Podcast Episodes

Episode 126: Nikhil Suresh on the AI Lie and Humanising The Machine

Nikhil Suresh made me laugh, think, and reconsider my thoughts on technology.

When I read his essay I Will F***ing Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again, in which he announced that “the next person to…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Episode 125: Victor Miller on Letting AI Take Over The US Government

“It’s time to embrace the future. It’s time to get drunk on intelligence.”

Victor Miller ran for mayor of Cheyenne, the capital city of the state of Wyoming, on a platform of putting AI in charge of t…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

US Election Special: Temperature Check

On Tuesday 5 November, the United States will end the ‘begging for votes’ phase of the election cycle and enter the ‘haggling over results’ phase.

The question of who the next President of the United …

Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago

Episode 124: Tim Schwab on Bill Gates, Dark Money, and Toxic Philanthropy

William Henry Gates III, better known as Bill Gates, has been a major figure in technology, business, and politics for forty years. In that time he created what is arguably the world’s best-known com…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Episode 123: Hatun Tash on Free Speech, Two-Tier Policing, and Getting Stabbed For Jesus

Hatun Tash is a Turkish ex-Muslim turned Christian evangelist who, in September 2024, “won £10,000 in damages and costs from the Metropolitan Police after being arrested, strip searched and unlawfull…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 122: CJ Hopkins and Friedemann Däblitz on Justice, Thought Crime, and State Power

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CJ Hopkins, author, satirist, and playwright, will be re-tried for thought crime in Berlin on Monday 30 September at 10:…

Published on 11 months ago

Episode 121: Sanne Van Oosten on the Surprising Lack of Racist and Sexist Voters

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I found out about Sanne Van Oosten’s work on X when she shared her experience of being shunned by media outlets indifferent to her research findings that …

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Summer Special: Exotic Thoughts at Parliament Square

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In this Summer Special, I take the show on the road to meet people at the London incarnation of a global Day of Visibility called We Are Ready.

From all o…

Published on 1 year ago

Episode 120: Emmanuel Goldstein on Surviving Communism, A Gnostic Cult, and A War On His Mind

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This episode was a surprise.

After releasing Episode 119, I received the following message from a listener who goes by …

Published on 1 year ago

Episode 119: Jerry Barnett on Moral Panic, Loss of Reason, and Baiting the Majority

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Jerry Barnett is a technologist, campaigner, and the author of Porn Panic!

His book, and his other writing for outlets l…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago