The Scab-Gig Economy feat. Alex N. Press
Added 2023-08-14 19:19:44 +0000 UTCIt's the free one!
For this week’s free episode, the cast of Riley, Milo, Hussein, and Alice speak with (now three-time!) guest Alex N. Press, the labour correspondent for Jacobin Magazine, about two of her recent stories. In one, a ‘flexible work’ app is assigning people gigs that lead them directly across a picket line. In another, studio executives in Hollywood are dreaming up ways to digitize an actor’s likeness and use them in AI-generated content, for free, forever. And in the face of Spencer Confidential not actually getting 11 billion downloads, we ask: is the Silicon Valley-ification of Hollywood just intent on destroying the concept of movies?
Check out Alex’s articles here!
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/southern-california-hotel-workers-strike-automated-management-unite-here
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/hollywood-writers-actors-strike-studios-streaming
Comments
Riley will never mention crypto superbowl advertisements without making the mistake of saying it was Mark Wahlberg in the crypto ads and not Matt Damon who was actually in the ads
Adam Foster
2023-08-17 14:04:50 +0000 UTCHoly shit I hope they made Travis grit his teeth and plow through an entire explanation of Sissy Hypno. Just make Pod Dad regret that he'd ever been born.
Zeroisanumber
2023-08-17 03:46:42 +0000 UTC
