The MIT Media Lab Automates the Democratic Party

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4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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That's right, folks! It's a preview the promised second episode in which we discuss the highlights of IT Media Lab's cursed SkyMall. You'll get to hear Riley, Milo, Nate, and Alice take on the true hell world of the Epstein-funded MIT Media Lab creations. If you'd like to hear the whole thing, get the episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30213119 If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons) Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

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0:00.0	So those are the products and their hat.
0:17.4	Do we want to talk about some of their big ideas?
0:20.3	Because I've got three of them and they're very big.
0:22.9	Because these were the small ideas. These are bigger. Those are their small ideas. I have some big
0:28.4	ideas now. Some big ass ideas. Here's big idea. This is going to be a good cloud ship content.
0:33.3	Some really, some really dummy thick ideas. Some dummy thick ideas.
0:38.1	Here's the first dummy thick idea.
0:40.4	Just jiggling on over here.
0:42.3	Augmented democracy.
0:45.3	I never asked for this.
0:47.9	This is very special the Russian idea.
0:50.9	In the last presidential election in the US, voter turnout hovered around 67%. Oh, no,
0:56.0	it actually is this. Oh, fuck.
0:58.3	I'm afraid it is.
1:02.0	The European Union's elections
1:04.0	just saw 42%, and the
1:05.6	NYC's last mayoral election, just 24%
1:08.2	of residents cast a ballot. Our collective
1:10.2	participation in the Project of Democracy is quite a bit less than ideal.
1:14.2	This issue, says Cesar Hidalgo, director of the collective learning group at MIT Media Lab.
1:20.0	And member of the court of Monte Cristo.
1:22.6	Indeed.
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