Michael Foster, better know his Big Mike, he set a line in one of the interviews I ended up doing that was like, they treat us like robots, but even robots break down sometimes. And that just hit me right in the heart.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, PowerSmarks.

And I have to say, I've really been blown away by the support that listeners have shown to the show and to me this month. It's really been incredible to see that at the first year

anniversary of the show, how many people are enjoying it, learning from it, and to such a degree

that they are willing to support the work that I put into this every week so I can expand it

with a new website with transcripts and with a weekly newsletter starting next month.

At the beginning of the month,

I set a goal to get 30 new supporters at $5 or more a month by the end of April. And we have just

blown so far beyond that goal. It's so fantastic. So far this month, the show has picked up 56 new

supporters. And that doesn't include the people who increased their support

this month as well. There are now up more than 180 people supporting the podcast on Patreon.

That is just so incredible. Some of the new supporters this week that I'd like to thank are

Derek Hafer, Gabe and St. Louis, Moritz from Cologne, Jerome Yadarach, and Omri Hellerman. Thanks to those supporters,

thanks to all the people who decided to support the show this month, and thanks to the people

who have been supporting even longer than that as well. As I said, this is the final week of this

birthday month. So I would just say that if you are enjoying the show, if you are learning from it,

if you want to help me grow the show in the future, with these projects I mentioned and other things that I have planned as well, please consider going to patreon.com slash tech won't save us and becoming a supporter.

To celebrate the first year anniversary of the show, next week I will be speaking with Richard Barbrook.

Richard, along with his late colleague,

Andy Cameron, wrote about the Californian ideology in the 1990s, which really outlined the

worldview of tech. And that was one of these concepts that was really important to me as I was

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