TRASHFUTURE

We speak with astrophysicist and journalist Adam Becker about a new development: what if you could outsource even more aspects of your childcare, namely children’s play, to an LLM-connected device? Wh...

12 Maj 57min

In advance of the local elections, we got to witness a new phenomenon in British politics: Corbyning Without Corbyn. We also discuss Richard Dawkins deciding that Claude is real and female and also do...

8 Maj 10min

We welcome Gareth back to the show to discuss something he recently discovered: a planned private city of a million people? in Cambridgeshire? Supposedly called Forest City One, and built entirely out...

6 Maj 1h 2min

Emiliano Mellino from TBIJ joins us to discuss the upcoming (and some might say shortcoming) Fair Working Agency, and we ask the perennial question: will it stop bosses from ripping you off? But first...

1 Maj 10min

Riley and November speak with journalist Hettie O’Brien about her book The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself. It’s not necessarily the most uplifting topic, but it’s ver...

28 Apr 58min

It's the food one, in which we discuss the weird fixations of the Make America Healthy Again death cult and their particular emphasis on "real food," however that might be defined today. And we also h...

24 Apr 10min

UK newspapers are desperate to convince you that the future of politics in the country is a weird 19-year-old Reform council leader in Warwick. It doesn't matter that Warwick doesn't have a cathedral ...

21 Apr 1h 8min

Riley, Hussein, and November speak with friends of the show Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. We discuss the political ethos of Musk and his pee...

17 Apr 10min