We’re joined by one of the best critical observers of Web3 around – Molly White, creator of Web3 is Going Just Great – to discuss what made her, as a software engineer who is immersed in the tech sector and discourse, finally have to take a stand on Web3. We then break down how Web3 fetishizes its own apparent complexity-as-convolution, the pitfalls in how it is covered by reporters, the cynicism of its biggest advocates, and the internal ideological contradictions at the heart of Web3.

Check out Molly’s work:
••• Web3 is Going Just Great ​​https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ /// https://twitter.com/web3isgreat 
••• The (Edited) Latecomers Guide to Crypto https://www.mollywhite.net/annotations/latecomers-guide-to-crypto 
••• Molly’s website https://www.mollywhite.net/annotations/latecomers-guide-to-crypto
••• Molly’s twitter https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF 

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150. The Cynics of Web3 (ft. Molly White)

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It's been a long time since we’ve seen a good old fashioned bank run lead to the collapse of a venerable financial institution, but leave it to Silicon Valley to rediscover something old and call it new again. We are joined by Brian Merchant — LA Times tech columnist and author of Blood in the Machine — for a post-mortem on Silicon Valley Bank, breakdown its events and effects, and hold Ed to account for his incitements to violence against the most marginalized and traumatized people of them all: venture capitalists. 

••• Brian’s column: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-12/column-silicon-valley-bank-is-broken-because-silicon-valley-is-broken
••• Brian’s book: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/
••• Brian’s twitter: https://twitter.com/bcmerchant

Some stuff we reference
••• The Incredible Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw Over Silicon Valley Bank | Ed Ongweso Jr. https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-rescue-venture-capital-calacanis-sacks-ackman-tantrum.html
••• Silicon Valley Bank profit squeeze in tech downturn attracts short sellers https://www.ft.com/content/0387e331-61b4-4848-9e50-04775b4c3fa7
••• Startup Bank Had a Startup Bank Run https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-10/startup-bank-had-a-startup-bank-run
••• How Bad Was the Silicon Valley Bank Bailout? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/opinion/silicon-valley-bank-bailout.html 

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*Unlocked* – 241. Euthanasia of Silicon Valley Bank (ft. Brian Merchant)

In today’s episode we talk with human rights activist Jamal about the colonial occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco and the decades-long decolonial struggle of the Sahrawi people. We start the discussion by going over the chronology of the occupation, discussing the main international actors and their interests in the region, and how these interests ignore the rights and demands of the majority local Sahrawi population. We talk about the imperial and extractivist logic that drives Morocco, and how the EU is failing to uphold international law in exchange for access to fisheries, green energy and other benefits. In the second part we talk about the Polisario Front, the organization leading the resistance of the Sahrawis, and how people can support the cause.

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Re(Sources)

Cultures of Resistance Films: Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara [Documentary]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QzRzm4uFxU 

ARSO - Association de soutien à un référendum libre et régulier au Sahara Occidenta
https://www.arso.org/index.htm

Sahrawi Association in the USA
https://sahrawiusa.com/

Vice News: The Sahara's Forgotten War (Full Length)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju4WrjiJbGc

The Sahrawi art of resistance
https://emmausstockholm.se/the-sahrawi-art-of-resistance/ 

Spain switch to legitimizing the occupation
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2023/2/3/will-spains-new-position-on-western-sahara-make-a-difference 

Dirty green energy on occupied land
https://wsrw.org/en/news/renewable-energy 

Ex-MEP charged in EU corruption scandal admits links to Morocco
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/01/18/ex-mep-charged-in-eu-corruption-scandal-admits-links-to-qatar-morocco-lawyer-says

About phosphate and its role
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-desert-rock-that-feeds-the-world/508853/ 

About the Moroccan wall in Western Sahara
https://book.stopthewall.org/the-moroccan-wall-in-western-sahara-a-silent-crime/ 

Artwork by Manolo Mesa
flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/el_messa/ 
ig: @manolo_mesa

Music:  Sahara a pesar de las heridas, by Adel Larbi & P Solver
song: https://youtu.be/_LWhfOFt2K0   
ig: @adellarbipsk
yt: @graffandstuff8156

Ep. 032 — Struggle in Western Sahara: (p1) Betrayals and Colonial Plunder /w Jamal [EN]

KKED Remix ft Waziyatawin

Duminică, 21.10.2018, doi membri ai colectivului și-au anulat dulcele somn de dimineață ca să urce cu liftul cele 12 etaje ale Turnului de Fildeș al Capitalismului clujean și să ajungă pe la 10 fără 10 la emisiunea ”Matinal de week-end” cu Flaviu Petean, la EBS Radio Cluj.
Îi mulțumim lui Flaviu pentru ocazia aceasta!
[am editat noi ulterior înregistrarea, și am eliminat 15 minute de muzică]

Editura Pagini Libere la EBS Radio Cluj (21 .10.2018)

Jurnal De Furie - Pretinşii - Audiopoem de Alina Medoia

Lene radicală, lene intersecțională, lene antiautoritară. Podcastul de stânga pe care îl poți asculta când nu ai chef de nimic.

Ep. 032 — Struggle in Western Sahara: (p1) Betrayals and Colonial Plunder /w Jamal [EN]

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