231. Paris Syndrome
We get some Parisian updates and stories from Ed. Then we enter the mind palace of a libertarian who, with all the annoying pretension of a philosophy major, tried to make ChatGPT say the word. We wra...
10 Feb 20231h 21min
229. Capitalist Manufacturing // Manufacturing Communism – Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez)
Part 1 –– We welcome returning champ Nick Chavez – mechanical engineer, marxist political economist – for a long conversation about his new essay examining the real nitty-gritty aspects of production ...
5 Feb 20231h 21min
Patreon Preview – 228. “Big” “Ideas” in “Tech” for 2023
We dip into the a16z omnibus of predictions for the tech industry in 2023. Time to learn what the thought masters of the universe are trying to wishcast into existence because they have a material int...
1 Feb 20237min
227. Don’t Bootstrap the Eschaton
Ed takes us on a guided tour of Odin Intelligence, SweepWizard, CloudFactory and other tech bullshit that sounds like embarrassing nonsense while also contributing in their own way to monetizing, mobi...
28 Jan 20231h 18min
Patreon Preview – 226. Changing the World, One Rogue Geoengineer at a Time
It’s been a while since we’ve done a real reading series. So we spend time with a group of rogue entrepreneurs who are taking it upon themselves to save the planet by geoengineering the atmosphere. S...
24 Jan 20234min
225. How AI Makes Living Labor Undead
We spend more time talking about the political economy of AI – the production and application of AI within a capitalist system and how it might (and should) differ within a socialist or communist syst...
19 Jan 20231h 19min
Patreon Preview – 224. The Bleakness of Low Expectations
They don’t make things like they used to… No really. They don’t. We discuss how a perfect storm of things like stagnant wages, rising inflation, declining profits, expedited production, among other fa...
17 Jan 20235min
223. Money for Nothing? In this Economy?
We offer some thoughts on where the tech sector is heading right now, how the markets are performing amidst a down turn, and what big trends for tech and capital are looking strong in the new year. S...
13 Jan 20231h 21min
