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Paris Marx is joined by Gaby Del Valle to discuss the inauguration of Donald Trump and what the tech oligarchy hopes to get from their relationship with him.
Gaby wrote about Elon Muskâs plans for DOGE and the eugenic ideas in Silicon Valley.The Guardian published an opinion piece titled, âI knew one day Iâd have to watch powerful men burn the world down â I just didnât expect them to be such losers.âTesla applied for more H-1B visas as it was laying off thousands of workers.
Gaby Del Valle is a policy reporter at The Verge and is working on a book on ecofascism that will be released by Bloomsbury in 2026.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
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Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldnât go to waste. Weâre releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Hereâs a preview of this weekâs premium episode with Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI and a lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.
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Paris Marx is joined by Jathan Sadowski to discuss the relationship between technology and capitalism, and what lessons can be taken from the Luddites to properly assess and understand these systems.
Jathan wrote about AI and the Tinkerbell Effect in Futurism.
Jathan Sadowski is is the author of The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism. Heâs also the co-host of This Machine Kills and a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.
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Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldnât go to waste. Weâre releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Hereâs a preview of this weekâs premium episode with Dwayne Monroe, a senior cloud architect and longtime consultant these kinds of projects. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.
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Paris Marx is joined by Will Tavlin to discuss how the Netflix model transformed film into the Typical Netflix Movie and how the company uses claims about data to deceive the public.
Will wrote about Netflix and the Typical Netflix Movie for n+1.
Will Tavlin is a New York-based writer who has written for n+1, Bookforum, and the Columbia Journalism Review.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.
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Paris Marx is joined by Cecilia Rikap to discuss the ways Amazon, Microsoft, and Google gain power from companies becoming dependent on their cloud services and how generative AI exacerbates that problem.
Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics at University College London.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
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Paris and Cecilia were co-authors on the âReclaiming digital sovereigntyâ white paper.Cecilia wrote a report called âDynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI.âSupport the show
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Paris Marx is joined by Ali Alkhatib to discuss the difficulty of holding the AI industry accountable and why sometimes it makes sense for people to destroy AI systems that are harming them.
Ali wrote a blog post called âDestroy AI.â
Ali Alkhatib works with Logic(s) magazine and was previously the director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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Paris Marx is joined by Molly White, Brian Merchant, and Eric Wickham to discuss the highs and lows (mostly lows) of this year in tech news.
Molly joined Brian and Paris on System Crash.Peter Thiel made some dumb remarks about Luigi Mangione on the Piers Morgan show while looking very shiny.Apple sold fewer than half a million Vision Pro headsets this year.
Molly White is the creator of Web3 is Going Just Great and Follow the Crypto. Brian Merchant is my co-host on System Crash, a new podcast weâre hosting. Heâs also a longtime tech journalist and author of Blood in the Machine. Eric Wickham is the producer for Tech Wonât Save Us, along with a bunch of other podcast, and an independent journalist.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Mull to discuss the data-informed decisions that are changing the way we all experience air travel, mostly for the worse.
Amanda wrote about the changing flying experience for Bloomberg and the big investments being made in airport lounges for The Atlantic.Legacy airlines are taking budget customers with the ultracheap fares.In the US, budget airlines are beginning to offer premium seats and other amenities to attract more premium customers.
Amanda Mull is a senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldnât go to waste. Weâre releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Hereâs a preview of this weekâs premium episode with Aurora Gomez Delgado of Tu Nube Seca Mi RĂo. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.
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Paris Marx is joined by Cam Wilson to discuss Australiaâs plan to ban under-16s from social media, the interests driving it, and whether itâs the right approach to tackle the harms of those platforms.
Cam wrote about the under-16 social media ban for Crikey.
Cam Wilson is associate editor at Crikey.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldnât go to waste. Weâre releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Hereâs a preview of this weekâs premium episode with Brid Smith, a former TD or Member of Parliament in the Irish Parliament in Dublin. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.
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Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldnât go to waste. Weâre releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Hereâs a preview of this weekâs premium episode with Sebastian Lehuede, a lecturer at Kingâs College London. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.
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Paris Marx is joined by MV Ramana to discuss the tech industryâs push to have nuclear energy power its data centers and why the reality of nuclear power isnât as great as its promoters often make it seem.
Langdon Winner wrote The Whale and the Reactor and Do Artifacts Have Politics?. Timothy Mitchell wrote Carbon Democracy.Microsoft made an agreement to try to restart Three Mile Island, but itâs not a done deal yet.Data centers are fueling fossil fuel use, despite claims about nuclear and renewables. Leaked documents in October confirmed Israel has nuclear weapons.
MV Ramana is a Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Nuclear Is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the internet in the 1990s and how weâre still living with the legacies of those actions today.
Paris wrote about Marc Andreessen mentioning the Italian Futurists in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto.Ruth Eveleth wrote about the Italian Futurists in the context of Silicon Valley.In 1995, Wired published a story on how âAmericaâs futurist politiciansâ Al Gore and Newt Gingrich were in an epic struggle to shape the internet.Becca mentioned the work of Nicole Hemmer and Patricia Aufderheide.
Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldnât go to waste. Weâre releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Hereâs a preview of this weekâs premium episode with Cecilia Rikap, an Associate Professor in Economics at University College London. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.
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Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the fallout from the US election, what it means for the tech industry, and more importantly, what it might mean for all of us. They also celebrate the show hitting 250 episodes!
Brian wrote about the results of the election on his newsletter.Paris wrote about why we need to remember who enabled Elon Musk to obtain his power.There are already reports of advertisers returning to Twitter/X to gain favor with Musk and Trump.OpenAI is moving away from its original non-profit status.Uber chief legal officer Tony West told Kamala Harris to stop attacking big business.
Brian Merchant is a longtime tech writer and author of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldnât go to waste. Starting this week, weâre releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Hereâs a preview of this weekâs premium episode with Ali Alkhatib, Logic(s) data editor and former interim director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.
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Paris Marx is joined by tante to discuss troubling developments in the open source world as Wordpress goes to war with WP Engine and a new definition of open source AI doesnât require being open about training data.
tante wrote about the problem with the Open Source Initiativeâs definition of open source AI.Check out this link for the full breakdown on the Wordpress drama.Wordpress changed its trademark guidelines on September 19 regarding the use of the WP abbreviation.Tumblr and Wordpress started selling user data for AI training earlier this year.A lot of the controversy around Richard Stallman started blowing up in 2019.
tante is a sociotechnologist, writer, speaker, and Luddite working on tech and its social impact.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
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Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss all the money Elon Musk is pouring into the US election and what Silicon Valleyâs political influence will mean regardless of who becomes president.
The New York Times reported on Elon Muskâs efforts to get Trump elected in the final two weeks of the campaign.The Pennsylvania district attorney sued Elon Muskâs PAC to stop his $1 million giveaways.Marc Andreessen wrote the Techno-Optimist Manifesto and the Little Tech Agenda.FTX was up to way more shady things that didnât make it into the first trial of Sam Bankman-Fried. The second didnât go ahead after he was found guilty in the first.The canvassing operation for Trump by Elon Musk's PAC has been flagged as potentially fraudulent.The US Supreme Courtâs Chevron decision will have significant consequences for federal regulators.
Jacob Silverman is the author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, coming in September 2025 from Bloomsbury. His book Easy Money is now available in paperback.
Tech Wonât 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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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