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Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio/Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. Airs weekdays at 7:15a ET on WPFW 89.3FM #LaborRadioPod
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.
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4000 Holes - Blackburn Rovers podcasts from the people who bring you BRFCS.com & the 4000 Holes fanzine. Sponsored by the lovely people at www.theterracestore.com. Join the gang for the 'What Now ?' show for chat about current happenings "in and around Ewood". Don't miss the nostalgia & whimsy fuelled 'Round Table' show..or the Rovers Inc. show where we look at the off-pitch issues at Blackburn Rovers. Something for everyone with blue & white halves in their heart. "I read the news today oh ...
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The panel under the auspices of host Roger Whiteside reviews November...and what a topsy-turvy month. Join Ian Herbert, Rory Larmer & Rich Sharpe as they ponder:- Part 1 - Rovers are Jekyll & Hyde - what is going on & why? Part 2 - Commercial Corner, November Player of the Month, Zinedine Baradji Part 3 - The Valérien Ismaël deep dive - what is his…
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Last month, Senate Democrats warned that "Automation Could Destroy Nearly 100 Million U.S Jobs in a Decade." Ironically, they used ChatGPT to come to that conclusion. DAIR Research Associate Sophie Song joins us to unpack the issues when self-professed worker advocates use chatbots for "research." Sophie Song is a researcher, organizer, and advocat…
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Refugees from Nazism to Britain in Trade, Industry, and Engineering (Brill, 2025) is a book in German Studies that explores the intricacies and impacts of refugees on British industry and engineering, through which new technology, business ideas, and strategies were imported to Britain. The book has fifteen chapters, detailing individual stories of…
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This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: the crew is taking a well-earned union break for Thanksgiving — but Chris and Harold are here with a special holiday mini-edition; even during the holidays, labor shows across the Network are busy lifting up workers. This week’s highlights include: • Fight Like Hell: Letter carriers give back with a Than…
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As allegiance to Jesus Christ spread across the Roman Empire in the second century, writings, practices, and ideas erupted in a creative maelstrom. Many of the patterns of practice and belief that later become normative emerged, in the midst of debate and argument with neighbours who shared or who rejected that allegiance. Authoritative texts, prin…
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Two guests in this episode - one an author the other a curator. In Part 1, host Ian Herbert chats with Peter Morris about his book "Puddy - The Life & Times of Syd Puddefoot" a fascinating story about a player who represented West Ham United, Blackburn Rovers and amazingly, for Falkirk after a world record transfer fee was paid. https://www.legends…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Starbucks workers are fed up — and they’re walking out. This week’s show spotlights the escalating Red Cup Rebellion, with frontline stories from baristas, organizers, and labor leaders across the country. We begin on Working People, where Max Alvarez talks with veteran barista and organizer Michelle Eisen…
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It's been six months since our last all-Hell episode! In honor of Halloween season, we take a long journey into the very scary Fresh AI Hell mines. Topics include terrifying uses of AI in education, scientific research, and politics — plus, some delicious palate cleansers along the way. AI bubble: bigger than dot-com bust? No one wants to pay for C…
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On This Week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Boiling Point – Grassroots democracy proves its power as Zohran Mamdani’s historic mayoral win in New York sparks a conversation about movement-based politics. Art and Labor – Brooklyn artists take to the streets on election night with sharp, funny commentary on culture, power, and political change. Blue C…
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But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah (de Gruyter, 2025) proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today’s cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute led by Michal Govrin. The group positions the extraordinary Jewish and non-Jew…
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The Kidder Street Noise show is back with the real discussions around the latest fans forum & this week we're delighted to be joined by Jakob Ward (@PropaNortherner) who has all the insights from the latest instalment. Join Rob & Jakob as they discuss the timeline around the latest fans forum, some of the things that were actually discussed & the a…
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: LabourStart talks with Serbian air traffic controllers Ranko and Igor, fired after leading a 40-day strike — part of what they describe as a growing wave of anti-union repression in Serbia. On Organising for a Change, hosts Simon Sapper and Martin Smith join Matt Collins from Hope Not Hate to discuss how…
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The Review of October (& a bit of November) is here...but due to schedules, recorded before the Bristol City game...so listen to the very end to see who predicted the correct scoreline..! Your host Roger Whiteside teases out the information from a panel including Hollie Hawkesford, Ian Herbert, Rory Larmer & Rich Sharpe. Part 1 - a review of the Oc…
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: it’s all about power — who’s got it, who’s lost it, and how working people are organizing to take it back. On the Labor Notes Podcast, federal workers push back against executive overreach and call out politicians who pretend they’re powerless. Workers Beat Extra dives into divisions inside the labor mov…
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So-called AI tools are increasingly infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis. DAIR writer-in-residence Decca Muldowney joins us to discuss the need for journalists to distinguish between "AI" and reliable, verifiable research methods. Decca Muldowney is a journalist and writer who was our fact checker for The AI Con. She'…
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Entrenched in the myth of being victim of the Nazi aggression, Austrian elites pursued a politics of memory that symbolically shook off any responsibility for the emergence, development and consequences of National Socialism. Authors of the vast majority of films produced early after 1945 were not interested in dealing with the recent Nazi past of …
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: The Line on record-breaking membership growth; Talk the TAUC on bridging labor and tech in megaprojects; Work Week Radio covers a protest against Amazon's landlord Prologis's plan to build a massive E-Commerce warehouse in the San Francisco Bayview neighborhood; Boiling Point investigates ICE and its patte…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Work Stoppage: 32,000 Michigan home healthcare workers win SEIU recognition with a 73% “yes” vote and gear up to bargain with the state. Radio Labour Canada: CUPE re-elects Mark Hancock, announces 800,000 members, and vows to fight back-to-work orders and a right-wing federal agenda. Machinists 141 Connect…
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What does it mean to be a political subject? This is one of the key questions asked by Massimo Modonesi in ​The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action (2019)​, published as part of the Historical Materialism book series from Brill and Haymarket books. The book takes on the theories of Marx and Gramsci to develop a philosophical triad …
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Powerful AI boosters claim to love science fiction novels, but why do they always seem to take the wrong lessons from them? Reporter and writer Reo Eveleth joins us to discuss the ways tech leaders misuse storytelling, and how we can avoid their visions to imagine better futures. Reo Eveleth is a reporter, writer, and co-founder of COYOTE Media Col…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Working People — Max Alvarez follows up with two HUD whistleblowers who were fired after going public; our clip captures them describing how they watched officials “continue to dismantle fair housing” from the inside. The Labor Show (with J-Doc & Krausey) — FOP Lodge 5 President Roosevelt Poplar talks tech…
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On today's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly SPECIAL EDITION: After five years, we’re mixing things up a bit; Chris, Harold and Patrick talk about what’s new. Let us know what you think: email us at [email protected] Help us build sonic solidarity by clicking on the share button below. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the coun…
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A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911 is an encyclopaedic reference work documenting the exile years of imperial China’s most famous reformer, Kang Youwei, and the political organization he mobilized in North America and worldwide to transform China’s autocratic empire into a …
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Join host Roger Whiteside and the panel of Ian Herbert, Rory Larmer & Rich Sharpe as they review September in the Rovers universe. Not much happened so the conversation should be brief...What? Oh... Part 1 - September started with a fine victory on the road at Watford, but was followed by the farce of the Ipswich abandonment, a wretched performance…
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Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany (Brill, 2025) reconstructs the industrial histories of the American and German automotive industries in a new light. From the Fordist assembly line to Japanese lean production and Industry 4.0, Anthony J. Knowles critically examines major technical …
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The extensive research literature on race has paid little attention to Armenians. Between the two world wars, they had to prove that they were free white persons to ensure their naturalization in the United States, while in Nazi Germany they needed to document that they were stakeholders of the Aryan race to safeguard their existence. Vartan Matios…
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Within the Book of Job, Elihu is one of the most diversely evaluated characters. For example, are Elihu’s speeches so insignificant he’s absolutely ignored afterward, or do they actually form an introduction to the speeches of the LORD? What are we to make of Elihu? Find out as we speak with Cooper Smith about his recent monograph, Allusive and Elu…
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It's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000's third birthday! To celebrate, Emily and Alex respond to listener questions about the show, and reflect on the past and future of AI hype. Topics range from how to talk to your kids about LLMs, to what the MAIHT3k birthday cake looks like. Artifacts referenced: AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchma…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: This week on Work Stoppage, Italy’s unions show how it’s done, with port blockades and a nationwide transit shutdown in solidarity with Palestine. Over on WorkWeek, a Wells Fargo banker in Wyoming tells how workers organized with CWA—and what happened when the company fired him for it. From the Labor Notes…
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One for all football shirt enthusiasts here... 4000 Holes was recently invited to visit the Classic Football Shirts HQ in Hyde to have a look at how they operate & to take a sneaky peek into "The Vault" to enthuse over the Rovers shirts that are stored in the air-conditioned, humidity controlled, access restricted strong room..! Join Ian & Roger as…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: art, political corruption, and worker power — from Robert Redford’s films to frontline labor struggles and global supply-chain fights. Over on The Green and Red, a film-forward conversation looks at Redford’s movie work and how cinema has long probed political corruption and community resistance. This week…
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How do new ideas and beliefs take root when they cross cultural and linguistic borders? In seventeenth-century Taiwan, both Dutch and Spanish missionaries tried to replace Indigenous gods, practices, and laws with their own Christian traditions. Christopher Joby’s Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Belief…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: how workers, artists, and activists are pushing back, telling their stories, and demanding change. Over on Exploits of Play, hosts dig into video games and capitalism, exploring how play shapes the way we work and learn. This week on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, veteran narrator Sean Pratt shares what it really …
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New Testament letters are compared with private, business, and administrative letters of Greco-Roman antiquity and analyzed against this background. More than 11,800 Greek and Latin letters – preserved on papyrus, potsherds, and tablets from Egypt, Israel, Asia Minor, North Africa, Britain, and Switzerland – have been edited so far. Among them are …
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Talking to chatbots can have serious mental health consequences — fueling delusions and leading users away from consensus reality. Futurism writer Maggie Harrison Dupré joins us to unpack the hype around AI therapists, based on her groundbreaking reporting on "AI psychosis." Maggie Harrison Dupré is an award-winning tech journalist at Futurism who’…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: we’re talking about solidarity, storytelling, and the ways workers are fighting back against power. Over on The Rick Smith Show, Painters Union President Jimmy Williams Jr. calls out the Trump administration for canceling union jobs while claiming to put “American workers first.” This week on The Labor Sho…
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The WNS returns to review August & that means the transfer window, early results and off-field shenanigans. Part 1 - The Transfer Window - the ins & outs - what does it mean? What are the highs & lows of the business Rovers have undertaken. Part 2 - August - Five games, four defeats in all competitions. Which players have impressed, where do we for…
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In this episode of Unlocking Academia, host Raja Aderdor speaks with Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib, Associate Professor at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics and Director of the Master’s program in Applied Islamic Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Together, they explore Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics (Brill, 2024), a groundbr…
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On this week’s Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: On WBAI’s What’s Going On, Liz Shuler talks with Bob Henley about the fight to defend collective bargaining rights for federal workers. The Heartland Labor Forum features former NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, reflecting on her abrupt firing and what it reveals about presidential power. From the Eng…
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Trump’s “AI Action Plan” is his latest attempt to turn AI hype into official national policy. Kate Brennan and Sarah Myers West, of the AI Now Institute, join us to dig through this pile of deregulatory gifts to Big Tech. Dr. Sarah Myers West is co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, and a former senior advisor on AI for the FTC. Dr. Kate B…
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This week on the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Power at Work explores why conservatives support unions; Australia’s Concrete Gang reports on a jobsite medical emergency and safety fight; The Alberta Worker covers Air Canada flight attendants’ battle over unpaid labor; Workers Beat Extra takes on Trump’s torrent of lies; the IAM’s Connections Podcast …
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Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole? Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asi…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: federal bargaining rights under fire, rank-and-file power rising, and one very odd ICE headline. The Labor Notes Podcast spotlights UAW Region 9A’s member-driven endorsements and field power; Green and Red digs into how to turn non-compliance into concrete action; The Workers Mic unpacks Dean Cain’s leap f…
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The Human Dimension of International Law (Brill, 2025) offers a vision of international law through the protection of human rights and the values they embody. This approach is particularly timely in light of recent international developments. For the first time, the International Court of Justice is seized of the main legal aspects of serious conte…
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After many months of making fun of the term "vibe coding," Emily and Alex tackle the LLMs-as-coders fad head-on, with help from security researcher Susanna Cox. From one person's screed that proclaims everyone not on the vibe-coding bandwagon to be crazy, to the grandiose claim that LLMs could be the "opposable thumb" of the entire world of computi…
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On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: From America’s Workforce Radio, we revisit the Vietnam era’s “Hard Hat” protest and how labor’s stance on war split the movement. Tales from the Reuther Library explores rank-and-file reform in the Steelworkers with the story of “Oil Can Eddie.” Labor Jawn takes us inside Philadelphia’s once-every-40-years…
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For several decades now, Alan Wald has been thoroughly documenting the history of the literature and cultural output of the American left. While his numerous books and essays cover a lot of territory, much of his work is united by an interest in commitment, particularly when it comes to radical politics. What does it mean to commit ones life to a r…
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On the cusp of another new season - the panel reviews the summer trading, casts their eye around the rest of the Championship and predicts Rovers fate for 2025/26. Who will be the new heroes? Are Rovers a dodgy shoulder or a muddy hill? How many times will Derby beat Rovers next season? Listen carefully to find out..! Roger Whiteside guides Ian Her…
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