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"For example, I think Google [NZ] pays out about 95-97% of all the revenue that it earns [in "service fees" to the parent company] ... and FaceBook would be very similar, Uber would be. The percentages vary, but it's most of it, in all cases."
#NickMiller, Tax Justice Aotearoa, 2025
https://www.1of200.nz/podcast/1200-s2e160-big-tech-better-taxes
#podcasts #1of200 #TaxJusticeAotearoa #DataFarms #TaxAvoidance #Google #FaceBook #Uber
"If you think about how quickly AI has ... taken over society, the advent of email took about 20 years to ... become what it is. Smartphones about 10 years. AI has ... ballooned in 2 years time."
#DanielBohan, Director, Layer3 Solutions, 2025
This comes across like timewave zero woo to me.
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"If you think about how quickly AI has ... taken over society, the advent of email took about 20 years to ... become what it is. Smartphones about 10 years. AI has ... ballooned in 2 years time."
#DanielBohan, Director, Layer3 Solutions, 2025
This comes across like timewave zero woo to me.
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🎃 🎧 Here's my updated list - Seven Podcasts for Spooky Season: https://lisawilliams.github.io/lisa/culture/2023/08/24/Five-Spooky-Podcasts.html #podcasts #halloween
🎃 🎧 Here's my updated list - Seven Podcasts for Spooky Season: https://lisawilliams.github.io/lisa/culture/2023/08/24/Five-Spooky-Podcasts.html #podcasts #halloween
"What isn't world music?"
https://accessmedia.nz/player?EID=2c7dbd05-682c-48c1-95fa-218427317f8d
The enshittification of commercial news media continues apace ...
"So you need human journalists. AI will not replace them. It might make one journalist do the work of 10, but you still need that journalist.
We're ... moving into a full newsroom based on AI."
#PeterFowler, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=4df8ef6b-aef5-4a92-9f6a-44a3d314ae09
*shudder* Oh the hubris. This is exactly the wrong way to use any kind of AI. But especially the current crop of Trained MOLEs.
'There are lots of podcasts, made by humans, that offer listeners original reporting...AI-generated podcasts can basically only offer a facsimile of that, cribbing the works of others to produce something vaguely passable.'
'There are lots of podcasts, made by humans, that offer listeners original reporting...AI-generated podcasts can basically only offer a facsimile of that, cribbing the works of others to produce something vaguely passable.'
"I will also point to the ... tremendous progress we've actually made on climate change. Even though it is so incredibly embedded in our economy ...
I mean, we would have been facing a 4° future by 2100, and we've turned that curve into a 3°. We'd like to make it 2° or 1 1/2°, I think we can get there."
#SusanSolomon, 2025
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-crisis-that-united-humanity-and-why-it-matters-for-ai
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"... the teaching the use of AI is really different from teaching how AI works. They're quite different subjects really
... how AI works is a classic STEM subject and we certainly need in our country people who know how to do that ... the use of AI is a much broader one ... it's an interdisciplinary subject ... I'm not sure whether it fits in one course ..."
#AlistairKnott, Professor of AI, Victoria University, 2025
I don't know if it will work on Discord, but I usually leave my accounts on DataFarms parked, with a Gone to Croatan note pointing to the fediverse, etc.
For context on "Gone to Croatan";
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/558-gone-to-croatan-by-hakim-bey
"... the point of this [enshittification] analysis isn't merely to give you a more technically-informed way to feel demoralised and furious about the state of the digital world. I wrote this book to propose a cure."
#CoryDoctorow, #Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, 2025
https://craphound.com/podcast/2025/08/28/enshittification-episode-500/
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As Tech Won't Save Us (@techwontsaveus) explained in their Data Vampires series, scAmazon doesn't want to build datacentres in Aotearoa to benefit us. It's a way of mining our country for cheap renewable energy, and cheap labour (remember the infamous "Mexicans with cellphones"?). Which they can then extract from the country in the form of dollars.
Their extractive logic was laid bare when our energy prices went up, and they massively scaled back their plans.
MediaWatch did a good segment on the datacentre-related reputation laundering by scAmazon and NatACT First, and its Useful Idiots in news media (notably Mike Hoskins);
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=18fdbc07-39b4-4deb-96ba-1d9809b54c6f
Once they've been prepared to deal with the spammers and griefers who infest any open network, they're ready to run their own social media. Ideally on a computer at their school, that they control, or at least one in a locally-owned datacentre in Aotearoa.
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"... basically, the rapid corporatisation of social media companies was driven by industry's fear of the ... early, freeform internet ... that they were just like;
'... we have lost control of the story. If there's just this giant, open public messaging machine, where people are just sharing stories and ideas willy-nilly, we don't get to control it!'.
I mean, that is the origin story of the social media industry as we know it."
#AmyWestervelt, 2021
https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-amy-westervelt-on-disinformation
"... I keep coming back to this feeling that we're existing on this very thin membrane over ... just an ocean of tears. And, I've got more courage to go there and touch it, but it's ... there's so much grief!"
#DouglasRushkoff ( @Rushkoff), 2025
"By leaving politics out [of the psychedelics movement] we just got co-opted by the worst of the worst. Same with the net, it's like we followed John Barlow; 'governments stay away, we don't need you', and it's like 'oh no, the corporations took over'."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/331-liana-gillooly
Barlow was responding to the kind of wrongheaded attempts at net regulation we've seen so many times recently; link taxes, youth bans, etc.
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"... I used to study medicine, I was training to be a doctor. But I couldn't actually afford my rent because it was London, so I had to work in marketing on the side. Then I started to really get into marketing to the point where I actually left medicine ..."
#AndrewTindall, System1, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-09-2025/the-fold-myths-and-truths-in-modern-advertising
His job could have been saving people's lives, but instead it's persuading them they want stuff. That's heartbreaking.
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did you know that podcasts uploaded to spotify are spotify-exclusive by default and don't have an RSS feed?
pretty sure most people don't know that, as i'm now trying to get one podcast that says they're "available on all podcast platforms" to realise they're actually not.
spotify is unbelievably harmful to the podcast ecosystem.
also it's not that good of a podcast app. you should ditch it.
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