web02.fireside.fm Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:00:07 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Fascism” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/fascism Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:00:00 -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 016: the algorithmic eldritch odyssey https://www.hacks.fm/adventures-in-youtube-horror-call-mother-tell-her-im-never-coming-home 1ad83677-0a25-40de-93ce-fe582983dc0a Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:00:00 -0500 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary what do thomas the tank engine, QAnon, ben shapiro, fancy desserts, """fun pranks"", time travel, ghosts, and the secret service have in common? you'll wish you never found out. 1:01:13 yes <p>the HACKS initiative blodly goes where no podcast has before: deep into the dark heart of The Algorithm. specifically, we're conducting a sadistic game/experiment to find out just how youtube ticks, following a rash of recent complaints about the service spitting out some rather strange (and notably conservative and conspiratorial) material seemingly unprompted. what we discovered........shook us to our core.</p> <p>song at the end: enh, we stole this from a qanon podcast who gives a shit? come get us motherfuckers, we'll be waiting on the other side of the rainbow </p> youtube, horrors beyond belief, qanon, the storm, pranks, food is bae, time travel, thomas the tank engine, fascism, ben shapiro, treats the HACKS initiative blodly goes where no podcast has before: deep into the dark heart of The Algorithm. specifically, we're conducting a sadistic game/experiment to find out just how youtube ticks, following a rash of recent complaints about the service spitting out some rather strange (and notably conservative and conspiratorial) material seemingly unprompted. what we discovered........shook us to our core.

song at the end: enh, we stole this from a qanon podcast who gives a shit? come get us motherfuckers, we'll be waiting on the other side of the rainbow

]]> the HACKS initiative blodly goes where no podcast has before: deep into the dark heart of The Algorithm. specifically, we're conducting a sadistic game/experiment to find out just how youtube ticks, following a rash of recent complaints about the service spitting out some rather strange (and notably conservative and conspiratorial) material seemingly unprompted. what we discovered........shook us to our core.

song at the end: enh, we stole this from a qanon podcast who gives a shit? come get us motherfuckers, we'll be waiting on the other side of the rainbow

]]> 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"

]]> 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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