The government hired 110,000 workers over the past 10 years, did we get 110,000 times more efficient?
February 11, 2025
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#1095 Zuckerberg and Musk are Just like Edison and Ford: A**holes
Social media is a mess and the tech oligarchs are to blame
January 24, 2025
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#1094 The Real Reason Elon Musk Threw Up A Sieg Heil
What Trump’s inauguration lacked in tariffs, it made up for in egregious salutes.
January 22, 2025
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#1061 Nice Try, Bluesky (Still Bitter Over Twitter)
As Bluesky rides high, Jesse finally quits Twitter (two years too late.) Co-host Douglas Soltys explains why the fediverse might be our last best hope for social media.
November 20, 2024
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#1027 Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke A.I. Sucks Too
Is this the era of the A.I. election?
September 20, 2024
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#973 The Musk of Censorship
As Elon Musk rails against content moderation in a disastrous interview with Don Lemon, Jesse and Ivor Shapiro reconsider Canada’s new approach to online speech.
March 21, 2024
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#925 Elon Musk Saves Canadian Podcasts!
Elon Musk accused Justin Trudeau of “trying to crush free speech in Canada.”
October 5, 2023
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#877 CBC Is in a Fight for Its Life
We’re talking the CBC leaving Twitter after being labeled “government-funded media”, while Pierre Poilievre thanks Elon Musk for what he was already going to do. The real losers here are the Canadian public.
April 20, 2023
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#843 God Save the Tweets
Why Twitter should be run more like a newsroom and a look at the Twitter Files. And the latest in CTV’s Lisa LaFlamme story and who was left out of the narrative. Jan Wong co-hosts.
December 22, 2022
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#831 Never Gonna Give (Twitter) Up
Unpacking the changes at Twitter and how chaos is Elon Musk's product. And what would it take for Canadians to change their mind on the use of the Emergencies Act? Douglas Soltys co-hosts.