Excited to share my Techtonic interview with @cyberlyra - aka Janet Vertesi - founder of the #optout project and #techreclaimers .

Janet explains WHY and HOW to get off of Big Tech, and onto community-minded alternatives.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-23-janet-vertesi-founder-of-the-opt-out-project/

Excited to share this Techtonic episode featuring my visit to Repair Cafe El Barrio: volunteers repairing items, and guests who are ecstatic with the results.

This is how we'll beat the billionaires: building community.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-16-a-visit-to-repair-cafe-el-barrio/

From the new Techtonic, with Jesse Jarnow - aka @bourgwick - as we talk about how to properly dispose of surveillance phones.

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Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-09-marathon-week-2-w-cohost-jesse-jarnow/

From my newest Techtonic, with @WFMU station manager Ken Freedman. This after I played the clip of Sam Altman talking about "training human beings."

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Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-02-marathon-week-1-w-cohost-station-manager-ken-freedman/

I'm celebrating 400 episodes of Techtonic - with handpicked excerpts of past interviews, featuring @jasonkoebler @writearthur @byrontau & more.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-02-23-celebrating-400-episodes-of-techtonic/

New: I spoke w/Chris Gilliard - aka @hypervisible - on Techtonic about Amazon’s admission that Ring spies on us.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-02-16-chris-gilliard-on-amazons-admission-that-ring-spies-on-us/

New on Techtonic: I speak w/Peter Dear about the history of science - then explain that *how we interpret AI* is in the balance right now.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-02-09-peter-dear-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-how-we-interpret-ai/

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New from me: on Techtonic I talked about how AI is spreading where it doesn't belong... like Google in schools.

Full episode + links for more reading:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-02-02-ai-is-spreading-where-it-doesnt-belong/

The National Archives have launched an AI-powered exhibit, reassuring Axios that "they're not using AI to create new historical records."

That's not happening *yet.* We always have to add *yet.* I fixed it:

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-ai-plus-b76757c1-9347-4ca8-97bc-dd03d03f2d2a.html