#1550 Red States, Where Democracy Goes to Die and Terrible Legislation is Born
Air Date: 3–21-2023
Today, we take a look at how GOP-controlled states are subverting democracy with a form of "competitive autocracy" and some of the horrifying legislation these states then pass after they are no longer subject to the opinions of the general public.
Read more#1549 Fox News is worse than we imagined or: they all knew they were lying
Air Date: 3–18-2023
Today, we take a look at how Fox News is being exposed as the alleged liars-for-pay we always suspected they were by the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems.
Read more#1548 The War on Woke Pits the GOP Against Their Usual Allies in Big Business
Air Date: 3–14-2023
Today, we take a look at the rise of "woke capitalism" as the cudgel now being wielded against any corporations who dare to seek profits by appealing to the majority of potential customers who prefer progressive social positions to that of Republicans.
Read more#1547 Shaping the Future of the Internet
Air Date: 3–8-2023
Today, we take a look at some of the emerging elements of technology and regulation that will likely shape the next era of the internet and our relationship to it. For today, these will include synthetic relationships with artificial intelligence, fake audio and video virtually indistinguishable from reality that will facilitate disinformation, reinterpreting Section 230 for a new era of internet content and the ongoing struggle to regulate social media platforms.
Read more#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity
Air Date: 3–4-2023
Today, we tell a story of colonialism, dispossession and cultural renaissance as a lens through which to understand alienation, a primary condition of modernity
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