Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff “Humane Tech or Capitalism Rebranded?”
Summary: <p>Playing for Team Human today, recorded live on the floor at the <a href="https://www.pdf-18.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Personal Democracy Forum 2018</a>, are Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff. Moira and Ben will be showing us how the tech industry’s promise to build less harmful products and programs is just capitalism’s way of proving that love means never having to say, “I’m sorry.”</p><p>Moira and Ben co-wrote the brilliant feature article in the <em>Guardian,</em> <em>“</em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/03/why-silicon-valley-cant-fix-itself-tech-humanism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Why Silicon Valley Can’t Fix Itself</em></a><em>”</em></p><p>Just last week, Ben’s exposé and interview with an anonymous worker/organizer at Google revealed the internal fight led by workers against Google’s contracting with the Pentagon on Project Maven, a weaponized use of Google’s AI and cloud computing technology. The interview, published June 6th, can be found at Jacobin magazine: <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tech Workers Versus the Pentagon</a> </p><p>Ben’s <a href="http://www.bentarnoff.com/articles/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">articles</a> in the Guardian and Jacobin have been disrupting tech industry gospel for the past decade. He is also the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Bohemians-Francisco-Reinvented-Literature/dp/159420473X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373426908&sr=8-1&keywords=ben+tarnoff+the+bohemians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Bohemians</em></a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.moiraweigel.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Moira Weigel</a> is a postdoc at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her recent book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Labor-Love-Invention-Moira-Weigel/dp/0374182531" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Labor of Love; The Invention of Dating</em></a> looks at the commodification of courtship under consumer capitalism. </p><p>Moira and Ben are editors of Logic, a print and digital magazine which features thought provoking journalism on technology. Like Team Human, Logic strives to host a “better conversation” about technology… learn more and subscribe here: <a href="https://logicmag.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://logicmag.io/</a></p><p>Douglas opens the show with a monologue unpacking the bizarre news of the past week; G7, trade wars, and North Korea.</p><p>On today’s show you heard intro and outro music thanks to <a href="https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/track/foremans-dog" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fugazi and Dischord records</a>, <a href="https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-31-r-u-sirius/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">R.U. Sirius’s</a> <a href="https://rusirius.bandcamp.com/track/president-mussolini-makes-the-planes-run-on-time" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">President Mussolini Makes the Planes Run On Time</a>, and a Team Human original by Stephen Bartolomei. </p><p>You can sustain this show via <a href="http://patreon.com/teamhuman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. And please leave us a <a href="http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1140331811" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">review on iTunes</a>.</p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
