The industry wants to believe that you can have technological solutions to social problems

or that you can pretend social problems don't exist if you get so caught up in the shiny new tech.

They don't care about social justice.

They care about making money. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks. And before we get into

this week's episode, just a quick thank you to everyone who supported the show during last

month's membership drive. We not only exceeded the 100 new and upgraded supporters at $5 a month goal I set to bring

on a producer, but also the stretch goal of 150 supporters. So that is fantastic. We've exceeded what I was

hoping to achieve with the fundraiser. So I thank everyone so much. I've posted the details for the producer on the website. I'll include a link to that in the show notes if anyone is interested. And I'll be open to applications for that until next week. If you supported at $10 a month or above and are waiting on a pin, you can find more information about that over on Patreon where I wrote up details on the membership

drive and you know what's to to come in the future and certainly I have more updates based on

other things you know bonus series Q&As things like that in the coming weeks so I'll let you know

about all of that as soon as I know about it as well and so so just before we get into the episode, you know,

a final list of names to thank before we get into it. So a big thank you to Jake from New York

City, Simoline in Seattle, Michael Grangein, Catherine, Rico in Newark, New York, New Jersey, David

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from London, Max from Cedar Rapids, Derek from Somerville,

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