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This week, Proxy peels back the layers of fair trade coffee! What does that little label actually mean anyway? Surely some genuine regulation, right? (Spoiler alert: uhh, not really!!)

Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/105KqKc6zV_PVeiKlJfhVHQx0LlBxHEIupy5_QUJkbPs/edit?usp=sharing

This week on Commune College, Hyperlink attempts to decide whether Star Trek: The Next Generation counts as a communist utopia! Let's boldly go where no dog has gone before....

Show Notes:

- https://s-usih.org/2016/09/a-relativist-utopia-the-politics-of-star-trek-the-next-generation/

- http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/10460/1/Diplomski%20rad_Milanovic%20Jelena.pdf

- https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/United_Earth#Structure

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Star_Trek

- https://www.socialist.net/star-trek-picard-a-utopia-lost.htm

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUGvPDrx5I&list=WL&index=88&t=31s

- “Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Climate Change.” Labor Network for Sustainability, 20Sep. 2010, www.labor4sustainability.org/post/974/

This week, Keeble explains what capitalists mean when they talk about “market failures”, and how this can be useful for arguing in favor of... alternatives 😉🤫 Hey wait isn’t ALL of capitalism a market failure...?

Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4oImDM7urHBMMshQMzPmTpoIw5w4Y4g62TsM5LLnhM/edit?usp=sharing

Purple is sus! This week, Proxy talks Social Deduction Games — what’s more fun than discovering how your friends’ brains work under pressure?

Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1buM_3R3bHxLKq4r13SeORxkP89iJjXpMqVoXm-4eCeQ/edit?usp=sharing

In our final spooky-style episode of the Halloween season, Keeble unwraps a common Halloween horror story — did someone put a razor blade in my darling child’s large candy apple?!

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zckEnUEKCh-KgQFQ-FEnhJfu50k4-K9ddxGWQHZHQnM/edit

Includes: "Book, Flipping Through Pages, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/416179/

Do not adjust your mind — it’s time for a second very scary Halloween episode! What Hyperlink is about to show you is very real, and not for the faint of heart. Turn down the lights and prepare to permanently dismember your robot friends and discard all the parts — it’s Concept Unification.

Sources:

SOURCES:

https://snouts.online/@hyperlink/104236017155289208

https://showbizpizza.fandom.com/wiki/Concept_Unification

https://showbizpizza.fandom.com/wiki/ShowBiz_Pizza_Place

https://showbizpizza.fandom.com/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock-afire_Explosion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Fechter

Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCrVNEwGxM&t=311s

Full rip:

https://www.showbizpizza.com/videos/archive.html

https://soundcloud.com/hyperlinkfromsnouts/episode-46-concept-unification-w-hyperlink

AWOOO! It’s part one of our very scary Halloween trilogy! Proxy teaches us why we should fear the night — there are werewolves about!! AIEEEEEE

Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wV4RpGlnsKiuj3d8abd2YgQSfyPYjSZY9OxjRfp0gIs/edit

Episode 44: What Does It Mean For A Man To Be Straight? w/ Mads Viande by Proxy, Keeble & Hyperlink

Who the hell decides which music is or is not "classic" anyway? This week, Keeble unwinds the history of the cultivation of classic rock as an exclusionary white supremacist radio category and helps us imagine what classic rock could be like if it didn't pretend women, black people, and politics didn't exist.

Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1krZd-1mSi36GEw8wK04j0vfc1QX_kRI2BDeHBE1XhoY/edit

Keeble's Playlist

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zeRdilOMN0Q8HQSXGCTPP?si=HVhie-yKQwKbna-dyrH6_Q

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdU5Auh2Ppe3seVWWqB8I5mdyPVG-l52Q

So websites want your "data" (whatever that means). So...what? This week on Commune College, Hyperlink takes the squad in depth on what data collection & sale really means for individuals and why it's so fucked up, then shares some ideas on what you can do to protect your privacy, even if you're not a #certified #foss #app.

Music credits for this episode are two tracks from Kye:

Kye Fox - Praxis

Kye Fox - Redshift Reboot

Show Notes:

Turow, J. (2017). The aisles have eyes: How retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy,

and define your power. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Dunkin Brands, Inc. (n.d.). Privacy and Cookie Policy. Retrieved from https://

www.dunkindonuts.com/en/privacy-policy

Greenfield, Adam. 2017. Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. New York: Verso.

John, A. S. (2018, April 11). How Facebook Tracks You, Even When You're Not on Facebook.

Retrieved from https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-you-

even-when-youre-not-on-facebook/

Schneier, B. (2016). Data and Goliath: The hidden battles to collect your data and control your

world. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Lee, M. (2014, October 28). Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible

Danger. Now I Teach You. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/

smuggling-snowden-secrets/

Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

Turow, J. (2017). The aisles have eyes: How retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy,

and define your power. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Turow, J., Mcguigan, L., & Maris, E. R. (2015). Making data mining a natural part of life:

Physical retailing, customer surveillance and the 21st century social imaginary.

European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4-5), 464-478. doi:10.1177/1367549415577390

Zuboff, S. (2015). Big other: Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information

civilization. Journal of Information Technology, 30(1), 75-89. doi:10.1057/jit.2015.5

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21344751/facial-recognition-face-masks-accuracy-nist-study

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/congress-clears-way-for-isps-to-sell-browsing-history.html

https://www.vyprvpn.com/blog/myths-about-vpn-logging-and-anonymity

https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-you-even-when-youre-not-on-facebook/

https://www.groundtruth.com/solutions/self-serve/

The Tor Project. (n.d.). Tor: Overview. Retrieved October 29, 2018, from https://

www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en