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.

In this episode, we talk about civic technology infrastructure.

In this episode, we talk about predictions for the new year.

In this episode, we talk about 2017.

In this episode, we talk about technology companies, monopolies, and net neutrality.

In this episode, we talk about 'infrastructural violence' and tech companies' inability to address what's happening on their platforms.

In this episode, we talk about tech journalism's failures to warn the public about tech's failures.

In this episode, we talk about Google's plans to 'revolutionize' Toronto.

In this episode, we talk about the repetitiveness of tech news.

In this episode, we talk about automated decision-making.

In this episode, we talk about fake news and natural disasters, Facebook and political advertising, and the Equifax data breach.

In this episode, we talk about how Google (and other tech companies) are reshaping public policy and the narratives about public education.

In this episode, we talk about the tech industry's response to Charlottesville and the future of 'free speech' online.

In this episode, we discuss the hype around Hyperloop and an anti-diversity manifesto written by a Google engineer.

In this episode, we discuss the state of IT (and, more generally, expertise) in the federal government.

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.

In this episode, we discuss Amazon Alexa and the skills gap.

In this episode, we discuss outsourcing technical infrastructure (to the Russians).

In this episode, we discuss Facebook censorship, fake news, harassment on Twitter, and harassment by tech investors.

In this episode, we discuss how tech companies use patents for storytelling and for lawsuits.

In this episode, we discuss Yahoo, Amazon, Uber, misogyny, and monopolies.

In this episode, we talk about Pinboard's acquisition of Delicious.

In this episode, we talk about terrorist attacks in Portland and Manchester, Facebook, Fox, and 'fake news.'

In this episode, we talk about WannaCry, information security and planned obsolescence, and democracy's (technological) vulnerabilities.

In this episode, we talk about net neutrality, content moderation, and phishing attacks.

In this episode, we talk about Audrey's decision to block annotations from her websites.

In this episode, we talk about brain implants, expeditions to Mars, Planned Parenthood as startup, and other technological, ideological nightmares.

In this episode, we talk about data security, advertising as a hack, psychological manipulation, and information literacy.

In this episode, we talk about democracy versus platforms.

In this episode, we talk about information security while traveling.

In this episode, we talk about Trump's budget proposal, federal technology initiatives, microwave opens as spyware, and other lies about technology's capabilities.

In this episode, we talk about machine learning and machine intelligence and the future of human knowledge.

In this episode, we talk about wiretapping and greyballing.

In this episode, we talk about venture capital, data collection, and the narratives Silicon Valley tells to justify its existence.

In this episode, we talk about the history of the Doomsday Clock.

In this episode, we talk about Trump, immigration, and technology.

In this +1 episode, we talk about the history of the chat bot.

In this episode, we talk about alternative facts, fascism, and information literacy.

In this +1 episode, we talk about the history of the punch card..

In this episode, we talk about Alexa and the commercialization of home surveillance.

In this episode, we talk about Russian hacking, Twitter harassment, and Facebook versus the public sphere.

In this episode, we talk about technology and the new year.

In this episode, we talk about nuclear weapons, military technology, home automation, and the return of the worst of the Eighties.

In this episode, we talk about libertarian futurist fantasies, regulatory mechanisms, and the schadenfreude of watching tech CEOs squirm and grovel in Trump Tower.

In this episode, we talk about misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, the Russians, and digital polarization.

In this episode, we talk about the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Ghost Ship fire, and Cambridge Analytica.

In this episode, we talk about Betsy DeVos, Trump's choice for Secretary of Education and continue our discussion of fake news and Facebook.

In this episode, we talk about fake news, Facebook, and propaganda.

In this episode, we talk about Trump, totalitarianism, swamps, and how we are going to build anti-fascist technologies and communities moving forward.

In this episode, we talk about email, predictions about the future of technology, Presidents, and literacy.