Episodes

• Noah McCormack from The Baffler: "We used to read things in this country"

  Dec 8, 2025

• Amateur radio is a superpower: Thomas Witherspoon

  Dec 1, 2025

• Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers, feat. Pat Garofalo

  Nov 24, 2025

• How low can the tech oligarchs go?

  Nov 17, 2025

• Paul Mozur on the spread of data centers

  Nov 10, 2025

• Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data"

  Nov 3, 2025

• Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan Currell

  Oct 27, 2025

• Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the techno-Luddites

  Oct 20, 2025

• The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane

  Oct 13, 2025

• AI and surveillance keep spreading

  Oct 6, 2025

• Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream"

  Sep 29, 2025

• Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows"

  Sep 22, 2025

• Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (feat. Faine Greenwood)

  Sep 15, 2025

• Milestones for Big Tech... and Techtonic

  Sep 8, 2025

• Cory Doctorow, author and journalist

  Sep 1, 2025

• Webb Keane, author, "Animals, Robots, Gods"

  Aug 25, 2025

• If/Then/Else - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Brendan Keogh

  Aug 18, 2025

• Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever"

  Aug 11, 2025

• Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis"

  Aug 4, 2025

• Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth

  Jul 28, 2025

• Daniel Solove, author, "On Privacy and Technology"

  Jul 21, 2025

• Duncan Moench on "soylent screens" and producerism

  Jul 14, 2025

• Compulsory surveillance and other threats

  Jun 30, 2025

• Lori Emerson, author, "Other Networks"

  Jun 23, 2025

• Unveiling our new theme song by Kirk Pearson, and Big Tech alternatives

  Jun 16, 2025

• Matt Warwick fills in for Techtonic with Co-Host HurstBot

  Jun 9, 2025

• Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, authors, "The AI Con"

  Jun 2, 2025

• David Greenwood, author, "The Cloud Intern"

  May 26, 2025

• Surveillance scholar Chris Gilliard on Facebook's spy glasses

  May 19, 2025

• Discussing "Careless People" by Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams

  May 12, 2025

• Sybil Derrible, author, "The Infrastructure Book"

  May 5, 2025

• Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss dystopian movies

  Apr 28, 2025

• The Defunding of Public Radio with Jesse Walker, Uri Berliner and Sue Matters

  Apr 21, 2025

• John Warner, author, "More Than Words"

  Apr 14, 2025

• Sue-Lin Wong and online scams

  Apr 7, 2025

• Emergency surveillance update

  Mar 31, 2025

• Liz Pelly, author, "Mood Machine"

  Mar 24, 2025

• Ben Snyder, author, "Spy Plane"

  Mar 17, 2025

• Marathon week 2 w/cohost Matt Warwick

  Mar 10, 2025

• Marathon week 1 w/cohost station manager Ken Freedman

  Mar 3, 2025

• AI and the future of war – with "Flash Wars" director Daniel Wunderer

  Feb 24, 2025

• Nick Couldry, author, "The Space of the World"

  Feb 17, 2025

• August Lamm: you don't need a smartphone

  Feb 10, 2025

• Supervillains in tech – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin

  Feb 3, 2025

• Welcome to the oligarchy: on Big Tech's government takeover

  Jan 27, 2025

• Kirk Pearson, author, "Electronic Music From Scratch"

  Jan 20, 2025

• Stone carvers Chris Pellettieri and Arissa Ramoutar

  Jan 13, 2025

• Ken Freedman and Mark Hurst listen to AI

  Jan 6, 2025

• Andrew Smith, author, "Devil in the Stack"

  Dec 30, 2024

• Guest host Don Fleming: Musical Tech: Naughty or Nice?

  Dec 23, 2024