TRASHFUTURE

  There's been a recent profile of Sam Altman that gives a lot of chances for analysis, mostly due to the fact that the man loves lying more than anything any one of us could ever love in this world. We also talk about Starmer's Spanish encounters and how every minor problem Hussein experiences sounds like something Keir Starmer could also be experiencing in his daily life. Get more TF episodes ea...

Luke returns to discuss Mark KKKarney’s failure to reform the Canadian state in the face of a global crisis for middle powers, and the emergence of a new leader on the left with a few ideas about grocery stores that may just work, if they can get past a certain Food Professor, that is. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! MAYOR ALERT Get tickets to the three performance dates for No God No Mayor...

We're unlocking a bonus episode this week due to every possible scheduling conflict happening at the same time! Lauren from Batting Around joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk sports - what’s Banana Ball? What’re the odds of Neom SC winning the Saudi Premier League? What’s going on in Utah Mammoth player Sean Durzi’s brain? And more importantly, can we bet on it? Check out Batting Around here! M...

Friend of the show Ed Zitron returns to discuss some of the recent developments in AI "profitability," or rather the fact that, while the economy doesn't hinge on AI in any meaningful way, the capital markets....have gotten themselves into a position where they do. And it's their own fault! Get more analysis from Ed here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! NATE ALERT Nate's band Second Homes i...

Friend of the show and returning guest Séamus Malekafzali joins us to discuss Events in West Asia, specifically as regards Israel’s ground invasion of southern Lebanon, and Trump’s seeming gestures towards escalating a war with Iran that is already going very badly.   Get more of Séamus’ writing here!   Get the whole episode on Patreon here!   Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our P...

In this week's bonus episode, friend of the show Brian Merchant joins Riley, Hussein, and Nate to discuss an ed-tech security firm selling digital hall passes for anti-vaping counterinsurgency. We also discuss Brian's writing about ways in which AI is supplanting professional roles in... education, but also in NCAA athletics training? With predictable results. Check out Blood in the Machine here!...

We get our SF billboard specialist and recovered startup person Wendy Liu in to talk about the newest scandal rocking Silicon Valley: a company that can only be described as Theranos for Compliance. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here !   TF Merch is still available here!   *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Trashfut...

Gareth joins us to discuss new developments in UK transit, specifically outside of London, that look... promising? And not terrible? But we also have to check in with other old friends: the ones who're still scamming, the ones who've been pardoned by Trump and now plan to reinvent the airplane bathroom, and the ones who've been made earls in Scotland for some reason. If you want to hear more from...

Riley has been driven insane by a… company hinging on a single Australian man that appears to be bamboozling the British State with complex financial chicanery, and now you all have to hear the story of how NScale started out as a landlord for bitcoin miners and became the government’s best hope for a “Sovereign AI” but that has only a scaffolding yard to its name. Except it also doesn’t own the s...

Josef joins us again to discuss the ongoing disaster in the Persian Gulf, and the crumbling not only of the facade of imperial legitimacy but imperial omnipotence. Also, we look at a startup that could only be called a “moonshot.” Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here ! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://www.miloedwa...

Riley has been driven insane by a… company hinging on a single Australian man that appears to be bamboozling the British State with complex financial chicanery, and now you all have to hear the story of how NScale started out as a landlord for bitcoin miners and became the government’s best hope for a “Sovereign AI” but that has only a scaffolding yard to its name. Except it also doesn’t own the s...

  Josh is back to talk about his specialist subject - media consolidation by the Ellisons! But we also look at a possible upcoming energy price crunch (at time of recording anyway) and assess how prepared Britain is. All this following a trip down memory lane in Dartford. Check out the Worst of All Possible Worlds here! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates her...

Ed and Jathan from This Machine Kills are back to talk about the false choice between the good guy A.I. and the bad guy AI that - at the end of the day - are coming from the same horrible pipe. Also, a funeral for brewdog, a new tie up for eight sleep, and Farage continues to Starmerify. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dat...

      What if we put new, unwoke Switzerland on a major geopolitical fault line? We look at the world the day after the US-Israeli attack on Iran, including how Europe, the Middle East, and UAE based crypto hustlers will respond. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here ! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://www.miloedwar...

We're joined by recurring guest and friend of the show Ed Zitron to discuss Stargate, the Citrini AI report, and an article about someone's quest to make eternal Scott Adams. For lack of a better word, it is a lot. Check out Ed's work here! Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! Trashfuture are: Riley ( @raaleh ), Milo ( @Milo_Edwards ), Hussein ( @HKesvani ), Nat...

An upcoming by-election in Gorton and Denton has the British political class confronting, and failing to learn from, the fact that at some point someone has to govern. In a war of bins versus posts, they've decided to go all-out with posting, firing up the Anti-Corbyn Machine against Zack Polanski and failing to grasp why the Green Party might actually appeal to voters. And in order to understand...

We've unlocked this bonus episode! We've had a perfect storm of illness among the entire cast and it became impossible to record this week, but we'll be back later in the week with a new bonus, and will have a new free episode next week. Riley, Nova, and Hussein chug some down some heavy metals, talk about rare earths, ChatGPT’s OTHER other detour into porn (before curing cancer), and the slow dea...

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...

We discuss the new Epstein revelations that show that jeevacation also had a day job as a kind of nefarious Forrest Gump, facilitating or gleefully observing a huge number of the events that made our world feel so irredeemable, connecting a world of post-Soviet and American oligarchs with European aristocrats, western financiers, and basically every intelligence agency. In the second half, we talk...

We’re joined by Blood Work’s Greg Foley to discuss the ongoing wave of state violence in the United States, and think about what makes this time different and altogether more worrying. Also, we look at the Labour Party shooting itself in the head rather than ceding any control to non-Morgan McSweeneys… but before any of that we look at what’s happening in a country that dealt with its fascism prob...

Dan Boeckner joins for more CanCon as Mark Carney continues his journey from central banker to Maoist Third Worldist “death to amerikkka” insurgent leader in charge of the Hoser Mujahedeen. Also, we don’t want to be all IR all the time in the IR world we live in now, so we return to the orbs and the ongoing evidence that AI is useless and everybody except CEOs hates it. Check out Trouble In River...

A rare assemblage of November, Hussein, and Nate discuss the happenings of the day: Europeans deploying forces to Greenland to stave off Trump actually doing the thing; Trump's coterie of freaks claiming they're going to offer refugee status in America to British Jews; an article about an AI-powered restaurant chain where the machine not only cooks your food, but also invents your food. It doesn't...

I guess it’s another slow news day, so TF invited Seamus Malekafzali back on to discuss his favourite old French films. Wait, I am being handed a bulletin. We get into a lot this episode: bloc politics, international law and multilateralism as a European museum exhibit, and a world that seems poised to get much bloodier. Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here ! TF Merch...

It’s Abi! And we’re talking about the current state of trans healthcare in the U.K. Also, we discuss the quantum leap the global fascist international has taken, the U.K. government equivocating over its ongoing presence on paedo Radio Mille Collines, and finally… a computer for the soul. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour da...

Professor of International Relations at UFABC Brazil and DSA International Co-Chair Dr. Jana Silverman joins us to discuss, based on history, what we can now about the recent American crimes and outrages in Venezuela. Also, this raises some questions as to the legitimacy of the FIFA Peace Prize.   Get more TF episodes each week by subscribing to our Patreon here !   TF Merch is still available her...