Patreon Preview – 462. Somebody’s Really Gotta Do Something
If every billionaire is a policy failure, then the world’s first trillionaire is a far more serious omen of collapse. We spend this episode...
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461. The Book of Ludd
“Welcome to the Church of Ludd, it’s nice to see you join our congregation. Please pick up a pamphlet as you walk in, which explains how to...
Patreon Preview – 460. Mr. Worldspirit
It’s a news roundup! First, in a duo of stories designed to make Ed jealous, Australia has seized 20 million illegal vapes at the border sin...
459. One Border After Another (ft. Gaby Del Valle)
We chat with Gaby Del Valle—policy reporter at the Verge—about her excursion to the Border Security Expo, the new hardware and software bein...
Patreon Preview – 458. Seduced by the Slop Tsunami
We chat about how so many people keep getting seduced into thinking chatbots are conscious, or just keep hedging their bets in some kind of...
457. DC3: The Terraforming
We’re going in for a threepeat – it’s Data Centers 3, as we continue with our analysis of the data center industry, the opposition to these...
Patreon Preview – 456. Do Not Question Project Cannoli
We go in for a second helping on analysing the opposition to data centers. After further deconstructing the arguments against opposition, we...
455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club
We deconstruct the confused arguments – from the left – against moratoriums for data centres. These positions set up a false dichotomy betwe...
Patreon Preview – 454. The Shocks Keep Coming
We dig into two shocks in international political economy that are each on their way to being complex, interrelated crises. First, the unsus...
453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy
We do a deep dive into OpenAI’s new report “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First” and pick apart their ext...
Patreon Preview – 452. Lady Luck is the World Spirit
We talk about a new innovation in focus groups and public polling called “silicon sampling” — or a new way that models which claim to repres...
451. Do Not Become Addicted to Electrons (ft. Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie)
We chat with Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie — authors of the indispensable newsletter The Polycrisis and hosts of the new podcast Electric Wor...
Patreon Preview – 450. Sorry Grandma, Computer Says Die
We chat about new strides in Australian innovation. What if you had a computer quiz that decided if your grandma deserved the care needed to...
449. Efficiently Drowning in Work
TMK thought validated yet again! We talk about two big studies into the effects of AI on workloads, which show with in-depth empirical detai...
Patreon Preview – 448. Dubai’s Golden Dome Crumbles
We discuss the breathless article in Jeff Bezo’s Washington Post about how Claude’s integration into the Palantir Maven Smart System has bee...
TMK Live Show in San Francisco - March 19th
Folks, we are doing a TMK live show in San Francisco! Come join Jathan and Ed, along with our friends, Wendy Liu and Jimmy Wu, for a fun nig...
447. The Shinji Problem
We get into the love/hate triangle between Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon and discuss the details of these contracts for AI weapon and...
Patreon Preview – 446. Vibe Decoder (ft. Wendy Liu, Jimmy Wu)
And we’re back with TMK-as-usual! We are joined by Wendy Liu and Jimmy Wu from the Bay Area Current — a new leftist publication writing abou...
445. What’s Democracy Got to Do With AI? (ft. Bruce Schneier)
We chat with Bruce Schneier — renowned security technologist and, most recently, co-author of Rewiring Democracy — to discuss the relationsh...
Patreon Preview – 444. The Stories We Tell
We chat about our week as Guests of Honor at Capricon, a science fiction convention in Chicago, and all the great panels and chats we had ab...