This Machine Kills

A podcast about technology and political economy /// Agitprop against innovation and capital /// Hos

Episodes

Total: 418

We chat with Eric Blanc — author of the new book We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing I

394. Who Let the DOGE Out

2025/2/19

We dig into DOGE. After some background on what Musk and his harem of broccoli-headed bozos have bee

Jathan sits down with Sunaura Taylor—author of Disabled Ecologies—in her lab at UC Berkeley to discu

392. Deep Freak Out

2025/2/3

Ed and Jathan are together in the San Francisco Bay Area huddled over a single mic like a fire keepi

Ed is back from his gonzo reporting trip at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We hear all

[Due to the relevance of this episode — and requests from listeners in LA — we decided to make this

We get into the crossover between the LA wildfires and the FIRE industry – finance, insurance, real

389. The Year of Polycrisis

2025/1/10

We round up and run down many of the big themes that we think will be important in the coming year a

We get into an excellent new report on the rise of on-demand platforms for nursing, which have spurr

[Note: we explain TMK's new structure from 0:00-10:28, so skip that to get straight into the episode

First we talk about the unholy trinity of Anduril, Palantir, and OpenAI working together to secure m

385. BlackRock Bought a Zoo

2024/12/15

We’ve got a great reading series that redirects our attention to another big bugbear of TMK: the des

We tie together a number of things: first, the assassination of UnitedHealth Group’s CEO and the rea

We talk about the legal battles that Musk and Amazon are waging against the National Labor Relations

We chat about Ed’s brilliant critical review of the new book AI Snake Oil and talk about the shortco

We get into the New York Times's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, which challenges the use of c

In our first recording back from holiday, we get into the Silicon Valley Election and go through the

[This interview was recorded before the election; we’ll talk about that in the next premium episode]

TMK on Holiday

2024/11/3

Just a quick note – TMK is on holiday for a couple weeks! Jathan is enjoying his honeymoon totally d

We bullshit about ICP, the Joker, and Megalopolis for the first 33 minutes. So jump a bit into the e