Panopticon :3 feat. Cory Doctorow
Cory’s back and in studio! We talk about the financial and legal shenanigans plaguing Elon Musk’s latest wheeze, reconfirm data centres in space are utterly moronic (part of said wheeze), and check in on the latest round of mawkish sentimentality being used to extend the surveillance state. Also we learn about a dot com bubble era startup called Cab Candy, which does exactly what you think it does.
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Yay Nate's back:)
Also in France and somewhat less bien than les raids... https://data-workers.org/france/
going back to my Big Brain Musk Centrism that pisses off people so bad: say what you will about how he didn't found the company, is not involved, sucks at it, whatever: it's insane how he's the only guy with a rocket company with launchers good enough to just effortlessly curb stomp the satellite telecom industry. It's not like global cell coverage isn't an established industry with a ton of revenue, it's just that the Falcon 9 has such better margins that he can take them on with zero problem "ohhhhh but he has government defense contracts it's just free money" yeah so does every rocket company and yet
Elon should just build his data centres on Iceland. Looks like the moon so he can post imaginative pics while tripping k and his staff can figure out the practicalities of geothermal for power and heat exchanges to use seawater for cooling.
This one goes out to November: https://archive.org/details/FighterTacticsAgainstB-29 In case anyone wanted an idea of what kind of fucked up hair and voice an RAF fighter pilot may have had
wait what the fuck, is jeff bezos present day, less endearing, char aznable? depopulate the earth and move to space to save the environment?
okay so you have Ring, which is a shape, right? selling you the Sphere, but what is it actually? Ice. How do you get ice in a drink usually? CUBES
Please get Cory on again, I really enjoyed the communal rage meltdown and also learned things
The British snowpiercer crosses an international border so there needs to be the same security and checks as on the channel tunnel for a train that goes from Leeds to Newcastle or Glasgow to Edinburgh and that’s before we even touch crossing the famously placid Irish Sea
Also, the bit of the famously placid Irish Sea between Glasgow and Belfast? That would be an enormous trench that the British government used as a dump for very much still live ordinance, that does occasionally still go off!
Elon is if The Line was a person
Even the normies at my Super Bowl party were freaked out by the ring ad
I know it was just part of a bit about thermos, but Hot Gazpacho inflicted me psychic damage. Its a cold soup. Heck, it never gets heated. It's technically a smoothie! . Btw, Title is 10/10.
British Snowpiercer is on a rail replacement bus.
I will be so sad when there's no more Neom. It's so juicy and so stupid. And while it's a symptom of the rotting and corpulent super rich; it's also just so silly.
Wes Anderson: less annoying than AI.
The moon takes 3 ish days. Mars generally takes 3 months at best
Jeff Bezos: "Let's say for a moment that I am Char [Aznable]."
One thing that strikes me about the Big Circle and "we should be as ambitious about our future" is the idea that we should only be ambitious about megastructures and not "maybe we should feed/house/medicate everybody who needs it".
1 dog found a day? An employee's just letting the same dog out every day to juice the stats
That's the best case scenario. Middle case scenario: They're tracking stray dogs and getting them exterminated and adding that to their stats. Worst case scenario: They're notifying Kristi Noem every time they see a dog.
I’m only here to support fellow Gen Xer, Cory Doctorow #wewilnotbeforgotten
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Nate’s comparison of Neil Kinnock and Joe Biden is so funny given the scandal that ended Biden’s first presidential campaign.
People have been trying to deploy Anthropology for unethical means for a long time. The answer to your proposed job is no. The show could use some Cultural Anthrological perspective though.
Ah, this episode was recorded in the halcyon days after McSweeney got the boot but *before* Anas Sarwar detonated his political career in the stupidest attempted backstabbing of the year. I can't wait for the bonus ep this week.
it's already been recorded, they read melania. trash past
Can't wait for Gareth to comment on the loop pointing out that every pillar is an individual ground survey and individual design and the associated costs will be fucking mental.
This only occured to me just now, but isn't "What if a Swedish guy were Italian" just medieval Sicily?
Or Southern Italy in general. (South of the Papal States)
I hate episodes without Milo because now when Riley says something like "SpaceX... often flies under the radar," I have to come into the comments section myself and say "That's going to be a huge problem for them. You don't want that in a rocket company."
Look: we all have Milo brain now. As evidenced by me saying aloud and in unison with HK last week, re: Starmer: “I welcome his resignation. And I would ask him to go further”
People from the Nonce country that has their entire elite ritually raped in boarding schools calling another country "perverts" might be a little too much irony.
Is there a country that doesnt do any of this? I mean marrying off 12 year olds and jocks not understanding what no means isn't any better.
the title of this ep really got me also ❤️❤️❤️ Cory Doctorow
Keir Starmer using the Labour behelit to sacrifice 99 percent of Britain in order to accomplish nothing
Alternatively. Trying to do the third impact but they already got rid of the boy in the Milenium dome
I'm looking forward to the Trashfuture Melania review, but I fear they can't top the Kill the Computer cheese incident.
Ohhhh I hate this a lot
Yesss at long last Big Glasgow Subway will be made
OK so if Jeff Bezos does start getting his colonies up there do NOT buy a house in Sydney
And I thought my Gundam joke was going to be too niche.
Can't believe you got Doctor Who on!
Oops. Fkn dyslexia!
Also, the Grok thing is really a new kind of sexual terrorism. The only reason people do it is total contempt for women and wanting to disgust and scare them. It's really like remarkably horrific and I think it's gonna make more waves in Europe just because right wing stuff is a different kind of sexist where you can't just do that to women.
the only solution left is to crush all computers with big sticks and start doing everything with pen and paper. trashfuture podcast should come in the mail!
trashfuture cassette edition when
The fuck is a solar cities?
Enshittifying my jorts with glee