Citations Needed | October 30, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-92-the-responsibility-erasing-catch-all-of-automation[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All of your help through Patreon is incredible and it keeps the show going. We cannot do the show without it and without your support. So thank you to all of our listeners. It is incredibly, incredibly appreciated.Adam: Yes, we appreciate that. You can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. To be clear, we are very insecure, so your validation is important, especially in Patreon, which we’re really appreciate, so thank you for all the support so far. It helps keep the show going and it helps us keep going at the pace we want to do it at.Nima: “As technology shifts more layoffs loom at tech companies,” Reuters tells us.Adam:...

Citations Needed | October 23, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-91-its-time-to-retire-the-term-middle-class[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you for listening everyone. Of course you can find the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We are 100 percent listener funded, so no one except you — the listeners — can tell us what to do or what to talk about. So we’d like to keep that going. So please, if you have considered it and have not done it, become a supporter of our show through Patreon. It really, really does help.Adam: Yeah, and a reminder there’s about 47-48 little mini-episodes for patrons only that we’ve done throughout the last two years. You can always go back and listen to those. They’re called News Briefs. They’re a little more hot take-y, but some of them I think have aged like fine wine.Nima:...

Citations Needed | October 16, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-90-how-us-medias-false-binary-between-science-and-indigenous-rights-erases-native-people[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you everyone for listening to this week’s episode. You can of course follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is so appreciated. We are 100 percent listener-funded. We have no ads, no corporate sponsors, nothing of the like. It is all about you, so thanks so much for all your support. It really does help.Adam: And as always you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. That is very much appreciated.Nima: “Science and religion fight over Hawaii’s highest point” one CNN headline puts it. “Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers?” asks BBC. “SCIENCE, INTERRUPTED: Mauna Kea Observatories ‘caught in the middle,’” Pacific Business News writes.Adam: When tensions arise between Native communities and...

Citations Needed | October 9, 2019 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-89-how-charges-of-appeasement-equate-diplomacy-with-treason[/embed]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you everyone for listening this week. Of course you can find us on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. We are 100 percent listener-funded, no corporate backers, no sponsors, no philanthropic donors other than our wonderful supporters through Patreon who keep the show going and growing. We cannot do it without you. If you have considered becoming a supporter of our work because you like our shows, please do. It really, really does help.Adam: Yeah. And um, as always, you can rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, formerly known as iTunes. If you can go there and leave a positive feedback, we’d really appreciate that.Nima: “Peace with honor, peace for our time” — one of the most infamous phrases in modern politics....