Surveillance capitalism drives the online marketplace and we are the raw materials.

Atlanta's City Council voted to build a "public safety training facility" for American police to train in a fake city built on Atlanta's precious green space. The project will raise the average temperature for nearby neighborhoods and bring throngs of police to the city. Atlanta constituents are fighting hard to move the project to a referendum vote, but the construction already broke ground and is set to be done by December 2024.

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Joanna explains why there's NO PARKING even though there's EIGHT SPOTS PER CAR in the U.S.

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Joanna, Christina, and guest Alexis talk about YA dystopias (The Hunger Games, Uglies, and City of Ember) and their obsession with assigning, sorting, and ranking.

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At least 500 families were displaced to create the Shenandoah National Park.

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Sources:

https://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-domain 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/10/17/the-dark-side-of-skyline-drive/d72e6151-6b96-483c-ab68-dea952288b6a/

https://www.nps.gov/shen/learn/historyculture/displaced.htm 

Consuming Places by John Urry

NASA's Artemis II mission set for November 2024 will turn the moon into a glorified gas station.

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We've been launching human paraphernalia into space since the 1960s. Aliens: COME TO BRAZIL!

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The Titan submersible implosion carries on the legacy of ultra rich white men taking dangerous voyages for attention.

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https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/21/23768771/titanic-submarine-missing-oceangate-titan-submersible-search-passengers-dead

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184581187/migrant-deaths-mediterranean-crossing

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142418932/tunisians-risking-their-lives-trying-to-cross-the-mediterranean-to-europe

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/manifest-destiny

The right to be forgotten allows users to request information to be delisted from Google or erased from the internet. Joanna and Christina wonder: is that really a bad thing?

Christina and Joanna discuss crowdsourced tastemaking, the educated upper middle class, and share the podcast origin story with a room full of strangers.