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System Crash Is Paused
Jul 17, 2025
5m 40s
Palmer Luckey Wants to Arm the West With AI Weapons
Jul 11, 2025
33m 33s
The Ban on State AI Laws is Dead, Canada Bows to Trump and Big Tech, and the AI Backlash Grows
Jul 4, 2025
57m 30s
Patreon Preview: Mountainhead Exposes the Minds of the Tech Elite
Jul 1, 2025
4m 36s
AI Has Its Day in Court and Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Already a Menace in Austin
Jun 27, 2025
57m 56s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 7/17/25 | System Crash Is Paused | Some news, as they say: System Crash is going on hiatus as Brian and Paris are overloaded with other projects they need to take care of. Thanks for plugging in, and stay tuned to this feed for updates on what's next. Until then, subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine, check out Paris’ newsletter Disconnect, and go listen to Tech Won’t Save Us. Support the show | 5m 40s | ||||||
| 7/11/25 | Palmer Luckey Wants to Arm the West With AI Weapons | Brian is out this week, so we’re dropping one of our bonus episodes to give you a preview of the benefits of supporting the show over on Patreon. In the episode, Brian and Paris dig into Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey’s scary vision for the future of warfare — and how he plans to profit off the whole thing. Arming countries to the teeth with automated weapons, to the degree they’re considered “porcupines,” might sound bad to some people, but to Luckey it’s the obvious goal of the Western “warrior ... | 33m 33s | ||||||
| 7/4/25 | The Ban on State AI Laws is Dead, Canada Bows to Trump and Big Tech, and the AI Backlash Grows | This week on System Crash: Canada drops its digital services tax under pressure from Trump, the 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation is dead, and the backlash to generative AI just keeps growing. Plus, Peter Thiel and his buddies are starting a new bank named after something else from Middle Earth, Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs, and people are using chatbots to text their friends. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. ... | 57m 30s | ||||||
| 7/1/25 | Patreon Preview: Mountainhead Exposes the Minds of the Tech Elite | This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, where Paris and Brian present the first System Crash Culture Club by interrogating the new film Mountainhead and how it gets into the minds of our Silicon Valley oligarchs. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the show | 4m 36s | ||||||
| 6/27/25 | AI Has Its Day in Court and Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Already a Menace in Austin | This week on System Crash: A court rules Anthropic can train on copyrighted works as long as they’re not pirated, and Elon Musk rolls out Tesla’s Robotaxi service in Austin — with all the problems you’d expect. Plus, Australia’s social media ban for under 16s moves forward, a new Fairphone is coming soon, Brian has a new series, and more! Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Support the show | 57m 56s | ||||||
| 6/20/25 | The Rise of the AI Military Industrial Complex, Trump’s Scam Phone, and Israel-Iran Slop | This week on System Crash: A new player is about to take the smartphone world by storm, the AI industry is forging deeper partnerships with the military, and the Iran-Israel conflict is already overrun with AI slop. Plus, Tesla pauses production again, AI is creating problems for libraries, some Danish governments want to get off Microsoft, and more! Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Support the show | 48m 49s | ||||||
| 6/15/25 | Patreon Preview: Palmer Luckey Wants to Arm the West With AI Weapons | This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, digging into Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey’s scary vision for the future of warfare — and how he plans to profit off the whole thing. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the show | 5m 16s | ||||||
| 6/13/25 | Donald Trump and Elon Musk Clash While Protesters Burn Waymos in Los Angeles | This week on the show: The Donald Trump/Elon Musk feud continues into a second week and protests torch Waymos as Trump ramps up an authoritarian clampdown of Los Angeles. Plus, Ohio state mandates AI use to make undergrads “bilingual” in AI, video game performers have a tentative union agreement, Chinese tech companies are restricting AI tools, and more. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Support the show | 47m 23s | ||||||
| 6/6/25 | What Elon Musk’s “Exit” From White House Really Means and What’s Next for DOGE | This week on the show: Elon Musk is out at DOGE, kind of. He leaves with a black eye, literally. And figuratively. We dive into what Musk’s exit means for the Department of Government Efficiency, the role of the Tesla Takedown protests in tanking his reputation, and where things stand to go from here. PLUS: Musk’s failed quest to kill OpenAI’s Stargate, Palantir’s mass data collection on Americans, and so much MORE. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newslette... | 55m 26s | ||||||
| 5/30/25 | Sam Altman and Jony Ive Are Making an AI Device, OpenAI Gets Desperate, and Trump Goes After iPhones | This week on System Crash: Sam Altman and Jony Ive announce they’re expecting — a piece of AI hardware. Donald Trump wants to hit iPhones with a 25% tariff if Apple doesn’t start making them in the United States, and we discuss whether that’s possible. Plus, BYD beats Tesla in Europe, Google’s Veo 3 goes viral, Duolingo tries to clean up its AI mess, Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimist screed gets a print edition, and so much more! Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Bria... | 49m 46s | ||||||
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| 5/23/25 | Teens Are Done with Big Tech’s Internet, Google Triples Down on AI, and Grok is Pro-White Genocide | This week on System Crash: A new poll shows that nearly half of all teens wish the internet simply did not exist, and what can we say, the children are the future. Meanwhile, the reason why the kids hate the internet are dead set on making it all worse: Google and Microsoft announced their plans to continue stuffing AI into every available surface—the future they see is 100% AI-generated. Plus, SpaceX flexes its legislative muscle in Texas, an AI-generated book list makes it into print, Netfl... | 56m 35s | ||||||
| 5/16/25 | Republicans Want to Ban AI Regulation, Our New Luddite Pope, and the Obscene Saudi Spectacle | This week on System Crash: The Vatican has spoken and we have a Luddite Pope; the Republicans are pushing a 10-year ban on state AI regulations to sate their tech industry friends; and Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia shows the power and geopolitics behind AI. Plus, Canada’s AI minister, UK artists pushing back on copyright changes, Microsoft layoffs, and more. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Support the show | 57m 43s | ||||||
| 5/9/25 | The AI Education and Jobs Crisis, OpenAI’s Corporate Drama, and Zuck’s AI Friends | This week on System Crash: AI madness hits a new peak: Mark Zuckerberg has a plan to give everyone AI companions, OpenAI’s boardroom drama gets a new chapter, and the impact of AI on education and work has become a full-fledged disaster. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Support the show | 1h 00m 33s | ||||||
| 5/6/25 | Patreon Preview: Eric Schmidt’s Pivot to Military AI Salesman | This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, pulling back the curtain on former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s pivot to a national security hawk using the threat of China to sell artificial intelligence to the military. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the show | 5m 54s | ||||||
| 5/2/25 | Canada Rejects DOGE, Bezos Caves to Trump, and the Tech Billionaire Signal Club | This week on System Crash: Mark Carney is elected prime minister of Canada with a promise to take on Trump and accelerate AI adoption. Jeff Bezos backs down on Amazon’s plans to display how much tariffs have increased prices. Tech billionaires are radicalizing in a bunch of weirdly named Signal groups. Plus, X users drop, Duolingo replaces workers with AI, Microsoft pulls back on data centers, and more! Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the... | 50m 33s | ||||||
| 4/25/25 | Tesla is Tanking. What That Means for Elon Musk and DOGE ft. Geoff Dembicki | Elon Musk is trying to clean up the mess his DOGE escapades have made for Tesla — and it’s not going very well. Brian and Paris dig into the terrible news he had to share in the company’s earnings call and whether we should really believe his claims about scaling back his DOGE involvement next month. Either way, the right still loves the idea: Paris speaks with DeSmog Global Managing Editor Geoff Dembicki about a recent conference where Canadian conservatives — including an Amazon senior prin... | 58m 39s | ||||||
| 4/18/25 | Science Fiction in the Days of American Authoritarianism ft. Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders | In the latest episode of our Elon In Power series, we’re joined by sci-fi authors and Our Opinions Are Correct co-hosts Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders to dig into how science fiction shaped Elon Musk, and how Musk uses it to shape his own mythology. We explore the problems with how Musk interprets (and fails to interpret) sci-fi stories, and the ways sci-fi memes are deployed to justify the visions of the future tech billionaires are trying to realize. Annalee and Charlie Jane also sh... | 40m 12s | ||||||
| 4/11/25 | What the Trade War Means for Tech, Musk, and American Workers | Liberation Day has come and gone, leaving Brian and Paris to pick up the pieces. So the Trump administration may or may not have used ChatGPT to whip up its half-assed plans to instigate a global trade war, which tanked the market for days on end before Trump hit the pause button. There’s still much wreckage to sort through: Elon Musk is furious at Trump’s top trade adviser, China isn’t giving in, and electronics are about to get a lot more expensive. We dig into what all this means for big t... | 48m 36s | ||||||
| 4/4/25 | OpenAI’s Massive Funding Round and Equally Massive Insult to Artists | After a few weeks of digging into Elon Musk’s past, Brian and Paris are taking a little break to dig into recent tech developments. They discuss the troubles facing Tesla, OpenAI’s new funding round, and the despicable display of AI-generated Studio Ghibli images circulating on social media. Plus, they discuss some important labor stories and how Google’s AI Overviews are hurting website traffic. Brian mentioned an article called “AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism.” Subscribe to Paris’s new... | 53m 44s | ||||||
| 3/28/25 | How Elon Musk Used Tesla to Build His Power ft. Ed Niedermeyer | In our new series Elon In Power, we’re digging into the billionaire’s history to find out how he got to this point and what his past tells us about who he is today. For our second episode, Ludicrous author and Autonocast cohost Ed Niedermeyer joins the show to dig into the history of how Elon Musk took over and reshaped Tesla, how he built the company through deception, and why it’s not a vulnerable part of his corporate empire. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian... | 1h 10m 49s | ||||||
| 3/25/25 | Patreon Preview: The Trump Administration’s Crypto Dream | This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, breaking down the White House crypto summit and recent speeches by AI and crypto czar David Sacks praising Donald Trump. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the show | 5m 56s | ||||||
| 3/21/25 | SpaceX and the Foundation of Elon’s Empire ft. Lora Kolodny | In our new series Elon In Power, we’re digging into the billionaire’s history to find out how he got to this point and what his past tells us about who he is today. For our second episode, CNBC Digital tech reporter Lora Kolodny joins the show to fill us in on how SpaceX got off the ground and the role it’s played in building Musk’s empire. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Support the show | 57m 47s | ||||||
| 3/14/25 | Elon in Power: The PayPal Mafia and Building the Myth of Musk ft. Max Chafkin | In our new series Elon In Power, we’re digging into the billionaire’s history to find out how he got to this point and what his past tells us about who he is today. For our first episode, Bloomberg senior reporter and author of The Contrarian Max Chafkin joins the show to give us the scoop on Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and the ups and downs of his long relationship with Peter Thiel. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Suppo... | 45m 33s | ||||||
| 3/7/25 | The Promise of a New Tech Era ft. Ed Ongweso Jr. | Donald Trump finally launched his trade war on Canada and Mexico. For two days. Some tariffs remain, and they could all be back in April, and who knows what happens then. As Trump abandons allies, there’s a lot of uncertainty—but there’s also opportunity. Silicon Valley wants its alliance with Trump to cement its global power, but what if the actions of the United States actually push them to end their dependence on US tech and begin building an alternative set of technologies? In the second ... | 57m 54s | ||||||
| 2/28/25 | Paris and Brian Crash a BioTech Conference | In a break from chronicling Elon Musk’s takeover of the US government, Paris and Brian share some thoughts from Monterey, California, where they attended a convening to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Asilomar biotechnology conference. They reflect on how AI is playing into conversations about biotech’s future and the unsurprising deregulatory thrust. Plus, DOGE’s email to US federal workers, Donald Trump goes after digital services taxes, Apple is investing $500 billion in the US, ... | 55m 44s | ||||||
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