Journalist Taylor Lorenz joins us to discuss Section 230, how Big Tech is already tracking everything from eye movements to finger presses, the ongoing erosion of online privacy through right-wing tech policy and identity verification.

Find Taylor on YouTube @TaylorLorenz and her publication UserMag on Substack.

Further Reading

• Taylor Lorenz, Usermag, The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial

• Taylor Lorenz, The Biggest Lies About Section 230

• Mick Masnick, TechDirt, Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They're Actually Cheering For

• KWCH, AI-powered cameras on Wichita school buses raise privacy concerns for one driver

• WBAL, 'Just holding a Doritos bag': Student handcuffed after AI system mistook bag of chips for weapon

David Ramírez Álvarez, secretary at the embassy of Cuba in the US, joins us to understand the escalating blockade on Cuba.

Find Part 2 coming soon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow

This week we dive into Emile's area of expertise, the ethics of human extinction and how these ethics are shaping Silicon Valley.

Further Reading

• https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/making-sense-of-the-human-extinction

Books Mentioned

• The Last Man, Mary Shelley

• Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation, Émile Torres