Patreon Preview – 430. Bring the Pain
We chat about some of our favorite rubes and dolts in tech media before then getting into the massive layoffs across Amazon and Meta, how the need to continue over-investing into AI capex is driving t...
6 Marras 20258min
429. The Nature of Capital and Freedom (ft. Alyssa Battistoni)
We’re joined by Alyssa Battistoni — author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature — to discuss her new book which is really just Marxist political theory at its finest. We get into capit...
27 Loka 20251h 30min
428. Patreon Preview – Antichrist Superstartup
We start by asking some questions about political control over police forces before jumping into a discussion about Erebor, the new Silicon Valley bank founded by Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale with b...
22 Loka 20256min
427. Many Worlds of Extraction (ft. Laleh Khalili)
We chat with Laleh Khalili — author of Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy — about the different systems, footsoldiers, and circuits of extraction that are ess...
13 Loka 20251h 18min
Patreon Preview – 426. The Road to Hell is Paved with Advertisements
We play another game of Where in the World is Edward Ongweso — and you’ll never guess. We pull together a few stories. First, further evidence of the AI productivity paradox and the fact that nearly e...
8 Loka 20257min
425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)
We are joined by Thea Riofrancos — author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism — to chat about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. How do we understand a system ...
29 Syys 20251h 35min
Patreon Preview – 424. Me and My AI
We chat about the growing genre of personal literary essays about AI where the literati at places like the New Yorker pen long essays laying out their thoughts, worries, and ultimate embrace of AI. Bu...
23 Syys 20258min
423. Violence, Fast and Slow
We discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk and its potential role as a catalyst of further violence and blowback by right-wing forces who want to avenge a martyr, by left-wing groups who want to kic...
17 Syys 20251h 20min
