Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

We've been living through the modern equivalent of the oil boom.

Back when poking a hole in the ground would make one of the world's

most valuable substances upon which entire economies would be built simply bubble out of the

ground. But in our case it's not oil, it's data.

Now, we are at a pivotal moment as the old unchallenged master of data,

Google, has been found guilty of illegal anti-competitive behavior at the same time as

generative AI companies are in a new desperate rush to stake claims on every last

piece of data they can find.

Sources providing our top takes in under an hour today

include Andrewism, Your Undivided Attention,

the 80,000 Hours Podcast,

Politico Tech, the Hartman Report,

and the Socialist Program.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show,

there will be more in four sections. Section A, the threat section B

big tech lobbying section C regulation and section D

thinking through solutions.

Clunialism never ended.

It simply evolved.

Historically, clunism involved the capture of land and labor.

Between 1800 and 1875, on average, 215,000 square kilometers were added as colonies every year, or approximately one Guyana.

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