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Episode 130: Philipp Fussenegger on Creating The World's First AI Brothel
AI has come for the world’s oldest profession!
Cybrothel in Berlin offers customers a range of human-free sexual experiences involving sex dolls, AI, …
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 129: Richard Sanderson on Getting Cancelled
Richard Sanderson was a director of the London Musicians Collective for ten years, helped set up the UK radio station Resonance FM, and founded the e…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 128: Dr Christopher Ferguson on Why Social Media Isn't Bad For Your Kids
I’m suspicious of social media, and the effect a smartphone has on my attention in general.
Books like The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, abou…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 127: Falak Enayat on Escaping the Taliban
Falak Enayat worked for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Afghanistan until Kabul was seized by the Taliban in 2021.
Overnight, Falak became…
1 year, 3 months ago
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 Aga…
1 year, 4 months 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 W…
1 year, 4 months 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…
1 year, 5 months 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 c…
1 year, 5 months 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 …
1 year, 5 months 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 tho…
1 year, 6 months ago