153. Organizing in the 21st Century -- Jaz Brisack

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04/23/25 • 37 min

Jaz Brisack joins me to discuss their new book, Get on the Job and Organize. Jaz and I discuss why billionaires take union organizing personally, how organizing is different in the 21st century, and how you can organize your workplace.

Jaz might be coming to a town near you soon - here's the link to their book tour sites: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Jaz-Brisack/225399070

And a link to buy the book:

https://flyleafbooks.com/book/9781668080795

Jaz might be coming to a town near you soon - here's the link to their book tour sites: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Jaz-Brisack/225399070

And a link to buy the book:

https://flyleafbooks.com/book/9781668080795

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152. Why Billionaires Love AI -- Brian Merchant

Brian Merchant, author of the newsletter Blood in the Machine, returns to the show to talk about the newsletter, ai, tech oligarchs, the neoliberal "abundance" agenda, jobs, and pretty much everything else you want to know about the terrible, horrible, no good collusion between Trump, Tech billionaires, and ai. Fight the tech billionaires. Support Blood in the Machine!

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/

You can also check out Brian's previous appearance on his book about the luddites - also called Blood in the Machine: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/a05a3ed4-471c-4224-9ac6-4af204b7ff1d/

Oh, and you can find some of my work on ai here:

https://aideas.captivate.fm/

https://www.aiedu.org/aiedu-blog/guest-author-ethics-culbertson-1

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