web02.fireside.fm Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:49 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Cats” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/cats Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:00:00 -0500 here at the HACKS Initiative we ask the questions everyone else is too shook to: what is technology? why is everything so bad? what's my passphrase again? how do I get the header image to work? is the NSA agent watching me through my webcam my friend? en-us episodic doggedly zeroing in on the intersection of technology, politics, and culture simon/maral/robert/rosemary here at the HACKS Initiative we ask the questions everyone else is too shook to: what is technology? why is everything so bad? what's my passphrase again? how do I get the header image to work? is the NSA agent watching me through my webcam my friend? yes technology, politics, leftism, cats, pop culture, dumbasses, cryptocurrency simon/maral/robert/rosemary suckerblues@gmail.com episode 010: future's so right I gotta wear shades https://www.hacks.fm/episode-010-future-so-right 2fdd9886-52cf-4d4d-8d11-8d3c6d4e4c85 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:00:00 -0500 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary can our social media platforms be disentangled from the reactionary right? plus, a grim survey of "alt-tech" social media platforms... 53:19 yes <p>the rise of neo-fascist Bolsonaro in Brazil prompted a new wave of relection on the role of major social media apps and networks in aiding and abetting the last few years of reactionary political movements around the world. to what extent is technology itself wagging the dog on this issue? the whole gang is here to try to parse it out, along with pondering how opposing sides of the political spectrum use these tools differently.</p> <p>song at the end: arizona dranes, "lamb's blood has washed me clean" </p> alt right, fascism, social media, class war, guillotines, cats, podcast the rise of neo-fascist Bolsonaro in Brazil prompted a new wave of relection on the role of major social media apps and networks in aiding and abetting the last few years of reactionary political movements around the world. to what extent is technology itself wagging the dog on this issue? the whole gang is here to try to parse it out, along with pondering how opposing sides of the political spectrum use these tools differently.

song at the end: arizona dranes, "lamb's blood has washed me clean"

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song at the end: arizona dranes, "lamb's blood has washed me clean"

]]> episode 001: welcome to the interrortron https://www.hacks.fm/episode-1 755e91c3-453c-4ae9-afae-cd8877df9c44 Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:00:00 -0400 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary on wealthsimple, "ethical investing," and weaponizing errol morris. 39:21 yes <p>in our first episode, the gang ponders the promise and mission of Wealthsimple, the robo-advisor company selling you "ethical investing" without the pesky need to talk to actual humans, and whose spiffy ads recruit errol morris, various celebrities, and a seven-year old. we also pitch our counter-app and lay out the HACKS initiative's own mission. </p> wealthsimple, investing, robo-advisors, anarchy, cats, documentary in our first episode, the gang ponders the promise and mission of Wealthsimple, the robo-advisor company selling you "ethical investing" without the pesky need to talk to actual humans, and whose spiffy ads recruit errol morris, various celebrities, and a seven-year old. we also pitch our counter-app and lay out the HACKS initiative's own mission.

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