Welcome to the Contrafabulists podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters weekly dissection of the latest technology myth-making.
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In this episode, we discuss Jack Dorsey of Twitter's recent tweet about having regrets about helping centralize control over the Internet into the hands of corporations--with Audrey and Kin exploring why we find ourselves disillusioned with Internet technology today.
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In this episode, we talk about civic technology infrastructure.
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In this episode, we talk about predictions for the new year.
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In this episode, we talk about 2017.
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In this episode, we talk about technology companies, monopolies, and net neutrality.
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In this episode, we talk about 'infrastructural violence' and tech companies' inability to address what's happening on their platforms.
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In this episode, we talk about tech journalism's failures to warn the public about tech's failures.
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In this episode, we talk about Google's plans to 'revolutionize' Toronto.
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In this episode, we talk about the repetitiveness of tech news.
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In this episode, we talk about automated decision-making.
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In this episode, we talk about fake news and natural disasters, Facebook and political advertising, and the Equifax data breach.
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In this episode, we talk about how Google (and other tech companies) are reshaping public policy and the narratives about public education.
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In this episode, we talk about the tech industry's response to Charlottesville and the future of 'free speech' online.
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In this episode, we discuss the hype around Hyperloop and an anti-diversity manifesto written by a Google engineer.
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In this episode, we discuss the state of IT (and, more generally, expertise) in the federal government.
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In this episode, we discuss our new policy of deleting old social media status updates and the new White House Communication's decision to do the same.
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In this episode, we discuss Amazon Alexa and the skills gap.
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In this episode, we discuss outsourcing technical infrastructure (to the Russians).
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In this episode, we discuss Facebook censorship, fake news, harassment on Twitter, and harassment by tech investors.
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In this episode, we discuss how tech companies use patents for storytelling and for lawsuits.
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In this episode, we discuss Yahoo, Amazon, Uber, misogyny, and monopolies.
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In this episode, we talk about Pinboard's acquisition of Delicious.
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In this episode, we talk about terrorist attacks in Portland and Manchester, Facebook, Fox, and 'fake news.'
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In this episode, we talk about WannaCry, information security and planned obsolescence, and democracy's (technological) vulnerabilities.
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In this episode, we talk about net neutrality, content moderation, and phishing attacks.
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In this episode, we talk about Audrey's decision to block annotations from her websites.
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In this episode, we talk about brain implants, expeditions to Mars, Planned Parenthood as startup, and other technological, ideological nightmares.
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In this episode, we talk about data security, advertising as a hack, psychological manipulation, and information literacy.
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In this episode, we talk about democracy versus platforms.
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In this episode, we talk about information security while traveling.
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In this episode, we talk about Trump's budget proposal, federal technology initiatives, microwave opens as spyware, and other lies about technology's capabilities.
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In this episode, we talk about machine learning and machine intelligence and the future of human knowledge.
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In this episode, we talk about wiretapping and greyballing.
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In this episode, we talk about venture capital, data collection, and the narratives Silicon Valley tells to justify its existence.
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In this episode, we talk about the history of the Doomsday Clock.
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In this episode, we talk about Trump, immigration, and technology.
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In this +1 episode, we talk about the history of the chat bot.
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In this episode, we talk about alternative facts, fascism, and information literacy.
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In this +1 episode, we talk about the history of the punch card..
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In this episode, we talk about Alexa and the commercialization of home surveillance.
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In this episode, we talk about Russian hacking, Twitter harassment, and Facebook versus the public sphere.
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In this episode, we talk about technology and the new year.
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In this episode, we talk about nuclear weapons, military technology, home automation, and the return of the worst of the Eighties.
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In this episode, we talk about libertarian futurist fantasies, regulatory mechanisms, and the schadenfreude of watching tech CEOs squirm and grovel in Trump Tower.
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In this episode, we talk about misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, the Russians, and digital polarization.
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In this episode, we talk about the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Ghost Ship fire, and Cambridge Analytica.
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In this episode, we talk about Betsy DeVos, Trump's choice for Secretary of Education and continue our discussion of fake news and Facebook.
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In this episode, we talk about fake news, Facebook, and propaganda.
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In this episode, we talk about Trump, totalitarianism, swamps, and how we are going to build anti-fascist technologies and communities moving forward.
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In this episode, we talk about email, predictions about the future of technology, Presidents, and literacy.
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