#1512 Ownership and Rights in a Digital World
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 9/9/2022
Today, we take a look at platforms, goods, and business models in the modern landscape of the digital marketplace. We start by questioning the morality of engaging in given platforms that cause harm - cryptocurrencies' role in crime and Facebook's role in destabilizing society, for instance - and then examine virtual products and virtual talents, the movement demanding the right to repair, and the coming world of digital art produced by artificial intelligence.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Digital Life Is a Moral Mess - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 8-22-22
Then, Shirin Ghaffary, senior reporter at Recode and co-host of the podcast Land of The Giants, shares the story of Facebook, and why it has been so hard of them to respond to the damage their technology has created.
"AI rapper" FN Meka isn't human - he's a digital creation of a company. But that didn't stop him from getting a record deal! He briefly became the first digital rapper to sign a deal with a major recording company.
Ch. 3: The Right to Repair with Aaron Perzanowski - Factually! with Adam Conover - Air Date 5-10-22
Do we really own the devices we buy? ‘The Right to Repair’ author Aaron Perzanowki joins Adam to explain how companies are using their power to control the products we buy from them, even after they’ve left the store, and prevent us from repairing them.
Ch. 4: The Streaming TV Bloodbath - What Next - Air Date 8-28-22
Shows are disappearing. Staff are getting axed. Is It greed, or necessary for the networks' survival?
Ch. 5: CAN THEY DO THAT? | PlayStation to Remove "Owned" Movies - Hoeg Law - Air Date 7-7-22
Buying digital content has never been easier. Between Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and more, your favorite game, song, or movie is just a click (and charge) away.
Ch. 6: Rethinking ownership in the digital age | Siân Lindley - TEDxEastEnd - Air Date 2-20-15
When George Orwell wrote 1984, there was nothing simpler than the idea of owning a paperback book. The more the digital world he foreshadowed becomes real, the more complex the idea of ownership becomes. Do you own your digital books? Your photographs?
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 7: The AI that creates any picture you want, explained - Vox - Air Date 6-1-22
How programmers turned the internet into a paintbrush. DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Imagen, explained.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 8: Final comments on how the world was lost and the Dream Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall take |
| 0:07.2 | a look at platforms, goods and business models in the modern landscape of the digital marketplace. |
| 0:14.6 | We start by questioning the morality of engaging in given platforms that cause harm, cryptocurrencies, |
| 0:21.8 | rolling crime, Facebook's rolling destabilizing society, for instance, and then examine virtual |
| 0:28.5 | products and virtual talents, the movement demanding the right to repair, and the coming |
| 0:35.2 | world of digital art produced by artificial intelligence. |
| 0:40.1 | Clips today are from the United States of anxiety, there are no girls on the internet, |
| 0:45.7 | factually with Adam Conover, what next, ho-glaw, and a TEDx talk with an additional members |
| 0:53.0 | only clip from Vox. |
| 0:55.5 | And stay tuned at the end of the show for my description of a decidedly non-digital project |
| 1:00.6 | whose inventor once hoped it could replace the televisions in every home in the United States. |
| 1:06.2 | Folks, in my courses all the time, will come to me with questions like, I feel bad about |
| 1:17.3 | participating in a capitalist society, or I feel bad about eating meat, or I feel bad |
| 1:21.6 | about buying this clothing line. |
| 1:23.4 | And it's more than just, I feel bad, right? But behind that is this, I think, pretty deep |
| 1:26.9 | question, which is, where do we draw the line for ourselves when we know, in some sense, |
| 1:31.9 | that we're a vector of suffering, that we in some way contribute to it by participating. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah, and crypto seems especially tricky because for a lot of people, it appears at least |
| 1:43.3 | the promise of it is a way to take back financial power. |
| 1:46.7 | During the episode we did last month, I'd say we found a lot of tension, like a lot of people |
| 1:50.6 | saying, hey, listen, this is a way for me to get ahead in this financial world that isn't |
| 1:55.9 | really set up for me. |
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