Name: UNLOCKED: DARPA Marx by TrueAnon
Duration: 1 h 33 min 19 s
Description: Brace and Liz are joined by Ben Tarnoff, founding editor of Logic Magazine (http://logicmag.io), to figure out what the hell is going on with this internet business.

That's right... compensation for data is a "capitalist critique"

There are plenty of feminists who support porn and sex work. I think your problem is more with Capitalist porn.

If you are interested in this topic then I highly recommend reading Yasha Levine's book, Surveillance Valley: the Secret Military History of the Internet

It's pretty fucking obvious how data is labor. A bot gathering data is a machine, so it dosn't produce value, only multiplies value produced by a human. The bot gathering data IS the labor, hence the person technically "doing" the labor is the person who maintains the bot. E-Z-P-Z. It's pretty cut and dried imho. Saying that you are doing labor by "creating" data through behavior is like saying a sheep is doing labor when you sheer it.

....Which is why Artificial Intelligence research moved more toward computers or programs that could guide weapons (missiles, robot aircraft, robot tanks, etc.) rather than building a machine that could truly emulate a person. This is why HAL 9000 never emerged before 2001 but we have long-distance cruise missiles. Evil won.

Space X is just an extension of how the US allowed private aviation build the fighters, bombers, trainers, observation aircraft, and transport aircraft for its military air forces. We have never truly had a totally state-manufactured space vehicle and now that they are pushing for privatized space travel, having it go that way is deeply embedded into how the US explores/exploits outer space.

We talk with venerated musician John Vanderslice (instagram.com/johnvanderslice) and our own Yung Chomsky about the life of a working musician, the transformation of San Francisco, and the making of our upcoming podcast series Keep the Dream Alive.

Episode 202: Life and Death of an American Fourtracker

“Follow The Data” is the name of a Bloomberg Philanthropies podcast that debuted 2016. “How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing,” a 2018 NPR headline read. “Data suggests that schools might be one of the least risky kinds of institutions to reopen,” an opinion piece in The Washington Post told us in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Over the last 20 or so years, a trend of labeling concepts as “data-driven” emerged. It applied, and continues to apply, to policies affecting everything from education to public health, policing to journalism. Decisions affecting these areas will be more thoughtful, the idea goes, when informed and supported by data. In many ways, this has been a welcome development: The idea that a rigorously scientific collection of information via surveys, observation, and other methods would make policies and media stronger seems unimpeachable.

But this isn’t always the case. While gathering “data” is a potentially beneficial process, the process alone isn’t inherently good, and is too often used to obscure important and requisite value-based or moral questions, assert contested ideological priors and traffic in right-wing austerity premises backed by monied interests. When our media tell us a largely unpopular, billionaire-backed idea like school privatization, “targeted” policing, or tax incentive handouts to corporations have merit they’re backed by “the data,” what purpose does this framing serve? Where does the data come from? Who is funding the data gathering? What data are we choosing to care about and, most important of all, what data are we choosing to ignore?

On today’s episode, we’ll look at the development of the push to make everything data-driven, examining who defines what counts as “data,” which forces shape its sourcing and collection, and how the fetishization of “data” as something that exists outside and separate from politics is more often than not, less a methodology for determining truth and more a branding exercise for neoliberal ideological production and reproduction. 

Later on the show, we’ll be speaking with two guests: Abigail Cartus is an epidemiologist at Brown University. She focuses on perinatal health and overdose prevention in her work at The People, Place & Health Collective, a Brown School of Public Health research laboratory.

Episode 162: How the "Data-Driven" Label Sanitizes Cruel Austerity Politics

Accompanied by Arnold from Fight Like an Animal, we head once more Into the Enemy Camp, returning to the work of one Theodore John Kaczynski. This time we examine his guide for revolutionary action: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How.

#149 - In the Enemy Camp: Uncle Ted’s Bogus Journey w/ Arnold

We are joined by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin – authors of the excellent new book Chokepoint Capitalism – to discuss how creative labor markets are tightly squeezed on all sides by massive monopolies / monopsonies that create chokepoints to trap suppliers, trap consumers, and trap all the profits in markets for books, music, movies, and every other artistic endeavour. Cory and Rebecca then detail a long list of tactics and solutions for breaking the capitalist stranglehold over cultural production. 

••• Follow Cory: https://twitter.com/doctorow
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••• Buy the book: http://www.beacon.org/Chokepoint-Capitalism-P1856.aspx
••• Support the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/chokepoint-capitalism-an-audiobook-amazon-wont-sell

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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

194  – Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (ft. Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow)

Patreon only: Jeff Sachs on Anthony Fauci and the lab leak theory. https://www.patreon.com/posts/75690871

Jeff Sachs talks about the proxy war in Ukraine and how the West provoked Russia. Norman Solomon talks about the "Don't Run, Joe" campaign, why Biden 2024 would be a "disaster," and the danger of corporate Democrats.

Jeff Sachs is an economist, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network. 

Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, author, activist and is co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. His latest book, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine," will be published by The New Press in June 2023.

For the rest of the discussion with Jeffrey Sachs, to receive bonus content, support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow

Jeff Sachs On Ukraine Proxy War & Norman Solomon on 'Don't Run, Joe'

We talk with Jefferson Morley about the latest developments in the JFK assassination—specifically the documents which were released in part yesterday, Thursday the 15th of December. Unsurprisingly, the CIA is still withholding many documents, after 59 years and counting.

Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. His latest book is Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate. Some of his other books include The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton and Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.

Follow and support Jefferson Morley’s work at JFK Facts.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange

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Episode 92: What is the CIA Hiding About Lee Oswald? w/Jefferson Morley

Brace and Liz are joined by Ben Tarnoff, founding editor of Logic Magazine (http://logicmag.io), to figure out what the hell is going on with this internet business.

UNLOCKED: DARPA Marx

We take a detailed look at the career of Elizabeth Warren, granddaughter of a white man who murdered an unarmed Native American in 1906

Episode 37: Sounds About White

TrueAnon talks DNC machinations of years past, shallow state & media psy-ops, and reminds our listeners about the psychotic vampires who are out for blood and treasure

UNLOCKED! Episode 38: Demonrats

With Mr Market in a manic episode, we sit down to splain exactly what happened last week, what the hell Robinhood is up to and finally answer the question: what is the stock market

Episode 134: Freakanomics

We talk about McKinsey’s recent settlement over its role in the opioid crisis, the history of heroin, the Sackler family and Perdue Pharmaceuticals, and all the sickos making bank getting you and your family high as shit

Marketing of Oxycontin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/

History of Oxycontin told through Purdue docs: https://www.statnews.com/2019/12/03/oxycontin-history-told-through-purdue-pharma-documents/

Oxycontin Crusade: https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/22/abbott-oxycontin-crusade/

Episode 138: OC 80

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