The Reboot from Tech for the People

Show NotesMusic 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.htmlAs schools went online during COVID-19, they implemented more surveillance on students’ onli

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-psyc

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.musicYesterweb’s detailed breakdown of Web3 can be found here: https://yesterweb.org/no-to-web3/index.htmlRead Moxie Marlinspike's (Signal creato

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.

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 c

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: @cmgTech for the People: @techfortheppl on Twitter, Facebook, InstagramRae's article: Corpore

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!

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.