Machine Politics

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    • Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
    • By: Terry Golway
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A major, surprising new history of New York's most famous political machine - Tammany Hall - revealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics....

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 03-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Elting E. Morison
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This book offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society....

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    • How Irrationality Created Modern Science
    • By: Michael Strevens
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

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    • By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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    • A Cybernetic History
    • By: Thomas Rid
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine....

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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • The World of AI-Powered Creativity
    • By: Arthur I. Miller
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Today's computers are composing music that sounds "more Bach than Bach", turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative - or are they merely tools? Find out more....

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    • America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
    • By: Adam Goodman
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, business people, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion....

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    • Inside the Hit Factory
    • By: John Seabrook
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 832 ratings
    • Traveling from New York to Los Angeles, Stockholm to Korea, John Seabrook visits specialized teams composing songs in digital labs with novel techniques....

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    • Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
    • By: Kate Crawford
    • Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • The hidden costs of artificial intelligence - from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society
    • By: Azeem Azhar
    • Narrated by: Azeem Azhar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • From Azeem Azhar, renowned technology analyst and host of the global tech podcast Exponential View, comes a bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data - and our ability to deal with its effects....

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    • Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
    • By: Marcus du Sautoy
    • Narrated by: Rich Keeble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt, enrich, and transform our understanding of what it means to be human....

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    • War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
    • By: Ben Buchanan, Andrew Imbrie
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous-in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire....

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    • Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
    • By: Paul Scharre
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death....

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    • A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • A gripping narrative that fuses research, exclusive interviews, and on-the-ground reporting to capture the full inside story of Big Tech’s monomaniacal race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs....

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    • Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
    • By: Sidney Powell, Harvey A. Silverglate, Adriana Hunter - translator
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Powell and Silverglate shine a light on the defects of the system: overzealous prosecutors, perjury traps, negligent judges, perverse limits on self-defense, vague and overabundant criminal statutes, insufficient requirements for criminal intent, and no accountability for prosecutors....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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