Best Mike Dawes Podcasts (2025)

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Gotcha! The Crypto Grift w/ Mark Hays 55:33

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Hey you! Do you want some free internet money? If this sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is! More like this: Making Myths to Make Money w/ AI Now This is Gotcha! A four-part series on scams, how they work, and how technology is supercharging them. We start with Mark Hays from Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), and get into one of the…

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Gotcha! 1:28

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Gotcha! is a four-part series on scams, how they work, and how technology is supercharging them — running through to October 10. In the series we look at: Crypto: Mark Hays on how a thing touting financial freedom ended up being a kind of fin-cult, rife with scamming Multi-Level Marketing : Bridget Read on the history of the biggest and most succes…

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Nodestar: Turning Networks into Knowledge w/ Andrew Trask 43:15

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What if you could listen to multiple people at once, and actually understand them? More like this: **The Age of Noise w/ Eryk Salvaggio** In our final instalment (for now!) of Nodestar, Andrew Trask shares his vision for a world where we can assembly understanding from data everywhere. But not in a way that requires corporate control of our world. …

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Nodestar: Building Blacksky w/ Rudy Fraser 41:46

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Social media isn’t really social anymore. But that might be changing. Rudy Fraser over at Blacksky Algorithms has built something new. He has built the infrastructure to provide a safe online space for the black community, and in the process challenges the ideas of hierarchical, centralised networks. His work — even outside the very cool developmen…

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Nodestar: The Eternal September w/ Mike Masnick 52:43

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How did the internet become three companies in a trenchcoat? It wasn’t always that way! It used to be fun, and weird, and full of opportunity. To set the scene for the series, we spoke to a stalwart advocate of decentratilsation, Mike Masnick. More like this: Big Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris Marx This is part one of Nodestar, a three…

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E1, S6, Harley's Secret Weapon: The 2025 Street Glide Ultra is Lighter, Roomier, and Cheaper. 10:11

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This podcast reveals why the 2025 Street Glide Ultra is Harley-Davidson's unexpected game-changer in the touring segment. We dive into how it's an impressive 51 pounds lighter than the 2024 Ultra Limited, yet boasts a significant boost with double the cargo space of the standard Street Glide, offering 4.9 cubic feet of capacity. All of this comes a…

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Short: UK Groups Sue To Block Data Center Expansion 13:56

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Foxglove and Global Action Plan have just sued the UK government over their YOLO hyperscale data center plans. More like this: Net0++: Data Centre Sprawl Local government rejected the data center. But Starmer’s administration overruled them. They want to force the development of a water-guzzling, energy draining data center on a local community who…

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Big Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris Marx 41:12

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What’s the deal with Silicon Valley selling imagined futures and never delivering on them. What are the consequences of an industry all-in on AI? What if we thought more deeply than just ‘more compute’? More like this: Big Dirty Data Centres with Boxi Wu and Jenna Ruddock This week, Paris Marx (host of Tech Won’t Save Us) joined Alix to chat about …

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Consciously Uncoupling from Silicon Valley w/ Cori Crider 53:45

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How do we yank power out of tech oligarch hands without handing it over to someone else? More like this: Is Digitisation Killing Democracy? w/ Marietje Schaake Cori Crider is a fearless litigator turned market-shaping advocate. She started litigating during many years at leading human rights organisation Reprieve, and then moved on to co-founding F…

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THE END OF THE WORLD - Come Lord Jesus | Randy Lovelace | August 3, 2025 31:14

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THE END OF THE WORLD - Come Lord JesusRevelation 22:20-21Randy Lovelace | August 3, 2025By Christ Community Church

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SUMMER SERMON SERIES - Given For You | Will Cote | July 27, 2025 28:12

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SUMMER SERMON SERIES - Given For YouMatthew 1:18-25Will Cote | July 27, 2025By Christ Community Church

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SUMMER SERMON SERIES - Singing In Suffering | Mike Fennema | July 20, 2025 37:57

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SUMMER SERMON SERIES - Singing In SufferingPsalm 27Mike Fennema | July 20, 2025By Christ Community Church

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SUMMER SERMON SERIES - The Way Of Love | Chase Daws | July 13, 2025 35:51

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SUMMER SERMON SERIES - The Way Of Love1 Corinthians 6:1-11Chase Daws | July 13, 2025By Christ Community Church

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SUMMER SERMON SERIES - The Two Roads Of Life | Greg Davis | July 6, 2025 32:49

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SUMMER SERMON SERIES - The Two Roads Of LifePsalm 1Greg Davis | July 6, 2025By Christ Community Church

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Ingratitude Gets In The Way | Randy Lovelace | June 29, 2025 31:48

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Ingratitude Gets In The WayLuke 17:11-19Randy Lovelace | June 29, 2025By Christ Community Church

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Graceless Religion Gets In The Way | Randy Lovelace | June 22, 2025 32:28

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Graceless Religion Gets In The WayJohn 7:53-8:11 & Philipians 2:5-11Randy Lovelace | June 22, 2025By Christ Community Church

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Unforgiveness Gets In The Way | Greg Davis | June 15, 2025 31:46

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Unforgiveness Gets In The WayMatthew 18:21-35Greg Davis | June 15, 2025By Christ Community Church

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Money Gets In The Way | Randy Lovelace | June 8, 2025 34:14

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Money Gets In The WayLuke 12:13-21Randy Lovelace | June 8, 2025By Christ Community Church

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Hypocrisy Gets In The Way | Randy Lovelace | June 1, 2025 30:15

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Hypocrisy Gets In The Way Matthew 23:27-29Randy Lovelace | June 1, 2025By Christ Community Church

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After the FAccT: Labour and Misrepresentation 50:54

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Did you miss FAccT? We interviewed some of our favourite session organisers! More like this: Part One of our FAccT roundup: Materiality and Militarisation. Georgia, Soizic, and Hanna from The Maybe team just went to FAccT. Georgia and Soizic interviewed a bunch of amazing researchers, practitioners, and artists to give you a taste of what the confe…

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Short: Musk: Reanimating Apartheid w/ Nic Dawes 14:20

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In May, Grok couldn’t stop talking about white genocide. This injection of right-wing South African politics triggered a conversation with a Musk contemporary, Nic Dawes. In this short Nic shares his perspective on how post-apartheid white communities have dealt with apartheid’s end. And how Musk is basically seeking out an information environment …

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After the FAccT: Materiality and Militarisation 1:04:20

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Georgia, Soizic, and Hanna from The Maybe team just went to FAccT. Georgia and Soizic interviewed a bunch of amazing researchers, practitioners, and artists to give you a taste of what the conference was like if you didn’t get to go. Alix missed it too — you’ll learn along with her! In part one we explore the depth of AI’s hidden material impacts, …

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Making Myths to Make Money w/ AI Now 38:08

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AI Now have just released their 2025 AI Landscape report — Artificial Power. Alix sat down with two of it’s authors, Amba Kak and Sarah Myers-West for a light unpacking of the themes within. This report isn’t a boring survey of what AI Now have been doing this year; it’s a comprehensive view of the state of AI, and the concentrated powers that prop…

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EP 16: Mike Dawes on Fingerstyle Microtechniques, Covers as Creativity, & The Algorithm Game 53:36

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In this episode of The Guitar Journal Podcast, we’re joined by fingerstyle virtuoso Mike Dawes—an innovator known for his percussive techniques, creative arrangements, and collaborations with legends like Tommy Emmanuel. Mike breaks down how he builds layered acoustic compositions using “microtechniques,” and why arranging cover songs is both a cre…

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Is Computer Science Made for Dudes? w/ Felienne Hermans 54:41

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Felienne Hermans calls herself an ‘involuntary ethnographer of computer science’. She studies the culture behind programming, and challenges the dominant idea that learning to program has to be painful. Alix and Felienne chat about the history of programming and how it went from multidisciplinary and inclusive, to masochistic and exclusive. They al…

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The Elephant in the Algorithm: Live from ZEG Fest in Tbilisi 46:15

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Smart people focused on technology politics issues get it. We trade high level helpful concepts like surveillance capitalism, automated inequality, and enshittification. And even as some of these ideas are making it more mainstream, normies aren’t getting the message. We need stories for that. But how? How do we take the technical jargon and high-l…

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Is Digitisation Killing Democracy? w/ Marietje Schaake 37:56

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There has been an intentional and systematic narrative push that tells governments they are not good enough to provide their own public infrastructure or regulate tech companies that provide it for them. Shocking: these narratives stem from large tech companies, and this represents what Marietje Schaake refers to as a Tech Coup — which is the title…

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AI in Gaza: Live from Mexico City 1:00:02

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This episode contains some descriptions of torture methods, automated human targeting by machines, and psychological warfare throughout Last week Alix hosted a live show in Mexico City right after REAL ML. Four panellists discussed a huge important topic, which has been wrongfully deemed as taboo by other conferences: the use of AI and other techno…

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EP15: Andrea Valeri on Groove, Guitar Tone, and Chasing Curiosity as a Composer 57:42

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In this episode of The Guitar Journal Podcast, I'm joined by Andrea Valeri, an internationally acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist who has graced stages around the world alongside legends like Tommy Emmanuel and Guthrie Govan. With nearly 20 years of professional performance and recording under his belt, Andrea brings a unique voice that seamlessly ble…

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Logging Off w/ Adele Walton 43:57

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Adele Walton’s new book *Logging Off: The Human Cost of our Digital World* is out NOW — for this week’s episode Alix sat down with her to discuss the book, and what pushed her to write it. Adele shares her experiences of using social media from age ten, and growing up only ever feeling ‘understood’ by her followers. And now, the constant ‘how can I…

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Short: Sam Altman’s World w/ Billy Perrigo 20:53

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Sam Altman is doing another big infrastructure push with World (previously Worldcoin) — the universal human verification system. We had journalist Billy Perrigo on to chat what’s what with World. Is Sam Altman just providing a solution to a problem that he himself caused with OpenAI? Do we really need human verification, or is this just a way to si…

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AI: Is it the answer, or is it just fueling Global inequality? 56:51

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As a true serial tech disruptor, Ken Charman successfully built software startups, which Deloitte, IBM, Oracle, and SAP acquired over many decades. He also served as CEO of uFlex Reward, a cutting-edge HR company that creates real-time employee costs and modelling for Unilever Group, which employs over 128,000 people worldwide. Well-versed in AI an…

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The Collective Intelligence Project w/ Divya Siddarth and Zarinah Agnew 54:31

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Most of the time we interview people who say No to AI. In this interview, Georgia and Alix talk to two people who look at AI and ask How and For What. And lots of other questions too. Divya Siddarth and Zarinah Agnew from the Collective Intelligence Project share CIP’s work using AI systems to explore more consultative democratic governance, how to…

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EP 14: Sean McGowan on Fingerstyle Jazz, Crafting the Music, and The Holistic Guitarist [New Book] 53:57

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In this episode of The Guitar Journal Podcast, I’m joined by acclaimed fingerstyle jazz guitarist Sean McGowan. Known for his rich harmonic approach and inventive solo arrangements, Sean blends classical influences, jazz sophistication, and fingerstyle nuance into a deeply expressive style all his own. We talk through Sean’s musical journey—from di…

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Prejudice Get In The Way | Randy Lovelace | May 25, 2025 35:39

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Prejudice Get In The WayLuke 10:25-37Randy Lovelace | May 25, 2025By Christ Community Church

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Neglect Get In The Way | Randy Lovelace | May 18, 2025 35:59

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Neglect Get In The WayMatthew 25:31-46Randy Lovelace | May 18, 2025By Christ Community Church

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Moralism Get In The Way | Randy Lovelace | May 11, 2025 29:10

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When Moralism Get In The WayLuke 15:1-7;25-32Randy Lovelace | May 11, 2025By Christ Community Church

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Net0++: Data Center Sprawl | NEW Research from The Maybe 54:09

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We’re excited to finally share our report on data center expansion and resistance around the world. It’s been a labor of love, but also showcases the amazing work of many organisations, activists, and journalists around the world that are working to create space for meaningful consultation about hugely consequential decisions. Download it here. In …

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EP 13: Adam Levy on Songwriting, Musical Curiosity, and Making Albums 1:16:39

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In this episode of The Guitar Journal podcast, I sit down with the incomparable Adam Levy—guitarist, songwriter, educator, and all-around creative force. You’ve likely heard Adam’s playing on Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me, or in collaborations with Tracy Chapman, Vulfpeck, or Liz Wright. Beyond his impressive credits, Adam has carved out a unique …

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Net 0++: AI Thirst in a Water-Scarce World w/ Julie McCarthy 53:29

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Last year, Elon Musk’s xAI built a data centre in Memphis in 19 days — and the local government only found out about it on the 20th day. How? Julie McCarthy and her team at NatureFinance have just released a report about the nature-related impacts of data center development globally. There are some pretty dire statistics in there: 55% of data cente…

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Short: Open AI for...Countries? w/ Marietje Schaake 13:52

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This is another Computer Says Maybe short, this time with Marietje Schaake (author of The Tech Coup), to discuss OpenAI’s recent announcement: they want to partner with governments all around the world to build ‘democratic AI rails’ — sounds bad! Computer Says Maybe Shorts bring in experts to give their ten-minute take on recent news. If there’s ev…

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Short: What Just Happened to 23andMe? w/ Jenny Reardon 14:58

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Personalised genotyping company 23andMe just went bankrupt — what’s gonna happen to all that genetic data? We brought back genomics professor Jenny Reardon to discuss the crushing void that was 23andMe’s business model — and that many companies like it have failed before. This is a Computer Says Maybe Short, where we bring in an expert to give thei…

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Terra Nullius: Who Owns the Skies? w/ Julia Powles 52:48

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This is our second Terra Nullius episode. As a reminder this means ‘Nobody’s Land’ — an infamous legal fiction from the age of Empire. In this episode we ask: who owns the skies? We get into it with law professor Julia Powles, who shares her research and perspective on the accelerating prospect of drone delivery companies taking over the skies. Wha…

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When The Insiders Get In The Way | Tim Harlow | May 4, 2025 36:19

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WHAT MADE JESUS MAD? - When The Insiders Get In The WayMark 11:15-18Tim HarlowMay 4, 2025By Christ Community Church

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Terra Nullius: Who Owns Outer Space? w/ Heather Allansdottir 48:57

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This is our first in a series called Terra Nullius. Huh? It’s Latin for ‘Nobody’s Land’. We will be exploring how rules are made for contested territory. If a land belongs to no one, does that mean it’s just up for grabs? This week we’re starting with outer space, speaking with an expert in space law, Heather Allansdottir. But why should we care ab…

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STRANGE KINGDOM - Unlearning To Live | Randy Lovelace | April 27, 2025 33:24

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STRANGE KINGDOM - Unlearning To LiveMatthew 5:1-16Randy LovelaceApril 27, 2025By Christ Community Church

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STRANGE KINGDOM - The Day The Revolution Began | Randy Lovelace | April 20, 2025 30:14

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STRANGE KINGDOM - The Day The Revolution BeganLuke 24:1-12Randy LovelaceApril 20, 2025By Christ Community Church

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STRANGE KINGDOM - The Truth Will Make You Odd | Randy Lovelace | April 13, 2025 36:03

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STRANGE KINGDOM - The Truth Will Make You OddMatthew 5:1-16Randy LovelaceApril 13, 2025By Christ Community Church

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How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim 48:29

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Child safety is a fuzzy catch-all concept for our broader social anxieties that seems to be everywhere in our conversations about the internet. But child safety isn’t a new concept, and the way our politics focuses on the spectacle isn’t new either. To help us unpack this is Kate Sim, who has over a decade of experience in sexual violence preventio…

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Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman 46:08

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This week Alix interviewed David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice, to tell us more about how big tech companies act brazenly as legal bullies to extract wealth and power from the working class in the US. He makes a compelling case for the urgent need to re-orient our thinking about political power and organise against it. We talk abo…