Podcast Episodes

PU 35: The Horror of Computerised War

How the Pentagon switched decision making from humans to machines. And what it means for the future that computers now decide who lives and dies.

Punc…

2 months, 1 week ago

PU 34: Scam Altman

A deep dive on investigative journalist Ronan Farrow’s profile of Sam Altman’s leadership at OpenAI. The piece lays bare many of the enduring issues …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

PU 33: The Stop Nick Shirley Act

YouTuber Nick Shirley says California’s proposed AB2624 law was made to stop him and other independent journalists from reporting on fraud. How much …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

PU 32: Germany's Digital Strategy Is Absolutely Bonkers

Driven by a national delusion that Germans are somehow naturally very bad at digital technology, the country’s government is rushing headfirst into a…

3 months ago

PU 31: NASA’s Artemis II Mission

Depending who you ask, NASA’s new mission to the moon was either the scientific breakthrough of the century or an utterly boring waste of money. Whic…

3 months, 1 week ago

PU 30: Aviation and the War in Iran

The war in Iran is having a tremendous impact on the aviation industry. An underreported detail is what happens when your flight deviates around the …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

PU 29: The State of Star Trek

With the cancellation of Starfleet Academy, there is no Star Trek series in active production for the first time in a decade. Why is that and what d…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

PU 28: What is Antifa?

Even though it has been in the US news a lot recently, almost everybody over there seems to be getting wrong what Antifa actually is. This is an over…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

PU 27: LLMs Are a Dead-End

Why current AI technology can’t get us what its proponents are promising. Why the media keeps getting the AI story wrong. Why AI layoffs are just an …

4 months ago

PU 26: Trump Falls Into the Smart Bomb Trap

Trump’s war on Iran is a huge blunder, both militarily and politically. The US can’t possibly win this war and Trump is tanking his presidency, and t…

4 months, 1 week ago