Episode 21 - Luddism is Good, Smartness is Bad, and BDS is Necessary ft. Jathan Sadowski

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The music was composed and performed by Christoph Bruhn

When it comes to Palestine it’s bds or apartheid

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1396583870833778690

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/federal-court-says-georgia-bds-law-violates-first-amendment/

Guest - Jathan Sadowski, Research Fellow at The Monash Emerging Technologies Research Lab in Melbourne, Australia and Co-host of the This Machine Kills podcast alongside previous LR guest Edward Ongweso Jr, and author of “Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World”

Technological Determinism vs Langdon Winner’s conception of Technopolitics.

What is “Smartness”?

The role of insurance and the Lemonade_Inc Thread

https://twitter.com/jennvzande/status/1397597086531661824?s=20

Cops: Understanding Palantir and Fusion Centers.

Luddism: Repairing our understanding of this tradition and sabotage as a tool.

Biden dropping the loan forgiveness much besides = stop saying the Dems are the multiracial working class party they are upper middle class suburban party now

Alabama miners

https://twitter.com/grimkim/status/1397590881973252106?s=21

https://twitter.com/grimkim/status/1397592824267382787?s=21

Beaumont workers locked out https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.12newsnow.com/amp/article/news/local/power-city/united-steelworkers-lockout-exxonmobil-protest/502-019d92b0-abaa-4900-9f71-dac4348ca278

Dakota update

https://twitter.com/jeremyjturley/status/1397618453389926404?s=21

https://www.keloland.com/news/capitol-news-bureau/judge-sets-june-target-for-mt-rushmore-fireworks-decision/ https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/tribe-allowed-to-join-mount-rushmore-lawsuit?fbclid=IwAR0BRyL_-Ys0v_3fDL29MrUYV1jZp4C5s-AmL_uV20CzSuawTLyG38xF_b8

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/mount-rushmore-lawsuit-sparks-legal-fight-with-tribe