Wie #ElonMusk mit viel Glück und wenig Können zu einem der mächtigsten Männer der Welt wurde und warum seine Radikalisierung bezeichnend für die ganze Branche ist, verrät uns @parismarx (#techwontsaveus).
I discovered @parismarx's #TechWontSaveUs podcast when they were doing a special on Musk last October. And this episode on enshittification is one of the best ones since.
I highly recommend giving it a listen, and adding the podcast to your regular weekly feeds.
Under foreverism, nothing can ever die. Franchises need to go on forever to maximize corporate profits and political ideas drawing on the past define our discourse.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Grafton Tanner to discuss the consequences of companies and politicians leveraging nostalgia for their own gain.
The news media is in crisis, but is the internet really the root of the problem and will forcing platforms to give publishers some money fix it?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @victorpickard about how the commercial model so much media relies on is failing journalists and the public, and how just blaming the internet distracts us from real solutions.
Over the past few years, Spotify spent big to try to take over podcasting. Now it’s shutting down shows, laying off workers, and disappearing well-known brands. What happened?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Eric Silver about Spotify’s big plan to enclose podcasts so it could get more data and diversify away from music. Needless to say, it didn’t work.
We’re over a year into this cycle of AI hype, but how does the real impact of the technology compare to what tech CEOs have spent all their time warning us about?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @timnitGebru about how they distracted us from the real problems with AI to shape regulation and serve themselves.
Whenever I write about the Hyperloop, I always get some people who refuse to believe that Elon Musk opposed high-speed rail and used Hyperloop to try to stop it.
In a Patreon bonus episode of #TechWontSaveUs, @awalkerinla has even more proof: She saw Musk tell transport planners that cities should stop rail projects.
In the 2010s, countries all over the world experienced digitally coordinated, horizontally organized mass protests seeking to challenge existing power. They often failed.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Vincent Bevins about the role social media actually played in those protests and how the form was ultimately coopted by powerful forces in society.
highly recommend this episode of #TechWontSaveUs: 'How the Mirror World Distorts Our Reality'. Naomi Klein connects the dots with @parismarx – social media, right/left politics, the climate crisis, colonialism, genocide, reckoning with the past and visioning the future.
It touches on so, so many important and urgent issues, in such a thoughtful and no-bullshit way, I am in awe.
Other episodes are great too, obviously. I burned through four episodes in 24h. Do yourself a favor, jump in and start listening "wherever you get your podcasts." :blobcatlisten: