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Droning for Dollars

Droning for Dollars

Can a Self-Droning drone start up save the Trump Presidency? Our special correspondent Chris fills us in on YouFired!

Art Districts

Art Districts

Empty buildings, run down neighborhoods and cheap rents. This is the bait you need to attract artists, speculators and urban revitalizers. But in order to attract pioneers you also need illusion and myth. We tour the art districts of New Orleans, Los Angeles and Detroit with writer Peter Moscowitz, activist Maga Miranda, and artist Maya Stovall.

Nothing to Hide

Nothing to Hide (still more adventures in surveillance part xi)

Potemkin apps, Fake ads, and the return of little pepe the frog. Your host busts out all his best deep state moves for the grand conclusion of our Surveillance miniseries. Plus Finn Brunton pitches AdNauseum and Siva Vaidhyanathan gives us a tour of the Cryptopticon.

The Rainbows of Inevitability

The Rainbows of Inevitability (still more adventures in surveillance part x)

We take a tour of the sprawl with Metahaven to learn about the propaganda of propaganda and we travel beyond the Facebook wall to learn the real truth about targeted advertising. Plus Project Madison Valleywood!  

Doomed to Repeat

Doomed to Repeat (still more adventures in surveillance part ix)

Your host examines the targeted advertising and fake news that some say put Donald Trump in the White House. Plus: the colonial history of Biometric Surveillance. Thanks to Mira Waits, Ethan Zuckerman and Hannes Grassegger

The Twentieth of January

The Twentieth Day Of January (still more adventures in surveillance part viii)

A spy novel from the 80’s gives Donald Trump and his Russian friends some ideas. PLUS your host inspires the youth with cowardice.  

Entrapment

Entrapment (still more adventures in surveillance vii)

The FBI builds more surveillance traps that don’t work, and your host shares a few of his earliest adventures in surveillance.  

The fairest of them all?

the fairest of them all (still more adventures in surveillance part vi)

Our Surveillance miniseries continues with a special holiday episode. Your host visits both the glass room ( a fake pop up store) and the Google pop up store (a real pop up store). fairist  

Useful Idiots

Useful Idiots (still more adventures in surveillance part v)

Your host discovers you can’t beat the Russians at the fake game and ToE’s Chris reviews Oliver Stone’s Edward Snowden. Plus: Vladislav Surkov and the Potemkin Panopticon. snowdenrussia  

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum (more adventures in surveillance iv)

Donald Trump promises women he will make Surveillance great again. Plus Digital Security Training! donald-melania