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🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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This episode of Cyber is an action packed double feature that feels like it’s been pulled directly from a Cyberpunk novel. That’s right, today is all about railway strikes and killer robots. It’s hard to be a railway worker in America. The schedules are a nightmare, the kind of working conditions that can make someone sick. Just don’t try to use your sick days. Facing a railway strike, Congress passed legislation to prevent it. All at the behest of the White House. We’ll get into that.
Then we’ll talk about San Francisco. The City by the Bay has written the rules of killer robots. SF won’t have the first police department that’s killed someone with a drone, just the first with rules.
With me today to talk about it is Motherboard Senior Writer Aaron Gordon. He’s been following both stories. You may remember he was on the show more at the start of the year talking about the horrifying conditions of America’s rail workers.
Stories discussed in this episode:
The Most Complicated Labor Negotiation in the Country Just Got More Complicated
More than 500 Labor Historians Condemn Biden’s Intervention in Freight Rail Dispute
San Francisco Police Want to Be Allowed to Kill People With Robots
San Francisco Police Can Now Kill People With Robots
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0:00.0 | TAM! It's got the code it's going to launch! |
0:11.0 | It's a unit system. I know this. |
0:15.4 | It's how all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything. |
0:19.4 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:22.2 | Eagle One, the package is being delivered. |
0:24.8 | Hello out there on the internet. I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
0:29.1 | Today's episode is an action-packed double feature that feels like it's been pulled |
0:32.4 | directly from a cyberpunk novel. That's right. Today's episode is all about railway strikes and killer robots. |
0:40.2 | It's hard to be a railway worker in America. The schedules are a nightmare. They're the kind |
0:44.1 | of working conditions that can make someone real sick. Just don't try to use your sick days. |
0:50.2 | So facing a railway strike, Congress passed legislation to prevent it, all at the behest of the White House. |
0:55.9 | And we'll get into that. And then we'll also talk about San Francisco, the city by the bay, has written rules for killer robots. |
1:03.0 | S.F. won't have the first police department in America that's killed someone with a killer robot. |
1:09.0 | It'll just be the first with rules. |
1:14.3 | With me today to talk about all of this is Motherboard's senior writer, Aaron Gordon. |
1:16.0 | He's been following both stories. |
1:21.8 | The railway strike for more than a year, you may remember he was on the show in April, I believe, |
1:26.9 | talking about the horrifying conditions of America's rail workers, and well, here we are. |
1:31.2 | Aaron, thank you so much for coming on to motherboard or coming on to cyber and walking us through this. |
1:31.8 | You're always on motherboard. |
1:33.8 | It's a pleasure as always. |
1:36.1 | All right, so let's start with this railway, I don't know why I can't say that. |
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