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This Machine Kills — 479 episodes

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Patreon Preview – 456. Do Not Question Project Cannoli

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455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club

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Patreon Preview – 454. The Shocks Keep Coming

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453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy

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Patreon Preview – 452. Lady Luck is the World Spirit

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451. Do Not Become Addicted to Electrons (ft. Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie)

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Patreon Preview – 450. Sorry Grandma, Computer Says Die

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449. Efficiently Drowning in Work

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Patreon Preview – 448. Dubai’s Golden Dome Crumbles

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TMK Live Show in San Francisco - March 19th

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447. The Shinji Problem

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Patreon Preview – 446. Vibe Decoder (ft. Wendy Liu, Jimmy Wu)

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445. What’s Democracy Got to Do With AI? (ft. Bruce Schneier)

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Patreon Preview – 444. The Stories We Tell

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443. Behold the Big Beautiful AI State (ft. Brian Chen)

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Patreon Preview – 442. The Empire of Blood and Oil

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441. The Fight Over AI Use in Mental Healthcare (ft. Ciara Keegan, Ilana Marcucci-Morris)

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Patreon Preview – 440. TMK x CES: Return to Hell

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439. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 2 (ft. Aaron Benanav)

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Patreon Preview – 438. Bloodsport for Billionaires

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437. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 1 (ft. Aaron Benanav)

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Patreon Preview – 436. Panic! Attack the User

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435. Schoolwork Will Set You Free

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Patreon Preview – 434. Gang Stalking Palantir

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433. How to Think About Disability (ft. Becca Monteleone)

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Patreon Preview – 432. Shadowbanned From Candy Crush

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431. How Amazon Workers are Organizing for Climate Justice (ft. Eliza Pan, Dawn)

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Patreon Preview – 430. Bring the Pain

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429. The Nature of Capital and Freedom (ft. Alyssa Battistoni)

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428. Patreon Preview – Antichrist Superstartup

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427. Many Worlds of Extraction (ft. Laleh Khalili)

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Patreon Preview – 426. The Road to Hell is Paved with Advertisements

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425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)

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Patreon Preview – 424. Me and My AI

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423. Violence, Fast and Slow

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Patreon Preview – 422. Demon Valley

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421. To AGI, or Not to AGI, That is the Question

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Patreon Preview – 420. Long Live the Moron Kings

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419. The Launch of a Stillborn God

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Patreon Preview – 418. The Trump Pump

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417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx, Brian Merchant)

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Patreon Preview – 416. The Neverending Race

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415. It’s Time to Build… Radical Policy for AI (ft. Sarah Myers West, Amba Kak)

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Patreon Preview – 414. Deus Ex Zuck

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413. ScamGPT – How AI Supercharges Fraud (ft. Alice Marwick)

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Patreon Preview – 412. Sweat Your Genetic Assets

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411. Big Easy’s Big Brother

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Patreon Preview – 410. Palantir’s Psychohistory

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409. The Breakup Meltdown

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408. Synthetic Text Extruder Hype (ft. Emily Bender, Alex Hanna)

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Patreon Preview – 407. Burn Notice

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Patreon Preview – 406. The Golden Path

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405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix)

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Patreon Preview – 404. The Parasites that Control Pharmaceutical Prices

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403. Perpetual Slop Machine

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Patreon Preview – 402. Crypto Empire of the Sons

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401. Ruled by Bastards (ft. Quinn Slobodian)

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400. Well, Somebody Has to Do Something! (ft. Malcolm Harris)

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Patreon Preview – 399. The Business of Management (ft. Katie Wells)

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398. The Treacherous Eunuch

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Patreon Preview – 397. The Silicon Valley Consensus

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396. Need to Justify? Need an Alibi? Blame the AI!

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Patreon Preview – 395. How Workers are Building Power (ft. Eric Blanc)

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394. Who Let the DOGE Out

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Patreon Preview – 393. The Age of Disability Comes for Us All (ft. Sunaura Taylor)

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392. Deep Freak Out

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Patreon Preview – 391. TMK x CES x Vegas

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390. We All Live in the Firestorm

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389. The Year of Polycrisis

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Patreon Preview – 388. The On-Demand Degradation of Nursing

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387. Getting Fleeced in Nature’s Casino

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Patreon Preview – 386. The FIRE Sector is Under Water

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385. BlackRock Bought a Zoo

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Patreon Preview 384. – Executive Paranoia

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383. Rage Against the Administrative Machine

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Patreon Preview – 382. Don’t Fetishize the AI Hype

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381. NYT v. OpenAI: Romancing the Data

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Patreon Preview – 380. Dual Prophet System

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379. The Booming Prison Tech Industry (ft. Susan Li, Alec Karakatsanis)

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TMK on Holiday

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Patreon Preview – 378. BYD’s Green Tech Red Scare

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377. The Real Cost of Uber/Lyft’s Driver Lockouts

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Patreon Preview – 376. Silicon Valley’s Political Machine

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375. Of Vampires and Empires (ft. Paris Marx)

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Patreon Preview – 374. Bigger is Not Better in AI

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373. Press X to Start Revolution (ft. Marijam Did)

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Patreon Preview – 372. The Sin-Eater of Zero Interest Rates

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371. Optimizing for Planetary Crisis

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Patreon Preview – 370. Paranoid Android

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369. The Third Most Amazing Race (ft. Gaby Del Valle)

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Patreon Preview – 368. Building the Most Lethal University

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367. A Brief History of Apocalypse

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Preview – 366. American Dynamism: Or, Libertarian Fascism with Silicon Valley Characteristics

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365. The Pentagon Primes in Silicon Valley (ft. Michael Richardson)

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Patreon Preview - 364. CopGPT

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363. Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go.

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Patreon Preview - 362. Alex Karp’s Freak Flag Flies

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361. The Artists vs. the Machines (ft. Brian Merchant)

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Patreon Preview – 360. Bubbles and Black Markets

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359. We Are All Cyborgs (ft. Danya Glabau, Laura Forlano)

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Patreon Preview – 358. *Se7en Voice* What’s in the Benchmark?

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357. CrowdStrike ClusterFuck

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Patreon Preview – 356. Car Dealerships Are an Affront to God

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355. The Rise of Shadow Finance

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Premium – 354. Capital Questions Gen AI

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353. Slaughterbots, Roll Out!

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Patreon Preview – 352. Big Vape, Small Cigs

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351. How AI is Boiling the Oceans

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Premium – 350. Most Data Work is Bullshit

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349. Death By A Thousand Prices (ft. David Dayen, Lindsay Owens)

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348. Lost Futures of AI (ft. Evgeny Morozov)

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Patreon Preview – 347. The Insulin Empire, Part 2 (ft. Athena Sofides)

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346. The Insulin Empire, Part 1 (ft. Athena Sofides)

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Patreon Preview – 345. Thuggish Ruggish Live Nation

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344. How Uber Weaponizes Complexity to Abuse Workers and Bully States

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Patreon Preview – 343. Broken Windows Redux

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342. Superalignment with Sam Altman’s Values

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Patreon Preview – 341. Cyber Freak Beat

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340. With AI Friends Like These, Who Needs Society?

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Patreon Preview – 339. Reality is Downstream from the Unreal Engine

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338. Certified Rap Beef // Campus Actions, Deranged Reactions

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*Unlocked* – 333. JSOC for the Environment

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Premium – 337. A History of Fossil Empire in Palestine, Part 2

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336. A History of Fossil Empire in Palestine, Part 1

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Patreon Preview – 335. Seto Kaiba is My Role Model

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334. Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”

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Patreon Preview – 333. JSOC for the Environment

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332. Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)

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Patreon Preview – 331. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 13

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330. The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)

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Patreon Preview – 329. Surging Forward

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328. The Universal Science of Advertisement (ft. Lee McGuigan)

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Patreon Preview – 327. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 12

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326. The Problem With America’s Ban on TikTok

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Patreon Preview – 325. Medium Anxiety

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324. Dune Dudes 2 // Evicting RENTMaximizer

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Patreon Preview – 323. The Supermarket into Prison Pipeline

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322. Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust

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Patreon Preview – 321. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 11

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320. How the World Became Uninsurable

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Patreon Preview – 319. A Visit from the Smiling Man (ft. Ed Zitron)

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*Unlocked* – 312. Not Paid Content for Jungle Jim’s

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317. The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)

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Patreon Preview – 316. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 10

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315. Net Zero Change in the Tech Sector (Ft. Mel Gregg)

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Patreon Preview – 314. Cops Love Forensic Pseudoscience

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313. The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)

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Patreon Preview – 312. Not Paid Content for Jungle Jim’s

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311. Selling Pickaxes for the AI Gold Rush

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Patreon Preview – 310. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 9

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309. Does the World Feel $800 Billion Better?

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Patreon Preview – 308. TMK Q&A (part 2)

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307. TMK Q&A (part 1)

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Patreon Preview – 306. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 8

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305. What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)

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Patreon Preview – 304. How Leftist Groups Get the Blowback for Right-Wing Extremism

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*Unlocked* – 303. Israel’s AI-Powered “Mass Assassination Factory”

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Patreon Preview – 303. Israel’s AI-Powered “Mass Assassination Factory”

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302. God is the Machine

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Patreon Preview – 301. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 7

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300. Wait, You’re Telling Me the Capitalists Now Control AI?

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299. Stories About Ordinary People (ft. Joanne McNeil)

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Patreon Preview – 298. Ways of Seeing Infinite Art

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297. The Unbearable Existence of Insurance

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Patreon Preview – 296. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 6

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*Unlocked* – Kill the Ecomodernist in Your Head

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Patreon Preview – 295. Accelerate the Eschaton

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294. The Material Power That Rules Computation (ft. Cory Doctorow)

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Preview – 293. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 5

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292. On Strikes and Solidarity (ft. Alex Press)

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Patreon Preview – 291. The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried (ft. David Z. Morris)

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290. Luddite Tribunal (ft. Paris Marx)

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Patreon Preview – 289. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 4

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288. A Hive of Fraud and Dishonesty

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Patreon Preview – 287. Never Trust a Wunderkind

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286. No King But Ludd (ft. Brian Merchant)

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Preview – 285. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 3

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*Unlocked* – 259. The Forever Polymers in Our Blood

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Patreon Preview – 284. The Techno-Jingoism Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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283. Nerds of the Lowest Order (ft. Quinn Slobodian)

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Patreon – 282. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 2

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281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)

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Preview – 280. Step into the Saudi Zone

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279. The Power of Wellness Capitalism (ft. Tamara Nopper, Eve Zelickson)

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Preview – 278. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 1

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*Unlocked* – 275. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction

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Patreon Preview – 277. All the World’s a Casino / And All the People Merely Gamblers

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276. China’s Zombie Economy and Capital Crackdown

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Patreon Preview – 275. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction

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274. Uber’s Politics of Low Expectations (ft. Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh)

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Patreon Preview – 273. Checking on Enemies, Old and New

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272. Locked into Starlink’s Low Earth Iron Cage

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Premium – 271. Kill the Ecomodernist in Your Head

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Patreon Preview – 270. The Kayfabe of Climate Capital

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269. The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)

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268. High Quality, Certified Organic, Entertainment Product

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*Unlocked* – For a Political Theory of Insurance

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Patreon Preview – 267. Psychonauts for Capital

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266. Your Own Personal Intelligence

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Patreon Preview – 265. For a Political Theory of Insurance

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264. Every Dealership a Fiefdom, Every Middleman a Lord (ft. Alex Sammon)

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Patreon Preview – 263. Running Wild

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262. – How Israel Battle Tests Occupation for the World (ft. Antony Loewenstein)

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Patreon Preview – 261. The Reality Distortion Field Comes For Us All

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260. Organizing Tech Labor (ft. Alphabet Workers Union)

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Patreon Preview – 259. The Forever Polymers in Our Blood

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*Unlocked* – The Tescreal Theology

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Patreon Preview – 258. A Writer, Producer, and Robot Walk Into a Mini-Room…

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257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)

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Patreon Preview – 256. The Tescreal Theology

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255. Saudi Arabia x Silicon Valley (ft. Jonathan Guyer)

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Patreon Preview – 254. The Healthcare System Works, It Just Doesn’t Work For You

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253. The Cold War Origins and Future of Today’s AI

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Patreon Preview – 252. Taco Bell Sublime

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251. The Triforce of Corporate Power in AI (ft. Sarah Myers West)

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249/250. We Built This City on Authenticity (ft. David A. Banks)

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Patreon Preview – 248. Capitalism With All the Cheat Codes

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247. Automated Welfare – the Simple Violence of Complex Machines

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Patreon Preview – 246. American Psycho 2.0 // SPAC Jesus Returns

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245. Shook Ones (Tech Style)

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Patreon Preview – 244. Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Hack Civilization

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243. GPT-4 and the Politics of OpaqueAI (ft. Abeba Birhane)

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Patreon Preview – 242. Time Bombs in the Financial System

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*Unlocked* – 241. Euthanasia of Silicon Valley Bank (ft. Brian Merchant)

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Patreon Preview – 241. Euthanasia of Silicon Valley Bank (ft. Brian Merchant)

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240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)

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Patreon Preview – 239. Ventures in Capitalist Innovation, Part 2: Constraints and Consequences

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238. Ventures in Capitalist Innovation, Part 1: History and Mechanics

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Patreon Preview – 237. Kissinger Has Seen the True Face of AI God

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236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris)

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Patreon Preview – 235. Fired By an Al-guy-rithm Named Bob

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234. Supermarket Data Sweep!

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Patreon Preview – 233. Floating Objects, Vinyl Chloride, Buy American

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232. 400 Hundred Years of Capitalism Led Directly to Microsoft Viva Sales

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231. Paris Syndrome

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229. Capitalist Manufacturing // Manufacturing Communism – Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez)

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Patreon Preview – 228. “Big” “Ideas” in “Tech” for 2023

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227. Don’t Bootstrap the Eschaton

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Patreon Preview – 226. Changing the World, One Rogue Geoengineer at a Time

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225. How AI Makes Living Labor Undead

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Patreon Preview – 224. The Bleakness of Low Expectations

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223. Money for Nothing? In this Economy?

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Patreon Preview – 222. Weird That All These Canaries of Tech Capitalism Keep Dying

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*Unlocked* – The Insurtech Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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Patreon Preview – 221. ChatGPT: From Fetish Object to AI Oracle

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220. The Landlords Who Own the Internet (ft. Dan Greene)

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Patreon Preview – 219. The Insurtech Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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218. Ecosystems-as-a-Service (ft. Mél Hogan)

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Patreon Preview – 217. How ESG Investing is Making Capitalism Sustainable

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216. How Green Finance is Making an Investable Future

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Patreon Preview – 215. Ed, Ed, and Aaron’s Shitposters Party (ft. Ed Zitron, Aaron Thorpe)

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*Unlocked* – 202. New Guy Who is Going to Hell Just Dropped

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Patreon Preview – 214. The People’s Ledger (part 2)

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213. The People’s Ledger (part 1)

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Patreon Preview – 212. TMK BC4: Can’t All Be Winners

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211. Living in the Aftermath // Death of Dark Stores, Ghost Kitchens (ft. Aaron Shapiro)

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Patreon Preview – 210. worldoptimization.tumblr

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209. NOFTX

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Patreon Preview – 208. TMK BC4: An Engine, Not a Camera (Chapter 3)

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207. Rent High? Blame Bob

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Patreon Preview – 206. Chief Twit and the Hostile Takeover

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205. Profits of Doom (ft. Jacob Silverman)

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Patreon Preview – 204. TMK BC4: An Engine, Not a Camera (Chapter 2)

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203. Saving the Planet with Green Crypto Arbitrage (ft. Avi Asher-Schapiro)

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Patreon Preview – 202. New Guy Who is Going to Hell Just Dropped

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201. We Are All Surplus (ft. Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant)

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Patreon Preview – 200. TMK BC4: An Engine, Not a Camera (Chapter 1)

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199. The CIA is a Land of Contrasts

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Patreon Preview – 198. The Eye of Sauron is Ethical

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197. The Limits of Tech Inquiry

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Patreon Preview – 196. Rich, Powerful, Idiotic, Pathetic

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*Unlocked* – 185. In the Long Term We Are All Dead

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Patreon Preview – 195. Vegas, Baby!

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194 – Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (ft. Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow)

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Patreon Preview – 193. We Live in a Surveillance Society

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192. Why the Trains Don’t Run on Time (ft. Justin Roczniak)

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Patreon Preview – 191. Family Policing Services

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190. Beta Meta Mindset

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Patreon Preview – 189. Return of the Grift

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188. Using AI to Say the Word

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Patreon Preview – 187. The Mass Upgrading of Landlords

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186. Refusing the Everyday Fascism of Artificial Intelligence (ft. Dan McQuillan)

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Patreon Preview – 185. In the Long Term We Are All Dead

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*Unlocked* – Thiel’s Number One Boy (ft. Noah Lanard)

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Patreon Preview – 184. Who Hunts the Hunters

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183. The Nightmare of Ambient Computing (an Amazon Company)

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Patreon Preview – 182. Thiel’s Number One Boy (ft. Noah Lanard)

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181. Two Bodies, One Brain, No Idea

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Premium – 180. TMK BC3, Ch.12, Dawn of Everything

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179. Welcome to the Jüngle (ft. Jörg Tittel)

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Patreon Preview – 178. Fleshing out Fintech as a Systemic Phenomenon

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177. A Rosetta Stone for Fintech

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Patreon Preview - 176. TMK BC3, Ch.11, Dawn of Everything

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*Unlocked* – What If An Algorithm Bought Your Home?

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Patreon Preview - 175. Why the Electrical Vehicle Won’t Save Us (ft. Paris Marx)

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174. Pedal to the Metal (ft. Paris Marx)

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Patreon Preview – 173. Stabbed for 9/11 Joke

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172. Venture Capital, Chinese Style

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Patreon Preview – 171. Technology + Capital + Cities

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170. Seasons in the Crypto Abyss (ft. David Gerard)

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Patreon Preview – 169. TMK BC3, Ch.10 (part 2), Dawn of Everything

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168. Blockchain Imperialism and the Pacific Ideology (ft. Olivier Jutel)

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Patreon Preview – 167. TMK BC3, Ch.10 (part 1), Dawn of Everything

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166. Slumlords of the Internet (ft. Ben Tarnoff)

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Patreon Preview – 165. Phillip K. Dick Move

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164. Untethered, Unleashed (ft. Crypto Critics’ Corner)

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Patreon Preview – 163. TMK BC3, Ch.9, Dawn of Everything

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*Unlocked* – In the Shadow Banks of Silicon Valley (part 2)

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Patreon Preview – 162. Bring on the Eternal Winter

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161. Visions of Bubbles Dancing in My Head

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Patreon Preview – 160. TMK BC3, Ch.8, Dawn of Everything

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159. Big Tech Trouble in China

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Patreon Preview – 158. In the Shadow Banks of Silicon Valley (part 2)

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157. In the Shadow Banks of Wall Street (part 1)

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Premium – 156. TMK BC3, Ch.7, Dawn of Everything

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155. TMK Side Quest

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Patreon Preview – 154. What If An Algorithm Bought Your Home?

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*Unlocked* – 151. Sharecropping by Another Game

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Patreon Preview – 153. TMK BC3, Ch.6, Dawn of Everything

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152. Mr. Worldcoin and the Orb (ft. Richard Nieva)

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Patreon Preview – 151. Sharecropping by Another Game

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Patreon Preview – 149. TMK BC3, Ch.5, Dawn of Everything

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150. The Cynics of Web3 (ft. Molly White)

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148. Tesla: The World’s Most Valuable Racism Factory

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Patreon Preview – 147. Anarchish and the Billionaire’s Bard

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146. SXSW: Underwhelming, Mundane, and Frankly Pathetic

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Patreon Preview – 145. TMK BC3, Ch.4, Dawn of Everything

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*Unlocked* – 144. Buy Now, Pay Later, Screw You

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Patreon Preview – 144. Buy Now, Pay Later, Screw You

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143. FTC Destroys Algorithms; Uber Drives Down Pay

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Patreon Preview – 142. TMK BC3, Ch.3, Dawn of Everything

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141. – The DAOs of War

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Patreon Preview – 140. TMK Mail Bomb

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139. – Infinite Crisis (ft. Phil Neel)

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Patreon Preview – 138. TMK BC3, Ch.2, Dawn of Everything

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137 – Tech Workers of the World (ft. Bjorn Westergard)

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Patreon Preview – 136. NFT: ‘Nother Financialization Tactic

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*Unlocked* – Socializing Machines /// Machining Society (ft. Nick Chavez)

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Patreon Preview – 135. TMK BC3, Ch.1, Dawn of Everything

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134. Morozov Watch! (ft. Evgeny Morozov)

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Patreon Preview – 133. Socializing Machines /// Machining Society (ft. Nick Chavez)

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132. Automating Service /// Serving Automation (ft. Nick Chavez)

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Patreon Preview – 131. Slow, Self, Sabotage

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130. Get Your Ass to Elysium!

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Patreon Preview – 129. Ecological Leninism, Technological Luddism

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128. – The Year of Magical Thinking (ft. Wendy Liu)

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*Unlocked* – Rolling-Out Aadhaar

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*Unlocked* – Khan Thought Redux

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Patreon Preview – 127. More Tech Reckoning (ft. Matt Lech, David Griscom)

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126. A Tech Reckoning (ft. Matt Lech, David Griscom)

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Patreon Preview – 125. TMK Book Club 2.0, Chapter 5

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124. The Assassination of Thinking by the Coward Web3

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Patreon Preview – 123. Khan Thought Redux

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122. Going DAO the Rabbit Hole

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Patreon Preview – 121. TMK Book Club 2.0, Chapter 4

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120. The Butlerian Jihad – Why Sci-Fi Needs Luddism

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Patreon Preview – 119. Rolling-Out Aadhaar

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118. Building Aadhaar, The World’s Largest Biometric Database

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Patreon Preview – 117. TMK Book Club 2.0, Chapter 3

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116. Disability / Tech for Whom? (ft. Britt H. Young)

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Patreon Preview – 115. Crypto Colonialism

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114. – Engineering Capitalism /// Communist Engineers (ft. Nick Chavez)

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113. Metastatic

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Patreon Preview – 112. TMK Book Club 2.0, Ch. 2

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*Unlocked* – Waymo Dumber

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Patreon Preview – 111. State-as-a-Platform

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110. Decolonial Ethic for Tech and Labor (ft. Noopur Raval, Rida Qadri)

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Patreon Preview – 109. TMK Book Club 2.0, Chapter 1

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108. I Fucking Love Science (ft. Danielle Carr)

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Patreon Preview – 107. Put Facebook on the UN Security Council

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*Unlocked* – 106. TMK Book Club 2.0, Intro

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Patreon Preview – 106. TMK Book Club 2.0, Intro

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105. A Netradyne in Every Garage

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Patreon Preview – 104. The Collapse of Evergrande

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103. The Venality of Evil

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Patreon Preview – 102. Rhythms and Flows in Human Society

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101. Inequality: The Last 40,000 Years

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Patreon Preview – 100. 9/11 20th Anniversary: The Forever War Machine (ft. Kelsey D. Atherton)

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99. 9/11 20th Anniversary: Move Fast and Leave Things Broken (ft. Kelsey D. Atherton)

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Patreon Preview – 98. Logistics of Tragedy and Farce

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*Unlocked* – 95. Everyday Insurtech

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Patreon Preview – 97. Castles Made of Sand

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96. Taking Control of the Data Pipeline (ft. Meredith Whittaker, Salomé Viljoen)

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Patreon Preview – 95. Everyday Insurtech

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94. Stripping the Content Mines (ft. Taylor Lorenz)

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Patreon Preview – 93. TMK Book Club, part 8

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92. Fully Automated Luxury Surveillance (ft. Chris Gilliard)

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Patreon Preview – 91. Monsanto Farm of the Future

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90. All Data is a Social Construct

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Patreon Preview - 89. TMK Book Club, part 7 (ft. David A. Banks)

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*Unlocked* – Potemkin AI

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88. Bring Down the Hammer (ft. Paris Marx)

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Patreon Preview – 87. TMK Book Club, part 6 (ft. David A. Banks)

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86. Khaaaaan!

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Patreon Preview – 85. Waymo Dumber

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84. Killing Us Infrastructurally

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Patreon Preview – 83. TMK Book Club, part 5.5

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82. Crisis in the Gig Mills

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Patreon Preview – 81. TMK Book Club, part 5

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80. Tech Work and its Discontents (ft. Wendy Liu and Jason Prado)

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Patreon Preview – 79. The Great Power Competition

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78. On Useful Idiots and Snake Oil

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Patreon Preview – 77. TMK Book Club, Part 4

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76. Smart City Colonialism, Brought to You By McKinsey

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Patreon Preview - 75. Here’s to the Pigs

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74. Let’s Talk About Sex Work (ft. Liara Roux)

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Patreon Preview - 73. TMK Book Club, Part 3

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Patreon Preview – 71. Evil Empire

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Solidarity is Contagious (ft. Astra Taylor)

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*Unlocked* 65. TMK Book Club (Part 1)

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68. Fight for Your Right (to Repair)

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67. Klobbering Klobuchar vs. Howling Hawley (patreon promo)

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66. Down and Out in the Neoliberal Code Academy (ft. Daniel Greene)

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65. TMK Book Club (Part 1) (patreon teaser)

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64. Platform Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

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63. Prime Labor, Living and Dead (patreon teaser)

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62. Amazon, Vanguard of Class War (ft. Alex N. Press)

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61. Potemkin AI (patreon teaser)

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60. We Live in a Society (of Control) (ft. Liv Agar)

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59. TMK x 4ZZZ Radio Reversal (ft. Anna Carlson and Natalie Osbourne)(patreon teaser)

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58. Suez Canal /// Imperialist Infrastructure (ft. Laleh Khalili)

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57. The Arbiters of Asset Allocation (patreon teaser)

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56. The Kingmakers of Finance

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55. Journey into the Absurd (patreon teaser)

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54. Shooting for the Stars (ft. Aaron Thorpe)

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53. Necropolitics of the Techno-Fix (patreon teaser)

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52. Pharma Profiteers, Vaccine Apartheid

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51. Clover the Big Red Flag (patreon teaser)

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50. King of SPACs v. Hindenburg

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49. Of Mind Control and Revolution (ft. Cory Doctorow)(patreon teaser)

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48. Who Uses the Users? (ft. Cory Doctorow)

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47. The Leviathan and The Consumer (patreon teaser)

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46. Banning Australia (ft. J.R. Hennessy)

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45. Platform’s Republic of Facebook (patreon teaser)

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44. How to Think About Data (ft. Salomé Viljoen)

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43. Libertarian Mind Palace (patreon teaser)

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42. The Machinery of Stupidity

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41. BlackRock: CEO of the World (patreon teaser)

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40. The Boardroom of Global Capitalism

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39. Blueprints for a Better Everything (patreon teaser)

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38. Production for the People!

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37. Automating the Consent Factory (ft. Riley Quinn)(patreon teaser)

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36. Theory of the Thought Leader (ft. Riley Quinn)

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35. Neoliberal Prices /// Socialist Plans (patreon teaser)

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34. Let’s Get Cyber-Physical

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33. Conceptual Hit List Continued (patreon teaser)

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32. Conceptual Hit List

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*UNLOCKED* – Sabotage Feels Good

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31. Toward the TMK Syllabus (patreon teaser)

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30. Death of the Entrepreneur (ft. Veena Dubal)

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29. Sabotage Feels Good (patreon teaser)

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28. The Hammer of Ludd

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27: Music and its Discontents (patreon teaser)

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26. Steal this Podcast! (ft. Alexander Billet)

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25. Socialize the Eschaton (patreon teaser)

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24. Utopianism for Cynics

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23. The Great Decoupling (patreon teaser)

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22. Huawei or the Highway

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21. Military-Civil Fusion (patreon teaser)

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20. War by Other Nerds (ft. Michael Richardson)

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19. Power and Politics at the Endless Brunch (patreon teaser)

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18. Antitrust in the Aftermath (ft. Marshall Steinbaum)

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17. The Final Phase? (patreon teaser)

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16. Who Owns the Future City?

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*UNLOCKED* 15. The Extermination (of) Imagination

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14. Deus Ex Growth Machina (ft. Aaron Benanav)

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13. - TMK Origins (teaser)

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12. The E-CONomy (ft. Danielle Carr)

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11. Anonymous Authority

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10. This Movie Kills: A Scanner Darkly

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9. Domination Ecosystem

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8. VC Mindset (ft. Wendy Liu)

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7. Black Hole Son

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6. Life-as-a-Service (ft. David A. Banks)

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5. The Palantir Reformation

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4. Zuboff is a PSYOP

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3. Exploitation Über Alles

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2. Safeguardin' ASSets (ft. Shoshana Wodinsky)

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