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Dystopian By Default: The Architecture of Surveillance
“Privacy is not about something to hide. Privacy is about controlling access to yourself.”Bruce Schneier has spent decades thinking about digital security and the hidden systems that shape modern…
Iran’s Global Intimidation Machine: Journalism, Exile, and Keeping Dissent Alive
“There is no belief in a democratic process in Iran right now.”In this episode, I speak with Fariba Nawa, the Afghan-American investigative journalist, podcaster, and chief editor of OnSpec Podcast,…
Survival Is Resistance: Prison, Protest, and The Price of Freedom
In this episode, I speak with Nasrin Parvaz, the Iranian civil rights activist, author, and artist, about her life before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution, her arrest in 1982, and the eight…
Lawyering Against the Machine: The Human Cost of AI and the Fight for Tech Justice
Tech justice lawyer and UCLA lecturer Melodi Dinçer joins me in this episode to explore the rise of AI‑induced delusional disorders and her litigation work at Tech Justice Law, where she represents…
Slowly, Then Suddenly: Surveillance, Social Rupture and Citizens’ Consent
“If you don’t have legitimacy, then you need 1984.”Professor David Betz of King’s College London’s Department of War Studies argues that a perfect storm of social, economic and political grievances…
Making The Machine That Makes Us: AI, Consciousness, and Human Creativity
“We are tearing a hole in the universe and AI is sticking its head out, and we still don’t really understand how.”In this episode, the philosopher, engineer, and AI ethicist Nell Watson joins me to…
Democracy In An Age Of Permanent Crisis
“Authoritarianism today is cleverer; it doesn’t only rule by fear.”From manipulated statistics to collapsing trust in experts and institutions, what happens when people simply stop believing what…
The World Turned Upside Down: England's Puritan Dystopia
Hide your mince pies! Our first-ever Christmas Special is about when Christmas was outlawed in England.I’m joined by historian Dr. Fiona McCall to explore one of England’s weirdest experiments in…
Episode 154: Michael W. Green on Why $140k Is The Real Poverty Line
Michael W. Green is the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management. Previously in his nearly thirty-year career in finance, he managed macro strategies at Thiel Macro, the…
Episode 153: Robert Joseph Greene on Censorship and the Hidden History of Gay Romance
Robert Joseph Greene is a Canadian author of gay romance fiction, including The Gay Icon Classics of the World, a globe-trotting collection of love stories set in various historical eras including…
Episode 152: John R. Carlos on Globalism, Technology, and Humanity's Future
John R. Carlos wants you to think about what it means to be human. In 2020, after forty-two years as a Royal Australian Air Force Wing Commander, he retired and turned his hand to writing. He has…
Episode 151: Daniele Bolelli on How A Society Eats Itself
Daniele Bolelli is an Italian historian, professor, and author who also hosts the podcasts History On Fire and The Drunken Taoist. He grew up during the Years of Lead, a fraught pair of decades from…
Episode 150: Graham Linehan on Comedy, Cancellation, and Being Gender-Critical
Graham Linehan is a five-time BAFTA-winning comedian and writer who created Father Ted, Black Books, and The IT Crowd. He also wrote for The Fast Show, Harry Enfield & Chums, Brass Eye, The Day…
Episode 149: Kara Dansky on The Abolition of Sex
Feminists have a saying—we can’t fight sexism if we can’t say what sex is. And that is precisely where we are as a society today—we can’t say what sex is.Kara Dansky is the author of The Abolition of…
Episode 148: Dr Leslie Gruis on Privacy and Surveillance
In her book The Privacy Pirates: How Your Privacy Is Being Stolen and What You Can Do About It, Dr Leslie Gruis describes the current situation in stark terms: “If privacy were a patient, it would be…
Episode 147: A Tale of Two Protests
On September 13, central London was taken over by competing gatherings. One, organised by Tommy Robinson, was billed as a free speech festival and national pride event called Unite The Kingdom. The…
Episode 146: Michael Box and Patrick Hague on Punk Rock Dystopia
Michael Box and Patrick Hague are creative partners in EchoEterna Productions and have worked together for almost 20 years as musicians, writers, and filmmakers. They join me to talk about their…
Episode 145: Joe Raiola on Satire, Censorship, and MAD Magazine
Free speech dies, comedy dies. It’s that simple.From 1952 to 2018, MAD Magazine published over five hundred regular editions as well as specials and books. In that time, it defined and shaped…
Episode 144: Frank Sanazi on Being A Comedy Dictator
Frank Sanazi is a unique comedy character, a tongue-in-cheek mashup of Adolf Hitler and Frank Sinatra described by his creator, the British singer and comedian Pete Cunningham, as “a satirical…
Episode 143: Shady El Damaty on Reclaiming Digital Privacy
It’s trite to point out that the internet is an increasingly weird and difficult space to explore. AI-generated ‘slop’ muddies search results and even ends up in published scientific papers. Bots…
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