fresh audio product: AI, Zinn

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 10, 2026 Garrison Lovely, author of Obsolete, on the terrors and possible promise of AI • Dave Zirin on Howard Zinn, the subject of his new biography

Everybody hates data centers, and they don’t even create many jobs

The president, ignoring the polls that show data centers to be enormously unpopular across the political spectrum, is pushing them because he sees them as essential to “beating” China and also as great economic stimuli. As Politico put it, “The bright spot in construction is increasingly data centers, not the factories Trump promised through his push to reshore manufacturing.” Or “let Data Reign,” as he put it, with his unique capitalization practice. As one former administration official told the outlet, “Trump is married to data centers no matter what because it’s the… Read More

Fresh audio product: AI, Ukraine

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 13, 2026 Jodi Dean, who has a new Substack on the issue, on why AI is so terrible • Anatol Lieven on the bloody stalemate that is the Russia–Ukraine war (Sidecar piece here)

fresh audio product: DSA’s new platform, why we fear AI

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 23, 2026 Michaela Brangan, co-chair of the group that wrote DSA’s new platform, on that document • Hagen Blix, co-author of Why We Fear AI, on exactly that

Fresh audio product: the Epstein gang, AI, mass incarceration

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 26, 2026 Tessa West on the social dynamics that kept the Epstein gang together • Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires, on AI • Wanda Bertram on the costs of mass incarceration (report here)

Fresh audio product: Zohran and the cops, the lies of AI

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 31, 2025 Alex Vitale on Zohran Mamdani, the NYPD, and policing generally (Nation article here) • Dwayne Monroe on the AI mania

Fresh audio product: Israeli uprising and AI

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 30, 2023 writer and political adviser Nimrod Flaschenberg discusses the popular uprising in Israel against Bibi’s reactionary government • software engineer Dwayne Monroe revisits the (useful) hype around ChatGPT

fresh audio product: behind the AI hype, Brazil as Lula returns

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 9, 2023 software engineer Dwayne Monroe on the reality behind the hype around ChatGPT (and the sinister implications of AI) • political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho on Brazil’s political landscape as Lula returns to the presidency

fresh audio product: factions on the right, AI hype

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 22, 2022 Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles • Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism

Fresh audio product

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 16, 2021 Dave Zirin, author of The Kaepernick Effect, on how taking a knee spread across the country (and why leftists shouldn’t hate sports) • Dwayne Monroe, cloud data architect and author of this piece, disassembles the hype around artificial intelligence