Net Positives with Ramesh Srinivasan
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Deray, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss how Facebook bought a police force, cell phones driving the fall of crime rates in the 90s, the destruction of Central Park communities, and Historically Black Colleges. DeRay talks to Ramesh Srinivasan about his new book Beyond The Valley and the intersection between technology and political bias.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/arts/lyons-seneca-village-monument.html
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3akm7/how-facebook-bought-a-police-force
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/opinion/hbcu-college.html
https://harrietfilmtickets.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Drey. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome to Piotr's The People. |
| 0:04.2 | In this episode, we have the news is made pretty clear in Sam. |
| 0:07.2 | And then I'm joined by Ramesh, |
| 0:08.6 | Streny Vossen, to discuss the intersections |
| 0:10.8 | of your technology, politics, and belief. |
| 0:12.8 | Working people, communities of color, |
| 0:15.3 | Indigenous people, in some cases women, |
| 0:17.6 | are all under threat because technologies |
| 0:20.0 | tend to reinforce biases and voices and values |
| 0:23.2 | of the powerful, despite perhaps good intentions |
| 0:26.4 | from some of their, you know, executives or engineers. |
| 0:29.6 | Before we jump in, my message today is, |
| 0:31.9 | don't confuse all the other things which freedom. |
| 0:34.6 | I think that in this moment, |
| 0:35.9 | there are a lot of people who have materially benefited |
| 0:38.8 | from some of the Trump stuff. |
| 0:40.6 | There are people who materially benefited |
| 0:43.0 | from incarceration or even the end of incarceration that's happened, right? |
| 0:47.0 | There are people who have materially benefited |
| 0:49.2 | from minor things that don't really change the system |
| 0:52.4 | and don't really go far enough, |
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