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Episode 183: AI Hype and the Disciplining of "Creative," Academic, and Journalistic Labor
May 31, 2023 • 1 h 33 minEpisode 179: From Budget Cuts to Book Bans — The Decades-Long Assault on Public Libraries
Mar 29, 2023 • 1 h 04 minEpisode 177: Popular Anti-Union Talking Points and How to Combat Them
Mar 15, 2023 • 1 h 15 minNews Brief: "Organized Crime" "Shoplifting Epidemic" Panic Hits San Francisco Media
May 26, 2021 • 49 minEpisode 111: How "Small Business" Rhetoric Is Used to Protect Corporate America
Jun 17, 2020 • 1 h 21 minEpisode 98: The Refined Sociopathy of The Economist
Jan 22, 2020 • 1 h 27 minEpisode 97: Porch Pirate Panic and the Paranoid Racism of Snitch Apps
Jan 15, 2020 • 1 h 25 minEpisode 94: The Goofy Pseudoscience Copaganda of TV Forensics
Nov 27, 2019 • 1 h 04 minEpisode 67: The Gate-Keeping, Power-Serving Tautology of "Electability"
Feb 27, 2019 • 56 minEpisode 58: The Neoliberal Optimism Industry
Nov 28, 2018 • 1 h 00 minEpisode 54: Local 'Crime' Reporting as Police Stenography
Oct 17, 2018 • 1 h 03 minEpisode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire: Bill Gates and Western Media
Jul 25, 2018 • 1 h 09 minEpisode 31: Fake ISIS Plots and the Selling of Forever War
Mar 21, 2018 • 1 h 18 minEpisode 23: The Media's Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn
Jan 17, 2018 • 51 min
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What HN said
- scrumptionMay 2018>Like what? I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about here.
Uh, the constant mass shootings that have occurred over the past year wherein, 100% of the time, the perp was already known to police and FBI and had a very public troubling online presence detailing their years of mental instability and virulent racism?
>intelligence agencies don't talk about their activities, even their successes, for very good reason.
The hell are you talking about? The FBI is constantly publicly congratulating themselves when they "foil" a "plot" their agent provocateurs have cooked up.
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-31-fake-isis-plots-and...
The NSA doesn't like to brag as much as the FBI does but they're clearly just as responsible for dropping the ball on domestic terrorism every other week when yet another mass shooting happens...
- djsumdogFeb 2020There was a Citations Needed podcast about pseudoscience in the criminal justice system:
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-94-the-goofy-pseu...
It's an interesting podcast, but their interviewee sucked and she didn't really cite any actual science; just hand waved away things.
I've found the studies they cite on fingerprints (your fingerprint could match up with 1 in ~300 people; they're not as unique as once though -- the study that's often cited is from the FBI) but I can't find anything on gun/bullet print identification.
Supposedly you can't match a bullet to a gun, especially with more modern firearms with precise milling. Yet all the sourced I've found should photos of bullets with distinct patterns that seem to match a particular firearm.
- DesiLurkerOct 2022its so common that it actually has a term for it, copoganda. But on-the-point you are making why does it has to be this silly all or nothing choice with policing the police? why cant we have more oversight and actual negative outcomes for ill behaved cops without giving them full free reign to do whatever? or report on police narrative without any degree of pushback.
Citations podcast had a bunch of episodes on this discussing in details, here is couple: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/live-interview-police-def... https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-54-the-casual-rac...
- pythonslayerAug 2018These episodes of Citations Needed Podcast really opened my eyes to the severity of the problem.
The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire Part 1 - Bill Gates and Western Media https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-45-the-not-so-ben...
The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire Part 2 - Bill Gates in Africa https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-46-the-not-so-ben...
- uoaeiJul 2020This is something that's repeated very often on news media with zero citations to the datasets from which they derive their conclusions.
Would be interested to see your sources because folks like myself are highly skeptical about unsubstantiated claims, especially when they serve ulterior interests. In this case, small business rhetoric supports mostly the large businesses that want to suppress wages and avoid workplace protection regulations.[1]
[1] https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-111-how-small-bus...
- akudhaDec 2022I really enjoy this one - https://callingbullshitpodcast.com/episodes/ It is about the gap between companies' stated goals and their actual behavior.
Citations needed - https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ I think I found it on HN. Well worth your time
Behind the bastards - exactly what it says on the title. Every episode is about a shitty human being (some alive, most dead). Listen to the episodes on Henry Kissinger - it is a crime he was given the Nobel peace prize