One of my favorite Technology critics has just published a novel about Self Driving cars (or fake self driving cars) We talk about her new book, and the hidden human worker nestled in our technologica

Today we live inside data systems that contain, surveil, and judge us. In his new book, the Hank Show, author and journalist McKenzie Funk provides us with a totally unique origin story of our world:

Too good to be true remix

Citizens armed only with Molotov cocktails battle with Russian tanks on the streets of Budapest. In November of 1956 Russian troops invaded Hungary. The revolution was crushed and thousands of Hunga

The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length sad stories: Before Dylan there was Connie Converse and then she disappeared. In his new book To Anyone Who

We hear from two photographers who are masters at showing us what is hard to see, and always has been hard to see, in America.

The war/invasion/fighting is still going. We revisit our program on NFTs, art and war. Your host visits the 59th International Art Biennale in Venice, the worlds most important art fair and the firs

One of the episodes in my False Alarm! Series from 2018 imagined a future where Elon Musk stepped up to help with the News. That Algorithmic Oligarchic joke is no longer funny. On 4.20.2023 Elon Musk

Back in 2018 your host met Stormy Daniels as part of his 15 part investigation into Americas disinformation complex. You can find those episodes here. On this historic day, as we learn that no Ameri

A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the Pres