Activism

Civitech co-founder and CEO Jeremy Smith joins Plutopia to discuss how technology, personal trust, and grassroots organizing can expand political participation in Texas and beyond. He explains how Civitech helps…

Nicole Ozer, the new Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins the Plutopia News Network to discuss protecting privacy, free expression, and digital rights, and civil liberties as AI…

Cory Doctorow returns to the Plutopia podcast to discuss The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI and the struggle over who controls technology in the workplace. He distinguishes between…

The Plutopia team discusses data-center opposition, the uncertain AI boom, political chaos, public health, and an increasingly unreliable media.

Finn Myrstad explains how Big Tech exploits our data and attention—and how stronger rules could help us reclaim the internet.

In this Plutopia News Network interview, Dallas, Texas counselor and longtime LGBTQ advocate Candy Marcum reflects on more than four decades of providing affirming mental health care, her activism during…

The Plutopia News Network team takes a wide-ranging look at the changing political landscape in Texas, using Jon Lebkowsky’s experience as a delegate to the Texas Democratic Convention as a…

Three longtime patient-empowerment advocates — e-Patient Dave deBronkart, Hugo Campos, and Gilles Frydman — join Plutopia to discuss how AI is transforming participatory medicine by giving patients new tools to…

In this hosts-only “Plutopians Gone Wild” episode, Jon Lebkowsky, Scoop Sweeney, and Wendy Grossman range freely across early online culture, disaster response, politics, surveillance, AI, advertising, podcasts, and pop culture.…

Nathan Schneider joins the Plutopia podcast to discuss cooperatives, platform ownership, and the dangers of “implicit feudalism” online, arguing that many digital spaces train users to choose between powerful admins…