web01.fireside.fm Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:57:21 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://www.hacks.fm/tags/silicon%20valley Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:00:00 -0400 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 https://www.hacks.fm/minisode-001 90d5b0fd-f454-4c24-9bc7-3dc0531d7691 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:00:00 -0400 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary On a quick stopgap episode, we ponder "tech centrism" aka "solutionism" and the myth of Silicon Valley as the land of solutions. 19:57 yes <p>We didn't have time to do a full court press this week, so a slightly diminished gang quickly assembled to dive deep on a narrowed topic (or at least that was the plan). On our first "minisode", Rob, Simon and Rosemary tackle the polite centrism of Ezra Klein and the "solutionism" a specific tweet of his describes. We touch on labour laws/organizing, Nike's image rehabilitation, union busting, and more. </p> silicon valley, tech, podcast, politics We didn't have time to do a full court press this week, so a slightly diminished gang quickly assembled to dive deep on a narrowed topic (or at least that was the plan). On our first "minisode", Rob, Simon and Rosemary tackle the polite centrism of Ezra Klein and the "solutionism" a specific tweet of his describes. We touch on labour laws/organizing, Nike's image rehabilitation, union busting, and more.

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