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#115#139#163#186#210Chart rankOct 15Oct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#200Episode released Oct 16: 479. Trust Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings (ft. Kate Kaye)Episode released Oct 23: Patreon Preview – 480. We Need to Talk About the Forces of Production
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Oct 27#200#196
Oct 26#157#152
Oct 25#189#187
Oct 24#145#140
Oct 23#150#142
Oct 22#188#184
Oct 21#200#196
Oct 20#173#168
Oct 19#146#139
Oct 18#125#114
Oct 17#153#146
Oct 15#184#181

Latest episodes

  • Patreon Preview – 480. We Need to Talk About the Forces of Production

    October 23, 2026 · 8 min

    We discuss and riff on the People’s AI Assembly, organized by AI Now Institute and More Perfect Union, which just happened in New York City. ••• The People's AI Assembly https://www.youtube.com/live/JZ7DnHoPLLQ Standing Plugs: ••• Order…

  • 479. Trust Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings (ft. Kate Kaye)

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    Jathan chats with journalist Kate Kaye about her new podcast series, Trust Control, all about the history and future of trying to measure trust. We get into different ways of defining trust, proxies for turning trust into quantified scores…

  • Patreon Preview – 478. Keep Honking, I’m Watching Microdramas While Weaving Through Traffic

    October 9, 2026 · 5 min

    We discuss a deep dive into the ascendency of microdramas – the short-form video series that are already bigger than the conventional film industry in China and are quickly taking over studios in Hollywood. We chat about the financial and…

  • 477. Amerikkka Intelligence

    October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

    We get into the new decree from Trump that “artificial intelligence” is now called “super intelligence” – it sounds less fake and more powerful — and the broader currents of tech advice and policy in the Trump administration. Then we…

  • Patreon Preview – 476. Can You Believe What Leftists Think About AI

    September 26, 2026 · 8 min

    We learn all about how leftists are against any new regulations for AI. It’s the unbelievable return of horseshoe theory as we discuss the curious new discourse cycle being promoted by prominent pundits. ••• The Curious Left-Wing Argument…

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  • 475. Never Let a Computer Tell Me Shit

    September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

    We jump off from the OpenAI - Hugging Face hacking incident as a way to talk about the misleading, cynical, and hysterical ways we talk about AI and the stranglehold that existential risk has on our framings and discourses. The OAI-HF…

  • Patreon Preview – 474. Gym, Tan, Leverage

    September 11, 2026 · 7 min

    We bring together two different stories about the tech sector and speculative real estate booms. First, how Netflix promises to turn the Jersey Shore into “Hollywood East”. Second, how the data centre bonanza is stretching Wall Street…

  • 473. Tech Workers of the World, Unite (ft. JS Tan, Clarissa Redwine)

    September 3, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    [We had technical difficulties and had to use a backup recording, sorry!] We chat with JS Tan and Clarissa Redwin — both veteran tech workers and labor organizers — about their new book which chronicles the tech worker movement over the…

  • Premium – 472. Australia’s AI Pitch Deck

    August 27, 2026 · 8 min

    We turn our sights down under by taking a closer look at the new all-of-government strategy for AI in Australia’s Interests. Australia has plotted out a bold, progressive vision where AI enthusiasm is mandatory, no is not an option (and…

  • 471. Breaking the Leviathan

    August 22, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min

    We take a deep dive into New York’s police-surveillance infrastructure, a sprawling leviathan that Mayor Zohran Mamdani was outspoken against during his campaign, but has now inherited and is even warming up to as his administration…

  • Patreon Preview – 470. Choking on Data Exhaust

    August 12, 2026 · 8 min

    We chat about Ed’s engagement with communities pushing back against data center development in Tulsa, plus some major reporting showing the sheer scale of fossil-fuelled data center development in the United States. We’re talking more than…

  • 469. The Maniacs are Running the Asylum (ft. Nikhil Suresh)

    August 6, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

    We’re joined by Nik Suresh, director of Hermit Tech and excellent blogger on the software industry. You might know Nik for an incredible essay he wrote a couple years ago about piledriving anybody who mentions AI. Well he’s back at it with…

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A podcast about technology and political economy /// Agitprop against innovation and capital /// Hosted by Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr., Produced by Jereme Brown /// Hello friends and enemies Listen anywhere that fine podcasts are distributed. Subscribe at patreon.com/thismachinekills to get premium episodes every week.