21. Military-Civil Fusion (patreon teaser)
“Technological superiority is a prerequisite for ethical superiority.” These words by Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, encapsulate a dangerous philosophy underpinning how the bloodless gh...
21 Nov 20206min
20. War by Other Nerds (ft. Michael Richardson)
We jump into the abyss of Anduril Industries—one of the most actually evil, yet little known, technology companies in existence today—and Palmer Luckey, its ultra right-wing founder and Peter Thiel ac...
18 Nov 20201h 13min
19. Power and Politics at the Endless Brunch (patreon teaser)
We discuss the aftermath of the election, including the banner year for the tech sector, the power dynamics of a Biden/Harris administration, the dynastic conspiracy of interests in San Francisco poli...
13 Nov 20207min
18. Antitrust in the Aftermath (ft. Marshall Steinbaum)
We’re joined by economist Marshall Steinbaum for a post-mortem on the election results as we work through some critical questions: What comes next? What does a Biden/Harris administration hold for the...
11 Nov 20201h 31min
17. The Final Phase? (patreon teaser)
We enter Phase 3 in our analysis of the urbanization of technology capital. Planetary platforms like Alphabet and Amazon have reached the point where they possess the power and desire to do more than ...
6 Nov 20206min
16. Who Owns the Future City?
Cold open: The Ballot or the Bullet So obviously this was recorded before the election, but our topic for this week’s episode is the exact analysis you need to understand how something like Prop 22 c...
4 Nov 20201h 28min
*UNLOCKED* 15. The Extermination (of) Imagination
We’re unlocking the Patreon episode this week to give you a taste of that premium content. Subscribe at patreon.com/thismachinekills to hear more premium episodes every week! We continue the convers...
29 Okt 20201h 10min
14. Deus Ex Growth Machina (ft. Aaron Benanav)
We’re joined by Aaron Benanav, author of Automation and the Future of Work, to discuss his excellent and necessary analysis of what the automation discourse gets wrong, the economic history that has l...
27 Okt 20201h 34min
