Episodios

  • Episode 008: Education and Surveillance Before and During Covid-19

    Episode 008: Education and Surveillance Before and During Covid-19
    Feb 14 2022
    Show Notes

    Music by Angelo Garcia. You can find him on Facebook and Instagram on @agsilver.music.

    Read about CIA data collection here https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senators-cia-has-secret-program-that-collects-american-data/2022/02/10/017b6932-8ad8-11ec-838f-0cfdf69cce3c_story.html


    As schools went online during COVID-19, they implemented more surveillance on students’ online activity https://archive.ph/cH74P. But this is not new! See here https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/first-circuit-affirms-schools-punishment-students-online-social-media-posts and here https://www.computerworld.com/article/2521075/pennsylvania-schools-spying-on-students-using-laptop-webcams--claims-lawsuit.html . It also happens “offline”. Finally, read about student surveillance in higher ed here. https://archive.ph/gZ9Hj

    Surveilling educators for ideas that challenge white supremacy and U.S. empire is also not new. Read about its long history here. https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/01/history-of-spying-on-teachers.html
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    53 m
  • Episode 007: Crisis Shame Line: Profit, Mental Health & Data Do Not Mix

    Episode 007: Crisis Shame Line: Profit, Mental Health & Data Do Not Mix
    Jan 31 2022
    Rae and Chris discuss the breaking news in Politico on Friday that Crisis Text Line is selling information to an AI-based customer service company that they are also an investor in.

    Read Hannah Zeavin’s excellent piece on the origins of hotlines as a third option, distinct from psychiatric and police intervention: http://somatosphere.net/2020/the-third-choice-suicide-hotlines-psychiatry-and-the-police.html/

    We found Zeavin’s essay from Jack Poulson’s very informative Twitter thread on Crisis Text Line. Read the whole thing here: https://twitter.com/_jack_poulson/status/1487128251319341063

    The NY TImes article Chris mentioned on Deanonymization: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html

    Finally, here is Politico’s feature on CLT and Loris.ai: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-silicon-valley-privacy-debates-00002617

    PeerPride is at PeerPride.org.
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    39 m
  • Episode 006: Web 3: Same Oppressions, New Technology

    Episode 006: Web 3: Same Oppressions, New Technology
    Jan 17 2022
    Episode 6 is here! After a month hiatus, we're back with a new theme song and some thoughts on "Web 3"

    Thanks to Angelo Garcia for writing and producing our soundtrack! He takes commissions. Follow him on Facebook and Instagram @agsilver.music
    Yesterweb’s detailed breakdown of Web3 can be found here: https://yesterweb.org/no-to-web3/index.html
    Read Moxie Marlinspike's (Signal creator) blog post on Web3: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
    You can read Molly White’s post, criticizing the idea that it’s still “early days” for Web3 here:
    https://blog.mollywhite.net/its-not-still-the-early-days/
    Rebekah Bastian’s Forbes article on work and Web3: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2021/12/22/2022-prediction-the-influence-of-web3-on-the-future-of-work/?sh=5f1c183c4ce4
    Here’s that Medium article on Web3 and “Self-Sovereign Healthcare”:
    https://medium.com/@moosechris/self-sovereign-healthcare-27b2b47e4fb6
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    55 m
  • Episode 5: I don't care about Jack

    Episode 5: I don't care about Jack
    Dec 6 2021
    Chris and Rae talk about how Jack Dorsey is stepping down as Twitter's CEO (for the second time!) and what impacts it will - or won't - have for users and workers. We also discussed the general culture around CEOs, the Founder Myth, and why it is that Dorsey can be CEO of two companies at the same time but we can't work for two companies in the same 8-hour shift.
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    32 m
  • Episode 4: The Affective Labor of Facebook Moderators

    Episode 4: The Affective Labor of Facebook Moderators
    Nov 22 2021
    Co-host Rae Jereza discusses their recent paper, "Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good" looking at the situations of content moderators working for Facebook. Hidden behind the app's Report button, often working for subcontractors and not Facebook itself, the stories and struggles of content moderators go largely unnoticed.

    Sometimes likened to first responders or called "custodians of the Internet", Rae argues that they are only custodians if we see them as "working in radioactive environments... as they absorb the ills and contradictions of liberal democratic society: they carry their effects and are 'haunted' by them"
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    45 m
  • Episode 3: Security is Political

    Episode 3: Security is Political
    Nov 15 2021
    Rae and Chris talk about what a 0-day vulnerability is and why you should care, the NSO group being used to attack Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations, why tech companies don't take security more seriously -- and a lot more.

    Rae on Twitter: @raraeraeza
    Chris on Twitter: @cmg
    Tech for the People: @techfortheppl on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

    Rae's article: Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good - If you have institutional access, you can find it at Wiley Online or through your academic institution’s library https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1469-8676.13106

    Elinor Carmi’s book Media Distortions (Open Access!): https://media-distortions.net/

    Sarah T. Roberts’ book on commercial content moderation, Behind the Screen: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235883/behind-screen

    Kim Zetter, Countdown to Zero Day: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/219931/countdown-to-zero-day-by-kim-zetter/

    Front Line Defenders - Six Palestinian human rights defenders hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement-report/statement-targeting-palestinian-hrds-pegasus
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    44 m
  • Episode 2: Online Shopping is Not the Problem. Plus, How Big Tech Fails the Working Class!

    Episode 2: Online Shopping is Not the Problem. Plus, How Big Tech Fails the Working Class!
    Nov 8 2021
    There's a global supply chain crisis, but is it really our online shopping to blame? And, how is it impacting chip production?
    Plus, the FBI uses public social media posts to jail an antifascist activist to 44 months, and more!
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    40 m
  • Episode 1: Into the Metaverse?

    Episode 1: Into the Metaverse?
    Nov 1 2021
    Chris Garaffa and Rae Jereza kick off The Reboot with a discussion on the metaverse. What exactly is this dystopian future that Mark Zuckerberg has been hyping? How will it impact social media users, content moderators and communities? We talk that and more.
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    35 m