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379. The Booming Prison Tech Industry (ft. Susan Li, Alec Karakatsanis)
TMK on Holiday
Patreon Preview – 378. BYD’s Green Tech Red Scare
377. The Real Cost of Uber/Lyft’s Driver Lockouts
Patreon Preview – 376. Silicon Valley’s Political Machine
375. Of Vampires and Empires (ft. Paris Marx)
Patreon Preview – 374. Bigger is Not Better in AI
373. Press X to Start Revolution (ft. Marijam Did)
Patreon Preview – 372. The Sin-Eater of Zero Interest Rates
371. Optimizing for Planetary Crisis
Patreon Preview – 370. Paranoid Android
369. The Third Most Amazing Race (ft. Gaby Del Valle)
Patreon Preview – 368. Building the Most Lethal University
367. A Brief History of Apocalypse
Preview – 366. American Dynamism: Or, Libertarian Fascism with Silicon Valley Characteristics
365. The Pentagon Primes in Silicon Valley (ft. Michael Richardson)
Patreon Preview - 364. CopGPT
363. Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go.
Patreon Preview - 362. Alex Karp’s Freak Flag Flies
361. The Artists vs. the Machines (ft. Brian Merchant)
Patreon Preview – 360. Bubbles and Black Markets
359. We Are All Cyborgs (ft. Danya Glabau, Laura Forlano)
Patreon Preview – 358. *Se7en Voice* What’s in the Benchmark?
357. CrowdStrike ClusterFuck
Patreon Preview – 356. Car Dealerships Are an Affront to God
355. The Rise of Shadow Finance
Premium – 354. Capital Questions Gen AI
353. Slaughterbots, Roll Out!
Patreon Preview – 352. Big Vape, Small Cigs
351. How AI is Boiling the Oceans
Premium – 350. Most Data Work is Bullshit
349. Death By A Thousand Prices (ft. David Dayen, Lindsay Owens)
348. Lost Futures of AI (ft. Evgeny Morozov)
Patreon Preview – 347. The Insulin Empire, Part 2 (ft. Athena Sofides)
346. The Insulin Empire, Part 1 (ft. Athena Sofides)
Patreon Preview – 345. Thuggish Ruggish Live Nation
344. How Uber Weaponizes Complexity to Abuse Workers and Bully States
Patreon Preview – 343. Broken Windows Redux
342. Superalignment with Sam Altman’s Values
Patreon Preview – 341. Cyber Freak Beat
340. With AI Friends Like These, Who Needs Society?
Patreon Preview – 339. Reality is Downstream from the Unreal Engine
338. Certified Rap Beef // Campus Actions, Deranged Reactions
*Unlocked* – 333. JSOC for the Environment
Premium – 337. A History of Fossil Empire in Palestine, Part 2
336. A History of Fossil Empire in Palestine, Part 1
Patreon Preview – 335. Seto Kaiba is My Role Model
334. Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”
Patreon Preview – 333. JSOC for the Environment
332. Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)
Patreon Preview – 331. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 13
330. The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)
Patreon Preview – 329. Surging Forward
328. The Universal Science of Advertisement (ft. Lee McGuigan)
Patreon Preview – 327. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 12
326. The Problem With America’s Ban on TikTok
Patreon Preview – 325. Medium Anxiety
324. Dune Dudes 2 // Evicting RENTMaximizer
Patreon Preview – 323. The Supermarket into Prison Pipeline
322. Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust
Patreon Preview – 321. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 11
320. How the World Became Uninsurable
Patreon Preview – 319. A Visit from the Smiling Man (ft. Ed Zitron)
*Unlocked* – 312. Not Paid Content for Jungle Jim’s
317. The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)
Patreon Preview – 316. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 10
315. Net Zero Change in the Tech Sector (Ft. Mel Gregg)
Patreon Preview – 314. Cops Love Forensic Pseudoscience
313. The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)
Patreon Preview – 312. Not Paid Content for Jungle Jim’s
311. Selling Pickaxes for the AI Gold Rush
Patreon Preview – 310. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 9
309. Does the World Feel $800 Billion Better?
Patreon Preview – 308. TMK Q&A (part 2)
307. TMK Q&A (part 1)
Patreon Preview – 306. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 8
305. What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)
Patreon Preview – 304. How Leftist Groups Get the Blowback for Right-Wing Extremism
*Unlocked* – 303. Israel’s AI-Powered “Mass Assassination Factory”
Patreon Preview – 303. Israel’s AI-Powered “Mass Assassination Factory”
302. God is the Machine
Patreon Preview – 301. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 7
300. Wait, You’re Telling Me the Capitalists Now Control AI?
299. Stories About Ordinary People (ft. Joanne McNeil)
Patreon Preview – 298. Ways of Seeing Infinite Art
297. The Unbearable Existence of Insurance
Patreon Preview – 296. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 6
*Unlocked* – Kill the Ecomodernist in Your Head
Patreon Preview – 295. Accelerate the Eschaton
294. The Material Power That Rules Computation (ft. Cory Doctorow)
Preview – 293. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 5
292. On Strikes and Solidarity (ft. Alex Press)
Patreon Preview – 291. The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried (ft. David Z. Morris)
290. Luddite Tribunal (ft. Paris Marx)
Patreon Preview – 289. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 4
288. A Hive of Fraud and Dishonesty
Patreon Preview – 287. Never Trust a Wunderkind
286. No King But Ludd (ft. Brian Merchant)
Preview – 285. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 3
*Unlocked* – 259. The Forever Polymers in Our Blood