Episode 26: It's Complicated

Welcome to the Tech Gypsies podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and political) news.

In this episode, we talk about constructive technology criticism and the complexities (or not) of Javascript.

Here are some of the stories we referenced:

• "Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism" by Sara M. Watson
• "Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources" via Reuters
• "Waze Lets Israelis Avoid Palestinian Areas, but Not the Other Way Around" via Motherboard Vice
• "Facebook is talking to the White House about giving you 'free' Internet. Here's why that may be controversial" via The Washington Post
• "Theranos Retreats From Blood Tests" via The Wall Street Journal
• "Crime-prediction tool PredPol amplifies racially biased policing, study shows" via Mic.com
• "How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016" via Hackernoon

Feedback is welcome. (You should email Kin with it though, not Audrey.)