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Musa joins us to discuss the recent controversies with Abu Dhabi, Man City, and why decades of underinvestment in the U.K. left us vulnerable to becoming the playthings of monarchies… also football. But first, we read an article about a perennial favourite subject: people incriminating themselves by text. Check out the Stadio podcast here! Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patre...

Check out the full episode on Patreon here! Hussein tried to conduct some shoe leather journalism at the beating heart of the Holborn & St Pancras constituency: this one Blank Street Coffee franchise by the station that always has an enormous queue. Sadly he didn’t learn anything, and instead we’ve decided that whatever happens in the by-election, it’s got to be a bellwether of something that...

We have an opportunity to speak with Jay, a union organizer in the UK hospitality industry, about the ways in which that sector is particularly hostile to labour organizing and, unsurprisingly, owned by ghouls all the way up and down. But before that, Nate, Hussein, and November discuss Trump’s declaration about calling AI “Super Intelligence,” and the fact that he’s forced a bunch of tech CEOs to...

Get the entire episode on Patreon here! We’ve got Blood Work’s Greg Foley on to discuss the… happenings, involving another permutation of a guy named Thomas, and some guys in masks, and the British criminal justice system, and also another recent happening in a farm field in Gloucestershire, and also an article about the post-chud ambiance for misfit internet right-wingers in Budapest. It’s a lot!...

Riley and Hussein are joined by Hesse Deni (substituting for Nova who will be returning on Friday) to look at the unravelling of “A.I. safety” as a largely posting based discipline. Let’s all update our priors together and gesture at the crux of the issue. Also, Riley brought the most Ohio item home from a wedding in same. Check out more from Hesse on Trouble in River City! Get more TF episodes ea...

Get the complete episode on Patreon here! It doesn’t come as a surprise that lawyers are using AI tech in legal practice, but British legal authorities and firms have gotten a bit wild: buying pallets of NVIDA GPUs to build their own data centres, submitting briefs with AI hallucinations of fake laws all the way to the point that judges have to admonish them, and running an all-AI legal service ca...

Editor’s note: this is something of an unusual episode, sorry! It’s just Nate and Hussein, but we’ve brought on journalist Nathan Akehurst, the author of the forthcoming book Along the Watchtower: Dispatches from Europe’s War on Migration. However, we have to talk about the Piddington referendum, the immediate fascist piggybacking that’s happened since, and the surprise discovery that a small vill...

We dragooned friend of the show Tom Walker to discuss the recent Will Gluck film ONE NIGHT ONLY, which can be described as an intended meditation on life in a fascist society that somehow instead just lectures the audience about how it’s better to wait for marriage. Abstinent Times at Ridgemont High. There’s Something About Chastity. All sorts of ways to look at it, but—as the cast discovered—the...

We temporarily pivot to America because we have the opportunity to speak with Charles Star, a friend of the show and a law understander, who can give us insight into just how much the U.S. Supreme Court has retooled itself to enable total right-wing capture. However, we also have a chance to speak about Trump’s ballroom, its impossible proportions, its Sims-tier design, and Trump’s own declaration...

We believe in the marketplace of ideas. That’s why we’ve made it so that Cory Doctorow responds point by point to an article written personally to him by a16z about why his Enshittification thesis is wrong. Then, in the back half, we talk about AI and LLMs as real technologies rather than mystical, theological entities (with mystical, theological market assumptions). Get the whole episode on Patre...

We get into a land of contrasts today - the far right grows in street power as Reform is suddenly exposed for the grifters and charlatans they have always been. Also, two very serious policy men have a conversation about party funding with one million hidden cameras. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here ! RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods, No Mayors here! HUSSEIN ALERT Che...

For this week's bonus episode, Riley, Hussein, Nate, and November convene to discuss a number of topics: abject Burnhamism for one, a luxury block of flats in London making its very unsympathetic tenants live in what can only be called Scolding WeWork for another, and the story of a failed restauranteur family in Reading becoming part of your phone's firmware if you live in the UK? Get the entire...

Bloomberg’s Zeke Faux joins us to discuss stablecoins - specifically Tether and World Liberty / USD1 - which function now as the parallel financial ecosystem for dealing with states captured by right wing cliques. But first, we brainstorm a post politics career for Keir and check in on the state of toys in Hertfordshire. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here ! RILEY ALE...

Get the whole episode on Patreon here! Molly is back again, this time to talk about the right's war on Wikipedia—we show how Grokipedia was actually born of grievances fomented in two reports baselessly alleging liberal bias at Wikipedia, and died because Elon got distracted. Also, we uncover a general principle: right wing grievance mongering projects fail because these are fundamentally lazy peo...

Libby and Charlotte from What’s All This Then join us for an all dessert episode featuring a new entry in the Kirk fund, an interesting new fraud defence, and some answers to burning questions about Britain. Also a shirt Riley saw returning from a friend’s stag do. Check out What's All This Then here! Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here ! RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods...

Phoebe Gates went to How To Rule The World class at Stanford, where apparently she learned to admit to potentially criminal activity in Slack. Repeatedly. Also, the network school moves countries, a FarmVille with perma-death, and Mark Zuckerberg has a go at manifesto writing. Get the full episode on Patreon here! RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods, No Mayors here! HUSSEIN ALERT Check out 10k Posts her...

We talk about the death of Jason Arday and the culpability of our rotten-to-the-core media industry in bringing it about… and also a truly infuriating article about how a 17th century academic might not fit in at a modern “Pronouns University.” RILEY ALERT Check out No Gods, No Mayors here! HUSSEIN ALERT Check out 10k Posts here! MILO ALERT Check out Milo's tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards...

First of all: mea maxima culpa for having trusted the hated professional news media about a certain fictive elf's grave. We're endeavouring to do better. And in that spirit we've brought on Gareth Dennis, host of Railnatter on YouTube and the Trainsatlantic podcast. Somehow, Gareth has the ability to make Andy Burnham do what he tells him, and we're discussing the future of Great British Railways,...

Riley speaks to Foxglove’s Donald Campbell about the campaign to prevent Palantir from working with the NHS, but before we get to that, we have to talk about… fictive elven graves. And real Bronze Age burial sites. And a man in Texas who’s willing to move heaven and earth in order to view anime. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here ! Learn more about Foxglove and suppo...

We've brought on friend of the show and writer Ben Fogel to talk about the hard-right turn in Latin America, and the list of freaks is a mighty one: the gradient scale of Bolsonaro failsons, the Peruvian dictator's daughter, the fast food restaurant family crime syndicate, and many more. November is still recovering from an illness but thankfully we have Mattie in detention onsite. Get the whole e...

Prayers up for our beloved Nova who remains unwell, but Devon is in the hot seat today filling in as we discuss how you can’t trust maps anymore, a report on the state of reports, and the future of education in a certain grafting market trader’s utopia. But first, we look at the outstanding white boys who are ushering in a new era of vibes in Britain. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing...

Too much is happening at once. We've got repurposed Realdolls being pitched as AI robot teachers....or tutors, since supposedly the difference is crucial. We've got an eight-figure settlement in the case of eBay gangstalking bloggers and doing Jared Leto Joker pranks on them. We've got a wearable tech ring for being a better Evangelical Christian, but also somehow reinventing indulgences. We're gr...

Once again, it seems like tariffs are going to slice the North American auto industry into ribbons while it simultaneously tries to make buying some of the only good cars in the world illegal. Victoria Scott from Tran Girlismo takes us through the decline of the American auto industry (for non freaks) and the rise of the American auto industry (for freaks) augurs the wheels coming off the broader...

Friend of the show and Silicon Valley anthropologist joins us to discuss the cultural weirdness that has taken over Silicon Valley - what do you do to get noticed when your only route out of the permanent underclass is to make the same product everyone else is making? Go Crazy! Also, we look at the parade of old friends back from the dead - Quibi (sort of), Neom (a little bit), and Jan Marsalek (f...

Jensen Huang sold his leather jacket for charity… and we look at exactly what that charity is and does. Then in the second half, Nathan Tankus is back to discuss the ongoing plot to create an imperial presidency by Touching the Money like never before. TF listeners can enjoy a discounted subscription to Notes on the Crises at this link! (also just FYI the link is live regardless of what the site d...