All tagged Social Media

Fool Me Once: The FBI's White Supremacy Problem & Big Tech OpSec / Akin Olla

Fool Me Once: The FBI's White Supremacy Problem & Big Tech OpSec / Akin Olla

Patrick Farnsworth
Akin Olla, 288

Political strategist and organizer Akin Olla joins me to discuss the history of the FBI’s assault on left-wing activists over the decades and the absolute necessity for organizers to have operational security in today’s political climate as Big Tech companies “depoliticize” their platforms in the wake of the Capitol siege last month. We address several of his recent articles published at The Guardian, including The FBI can't investigate white extremism until it first investigates itself, Facebook is banning leftwing users like me – and it's going largely unnoticed, and The US Capitol riot risks supercharging a new age of political repression.

The Feed: Identity, Reduction, Liberation, Revolution / Rhyd Wildermuth

The Feed: Identity, Reduction, Liberation, Revolution / Rhyd Wildermuth

Patrick Farnsworth
Rhyd Wildermuth, 111

Rhyd Wildermuth returns to the podcast to discuss some of the ideas presented in his recent essay, A New Luddite Rebellion. Rhyd expounds on the role social media has played on our ability to discuss complex and nuanced ideas, and the role identity politics has played in the Left's (in)ability to effectively organize against capitalism and produce tangible alternatives to the dominant organizing ideology of our time. We also discuss traveling, the culture shock that comes when you travel back to the United States, as well as an upcoming online course, led by Rhyd, on "a pagan introduction to Marxism."

The Work: Domestication, Education, Occupation / Danielle Billing

The Work: Domestication, Education, Occupation / Danielle Billing

Patrick Farnsworth
Danielle Billing, 64

This episode features a conversation with Danielle Billing, teacher at the Idaho School of the Deaf and Blind. At first, we begin discussing our love for pets, and our revulsion regarding the breeding practices of dogs, the anthropomorphizing of animals, and then the conversation moves into our education system and teaching in our contemporary society. Eventually, we get to the crux of the conversation: What is work? How does it serve us to work in our modern economy? What is branding, and how does that fit into our contemporary work in the age of social media?