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Patreon Preview – 462. Somebody’s Really Gotta Do Something
Jun 19, 2026
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461. The Book of Ludd
Jun 12, 2026
1h 18m 47s
Patreon Preview – 460. Mr. Worldspirit
Jun 5, 2026
5m 52s
459. One Border After Another (ft. Gaby Del Valle)
May 29, 2026
1h 12m 50s
Patreon Preview – 458. Seduced by the Slop Tsunami
May 20, 2026
4m 58s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 462. Somebody’s Really Gotta Do Something | If every billionaire is a policy failure, then the world’s first trillionaire is a far more serious omen of collapse. We spend this episode talking about Muskism, reflecting on an economy that is racing in two very opposite directions, and considering the broader public (non-)response and social ramifications of the Age of the Trillionaire. ••• Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/technology/elon-musk-trillionaire.html ••• Wages Are Falling. Wealth Is Surging. No Wonder Americans Are Unhappy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/business/economy-trillionaire-wealth-wages.html ••• Muskism as Fordism https://lpeproject.org/blog/muskism-as-fordism/ ••• Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/ Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() 461. The Book of Ludd✨ | AIpublic ownership+3 | — | Church of LuddBusiness Insider+3 | — | AIreligious exemption+3 | — | 1h 18m 47s | |
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 460. Mr. Worldspirit✨ | illegal vapeslawsuit+4 | — | PFASAustralian Border Force+4 | Australia | vapeslawsuit+4 | — | 5m 52s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() 459. One Border After Another (ft. Gaby Del Valle)✨ | border securityimmigration politics+3 | Gaby Del Valle | the VergeCBP+4 | — | border securityimmigration+5 | — | 1h 12m 50s | |
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 458. Seduced by the Slop Tsunami✨ | AI consciousnesschatbots+3 | — | Jathan’s bookNew York Times+3 | — | AIconsciousness+5 | — | 4m 58s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() 457. DC3: The Terraforming✨ | data centershyperscale projects+5 | — | Data CentersMr. Wonderful+4 | UtahGreat Salt Lake | data centershyperscale+7 | — | 1h 25m 04s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 456. Do Not Question Project Cannoli✨ | data centerscommunity opposition+4 | — | The Mechanic and the LudditeNew York Times+3 | — | data centerscommunity opposition+5 | — | 7m 12s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() 455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club✨ | data centerstechnology governance+3 | — | The Mechanic and the LudditeJacobin+2 | — | data centersmoratoriums+3 | — | 1h 29m 42s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 454. The Shocks Keep Coming✨ | international political economyexport-led competition+4 | — | synthetic fertilizersChina+2 | AfricaSoutheast Asia | Chinaglobal markets+5 | — | 8m 47s | |
| 4/15/26 | ![]() 453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy✨ | industrial policysuperintelligence+4 | — | OpenAIIndustrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First | — | OpenAIindustrial policy+5 | — | 1h 40m 38s | |
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| 4/8/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 452. Lady Luck is the World Spirit✨ | silicon samplingpublic polling+4 | — | New York TimesThe Point+3 | — | silicon samplingpublic opinion polling+5 | — | 7m 09s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() 451. Do Not Become Addicted to Electrons (ft. Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie)✨ | energy transitionfinancial markets+4 | Tim SahayKate Mackenzie | The PolycrisisElectric World Order | USAChina+1 | energy transitionpolycrisis+5 | — | 1h 18m 51s | |
| 3/25/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 450. Sorry Grandma, Computer Says Die✨ | aged carealgorithm+4 | — | Australian innovationABC+4 | — | aged care algorithmAustralian innovation+4 | — | 6m 11s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() 449. Efficiently Drowning in Work✨ | AI and workloadslabor intensity+3 | — | The Mechanic and the LudditeBay Area Current+3 | — | AIworkload+5 | — | 1h 17m 07s | |
| 3/11/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 448. Dubai’s Golden Dome Crumbles✨ | geopoliticstechnology+4 | — | ClaudeJeff Bezo’s Washington Post+7 | IranUAE+2 | AImilitary+7 | — | 5m 56s | |
| 3/11/26 | ![]() TMK Live Show in San Francisco - March 19th✨ | live showtech criticism+3 | Wendy LiuJimmy Wu | — | San FranciscoFirst Unitarian Universalist | TMK live showSan Francisco+3 | Bay Area Current | 1m 17s | |
| 3/3/26 | ![]() 447. The Shinji Problem✨ | AI weapon systemssurveillance technology+4 | — | AnthropicOpenAI+7 | — | AImilitary+8 | — | 1h 30m 07s | |
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 446. Vibe Decoder (ft. Wendy Liu, Jimmy Wu)✨ | right-wing culturetech intelligentsia+4 | Wendy LiuJimmy Wu | Bay Area CurrentAI Company+1 | San FranciscoBay Area | right-wing culturetech intelligentsia+5 | — | 7m 03s | |
| 2/19/26 | ![]() 445. What’s Democracy Got to Do With AI? (ft. Bruce Schneier) | We chat with Bruce Schneier — renowned security technologist and, most recently, co-author of Rewiring Democracy — to discuss the relationship between technology and democracy. We get into how people with money/power use systems like AI to create a flywheel of more money/power. But importantly, as an advocate of public-interest technology, Bruce also lays out how AI is being used to empower citizens and strengthen democracy, and the techno-political conditions needed to build these democratic systems. ••• Check out all of Bruce’s work https://www.schneier.com/ ••• Rewiring Democracy | Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049948/rewiring-democracy/ ••• The Promptware Kill Chain: How Prompt Injections Gradually Evolved into a Multi-Step Malware https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/2026/01/the-promptware-kill-chain-how-prompt-injections-gradually-evolved-into-a-multi-step-malware.html Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) | — | ||||||
| 2/11/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 444. The Stories We Tell | We chat about our week as Guests of Honor at Capricon, a science fiction convention in Chicago, and all the great panels and chats we had about luddism, science fiction, politics of futures, and the importance of the stories we tell—and are able to tell and believe—about technology-in-society. Then we wrap up with a recent case study of storytelling: the performative puppetry of moltbook. ••• Moltbook was peak AI theater https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/ ••• Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/ Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) | — | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | ![]() 443. Behold the Big Beautiful AI State (ft. Brian Chen) | We’re joined by Brian Chen — policy director at Data & Society — to discuss his new report on the Trump administration’s industrial policy for building The Big AI State. We lay out how Trump’s is bringing together various forms of intervention to ensure America achieves “global technological dominance.” This includes de-risking the construction of data centers and energy infrastructure, ensuring the American AI tech stack takes over global markets, and even acquiring equity stakes in major private industries in the AI supply chain. We discuss the means and ends of Trump’s industrial policy — and how these policy tools should be wielded differently by future administrations. ••• Great Power Antinomies https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/great-power-antinomies/ ••• The Big AI State https://datasociety.net/library/the-big-ai-state/ Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) | — | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 442. The Empire of Blood and Oil | We chat about the Karp x Fink interview at Davos, the humiliation ritual of making Adam Tooze sit on a panel about how batteries are a Chinese threat to America, how an administrative rule change at the EPA about the (non-)value of life in regulatory cost-benefit analysis will be a major accelerant for the American Empire of Blood and Oil — plus a forbidden riff. ••• Trump’s E.P.A. Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/climate/epa-human-life-value.html Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) | — | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | ![]() 441. The Fight Over AI Use in Mental Healthcare (ft. Ciara Keegan, Ilana Marcucci-Morris) | We chat with Ciara Keegan and Ilana Marcucci-Morris from the National Union of Healthcare Workers about their ongoing contract dispute with Kaiser Permamente over the use and role of AI in healthcare, especially mental and behavioural health. We discuss the impacts of AI on labor conditions and patient care in giant hospital systems like Kaiser — plus the ways Kaiser wants to leave the door open for deeper integration of AI and replacement of healthcare providers. ••• Kaiser, Don't Deny | NUHW https://kaiserdontdeny.org/ ••• Will AI Replace Your Therapist? Kaiser Won’t Say No https://www.kqed.org/science/1999553/will-ai-replace-your-therapist-kaiser-wont-say-no ••• Therapists went on a hunger strike to protest 'assembly line' conditions and the automation of mental healthcare https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/therapists-went-on-a-hunger-strike Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) | — | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() Patreon Preview – 440. TMK x CES: Return to Hell | Ed returns from his annual trip to the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. We learn about the hottest new trends and devices hitting the market. Big this year: chatbot wrappers, making everything into phone, unnecessary and dysfunctional “AI-powered” features, plus the mass infantilization of humanity under the guise of frictionless convenience. ••• In 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing https://www.thecut.com/article/brooding-friction-maxxing-new-years-2026-resolution.html Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) | — | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | ![]() 439. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 2 (ft. Aaron Benanav) | We’re joined yet again by Aaron Benanav to chat about his essays Beyond Capitalism. In this episode we discuss what it means to lay out concrete models for an alternative world—ones that are not overstructured as blueprints, but also not insubstantial as visions. We then detail the political economic foundations and institutional framework for building a different kind of society. ••• Beyond Capitalism Part 1 & 2 | Aaron Benanav https://www.aaronbenanav.com/papers ••• Capricon | Chicago Science Fiction Convention https://capricon.org/ Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social) | — | ||||||
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