{"podcast":{"title":"Revolution.Social","slug":"revolution-social-7409931","podcast_index_feed_id":7409931,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/11425154c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://revolution.social/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/46229419/49a2b074e1d12f41.jpg","author":"Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath","episode_count":49,"summary":"A podcast about the future of social media and reclaiming our digital communities. Revolution.Social is hosted by technologist and community advocate Rabble, a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath — who was Twitter’s first employee and hired Jack Dorsey. In weekly interviews, Rabble will interview thought leaders, technologists, academics, and more about the need for a new social media \"bill of rights.\" Just as the original Bill of Rights protected individual freedoms from government overreach, we need fundamental protections from corporate control and surveillance capitalism. This is the start of a conversation about what developers are building, how they're building it, and what consumers need to be asking for. Guests will include Jack Dorsey (former CEO & co-founder of Twitter); Kara Swisher (host of On with Kara Swisher, co-host of Pivot); Cory Doctorow (science fiction author & former editor of Boing Boing); and Taylor Lorenz (founder of User Mag, host of Power User).","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T16:20:23.930135+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931"},"episode":{"title":"Ethics Have Become Optional in Big Tech. We Can Do Better. (with Alex Komoroske)","slug":"ethics-have-become-optional-in-big-tech-we-can-do-better-with-alex-komoroske","published_at":"2026-02-26T08:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931/ethics-have-become-optional-in-big-tech-we-can-do-better-with-alex-komoroske","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/divine01/episodes/Ethics-Have-Become-Optional-in-Big-Tech--We-Can-Do-Better--with-Alex-Komoroske-e3l6oej","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/11425154c/podcast/play/121905043/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-23%2F426709595-44100-2-c3166f1f37207f40.mp3","summary":"Alex Komoroske spent over a decade at Google overseeing key initiatives for ads, Chrome, and Maps, before running Corporate Strategy at Stripe. At heart, he's a champion for the open web. Today, as the CEO and co-founder of Common Tools, Alex says technologists must lean into ethics and away from short-term results. \"We're in the late stage of this extractive kind of thing, where we're all just trying to wring more out of these walled gardens,\" Alex adds. \"And what bothers me is that all of us seem to have forgotten that. And everyone's like, in this zombie state: 'Well, the thing says make number go up.'\" Today on Revolution.Social, Alex and Rabble talk about the challenges of maintaining interoperability in an era of proprietary lock-in; the difference between \"hollow\" vs. \"resonant\" tech experiences; and the Resonant Computing Manifesto, which Alex co-drafted last year. They also discuss the rightward political shift of Silicon Valley, Alex's Lord of the Rings-inspired archetypes for understanding builders, and how to curate cozy offline communities. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 5:24 The \"Slime Mold\" Theory of Organizations 10:53 The Fallacy of Measurement and KPIs 15:49 Christopher Alexander and Pattern Language 17:51 The Resonant Computing Manifesto 21:06 Chatbots vs. Agentic LLMs 26:54 Saruman vs. Radagast 31:53 Power Dynamics and \"Money Disease\" 38:45 How LLMs Change Software 42:52 The History of the Luddite Movement 47:54 APIs as Public Infrastructure 52:48 Lessons from the Open Web and Chrome 59:43 App Stores vs. The Web Sandbox 1:04:42 Balancing Open Systems with Speed 1:09:09 User-Driven Innovation at Twitter 1:10:53 Cloud Security Tiers and Data Privacy 1:16:44 The Power of Physical Salons and Curation 1:22:47 Hypersituated Software and Local Community Follo…","meta_description":"Alex Komoroske spent over a decade at Google overseeing key initiatives for ads, Chrome, and Maps, before running Corporate Strategy at Stripe. At heart,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5160,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolution-social-7409931/episodes/ethics-have-become-optional-in-big-tech-we-can-do-better-with-alex-komoroske/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolution-social-7409931/ethics-have-become-optional-in-big-tech-we-can-do-better-with-alex-komoroske.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}