Why Life on Mars Would Probably Suck
We return from our brief summer break chatting about Émile's latest article of interest, "Here's Why SpaceX's Mission is Bullshit" in the wake of its recent IPO and question the assumptions underlying...
9 Juli 51min
Protopia Futures (ft. Monika Bielskyte)
Does fiction inform what we think the future should look like? Sci-fi and futurism has typically told us the inevitability of technology and dystopian cyberpunk imaginaries. Monika Bielskyte joins us ...
19 Juni 1h 2min
Pope Leo's Anti-AI Encyclical
This week, we go over the merits and demerits of the Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas and its co-presentation with Christopher Olah of Anthropic, the company branding itself as mos...
11 Juni 39min
An Independent for Nebraska (ft. Austin Ahlman)
Could a populist, independent candidate win an election in the most Republican part of Nebraska's 1st Congressional District? In a time when the Republican and Democratic Party are both notoriously co...
4 Juni 48min
Florida Man Runs for Congress as a Democratic Socialist (ft. Oliver Larkin)
Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow! Oliver Larkin, activist, union organizer, and Democratic Socialist, joins us this week to discuss his run for election to the U.S. House as a Flo...
28 Maj 48min
PATREON PREVIEW: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout
Subscribe to our Patreon for the FULL episode and more bonus content at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow! On this special Patreon episode, we talked to antitrust hero and Fordham University law professor Zep...
21 Maj 11min
Of Dawkins and Data Centers
In this week's episode we begin to go into the philosophy around consciousness and AI as New Atheist relic Richard Dawkins recently claimed "Claudia" was conscious. What are the merits and issues of t...
14 Maj 1h 5min
