This week we spoke about Labour's flag obsession, and about a pair of startups that aim to replace the entirety of human interiority using a pair of glasses and a smartphone.

We spoke to @lukewsavage.bsky.social about Canada's flight attendant strikes:

shoutouts to @trashfuture.bsky.social #wplace

i'm taking my hit show 'how revolting! sorry to offend' on a uk tour this autumn and tickets are on sale NOW! grab a ticket and argue about which city i should or shouldn't be going to in the replies. all dates: www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows-h...

Do you want to hear me try to podcast while losing all of my body fluids to sweat?

BONUS: In-App Waterbed Purchases: TF Live, 21st June 2025 We promised, we delivered: we talked about EIGHT SLEEP and the CURTIS YARVIN ARTICLE at our LIVE SHOW last month. Now it's being released because Riley's on holiday! Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/in-app...

This week on the pod Rebecca Wilks came on to talk about Farage, Wales, and the brewing war. Link in bio

thank you everyone who came out to the basement where they hanged Saddam Hussein for the hottest @trashfuture.bsky.social live show I’ve ever done

LONDON - this is TOMORROW - a few tickets remain! (linked below)

This week @jacobsilverman.com came on to talk Musk, Trump, Gavin Newsom and crypto

ICYMI Mark Zuckerberg doing Jackass. From our episode "Joe Pantone" with @mikeisaac.bsky.social

LONDON - tickets are flying out the door for the TF live show as part of Big Fat Festival on June 21st, we'd love to see you there! Tickets: bigbellycomedy.club/event/trashf...

We've got @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com on the line to finally ask if Neom SC has the juice to win the Saudi Premier League, and if it's unfair for Saudi security forces clean guns menacingly at each corner.

The Banana Ball Shuffle ft. Lauren Walker @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com from @battingaround.bsky.social joins us to answer sports questions like "what's Banana Ball?" or "Will Neom win the Saudi Premier League" and crucially... "can we bet on it?" www.patreon.com/posts/banana...

Btw, just posted my segment of an interview with @raaleh.bsky.social from earlier this month. As always, watch it because it brings revenue to Notes on the Crises! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dq3...

This week @goingmedieval.bsky.social came on to talk about why Labour loves jail (and why nobody understands the crusades)

Boorish Chums Orb! Jan Marsalek! United Healthcare getting sued for responding to its CEO being murdered and becoming more pro-patient! And then, an article about "the lanyard class," where yet another columnist talks herself into voting Reform. www.patreon.com/posts/booris...

Lincolnshire DOGE The local elections have been and gone, and now everybody is deciding retroactively that the Labour Party was always full of dangerous liars and idiots. To start, though, we also look at the spate of religious and spiritual manias people are attributing to AI. LINKS BELOW!

well well well look who's remembering to post episodes again

Carnation Revolution ft. Luke Savage Luke Savage joins us to discuss year zero of the Carney imperium... Canada, welcome to the slow, torturous path of "becoming England." Also, Meta presents celebrity voiced sexbots for kids, and Starmer does his best "Brick Top". www.patreon.com/posts/carnat...

i returned to @trashfuture.bsky.social to analyze AI 2027, an absolutely baffling “forecast” of where LLMs are going to take us in the coming years. spoiler alert: it ends in the annihilation of humanity

Our Lucy was on @trashfuture.bsky.social this week to discuss the frankly inhumane cuts to PIP and disability benefits coming from government. Liz Kendall longs for the return of the work house. Check it out podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Was great to have the opportunity to talk to Riley @trashfuture.bsky.social about the proposed cuts to the welfare system and the catastrophic impact this will have on disabled people. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The secret to the podcast is that it's a history podcast dressed up as a different podcast

The international cast of the Trashfuture podcast were good enough to have me on this week to discuss the use of AI in cinema, because of my recent piece in @fastcompany.com

🚨Crisis on Infinite Farleys ft. A.S. Hamrah🚨 @hamrahrama.bsky.social joins Riley and Nova to talk about AI in the film industry and studio executives’ bizarre desire to algorithmically raise the dead. But first, we look at McKinsey's desperate gambit to make Neom make economic sense. Links below!

This is really good, and Slobodian is as prescient as ever!

Goodnight sweet prince Miguel Arruda - don’t you dare pick up a post politics career not at least somewhat in the public eye.

With regard to our latest Patreon episode

a lot of what @raaleh.bsky.social and I talked about:

BONUS: Reversed Stomach Syndrome ft. Nina Eichacker We talk goons, AI pins, and Bridget Jones (@devononearth.bsky.social subs in for November). Then, @ninaecon.bsky.social joins Riley in the second half to discuss the financial sector shooting itself in the foot out of spite. Patreon link below!

I am genuinely terrified by what @nathantankus.bsky.social and I discuss at the end

I've only heard of some of the federal side of the payments crisis so wasn't taking it too seriously, but this episode highlighted some of the possible existential risks to both America and the Global Economy if these clowns fuck things up. First time in a while a TF episode has given me anxiety

oh man that portuguese briefcase sure is funny HEY WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE WORLD IS GONNA END-

FREE EPISODE: Worst Case Scenario ft. Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social explains what DOGE is doing at the treasury, with enormous implications for the global economy. Also - the killing of a sacred duck, the spending of a sacred $30, and the theft of a sacred suitcase. Links below!

“Postmodern conservatism is all about getting mad at marketing campaigns”

JDPONorth ft. Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social joins us to discuss how Canadian politics has been entirely upended by the announcement (and then subsequent walk-back) of Trump's tariff plan. Also, how to understand fascism in the 21st century. Links below!

BONUS: Da Crazy Hawaiian Goes to Riyadh ft. Jacob Silverman OpenAI to DeepSeek: you stole our theft machine! Reeves to nation: finally the UK will invest in Oxford, Cambridge, and London. @jacobsilverman.com joins to discuss Saudi's mission to buy influence in Trumpworld. Get it on Patreon!

This episode contains the phrase “a random selection of uncurated milks” and if that can’t convince you to subscribe then I don’t know what will

NEW on the benevolent feed: We head to PA for our boy-est Boy Mayor yet, Harrisburg's Stephen R. Reed Meeting minutes include: Municipal Roundup presented by Rudy dot coffee, Nightcrawler from NIGHTCRAWLER, Riley gets FFS, American Museum of Hat Accessories, and more! nogodsnomayors.com

Newly Grinted ft. Ed Zitron @edzitron.com joins us to discuss the Deepseek fallout, how Silicon Valley ran out of ideas quite some time ago, and ask if this could be our dot-com bubble moment. More importantly, though, we discuss the problem of luggage theft at Lisbon Airport. Links below!

Hahahaha so it's funny you say this...

BONUS: pump(dot)gov ft. Molly White @molly.wiki joins us to talk about cryptocurrency in the incoming administration - they can combine "trigger the libs" with "grift the morlocks." Also, Cooler Screens' war with Walgreens heats up. www.patreon.com/posts/pump-g...

Steube Is As Steube Does feat. Mike Isaac We talk to NYT tech reporter Mike Isaac about the ongoing Greg Steube-fication of every major tech CEO in the US. Also, Rachel Reeves has depression, DOGE makes some cost cutting recommendations at the DEA, and Peter Thiel learns Greek. Links below!

BONUS: Go Hoke, Go Broke We check in on Volocopter, an old friend we assume is going from strength to strength as the official air taxi partner of Neom. Also, we look at the latest bond market meltdown. But mostly, Proto-Indo-European Steppe Nomad talk abounds. Patreon link below!

On the most recent @trashfuture.bsky.social episode they discuss that Zuch’s whole problem is that he got one thing right once, has never had another job outside of being right once and is now trying to figure out what those figures he sees outside the passenger window would like