The Scab-Gig Economy feat. Alex N. Press

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s free episode, the cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with (now three-time!) guest Alex N. Press, the labour correspondent for Jacobin Magazine, about two of her recent stories. In one, a ‘flexible work’ app is assigning people gigs that lead them directly across a picket line. In another, studio executives in Hollywood are dreaming up ways to digitize an actor’s likeness and use them in AI-generated content, for free, forever. And in the face of Spencer Confidential not actually getting 11 billion downloads, we ask: is the Silicon Valley-ification of Hollywood just intent on destroying the concept of movies? Check out Alex’s articles here! https://jacobin.com/2023/07/southern-california-hotel-workers-strike-automated-management-unite-here https://jacobin.com/2023/07/hollywood-writers-actors-strike-studios-streaming If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome to this free episode of TF.
0:17.6	It is...
0:18.5	Yes, Milo coming in with his thing, but from far away.
0:23.5	No, I'm never coming in with my thing.
0:25.1	I just want to clarify that.
0:27.2	For the listening.
0:28.2	Yeah, you're Volsale.
0:29.0	Sure.
0:29.8	We're all remote today, scattered to the four corners of...
0:34.7	Well, actually, really scattered to the two ends of Britain mostly.
0:37.8	I'm not remote.
0:38.9	None of the rest of you turned out.
0:42.6	And we have a great show for you today where we're going to be talking about the
0:46.4	various strike waves that are happening in the U.S., but specifically looking at a couple
0:51.8	different ones in Southern California and how a
0:55.4	I'm not technically employing you app has been key to companies trying to break one of them
1:01.8	to talk about that with us. It is Jacobin's Labor Relations correspondent. It is Alex Press.
1:07.2	Alex, how's it going? Great. How are you guys? Very, very well. thank you. And I believe this is your, this is like a three-peat appearance
1:14.6	for you on the show, I think. I think so. I think this is three. You can get into the like
1:18.9	mezzanine area of the lounge now. There's like some slightly softer couches.
1:24.3	Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's a chocolate fountain up there. There's one drink pass up there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's a chocolate fountain up there.
1:27.7	There's one drink pass up there.
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