# Aral Balkan

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Spaghetti Detective Icecream Vice with Aral Balkan

This week, we share our embarrassing vices, a hilarious bot-made Netflix movie and announce our 75th Episode Giveaway winners 🎉 (And that’s before we even get into Watchtower Weekly!) Hit that play button to hear all our thoughts on a 3D printer cloud bug and the courteous printed warning that foll…

Episode 28. FACING DOWN FACEBOOK: how to tackle "surveillance capitalism"

Hello! Our technology is watching us. We know that now. But what does it all mean? And is there a way to stop companies collecting and selling our data without our knowledge? Our guests Shoshana Zuboff, Aral Balkan and Mat Lawrence join us to explain why we should be concerned and what can be done.…

Aral Balkan — Certain Unalienable Cyborg Rights

Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Aral Balkan. Aral is a cyborg rights activist and one-third of Ind.ie, a small non-profit organization working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, he works on Better, a privacy tool that stops trackers while you are surfing the web on Safa…

Episode 44: Crossing The Chasm with Tobie Langel

Sponsored by Linode Panelists Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer Guest Tobie Langel Show Notes Welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Tobie Langel, the Founder of UnlockOpen, from Geneva, Switzerland. Tobie tells us all ab…

Aral Balkan- Small Technology

UXAUS2019 Day 1 Big Tech, with its billion-dollar unicorns, has robbed us of the potential of the Internet. Fueled by the extreme shortsightedness and greed of venture capital and startups, the utopic vision of a decentralised and democratic commons has morphed into the dystopic autocracy of Silico…

#4 A free and open internet for everyone with Aral Balkan

We attended UX Camp Copenhagen this month where we met one of the keynote speakers, Aral Balkan. Aral is a designer, coder, and human rights activist, who has spoken at over 75 events in different countries. His keynotes are inspirational talks where he introduces ethical design, criticizes surveil…

Non Breaking Space Show 136: Aral Balkan — Certain Unalienable Cyborg Rights

Joined with Simon St. Laurent in talking with Aral Balkan. Aral is a cyborg rights activist and one-third of Ind.ie, a small non-profit organization working for social justice in the digital age. At Ind.ie, he works on Better, a privacy tool that stops trackers while you are surfing the web on Safa…

Turkey's Erdogan Expands Authoritarian Powers with Fascist Coalition Election Victory

After 15 years in power, Recep Tayyip Erdogan will serve another 5 years as president of NATO member Turkey. TRNN's Ben Norton speaks with activist Aral Balkan about the AKP's victorious coalition with the far-right extremist MHP, and the implosion of Turkish democracy.Become a supporter of this po…

9. The Small-Tech Movement

This month, software engineer and systems builder Corey Snipes joined us to talk about small tech, digital sovereignty, LLMs, and why he's optimistic about the future of tech. Corey has 25 years of experience across security, cloud, and web-facing technologies. He likes to fix things, spend time in…