The Progressive Page Turner

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  • Conversations about books with the people who wrote them. Hosted by Marianne Barisonek
    Copyright 2024 The Progressive Page Turner
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Politics & Government
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Episodes
  • Episode 26: Tom Kemp - Containing Big Tech

    Episode 26: Tom Kemp - Containing Big Tech
    Dec 20 2024

    Billions of people all over the world use apps and websites. We have an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips but it’s also allowed detailed dossiers to be collected on all of us. While most of the collected data is used for advertising there’s also the possibility of data being used for law enforcement and economic discrimination. In this episode of the Progressive Page Turner I talk to Tom Kemp, author of Containing Big Tech about who’s collecting our data, what they’re doing with it and how you can prevent surveillance.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 25: Annalee Newitz - Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

    Episode 25: Annalee Newitz - Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
    Dec 6 2024

    Social Media has become a battleground for psychological warfare. In this episode I talk with Annalee Newitz about how propaganda worked in the past and how both domestic and foreign agents are targeting voters in the US.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 24: David Jay Brown - Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity

    Episode 24: David Jay Brown - Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity
    Nov 22 2024

    In his book Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity David Jay Brown interviews people who look at the world in some very non-traditional ways. I talked to him about how we experience the world and why psychedelics like DMT might be the door to a new understanding of our minds and consciousness.
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    30 mins

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