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*PREVIEW* Drone Logic feat. Becca Wilks

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Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Wilks (@WilksBecca) returns to the podcast to talk about Wales, the international arms trade, and creating the refugees you proclaim to welcome. Also, a reading from Neom and a startup! Please check out Becca’s article on this topic here! https://www.thenational.wales/news/20213605.welsh-government-partner-thales-accused-yemen-war-crimes-complicity/ Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/68424984

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Becca, can you tell us a little bit about sort of the, what's going on with Wales and

0:04.9

Talus and the various cyber hubs that are growing up in the valleys?

0:11.5

Yeah, sure.

0:12.5

Okay, so where to start with this?

0:15.9

Yeah, so Stales or if that's how you pronounce it, they have been in a partnership for a couple of years

0:22.6

with the Welsh government to create,

0:26.6

again, to drive this sort of Wales

0:28.6

or this industry 4.0, lots of 0s in the mix.

0:33.5

With this sort of series...

0:35.2

Wales underscore V4 underscore final underscore one yeah yeah so how

0:42.0

this has come about is they they've built two sort of kind of vaguely defined

0:47.2

research centers in Ebouvale which is part of the South Wales valleys

0:53.0

that obviously were involved in the coal mining industry.

0:56.8

And that's been a real big theme of this project, is the idea of de-industrialization

1:01.4

has killed these areas. We're going to revive them with cyber security brackets technology.

1:17.6

How it's going to do that isn't really clear, but those hubs basically are just sort of like facilities for companies to come and test technologies in them.

1:21.6

I've asked what oversight the Welsh government sort of intends to have over what gets tested there,

1:27.8

and, you know, what ownership the government might have over any, any technology that gets developed

1:32.3

there. You asked, you asked the Welsh government, have you read the novel The Stand? And they

1:37.2

were like, what? Yeah. And I mean, I mean, that's kind of the answer they gave to my serious

1:43.5

questions. Anyway, you know, because I wanted to know, you know, that's kind of the answer they gave to my serious questions.

1:50.0

Anyway, you know, because I wanted to know, you know, given this is an arms company, you know, and you... You've seen the movie 28 days later, like the first five minutes of it.

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