Month: January 2024

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Tech Won't Save Us - What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade w/ Vincent Bevins

Paris Marx is joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss the mass protests of the 2010s, the role that social and traditional media played in them, and why the horizontalism of those movements ultimately didn’t work.

Vincent Bevins is a longtime foreign correspondent who has worked for the Washington Post, Financial Times, and LA Times. He’s the author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.

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. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation and produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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  • Read excerpts from If We Burn in The Guardian and In These Times.
  • Vincent mentioned the work of Charles Tilley, Cihan Tuğal, Evgeny Morozov, and Andrey Mir.

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The Best One Yet - 🛍️ “Only 20 days left” — #NoSpendJanuary is trending. Instacart launches smart cart. Mister Car Wash’s growing empire.

The top-trending New Year’s resolution is #NoSpendJanuary — And it reveals the power of the Finfluencer (= “Financial” + Influencer”).

Instacart’s smart cart will now convince you upsell you to buy ice cream — Because the game of groceries is still a physical sport.

And Mister Car Wash became the largest car wash chain in America with 1 simple strategy — Chainification: It bought up all the mom & pops.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - 2024’s Primary Season is Already Chaos

Primaries competing with caucuses; states going rogue; and parties totally out of sync with each other — the 2024 primary season has everything. 


Guest: Ari Berman, voting-rights reporter for Mother Jones and author of “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.”


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NPR's Book of the Day - Roxane Gay fleshes out her strong ‘Opinions’

In the era of constant hot takes, what actually makes an opinion worthwhile? Roxane Gay tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe that it's a combination of things: credibility, backing arguments, articulation. In today's episode, Gay discusses her collection of nonfiction essays Opinions and the topics she tackles throughout — from the overuse of the word 'empathy' in today's discourse to the truly terrible experience of Father's Day shopping.

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It Could Happen Here - The Worst Tech Industry Products of 2024

Robert and Garrison and guest expert Tavia Morra attend the Consumer Electronics Show to see into the future and tell you about the a tech industry's very dumbest ideas.

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Consider This from NPR - ‘It’s the Stuff of Nightmares’ Scenes from Inside a Gaza Hospital

It's been nearly a hundred days since Hamas' deadly attack on Israel, which prompted Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza. Israel says it aims to destroy Hamas.

By Palestinian officials' tally - more than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and about one in every 40 people there have been wounded in just three months.

Israel's military is now pushing deeper into central Gaza. The World Health Organization says the most important hospital there is al-Aqsa Hospital.

American pediatrician Seema Jilani, spent two weeks working at the al-Aqsa hospital there. She recorded voice memos about what she saw and talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about the experience.

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