Episode 233: Critical Massholes

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Right now, there are a few under-reported legal attempts being made to rein in the tech giants that today, well, monopolistically reign. Just like I did in my last, I'll cover yet another of these attempts in this Episode 233: Critical Massholes.

In this episode, I read from: two articles from the series Big Tech On Trial, by Lee Hepner and Matt Stoller; Shoshanna Zuboff's book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power; an article from The Register; and, from his 1934 book I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked, Upton Sinclair's observation I call the Sinclair Maxim.

I played for you: Weird Al Yankovick's version of The Brady Bunch theme; and the wizard himself imploring Dorothy and the Gang to please ignore him, that from the third movie version of The Wizard of Oz. (Did you know there were two silent versions of the Wizard? There were. Weirdly, I couldn't find any audio clips from these to include in the show!) I opened the show with Shoshanna Zuboff backed by KMFDM, and I'm closing today with Julie & Rolf & The Campfire Gang doing "Over The Rainbow".

Episode 232: The Advertising Scorpion

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Lawsuits are happening! And so many concern advertising and the future of some really big companies! It's time to get not just excited, but really excited, starting with this Episode 232: The Advertising Scorpion.

In this episode, I read from two of Matt Stoller's articles from his newsletter Big: one from September 22nd of 2023, and the other from September 27th.

I played: Podington Bear's "In My Head" near the end. Matt Stoller himself opened the show backed by KMFDM's "Attack". I'm closing today with Mistle Thrush.