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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on June 23, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • One Person One Price

  • AI can’t fix what automation already broke

  • Inside the ‘shocking’ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto

  • Killed By A Traffic Engineer w/ Wes Marshall

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Live Show: Student Organizers Breakdown Media Distortions Over Gaza College Encampments

  • Understanding the real threat generative AI poses to our jobs

  • Silence from prominent left outlets continues as mask bans spread

  • Dark PR

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on June 9, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • The Rot-Com Bubble

  • Canada’s class war pantomime

  • Federal McKinsey contracts are a symptom of neoliberal decay

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on June 2, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Podcast: Why Google Is Shit Now

  • Taking On a Grocery Empire: Understanding the Loblaw Boycott

  • Why the housing crisis is not an immigration problem

  • Public service unions leading fightback against feds’ remote work policy

  • The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on May 26, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Tech’s Plan to ‘Ethnically Cleanse’ San Francisco

  • Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit

  • Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza

  • Stolen Focus

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on May 19, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers’ Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season

  • Episode 201: The Conservative, Faux-Erudite Rise of Nuance Trolling

  • CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand

  • Pundits regularly attacked pharmacare without disclosing Big Pharma ties

  • For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on May 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Canada’s Exploited Foreign Workers Program

  • Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri)

  • Complicated Sticks

  • Paydirt E1: It’s not easy being green

  • Paydirt E2: Bees, stags, does and Vegas

  • Paydirt E3: Margaritaville

  • Crush!

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on May 5, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Capital Gains Taxes: What Are They and Why Are Canada’s Ultra Rich Freaking Out?

  • Precaratize Bosses

  • Managing Up

  • The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues”

  • Amazon Flex Drivers Are Constantly at Risk

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on April 28, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • AI really is smoke and mirrors

  • The Man Who Killed Google Search

  • AI Is Poisoning Reddit

  • Boycott or not, Canadians are paying for Galen Weston’s castle

  • Capitalists Hate Capitalism

  • Walkable City Rules

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on April 21, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”

  • Why the world cannot afford the rich

  • They’re Looting The Internet

  • AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on April 14, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Bubble Trouble

  • Elon Musk is elevating the global extreme right

  • Charities Are Paying Student Journalists For ‘Pro-Israel Content’

  • Hush Hush in Wilmot (pt. 1)

  • Don’t Be Fooled: Much “AI” is Just Outsourcing, Redux

  • Recoding America

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on April 7, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 29 - How LLMS Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao)

  • How the tax industry is keeping automatic filing out of reach

  • In the Shadow of Silicon Valley

  • Palantir: International Tech Despot

  • NYTimes invents increasingly bizarre explanations for pandemic-era student absence crisis

  • Pandemic-Era Corporate Bullying

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 31, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Rich Idiots Are Killing The Media To Please The Tech Industry

  • The Shaky Science of License Plate Readers

  • Episode 200 - The Rise of the War on Drugs 2.0: This Time It’s Different, We Promise

  • The changing face of protest

  • Benjamin Herold: The Unraveling of America’s Suburbs

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 24, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • The tide is turning against OpenAI

  • Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy

  • How Growth Is Killing Tech’s Innovation, ft. Robert Evans

  • Have We Reached Peak AI?

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 17, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Silicon Valley Deserves Your Anger

  • The Stories Corporations Tell

  • Tim Burke’s Indictment Is A Political Choice Disguised As A Legal Act

  • Living with Self-Driving Cars (with Bike Curious) The Urbanist Agenda

  • The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power

  • Gigs, Hustles, & Temps

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 10, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • How I became a tech critic

  • Amazon’s Big Secret

  • The digital revolution has failed

  • Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control

  • Paved Paradise

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on March 3, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Money Bubble

  • Practico-inertia

  • Software Has Eaten The Media

  • Unmitigated COVID is overwhelming hospital systems- globally

  • Eugenics is Back: In a range of new flavors

  • ‘Abuse of power’: Hospitals, med schools crack down on Palestine advocacy

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 25, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • How I Got Scammed

  • The AI series: AI and Surveillance Capitalism | Studio B: Unscripted

  • Subprime Intelligence

  • The Cult of AI

  • Cars are (REALLY) Expensive! (with RMTransit)

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 18, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • Narrow Lanes Save Lives

  • Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated

  • The high cost of Uber’s small profit

  • Let’s not do this again, please

  • Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 26 - Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype (feat. Chris Gilliard)

  • Why We Can’t Build Better Cities (ft. Not Just Bikes)

  • Unmasking AI

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on February 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

  • What Are Intellectuals Good For?

  • Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs

  • The Limits of Basic Income

  • Channeling Curiosity

  • AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.

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