with Ben Tarnoff
Pub date: 2022-07-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

To create a more democratic and equitable society, we need to diminish the role of the market in the future of the internet, and reduce the power of profit motive to define our online experience.

This episode features a conversation with the author of a new book that makes a compelling argument for the substantial deprivatization of the Internet. In Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future, Ben Tarnoff says to create a more democratic and equitable society we need to diminish the role of the market in the future of the internet, and reduce the power of profit motive to define our online experience.

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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: How right to buy fuelled the UK housing crisis
Pub date: 2022-07-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

When Margaret Thatcher introduced the Housing Act 1980, Helen and millions of others in the UK were given the opportunity to buy their council houses. Now, with her daughter Rachel unable to buy and renting in shared accommodation, she wonders if buying was a mistake.

Why did the government decide to sell off millions of council houses four decades ago? Lynsey Hanley and Vicky Spratt on how right to buy, high rents, and a housing shortage have left the dream of buying out of reach for millions. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Human justice and machine intelligence | Joanna Bryson
Pub date: 2022-07-12

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest discusses how she became interested in the ways different species use intelligence, how the typical tropes in science fiction misunderstand AI, and the problem of anthropomorphism. This episode explores the most pressing ethical challenges concerning the future of artificial intelligence and whether or not we can stabilise democracy when we have so much information about each other.

Should we be scared of AI?

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Joanna Bryson discusses how she became interested in the ways different species use intelligence, how the typical tropes in science fiction misunderstand AI and the problem of anthropomorphism. In this interview, Bryson discusses the most pressing ethical challenges concerning the future of artificial intelligence and whether or not we can stabilize democracy when we have so much information about each other. She also touches on how the problems that arise with AI aren't always to do with the technology itself but with the social conditions that often produce it.

Joanna Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She advises governments, corporations, and other agencies globally, particularly on AI policy.

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Podcast: Hidden Forces (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Rise of Shadow Banking & Risks of a Financial Crisis | Lev Menand
Pub date: 2022-07-14

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Timely conversation about the US Dollar and the evolution of the international financial system into a kind of Frankenstein’s monster. This episode provides a foundational framework for understanding the forces responsible for driving crises of liquidity and the plumbing of the shadow banking system, the evolution of the eurodollar market, repos, and money market funds.

In Episode 258 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Lev Menand, author of “The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis.” Menand is an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School who has worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as a senior advisor to both the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions.

He joins Demetri for an important and timely conversation about the US Dollar and the evolution of the international financial system into a kind of Frankenstein’s monster whose appendages and doppelgängers reach into the deepest recesses of the global economy.

Dollar balances and dollar-based lending by institutions not regulated by the Federal Reserve—what we broadly refer to as the shadow banking system—have grown so large over the years that no one, not even the Fed, can actually quantify them.

For most of us, awareness of just how dangerously complex the modern banking system has become was made clear fourteen years ago with the onset of what we now call “The Global Financial Crisis,” a supposedly once-in-a-lifetime event that almost repeated itself during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic when the Fed came to the rescue of markets to stop yet another financial panic that threatened to bring down the global financial system.

Panics like these ultimately stem from a fear or inability on the part of financial counterparties to settle claims and honor liabilities. With the Fed now raising interest rates more aggressively than it has in almost thirty years the question that many investors, economists, and policymakers around the world should be asking themselves is “what is the likelihood that the events we experienced in 2008 and most recently in 2020 repeat themselves today?”

Our objective in bringing you this conversation is to provide you with a foundational framework for understanding the forces responsible for driving crises of liquidity in the international dollar system during a time when those forces are growing stronger and stronger. In the process you are going to learn about the plumbing of the shadow banking system, the evolution of the eurodollar market, repos, money market funds, and so much more. The majority of that conversation takes place in the second hour of today’s episode which is available to premium subscribers only.

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Profit Uber Alles - The Uber Files / Dean Starkman
Pub date: 2022-07-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A conversation with a journalist from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to talk about the coverage of the Uber Files, detailing the misdealings and corruption that the rideshare giant engages in.

We welcome Dean Starkman of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to talk about the coverage of the Uber Files, detailing the misdealings and corruption that the rideshare giant engages in. Producer Seb Wuepper gets on his soapbox to talk about the old question whether or not the United States is a democracy, we present your hangover cure for this week, and also introduce this week's Question from Hell!

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Podcast: Manifold (LS 37 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Tim Palmer (Oxford): Status and Future of Climate Modeling — #16
Pub date: 2022-07-14

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A discussion with an expert who was involved in the first five IPCC assessment reports about his career path from physics to climate research, as well as the science of climate modeling and the main uncertainties in state-of-the-art models.

Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute.

He is interested in the predictability and dynamics of weather and climate, including extreme events.

He was involved in the first five IPCC assessment reports and was co-chair of the international scientific steering group of the World Climate Research Programme project (CLIVAR) on climate variability and predictability.

After completing his DPhil at Oxford in theoretical physics, Tim worked at the UK Meteorological Office and later the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. For a large part of his career, Tim has developed ensemble methods for predicting uncertainty in weather and climate forecasts.

In 2020 Tim was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.

Steve, Corey Washington, and Tim first discuss his career path from physics to climate research and then explore the science of climate modeling and the main uncertainties in state-of-the-art models.

In this episode, we discuss:

00:00 Introduction

1:48 Tim Palmer's background and transition from general relativity to climate modeling

15:13 Climate modeling uncertainty

46:41 Navier-Stokes equations in climate modeling

53:37 Where climate change is an existential risk

1:01:26 Investment in climate research

Links:

Tim Palmer (Oxford University)
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-tim-palmer

The scientific challenge of understanding and estimating climate change (2019)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1906691116

ExtremeEarth
https://extremeearth.eu/

Physicist Steve Koonin on climate change
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2021/04/how-physicist-became-climate-truth.html

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

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Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 2878 - How We Lost Control Of The Internet w/ Ben Tarnoff
Pub date: 2022-07-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Diving into what the internet exactly is, tracking its birth from a pentagon protocol language in the 1970s, through its slow opening up to academia, and into its greater civilianisation during the 1990s. This episode explores the privatisation of this era as the National Science Foundation began to shut down its core infrastructure and the government shifts control over this central infrastructure entirely to telecom corporations.

Sam and Emma host Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of Logic Magazine, to discuss his recent book Internet for the People: The Fight For Our Digital Future. First, however, Sam and Emma discuss Biden’s ever-falling polling numbers, COVID’s new variants, and Biden’s announcement that his admin doesn’t care for pro-choice activists because what they want (abortion access) isn’t what the Democratic party wants. Ben Tarnoff then joins as they dive right into what the internet exactly is, tracking its birth from a pentagon protocol language in the 1970s, through its slow opening up to academia, and into its greater civilianization during the 1990s, exploring the privatization of this era as the National Science Foundation began to shut down its core infrastructure and the government shifts control over this central infrastructure entirely to telecom corporations. Tarnoff then discusses what this privatization actually looked like (rather than the privatization of more physical infrastructure), and analyzes the alternatives of greater public control that were presented at the time, why they were promptly stamped out by the telecoms lobby, and what a core system operated by and for the public would allow in terms of a democratize internet. Next, they get into a deeper conversation on the role of intellectual property in erecting wall gardens around the internet, with folks like Bill Gates leading a fight against the open-source ethics of the early internet and ensuring the only opportunities were privatized one, and why offering a diverse array of open source options for using the internet is necessary for building an accessible area of the internet that isn’t driven by the profit motive. Wrapping up the interview, they expand on the roles of the profit motive and competition in crippling internet access for marginalized communities, and why anti-trust, despite being an important step, seeks to make markets better rather than make sure that they do not matter, and thus cannot be a stand-alone option.

And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma take a call from a Michigan organizer on the importance of OTG work for state and local elections, particularly with redistricting giving the Democrats a good chance of picking up a seat in the senate, Herschel Walker explores the meteorological pressure systems of “good” and “bad” air, and the crew recaps Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald’s preview of the “vicious fight” against Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover that now has Twitter taking him to court… so that he’ll actually follow through with his bid. Josh from Chicago explores last weekend’s shooting from the perspective of a Highland Park local, Dave from Jamaica discusses breaking Democratic leadership’s obsession with norms, and Jane Doe from the East Coasts offers a warning story of the horrors of inaccessible reproductive care. Donald Trump colludes – I mean CONCLUDES a speech by taking a load off of his supporters’ chests (by load I mean shirt), and Kamala Harris situates the instability of our situation and how to stabilize and situate our current instability. Brandon from Canada talks government, plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Ben's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Aviva Rahmani: Why Telling Effective Stories About the Environment Requires Not Just Words But Also Visual Images and Even Music
Pub date: 2022-07-10

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest argues that we are not only in an environmental war, but that the war is being fought by narratives.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Aviva Rahmani, author of Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an Idea.

Aviva Rahmani is an ecoartist whose work has been exhibited, published, and funded internationally. She is an affiliate with the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder and gained her PhD from the University of Plymouth, UK.

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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Penny Jane Burke et al., "Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-07-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guests have assembled a collection of interventions that seek to think through the relationship between the populism that seems to dominate many nation’s contemporary politics, and the continuing need for feminist perspectives.

Why does gender matter in our troubled global times? In Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies(Bloomsbury, 2022), the editors Penny Jane Burke, Rosalind Gill, Akane Kanai, and Julia Coffey have assembled a collection of interventions that seek to think through the relationship between the populism that seems to dominate many nation’s contemporary politics and the continuing need for feminist perspectives. The chapters range from feminist philosophical and theoretical reflections on the meaning of truth, through empirical work on digital feminism, to considerations on the role and purpose of education and the university. Across 11 chapters, with an agenda setting introduction, the book is essential reading for all in the humanities and social sciences, as well as for anyone seeking to understand the current post-truth populist crisis and how to intervene for change.

Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield.

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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Truth about Green Finance | Fred Hache
Pub date: 2022-07-07

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Explaining how the markets have financialised and commodified the climate crisis: why carbon credit schemes are nonsense, the worrying advent of biodiversity offsetting, and the tokenisation of environmental protection. This episode reveals which 'green' markets are already linked to human rights abuses, how crypto is muscling in on the space, and how lobbyists have hijacked the agenda to protect profits

Frederic Hache is the cofounder and executive director of Green Finance Observatory, an NGO tracking the world of “sustainable finance”, debunking its claims, and working with European policymakers to warn against supposed market-based solutions.

He joins me to explain how the markets have financialised and commodified the climate crisis: why carbon credit schemes are nonsense, the worrying advent of biodiversity offsetting, and the tokenisation of environmental protection. He explains that environmental regulations have a long history of being effective, and questions why protection of the natural world is being handed over to markets.

He reveals which “green” markets are already linked to human rights abuses around the world, how crypto is muscling in on the space, and how lobbyists have hijacked the agenda to protect profits.

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Podcast: Challenging Climate
Episode: Nils Gilman on avocado politics and climate security
Pub date: 2022-07-12

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First discussing avocado politics, what it is, and how it manifests in the US and Europe. The second half of the episode takes a look at climate change and security on global and national scales, and what it really means to prioritise climate change on the political agenda.

Dr. Nils Gilman is the Senior Vice President of Programs at the Berggruen Institute and the deputy editor of Noema Magazine. We speak with Nils about two of his popular articles, "The Coming Avocado Politics" and "The Guns of Warming". We first discuss avocado politics, what it is and how it manifests in the United States and Europe. The second half of the episode takes a look at climate change and security on global and national scales, and what it really means to prioritize climate change on the political agenda.

Links:

• Nils Gilman’s profile
• Check out Noema Magazine and Nils' article (with Jonathan Blake) on "Governing in the Planetary Age"
• Article by Nils on “The Coming Avocado Politics”
• The other article by Nils on “The Guns of Warming”

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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #81 - Finance and Clean Energy - w/ Brett Christophers
Pub date: 2022-06-30

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Probing the difficulties of obtaining financing for clean energy projects despite recent cost reductions of renewables.

In this episode, Prof. Brett Christophers of Uppsala University speaks to host Nicolas Wittstock about the difficulties of obtaining financing for clean energy projects despite recent cost reductions of renewables. 

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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Global Trends in Climate Litigation
Pub date: 2022-06-30

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Providing an overview of the state of the art of climate litigation and highlighting recent developments and recommendations for action.

Contributor(s): Lord Carnwath, Dr Joana Setzer, Dr Roda Verheyen, Kate Higham, Mark Odaga, Ana Carolina Haliuc, Anne Corrigan, Michael Burger | This annual report – which has been published regularly since 2017 – provides an overview of the state of the art of climate litigation and highlights recent developments and recommendations for action. The event begins with a short presentation from authors Joana Setzer and Catherine Higham on the findings of the Grantham Research Institute’s 2022 Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation Policy Report. The presentation is followed by a panel discussion, with five distinguished experts in the field. Panellists react to the report and to draw out key aspects from their own experience in the field. The report is based on data in the Climate Change Laws of the World database which has a user base of nearly 200,000 users a year. Users include policy-makers from national legislatures, environment ministries, and central banks among many others.

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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: The Road to Nowhere: Paris Marx on the automobile, Silicon Valley and the future of transportation
Pub date: 2022-07-04

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The guest discusses the history of the automobile industry, how Tesla is not a ‘green company’, why Silicon Valley is lying to you about the self-driving car, and their vision for the future of public transport.

On this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Paris Marx, host of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, about their upcoming book “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.” They discuss the history of the automobile industry, how Tesla is not a “green company,” why Silicon Valley is lying to you about the self-driving car and their vision for the future of public transport.

You can order Paris’s book here.

You can follow Paris Marx on Twitter @parismarx, the Tech Won't Save Us at @techwontsaveus, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5X.

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: George Monbiot on How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet
Pub date: 2022-07-04

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Revealing how our changing understanding of the world beneath our feet could allow us to grow more food with less farming.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by George Monbiot, author of Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet.

George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life and Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning; his latest is Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan, and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouTube over 40 million times. Another, on Natural Climate Solutions, which he co-presented with Greta Thunberg, has been watched over 60 million times.

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Podcast: Free Range with Mike Livermore
Episode: Frances Moore on Modeling Climate Politics
Pub date: 2022-06-29

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Examining feedbacks between politics and the climate system, the importance of 'endogenizing' emissions to political and social processes in climate modelling, different approaches to climate modelling, and much more.

On this episode of Free Range, Mike Livermore speaks with Frances Moore, a Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis whose work focuses on climate economics. Recently, Moore was the lead author of a paper in Nature that examines an important set of feedbacks between politics and the climate system.

The discussion begins by examining the key differences between the model development by Moore and her team and other approaches. Generally, climate models take emissions as a given, or as resulting from large macro phenomenon like economic growth. The innovation of Moore’s model is to treat emissions as “endogenous” to political and social processes. Her model includes the formation of policy, which affects emissions and, therefore, the climate system (0:41 – 2:58).

Expanding more on different ways of modeling, Livermore brings up two broad approaches to climate modeling: the process used in the natural sciences, which is relied on by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) vs. the process that economists use that feeds into social policies. He poses the question of how Moore's model fits into these two broad categories of the IPCC vs. SCC (social cost of carbon) approach in regards to climate modeling (3:00 – 4:51).

Moore’s model is distinct to both approaches. In the economist approach, a social decision maker maximizes welfare by controlling emissions over time. Moore’s model does not optimize anything (4:57 – 6:57). On the other hand, the IPCC takes a predictive approach, but without asking what policies are most likely. Moore’s model integrates policy into the predictive approach.

Moore dives further into details about the feedbacks in her paper (7:00 – 12:49). Examples of the feedbacks explored in the paper are: normative social conformity feedback; climate change perception feedback; temperature emissions feedback; and the expressive force of law feedback. Moore dives deeper into the law feedback, discussing the challenges they faced when trying to qualitative information in a quantitative way for their modeling (13:26 – 16:37). Moore and Livermore discuss different interpretations of the expressive force of law and how it might fit into a predictive model (16:46 – 22:00). Another type of feedback studied involved individual behavior. This behavior is important for global emissions only when it leads to preferences that eventually produce large-scale changes (22:01 – 28:25).

Livermore and Moore discuss the hopeful headline conclusion of Moore’s model, which is the possibility of global net zero emissions by 2080-2090, which follows a 2.3° pathway by 2100. This pathway is very similar to what the 2030-2050 emission commitments look like from the Paris Climate Agreement. Livermore notes that some of the model runs resulted in a 3-4° world. The model features of these worlds included high social norm effects, political systems with bias towards the status quo, high bias assimilations responsiveness of the political systems, and energy systems not evolving (28:35 – 39:33).

Livermore notes some of his work on climate-society feedbacks concerning the potential for climate damages to undermine conditions necessary for climate cooperation at a global scale. Moore explains why they didn't include this feedback in the model, stating that looking at these tipping points would be involved in the next steps of extending the model (40:00 – 45:02).

Livermore brings up the topic about the philosophical differences between Moore’s fully causal model of the human climate system and other models. Moore’s goal of modeling is primarily understanding and descriptive, which differentiates it from other models. They end the episode discussing that carbon pricing over the next 5-10 years should be a good signal to tell us what type of temperature change trajectory our world will be on: one of reasonable temperature change or one of catastrophic change (50:23 – 1:00:23).

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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Michael Coppedge on Why Democracies Emerge, Why They Decline, and Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
Pub date: 2022-06-28

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This episode discusses how democracy is a multidimensional concept and how the conditions for democratisation differ from those of backsliding.

Democracy is a complex concept. It has to do with elections. It has to do with legislatures. It has to do with civil society organizations and courts and political styles of politicians. There's a lot packed into the concept and it's multidimensional, because some of these components don't move together.

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Michael Coppedge is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, a principal investigator of the Varieties of Democracy project, and a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He is a coeditor (along with Amanda Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Staffan Lindberg) of Why Democracies Develop and Decline.

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• Democracy as a multidimensional concept
• How the conditions for democratization differ from those for backsliding
• Ways researchers use information from V-Dem to discover new insights about democracy
• New findings from V-Dem research regarding presidentialism, party system institutionalization, and anti-system parties
• How has V-Dem changed research about democracy

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Podcast: The War on Cars (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Tesla is a Fraud with Ed Niedermeyer
Pub date: 2022-06-28

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Musk is a huckster with a particular genius for selling implausible products and making old ideas feel futuristic and new. But his overwhelming wealth, influence, and cult-like following is making him a danger to the rest of us.

Journalist Edward Niedermeyer has been reporting on the automobile industry -- and its blind spots -- since 2008. He co-hosts the Autonocast podcast, focusing on the future of transportation. And he is the author of “Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors.” In his book, Niedermeyer chronicles the electric car maker’s rise and lays bare the disconnect between the popular perception of Tesla and the day-to-day realities of the company, its products, and its peripatetic, billionaire CEO Elon Musk. Musk, Niedermeyer argues, is a huckster with a particular genius for selling implausible products and making old ideas feel futuristic and new. But his overwhelming wealth, influence, and cult-like following is making him a danger to the rest of us.

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Podcast: Columbia Energy Exchange (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Weighing The Risks Of Solar Geoengineering
Pub date: 2022-06-28

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Solar geoengineering could cost a tiny fraction of the amount required to scale up carbon dioxide removal. Does that mean it could buy us time to draw down emissions in a less expensive manner? Or would its relative affordability enable a rogue actor to deploy it without international collaboration?

This week, Columbia Energy Exchange brings you an episode of another podcast called Catalyst.

It’s a weekly show hosted by climate tech veteran Shayle Kann about the future of decarbonization. Each week, different experts, researchers, and executives come on to unpack the latest hurdles to decarbonization and advancing new climate tech solutions.

This episode is all about weighing the risks and rewards of solar geoengineering.

In it, Shayle speaks with a climate modeler named Dan Visioni who conducts research on solar geoengineering at Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

They explore key questions, including:

• What do we know about the potential effects on ozone, precipitation and ecosystems? What do we need to research, and what could we learn by testing?
• Which could scale faster: carbon dioxide removal or solar geoengineering?
• Solar geoengineering could cost a tiny fraction of the amount required to scale up carbon dioxide removal. Does that mean it could buy us time to draw down emissions in a less expensive manner? Or would its relative affordability enable a rogue actor to deploy it without international collaboration?
• And who gets to make the final decision on whether the world should deploy solar geoengineering? Whose hand is on the thermostat, so to speak?

Episodes of Catalyst drop every Thursday. The show is a co-production of Post Script Media and Canary Media.

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Podcast: On Geopolitics
Episode: Episode 15: The Norway- Russia Border
Pub date: 2022-06-22

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This episode explores this short but significant border.

Suzanne and Ali explore this short but significant border.

The hosts:

Suzanne Raine is an Affiliate Lecturer at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge University. She served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues, including postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She specialised in counter-terrorism and was a senior member of the UK government assessment community. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

Ali Ansari is professor of Iranian History and Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews in the UK. He is also Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.

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Podcast: EdSurge Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the ‘Computer Science for All’ Movement Fits In a Broader History of Social-Justice Battles
Pub date: 2022-06-21

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

What can today’s activists and educators fighting for equity in computer science and the tech industry learn from past civil-rights struggles in America?

What can today’s activists and educators fighting for equity in computer science and the tech industry learn from past civil-rights struggles in America? That was one question posed during the recent Black Tech Policy Week event hosted by the Black Tech Futures Research Institute. EdSurge was invited to moderate a session, which we're bringing you as this week's podcast episode.

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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Scrutiny for YouTube
Pub date: 2022-06-19

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

YouTube is generally understood to have avoided the scrutiny of journalists, researchers and lawmakers, at least relative to other social media platforms like Facebook. But there is a cost to flying under the radar.

This week, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights released a report on YouTube that Tech Policy Press Editor Justin Hendrix helped write with the Center’s Deputy Director, Paul Barrett. YouTube is generally understood to have avoided the scrutiny of journalists, researchers and lawmakers, at least relative to other social media platforms like Facebook. But there is a cost to flying under the radar.

To address some of the key issues, this episode features two segments. The first is a conversation with Paul Barrett, and the second with two of the sources for the report, University of Washington associate professor and Center for an Informed Public cofounder Kate Starbird and Mnemonic Associate Director of Advocacy Dia Kayyali.

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Podcast: General Intellect Unit (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 090 - Simulating Socialist Planning
Pub date: 2022-06-21

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Discussing the Half-Earth Socialism game which allows anyone to try their hand as a global planner of a future society. Consider it a sandbox where you can play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies while calculating emissions and using a real climate model (HECTOR) to work out the climate effects, impacts to the food system and biodiversity, among others.

In which we are joined by Francis Tseng and Son La Pham, the creators of Half Earth Socialism, a game about socialist planning.

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Links:

• Half Earth Socialism, the game
• Half Earth Socialism, the book
• Son La Pham
• Francis Tseng
• General Intellect Unit on iTunes
• http://generalintellectunit.net
• Support the show on Patreon
• https://twitter.com/giunitpod
• General Intellect Unit on Facebook
• General Intellect Unit on archive.org
• Emancipation Network

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Max Holleran, "Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-06-22

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Exploring how urban density, once maligned for its association with overpopulated slums, has become a rallying cry for millennial activists locked out of housing markets and unable to pay high rents.

The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren't waiting for new public housing to be built. Instead, they're calling for more construction and denser cities in order to increase affordability.

Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing (Princeton UP, 2022) offers an in-depth look at the "Yes in My Backyard" (YIMBY) movement. From its origins in San Francisco to its current cadre of activists pushing for new apartment towers in places like Boulder, Austin, and London, Max Holleran explores how urban density, once maligned for its association with overpopulated slums, has become a rallying cry for millennial activists locked out of housing markets and unable to pay high rents. Holleran provides a detailed account of YIMBY activists campaigning for construction, new zoning rules, better public transit, and even candidates for local and state office. YIMBY groups draw together an unlikely coalition, from developers and real estate agents to environmentalists, and Holleran looks at the increasingly contentious battles between market-driven pragmatists and rent-control idealists. Arguing that advocates for more housing must carefully weigh their demands for supply with the continuing damage of gentrification, he shows that these individuals see high-density urbanism and walkable urban spaces as progressive statements about the kind of society they would like to create. Chronicling a major shift in housing activism during the past twenty years, Yes to the City considers how one movement has reframed conversations about urban growth.

Stephen Pimpare is director of the Public Service & Nonprofit Leadership program and Faculty Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.

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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Is AI Upending Geopolitics? with Angela Kane
Pub date: 2022-06-22

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Discussing how AI is likely to upend geopolitics, as well as the role of the UN and the many ways AI could undermine international peace and security. Without proper guardrails, the development and deployment of AI systems could accelerate the pace of armed conflict and risk loosening control over the means of war.

In this Artificial Intelligence & Equality podcast, Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow Wendell Wallach is joined by Angela Kane, a chair of the United Nations University Governing Council, to discuss how AI is likely to upend geopolitics. Kane, a former UN under-secretary-general, also shares some of her concerns about the role of the UN and the many ways AI could undermine international peace and security. Without proper guardrails, the development and deployment of AI systems could accelerate the pace of armed conflict and risk loosening control over the means of war.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff
Pub date: 2022-06-09

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing why the problems with the modern internet, including its excessive concentration in the hands of a few companies and the way its dominant firms shape our interactions to generate profit, find their root in the decision to privatise the network. To fix them, that needs to be changed

Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss why the problems with the modern internet, including its excessive concentration in the hands of a few companies and the way its dominant firms shape our interactions to generate profit, find their root in the decision to privatize the network. To fix them, that needs to be changed.

Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future and the co-founder of Logic Magazine. Follow Ben on Twitter at @bentarnoff.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• An excerpt of Ben’s book was published in the New York Times.
• Victor Pickard wrote about the history of public media in Democracy Without Journalism.
• Newt Gingrich and George Gilder, once featured by Wired for their visions for the internet, have now become big crypto fans.
• The United States has terrible broadband access.
• Major tech companies are buying up undersea internet cables.
• Tarleton Gillespie wrote about the politics of platforms and what the term suggests.
• Jathan Sadowski compares platforms to shopping malls.
• Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote about the predatory inclusion of the internet.
• Community internet has shown success in the United States, while provincial public telcos have a history of positive outcomes in Canada.

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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Unmitigated Power of Big Tech
Pub date: 2022-06-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

They are among the biggest companies in the world: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have an outsized impact on the global economy and on our daily lives. The guest examines the companies that have become synonymous with the glories and ills of contemporary capitalism and makes the case for online socialism.

They are among the biggest companies in the world: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have an outsized impact on the global economy and on our daily lives. Rob Larson examines the companies that have become synonymous with the glories and ills of contemporary capitalism. He makes the case for online socialism.

Resources:

Rob Larson, Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley [1] Haymarket Books, 2020

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Podcast: Trending Globally: Politics and Policy (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can We Make Social Media Safe for Democracy?
Pub date: 2022-06-08

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

For many politicians, policymakers, and voters, the 2016 election of Donald Trump was a shocking lesson in the massive role tech companies, like Facebook and Twitter, play in our politics. Since then, their role has only gotten bigger. And as the guest explains: that’s a huge problem for democracies around the world.

For many politicians, policymakers, and voters, the 2016 election of Donald Trump was a shocking lesson in the massive role tech companies, like Facebook and Twitter, play in our politics.

Since then, their role has only gotten bigger. And as our guest on this episode of Trending Globally explains: that’s a huge problem for democracies around the world.

Frances Haugen worked as a product manager in Facebook’s Civic Integrity Department from 2019-2021. While there she saw firsthand how Facebook’s algorithms are designed to maximize user engagement at all costs, with disastrous effects.

In 2021 Frances anonymously leaked tens of thousands of internal documents to The Wall Street Journal, and became known as the ‘Facebook Whistleblower.’ Since then she’s testified before Congress, and helped start a global movement to better understand and regulate ‘Big Tech.’

On this episode of Trending Globally, political economist and Rhodes Center Director Mark Blyth talks with Frances about the problems tech giants like Facebook pose to our politics, and what we can do to fix them.

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Podcast: Law and the Future of War (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: War Algorithms - Dustin Lewis
Pub date: 2022-06-15

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How can we ensure greater respect for international law when states deploy their algorithmic capabilities? And how can this same objective lend itself to securing peace, protecting civilians, regulating hostilities, safeguarding the environment, and ending armed conflicts?

In this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Dustin Lewis, of Harvard Law School's Project on International Law and Armed Conflict about war algorithms and his recent project on pathways for using AI, and how to ensure greater respect for international law when states use these algorithmic capabilities.

Dustin is the Research Director at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC). With a focus on public international law sources and methods, Dustin leads research into several wide-ranging contemporary challenges related to securing peace, protecting civilians, regulating hostilities, safeguarding the environment, and ending armed conflicts.

Additional Resources:
PILAC - Three Pathways to Secure Greater Respect for International Law Concerning War Algorithms
SIPRI - Emerging Military and Security Technologies Project
ASSER Institute - Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence (DILEMA)
Geneva Institute - Lethal Autonomous Weapons and War Crimes Project
AutoNorms - Weaponised AI, Norms and Order
ICRC Background Papers on LAWS: ICRC Position on Autonomous Weapons
Suchman - Human-Machine Reconfigurations (CUP, 2012)

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-06-09

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To hasten net zero and minimise climate damages thereafter, we will also need massive carbon removal and storage. We may even need to reduce incoming solar radiation in order to lower unacceptably high temperatures. Such unproven and potentially risky climate interventions raise mind-blowing questions of governance and ethics.

Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will continue to accrue and sea levels will continue to rise. Even the urgent and utterly essential task of reaching net zero cannot be achieved rapidly by emissions reductions alone. To hasten net zero and minimize climate damages thereafter, we will also need massive carbon removal and storage. We may even need to reduce incoming solar radiation in order to lower unacceptably high temperatures. Such unproven and potentially risky climate interventions raise mind-blowing questions of governance and ethics.

Wake Smith's book Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers readers an accessible and authoritative introduction to both the hopes and hazards of some of humanity's most controversial technologies, which may nevertheless provide the key to saving our world.

Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland.

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Attention Deficit Capitalism
Pub date: 2022-06-13

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ADHD is the neurological condition of late capitalism. Can it also be its exterminating angel?

Chuck welcomes economics editor and scholar at the University of Utrecht Laura Basu to talk her OpenDemocracy article "Attention Deficit Disorder, the Anticapitalist Condition." We present this week's hangover cure, and producer Seb gets on his soapbox to talk about why hero worship is dangerous in democratic societies.

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Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence w/ Isabel Millar
Pub date: 2022-06-06

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On the role psychoanalysis can play in helping us to understand what artificial intelligence means for humanity, what modern science fiction reveals about our fascination with sex-robots, and what is driving a desire to replicate human attributes in silicon.

Psychoanalytic theorist Isabel Millar explains the role psychoanalysis can play in helping us to understand what artificial intelligence means for humanity, what modern science fiction reveals about our fascination with sex-robots, and what is driving a desire to replicate human attributes in silicon.

Dr Isabel Millar is a philosopher and cultural critic from London. Her work focuses on AI, sex, the body, film and the future. Her book The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence was published with the Palgrave Lacan Series in 2021. As well as extensive international academic speaking and publishing across philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural theory, Isabel has made numerous TV, documentary and podcast appearances including for BBC2 (Frankie Boyles' New World Order), Russia Today (Entrevista), Tomorrow Unlocked (Build me Somebody to Love), Schizotopia, Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour and Parallax Views among others. Isabel has recently been a psychoanalytic script consultant for BBC Drama and interviewed for a book by Ai-Da Robot, the world's first AI artist. She has contributed to the forthcoming AI Glossary, Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition for Onassis Publications and is one of 50 global thinkers writing Manifesto - A Struggle of Universalities edited by Nicol A. Barria- Asenjo and Slavoj Zizek. She is a research fellow at The Centre for Critical Thought, the University of Kent and is currently writing her next book Patipolitics.

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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 546: Digital Identity
Pub date: 2022-06-03

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The near and far future of identity and how our data-driven world challenges what you think you know about who you are.

The near and far future of identity and how our data-driven world challenges what you think you know about who YOU are.

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Podcast: Delete Your Account Podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 217 - Car Wars
Pub date: 2022-06-05

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On the union drive currently gaining momentum at Apple stores across the US, the limits of the current push by governments and corporations to produce electric vehicles for mass consumption, what could cause the crypto bubble to pop for good, and why Elon Musk can’t stop committing fraud.

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Paris Marx, author of Road Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation out July 5th from Verso Books and host of the hit podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, where they cover the intersections of labor, tech and finance.

Paris and Kumars discuss the significance of the union drive currently gaining momentum at Apple stores across the US, the recent victory of the nation’s first major US video game union at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software, the limits of the current push by governments and corporations to produce electric vehicles for mass consumption, what could cause the crypto bubble to pop for good, and why Elon Musk can’t stop committing fraud.

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ioana Florea et al., "Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-06-07

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar structural conditions governed by different political constellations at the national and local scales.

Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar structural conditions governed by different political constellations at the national and local scales. Instead of searching for unilinear narratives connecting structural tensions to politicized claims, the book offers an in-depth contextual analysis of multiple forms of contention, their (often unintentional) interactions, and their broader political-structural background, including tensions surrounded by political silence. The authors analyze the two cases and their comparative lessons through what they propose as a “structural field of contention” approach to the multiple, interconnected ways in which structural tensions become (or not) politicized in today’s social movements. The book will appeal to everyone interested in today’s urban tensions and social movements.

Anna Zhelnina holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Helsinki. To learn more, visit her website or follow Anna on Twitter.

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Podcast: The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Highlights-Sir Geoff Mulgan, Author of “Another World is Possible”
Pub date: 2022-06-04

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The great thing about a complex society is there is space for lots of different kinds of people. But what we probably do need a bit more of are the bilingual people, the trilingual people who are at ease spending a day, a week, a year designing how a criminal justice system could look in 50 years and then getting back to working in a real court or real lawyer's office.

"The great thing about a complex society is there is space for lots of different kinds of people. There's space for wildly visionary poets and accountants and actuaries and engineers. And they all have a slightly different outlook, but it's the combination of this huge diversity, which makes our societies work. But what we probably do need a bit more of are the bilingual people, the trilingual people who are as at ease spending a day, a week, a year designing how a criminal justice system could look in 50 years and then getting back to perhaps working in a real court or real lawyer's office.”

Sir Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London. Formerly he was chief executive of Nesta, and held government roles (1997–2004), including as the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit director and as Downing Street’s head of policy. He is the founder or co-founder of many organisations, from Demos to Action for Happiness, and the author of Another World is Possible, Social Innovation: how societies find the power to change, Big Mind: how collective intelligence can change our world, and other books.

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Podcast: Hear This Idea (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 48. Spencer Weart on the Discovery of Global Warming
Pub date: 2022-06-02

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Discussing how climate science emerged, what it took for scientists to form a consensus in the mid-1960s, and how that consensus has evolved since.

Dr Spencer R. Weart served as the Director of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics from 1974 to 2009. He is the author of several books, including The Discovery of Global Warming and The Rise of Nuclear Fear. In our conversation, we discuss:

• How climate science emerged, what it took for scientists to form a consensus in the mid-1960s, and how that consensus has evolved since
• The IPCC’s emerging understanding of so-called “tipping points” in the climate system, and our current best guesses as to what kind of threat they pose
• Exploring the changing cultural relationship humans have had with nuclear energy — and why it remains stigmatised amongst many environmental groups

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Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: US-China Technological Decoupling
Pub date: 2022-05-23

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In recent years, growing tensions between the US and China have spurred increasing interest and action to ‘decouple’ US and China’s economic and technological ecosystems. Which technologies should be controlled? And to what degree? How can the US define a clear strategy to curb technological interdependence with China while avoiding the pitfalls of doing too much or too little?

In recent years, growing tensions between the US and China have spurred increasing interest and action to “decouple” US and China’s economic and technological ecosystems. This is evident in the increased use of technology restrictions, from export controls to sanctions and visa bans. And while there appears to be bipartisan support for technological decoupling in … Continue reading US-China Technological Decoupling

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Podcast: Ones and Tooze (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: What Does a Crypto Crash Portend for the Economy?
Pub date: 2022-05-20

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With the collapse of stablecoin and the blow to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, it's a good time to look at crypto markets and parse out what's behind their instability.

With the collapse of stablecoin and the blow to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin hosts Adam Tooze and Cameron Abadi take another look at crypto markets and parse out what's behind their instability. Plus, a look at the link between air conditioning and productivity and why climate change is making cooling technology increasingly vital.

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Podcast: Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Chen Long: Creating a Digital Circular Economy for Net Zero
Pub date: 2022-05-19

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Discussing the Luohan Academy’s latest report on the benefits of creating a ‘digital circular economy’, which would go a long way towards reaching net zero carbon emissions and addressing the climate crisis.

Luohan Academy's Director Chen Long discusses the academy's latest report, on the benefits of creating a "digital circular economy," which would go a long way towards reaching net zero carbon emissions and addressing the climate crisis.

Report link: https://www.luohanacademy.com/insights/bc89734b94adf00c

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Podcast: RADIKAAL (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 64. Lenka Bustikova on Radical Right Parties in Eastern Europe
Pub date: 2022-05-23

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The guest discusses party politics, democratic decay, ethnicity, and clientelism, with special reference to Eastern Europe.

My guest today is Lenka Bustikova, currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University who will soon join St. Anthony’s College at the Oxford University, as Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative East European Politics. Her research focuses on party politics, democratic decay, ethnicity, and clientelism, with special reference to Eastern Europe. She is the author of the awards-winning book Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe, published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Lenka is currently working on a new book project about the social origins of illiberalism, exploring the relationship between ‘uncivil society’ and political radicalization in Eastern Europe. You can follow Lenka Bustikova on Twitter at @LBustikova.

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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: How (Not) To Regulate Big Tech (Europe’s version)
Pub date: 2022-05-23

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Discussing everything that’s wrong with surveillance capitalism; what the Tesco club card has to do with the surveillance state; the incoherent approach of the EU to regulating tech; how Brexit affected the UK’s ability of to control technology corporations; and how the law got us to where we are now

On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Jennifer Cobbe, a senior research associate in the computer science department at Cambridge University. They discuss everything that’s wrong with surveillance capitalism, what the Tesco club card has to do with the surveillance state, the incoherent approach of the EU to regulating tech, how Brexit affected the UK’s ability of to control technology corporations, and how the law got us to where we are now.

You can follow Jennifer on Twitter @jennifercobbe, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5X

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Articles Mentioned in this Podcast:

Jennifer Cobbe, Algorithmic Censorship by Social Platforms: Power and Resistance

Julie Cohen, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

Evgeny Morozov, Capitalism’s New Clothes (critique of Shoshana Zuboff)

Vice, Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Folly of Endless Growth / Dominic Boyer
Pub date: 2022-05-25

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The guest is a professor of anthropology at Rice University and Berggruen Institute fellow, who wrote the Noema Magazine article ‘Why We Have To Give Up On Endless Economic Growth.

Chuck interviews, Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology at Rice University and Berggruen Institute fellow, who wrote the Noema Magazine article "Why We Have To Give Up On Endless Economic Growth." Jeff Dorchen is doing some deep brooding in a brand new Moment of Truth. A winner is declared for the weekly Question from Hell!

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Podcast: TRASHFUTURE (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Automobile Conversation Part 1 of 2 ft. Paris Marx
Pub date: 2022-05-23

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Part one of a two-part series on driverless cars.

Paris Marx of Tech Won’t Save Us and the author of Road to Nowhere talks to us for PART ONE of our two-part series on driverless cars, which we have titled Automobile Conversation - and it is NOT legally affiliated with “Car Talk.”

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Podcast: Front Burner (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: How ‘carbon bombs’ could blow up climate action
Pub date: 2022-05-24

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A new investigation from the Guardian's climate journalists shows that oil and gas investment continues globally on 195 projects that would each release more than one gigaton of carbon if the reserves were fully exploited.

A new investigation from the Guardian’s climate journalists shows that oil and gas investment continues globally on 195 projects that would each release more than one gigaton of carbon if the reserves were fully exploited.

This, despite the fact that scientists say 60 per cent of oil and gas reserves will need to stay in the ground if we want to avoid heating the Earth by 1.5 C.

If you add up all of the carbon that could be released from these oil and gas “carbon bombs,” Canada is in sixth place as one of the worst potential polluters. We’re home to nine sites that could release more than 27 gigatons of carbon. Canada is also home to three coal carbon bombs.

Damian Carrington is the environment editor of the Guardian. He says the ongoing investment in these projects reveal an oil and gas industry that does not believe the world will achieve its climate goals.

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Podcast: Social Media and Politics (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Technology Disruption, Democracy, and Principled Platform Regulation, with Prof. Lance Bennett
Pub date: 2022-05-15

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Discussing the types of principled values that should guide platform regulation. This episode reflects on the disruptive ethos of tech companies and what that means for democracy

Prof. Lance Bennett, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Communication at the University of Washington, discusses the types of principled values that should guide platform regulation. We reflect on the disruptive ethos of tech companies and what that means for democracy. We also discuss theories of capitalism, recent changes in data privacy and third-party tracking, as well as the connection between digital technologies and protest parties.

The article we discuss in the episode is Killing the Golden Goose: A Framework for Regulating Disruptive Technologies.

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Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Who owns the internet?
Pub date: 2022-05-16

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From Zuckerberg to Musk, should we be worried that our online lives are in the hands of a few super-rich men? Will cryptocurrencies and Web3 make the internet 'good' again? And what would a people-powered internet really look like?

What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of union busting, shot a car into space, and become the world’s richest man. So what’s next on his to-do list? Buying Twitter of course!

From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, should we be worried that our online lives are in the hands of a few super-rich men? Will cryptocurrencies and Web3 make the internet good again? And what would a people-powered internet really look like?

Ayeisha is joined by Dr James Muldoon, senior lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter and Head of Digital Research at the Autonomy think tank.

You can grab a copy of James' book Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech here: http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346977/platform-socialism/

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Podcast: Our Curious Amalgam (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #168 Is Antitrust Really Apolitical? Autocracy, Populism, and Antitrust
Pub date: 2022-05-16

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Tumultuous political change, including the rise of populism in Central Europe, has been one of the key trends of the past decade. How do the shifting political winds affect antitrust, the largely technocratic domain some consider to be apolitical? This episode details how political change in Poland and Hungary has affected the antitrust world, and what lessons antitrust enforcers and practitioners can draw from this experience.

Tumultuous political change, including the rise of populism, has been one of the key trends of the past decade. How do the shifting political winds affect antitrust, the largely technocratic domain some consider to be apolitical? University of Warsaw Professor Maciej Bernatt joins Christina Ma and Sergei Zaslavsky to discuss the interrelationship between rising autocracy and populism in Central Europe (and other parts of the world) and competition policy and enforcement. Listen to this episode to learn how political change in Poland and Hungary has affected the antitrust world, and what lessons antitrust enforcers and practitioners can draw from this experience.

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Maciej Bernatt, University of Warsaw

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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 197 | Catherine Brinkley on the Science of Cities
Pub date: 2022-05-16

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The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization. But we are still learning how cities grow and adapt to new conditions, as well as how we can best guide them to be livable as well as functional. The urban scientist talks about the structure of cities, including the fractal nature of their shapes, as well as what we can do to make cities thrive as much as possible

The concept of the city is a crucial one for human civilization: people living in proximity, bringing in resources from outside, separated from the labors of subsistence so they can engage in the trade of goods and ideas. But we are still learning how cities grow and adapt to new conditions, as well as how we can best guide them to be livable as well as functional. I talk with urban scientist Catherine Brinkley about the structure of cities, including the fractal nature of their shapes, as well as what we can do to make cities thrive as much as possible.

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Catherine Brinkley received a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning as well as a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently Associate Professor of Human Ecology and Faculty Director at the Center for Regional Change at the University of California, Davis. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, and the Santa Fe Institute.

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Podcast: threesixtyCITY
Episode: 47 | A Rights-Based Approach To Housing with Leilani Farha
Pub date: 2022-05-04

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Like many places around the world, housing prices in Canada have skyrocketed over the course of the pandemic – the standard home now costing nearly twice as much as in the US. This episode discusses the importance of a human rights-based housing strategy and how cities and governments can better ensure adequate and affordable housing for all.

Like many places around the world, housing prices in Canada have skyrocketed over the course of the pandemic—the standard home now costing nearly twice as much as in the US. In an attempt to cool the market, the Canadian government will spend $10B over the next 5 years on a new housing package that includes policies such as a two-year ban on sales to foreign buyers. However, critics argue the measures fail to address the root causes of housing inequity and the realities of the financialization of housing in Canada’s rising housing costs. Today we’re joined by the Global Director of Make the Shift and former UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha to discuss the importance of a human rights-based housing strategy and how cities and governments can better ensure adequate and affordable housing for all.

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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Scott Radnitz on Why Conspiracy Theories Thrive in Both Democracies and Autocracies
Pub date: 2022-05-17

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Discussing conspiracy theories Russia uses to justify their invasion of Ukraine; the use of conspiracy theories in democracies and autocracies; the recent proliferation of conspiracy theories in the US; and how to mitigate the harmful effects of conspiracy theories in politics.

There's something natural and organic about perceiving that the people in power are out to advance their own interests. It's in part because it’s often true. Governments actually do keep secrets from the public. Politicians engage in scandals. There often is corruption at high levels. So, we don't want citizens in a democracy to be too trusting of their politicians. It's healthy to be skeptical of the state and its real abuses and tendencies towards secrecy. The danger is when this distrust gets redirected, not toward the state, but targets innocent people who are not actually responsible for people's problems.

Scott Radnitz

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Please note during the interview the host says "conspiracy" rather than "conspiracy theory." The transcript has been corrected.

Scott Radnitz is an associate professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington and the director of the Ellison Center for Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies. He is the author of Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region and coeditor with Harris Mylonas of the forthcoming book Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns. His article “Why Democracy Fuels Conspiracy Theories” was recently published in the Journal of Democracy.

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• Conspiracy theories Russia uses to justify their invasion of Ukraine
• Why Russia relies on conspiracy theories in its political rhetoric
• The use of conspiracy theories in democracies and autocracies
• The recent proliferation of conspiracy theories in the United States
• How to mitigate the harmful effects of conspiracy theories in politics

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Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region by Scott Radnitz

Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns edited by Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz

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Moisés Naím on the New Dynamics of Political Power

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Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How to Avert the Climate Catastrophe and a Financial Meltdown, with Eugene Linden
Pub date: 2022-05-16

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Laying out how successive US governments managed to delay action on climate change when they should have been raising the alarm, while also looking at why the climate emergency will have a big impact on the global economy.

Author and environmental journalist Eugene Linden's new book, Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present, lays out how successive US governments managed to delay action on climate change when they should have been raising the alarm. It also looks at why the climate emergency will have a big impact on the global economy and why China and India, which could have taken a lead on renewables, double downed on coal to fuel their industrialisation in the 1990s. Our host for the podcast is the economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh.

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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Rethinking Far-Right Online Radicalization
Pub date: 2022-05-13

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing the current state of knowledge about the spread of far-right ideas, extremist, and fringe movements; the differences in studying far-right movements in the post-9/11 context in which the study of radicalisation emerged; the role of the Internet and social media; and how these ideas relate to the events of January 6 and the future of American democracy

Researchers Alice Marwick, Benjamin Clancy, and Katherine Furl this week released Far-Right Online Radicalization: A Review of the Literature, an analysis of "cross-disciplinary work on radicalization to better understand the present concerns around online radicalization and far-right extremist and fringe movements."

In order to learn more about the issues explored in the review, I spoke to Marwick, who is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Principal Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life (CITAP).

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Kai Bosworth, "Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-05-16

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Arguing that populism is shaped by the ‘affective infrastructures’ emerging from shifts in regional economies, democratic public-review processes, and scientific controversies. The guest investigates how these movements wax and wane, moving toward or away from other forms of environmental and political ideologies in the Upper Midwest.

Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines has made global headlines in recent years. Less remarked on are the crucial populist movements that have also played a vital role in pipeline resistance. Kai Bosworth explores the influence of populism on environmentalist politics, which sought to bring together Indigenous water protectors and environmental activists along with farmers and ranchers in opposition to pipeline construction. Here Bosworth argues that populism is shaped by the "affective infrastructures" emerging from shifts in regional economies, democratic public-review processes, and scientific controversies. With this lens, he investigates how these movements wax and wane, moving toward or away from other forms of environmental and political ideologies in the Upper Midwest. This lens also lets Bosworth place populist social movements in the critical geographical contexts of racial inequality, nationalist sentiments, ongoing settler colonialism, and global empire--crucial topics when grappling with the tensions embedded in our era's immense environmental struggles.

Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century (U Minnesota Press, 2022) reveals the complex role populism has played in shifting interpretations of environmental movements, democratic ideals, scientific expertise, and international geopolitics. Its rich data about these grassroots resistance struggles include intimate portraits of the emotional spaces where opposition is first formed. Probing the very limits of populism, Pipeline Populism presents essential work for an era defined by a wave of people-powered movements around the world.

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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The ‘carbon bombs’ set to blow up the world’s climate pledges
Pub date: 2022-05-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest explains that a Guardian investigation has laid bare the reality of what oil and gas projects add up to: 646 gigatonnes of additional carbon dioxide that would be pumped into the atmosphere unless they are halted.

A Guardian investigation has revealed 195 oil and gas projects known as ‘carbon bombs’ that could trigger catastrophic climate breakdown if allowed to continue. Damian Carrington reports Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Podcast: C4eRadio: Sounds of Ethics
Episode: Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online Protest
Pub date: 2022-05-05

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Using the tools of philosophy to address issues of online speech and the technology that enables it, including ‘AI.’ This talk emphasises the questions of harm (which is often invisible), responsibility (which is hard-to-pin-down), as well as the complicated ways technology (material and algorithmic) shapes our speech acts.

Michael Randall Barnes, Whose Tweets? Our Tweets!: The Challenges of Online Protest by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

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Podcast: The Internet of Things Podcast - Stacey On IoT (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 370: How to build the infrastructure for public tech
Pub date: 2022-05-05

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest recently wrote an article calling for the end of Canada’s Covid contact tracing application and explains why she thinks it’s time to sunset the app.

This week’s show kicks off with research suggesting Amazon uses data from Alexa devices to advertise its own products, and that Amazon is selling some of the insights derived from Alexa requests to third parties. This is disturbing, but so is John Deere’s ability to decommission tractors stolen by Russians from a Ukraine dealership. We talk about why this sort of power makes me nervous. And in a final story about digital rights, we discuss the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention buying location data from private companies so it can see how effective some of its COVID policies were. From there we go into basic product news, starting with new wellness features coming to your Google Nest Hub screen ahead of Google I/O next week, a new room sensor from Wyze, new light switches from Leviton that don’t require a neutral wire, and new Wi-Fi 7 chips from Qualcomm. Kevin then shares a new smart home purchase and his thoughts on the Schlage Encode Plus with Home Key door lock. We finish by answering a listener’s question about if we’ll get a custom sound detection from Amazon’s Alexa.

The Wyze room sensor has a screen, and tracks temperature, humidity and motion. Image courtesy of Wyze. Our guest this week is Bianca Wylie, who is a partner with Digital Public, a public interest firm focused on technology. She wrote an article calling for the end of Canada’s COVID contact tracing application and explains why she thinks it’s time to sunset the app. I think her ideas are important to discuss as our governments invest in digital infrastructure without necessarily having a plan for maintaining or auditing it. The COVID-tracking apps are a great case study that we can learn from. For example, when governments implement new technology they need to figure out how they plan to maintain it and ensure that it is doing the job it was intended to do. As citizens, we need to participate in the process of buying technology, working with government officials to set the requirements and limitations of the tech our government is buying. This is a really good interview for all of us to listen to.

Hosts: Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel

Guest: Bianca Wylie

Sponsors: Impinj and InfluxData

• Amazon is selling Alexa voice data to advertisers
• We need to classify more data as Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
• Wi-Fi 7 chips are here but don’t upgrade your network
• What’s wrong with Canada’s COVID contact-tracing app
• Smart cities incur technical debt too

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Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Beyond batteries: What we need to store renewable energy
Pub date: 2022-05-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Explaining why there needs to be 100-times more storage for renewables by 2040, and why that goal is currently out of reach.

If there is to be a shift to renewable energy, there must be a focus on developing batteries that can meet the challenge. New Yorker contributing writer Matthew Hutson joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why there needs to be 100-times more storage for renewables by 2040, and why that goal is currently out of reach. His article is “The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage.”

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Podcast: RevDem Podcast
Episode: Helen Thompson: Local oil, global finance, and democracies without citizen-creditors
Pub date: 2022-05-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest explains how concentrating on energy can reshape our understanding of contemporary history, political economy, and transnational finance; discusses how international relations are simultaneously shaped by zero-sum attitudes and tacit cooperation; and asks what it means when representative democracies no longer rely on ‘citizen-creditors’

In conversation with Vera Šćepanović, Helen Thompson explains how concentrating on energy can reshape our understanding of contemporary history, political economy, and transnational finance; discusses how international relations are simultaneously shaped by zero-sum attitudes and tacit cooperation; asks what it means when representative democracies no longer rely on ‘citizen-creditors’; and reflects on how the profound economic shock triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine might play out across the world.

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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ronald Deibert from Citizen Lab on Cyber Surveillance, Digital Subversion, and Transnational Repression
Pub date: 2022-05-10

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

This conversation goes beyond social media to consider ideas like transnational repression and digital mercenaries that challenge how we think about international relations

So, if your aim is to get inside someone's device without their permission and gather up information, you could do that using a very sophisticated commercial spyware technology like Pegasus. The latest iteration of it employs zero click technology meaning that it can target and insert itself on any device without the owner of that device even knowing or being tricked into clicking on a link. That's very powerful, because there is no defense against it.

Ronald Deibert

A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.

Ronald Deibert is a professor of political science at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Citizen Lab. He recently gave the 18th annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture at the National Endowment for Democracy. Its title was “Digital Subversion: The Threat to Democracy.” His article, “Subversion Inc: The Age of Private Espionage” in the most recent Journal of Democracy is based on this lecture.

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Key Highlights

• How Black Cube tried to infiltrate Citizen Lab
• How autocrats continue to repress political dissidents overseas
• The privatization of espionage and spycraft
• The link between surveillance capitalism and private espionage
• What liberal democracies can do to defend civil society

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Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture "Digital Subversion: The Threat to Democracy" by Ronald Deibert

"Subversion Inc: The Age of Private Espionage" by Ronald Deibert in Journal of Democracy

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Can Democracy Survive the Internet? Nate Persily and Josh Tucker on Social Media and Democracy

Winston Mano on Social Media and Politics in Africa… And what America can Learn from Africa about Democracy

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Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Futureproof Extra: Upcycling CO2
Pub date: 2022-05-10

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The climate change problem can often seem intractable and in a political sense, painfully slow. But it's important to remember that some progress is being made and we are innovating new techniques and technologies to address the issue.

The climate change problem can often seem intractable and in a political sense, painfully slow. But it's important to remember that some progress is being made and we are innovating new techniques and technologies to address the issue. One such innovation is CO2 upcycling - Andrea Ramirez Ramirez, Professor in the Faculty of Low-Carbon Systems and Technologies at Delft University of Technology joined Jonathan to discuss. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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Podcast: Energy Policy Now (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Governing the Promise and Peril Of Emerging Climate Technologies
Pub date: 2022-05-10

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing the need for strong governance to balance the potential benefits of carbon dioxide removal technologies with environmental and social risks

Shuchi Talati, former chief of staff of the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management, discusses the need for strong governance to balance the potential benefits of carbon dioxide removal technologies with environmental and social risks.

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This episode is the first in a three-part series that will explore governance challenges surrounding the transition to clean energy.

In early April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest assessment report, which warned that the global carbon budget to keep climate warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius is quickly being exhausted, and that the use of technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has become “unavoidable” if climate damages are to be limited.

The report has been followed by announcements from leading technology companies of more than $2 billion dollars in commitments to commercialize carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. The IPCC report, and financing commitments, point to increasing acceptance of emerging climate technologies that were once viewed as options of last resort to address climate change.

In the podcast Shuchi Talati, scholar in residence with the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment at American University, discusses the governance of these emerging climate technologies which, despite their promise, raise concerns around their potential impacts on ecosystems, economies and issues of social equity, and even over the pace of decarbonization itself.

Shuchi Talati is scholar in residence with the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment at American University, and former chief of staff for the Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management at the Department of Energy.

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Podcast: Scope Conditions Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Online Dissent, Offline Repression, with Alexandra Siegel
Pub date: 2022-05-01

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Can autocrats fight online dissent with offline repression? This conversation is about the limits to authoritarian coercive capacities in the information age. It’s also a conversation about the exciting new world of social media-based research

Can autocrats fight online dissent with offline repression?

In the world’s most authoritarian regimes, on-the-ground forms of protest or expressions of dissent are quickly quashed. So the online world – especially social media – has emerged as a critical venue for activists and reformers to express opposition and sustain their movements.

Given its more diffuse and elusive nature, online activism presents dictators with a new challenge of social control. One possible response is to try to censor online dissent, though it takes a high level of technological sophistication and state capacity to shut down social media opposition completely. Another option is to use physical repression to deal with digital dissent: to throw anti-regime Twitter users in jail. So what happens when autocrats bring old coercive weapons to this new battleground?

This is the question we put to our guest, Dr. Alexandra Siegel, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Alex has been working for years on understanding how political conflict plays out in the online sphere, especially in non-democratic settings. The paper we discuss with Alex – an article, coauthored with Jennifer Pan, that appeared in the American Political Science Review – investigates what happens when the Saudi regime imprisons or tortures activists, religious leaders, and journalists for voicing critical views on social media. Does throwing online critics in jail actually silence them? Does it deter other activists? And how do their legions of online followers react?

This is a fascinating conversation about the limits to authoritarian coercive capacities in the information age. But it’s also a conversation about the exciting new world of social media-based research. Alex’s work is an elegant example of how scholars can use social-media data not just to capture expression and mobilization in the increasingly vibrant digital public square, but also to tap into mass political cognition more broadly – for instance, using search engine data to track the public’s interest in political events.

We also ask Alex to reflect on the perils that may lurk in this brave new world of text-as-data and social-media research. Does the sheer vastness of the available troves of data create new opportunities to fish for results – to dig up statistically significant patterns that aren’t actually substantively meaningful? Can we do anything to guard against this risk? And how should we think about the ethical implications of using publicly available data to study the targets of violent repression? How should scholars of online political behavior in autocracies strike a balance between principles of open science and the avoidance of harm to the activists they’re studying?

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Podcast: Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jimmy Soni: How PayPal Shaped Silicon Valley
Pub date: 2022-05-04

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Before Elon Musk was the world’s wealthiest man, founder of a rocket company, and owner of Twitter, he was best known as one of the founders of PayPal. Other PayPal alumni went on to found companies like YouTube, Yelp, and LinkedIn. And the ‘don’ of the PayPal Mafia, Peter Thiel, is now known for his political activism and contributions to Republican campaigns. What can we learn about Musk and Thiel – and about Silicon Valley – from the early history of PayPal?

Before Elon Musk was the world's wealthiest man, founder of a rocket company, and owner of Twitter, he was best known as one of the founders of PayPal. Other PayPal alumni went on to found companies like YouTube, Yelp, and LinkedIn. And the "don" of the PayPal Mafia, Peter Thiel, is now known for his political activism and contributions to Republican campaigns. So what can we learn about Musk and Thiel—and about Silicon Valley—from the early history of PayPal? To find out, I'm joined by Jimmy Soni.

Jimmy is an award-winning author of three books. His first two, co-authored with Rob Goodman, are Rome's Last Citizen, a biography of Cato the Younger, and A Mind at Play, a biography of Claude Shannon. His latest is The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, released earlier this year.

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Podcast: Political Economy Forum (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #77 - Silicon Valley and the Origins of US Big Tech - w/ Margaret O'Mara
Pub date: 2022-05-02

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Recounting the story of the powerful institutions who created the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University; and of the homogeneous and tight-knit community whose belief in its own mythology has deepened into a collective hubris, leading to devastating second-order effects.

In this episode, Prof. Margaret O'Mara of the University of Washington discusses the origins and workings of the US Tech industry - in reference to her 2019 book: The Code - Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.

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Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What did Covid-19 reveal about how our economy is really run?
Pub date: 2022-05-03

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

In the early months of the pandemic, the UK government shut down whole sectors of the economy and started paying the wages of a huge proportion of Brits. Some worked from home, juggling homeschooling their kids and figuring out how to use Zoom. Others risked their health to travel to work. Meanwhile Big Tech and outsourcing companies raked in money through government contracts. What can we learn from moments when the predictable rules of economic life are suspended? Who wins and who loses in these points of crisis? And has the pandemic pushed us into a new form of capitalism?

In the early months of the pandemic, the government shut down whole sectors of the economy and started paying the wages of a huge proportion of Brits. Some worked from home, juggling homeschooling their kids and figuring out how to use Zoom. Others risked their health to travel to work. Meanwhile Big Tech and outsourcing companies raked in money through government contracts.

What can we learn from moments when the predictable rules of economic life are suspended? Who wins and who loses in these points of crisis? And has the pandemic pushed us into a new form of capitalism?

Ayeisha is joined by Sahil Dutta and Nick Taylor, lecturers in political economy at Goldsmiths University to discuss their new book "Unprecedented? How Covid-19 revealed the politics of our economy"

• The book written alongside Will Davies and Martina Tazzioli is out now: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691630/unprecedented-by-william-davies-sahil-jai-dutta-nick-taylor-and-martina-tazzioli/
• Find out more about Sahil and Nick's work here: https://www.perc.org.uk/
• Further reading on the care crisis and coronavirus by Emma Dowling here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4031-the-care-crisis

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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Debunking Green Growth | Tim Parrique
Pub date: 2022-05-05

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Exposing the language and mechanisms economists and politicians use to lull the public into a false sense of security; giving a damning analysis of decoupling; dropping a bombshell about the IPCC report; and putting to bed the argument that growth on a finite planet could be a good thing.

Degrowth is making waves in academic and climate circles. Not only does the research field provide genuine hope for a more equitable and environmental future, but its advocates are hellbent on revealing the incorrect math, manipulated data and idiotic assumptions propping up capitalism’s regime. They’re debunking the myth of green growth.

Social scientist, Tim Parrique, the lead author of ‘Decoupling Debunked’ joins me this week to explain how neoliberal ideologies have co-opted the climate movement by promoting “green growth”.

He exposes the language and mechanisms economists and politicians use to lull the public into a false sense of security, gives a damning analysis of decoupling (believe me, you need to know this), drops a bombshell about the IPCC report, and puts to bed the argument that growth on a finite planet could be a good thing.

This is a brilliant episode building on Jason Hickel’s Introduction to Degrowth a few weeks ago. Listen to the full interview here, catch it on on Apple or Spotify or watch on Youtube. You’ll find the bonus episode on Youtube tomorrow, and this week everyone has access to the interview transcript.

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Podcast: Costing the Earth (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Green Power in the Far North
Pub date: 2022-05-03

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Green industry is heading to Scandinavia's far north. Fossil fuel-free steel and clean, green wind energy are in great demand. But what does this rapid development mean for the indigenous people of the region?

Green industry is heading to Scandinavia's far north. Fossil fuel-free steel and clean, green wind energy are in great demand but what does this rapid development mean for the indigenous people of the region? Richard Orange reports from Sweden.

Producer: Alasdair Cross

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Podcast: Hierarchies of Development
Episode: Ep. 1 Environmental hierarchies
Pub date: 2022-05-03

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The issue of environmental hierarchies is connected to climate justice, COP26, the racialised dimension of climate change, and the flaws embedded in the concept of sustainability.

We speak to Tejal Kanitkar (National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India) and Leon Sealey-Huggins (University of Warwick, UK) about climate change and environmental hierarchies. Join us to learn more about the COP26, the racialised dimension of climate change, the issues around the concept of sustainability, and much more.

The Hierarchies of Development podcast offers long format interviews focusing on enduring global inequalities. Conversations focus on contemporary research projects by critical scholars from across the world that help us understand how and why structural hierarchies persist. Join hosts Ingrid Kvangraven (King’s College, London) and Basile Boulay (EADI) for this series of engaging discussions on pressing issues in the social sciences.

This podcast is a joint production between King’s College, London, the European Association for Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Developing Economics blog, with special editing support from Jonas Bauhof.

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Podcast: The Real News Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How Big Tech used COVID to pull off one of the biggest grifts in history
Pub date: 2022-04-25

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Governments partnering with tech companies to battle the Covid-19 pandemic didn't save lives, but it did put lots of money in the hands of Big Tech and provided a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity for powerful companies to take and control our sensitive data.

After two-plus years of pandemic hell, it is beyond understandable that so many desperately want to forget the horror and havoc of COVID-19 and move on with their lives, but it’s imperative that we learn from catastrophic pandemic policy mistakes and hold accountable the powerful forces that took advantage of this crisis for their own gain. Aided by governments and public-private partnerships, Big Tech has been one of the biggest offenders in this regard. As Kevin Klyman notes in his recent extensive essay for Jacobin, republished here by TRNN, governments partnering with tech companies to battle the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t save lives, but it did put lots of money in the hands of Big Tech and provided a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity for powerful companies to take and control our sensitive data. In this interview for the TRNN podcast, Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Klyman about his essay and about the jaw-dropping grift that Big Tech has been running while the rest of us have struggled to survive over the past two years.

Kevin Klyman is a policy researcher and a data scientist who advocates for responsible uses of technology to reduce poverty and advance peace. He is currently a researcher at Harvard's Kennedy School, where he publishes research on how technology can help prevent war between the United States and China. Before that, Klyman worked at the United Nations Foundation and the UN Secretary General's artificial intelligence lab, where he wrote data protection policies that were adopted by the World Health Organization. His freelance writing has been published by a range of outlets, including South China Morning Post, TechCrunch, and Jacobin.

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Why Free Access Is the Key to Fixing Big Tech Monopolies
Pub date: 2022-04-26

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest argues that ultimately it is up to us to force information giants, wherever they are located, to open their treasure troves of data to others.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future.

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the University of Oxford.

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Podcast: Public lecture podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Prof Maria Fusaro: World oceans and contemporary challenges: An historical perspective
Pub date: 2022-04-25

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest discusses world oceans and contemporary challenges through a historical lens.

In this lecture, Professor of Social and Economic History and Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter, Professor Maria Fusaro, joined us to discuss world oceans and contemporary challenges through a historical lens.

This lecture took place on 21 April 2022 as part of our event series 'Our oceans: A deep dive': https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/our-oceans-a-deep-dive/.

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Podcast: Order From Ashes (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: A Global Perspective on the Crisis in Citizenship
Pub date: 2022-04-25

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A worldwide crisis in citizenship and rights has made it clear that no country’s struggle is entirely exceptional. This episode discusses the connections between the crises in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.

A worldwide crisis in citizenship and rights has made it clear that no country’s struggle is entirely exceptional. Today’s episode of Order from Ashes kicks off a new season of the podcast: Transnational Trends in Citizenship.

Today, Naira Antoun, director of Century International’s Transnational Trends in Citizenship project, talks with Century International director Thanassis Cambanis about the connections between the crises in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.

For more than a year, Century International hosted discussions among experts who usually focus on their own regions—the Middle East or Western Europe and North America—and asked them to compare their regions and policy areas.

As a result of this exercise, the project’s teams of researchers, activists, and academics revealed commonalities and connections in their study of militias, gender and sexuality, police accountability, and protest. They also demonstrated how bringing experts on different regions together can test assumptions, create new knowledge, and inspire powerful new insights into old but persistent policy problems.

This podcast is part of “Transnational Trends in Citizenship: Authoritarianism and the Emerging Global Culture of Resistance,” a TCF project supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Open Society Foundations.

Participants include:

• Naira Antoun, director, Transnational Trends in Citizenship, Century International
• Thanassis Cambanis, director, Century International

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Podcast: Latin Waves Media
Episode: Social Movements Post Pandemic, how electoral politics is not enough
Pub date: 2022-04-25

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Speaking about the crisis of capitalism in providing for people's needs and how, as the pandemic ends, there is still no money for human needs but plenty for war

Latin Waves’ host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Jorge Martin Secretariat of Hands off Venezuela, they speak about the crisis of Capitalism in providing for peoples needs, how as the pandemic ends their is no money for human needs but plenty for war.

How social movements are starting to wake up post pandemic, even in unlikely places like Poland. How just electing a progressive government under capitalism will not get it done, how only workers uprisings and social movements can achieve what is needed.

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Podcast: Energy Policy Now (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Nicholas Stern on the Role of Economics in Combatting Climate Change
Pub date: 2022-04-26

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest discusses why traditional economics fails to capture the magnitude of threat presented by climate change, and how the discipline must adapt.

Economist Lord Nicholas Stern discusses why traditional economics fail to capture the magnitude of threat presented by climate change, and how the discipline must adapt.

In 2006 climate economist Nicholas Stern published the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, a report that offered the first systematic examination of the costs of addressing climate change and impacts on the global economy. The report marked a fundamental shift away from climate change being viewed primarily as an issue of science, to also being one of economics.

Fifteen years later Stern looks back on that seminal report to examine how economics, and markets, have failed to grapple with the unprecedented risks posed by a changing climate, and how the profession must change to guide policy toward rapid decarbonization on a global scale. Stern’s recording took place during his visit to the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy on April 19, where he received the center’s Carnot Prize for distinguished contributions to energy policy.

Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

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Guidelines for Successful, Sustainable, Nature-Based Solutions https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/research/publications/guidelines-for-successful-sustainable-nature-based-solutions/

Supply and Demand Evolution in the Voluntary Carbon Credit Market https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/research/publications/supply-and-demand-evolution-in-the-voluntary-carbon-credit-market/

The Role of Negative Emissions in Getting to Carbon Neutral https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/research/publications/the-essential-role-of-negative-emissions-in-getting-to-carbon-neutral/

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Podcast: The Science Hour (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Climate techno-fix would worsen global malaria burden
Pub date: 2022-04-24

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

There are a host of arguments against solar geoengineering, including a revulsion against adding another pollutant to the atmosphere to offset the one, carbon dioxide, that’s giving us problems in the first place. Another objection is that it could set back the global fight against malaria – a major killer in its own right.

As a series of UN climate reports have warned recently, drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions – a halving over the next decade – are needed if we are to keep global warming down to manageable levels. No sign of that happening.

An emergency measure to buy time that’s sometimes discussed is solar geoengineering – creating an atmospheric sunscreen that reduces incoming solar heat. Sulphate compounds in volcanic gases or in industrial fumes attract water vapour to make a fine haze and have that effect. The difference would be starting a deliberate programme of injecting sulphate particles into the stratosphere.

There are a host of arguments against it, including a revulsion against adding another pollutant to the atmosphere to offset the one, carbon dioxide, that’s giving us problems in the first place. Another objection, outlined this week, is that it could set back the global fight against malaria - a major killer in its own right. University of Cape Town ecologist Chris Trisos tells Roland Pease what his team’s modelling study revealed.

Yale University neurologist Kevin Sheth talks to us about a revolution in medical scanning – small-scale MRI machines that can be wheeled to the patient’s bedside.

According to palaeontologist Maria McNamara, an amazingly preserved pterosaur fossil from Brazil proves that some of these flying reptiles did have feathers similar to those of birds (and some dinosaurs), and that the feathers were of different colours, possibly for mating display.

Primatologist Adrian Barnett has discovered that spider monkeys in one part of the Brazilian Amazon seek out fruit, full of live maggots to eat. Why?

The ancient Maya flourished in modern day Mexico and Central America for millennia. They built incredible cities and they had sophisticated knowledge of astronomy, architecture and the natural world. But although Maya culture continues to exist today, around 900 AD, many of their great settlements collapsed, and today they lie in ruins.

CrowdScience listener Michael wants to know - how did the Maya sustain their populations successfully for so long? And what happened 1000 years ago that led them to abandon their cities?

To find out, Melanie Brown travels to the forests of Western Belize. She visits the archaeological site of Xunantunich to learn about what life would have been like for the Maya living in what was once a prosperous city. She hears about the importance of water to the Maya way of life in this region, and their ingenious methods for capturing and storing rainfall.

She meets archaeologists using lasers and drones to map Maya settlements that have lain hidden by jungle for centuries. And she discovers what material from the bottom of lakes can tell us about how the Maya faced a changing climate, which may have had huge consequences for their society.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Who’s to Blame When a Self-Driving Car Kills Someone? w/ Lauren Smiley
Pub date: 2022-04-14

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing what we’ve learned about the Uber crash since it happened in March 2018, what that’s meant for the vehicle operator who’s been charged, and whether the justice system made the right call in blaming her instead of Uber.

Paris Marx is joined by Lauren Smiley to discuss what we’ve learned about the Uber crash since in happened in March 2018, what that’s meant for the vehicle operator who’s been charged, and whether the justice system made the right call in blaming her instead of Uber.

Lauren Smiley is a WIRED contributor and freelance journalist based in San Francisco. Follow Laren on Twitter at @laurensmiley.

🎉 This month is the show’s second birthday. To celebrate, we want to get 100 new supporters at $5/month or above to bring on a producer to help make the show. Help us hit our goal by joining on Patreon. You can also follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

• Lauren interviewed Rafaela Vasquez and dug into the substance of the past four years of information on the Uber crash for WIRED.
• Last summer, Vasquez’ legal team argued the grand jury hadn’t heard to full version of events before indicting her.
• In 2019, the NTSB’s final report placed primary blame on the operator, but secondary blame on Uber, the pedestrian, and the state.
• In 2015, Lauren wrote about the “shut-in economy” and social divides being entrenched by on-demand services.

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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Tim Hwang, "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" (FSG Originals, 2020)
Pub date: 2022-04-14

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, it seems that the true value of that attention itself – much like subprime mortgages – is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, would the internet suddenly only be accessible to those who can afford it?

In Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet(FSG Originals, 2020), Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising--the beating heart of the internet--is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008.

From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers' attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself--much like subprime mortgages--is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet--and its free services--will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it.

Tim Hwang is a writer, researcher, and currently the general counsel for Substack. He is the former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and previously served as the global public policy lead for artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google.

Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin).

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Podcast: Srsly Wrong (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 254 – No Bosses & Participatory Economics W/ Michael Albert
Pub date: 2022-04-13

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Imagine a world without bosses. The guest discusses democratic workers councils, fair job complexes, and the process of building a participatory and democratic economy.

Imagine a world without bosses! The Wrong Boys speak to Michael Albert, author of “No Bosses,” about Participatory Economics, democratic workers councils, fair job complexes, and the process of building a participatory and democratic economy.

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Podcast: Tech Tent (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Facial recognition technology and the war in Ukraine
Pub date: 2022-04-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A controversial facial recognition company helps identify the dead in Ukraine. This episode also looks at whether age verification tech can stop children viewing pornography online.

A controversial facial recognition company helps identify the dead in Ukraine. And a look at whether age verification tech can stop children viewing pornography online.

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Podcast: HISTORY This Week (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Luddites Attack
Pub date: 2022-04-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

April 20, 1812. An angry crowd approaches a mill in Lancashire, England. They’re fed up with what’s happening to their knitting industry, and they’re here to smash the machines taking their jobs. They call themselves the Luddites. Today, their name is invoked when talking about anyone who is anti-technology. But what actually drove this group of knitters to take up arms against their employers? And what does their struggle show us about the relationship between workers and employers today?

April 20, 1812. An angry crowd approaches a mill in Lancashire, England. They’re fed up with what’s happening to their knitting industry, and they’re here to smash the machines taking their jobs. They call themselves the Luddites. Today, their name is invoked when talking about anyone who is anti-technology. But what actually drove this group of knitters to take up arms against their employers? And what does their struggle show us about the relationship between workers and employers today?

Thank you to our guest, Dr. Richard Gaunt from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.Thank you also to Dr. Kevin Binfield, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Murray State University, for speaking with us for this episode.

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Podcast: The Takeaway (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: "Managed Retreat": A Solution to Communities Impacted by Climate Change
Pub date: 2022-04-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Extreme weather events are likely to force millions from their homes – creating climate refugees across the world and right here in the US. In advance of these perils, some are trying a new process known as ‘managed retreat’, or planned relocation of communities impacted by climate change.

At the beginning of April, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report stating that global greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise… putting the world at risk for more climate-change related issues, unless immediate action is taken.

Extreme weather events are likely to force millions from their homes - creating climate refugees across the world and right here in the United States. In advance of these perils, some are trying a new process known as “managed retreat," or planned relocation of communities impacted by climate change. We talk with A.R. Siders, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware and climate change adaptation expert on what managed retreat is and how it has been implemented across the US.

We also talk with Hilton Kelley in Port Arthur, Texas about climate-related issues in his community. Kelley is also the founder and director of the Community in Power and Development Association.

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Podcast: Law Bytes (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 125: Sue Gardner on Journalism, the Internet Platforms, and the Online News Act
Pub date: 2022-04-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A conversation about journalism, Internet platforms, and Bill C-18 – Canada’s Online News Act.

Last week, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez introduced Bill C-18 – the Online News Act – the second of three planned Internet regulation bills. There is much to unpack about the provisions in the bill including the enormous power granted to the CRTC, the extensive scope of the bill that could cover tweets or LinkedIn posts, the provision that encourages the Internet platforms to dictate how Canadian media organizations spend the money at issue, and the principle that news organizations should be compensated by some entities not only for the use of their work but even for links that refer traffic back to them. Sue Gardner is the Max Bell School of Public Policy McConnell Professor of Practice for 2021-2022. A journalist who went on to head CBC.ca and later the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), she is the only Canadian, and the first woman, to have run a global top-5 internet site. She joins the Law Bytes podcast for a conversation about journalism, the Internet platforms, and Bill C-18.

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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Surveillance Tech's Infinite Loop of Harms, with Chris Gilliard
Pub date: 2022-04-12

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

There is a huge amount of money and resources put into making the claim that technologies can do a certain thing – regardless of whether or not they can actually do that thing. In many cases it's neither, but there is a tremendous investment in making that seem like a reality so that these companies can profit and a select few individuals can profit as well.

Every time a new technology that collects, stores, and analyzes our data is released to the world or permitted a new role, we are promised that it will work as intended and won't cause undue harm. But writer, professor, and speaker Dr. Chris Gilliard has found that this is rarely how these stories actually end.

In this discussion with Senior Fellow Arthur Holland Michel, Dr. Gilliard explains why the arc of surveillance technology and novel "artificial intelligence" bends toward failures that disproportionately hurt society’s most vulnerable groups, what this means for our notions of "responsible tech" and "AI ethics," and what we can do about it moving forward.

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Podcast: etui.podcast
Episode: The platform economy in Europe with Wouter Zwysen and Jan Drahokoupil
Pub date: 2022-04-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The pandemic seems to have accelerated the expansion of all kinds of platform work which simultaneously became more precarious. This episode sheds light on some of the key insights from the second wave of the Internet and Platform work survey conducted in fourteen EU countries in Spring 2021

The pandemic seems to have accelerated the expansion of all kinds of platform work and at the same time, platform work is being increasingly associated with difficult working conditions, health and safety risks, and inadequate levels of income for those that rely on it as a source of living. This podcast episode will shed light on some of the key insights from the second wave of the Internet and Platform work survey conducted in fourteen EU countries in Spring 2021.

The platform economy in Europe, Results from the second ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey (IPWS) - Agnieszka Piasna, Wouter Zwysen and Jan Drahokoupil

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Podcast: Manchester Green New Deal podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: "The IPCC opened the degrowth Pandora's box" – interview with Timothée Parrique
Pub date: 2022-04-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

With the IPCC working group 3 report explicitly saying economic growth will be a prevailing factor in burning the world into a crisp, it’s time to ask again: what are the alternatives? This episode discusses degrowth in the latest IPCC report, the language of degrowth vs. a Green New Deal, and why growth is a poor way to describe economic behaviour.

With the UN IPCC Working Group 3 report coming out last week, and it explicitly saying economic growth will be a prevailing factor in burning the world into a crisp, it’s time to ask again: what are the alternatives? How do we build societies that don't have fossil-based growth at the heart of them?

This week on the show we are joined by Timothée Parrique (@timparrique). Timothée's writings include his PhD “The political economy of degrowth”, which is he currently writing as a book adaptation, and “Decoupling debunked - Evidence and arguments against green growth”, a report for the European Environmental Bureau (EEB). We discuss the upcoming French elections (recorded before the results of the first round), degrowth in the latest IPCC report, the language of degrowth vs a Green New Deal, and why growth is a poor way to describe economic behaviour.

Check out our Just As Well series of articles with great writers across the world looking at just transitions.

LINKS

Delphine Batho - French presidential candidate on degrowth during a primary last year:

https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2021-09-09-delphine-batho-pleads-for-degrowth-in-the-face-of-the-climate-emergency.H1dgs0PzF.html

1972 Donella Meadows' report, The limits to Growth:

https://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf

IPCC Group 3 report

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/

The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00799-z

The World Happiness Index

https://worldhappiness.report/

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Podcast: Talking Europe
Episode: The future of Europe: EU citizens take centre stage
Pub date: 2022-04-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The EU is coming to the end of a major experiment in public debate: the Conference on the Future of Europe, an eight-month-long event in which the EU invited its 450 million citizens to share their thoughts on how the bloc might reorient itself to face new challenges. What – if anything – has the conference achieved? Will true change come about?

The EU is coming to the end of a major experiment in public debate: the Conference on the Future of Europe, an eight-month-long event in which the EU invited its 450 million citizens to share their thoughts on how the bloc might reorient itself to face new challenges. What – if anything – has the conference achieved? Will true change come about? We discuss this with three guests who took part in the Conference itself.

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Podcast: Talking Europe
Episode: Rethinking the EU: The young Europeans reshaping a continent
Pub date: 2022-04-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Over the past eight months, the Conference on the Future of Europe has aimed to give a voice to 800 citizens from the 27 EU member states. A third of the participants were under 25 years old. What are their expectations in terms of migration, the environment, health or the climate? Why did they get involved?

Over the past eight months, the Conference on the Future of Europe has aimed to give a voice to 800 citizens from the 27 EU member states. The goal of this unprecedented endeavour was to see concrete progress on the climate, employment, health and even diplomacy. A third of the participants were under 25 years old. Throughout the event in Strasbourg, FRANCE 24 closely followed four of the young panellists: an Italian anthropology student, a French high school student, a Slovakian doctoral student and a young Swedish woman concerned about the environment. What are their expectations in terms of migration, the environment, health or the climate? Why did they get involved? Our reporters have been finding out.

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Podcast: Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Richard Kozul-Wright & Kevin Gallagher: Re-orienting Global Finance Towards Ecological and Social Goals
Pub date: 2022-04-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

After the 2008–9 global financial crisis, the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic offers us a second chance to implement sweeping reforms to how we govern global money, finance, and trade. Without global leaders prepared to rewrite the rules to promote a prosperous, just, and sustainable post-Covid world economic order – a Bretton Woods moment for the 21st century – we risk being engulfed by climate chaos and political dysfunction.

UNCTAD Director Richard Kozul-Wright and Kevin Gallagher, Global Development Policy professor at Boston University, discuss their book, The Case for a New Bretton Woods. Ever since the post-war economic order was dismantled beginning in the 1980s, a re-design of the global economic order has become increasingly urgent in light of the social and ecological crises that we face.

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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mark Beissinger on Contemporary Urban Civic Revolutions
Pub date: 2022-04-12

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Has the revolutionary process become less consequential? Has the ability to bring about substantive change in the wake of revolution deteriorated? Revolutions are no longer as violent as they once were; they are more frequent than they once were, almost more normal in terms of being part of the political landscape.

I think the revolutionary process has become somewhat less consequential in some ways. The ability to bring about substantive change in the wake of revolution has deteriorated for one thing. We've gained certain things as well. I mean, revolutions are no longer as violent as they once were. They're more frequent than they once were, almost more normal in terms of being part of the political landscape in a way that they were not in the past.

Mark Beissinger

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Mark Beissinger is a professor of politics at Princeton University and the author of the new book The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion.

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• An Account of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine
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• Why are Revolutions more Successful than in the Past?
• Why are Revolutions Less Violent?
• How do Revolutions Continue to Change?

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Podcast: The Sustainability Agenda (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 148: Interview with Professor Ann Pettifor on finance and climate and stranded assets
Pub date: 2022-04-09

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A wide ranging interview on the impact of an unstable financial system on the prospects of dealing with the climate crisis, Bretton Woods, and the (overstated?) power of private finance, which the guest believes is ultimately designed to serve the interests of the 1%. Rather than focus exclusively on the cost of decarbonisation, we should think of living more simply, living with less carbon.

Wide ranging interview with Professor Ann Pettifor on the impact of an unstable financial system on the prospects of dealing with the climate crisis, Bretton Woods, the power of private finance, which she believes is ultimately designed to serve the interests of the 1%. Ann argues, however, that the power of private finance is overstated, pointing to the various ways in which financial institutions consistently rely on public institutions to bail them out—how we are not actually living in time of free market capitalism. Rather than focus exclusively on the cost of decarbonization, Ann argues that think of a different economy living more simply, living with less carbon, living in an economy which is not based on fossil fuels.

Ann Pettifor is a British economist who advises governments and organisations. Her work focuses on the global financial system, sovereign debt restructuring, international finance and sustainable development. She was one of the leaders of the Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign and is a member of the Green New Deal Group of economists, environmentalists and entrepreneurs actively working to shift the world away from fossil fuels. Her latest book is The Case for the Green New Deal.

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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Kamilah Ebrahim & Erina Moon, Building Algorithms that Work for Everyone
Pub date: 2022-04-01

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Oftentimes, the development of algorithms are divorced from the environments where they will eventually be deployed. This talk will seek to explain the status quo of child welfare algorithms, what we miss when we fail to include context in the development of algorithms, and how the addition of qualitative text data can help to make better algorithms.

Oftentimes, the development of algorithms are divorced from the environments where they will eventually be deployed. In high stakes contexts, like child welfare services, policymakers and technologists must exercise a high degree of caution in the design and deployment of decisionmaking algorithms or risk further marginalising already vulnerable communities. This talk will seek to explain the status quo of child welfare algorithms, what we miss when we fail to include context in the development of algorithms, and how the addition of qualitative text data can help to make better algorithms.

Kamilah Ebrahim iSchool University of Toronto

Erina Moon iSchool University of Toronto

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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Precarity of Tech’s Shadow Workforce
Pub date: 2022-04-01

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Earlier this year, a nonprofit organisation called the TechEquity Collaborative published an investigation into the 'shadow workforce' that powers many tech firms. This episode discusses the report which describes a range of challenging conditions and inequities, particularly relative to the lavish pay and perks for full time employees of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.

Earlier this year, a nonprofit organization called the TechEquity Collaborative released the results of its Contract Worker Disparity Project, an investigation into the “shadow workforce” that powers many tech firms. The culmination of a year of research into the disparities in contract work, the report features survey data and first-hand accounts from contract workers in tech who describe range of challenging conditions and inequities, particularly relative to the lavish pay and perks that are offered to full time employees of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon.

To learn more about the key findings of the report, to hear more about what it's like to make your living in one of these roles, and to get a sense of the types of policy solutions that would address these inequities, we spoke with:

• Samantha (Sam) Gordon, Senior Vice President of Programs TechEquity Collaborative
• Shannon Wait, Campaign Assistant with Alphabet Workers Union, part of the Communications Workers of America Local 1400

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Web3 is Not Going Great w/ Molly White
Pub date: 2022-04-01

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Discussing the big Axie Infinity hack, what’s wrong with the New York Times’ 'Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto', and what guest's years as a Wikipedia editor have taught her about the problem with Web3’s vision of total commercialisation.

Paris Marx is joined by Molly White to discuss the big Axie Infinity hack, what’s wrong with the New York Times’ Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto, and what Molly’s years as a Wikipedia editor have taught her about the problem with web3’s vision of total commercialization.

Molly White is a software engineer and the creator of web3 is going just great. Follow Molly on Twitter at @molly0xFFF.

🎉 This month is the show’s second birthday. To celebrate, we want to get 100 new supporters at $5/month or above to bring on a producer to help make the show. Help us hit our goal by joining on Patreon. You can also follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Molly and a bunch of other crypto critics put together an (Edited) Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto.
• You can read Kevin Roose’s original Latecomer’s Guide here.
• Molly wrote about the $625 million Axie Infinity hack and harassment on the blockchain.
• Interest in NFTs and their values have plummeted in recent months.
• Tech Won’t Save Us has a new website. Check it out at techwontsave.us.

Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

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Podcast: Rear Vision (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The far-right in France—where does it come from and why is it so popular?
Pub date: 2022-04-03

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The two far-right candidates, Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, are expected to do well in the forthcoming French presidential election. Why is the Right so strong in France and what is its connection with the Nazi occupation in World War II?

The two far-right candidates, Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, are expected to do well in the forthcoming French presidential election. Why is the Right so strong in France and what is its connection with the Nazi occupation in World War II?

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Podcast: Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Daniel Treisman on Spin Dictators
Pub date: 2022-04-04

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Tracing how leaders have pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolising power. Most of today’s authoritarians are spin dictators – and this episode shows how they differ from the remaining ‘fear dictators’.

(4-4-22)Join us when author Daniel Treisman examines his book Spin Dictators. Which traces how leaders have pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. While they have cultivated an image of competence, concealed censorship, and used democratic institutions to undermine democracy, all while increasing international engagement for financial and reputational benefits. The book reveals why most of today’s authoritarians are spin dictators—and how they differ from the remaining “fear dictators” on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

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Podcast: The Inside Story Podcast
Episode: Will politicians act on new climate change report?
Pub date: 2022-04-04

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Climate scientists say it is time for action. The UN-mandated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – or IPCC – has already released two reports warning that extreme weather events will become more common unless there are drastic cuts to global emissions. In its third and final report – the IPCC looks at ways to reverse the damage. Will politicians listen? What's the fallout if they don't?

Climate scientists say it is time for action. The UN-mandated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – or IPCC – has already released two reports warning that extreme weather events will become more common unless there are drastic cuts to global emissions. In its third and final report – the IPCC looks at ways to reverse the damage. Will politicians listen? What's the fallout if they don't?

Join host Rob Matheson.

With guests:

Andy Reisinger - Member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Syeda Rizwana Hasan - Chief executive of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association.

Stephan Singer - Senior Climate Science and Global Energy Policy Advisor at the Climate Action Network International.

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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Melissa M. Lee, "Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2022-04-04

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilise the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state.

Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship—which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures—overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. In this shrewd book, Melissa M. Lee argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state.

To demonstrate the harmful consequences of foreign subversion for state authority, Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State (Cornell University Press, 2020) marshals a wealth of evidence and presents in-depth studies of Russia's relations with the post-Soviet states, Malaysian subversion of the Philippines in the 1970s, and Thai subversion of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia in the 1980s. The evidence presented by Lee is persuasive: foreign subversion weakens the state.

She challenges the conventional wisdom on statebuilding, which has long held that conflict promotes the development of strong, territorially consolidated states. Lee argues instead that conflictual international politics prevents state development and degrades state authority. In addition, Crippling Leviathan illuminates the use of subversion as an underappreciated and important feature of modern statecraft. Rather than resort to war, states resort to subversion. Policymakers interested in ameliorating the consequences of ungoverned space must recognize the international roots that sustain weak statehood.

Melissa M. Lee is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. She studies the international and domestic politics of statebuilding and state development. Lee is the author of Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State (Cornell University Press, 2020). Her work has received the American Political Science Association’s 2016 Helen Dwight Reid (now Merze Tate) award, APSA’s European Politics and Society Section 2020 Best Article Prize, and Perry World House’s Emerging Scholar Global Policy Prize. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.

Lamis Abdelaaty is an assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She is the author of Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees (Oxford University Press, 2021). Email her comments at labdelaa@syr.edu or tweet to @LAbdelaaty.

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Podcast: Publicly Sited
Episode: The Mediated City 09: Platform Urbanism
Pub date: 2022-03-13

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What exactly constitutes a platform, in general, and in relation to urban life specifically, is somewhat up for grabs. This episode explores different perspectives on platforms as new forms of urban media, whether that be as a form of communication, a type of service, a business model, an infrastructure, or even an institution

If you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media form: ‘platforms’. Your accommodation and sightseeing arranged through Airbnb or TripAdvisor; your local travels negotiated with the help of Google Maps or Citymapper; rides hailed through Uber or Lyft; evening meal delivered via Grubhub or Just Eat. When you are in your own city or locale, you probably use some of these platforms, alongside many others. What exactly constitutes a platform, in general, and in relation to urban life specifically, is somewhat up for grabs. In this episode, we explore different perspectives on platforms as new forms of urban media, whether that be as a form of communication, a type of service, a business model, an infrastructure, or even an institution. The popularity of such platforms is clear, and it is not a stretch to say residents and visitors alike find such media useful for grappling with urban complexities. But platforms have disrupted cities too, whether that be their housing markets, transportation services or local businesses. And this disruption seems to brought forth a situation in which platforms are becoming indispensable infrastructures, and maybe even emerging institutions, of urban life.

Thinkers discussed: Sarah Barns (Negotiating the Platform Pivot: From Participatory Digital Ecosystems to Infrastructures of Everyday Life / Platform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities); Anne Helmond (The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready); Jean-Christophe Plantin, Carl Lagoze, Paul N. Edwards and Christian Sandvig (Infrastructure Studies meet Platform Studies in the Age of Google and Facebook); Nick Srnicek (Platform Capitalism); Shoshana Zuboff (The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power); José van Dijck, Thomas Poell and Martijn de Waal (The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World); Emily West (Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly); Frank Pasquale (From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon); Jathan Sadowski (Who Owns the Future City? Phases of Technological Urbanism and Shifts in Sovereignty); Lizzie Richardson (Platforms, Markets, and Contingent Calculation: The Flexible Arrangement of the Delivered Meal); Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham (The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction); John Bull (Schrodinger’s Cab Firm: Uber’s Existential Crisis); Niels van Doorn (A New Institution on the Block: On Platform Urbanism and Airbnb Citizenship); Douglass C. North (Institutions); Benjamin Bratton (The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty).

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Podcast: Money on the Left (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The ECASH Act with Rohan Grey
Pub date: 2022-03-28

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Recognising the US Treasury as an institution ideally suited to managing a digital US dollar, the Act treats monetary inclusion and privacy as a political rights and public goods, while at the same time eschewing the exclusionary and ecologically destructive effects of crypto currencies that rely on blockchain technologies.

In this special episode, Rohan Grey (@rohangrey) joins Billy Saas (@billysaas) and Maxximilian Seijo (@MaxSeijo) to discuss the "ECASH" or "Electronic Currency and Secure Hardware" Act. Introduced by Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA-08), Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services' Task Force on Financial Technology, and based on Grey's research on electronic currency, the ECASH Act directs the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and pilot digital dollar technologies that replicate the privacy-respecting features of physical cash. Recognizing the United States Treasury as an institution ideally suited to managing a digital U.S. dollar, the Act treats monetary inclusion and privacy as a political rights and public goods, while at the same time eschewing the exclusionary and ecologically destructive effects of crypto currencies that rely on blockchain technologies.

The ECASH Act is co-sponsored by Rep.'s Jesús G. “Chuy” García (IL-04), Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Alma Adams (NC-12) of the Committee on Financial Services, and endorsed by Americans for Financial Reform, Demand Progress, the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), and Public Money Action.

Rohan Grey is Assistant Professor of Law in the College of Law at Willamette University.

Full text of the E-CASH Bill

E-CASH website

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Amelia Winger-Bearskin on the Metaverse, DAOS, Gaming, NFTs and Indigenous Culture
Pub date: 2022-03-27

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest is an artist of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) origin who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our communities and the environment.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) origin who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our communities and the environment. She is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts, at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She is also the inventor of Honor Native Sky, and founded the award winning podcast Wampum.Codes an ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation. She was awarded a MacArthur/Sundance Institute fellowship for her collaborative 360 video immersive installation and has been awarded other prestigious prizes for her VR/AR projects.

CONTRIBUTEA note from Lev:

I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers. The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (perListen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.

The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.

I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor.

Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year.If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)

Best,

Lev

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Podcast: City Road Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 67. Planning for Recovery
Pub date: 2022-03-17

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Leading urbanists from North America to Australia discuss the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic for future city planning and urban life.

A 2021 Festival of Urbanism panel discussion.

Leading urbanists from North America to Australia discuss the lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for future city planning and urban life.

Hear from Sam Assefa, former Seattle Planning Director and at the frontline of that city’s COVID-19 experience; Irene Figueroa Ortiz, New York City urban designer and transport planner; and Glenn Grimshaw urban planner, researcher and adviser based in the Australian Embassy, Washington DC. Professor Ann Forsyth, planner, architect and expert on healthy cities at the Harvard Graduate School of Design will lead the international discussion, followed by an address by Hon Dr Rob Stokes, Minister for Planning and Public Spaces introduced Mark Scott AO, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney.

Chair: Dr Ann Forsyth, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Speakers:

Irene Figueroa Ortiz, Senior Project Manager, New York City Department of Transportation

Glenn Grimshaw, Senior Research Officer, Australian Embassy, Washington DC

Sam Assefa, Former Director Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development

The Hon Dr Rob Stokes Minister for Planning and Public Spaces

Professor Mark Scott, Vice Chancellor the University of Sydney

Professor Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney (Session chair)

http://www.festivalofurbanism.com/2021-events/2021/9/22/planning-for-recovery-leading-urbanists-in-conversation

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Podcast: Cities After... podcast
Episode: Oligarchy and the Dark Side of Urbanization - Pt. 1
Pub date: 2022-03-22

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Discussing how the Western oligarchy has been intrinsically interconnected with its Russian counterpart through massive urbanisation projects around the world. Oligarch Business Districts have been developed in major cities – like New York’s Hudson Yards and Moscow's International Business District – at the command of dark money in the search for legal loopholes, fiscal gymnastics, and money laundering.

In this episode of Cities After…, Prof. Robles-Durán discusses how the western oligarchy has been intrinsically interconnected with its Russian counterpart through massive urbanization projects around the world. Oligarch Business Districts have been developed in major cities at the command of dark money in the search for legal loopholes, fiscal gymnastics, and money laundering. By looking closely at two of these development districts, New York’s Hudson Yards and Russia's Moscow International Business District, Robles-Durán reveals how they render the invisible web of dark money visible and enable an immense service industry of lawyers, accountants, architects, creatives and financiers dedicated to supplying the wants and needs of the global neoliberal oligarchy.

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Podcast: The Sustainability Agenda (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 147: Professor Ruth DeFries on lessons from the natural world on how to deal with environmental crises.
Pub date: 2022-03-29

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest explains how a small number of key strategies – investments in diversity, redundancy over efficiency, self-correcting feedbacks, and decisions based on bottom-up knowledge – enable life to persist through unpredictable, sudden shocks, as well as various ways in which we can apply these strategies to deal with the current environmental challenges we are facing.

Deep dive with Professor Ruth DeFries on her recent book What would Nature Do exploring how strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather many of the environmental crises we are now facing. DeFries explains how a small number of key strategies—investments in diversity, redundancy over efficiency, self-correcting feedbacks, and decisions based on bottom-up knowledge—enable life to persist through unpredictable, sudden shocks-and various ways in which we can apply these strategies to deal with current environmental challenges we are facing.

Ruth DeFries is a professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University in New York co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School and is a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and many other academic awards she is an author of over a 100 scientific papers related to how people are manipulating the planet and its consequences for humanity. Her most recent book is What would Nature do where she outlines a set of strategies from the natural world that she believes can help humanity deal with many of the environmental crises the world is facing.

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Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The race to mine the deep sea
Pub date: 2022-03-28

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The incredible riches that lurk in the deep ocean include vast reserves of copper, nickel, cobalt and rare earth elements such as atrium. It’s these materials that mining companies say are essential to start using if we want to stop relying on fossil fuels and move towards a greener future.

One of the largest mining operations ever seen on Earth aims to despoil an ocean we are only just beginning to understand, says global environment editor Jonathan Watts• Seabed regulator deciding deep sea’s future ‘behind closed doors’. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Podcast: etui.podcast
Episode: Re-emerging social ambitions in EU policy making? with Bart Vanhercke and Slavina Spasova
Pub date: 2022-03-22

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The EU is currently fighting on two main fronts, Covid-19 and climate change. While science seems to be slowly gaining the upper hand in the fight against the pandemic, Covid-19 continues to hold global society in its grip. But the second nut is even harder to crack. Climate change is rolling out its forces, in the form of floods, droughts, tornados and hurricanes, and striking indiscriminately

The European Union is currently fighting on two main fronts, Covid-19 and climate change, though with skirmishes elsewhere – including migration and the rule of law. While science seems to be slowly gaining the upper hand in the fight against the pandemic, despite setbacks like the latest Omicron attack, Covid-19 continues to hold global society in its grip. But the second nut is even harder to crack. Climate change is rolling out its forces, in the form of floods, droughts, tornados and hurricanes, and striking indiscriminately.

Vanhercke, Spasova et al. (2022) Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2021

Sabato et al. (2022) A ‘Social Imbalances Procedure’ for the EU

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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bullshit Jobs? with Erik Dean
Pub date: 2022-03-19

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest talks about financialised capitalism – money market capitalism – and his disagreements with many on its basic characteristics. Just as bullshit jobs existed prior to our contemporary world, so did some of its other qualities, including its speculative nature and ‘short termism’.

It's hard to imagine ever having been unaware of the concept of bullshit jobs, but David Graeber made it official and helped us understand their role in our economy. Bullshit jobs are not necessarily shit jobs, nor are they low wage jobs, or dirty jobs. Bullshit jobs are those that are meaningless. The person doing the bullshit job doesn’t believe the work actually needs to get done.

This week’s guest, Erik Dean, has studied the nature of modern jobs within money manager capitalism. He points out that bullshit jobs aren’t just a product of neoliberalism:

“Speculative business and these labor hierarchies of the people with secure jobs versus the precariat … those things have been around. and it's not even necessarily part of capitalism. This is one reason it's good to read Thorstein Veblen, because in an anthropological sense, he takes it back to prior to capitalism. It's not like we didn't have hierarchies before capitalism. It's not like we didn't have power and it's not like we didn't have bullshit jobs. What the hell is a court jester? It's a bullshit job to entertain the king or whatever.”

Dean talks with Steve about financialized capitalism – money market capitalism – and his disagreements with many on its basic characteristics. Just as bullshit jobs existed prior to our contemporary world, so did some of its other qualities, including its speculative nature and “short termism.”

It was once thought that technology would relieve us of onerous jobs, allowing a shorter, lighter workweek, exchanging bullshit jobs for socially useful work. Steve confesses skepticism about the possibility of such a revolution. Dean responds:

“If we were capable individually and collectively to reimagine what work is, what your time is best spent doing, and to break free of that encroaching neoliberal finance capitalist ideology that is, again, just gradually soaking into how we think about everything. To some extent, that is a revolution. If you can change the way you think and break free of the wider education of this neoliberalist ideology, that itself is a revolution.”

**Don’t forget to check out the transcript for this and every episode of Macro N Cheese as well as the Extras page with additional resources. Find them at realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/

Erik Dean is an Instructor of Economics at Portland Community College and researcher at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. His core expertise is in heterodox production theory, institutionalist methodology, and pedagogy in economics. His recent research covers a range of topics, including the nature of the modern occupational structure and the place of the corporation in money manager capitalism and the ramifications thereof.

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Samuel Hughes on Ugly Buildings, Beautiful Cities and How to Build Better Suburbs
Pub date: 2022-03-21

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing architecture and urbanism, both on a philosophical level and at the level of policy

Samuel Hughes is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Head of Research at the Office for Place within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

His education was primarily at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. At the former he took an MA in Philosophy Politics and Economics (2013) and a B.Phil. in Philosophy (2015); at the latter he completed his PhD in Philosophy (2020). He is interested in architecture and urbanism, both on a philosophical level and at the level of policy. He is now beginning a book on philosophical approaches to artistic modernism, a subject on which immense quantities have been written, but which has almost never been systematically investigated using the tools of analytical philosophy.

CONTRIBUTEA note from Lev:

I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers. The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (perListen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.

The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.

I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor.

Our goal is to raise $12,000 this year.If you can donate a few dollars each month it will help us reach that goal. And if you know of a family foundation that might be interested in donating to A Correction please be in touch. Thank you! (And a huge thank you to all of the people who have already supported the podcast!)

Best,

Lev

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Podcast: REDESIGNING CITIES: The Speedwell Foundation Talks @ Georgia Tech
Episode: Episode 22: Episode 22: Redesigning Streets Post-Pandemic
Pub date: 2022-03-12

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Lockdowns, work from home, and fears of crowded indoor space during the pandemic have shifted how many of us use streets. From ‘streateries’ and street racing, to drive-by birthday parades and outdoor schools, our streets have become significantly more social. Will these shifts last if and when the pandemic eases – and what do they mean for public space, transit, and mode-splits?

Lock-downs, work from home, and fears of crowded indoor space during the pandemic have shifted how many of us use streets. From “streateries” and street racing, to drive-by birthday parades and outdoor schools, our streets have become significantly more social. Will these shifts last if and when the pandemic eases – and what do they mean for public space, transit, and mode-splits? Professor Vikas Mehta of the architecture and urban design programs at the University of Cincinnati, Tony Garcia of Street Plans Collaborative and Tactical Urbanism fame, and Professor Kari Watkins, civil engineering at Georgia Tech will help us figure it out.

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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 349) Amalia Leguizamon: A mass consent for socio-ecological injustice
Pub date: 2022-03-22

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Why is it important to focus on regular people, people in the in-between, people who bear some cost but also reap some profit? Because it gives us an insight into most people’s lives. As long as we don’t understand how we become acquiescent, not much will change.

"Why is it important to focus on regular people, people in the in-between, people who bear some cost but also reap some profit? Because it gives us an insight into most people’s lives. As long as we don’t understand how we become acquiescent, not much will change."

In this episode, we welcome Amalia Leguizamón, Associate Professor of Sociology and core faculty at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Her research examines the political economy of the environment in Latin America, particularly Argentina’s swift agrarian transformation based on the early adoption and intensive implementation of genetically modified soybeans. She is also the author of Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina (Duke University Press, 2020).

The song featured in this episode is Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution by Father John Misty.

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Podcast: Resources Radio (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fitting Behavior and Politics into Climate Models, with Fran Moore
Pub date: 2022-03-21

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Exploring an expansion of the way we model the future of the climate system. The model examines how human behavior, political decision-making, and technological progress can interact with one another to speed or stall efforts to limit climate change. What are the range and likelihood of outcomes the model has produced, and how are they impacted by the complex systems taken into account?

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Fran Moore, an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. Moore discusses a paper she recently coauthored that expands the way we model the future of the climate system. The model examines how human behavior, political decisionmaking, and technological progress can interact with one another to speed or stall efforts to limit climate change. Moore and Raimi discuss the range and likelihood of outcomes the model has produced, and how these possible pathways are impacted by the complex systems that have been taken into account.

References and recommendations:

“Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate-social system” by Frances C. Moore, Katherine Lacasse, Katharine J. Mach, Yoon Ah Shin, Louis J. Gross, and Brian Beckage; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04423-8

“Why Trust Science?” by Naomi Oreskes; https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179001/why-trust-science

“The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science” by Michael Strevens; https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631491375

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Podcast: The Economy, Land & Climate Podcast
Episode: Is climate modelling undermined by economics and ideology?
Pub date: 2022-03-18

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Discussing offset markets, carbon removal technologies, and IPCC modelling. Are scientists watering down recommendations to make them politically palatable? How are neoclassical economics affecting the world's approach to climate mitigation? Why do the IPCC working groups have contradictory messages on saviour tech?

Alasdair MacEwen talks to Associate Professor Wim Carton of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies about offset markets, carbon removal technologies, and IPCC modelling.

They wade into some tricky questions: are scientists watering down recommendations to make them politically palateable? How are neoclassical economics affecting the world's approach to climate mitigation? Why do the IPCC working groups have contradictory messages on saviour tech?

Further reading
- Carbon Unicorns and Fossil Futures: Whose Emission Reduction Pathways Is the IPCC Performing?
- Seize the Means of Carbon Removal: The Political Economy of Direct Air Capture
- Undoing Equivalence: Rethinking Carbon Accounting for Just Carbon Removal
- The meaning of net zero and how to get it right
- Social Science Sequestered

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Podcast: The Life Scientific (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ben Garrod on conservation and extinction
Pub date: 2022-03-22

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The guest shares his passion for the contrasting insights into conservation and extinction, the value they play, and describes his own extraordinary journey from exploring animal remains washed up on Norfolk beaches to years spend tracking chimps in Uganda to eminent science communicator and public figure.

Ben Garrod is an obsessive bone collector and wild animal behaviourist. He was destined for a career in medicine but a chance encounter with primatologist Jane Goodall reignited his life long passion for conservation and led to him managing and researching the habituation of wild chimpanzees in Africa. It was a chance to record primate behaviour that had never been seen before and examine how resilient chimps can be to anthropogenic change. Further extraordinary insights into the speed of evolution through the clues in the bones of island monkeys was to follow.

He is a professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement at the University of East Anglia and the presenter of several landmark TV series on animal bones and extinction, such as The Secrets of Bones and most recently, Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard. Ben shares his passion for the contrasting insights into conservation and extinction, the value they play, and describes his own extraordinary journey from exploring animal remains washed up on Norfolk beaches to years spend tracking chimps in Uganda to eminent science communicator and public figure.

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Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What might a cashless future look like?
Pub date: 2022-03-13

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Our complicated relationship with cash was made evident by the pandemic. Many retailers stopped accepting it as a payment method, but the amount of money in circulation rose drastically. Physical cash still plays an important role in the financial system, but could it be replaced by a digital alternative? Governments around the world are looking to Central Bank Digital Currencies, but there are concerns.

Physical cash still plays an important role in the financial system, but could it be replaced by a digital alternative? Governments around the world are looking to Central Bank Digital Currencies, but there are concerns around privacy and loss of financial freedom.

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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Fabio Mattioli, "Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2022-03-07

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Showing how financialisation can empower authoritarian regimes – not by making money accessible to everyone, but by allowing a small group of oligarchs to monopolise access to international credit and promote a cascade of exploitative domestic debt relations.

Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe (Stanford University Press, 2020) offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the Macedonian construction sector, Fabio Mattioli shows how financialization can empower authoritarian regimes—not by making money accessible to everyone, but by allowing a small group of oligarchs to monopolize access to international credit and promote a cascade of exploitative domestic debt relations. The landscape of failed deals and unrealizable dreams that is captured in this book portrays finance not as a singular, technical process. Instead, Matttioli argues that finance is a set of political and economic relations that entangles citizens, Eurocrats, and workers in tense paradoxes. Mattioli traces the origins of illiquidity in the reorganization of the European project and the postsocialist perversion of socialist financial practices—a dangerous mix that hid the Macedonian regime's weakness behind a façade of urban renewal and, for a decade, made it seem omnipresent and invincible. Dark Finance chronicles how, one bad deal at a time, Macedonia's authoritarian regime rode a wave of financial expansion that deepened its reach into Macedonian society, only to discover that its domination, like all speculative bubbles, was teetering on the verge of collapse.

Mathias Fuelling is a doctoral candidate in History at Temple University, working on a political history of Czechoslovakia in the immediate post-WWII years. He can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bucephalus424

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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 348) Kregg Hetherington: The paradox of destroying lands in the name of social welfare
Pub date: 2022-03-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing long-term ethnographic work in Paraguay, chronicling how small farmers caught in a sweeping agrarian transition have experienced the country's halting transition to democracy, and showing how activists create new ways of thinking and practicing government.

“This is what I call the agrobiopolitical paradox at the center of the modern agricultural state: Paraguay trying to push hard to get more soybeans out there and on the other hand trying to create institutions to protect people from all the soybeans that the left hand is putting in place.”

In this episode, we welcome Kregg Hetherington, Ph.D., who is a political anthropologist specializing in the environment, infrastructure, and the bureaucratic state. He is the author of The Government of Beans. Kregg's long-term ethnographic work in Paraguay chronicles how small farmers caught in a sweeping agrarian transition have experienced the country's halting transition to democracy, showing how activists create new ways of thinking and practicing government.

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Viviana Zelizer: Why Everything You Think About Money Is Wrong
Pub date: 2022-03-12

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The guest shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place.

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Viviana Zelizer.

Professor Viviana Zelizer has published books on the development of life insurance, the changing value of children, the place of money in social life and the economics of intimacy. She has also studied topics ranging from economic ethics to consumption practices.

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza, "A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-03-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Documenting the evolution of PR techniques to control public perception of the environment since the beginning of the twentieth century. More than spin or misinformation, PR affects how institutions and individuals conceptualise environmental problems – from conservation to coal mining to carbon credits.

In A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2021), Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza examine public relations as a social and political force that shapes both our understanding of the environmental crises we now face and our responses to them. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnography, and archival research, Aronczyk and Espinoza document the evolution of PR techniques to control public perception of the environment since the beginning of the twentieth century. More than spin or misinformation, PR affects how institutions and individuals conceptualize environmental problems -- from conservation to coal mining to carbon credits. Revealing the linkages of professional strategists, information politics, and environmental standards, A Strategic Nature shows how public relations restricts alternative paths to a sustainable climate future.

Melissa Aronczyk is an associate professor at Rutgers University in the School of Communication & Information. She is the author of Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity (Oxford 2013). Maria I. Espinoza is a PhD candidate in the Sociology department at Rutgers University.

Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube Channel. Twitter.

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Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities
Pub date: 2022-03-14

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Discussing how international power inequality intersects with the global ecological crisis, and what special role great powers could and should play in the international fight against global warming

Contributor(s): Dr Alina Averchenkova, Professor Barry Buzan, Professor Kathy Hochstetler, Dr Miriam Prys-Hansen, Professor Stacy Vandeveer | Great powers are also great polluters, particularly when it comes to the global greenhouse gas effect. Through the 2015 Paris Agreement and recent international conferences, all major powers - from the United States to China, India, Brazil, Russia and the EU - have committed to bringing greenhouse gas emissions under control and decarbonising their economies by 2050.

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Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 184: Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
Pub date: 2022-02-24

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How do young people think about AI's increasingly prominent role in the world?

This week, Jeremi and Zachary discuss the future and potential of Artificial Intelligence and our Democracy with Aurna Mukherjee.

Zachary sets the scene with his poem, Wires in Ancient Walls are like Grape Vines in Cell Towers.

Aurna Mukherjee is a sophomore at Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) High School, graduating in 2024. She is part of the Women+ in Computer Science club at the school, and is interested in ethics and Artificial Intelligence.

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Podcast: Feed (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Julie Guthman on Capital, Tech and Alternative Food
Pub date: 2022-03-03

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How is Silicon Valley trying to transform the food system, who within Silicon Valley has the most power, and how does their vision compare with the organic food movement? This episode discusses the different ways 'sustainability' is understood in these two different worlds and the broader structures that define or limit their competing visions.

In our second conversation exploring power in the food system, we speak with Julie Guthman, professor and food geographer at UC Santa Cruz. We ask her: how is Silicon Valley trying to transform the food system, who within Silicon Valley has the most power, and how does their vision compare with the Organic food movement? We discuss the different ways 'sustainability' is understood in these two different worlds and the broader structures that define or limit their competing visions. We also chat about how Julie's views on the Alternative Food Movement have evolved over time, and how Silicon Valley might be different if venture capitalists took her "101: Intro to Food and Ag'" class.

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Podcast: The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast
Episode: The Uncommon Wisdom Podcast || Episode 16: Michael Munger on Crony Capitalism & The Platform Economy
Pub date: 2022-02-28

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Discussing the ethics of price gouging, the tendency of democratic capitalist societies toward cronyism, the platform economy, and the distinction between directionalism and destinationism in politics

In this episode, Michael and I discuss the ethics of price gouging, the tendency of democratic capitalist societies toward cronyism, the platform economy, the distinction between directionalism and destinationism in politics, and more besides.

Michael C. Munger Professor of Political Science, and Director of the PPE Certificate Program. His primary research focus is on the functioning of markets, regulation, and government institutions. He is the author, most recently, of The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises.

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Podcast: Teneo Insights Podcast
Episode: Cryptocurrencies and the Future of Money
Pub date: 2022-02-24

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Crypto and digital currencies are rapidly changing the nature of money itself and continue to be a disruptive threat to the global financial system. As businesses and governments embrace the possibilities of transformative financial technologies, how will this reshape the global economy, what will be the role of central banks, and how will the threat of macroeconomic instability be contained?

Crypto and digital currencies are rapidly changing the nature of money itself and continue to be a disruptive threat to the global financial system. As businesses and governments embrace the possibilities of transformative financial technologies, how will this reshape the global economy and how will the threat of macroeconomic instability be contained?

J. Christopher Giancarlo, former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and author of “CrypotoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money,” joins our host Kevin Kajiwara for a compelling discussion on the rise of digital and crypto currencies, how they are impacting the financial sector, and the role of central banks and governments in managing the future of money.

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Podcast: Free Range with Mike Livermore
Episode: Shi-Ling Hsu on Capitalism and the Environment
Pub date: 2022-03-02

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The guest discusses what motivated him to pursue a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics, and how his experience as a graduate student with a law degree differed from his colleagues. He proposes that the environmental problems the world currently faces are not the fault of capitalism but, rather, are the result of society’s decisions.

On this episode of Free Range, Mike Livermore speaks with Shi-Ling Hsu, the D’Alemberte Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs at the Florida State University College of Law. He is also the author of the book Capitalism and the Environment: A Proposal to Save the Environment, which was published in December 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Hsu begins by discussing what motivated him to pursue a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics, having already practiced for several years as a lawyer, and how his experience as a graduate student with a law degree differed from his colleagues (1:00 – 2:58). Hsu then summarizes the basic argument of his new book: that the environmental problems the world currently faces are not the fault of capitalism but, rather, are the result of society’s decisions. This leads to a discussion about the relative advantages of capitalism versus centralized planning when it comes to dealing with environmental problems. As part of this analysis, Hsu comments on the shift away from market-based mechanisms that has characterized recent environmental law (3:00 – 11:30). This discussion raises the question of what role increasingly stark economic inequality has played in creating discontentment towards capitalism, to the point of blaming capitalism for things that are not, according to Hsu, capitalism’s fault. This leads to an in-depth conversation about the benefits and drawbacks of using capitalism as a means of addressing environmental issues, the intersection of economic inequality and the political undermining of capitalism, and why Hsu believes socialism is not the answer some might think it is (11:35 – 24:45). Professor Livermore then asks Professor Hsu about the libertarian argument against taxation, both in terms of environmental law and more generally. Professor Hsu explains that some libertarian arguments about reducing the size of government may be misguided, drawing on his experience of working on environmental projects with the Canadian government. Hsu also explains why he believes taxes are more beneficial than subsidies, with Professor Livermore pointing out that the unpopularity of taxes when compared with subsidies means that taxes are difficult to use in environmental contexts. Hsu suggests that a compromise might be reached in which nascent renewable energy technologies are subsidized, leading to a political economy in which taxation is more palatable, and then proposes other ways to reduce the apprehension towards taxation (25:00 – 42:05). Professor Livermore questions whether a carbon tax will ever be widely accepted, which leads Professor Hsu to suggest that the United States has simply not yet reached the point of crisis that may be necessary to shift the emphasis from subsidization to taxation, which leads to a discussion of the Green New Deal (42:07 – 48:33) Professor Livermore compares carbon taxation with the various “glide-path” policies that were used to reduce cigarette consumption (48:35 – 50:50). The conversation ends with a return to Professor Hsu’s book, and what effect he believes the work will have on the current debate surrounding environmental economics, and who the argument in his book is appealing to (50:53 – 59:19).

Professor Michael Livermore is the Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is also the Director of the Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE), an interdisciplinary program based at UVA Law that examines the intersection of legal, environmental, and social concerns.

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Podcast: C4eRadio: Sounds of Ethics
Episode: Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Algorithmic Adaptability And Ethics Washing - Appropriating The Critique
Pub date: 2022-02-03

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This talk explores how companies are mobilising the language and logics of ethical algorithms to rebrand their technologies. This rebranding is a form of ethics washing, which obfuscates the appropriateness and limitations of these technologies in particular contexts.

Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Algorithmic Adaptability And Ethics Washing - Appropriating The Critique by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 344) Scott Timcke: Algorithmic capitalism and digital dehumanization
Pub date: 2022-02-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing the overlap between algorithmic capitalism, FinTech, and neocolonialism. The entire way of reducing our social relations through algorithms is in itself changing our lives – so can internet and information technologies ever be neutral?

Scott Timcke, Ph.D., is a comparative historical sociologist who studies race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change and a fellow at the University of Leeds’ Centre for African Studies where he studies the overlap between algorithmic capitalism, FinTech, and neocolonialism. He is also the author of Algorithms and The End of Politics.

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Podcast: etui.podcast
Episode: Quo vadis, Social Europe? with Caroline de la Porte, Maurizio Ferrera and Philippe Pochet
Pub date: 2022-02-15

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Exploring how the financial crisis of 2008 and the recent Covid-19 crisis have led to demands for more Social Europe, especially in countries and regions that have seen few substantive improvements, or even set-backs, since the Lisbon Summit.

In this episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Caroline de la Porte (Copenhagen Business School), Maurizio Ferrera (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Philippe Pochet (ETUI) on the recent developments in EU Social Policy. The discussion stems from their recent contribution to Transfer. In the second half of the episode, we had the pleasure to talk to Hyojin Seo, the winner of Transfer's young scholar award and her article on labour market segmentation.

Social Europe 2.0? New prospects after the Porto Social Summit - Maurizio Ferrera

Opening up the Pandora’s Box of EU Social Rights - Caroline de la Porte

Why politics matter - Philippe Pochet

‘Dual’ labour market? Patterns of segmentation in European labour markets and the varieties of precariousness - Hyojin Seo

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Podcast: Belabored (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Belabored: Public Goods, Private Harms with Donald Cohen
Pub date: 2022-02-11

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Talking about how the privatisation of public services and institutions has undermined civil rights, deepened inequality, and made government less accountable – and how the public can restore its ownership of the commons.

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Over the past several decades, we have witnessed an extraordinary transfer of wealth and power from public ownership into private hands. The shift of public goods—such as public lands, transportation and utility infrastructure, healthcare services, prisons, and schools—into the control of corporations has paralleled a conservative turn in American politics, in which “free markets” are championed as the most efficient and effective means of managing social services and distributing public resources. But privatization has taken a toll on both the quality of the goods and services on which the public relies, and on democracy as a whole. We talk to Donald Cohen, co-author of The Privatization of Everything and executive director of In the Public Interest, about how the privatization of public services and institutions has undermined civil rights, deepened inequality, and made government less accountable—and how the public can restore its ownership of the commons.

In other news, we look at Starbucks workers organizing across the country (with Owen Burnham), rideshare and delivery workers organizing in New York, a Brazilian labor caravan mobilizing to protect the Amazon (with Claudia Horn), and congressional staff talking union. With recommended reading on the cost of unsustainable containers and surveillance capitalism of the pandemic era.

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News

Claudia Horn, Brazil labor caravan

Emily Wilkins and Ian Kullgren, Hill Staff Trying to Unionize Need Bosses’ Approval First, Bloomberg Law

Congressional Workers Union

Alex N. Press, Starbucks Has Fired Several Union Leaders in Memphis, Jacobin

Map: Where Are Starbucks Workers Unionizing?, More Perfect Union

Bobby Caina Calvan, Food delivery workers, ride-share drivers demand more rights, Associated Press

Justice For App Workers — Transforming Our Industry

Conversation

Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian, The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

In the Public Interest

Argh, I wish I’d written that!

Sarah: Amir Khafagy, The Hidden Costs of Containerization, American Prospect

Michelle: Jamie Woodcock, Fighting workplace surveillance, Red Pepper

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Podcast: Science History Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 51. Ecological Economics: Herman Daly
Pub date: 2022-02-11

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Nothing is so intertwined with human success and folly as economics. The economy, for better or for worse, drives much of our fate from our household budget to our national policies to the outbreak of war. But economic activity also has profound effects on the environment, and a close inspection of economics opens the question of whether humans can live sustainably on the only planet we have.

Nothing is so intertwined with human success and folly as economics. The economy, for better or for worse, drives much of our fate from our household budget to our national policies to the outbreak of war. But economic activity also has profound effects on the environment and a close inspection of economics opens the question of whether humans can live sustainably on the only planet we have. The field of economics that focuses on sustainability and the environmental costs of economic activity is ecological economics. With us to discuss this field is one of its founders, Herman Daly. Herman received a B.A. in economics from Rice University in 1960 and a PhD in from Vanderbilt University in 1967. He was a professor of economics at Louisiana State University until 1988, and then served as senior economist in the environment department of the World Bank until 1994. He then joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in the School of Public Affairs. Herman is the author of over 100 articles in professional journals, as well as many books, including: Toward a Steady-State Economy (1973), Steady-State Economics (1977), Valuing the Earth (1993), Beyond Growth (1996), Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999), Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications (2004), and Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development (2007). He is co-author with theologian John B. Cobb, Jr. of the award-winning book, For the Common Good (1989). He also co-founded the journal Ecological Economics and the International Society of Ecological Economics. Herman has received too many awards to list here, but they include Sweden’s Honorary Right Livelihood Award, the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science from the Netherlands, the Sophie Prize for Environment and Development from Norway, the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment, and the Blue Planet Prize.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Crypto Winter Is Coming w/ Jacob Silverman
Pub date: 2022-02-03

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The guest discusses the huge drop in crypto prices, the coming threat (to crypto) of interest rate hikes and regulation, the human impact of crypto schemes, and where things may be going next.

As the podcast celebrates episode 100, Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss the huge drop in crypto prices, the coming threat (to crypto) of interest rate hikes and regulation, the human impact of crypto schemes, and where things may be going next.

Jacob Silverman is a staff writer at The New Republic and writes about crypto with the actor Ben McKenzie. Follow Jacob on Twitter at @SilvermanJacob.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

• Jacob and Ben McKenzie wrote about Tether. Zeke Faux also wrote an essential article on the stablecoin, and Jacob recommends Crypto Critics Corner.
• Crypto prices have plunged, and that’s hurt regular people.
• New York’s Attorney General reached a settlement with Tether last year.
• VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is making a big lobbying push in Washington, DC to get favorable crypto regulations.
• Matt Damon and Spike Lee are among the celebrities to take crypto money and help pump the industry.
• US regulators are looking at crypto regulations, and Biden administration is planning an executive order to move it forward.
• China banned crypto mining, Russia proposed a ban on crypto, and many countries have suffered power outages due to crypto mining.
• Stephen Diehl wrote explained how crypto is about arbitraging securities regulation.
• Diane Jeantet wrote about a massive series of Bitcoin pyramid schemes in Brazil.

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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Janne Salovaara - What is "sustainability" trying to sustain?
Pub date: 2022-01-28

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Sustainability is a buzzword today, but what does it mean in practice? What is the imaginary of sustainability actually supposed to be? What are we trying to sustain and how do we keep sustainability safe from corporate capture? This conversation explores some of the ontological, epistemological, and practical problems of sustainability – from how it is being taught, to some of its big failings as a concept and a practice.

This month on the EXALT podcast we were joined by Janne Salovaara from the Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Programme (DENVI) at University of Helsinki. His research looks at the discipline of sustainability science from the perspective of how it is educated at the University level. Janne’s first degree is in graphic design and his idea of design was that it was the path to change the world. He thought a lot about what are moral, ethics, and societal responsibility of a design. His frustration with design as a profession led him to the Creative Sustainability program at Aalto University. Our conversation was wide ranging and exciting. The big question we tackled is what is sustainability? It is such a buzzword today, but what does it mean in practice? What is the imaginary of sustainability actually supposed to be? What are we trying to sustain and how do we keep sustainability safe from corporate capture? We explored some of the ontological, epistemological, and practical problems of sustainability. We discussed how it is being taught and what are some of the big failings of sustainability as a concept and a practice.

If you want to learn more about Janne’s research, please check out his UH research profile and recent publications.

• Salovaara, J. J., & Soini, K. (2021). Educated professionals of sustainability and the dimensions of practices. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-09-2020-0327
• Salovaara, J. J., Pietikäinen, J., & Cantell, H. (2021). Perceptions of interconnected sustainability: Students’ narratives bridging transition and education. Journal of Cleaner Production, 281, 125336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125336
• Salovaara, J. J., Soini, K., & Pietikäinen, J. (2020). Sustainability science in education: analysis of master’s programmes’ curricula. Sustainability Science, 15(3), 901-915. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00745-1

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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Future of Urban Housing & Climate Policy — with Christine Boyle
Pub date: 2022-02-08

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The City of Vancouver Councillor sits down to discuss her hopes for the city’s future, and what can be done on the municipal level to combat the climate crisis, the housing crisis, and issue of drug poisoning on Vancouver’s streets.

City of Vancouver Councillor Christine Boyle sits down with Am Johal to discuss her hopes for the City’s future, and what can be done on the municipal level to combat the climate crisis, the housing crisis, and issue of drug poisoning on Vancouver’s streets.

An organizer, minister and activist, Christine also speaks to her work on the City’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Task Force and how the City can take action on the crises we are facing in a way that addresses inequality.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/159-christine-boyle.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/159-christine-boyle.html

Resources: – Christine Boyle’s website: https://christineboyle.ca/ – Christine Boyle’s profile on the City of Vancouver website: https://vancouver.ca/your-government/christine-boyle.aspx – Christine Boyle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/christineeboyle – United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html – COP 26 - Glasgow: https://ukcop26.org/ – ”Superblocks: Barcelona’s car-free zones could extend lives and boost mental health” - The Conversation:s: https://theconversation.com/superblocks-barcelonas-car-free-zones-could-extend-lives-and-boost-mental-health-123295 – Report: “How Minneapolis Ended Single-Family Zoning” - The Century Foundation: https://tcf.org/content/report/minneapolis-ended-single-family-zoning/?session=1 – Drug User Liberation Front: https://www.dulf.ca/ – BC Compassion Club: https://thecompassionclub.org/

Bio: Councillor Christine Boyle was elected to Vancouver City Council with OneCity Vancouver in 2018.

Christine is a community organizer, climate justice activist, and United Church Minister, born and raised on unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, BC. She is passionate about tackling inequality, contributing to climate solutions, and deepening democratic engagement.

Christine has an BSc in Urban Agriculture and First Nations Studies from UBC, and an MA in Religious Leadership for Social Change from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is a founding member of OneCity Vancouver.

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The state, the unhoused and performative productivity / Deyanira Nevárez Martínez
Pub date: 2022-02-03

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

This episode focuses on everyday interactions between street-level bureaucrats and unhoused residents to examine when and how discretion is exercised and how unhoused residents experience these actions.

Urban planning scholar Deyanira Nevárez Martínez on her paper "Homelessness in Southern California: Street-Level Encounters with the State and the Structural Violence of Performative Productivity" for Radical Housing Journal, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen takes sides in the Werewolf vs Vampire war.

https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/homelessness-in-southern-california/

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Podcast: Global Digital Cultures
Episode: Instagram, the Self, and the City with Justus Uitermark
Pub date: 2022-02-03

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Examining how a platform that is unfailingly polished and ruthlessly judgmental shapes us and our environments, revealing the uneven structure of digital networks, while also providing an account of the desires and anxieties channelled and induced by Instagram and the broader ecosystem of social media.

In this episode, we had drinks with Justus Uitermark at Cafe Droog, where we discussed the theories, methods, and work processes driving his and John Boy’s upcoming book: On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City. Justus Uitermark is professor of Urban Geography at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. He studies cities from a comparative and historical perspective, looking at how power relations are expressed in the built environment: which groups and interests prevail and which are pushed into the background?

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Where the Wild Things Are: Reimagining the More-Than-Human City
Pub date: 2022-02-04

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

In this episode, the guest sheds more light on the implications of Singapore’s growth fetish, and its implications for humans and non-humans.

Amidst accelerating environmental change and intense urbanisation, there is growing enthusiasm for building sustainable and ‘natural’ cities. Yet, when a flourishing eco-futuristic urban imaginary is enacted, it is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. In a Southeast Asian context, no city or country better encapsulates this than Singapore. But the pursuit of a singular narrative of progress has very specific consequences, particularly when that progress benefits some but not all beings. In this episode, Dr Natali Pearson is joined by Dr Jamie Wang to shed more light on the implications of Singapore’s growth fetish, and its implications for humans and non-humans.

About Jamie Wang:

Dr Jamie Wang is a Sydney Southeast Asia Centre Writing Fellow, a research affiliate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, and an editor of the journal Feminist Review. She has a PhD in Environmental Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections of environmental humanities, urban geography, more-than-human studies and sustainable development in the context of planetary urbanism, climate change and environmental injustice. Jamie’s recent project ‘Reimagining the More-than-Human cities, stories of Singapore’ has explored the multifaceted pressing urban environmental issues, from urban greenery to housing development projects, transportation, water infrastructure, and urban agriculture, with a geographic focus in Singapore. It asks how we might develop ways of re-thinking, re-seeing and re-storying cities through foregrounding their more-than-human worlds. Jamie is also a writer and poet.

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Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi Malatji
Episode: Platform Socialism: An alternative to Big Tech with James Muldoon
Pub date: 2022-01-26

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The guest talked about what is wrong with platform capitalism, and how we might redesign the platform economy with ideas about platform socialism. This episode covers the problems with progressive capitalism and antitrust, and proposed socialist solutions to the digital economy, including projects that are already in existence.

Today we welcome James Muldoon to the show to talk about what is wrong with platform capitalism, and how we might redesign the platform economy with ideas about platform socialism. We cover the problems with progressive capitalism and antitrust, and proposed socialist solutions to the digital economy, including projects that are already in existence.

You can follow James on Twitter at @_James_Muldoon_. Follow Tech Empire at @TechEmpireCast. Michael Kwet is at @Michael_Kwet, and Tshi Malatji is at @tshimalatji.

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Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 132. Automating Service /// Serving Automation (ft. Nick Chavez)
Pub date: 2022-01-26

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing the political economy of automation – providing the groundwork for a better understanding of how automation actually operates in the market, the workplace, the interests of capital, and the lives of labour.

We are joined once again by Nick Chavez, a Marxist mechanical engineer, to discuss the political economy of automation – providing the groundwork for a better understanding of how automation actually operates in the market, the workplace, the interests of capital, and the lives of labor. What happens when the living are dominated by the dead? What happens when you work too much or not work enough? What happens when the bottom keeps falling out of a stagnated service economy? What happens when capital controls the forces of automation? We need only look at the world to find the answer to these questions.

Some stuff we reference: ••• The Present and Future of Engineers | Nick Chavez | Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2021/10/field-notes/THINKING-ABOUT-COMMUNISM ••• Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation | Jason E. Smith http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789143188 ••• Automation and the Future of Work | Aaron Benanav https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work

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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A Participatory Economy
Pub date: 2022-01-26

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Railing against capitalism is one thing; coming up with an equitable alternative is another. For many years, the guest has been formulating and refining his vision of a just and participatory economy. That vision includes establishing what he calls balanced job complexes and basing income on the duration, intensity, and onerousness of socially valued labour.

Railing against capitalism is one thing; coming up with an equitable alternative is another. For many years Michael Albert [1] has been formulating and refining his vision of a just and participatory economy. That vision includes, among other things, establishing what he calls balanced job complexes and basing income on the duration, intensity, and onerousness of socially valued labor.

Michael Albert, No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better World [2] ZerO Books, 2021 Revolution Z: Life after Capitalism [3] ZNet [4]

[1] https://www.nobossesbook.com/about-the-author [2] https://www.nobossesbook.com/ [3] https://zcomm.org/revolutionz/ [4] https://zcomm.org/znet

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Podcast: Columbia Energy Exchange (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What We Know About Oceans and Climate Change
Pub date: 2022-02-01

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Elevated ocean temperatures are rising sea levels, inundating coastlines, sinking island nations, bleaching coral, and creating more dangerous hurricanes. But oceans also act as a buffer against global warming. Discussed are how oceans are changing, the capacity of oceans to take up carbon, and the need for policy-relevant research on the seas.

Elevated ocean temperatures are rising sea levels, inundating coastlines, sinking island nations, bleaching coral, and creating more dangerous hurricanes. But oceans also act as a buffer against global warming.

Climate scientists are increasingly turning their attention to oceans. For a deep dive into the science shaping our understanding of the Earth’s watery depths, host Bill Loveless spoke with Peter de Menocal, president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Peter is a marine geologist and paleoclimatologist by training, and the founding director of Columbia University’s Center For Climate And Life – a research accelerator that supports and trains the next generation of Earth scientists.

They discussed how oceans are changing, the capacity of oceans to take up carbon and the need for policy-relevant research on the seas. They also talked about what led Peter to a career studying and exploring oceans.

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Protecting rainforest protectors / Ashwin Ravikumar
Pub date: 2022-01-26

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Everyone deserves healthcare, education, food sovereignty, and basic infrastructure. Repairing historic harms and building a just climate future requires delivering these things to Indigenous Amazonians. To honour the work of Indigenous caretakers of tropical forests and rectify the harmful legacies of colonialism, we must demand that the governments of the global North invest far more in the well-being of these communities, and quickly.

Environmental studies scholar Ashwin Ravikumar on his article "To Save the Rainforests, Provide Healthcare, Education and Services for Those Who Protect Them" for The Trouble.

https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2022/1/17/to-save-the-rainforests-provide-healthcare-education-and-services-for-those-who-protect-them

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Podcast: Ethics of AI in Context
Episode: Algorithmic Policing Policies Through A Human Rights And Substantive Equality Lens
Pub date: 2022-01-27

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This panel will discuss Citizen Lab and LEAF’s collaborative submission to the Toronto Police Services Board’s public consultation on its draft policy for AI use by the Toronto police with the three co-authors of the submission.

Panelists: Kristen Thomasen, Suzie Dunn, & Kate Robertson

This panel will discuss Citizen Lab and LEAF’s collaborative submission to the Toronto Police Services Board’s public consultation on its draft policy for AI use by the Toronto police with the three co-authors of the submission. The submission made 33 specific recommendations to the TPSB with a focus on substantive equality and human rights. The panelists will discuss some of those recommendations and the broader themes identified in the draft policy.

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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jacobin Show: Why Everything Is Politics Now w/ Anton Jäger
Pub date: 2022-01-27

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest explains the rise of ‘hyper-politics’ and why everything these days is ‘political’ but collective struggle remains elusive

Jacobin contributor Anton Jäger explains the rise of "hyper-politics" and why everything these days is "political" but collective struggle remains elusive. Luke Savage analyzes the Democrats' recent failure to pass voting rights legislation. Jen Pan argues that the debate over affirmative action at elite universities overlooks larger inequalities.

The Jacobin Show, hosted by Jen Pan, offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from January 26, 2022.

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us. At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future.

Today I talked to Helga Nowotny about her new book In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms (Polity, 2021).

One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us.

At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our actions, posing the threat of surveillance, but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and transform it into care.

As we try to adjust to a world in which algorithms, robots and avatars play an ever-increasing role, we need to understand better the limitations of AI and how their predictions affect our agency, while at the same time having the courage to embrace the uncertainty of the future.

Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch.

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Make AI boring again
Pub date: 2022-01-19

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How can AI education improve workers' experience? AI is fundamentally changing the economy, it has the power to improve workers’ experience if AI uptake is done well, or it can create new inequalities depending on workers’ educational level.

AI is fundamentally changing the economy, it has the power to improve workers’ experience if AI uptake is done well, or it can create new inequalities depending on workers’ educational level.

Giuseppe Porcaro and Mario Mariniello are joined by Teemu Roos, AI expert and founder of the online course Elements of Artificial intelligence. They talk about how AI education can improve work in Europe, Teemu’s AI course, and how educational systems can foster a more equal society.

This podcast was produced within the project “Future of Work and Inclusive Growth in Europe“, with the financial support of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.

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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Richard Bellamy et al., "Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Democracy, and Domination" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-01-24

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The weaknesses of the EU’s part-federal, part-intergovernmental design have been exposed, but so has its resilience through flexibility. Differentiated integration, the guests conclude, is ‘not only functionally necessary but also normatively desirable given the ineliminable diversity and pluralism of any union as large as the EU’.

The past decade has been pivotal in the development of the European Union.

The single currency has been tested to the limits by successive crises in the financial system, public-debt sustainability and public health. A migration crisis stress-tested the EU's free-travel area and its under-developed refugee and asylum policies. The Hungarian and Polish governments are backsliding on the union's foundational commitments to democracy and rule of law and, for the first time in the Communities' six-decade history, a full member state has left altogether.

The weaknesses of the EU’s part-federal, part-intergovernmental design have been exposed but so has its resilience through flexibility. Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy (Bristol University Press, 2022) explores this design and its "demoicratic" (not democratic) nature. Differentiated integration, the co-writers conclude, is “not only functionally necessary but also normatively desirable given the ineliminable diversity and pluralism of any union as large as the EU”.

Richard Bellamy is professor of political science at University College London and founder of its European Institute. Sandra Kröger is associate professor of political science at the University of Exeter and Director of its Centre for European Studies. Marta Lorimer is a fellow in European Politics at the London School of Economics’ European Institute.

The authors' own book recommendations are: Worldmaking after Empire by Adom Getachew (Princeton University Press, 2020), Europa by Tim Parks (Vintage, 1998), The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (Profile Books, 2019), Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić (Jonathan Cape, 2021 - translated by Damion Searls), The Struggle for EU Legitimacy by Claudia Sternberg (Palgrave Macmillan; 2013), and The Moon and the Bonfires* by Cesare Pavese (first published in 1949 - latest English version from Penguin Modern Classics, 2021 translated by Tim Parks).

Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors (a division of Energy Aspects).

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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression
Pub date: 2022-01-22

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Discussing gender and technology, the myth of neutral tech, how technology is embedded in systems of oppression, why using a dishwasher isn't considered 'technological innovation', and whether some AI is just machine learning for eugenics.

On this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD in Gender Studies at Cambridge University, and Muskan Shafat, an MS in Data and Society at the London School of Economics, about gender and technology. They discuss the myth of neutral tech, how technology is embedded in systems of oppression, why using a dishwasher isn’t considered “technological innovation” and whether some AI is just machine learning for eugenics.

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Books mentioned in the podcast:

Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin

Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble

Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neill

What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub

Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod

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Podcast: fDi Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Bilbao Effect #5: London, UK
Pub date: 2022-01-21

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The Tate Modern needs little introduction. As one of the most recognisable museums in the world, it has helped put London on the map as an international art and cultural centre. But perhaps less often discussed is its contribution towards the transformation of London’s waterfront in what could be described as a 'Tate Modern effect'.

The Tate Modern needs little introduction. As one of the most recognisable museums in the world, it has helped put London on the map as an international art and cultural centre. But perhaps less often discussed is its contribution towards the transformation of London’s waterfront in what could be described as a “Tate Modern effect”.

In conversation with Seth O’Farrell, Frances Morris stresses that throughout the museum’s history, it has engaged the local community so as not to “parachute” into an area it had little to do with. But challenges have emerged with the encroachment of privatisation and neighbouring commercial developments. Now, with the increasing need for private funding, the pandemic and the climate crisis, Ms Morris is confident that the museum can step up to the plate as the demands on the "museum of the 21st century" change once more.

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Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why privatizing public goods is bad for democracy (with Donald Cohen)
Pub date: 2022-01-25

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Even in the middle of a pandemic, trickle-down politicians still love to claim that the free market is the best way to resolve human problems and that the government can't be trusted to serve the public good. But when we privatise public health, utilities, and other shared necessities, we hand over control of those public goods to for-profit entities that don't answer to the public.

Even in the middle of a pandemic, trickle-down politicians still love to claim that the free market is the best way to resolve human problems and that the government can't be trusted to serve the public good. But when we privatize public health, utilities, and other shared necessities, we hand over control of those public goods—the things that we all need and that we need everyone to have— to for-profit entities that don’t answer to the public. Donald Cohen, an expert on privatization, shares examples and talks about the consequences of privatization in America.

Donald Cohen is the founder and executive director of In The Public Interest, a national resource and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting. He's also co-author of the new book The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back.

Twitter: @donaldrcohen12

The Privatization of Everything: https://bookshop.org/books/the-privatization-of-everything-how-the-plunder-of-public-goods-transformed-america-and-how-we-can-fight-back/9781620976531

Why Privatization is Worse Than You Know: https://publicseminar.org/2022/01/why-privatization-is-worse-than-you-know/

Opinion: The pandemic proved that privatization can’t provide enough public goods—like vaccines, education, justice, and a sustainable planet: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-pandemic-proved-that-privatization-cant-provide-enough-public-goodslike-vaccines-education-justice-and-a-sustainable-planet-11640027547

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back: https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/privatization-everything-plunder-public-goods-transformed-america-can-fight-back-bookbite/31594/

A Conversation With Donald Cohen, Author of ‘The Privatization of Everything’: https://capitalandmain.com/a-conversation-with-donald-cohen-author-of-the-privatization-of-everything

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani, "Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-21

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Our knowledge of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the last decade, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years and see just how people and nature interacted. The lesson is clear: the societies that survive are those that plan ahead.

Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From Ancient Egypt to Rome to the Maya, some of history's mightiest civilizations have been felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought.

The challenges are no less great today. We face hurricanes and megafires and food shortages and more. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: the past. Our knowledge of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the last decade, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years and see just how people and nature interacted. The lesson is clear: the societies that survive are those that plan ahead.

Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani's Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors(PublicAffairs, 2021) is a book about saving ourselves. Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani show in remarkable detail what it was like to battle our climate over centuries and offer us a path to a safer and healthier future.

Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland.

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Podcast: Climate 21 (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ecocide - Making Mass Destruction Of Nature An International Crime - A Chat With Jojo Mehta
Pub date: 2022-01-19

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Ecocide is a term that is recently starting to gain a little ground in the public's eye. But what is it, where does it come from, and just what are the chances of it becoming an internationally legislated crime?

Ecocide is a term that is recently starting to gain a little ground in the public's eye, but what is it, where does it come from, and just what are the chances of it becoming an internationally legislated crime?

To find out more about Ecocide I invited Jojo Mehta to come on the podcast. Jojo is the Co-Founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International. Stop Ecocide International is the driving force behind, and central communications hub for, the growing global movement to make ecocide an international crime.

We had a fascinating conversation covering what Ecocide is, why it needs to be criminalised, and when (not if!) it will be made an international crime.

This was a truly fascinating episode of the podcast and I learned loads as always, and I hope you do too.

If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page, head on over to the Climate 21 Podcast Forum, or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).

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And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane!

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Podcast: The Climate Minute (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Dirty hydrogen is just a way to keep utilities in business: The Climate Minute
Pub date: 2022-01-19

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At both the Federal and Massachusetts level, policies push to support use of dirty hydrogen for home heating. Two experts say this is just a way to keep utilities in business and that it is both dangerous and polluting. They propose a different path to achieve the goal of sustainable home heating

If you make hydrogen from natural gas, it is dirty because of all the CO2 emissions from the conversion process. At both the Federal and Massachusetts level, policies push to support use of dirty hydrogen for home heating. We talk to two experts, who say this is just a way to keep utilities in business and that it is is both dangerous and polluting. They propose a different path to achieve the goal of sustainable home heating for all.

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Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: "That Wasn't My Intent": Reenvisioning Ethics in the Information Age, with Shannon Vallor
Pub date: 2022-01-05

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Ethics and ethical philosophy are inadequate for addressing the issues posed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. This conversation talks about why that is the case and proposes ideas for reenvisioning ethics and empowering it for the information age.

In this episode of the Artificial Intelligence & Equality podcast, Senior Fellow Wendell Wallach sits down with Professor Shannon Vallor to discuss how to reenvision ethics and empower it to deal with AI, emerging technologies, and new power dynamics in the information age.

For more on this talk, please go to carnegiecouncil.org.

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Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Robots under the Thwaites Glacier
Pub date: 2022-01-12

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Huge robots, including a seven-metre two-tonne vessel named Ran, are on their way to the Thwaites Glacier to learn more about the retreating ice and its impact on Climate Change. But this won't be the only tech that’s being deployed on the 65-day mission; British Antarctic Survey’s Boaty McBoatface and the Autosub Long Range will travel under the ice shelf. What data will they be collecting?

Huge robots, including a seven-metre two-tonne vessel named Ran, are on their way to the Thwaites Glacier to learn more about the retreating ice and its impact on Climate Change. But this won’t be the only tech that’s being deployed on the 65-day mission; British Antarctic Survey’s Boaty McBoatface and the Autosub Long Range vehicle operated by the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, will travel under the ice shelf along with Ran. Professor Anna Wåhlin from the University of Gothenburg tells us more about her robot Ran and about the data she’ll be collecting.

Tiny light engines We’re talking to Ed Tang, the CEO of Avegant. They’re the company behind the world’s smallest light engines for augmented reality. Developing projectors thinner than the width of a pencil means we’re on the brink of AR glasses that will barely look different from standard glasses. Alongside talking about how this technology works, Ed also spoke to us about what this means for the future of AR.

James Webb telescope tech Space journalist Kate Arkless-Gray is live on the show to tell us about the tech that got the James Webb Telescope into space and how vital it is that none of the tech deployed goes wrong - unlike the Hubble space telescope, repair missions to James Webb are impossible.

The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Ghislaine Boddington.

Studio Manager: Nigel Dix Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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Podcast: Spark from CBC Radio (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 530: Human and AI consciousness
Pub date: 2022-01-07

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New theories on the nature of human consciousness and what this means for how we think about Artificial Intelligence

New theories on the nature of human consciousness and what this means for how we think about artificial intelligence.

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Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sustainability: The New Economics with Stephen Williams and Phil Lawn
Pub date: 2022-01-08

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guests explain the extent of the current mess, the post WWII Anthropocene, and examine how we got here, including the birth of neoliberalism, the fossil fuel industry, the publication of the ‘Limits to Growth’ report, and more. They then look to the future: where do we go from here?

Stephen Williams and Philip Lawn join Steve to discuss the forthcoming book, Sustainability and the New Economics: Synthesising Ecological Economics and Modern Monetary Theory, which Williams co-edited. The book brings together sustainability, ecological economics, and MMT.

As you learn more and more about this thing called sustainability, you realize that it's really the economic system that is at the heart of the problem. It's the economic system you have to change. So when you start studying what we usually call heterodox economics, you soon start to learn about something called ecological economics, which Phil is an expert in. And then you start to hear about this other thing called Modern Monetary Theory. And it turns out these two things are completely complementary, and you need both of them.

The volume is a collection of work by 15 authors or so, all with expertise in different areas, including the relationship between climate change and health impacts, planetary boundaries, sustainable development goals, and law. The book contains chapters by friends of this podcast -- Professor Steve Keen, who looks at the way mainstream economics has perverted the IPCC process, Steven Hail who wrote the chapter on MMT, and Phil Lawn, whose work ties the whole thing together by connecting ecological economics and MMT. In fact, according to Williams, he was the inspiration for the entire project. There is no other book with a focus on this connection.

They explain the extent of the current mess, the post WWII Anthropocene, and examine how we got here, including the birth of neoliberalism, the fossil fuel industry, the publication of the “Limits to Growth” report, (which Steve Keen has talked about in a previous episode of this podcast), and more. Once they’ve laid out the past and the present, they look to the future: where do we go from here?

How do we design a safe and prosperous future? That essentially means what new economic system could we bring in to replace the current failed economic system? Hey, there's nothing more dangerous than a bad idea. And mainstream economics is a terrible idea.

For a full transcript and “extras” page of this and every episode, go to realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/

Stephen Williams, from Australia, has a long background in newspaper journalism and a short background in law. His lifelong obsession is the issue of designing societies for maximum well-being and sustainability. This has led him to the study of heterodox economics as an essential suite of tools. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming collected volume, Sustainability and the New Economics: Synthesising Ecological Economics and Modern Monetary Theory(Springer International, 2022).

Based in Adelaide, Philip Lawn is an evidence-based economist and Adjunct Professor at Torrens University, Philip is also research fellow with the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a member of the Wakefield Futures Group (South Australia). He is the author and editor of eight books on sustainable development, climate change, and the steady-state economy, and has 55 journal articles and more than 40 book chapters to his name. Philip makes speaking appearances at public events/debates and is regularly invited to deliver keynote and plenary presentations at academic conferences.

#IPCC #MMT #ecological #climate #economics #sustainability #Anthropocene #GISP #Kelton #StevenHail #SteveKeen

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Podcast: Bridges to the Future (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: What does the future hold for cities?
Pub date: 2022-01-11

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As a result of Covid-19, urban life has dramatically changed. What does the future hold for cities and the people living and working in them?

In this lively interview series from the RSA, Matthew Taylor, puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future.

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He is also Director for the Cities Research Programme at the International Growth Centre, LSE and Oxford, and is a senior fellow at the Manhattan institute.

David Cutler is the Otto Ekstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. He holds a joint appointment in the economics department and in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as serving as commissioner on the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.

David and Edward are co-authors of Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation.

A Tempo & Talker production for the RSA.

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Climate change's mirror worlds / Aaron Vansintjan
Pub date: 2022-01-05

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The world we live in is a disaster-in-the-making. It is up to those of us who can see the fragility of the world, and cannot abide by it, to put a stop to the calamity awaiting us. To do so, we'd need to cut ourselves loose from the net, while tending to our broken relationships, and forging new ones.

Writer Aaron Vansintjan on his essay "Faith in a frail world" for Uneven Earth, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen's forbidden words for this year are all numbers.

http://unevenearth.org/2021/12/faith-in-a-frail-world/

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Carbon dominance / Jeff Nesbit
Pub date: 2022-01-12

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. It has confused the public about climate science, bought one of America’s two main political parties, and out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. Is there any doubt that these companies are now plotting to keep the profits rolling in?

Jeff Nesbit on his article "How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning," co-written with Naomi Oreskes for Covering Climate Now / Gizmodo, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen surrenders to his happy place.

https://gizmodo.com/how-big-oil-rigs-the-system-to-keep-winning-1848180128

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Alison Hope Alkon, "A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City" (NYU Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-12-31

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognised harbinger of gentrification. The guest explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply – and, at times, controversially – intertwined.

A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City(NYU Press, 2020), edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca, is a collection of essays examining how gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it.

From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply―and, at times, controversially―intertwined.

Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprises―including grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers' markets―to provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement.

Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerable people and neighborhoods. A Recipe for Gentrification highlights how the everyday practices of growing, purchasing and eating food reflect the rapid―and contentious―changes taking place in American cities in the twenty-first century.

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Tim Marshall on the Power of Geography
Pub date: 2021-12-29

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Among other things, Covid has forced us to think in terms of maps and visualise more. What do maps tell us, how important is geography, and how will it shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry?

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Tim Marshall, the author of “The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World”.

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. He is also founder and editor of the current affairs site TheWhatandtheWhy.com.

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Podcast: EXALT Podcast
Episode: Anna Marjaana Heikkinen - Can traditional livelihoods survive climate change & mining in the Peruvian Andes?
Pub date: 2021-12-31

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

On the role of water and climate change in the Peruvian Andes, and how communities of peasant farmers are trying to hold onto traditional ways of working with their land and water in the face of pressures from globalised supply chains and the incursion of extractive industries.

This month the EXALT podcast was delighted to welcome University of Helsinki, Global Development Studies doctoral researcher Anna Marjaana Heikkinen. In her doctorate Anna Marjaana focuses on the role of water and climate change in the Peruvian Andes. She works with communities of peasant farmers, who are trying to hold onto traditional ways of working with their land and water in the face of pressures from globalized supply chains and the incursion of extractive industries. She highlighted a case she is working on that shows the deep entanglements between humans, other than human beings, mining, and water. Anna Marjaana also shared some great resources to help the listeners think about water and gave us insight into the ways she communicates science.

Links:

Book: Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta (https://www.emmiitaranta.com/memory-of-water)

Movie: Even the Rain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_the_Rain)

Dance your PhD contest by Science (correction in the episode we said this was sponsored by Nature) (https://www.science.org/content/page/announcing-annual-dance-your-ph-d-contest). Check out the entries on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dance+your+phd+2021

Some of Anna Marjaana’s popular science articles (EN/FIN/ESP)

• https://blogs.uef.fi/envirolatam/2020/04/20/not-everyone-has-the-privilege-to-wash-the-hands-covid-19-and-unequal-access-to-water-in-latin-america/
• https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/ilmasto-ja-luonnon-monimuotoisuus/aarisaat-ajavat-andien-asukkaita-ilmastopakolaisiksi-ja-maaemo-murehtii
• https://www.noticiasser.pe/la-vulnerabilidad-de-las-poblaciones-andinas-va-mas-alla-del-cambio

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Podcast: The Reith Lectures (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: AI in the economy
Pub date: 2021-12-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Exploring the future of work and one of the most concerning issues raised by AI: the threat to jobs. How will the economy adapt as work is increasingly done by machines? Economists’ forecasts range from rosy scenarios of human-AI teamwork, to dystopian visions in which most people are excluded from the economy altogether.

Professor Stuart Russell explores the future of work and one of the most concerning issues raised by Artificial Intelligence: the threat to jobs. How will the economy adapt as work is increasingly done by machines? Economists’ forecasts range from rosy scenarios of human-AI teamwork, to dystopic visions in which most people are excluded from the economy altogether. Was the economist Keynes correct when he said that we were born to “strive”? If much of the work in future will be carried out by machines, what does that mean for humans? What will we do?

Stuart Russell is Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley.

The lecture and question-and-answer session was recorded at Edinburgh University. Presenter: Anita Anand Producer: Jim Frank Editor: Hugh Levinson Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound: Neil Churchill and Hal Haines

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Podcast: The Governance Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change: In Conversation with Michael Hulme
Pub date: 2021-12-08

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Climate change is not best understood as an engineering problem or even solely as a new locus for politics. Rather, climate change presents a predicament — a difficult, perplexing or trying situation for humanity. What would it mean to try and 'solve' climate change?

On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Michael Hulme from Cambridge University. This episode is titled “Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change”, where he suggests looking at climate change challenges as predicaments for human societies to cope with.

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Podcast: Publicly Sited
Episode: Media, Technology and Culture 10 (2nd Edition): Extractive Technologies
Pub date: 2021-12-13

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It is true that data mining can divulge intimate personal details about us. But what is principally happening is the construction of user models, a profile which we match, often fairly precisely. A model of a situated user that can be targeted for advertising, or marketing, or triggered in various ways to remain faithful to the platform – generating yet more data for extraction.

Policymakers, politicians, activists, businesspeople and even ordinary people are more and more sceptical of digital platforms like Facebook (or shall we say, Meta). This scepticism is not just about the murky decision-making power of algorithms. It’s also that there is increasing awareness about the operation of digital platforms as private entities. Entities that do not exist for our own individual benefit. Entities which, even if they have some value as mediums of publicity, or have some public utility, are not publicly-owned. Put simply, whatever they say about their mission, digital platforms - ranging from Facebook to Google to Amazon to Airbnb to Uber - are first and foremost about making money. Making money in a way that relies substantially on extracting data about us: what we do, when, where and how we do things, as well as our explicit signals about why. Very often, this extraction also enables an approximation of who we might be. It is true that data mining can divulge intimate personal details about us. But what is principally happening in such processes is the construction of user models, a profile which we match, often fairly precisely. A model of a situated user that can be targeted for advertising, or marketing, or triggered in various ways to remain faithful the platform. And when users are faithful to these platforms, they generate yet more data for extraction. These insights have inspired a revival of sorts amongst political economy and Marxist approaches to media, towards a new critique of digital or platform capitalism. But is this capitalism? Or is it, as suggested speculatively by McKenzie Wark, something worse.

Thinkers Discussed: Shoshana Zuboff (The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power); Anne Helmond (The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready); Tarleton Gillespie (The Politics of Platforms); Jose van Dijck (The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media); Jose van Dijck, Thomas Poell and Martijn de Wall (The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World); Nick Srnicek (Platform Capitalism); McKenzie Wark (Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse?); Clive Barnett (The Consolations of ‘Neoliberalism’).

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Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Caitlin Andrews-Lee on Charismatic Movements and Personalist Leaders
Pub date: 2021-12-14

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest reveals that charismatic movements can emerge, survive, and become politically revived by sustaining - not discarding - their personalistic character. Followers' charismatic attachments to the movement founder can develop into an enduring, deeply affective political identity.

Charismatic leaders who are intent on governing solely using their charismatic authority and subverting other things to their personal power are inherently bad for democracy and inherently illiberal. They're anti-pluralist. They don't want to share their power with others even within their own movement or their own party. They don't tolerate dissent.

Caitlin Andrews-Lee

A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo here.

Caitlin Andrews-Lee is an Assistant Professor in Ryerson University’s Department of Politics and Public Administration. She is the author of the book, The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo.

Key Highlights

• A profile on Juan Perón, the prototypical charismatic leader
• Why has Peronism survived its founder?
• Why do the anointed successors of charismatic leaders fail?
• How do new personalist leaders arise out of charismatic movements?
• Is Donald Trump a harbinger of future charismatic leaders or was he an historical aberration?

Key Links

The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo by Caitlin Andrews-Lee

Learn more about Caitlin Andrews-Lee at www.caitlinandrewslee.com

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Samuel Miller McDonald on The Political Economy of Energy
Pub date: 2021-12-11

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

What is the case for nuclear power and why should we nevertheless not rely on it? How should we think about time in connection with managing nuclear waste? And why do fossil fuels make cities ugly?

Samuel Miller McDonald is an editor at The Trouble and Epilogue, a doctoral researcher at University of Oxford, and graduate of the Yale School of the Environment and College of the Atlantic. His writing has appeared in Current Affairs, The New Republic, and The Guardian, among other publications. He is working on a book called PROGRESS about the history and future of progress, for William Collins and St. Martin's Press.

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Podcast: Radio Times (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Electrifying everything: some optimism for climate change
Pub date: 2021-12-10

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Reports of the rapidly intensifying impact of climate change – including a recent IPCC report – often leave people with a sense of dread and hopelessness that it will ever be possible to reduce just how severely we’ve harmed the planet. This episode lays out an optimistic, maybe even realistic, plan.

Reports of the rapidly intensifying impact of climate change – including a recent IPCC one featured on Radio Times – often leave people with a sense of dread and hopelessness that it will ever be possible to reduce just how severely we’ve harmed the planet. Today we lay out an optimistic, maybe even realistic, plan.

Guest Saul Griffith – Author of Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for our Clean Energy Future

We Recommend WHYY –Philly’s next crop of city buildings will be greener under bill passed by Philly Council

The Washington Post – An Australian inventor wants to stop global warming by electrifying everything

TIME – We Can Beat Climate Change If We Do One Thing Fast

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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cryptocurrency w/ Edward Ongweso Jr & Jacob Silverman
Pub date: 2021-12-16

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing cryptocurrency, NFTs, Elon Musk, the metaverse, meme stocks, and techno-utopianism amid the crushing reality of our neoliberal hellscape.

Edward Ongweso Jr. and Jacob Silverman on cryptocurrency, NFTs, Elon Musk, the metaverse, meme stocks, and techno-utopianism amid the crushing reality of our neoliberal hellscape. The first in a two-episode series on crypto.

Read Dan's new essay on border control politics: nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/border-crises/

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Podcast: Climate 21 (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Intelligent Decarbonisation - A Chat With Prof Markus Kraft
Pub date: 2021-12-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Intelligent Decarbonisation is the combining of artificial intelligence with cyber physical assets to reduce carbon emissions. This episode discusses key decarbonisation strategies, the World Avatar Project, and the why's and what-for of Intelligent Decarbonisation.

What is Intelligent Decarbonisation?

Intelligent Decarbonisation is the combining of artificial intelligence with cyber physical assets to reduce carbon emissions. To discuss this I invited Cambridge University Prof Markus Kraft to come on the podcast because he literally wrote the book on the topic.

Professor Kraft is a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. He is the director of CARES, the Singapore-Cambridge CREATE Research Centre, and Principal Investigator of C4T the “Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology”, which is a CARES research programme. And he leads the Computational Modelling group, known as CoMO in Cambridge.

We discussed key decarbonisation strategies, the World Avatar Project, and the why's and what-for of Intelligent Decarbonisation.

This was a truly fascinating episode of the podcast and I learned loads as always, and I hope you do too.

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Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: AI and Future Skills
Pub date: 2021-12-08

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Discussing what future skills are needed to close the AI-skill gap in the UK. This episode examines the roles of government, industry and academia in addressing this issue and how learning with and about AI can be done in an inclusive way. It also considers what it means to build an AI-enabled workforce.

In this episode, host Professor Rose Luckin (UCL Knowledge Lab, UCL IOE) explores “Future Skills” with Dr Louise Hickman (University of Cambridge) and Jordan Cummins from (CBI). As jobs and work will change with the increasing use of AI, we discuss what future skills are needed to close the AI-skill gap in the UK. We examine the roles of government, industry and academia in addressing this issue and how learning with and about AI can be done in an inclusive way. We also discuss what it means to build an AI-enabled workforce and try to identify what potentials are yet to be unlocked.

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Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Deepfakes: Have We Crossed The Uncanny Valley?
Pub date: 2021-12-05

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The guest discusses the scary reality of deepfakes, examining cases that demonstrate the threats presented by morally dubious creators.

Michael Grothaus Novelist, Journalist and Author of ‘Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes’ joined Jonathan McCrea to discuss his book and the scary reality of deepfakes currently. Grothaus examines cases that demonstrate the threats presented by morally dubious creators. From the personal to political, the impact of deep fakes is considered carefully by Grothaus, both on the victims and on society as a whole, creating an essential picture of a growing trend in disinformation. The image for this podcast is a Collage of hyperrealistic AI-generated human faces so the images you see are not real people. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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Podcast: Wonks and War Rooms (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Surveillance Capitalism with Vass Bednar (re-release)
Pub date: 2021-12-08

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Taking a few Canadian examples, the guest talks about how tech companies collect and use data about their users, how privacy policy might be a red herring, and how incentive structures in the tech industry contribute to the system of surveillance capitalism.

Elizabeth chats with public policy expert Vass Bednar about surveillance capitalism. Taking a few Canadian examples, they talk about how tech companies collect and use data about their users, how privacy policy might be a red herring and how incentive structures in the tech industry contribute to the system of surveillance capitalism.

Additional Resources:

• Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is the key text. There are also a lot of summaries of the book in blog posts, podcasts, and videos. One of my favourite short reviews of the concept comes from the Fortune Magazine YouTube channel, found here.
• Check out Vass's newsletter, Regs to Riches - of particular interest to this conversation are her pieces on Laying down the Loblaw and Loblaw media.
• Vass also wrote a piece in the Globe and Mail: Loblaw’s points economy for private-health data follows Big Tech’s playbook.
• In the episode Vass mentioned a weather app - check out The Weather Network's description of their "precise location forecast" which includes information about user privacy.
• Vass also mentions that Facebook offers information about why you might see certain ads. Find out more here.
• Not sure what the bread memories of 2017 Elizabeth is talking about? Here’s the wiki.
• Also, wondering about GDPR? It’s Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, which came into effect in May 2018. Find out more.
• Vass mentions the Shopify breakup with Mail Chimp, which happened in November 2019. Since this episode originally aired, the two have gotten back together.

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Podcast: Mergers & Acquisitions
Episode: Neoliberalism, Unemployment, and the Post-pandemic Workplace: A Conversation with Ilana Gershon
Pub date: 2021-11-26

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest talks about unemployment and the post-pandemic workplace in the US knowledge economy. She reflects on the endurance of the neoliberal conception of the self and shares that her post-pandemic project points toward a rethinking of the American social contract.

In this episode, Kelly chats with Ilana Gershon about unemployment and the post-pandemic workplace in the United States’ knowledge economy. Nearly five years after the publication of Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today, Gershon revisits the genesis of that project, reflects on the endurance of the neoliberal conception of the self, and shares that her post-pandemic project points toward a rethinking of the American social contract.

Ilana Gershon is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. Her research on neoliberalism and new media has been published in the discipline’s leading journals, including Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, and American Ethnologist. She is also the author of the three monographs, including most recently, Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today (2017).

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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 336) Max Ajl: A deeper green new deal for the people
Pub date: 2021-12-07

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

If the popularised vision of the Green New Deal were to be realised, how might that play out? And how do we contextualise the historical process of creating nation-states deemed as ‘underdeveloped’, ‘developing’, or ‘developed’?

If the popularized vision of the Green New Deal were to be realized, how might that play out? And how do we contextualize the historical process of creating nation-states deemed as “underdeveloped”, “developing”, or “developed”?

In this episode, we welcome Max Ajl, Ph.D, the author of A People's Green New Deal. Ajl is based at Wageningen University's Rural Sociology Group, and he is an associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment. Ajl's academic articles and reviews on Middle East and North African agriculture and development theory have been published in Globalizations, Review of African Political Economy, Middle East Report, along with several in the Journal of Peasant Studies.

The song featured in this episode is Fallen Stars by Desmond White.

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Podcast: UMass Amherst History Department
Episode: Disaster Capitalism, Ecofascism, and Ecoauthoritarianism
Pub date: 2021-12-06

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The gravity of climate change and the environmental emergency demands action. But what form will it take? Will states impose solutions without democratic process? Will corporations rebuild devastated communities, privatizing land and infrastructure in the process? Will political movements tap climate fears to promote exclusionary immigration policies?

The gravity of climate change and the environmental emergency demands not just attention but concerted action. But what form will that action take?

Will states exercise more authority to impose solutions without democratic process? Will corporations seize opportunities to rebuild devastated communities, privatizing land and infrastructure in the process? Will political movements tap climate fears to promote exclusionary immigration policies and enact violent attacks on scapegoats? Historically and today, ecological crisis has produced numerous such cases.

In this panel discussion, Katia R. Avilés Vázquez (Institute for Research and Action in Agroecology), Rajani Bhatia (SUNY Albany) & John Aloysius Zinda (Cornell University) explore examples from China, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. that open a wider discussion of the threats to, and continued possibilities for, democratic action on climate change. Moderated by Sigrid Schmalzer (UMass Amherst).

The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible thanks to the generosity of UMass Amherst history department alumnus Kenneth R. Feinberg ’67 and associates. The series is co-sponsored by more than 3 dozen university and community organizations.

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Podcast: Law Report - Full program podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Could AI help make the law more accessible for disabled people?
Pub date: 2021-11-30

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Could ‘chatbots’, a form of artificial intelligence technology, help make the legal system more accessible for people living with disabilities?

Could ‘chatbots’, a form of artificial intelligence technology, help make the legal system more accessible for people living with disabilities?

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Podcast: Tech Tent (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A volcano-powered Bitcoin city?
Pub date: 2021-11-26

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

El Salvador's president made Bitcoin legal tender, now he wants to build a city. A Salvadoran-American cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor speaks about the Central American country's experience with Bitcoin since its introduction earlier this year.

El Salvador's president made Bitcoin legal tender, now he wants to build a city. Joe Tidy speaks to Salvodoran-American cryptocurrency enthusiast and investor Gerson Martinez about the Central American country's experience with Bitcoin since its introduction earlier this year. Plus 193 member states of the UN agency Unesco say they want a more ethical approach to the development of artificial intelligence. We hear from Unesco's Gabriella Ramos about the problems with AI use today. And our own Jane Wakefield investigates the community of tweeters and YouTubers helping others find the latest Playstation and XBox consoles amid a global computer chip shortage in the run-up to Christmas.

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Podcast: The Verdict: Law & Society
Episode: The Verdict: Regulating the internet Part II
Pub date: 2021-11-09

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A conversation with the experts behind the Aequitas Project, a legal digital-human-rights project with a mission to regulate the online world. They discuss the growing trend toward responsibility on internet platforms, issues that come with 'overblocking' and 'underblocking' in digital regulation, and the cultural challenges of attempting to create a single way of regulating online materials.

This week, Anna speaks to the experts behind the Aequitas Project, a legal digital-human-rights project with a mission to regulate the online world.

This is part two of a conversation on the project with The Verdict - go back and listen to the last episode to hear Professor Mostert introduce the project.

Listen as the group discuss:

• The 'Aequitas Project' - a set of online regulations and procedures

• Growing trend toward responsibility on internet platforms

• Issues that come with 'overblocking' and 'underblocking' in digital regulation

• The global perspective - the challenges that faced when attempting to create a single way of regulating online materials, due to cultural differences

The team includes:

• Frederick Mostert, Professor of Practice in Intellectual Property Law at King’s College London

• Professor Martin Senftleben, Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director, University of Amsterdam - Professor Marketa Trimble, who is the Samuel S. Lionel Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Nevada

• Professor Eleonora Rosati, Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law at Stockholm University

• Discover the Aequitas Project

• UK Government Online Safety Bill

• Reaction to the Draft Online Safety Bill: a reading list

• Online Safety Bill Update, May 2021

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Podcast: The Sound of Economics (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Technology: a product of unequal power?
Pub date: 2021-11-24

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Is technology change neutral? This question is essential for discussing the future of work. To answer it, we must investigate the nature of technology, its impact on the quantity and quality of work, the cost of the technological transition, and how we can make sure it benefits everyone.

Is technology change neutral? This question is essential in the discussion under the scope of the future of work. In this episode, Bruegel’s own Giuseppe Porcaro and Mario Mariniello speak to David Spencer about the nature of technology, its impact on the quantity and quality of work, the cost of the technological transition and how to make sure it benefits everyone.

This podcast was produced within the project “Future of Work and Inclusive Growth in Europe“, with the financial support of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.

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Podcast: Latino USA (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Gig Workers vs. Big Tech
Pub date: 2021-11-19

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

How does technology affect labour? How are tech corporations like Uber and Lyft redefining what it means to be a worker in the US? California has been ground zero for cementing the 'gig work' business model of these companies into law. But a group of drivers are mobilising across that state, and using their own technology to take on Big Tech.

How does technology affect labor? How are tech corporations like Uber and Lyft redefining what it means to be a worker in the United States?

California has been ground zero for cementing the “gig work” business model of these companies into law. A year ago this month, the state passed Proposition 22 to allow app-based firms like Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as contractors instead of employees.

In this episode of Latino USA we follow a group of drivers who are mobilizing across California – and using their own technology to take on Big Tech. Their fight is not only about their own labor protections as drivers, but a battle to prevent this labor model from spreading to other sectors of the U.S. economy.

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Podcast: IMF Podcasts (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Women in Economics: Diane Coyle on Making Economics Better
Pub date: 2021-11-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Speaking about how the lack of diversity within the economic profession is holding it back. In this episode, the guest argues that a broader and more inclusive economics field will make it better at solving problems.

In this third episode of Women in Economics, distinguished British economist Diane Coyle speaks with journalist Rhoda Metcalfe about how the lack of diversity within the economic profession is holding it back. Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and author of several books, some of which challenge conventional economic wisdom such as GDP. In this podcast, Coyle says economists need to start working with other disciplines if they are to live up to the influence they have in public policy and help deliver solutions to the complex challenges the world is now facing. Transcript: https://bit.ly/3DydryE

Look for the review of Diane Coyle's latest book Cogs and Monsters in the Fall edition of Finance and Development. IMF.org/fandd

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Podcast: This is Democracy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: This is Democracy – Episode 173: COP26 and Environmental Political Economy
Pub date: 2021-11-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

What has the COP26 taught us? What were some of its conclusions? What was the effect of pressure from below, youth in particular? And what will adaptation to climate change look like?

In this episode, Jeremi and Zachary are joined by Dr. Andrew Waxman to discuss the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).

Zachary sets the scene with his poem entitled "As if Looking Backwards Through a Telescope".

Andrew Waxman is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines Environmental and Urban Economics, among other subjects.

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Podcast: New Economics Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The future of work
Pub date: 2021-11-19

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A record number of employees have quit their jobs in recent months, in what’s been dubbed the Great Resignation. After last year, where up to a quarter of the UK workforce was paid not to work, are we reassessing our relationship to our jobs? How does work impact our health and sense of self? And should we improve our working conditions - or try to abolish work altogether?

A record number of employees have quit their jobs in recent months, in what’s been dubbed the Great Resignation. Newspapers report that it’s part of post-Covid demand for flexible working and better work life balance.

After last year, where up to a quarter of the UK workforce was paid not to work through the furlough scheme, are we reassessing our relationship to our jobs? How does work impact our health and sense of self? And should we improve our working conditions - or try to abolish work altogether?

Ayeisha is joined by Amelia Horgan, assistant lecturer at the school of philosophy and art history, University of Essex, and author of Lost in Work.

• Grab a copy of Amelia's book: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340913/lost-in-work/
• Listen back to past episodes on outsourcing and the impacts of the economy on mental health: https://neweconomics.org/section/podcasts
• Read Ayeisha's piece for the second issue of the New Economics Zine: https://neweconomics.org/2020/10/this-is-your-brain-on-neoliberalism
• Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is available here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1038399/the-second-sex/9780099595731.html
• Find out more about Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism
• Take a look at the Antiwork subreddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/
• Read Capital Realism by Mark Fisher: https://bookshop.org/books/capitalist-realism-is-there-no-alternative/9781846943171

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Podcast: Lowy Institute (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: COP26 and beyond: fault lines in global climate policy
Pub date: 2021-11-18

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

This episode discusses whether COP26 succeeded in 'keeping 1.5 alive', China's role in global climate efforts given geopolitical tensions with the US, whether some Western governments are engaged in 'colonialism in green', if India played a 'spoiler' role at the talks, and the huge unmet need for greater climate finance to help poor countries.

In this episode, Lowy Institute lead economist Roland Rajah is joined by Dr Vijaya Ramachandran and Dr Sam Geall to discuss the outcomes from the COP26 Glasgow Climate Change Conference and deeper rifts in international climate policy and politics. They discuss whether COP26 succeeded in 'keeping 1.5 alive', and China's role in global climate efforts given geopolitical tensions with the US. They also discuss whether some Western governments are engaged in 'colonialism in green', whether India played a 'spoiler' role at the talks, and the huge unmet need for greater climate finance to help poor countries. They also talk about where opportunities might lie for future progress in global climate policy. Dr Vijaya Ramachandran is the Director for Energy and Development at the Breakthrough Institute. Dr Sam Geall is a research fellow at the University of Sussex and associate fellow at Chatham House.

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Podcast: The Scholars' Circle Interviews (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Scholars’ Circle – Will Carbon emission reduction goals be met with voluntary commitments by Corporations and the Nation State – November 21, 2021
Pub date: 2021-11-20

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Climate change is an existential threat that demands bold action and a transformation of how humanity uses its resources. Concepts like ‘net zero’ and ‘carbon offset’ have done little toward decreasing the amount of greenhouse gases we emit into the atmosphere. Is the current legal and voluntary structure adequate to meet the challenge of climate change? Are we up to the challenge?

Climate Change is an existential threat that demands bold action and a transformation of how humanity uses its resources. Concepts like “net zero” and “carbon offset” have done little toward decreasing the amount of greenhouse gases we emit into the atmosphere. Is the current legal and voluntary structure adequate to meet the challenge of climate change? Are we up to the challenge? [ dur: 58mins. ]

• William Moomaw is Emeritus Professor of international environmental policy and founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is the co-founder and current co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts. Professor Moomaw has been a lead author of five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports. He is the author of Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good and Scientist Diplomats or Diplomat Scientists: Who Makes Science Diplomacy Effective?

• LeRoy Westerling is Professor of Management of Complex Systems at Ernest and Julio Gallo Management Program at the University of California, Merced. He is the co-author of Greater Temperature and Precipitation Extremes Intensify Western U.S. Droughts, Wildfire Severity, and Sierra Nevada Tree Mortality.

• Christopher Wright is Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. He is the co-author of Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction.

• Prue Taylor is the Deputy Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law. She is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. She is the author of Opportunity within Failure: Can the Global Pact for the Environment Learn from Responsibility to Protect? and a book chapter on Responsibility for the Ecological Integrity of the High Seas: The Role of Natural Law.

This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker, Melissa Chiprin and Sudd Dongre.

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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Geopolitics of International Technical Standards
Pub date: 2021-11-10

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

With a new technological revolution underway, emerging technologies are at the heart of geopolitical competition between States. Standard-setting is one key dimension of this competition. But what does this entail? How will India navigate the related challenges?

With a new technological revolution underway, emerging technologies are at the heart of geopolitical competition between States. Standard-setting is one key dimension of this competition. But what does this entail and how should India navigate related challenges? Ameera Rao talks to Arjun Gargeyas about his new report, which recommends action points for Indian policymakers.

Follow Ameera on Twitter https://twitter.com/ameerarao

Read Arjun's Report here

Read Arjun's Op-Ed in the Hindustan Times here

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Podcast: Peoples & Things
Episode: Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra on Automating Finance
Pub date: 2021-11-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guest discusses his latest book, which traces the long, largely anonymous, and in some senses boring history of how experts applied computers to financial systems since the 1970s, creating a digital infrastructure of the trading world.

Sociologist Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, a professor at University of California San Diego, talks about his book _Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers, and the Making of Electronic Markets_ with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book traces the long, largely anonymous, and in some senses boring history of how experts applied computers to financial systems since the 1970s, creating a digital infrastructure of the trading world. The conversation also touches on Pardo-Guerra’s more recent work on how systems of quantitative metrics have been applied to the management of universities and what might be done about it.

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Podcast: Reinventing Solidarity
Episode: Episode 20 - Labor In The Age Of Finance
Pub date: 2021-10-22

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

With union density in the private sector hovering around 6% and a labour law regime that enables employers to resist unionisation, many US unions have sought other forms of leverage – particularly through legislative reform and union pension shareholder activism. In both realms, organised labour’s tactics have elevated shareholder influence within corporate governance and exacerbated the financialization of the economy.

Samir Sonti interviews Sandy Jacoby, author of Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank. Jacoby’s book and this conversation offer insights into some of the strategic choices organized labor has made since the 1990s in the face of burgeoning corporate power and its own diminished membership rates. With union density in the private sector hovering around 6 percent and a labor law regime that enables employers to resist unionization, many unions have sought other forms of leverage. Those strategies have focused on both legislative reform, Dodd Frank for example, and union pension shareholder activism. In both realms, Jacoby argues, organized labor’s tactics have elevated shareholder influence within corporate governance and exacerbated the financialization of the economy.

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Podcast: Climate 21 (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: How Much Did The Fossil Fuel Companies Know About Climate Change, And When? A Chat With Ben Franta
Pub date: 2021-11-10

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

French fossil fuel company Total was aware of harmful global warming impacts since at least 1971. But instead of doing anything about it, it overtly denied climate science. This was the way fossil fuel companies decided to deal with the issue – and now it has potential legal ramifications.

Stanford doctoral candidate Benjamin (Ben) Franta (aka @BenFranta on Twitter) has a degree in Applied Physics from Harvard, a Law degree from Stanford, and is currently working on his Ph.D. from Stanford on the history of climate science, climate denial, and the fossil fuel industry.

I came across him when I heard about his most recent paper where he and two French researchers showed how French fossil fuel company Total were aware of harmful global warming impacts since at least 1971 but instead of doing anything about it, they engaged in overt denial of climate science. This was the way fossil fuel companies decided to deal with the issue.

That this was standard practice for fossil fuel companies is something I've been aware of for some time, but I decided to invite Ben to come on the podcast to talk about not just this but also the potential legal ramifications of this behaviour.

This was a truly fascinating episode of the podcast and I learned loads as always, and I hope you do too.

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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Ocean in a Warming World
Pub date: 2021-11-15

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Tracing the recent history of oceanography, this episode discloses dramatic changes in US ocean science since the Cold War, uncovering how and why it changed. Much of it has to do with who pays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7YPTIwiu84

Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is also a world-renowned geologist, and a leading voice on the role of science in society and the reality of anthropogenic climate change. She is the author of several books including her latest, Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean.

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Podcast: The Energy Transition Show with Chris Nelder (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: [Episode #159] – The Cost of Decarbonization
Pub date: 2021-11-10

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Why do the major groups publishing energy forecasts consistently undershoot the progress of energy transition? A group of researchers at Oxford University may have an answer to that question. The guest discusses his work researching sensitive intervention points for accelerating progress towards the post-carbon transition

Why do the major groups publishing energy forecasts consistently undershoot the progress of energy transition? For decades, public sector agencies, oil industry groups, energy industry consultancies, and even environmental nonprofits have been consistently too pessimistic in their outlooks. So why is it that standard energy forecasting models keep getting transition wrong?

A group of researchers at Oxford University may have an answer to that question with a study they recently published on the future trajectory of the energy transition. The problem, they say, is that standard models don’t realistically account for learning curves in manufacturing, and exponential growth in deployment as it relates to transition. Their new approach shows that future cost and deployment curves can be predicted quite accurately for energy transition solutions like solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and hydrogen electrolyzers.

What makes their demonstration particularly exciting isn’t just that they’ve found a better approach to modeling energy transition learning curves; it’s what their model shows: that a rapid energy transition is actually as much as $14 trillion cheaper than not transitioning over the coming decades. In short, these researchers suggest there is no net cost to a sustainable energy transition, and that on the economic merits at least, it’s basically inevitable.

Join us in this episode for a discussion with one of the researchers on the Oxford team, Dr. Matthew Ives. He is an economist and complex systems modeler at Oxford University who is currently researching sensitive intervention points for accelerating progress towards the post-carbon transition. We explore exactly how their modeling was done, exactly where traditional modeling has gone wrong, and what it all means for the energy transition.

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Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Holding Big Tech Accountable for Disinformation and Incitement to Violence
Pub date: 2021-11-07

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

A conversation with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat representing Illinois’ 9th district. She serves on the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has called on tech CEOs to testify in recent months and introduced proposed legislation.

The first segment in this episode is a conversation with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat representing Illinois’ 9th district. Representative Schakowsky serves as Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has called the tech CEOs to testify in recent months and introduced proposed legislation.

The second is a discussion on the threat of big tech and disinformation to social movements that took place recently at NetRootsNation, conference for progressive organizers. It is hosted by Melissa Ryan, a Tech Policy Press masthead member and author of the Ctrl Alt-Right Delete, a newsletter that covers extremism that has grown to more than 15,000 weekly readers. Melissa uses her expertise to help people, policymakers and institutions combat online extremism and toxicity as the CEO of her firm, CARD Strategies. At NetRoots Nation, Melissa organized a panel of activists to discuss how platform power and disinformation affected their communities in 2020, and how they plan to fight it in 2021 and beyond. They include Bridget Todd, who drives feminist cultural & political change at UltraViolet; Brennan Suen, a senior strategist at Media Matters, which tracks right wing disinformation; and Michael Khoo, the Co-chair of the Climate Disinformation Coalition at Friends of the Earth and CO-CEO of Upshift strategies.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Why the Metaverse Must Be Stopped w/ Brian Merchant
Pub date: 2021-11-04

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Discussing Mark Zuckerberg’s big plans for the metaverse, everything that’s wrong with it, the concept’s sci-fi origins, and why Silicon Valley is desperate to make it happen.

Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s big plans for the metaverse, everything that’s wrong with it, the concept’s scifi origins, and why Silicon Valley is desperate to make it happen.

Brian Merchant is the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone and Blood in the Machine, coming in 2022. Follow Brian on Twitter at @bcmerchant.

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Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.

Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Brian wrote about the dystopian origins of the metaverse for Motherboard and why Silicon Valley wants it to succeed for The Atlantic.
• Paris wrote about how the metaverse is a way to get us to spend more time and money in digital spaces for Business Insider.
• Matthew Ball made the business case for the metaverse last year.
• Apple’s changes to iOS privacy settings cost Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat an estimated $9.85 billion in revenue.
• Emails sent by Oculus CEO Jason Rubin in 2018 asserted that consumers want the metaverse (something that’s not at all clear).
• David Karpf wrote about how VR keeps failing and getting revived for Wired.
• Apple’s AR headset or glasses are supposedly coming in 2022.
• Microsoft is trying to get in on the metaverse with workplace applications of its own.
• Brian hosted a series for Motherboard about the themes of Dune.

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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Tax the Rich! & The Build Back Better Plan
Pub date: 2021-11-04

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

How do you rig an economy? You start with the tax code. This episode’s guests explain exactly how ‘the rich’ – and the politicians they control – manipulate the US tax code to ensure the rich get richer, and everyone else is left holding the bag.

Part I - An update on the Build Back Better Plan

Host Mitch Jeserich analyses the current situation of the Build Back Better legislation in Congress.

Part II - Tax the Rich! How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer

Guests:

Erica Payne is founder and president of the Patriotic Millionaires. She is the author of The Practical Progressive! and the co-author, with Morris Pearl, of Tax the Rich! [1].

Morris Pearl is a former managing director of BlackRock. He is chair of the Patriotic Millionaires and the co-author, with Erica Payne, of Tax the Rich! [1].

The Patriotic Millionaires [3] is a group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans committed to making all Americans better off by building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation, and ensuring that millionaires, billionaires, and corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

[1] https://thenewpress.com/books/tax-rich [2] https://thenewpress.com/books/tax-rich [3] https://patrioticmillionaires.org/

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Podcast: Future Beyond Shell
Episode: Putting a Price on Carbon
Pub date: 2021-11-02

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

Shell has consistently supported carbon emissions trading and, in certain areas of the world, carbon taxes. Beyond carbon capture and nature-based solutions, it promotes reliance on carbon markets as a core climate action strategy that is in line with their business goals. But how successful have these neoliberal tools really been in moving us towards an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist future?

Carbon pricing & trading has come to dominate the debate on how to curb climate change. Its proponents span the field, from governments and corporations to parts of the white climate movement in the Global North. Simply put, with carbon pricing, a price is put on carbon emissions (usually CO2) by either taxing its production or by creating an emissions trading system. Such policies aim to make carbon pollution more expensive, to reduce demand and to eventually create incentives for companies to invest in renewable energy.

Shell has consistently supported carbon emissions trading and, in certain areas of the world, carbon taxes. Beyond carbon capture and nature-based solutions, it promotes reliance on carbon markets as a core climate action strategy that is in line with their business goals. But how successful have these neoliberal tools really been in moving us towards an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist future? Can some of their inefficiencies be resolved by tweaking market rules or is the idea of carbon pricing simply doomed to fail based on an inherently flawed logic?

For this discussion we will be joined by Dr. Tamra Gilbertson, she is the Climate Change and Forest Policy Advisor at Indigenous Environmental Network or IEN. She is also a longtime activist, scholar and educator on the topic of carbon pricing.

Show Notes

The UN Agenda 21 report on sustainable development in the 21st Century: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/outcomedocuments/agenda21

Kyoto Protocol 1997: https://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol

CDM or Clean Development Mechanism: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-kyoto-protocol/mechanisms-under-the-kyoto-protocol/the-clean-development-mechanism

Short report that looks at the history of the Emissions Trading Systems we have today: https://co2colonialism.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Carbon-Pricing-A-Critical-Perspective-for-Community-Resistance-Online-Version.pdf

A list of terms that we refer to, like cap and trade, REDD, carbon capture and nature-based solutions: https://co2colonialism.org/list-of-terms/

Education toolkit from IEN on carbon pricing: https://co2colonialism.org/

IEN’s media platform, Indigenous Rising, which will be launching a podcast of its own soon hopefully during COP26: https://indigenousrising.org/

Indigenous Environmental Network’s website: http://ienearth.org/

Tamra refers to Turtle Island in the episode, which is the name that a number of Indigenous nations use for the land mass known as ‘North America’.

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Podcast: City Journal's 10 Blocks (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: In Cities, Common Sense Is Common Ground
Pub date: 2021-11-03

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

The guests discuss the Manhattan Institute’s polling of US metro areas, the public-policy issues that commanded majority support, and the political implications for both parties.

Michael Hendrix joins Brian Anderson to discuss the Manhattan Institute's polling of U.S. metro areas, the public-policy issues that commanded majority support, and the political implications for both parties.

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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, "Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-11-04

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

There’s a world of difference between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’ critiques of globalisation. The guests look more closely at these debates, building out distinct narratives that classify how we should think about the politics of globalisation, and how different political movements understand who wins from globalisation: everyone, a few, or nobody.

Globalization is possibly the most important economic phenomenon of the past several decades. Opening borders, increasing trade and deepening integration has transformed our economies, our societies and our politics. Globalization changed establishment politics; the reaction against it transformed those against the establishment.

But there’s a world of difference between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’ critiques of globalization. And those who have concerns about globalization due so for different reasons, building different alliances as they work to implement, reform or roll back globalization.

Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, authors of Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters(Harvard University Press: 2021) looks more closely at these debates, building out distinct narratives that classify how we should think about the politics of globalization, and how different political movements understand who wins from globalization: everyone, a few, or nobody.

Those interested in learning more about the book and its arguments:

• “Who wins and who loses from globalization? There are (at least) six answers”, a book excerpt published on BigThink
• “Want to know what future battles over globalization will be about? Look to the chip shortage”, a commentary piece published on Fortune
• Paul Krugman and Branko Milanovic in conversation with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp

In this interview, Anthea, Nicolas and I talk about the politics of globalization: the arguments used to support it, and the stories used to criticize it. We explore some of the interesting intersections between these arguments … and where we think the politics of globalization might go from here.

Anthea Roberts is professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at Australian National University and author of the prizewinning Is International Law International? (Oxford University Press: 2017).

Nicolas Lamp is associate professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Ontario. Before joining Queen’s University, he worked as a dispute settlement lawyer at the World Trade Organization.

You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Six Faces of Globalization. Follow on Facebook or on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia.

Nicholas Gordon is an associate editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon.

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Podcast: State of Power (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep50: A Few Ideas That Could Save the Planet. (In Conversation with TNI)
Pub date: 2021-11-03

Notes from Demos Helsinki Podcast:

This episode seeks to draw out the approaches that will pull us back from the edge of the cliff. From radical cutting edge analysis that exposes the problems with the global neoliberal system, to new ideas about how to think about public services, to alternative approaches to food policy, trade and energy. These are the ideas that can literally save the planet.

We are in a climate crisis. About this there seems to be broad consensus. But, there is more and more divergence around what must be done to stop it. As COP26 came around, we’ve seen more and more supposed solutions to the Climate crisis gaining attention.

But a closer look reveals that many of the ideas proffered as ways out of the climate emergency are merely duds, fancy ways to give the impression of progress while business continues as usual. Just as we cannot expect mosquitoes to cure malaria, we cannot expect the people that created the crisis to be the ones to solve it.

At TNI, we have been tackling the problem from multiple perspectives, drawing from decades of research and analysis, and leaning on the knowledge and experiences of movements across the world. We believe that the ideas that come from the ground up, from indigenous communities, from peasant farmers, fisher peoples, and workers across the world have the capacity to bring about a totally different way of being, a different humanity, with a different relationship to each other, and to the planet.

In today’s episode, we speak with colleagues and associates, to draw out what we think are the approaches that will pull us back from the edge of the cliff. From radical cutting edge analysis that exposes the problems with the global neoliberal system, to new ideas about how to think about public services, to alternative approaches to food policy, trade and energy. These are ideas that we believe can literally save the planet.

Be sure to check out our climate reading list for all the material mentioned in this episode.

Keywords: Climate, COP26, Just Transition

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Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians
Episode: Snake oil or substance? Tech companies talk climate at COP26
Pub date: 2021-10-29

This week Josh Lappen, an environmental historian studying at Oxford University, returns to discuss the climate crisis and tech companies ahead of COP26. Are tech companies’ promises of technological innovation really going to save Earth? Do we need AI for the environment? What does the German government have to do with the adoption of solar panels? And who really are the biggest impediments to stopping climate change? (Hint: it’s not China.) Josh discusses the snake oil and substance at COP26, and how tech companies use the promise of the future to influence the politics of the present.

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Articles Mentioned:

Past Anti Dystopians episode with Josh—Nationalize Gmail! https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Aayx7p8uYdKcDeyEvwuzJ?si=48fF-8p7R2KgVPHZ2O-7Rw

Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon? https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp9368.pdf

Biden’s First Climate Actions Are Missing Coal’s Long Tail https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/biden-climate-executive-orders-coal/