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This Machine Kills

@machinekillspod

podcast on tech and political economy /// agitprop against innovation and capital /// hosted by @jathansadowski and @bigblackjacobin, produced by @braunestahl

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🚨281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)🚨 Our friend @mer__edith joins us for a giant discussion that bridges her historical analysis of plantation logics and industrial computation with the political economy of "open" AI. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…
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Never accept that these forces of production are inevitable, undeniable, and actually already existing. You should first make them prove it! Prove their claims, prove their benefits, prove they should exist!
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🚨Premium – 458. Seduced by the Slop Tsunami🚨 We argue why, rather than just be eroded into acquiescence by an overwhelming tsunami of AI, rather than being bowled over and washed out to sea, you should never give these systems and their booster the benefit of the doubt.

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🚨Premium – 458. Seduced by the Slop Tsunami🚨 We argue why, rather than just be eroded into acquiescence by an overwhelming tsunami of AI, rather than being bowled over and washed out to sea, you should never give these systems and their booster the benefit of the doubt.
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🚨457. DC3: The Terraforming🚨 Time for more data centers! We discuss how the industry is explicitly using “counterinsurgency tactics” to undermine community opposition, plus how Mr. Wonderful is turning Utah into Mars with a hyperscale data center + massive gas power plant.
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🚨Premium – 456. Do Not Question Project Cannoli🚨 We go in for more critical analysis of the opposition to data centers. Reporting on these projects shows how they are being pushed through in black-boxed, stonewalled, fast tracked ways that ignore any real community concerns.
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I've got a radical position: our leftists arguments should be based in real materialist analysis of political economy and not end up ceding more ground to corporate power than they gain for anti-capitalist goals. Weird stuff, I know!
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🚨455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club🚨 We deconstruct some confused arguments – from the left – against moratoriums for data centres. We push back on the false dichotomy, faulty assumptions, rhetorical leaps, and pretzel logic that underpin these arguments.

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🚨455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club🚨 We deconstruct some confused arguments – from the left – against moratoriums for data centres. We push back on the false dichotomy, faulty assumptions, rhetorical leaps, and pretzel logic that underpin these arguments.
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🚨Premium – 454. The Shocks Keep Coming🚨 It's a big time political economy of the polycrisis episode. We dig into two global shocks to supply chains for advanced manufacturing and synthetic fertilizers that are each on their way to being complex, interrelated crises.
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🚨453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy🚨 We dive into OpenAI’s report: “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age." Some of it is insidiously clever, much of it is repackaged ideas, all of it is setting an agenda for quelling progressive demands against corporate AI power
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The art, science, and illusion of modelling human beliefs and behaviors has always been riddled with problems, but now it's being done on a much grander scale using intrinsically impenetrable techniques. Awesome!
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🚨Premium – 452. Lady Luck is the World Spirit🚨 We talk about a new innovation in focus groups and public polling called “silicon sampling”—or a new way models which claim to represent the world are actually engines that shape reality. Plus, our grand theory of the World Casino

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🚨Premium – 452. Lady Luck is the World Spirit🚨 We talk about a new innovation in focus groups and public polling called “silicon sampling”—or a new way models which claim to represent the world are actually engines that shape reality. Plus, our grand theory of the World Casino
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Much of the coverage about the current oil crisis and chokepoint in the Strait of Hormuz is focused on the impacts of supply shocks, but equally important are the long-term effects of demand destruction caused by a sudden, forced energy transition.
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🚨451. Do Not Become Addicted to Electrons (ft. Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie)🚨 From @polycrisis, we're joined by @kmac and @70sBachchan to chat about the war in Iran, fossil fuel demand destruction, forced energy transitions, plus much more.

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Albert Pinto
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.@kmac and I had a great chat with THIS MACHINE KILLS @machinekillspod Iran's Hormuz economic weapon & asymmetric warfare, Oil shock 2026, the bizarre insouciance of markets, surging sales of EVs, China's Electrostate & US Petrostate... patreon.com/posts/15455115…
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