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409. The Breakup Meltdown

It’s a real friends and enemies episode of TMK. We get into the messy breakup between Trump and...

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

We chat with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna — authors of AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and...

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• 10 días

Patreon Preview – 407. Burn Notice

[Note: sorry for the lateness, blame sickness. Also, we are doing two episodes in a row...

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Patreon Preview – 406. The Golden Path

We talk about Pope Le(t)o’s striking critiques of AI and the needs for luddism to be an...

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

We chat with linguist and cognitive scientist Hagen Blix about his new book Why We Fear AI...

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Patreon Preview – 404. The Parasites that Control Pharmaceutical Prices

We take a deep dive into the lesser-known industry of “pharmacy benefits managers” (PBMs) which...

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403. Perpetual Slop Machine

It’s slop world, baby! We get into how the internet has become choked by artificial intelligence...

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Patreon Preview – 402. Crypto Empire of the Sons

We return to an old enemy of the show by discussing the latest developments in the crypto...

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401. Ruled by Bastards (ft. Quinn Slobodian)

We are ed by yet another TMK favorite, Quinn Slobodian, who is author of Hayek's Bastards:...

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

We have a big chat with Malcolm Harris about his new book — What’s Left: Three Paths Through the...

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

We are ed by Katie Wells — Director of Research at Groundwork Collaborative — to discuss her...

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398. The Treacherous Eunuch

We try to figure out what the fuck is happening in the US as we chat about the low rent car...

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Patreon Preview – 397. The Silicon Valley Consensus

We dig into a grand theory that Ed is building through a series of essays on the AI industry and...

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

We run through a roundup of recent stories about how different types of AI are already having...

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

We chat with Eric Blanc — author of the new book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker...

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394. Who Let the DOGE Out

We dig into DOGE. After some background on what Musk and his harem of broccoli-headed bozos have...

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

Jathan sits down with Sunaura Taylor—author of Disabled Ecologies—in her lab at UC Berkeley to...

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392. Deep Freak Out

Ed and Jathan are together in the San Francisco Bay Area huddled over a single mic like a fire...

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Patreon Preview – 391. TMK x CES x Vegas

Ed is back from his gonzo reporting trip at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We hear...

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390. We All Live in the Firestorm

[Due to the relevance of this episode — and requests from listeners in LA — we decided to make...

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