web02.fireside.fm Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:18:52 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Hq2” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/hq2 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -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 012: hq2 pt. ii — the search for shatner https://www.hacks.fm/episode-012-hq2-part-2 777c8b7e-d533-4fa8-9bd3-392df2d35d92 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0500 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary we return to the amazon well to ponder the specifics of both the winning and losing bids, before wondering what people are after when they talk about "nationalizing amazon" 1:04:48 yes a big news week demands a supersized episode, so the hacks reassemble (once again missing Rosemary, present only in digital spirit form) to properly tackle the bidding process for Amazon's HQ2, which this past week set its final "winning" locations as long island, virginia, as well as an extra facility in nashville. what does this expensive campaigning process mean for public-private relations in our highly neoliberalized present? which city debased themselves the most, to noo particular end? is it even possible to imagine a repurposed "nationalized"Amazon doing us any good? all this and less on our longest episode to date. song at the end: the replacements, "customer" amazon, hq2, nerd shit, oppression olympics, urban planning, failed thought experiments, jeff bezos, more like jeff bozos am i right a big news week demands a supersized episode, so the hacks reassemble (once again missing Rosemary, present only in digital spirit form) to properly tackle the bidding process for Amazon's HQ2, which this past week set its final "winning" locations as long island, virginia, as well as an extra facility in nashville. what does this expensive campaigning process mean for public-private relations in our highly neoliberalized present? which city debased themselves the most, to noo particular end? is it even possible to imagine a repurposed "nationalized"Amazon doing us any good? all this and less on our longest episode to date.

song at the end: the replacements, "customer"

]]> a big news week demands a supersized episode, so the hacks reassemble (once again missing Rosemary, present only in digital spirit form) to properly tackle the bidding process for Amazon's HQ2, which this past week set its final "winning" locations as long island, virginia, as well as an extra facility in nashville. what does this expensive campaigning process mean for public-private relations in our highly neoliberalized present? which city debased themselves the most, to noo particular end? is it even possible to imagine a repurposed "nationalized"Amazon doing us any good? all this and less on our longest episode to date.

song at the end: the replacements, "customer"

]]> episode 003: shade runner 2018 https://www.hacks.fm/episode-003-shade-runner-2018 d203a057-08fd-4a9e-848b-7cfd092fe201 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:15:00 -0400 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary simon and rosemary go on a field trip and the Initiative measures the value of "smart cities" and a potential new Amazon headquarters. 43:38 yes in the first HACKS initiative field report, simon and rosemary go to a public consultation for Sidewalk Labs, Google/Alpahbet's "smart city" project for toronto's quayside area. this leads us to ponder the value and meaning of "smart cities" in general. in another topic we're sure to revisit, we also take stock of Amazon's campaign to make every major (and not so major) city in north america debase itself in the hopes of becoming the home of their second headquarters, or as you may know it, "HQ2." hq2 critic Bianca Wylie on Medium: https://medium.com/@biancawylie the song at the end is "tech bro" by Childbirth amazon, google, alphabet, sidewalk labs, podcast, hq2, savory snacks in the first HACKS initiative field report, simon and rosemary go to a public consultation for Sidewalk Labs, Google/Alpahbet's "smart city" project for toronto's quayside area. this leads us to ponder the value and meaning of "smart cities" in general. in another topic we're sure to revisit, we also take stock of Amazon's campaign to make every major (and not so major) city in north america debase itself in the hopes of becoming the home of their second headquarters, or as you may know it, "HQ2."

hq2 critic Bianca Wylie on Medium: https://medium.com/@biancawylie

the song at the end is "tech bro" by Childbirth

]]> in the first HACKS initiative field report, simon and rosemary go to a public consultation for Sidewalk Labs, Google/Alpahbet's "smart city" project for toronto's quayside area. this leads us to ponder the value and meaning of "smart cities" in general. in another topic we're sure to revisit, we also take stock of Amazon's campaign to make every major (and not so major) city in north america debase itself in the hopes of becoming the home of their second headquarters, or as you may know it, "HQ2."

hq2 critic Bianca Wylie on Medium: https://medium.com/@biancawylie

the song at the end is "tech bro" by Childbirth

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