web01.fireside.fm Thu, 07 May 2026 22:54:45 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Technology” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/technology Thu, 10 Jan 2019 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 015: the 2020 holographic apology tour https://www.hacks.fm/episode-015-were-sorry-were-trying-to-delete-it 1379152f-fa89-470c-b34e-71b898e18802 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:00:00 -0500 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary in an ill-advised attempt at combining humor and prognostication, the gang looks back on 2019, the strangest year in our living memory 35:29 yes <p>we decided that a regular prediction episode was too normal and boring and played out so we tried a different thing and we promise not to do it again next year, also we're back, also we're very sorry for this</p> <p>song at the end: suuns, "2020" </p> try standup why don't you, futurism, technology, politics, profit, podcast we decided that a regular prediction episode was too normal and boring and played out so we tried a different thing and we promise not to do it again next year, also we're back, also we're very sorry for this

song at the end: suuns, "2020"

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song at the end: suuns, "2020"

]]> episode 004: cops and LAN go hand in hand https://www.hacks.fm/episode-4-robocops 7758e71e-9aba-4a3a-bc21-a09a61fb5856 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 08:00:00 -0400 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary two recent examples of local police departments going buck wild with new technologies, and we tackle the open source community's relationship with ICE. 47:08 yes <p>here at the HACKS initiative, if there's one thing we love, it's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiHftejWSvU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">our cops</a>! but sometimes they do things that freak us out a bit, like when they adopt "pre-crime" measures and surveil us without our knowledge or consent. we take a quick look at two new-ish technologies that aim to do both of those things, as well as diving into the recent controversy that struck the open source dev community when some developers took issue with Microsoft's dalliance with the US's Immigrations Customs and Enforcement division, better known as ICE.</p> <p>I'm sorry about all the editing jokes.</p> <p>the TIME story on shotspotter: <a href="http://time.com/4951192/shots-fired-shotspotter/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://time.com/4951192/shots-fired-shotspotter/</a></p> law enforcement, podcast, technology, satire, robocop here at the HACKS initiative, if there's one thing we love, it's our cops! but sometimes they do things that freak us out a bit, like when they adopt "pre-crime" measures and surveil us without our knowledge or consent. we take a quick look at two new-ish technologies that aim to do both of those things, as well as diving into the recent controversy that struck the open source dev community when some developers took issue with Microsoft's dalliance with the US's Immigrations Customs and Enforcement division, better known as ICE.

I'm sorry about all the editing jokes.

the TIME story on shotspotter: http://time.com/4951192/shots-fired-shotspotter/

]]> here at the HACKS initiative, if there's one thing we love, it's our cops! but sometimes they do things that freak us out a bit, like when they adopt "pre-crime" measures and surveil us without our knowledge or consent. we take a quick look at two new-ish technologies that aim to do both of those things, as well as diving into the recent controversy that struck the open source dev community when some developers took issue with Microsoft's dalliance with the US's Immigrations Customs and Enforcement division, better known as ICE.

I'm sorry about all the editing jokes.

the TIME story on shotspotter: http://time.com/4951192/shots-fired-shotspotter/

]]> 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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