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The “Who Surveils the Surveillors?” Edition
Manage episode 201343364 series 2135582
Noah Efron, Allison Kaplan Sommer, and Don Futterman discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Looking for this week's extra segment? It's available on www.patreon.com/promisedpodcast
Surveilling Belligerents
Israel’s got a machine-learning AI system for identifying lone terrorists before they act. Should this bit of real-scifi-Minority Report-ism make it easier for us to sleep at night, or cause us to toss-and-turn in Orwellian angst?
Surveilling Rabbis
An activist spends long hours going over videos of rabbinic lectures, getting the sexist and homophobic bits on the nightly news. Is this smart progressive politics, or kind of creepy stalking?
Surveilling Prices
Israel’s Chamber of Commerce says the time has come to repeal a law mandating little sticky price-tags on every item in the supermarket, in favor of smart screens, q-codes and surge pricing in the freezer aisle. Is this the voice of progress, or of rapacious capitalists who want to squeeze a little more cash from consumers?
Music: The Amazing Persian-Georgian Groove of Hadar Maoz!
Lali Lavat
Azizam
Hadar Maoz Esh Avotay
Labhoi Turo Blues
579 episodes
Manage episode 201343364 series 2135582
Noah Efron, Allison Kaplan Sommer, and Don Futterman discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Looking for this week's extra segment? It's available on www.patreon.com/promisedpodcast
Surveilling Belligerents
Israel’s got a machine-learning AI system for identifying lone terrorists before they act. Should this bit of real-scifi-Minority Report-ism make it easier for us to sleep at night, or cause us to toss-and-turn in Orwellian angst?
Surveilling Rabbis
An activist spends long hours going over videos of rabbinic lectures, getting the sexist and homophobic bits on the nightly news. Is this smart progressive politics, or kind of creepy stalking?
Surveilling Prices
Israel’s Chamber of Commerce says the time has come to repeal a law mandating little sticky price-tags on every item in the supermarket, in favor of smart screens, q-codes and surge pricing in the freezer aisle. Is this the voice of progress, or of rapacious capitalists who want to squeeze a little more cash from consumers?
Music: The Amazing Persian-Georgian Groove of Hadar Maoz!
Lali Lavat
Azizam
Hadar Maoz Esh Avotay
Labhoi Turo Blues
579 episodes
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