The Reboot from Tech for the People

The Reboot from Tech for the People

The Reboot is what happens when a technologist and an anthropologist get together to talk big tech, workers' rights, privacy and more. Every week from Chris Garaffa and Rae Jereza at Tech for the People!

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February 14, 2022 53 mins
Show Notes

Music by Angelo Garcia. You can find him on Facebook and Instagram on @agsilver.music.

Read about CIA data collection here https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senators-cia-has-secret-program-that-collects-american-data/2022/02/10/017b6932-8ad8-11ec-838f-0cfdf69cce3c_story.html


As schools went online during COVID-19, they implemented more surveillance on students’ online activity https://archive.ph/cH74P. But this is...
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Rae and Chris discuss the breaking news in Politico on Friday that Crisis Text Line is selling information to an AI-based customer service company that they are also an investor in.

Read Hannah Zeavin’s excellent piece on the origins of hotlines as a third option, distinct from psychiatric and police intervention: http://somatosphere.net/2020/the-third-choice-suicide-hotlines-psychiatry-and-the-police.html/

We found Zeavin’s essay fr...
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Episode 6 is here! After a month hiatus, we're back with a new theme song and some thoughts on "Web 3"

Thanks to Angelo Garcia for writing and producing our soundtrack! He takes commissions. Follow him on Facebook and Instagram @agsilver.music
Yesterweb’s detailed breakdown of Web3 can be found here: https://yesterweb.org/no-to-web3/index.html
Read Moxie Marlinspike's (Signal creator) blog post on Web3: https://mox...
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December 6, 2021 31 mins
Chris and Rae talk about how Jack Dorsey is stepping down as Twitter's CEO (for the second time!) and what impacts it will - or won't - have for users and workers. We also discussed the general culture around CEOs, the Founder Myth, and why it is that Dorsey can be CEO of two companies at the same time but we can't work for two companies in the same 8-hour shift.
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Co-host Rae Jereza discusses their recent paper, "Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good" looking at the situations of content moderators working for Facebook. Hidden behind the app's Report button, often working for subcontractors and not Facebook itself, the stories and struggles of content moderators go largely unnoticed.

Sometimes likened to first responders or called "custodians of the Internet&#...
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November 15, 2021 43 mins
Rae and Chris talk about what a 0-day vulnerability is and why you should care, the NSO group being used to attack Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations, why tech companies don't take security more seriously -- and a lot more.

Rae on Twitter: @raraeraeza
Chris on Twitter: @cmg
Tech for the People: @techfortheppl on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

Rae's article: Corporeal moderation: digital labour...
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There's a global supply chain crisis, but is it really our online shopping to blame? And, how is it impacting chip production?
Plus, the FBI uses public social media posts to jail an antifascist activist to 44 months, and more!
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November 1, 2021 35 mins
Chris Garaffa and Rae Jereza kick off The Reboot with a discussion on the metaverse. What exactly is this dystopian future that Mark Zuckerberg has been hyping? How will it impact social media users, content moderators and communities? We talk that and more.
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