A Buyer’s Guide to Our Late Capitalist Dystopia
Gareth is back! We’re talking (supersonic) planes, (cancelled) trains, and the most exciting new business opportunity arriving at the desks of the 500-700 most powerful people in the world… courtesy of Liz Truss????
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*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
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Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Patrick Wyman, host of the new Past Lives podcast, joins us to talk about the one ancient civilisational collapse we haven’t talked about in depth: the western Roman Empire. What does it mean to live in collapse? How is it hidden by things like the price mechanism in ways it couldn’t hide in an agrarian empire? What would a potter have experienced in Britain in 350 AD? All this and more!
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*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
It’s the episode about the major media consolidation of 2025 - Paramount and Netflix are competing to feed on the corpse of Warner Bros… what’re they competing for? Why do these companies keep eating one another? Will David Ellison have enough fun playing Movies? All this, and wacky tales of kung fu teachers and more therein.
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TF Merch is still available here!
*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
We talk at length about Nigel Farage’s callow youth and flirtation with far right racial politics that has, for some reason, put the commentariat into a state of shock. Also, crucial Orb updates.
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*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Dan Boeckner’s back to discuss the ongoing march of AI through the music industry, and whether or not companies like Suno really do “democratise creativity.” Also, we look at U.K. institutions segregating trans people and going :/
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TF Merch is still available here!
*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Ed Campbell has ventured deep into the dark heart of British Bitcoin enthusiasm to bring us dispatches from the front lines of the battle against the state… and also a cryptocurrency themed marmalade that we all agree was slightly too sour.
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TF Merch is still available here!
*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Ed returns quickly after his last appearance to address Nvidia’s apropos-of-almost-nothing reassurance to the world “by the way, we’re not Enron.” Also, we read an article about probably one of the worst AI companies going.
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TF Merch is still available here!
*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
Climate Scientist Jess Green returns in the wake of COP30 to discuss exactly why the UN brokered international climate accords are so ineffectual. Also, we talk about some old friends, ongoing developments in private credit, and a plucky new startup aiming to “save the world.”
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TF Merch is still available here!
*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)
One more thing... we get Gregk Foley from the brand new Bloodwork Podcast on to talk about a company that can only be understood as "weaponised geoguessr." Also, Euan Blair's tie up with Louis Mosley (who could have seen that coming!) and a mural of horrors goes up in Kingston.
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Journalist and professional Wes Streeting Watcher Sasha Baker joins us to discuss all things Streeting, as he seems to be more and more likely to be inflicted on us as the next Prime Minister of the UK. But first, May We Meet You?
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Ed Zitron returns to discuss all things AI bubble - specifically OpenAI's uncertain balance sheet, the potential government backstop of data centre construction, and the very real and material constraints (such as gas turbine production) on building god via Nvidia Blackwell chips. Also we get sidetracked and stunlocked by the new tranche of Epstein revelations at the very outset.
Ed's writing can be found here: https://www.wheresyoured.at