The L0WL1F3 Podcast

The squad assembles to discuss the last twelve years as a bad TV show.

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We kick off season 6 with a deep dive into Dorian Lynskey's book "Everything Must Go" because, well... (gestures widely)

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For this season's finale, the crew discusses some of the art that got them through 2025.

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This ep, Grue chats with his buddy Rob about various aspects of doing business in China (and lends us a little insight into Deepseek AI's cost.)

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This ep, the crew discusses their most trusted news sources, and why they are constantly looking for new ones.

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This ep, Scum, Dan, and CoinOps welcome the inimitable Atlas Redden to talk about writing, teaching, westerns, and turkeys in Boston. Check out their story at: https://www.neondystopia.com/?p=100043399

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This ep, Xero, Grue, CoinOps, and Dan talk about some of the things they've heard, seen, and read that somewhat prepared them for modern times.

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This ep, Scum takes Grue and Dan through the 2001 Kiyoshi Kurosawa film "Pulse" (and its goofy 2006 American remake).

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This ep, Grue and Dan have a splendid convo with early podcast hero, major audio fiction fan, author, and activist Evo Terra.

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This ep, Scum tells Xero, CoinOps, and Dan about one of his favorite movies. It's still spooky season as far as we're concerned. Let's all go to Midian.

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This ep, CoinOps, Grue, Scum, and Dan come together to talk about a couple of things that've caught their eye in the last couple of weeks. Mostly, it's a decompression session.

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What if Cronenberg, but hilariously batshit?

Seriously, watch the movie before listening. It's worth it. Link here:

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This ep, CoinOps, Grueproof, Xero, and Dan get into some of the songs that got them into cyberpunk in general. As a bonus, check out the L0WL1F3 YouTube channel for a playlist of the songs discussed.

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S5e15 L0WL1F3 “Body Mod-ssage”

This ep, Scum and Shadowlink describe the various reasons and ways people can modify their bodies. Whole buncha content warnings.

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This ep, Xero, Grue, Shadowlink, and CoinOps discuss Richard Kelly's 2006 hyper-ambitious film "Southland Tales". It's insane, divisive, granularly interesting, and utterly batshit.

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This episode explores the rise of cybertribes—decentralized, tech-savvy communities formed around encryption, identity, and cultural resistance. Tracing the movement from 1960s hacker roots to modern mesh networks and DIY servers, we unpack how privacy, self-hosting, and symbolic identity have become tools of real-world cyberpunk resistance. From crypto wars to solarpunk enclaves, this is a blueprint for reclaiming autonomy in a surveilled world.

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Cypherpunk Manifesto (Eric Hughes) – https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

Denmark’s face copyright law – https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

Operation Sundevil overview...

This Ep, Grue interviews the guys about the origins of Neon Dystopia and L0WL1F3. This is a good one if you've wondered how we got here, and where it's all going.

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CoinOps, Grueproof, and Scum discuss Barry Levinson's underrated masterpiece about how to distract from a Presidential scandal.

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This ep, we welcome Grueproof to the L0WL1F3 squad, and we welcome back Darkstar for a discussion on the similarities between the current state of affairs and the similarities to the show Andor.

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The full crew is back to discuss a stupid orb and a stupid gameshow. Shadowlink endures a technical issue. CoinOps discovers sarsaparilla.

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This ep, CoinOps, Shadowlink, and Xero are joined by the inimitable Dr Sil to discuss Solarpunk, its potential as a response to dystopian genres, and the importance of seeking solutions to existential problems.

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So, we've been talking about Harlan Ellison a lot off-mic (and a little bit on mic) and it just so happens that Xero has a buddy who's just recorded several audio-versions of Ellison's writing. Luis Moreno joins Xero, Scum, and CoinOps for an extended discussion on Ellison's life, works, and controversies.

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From ChatGPT-fueled inquiries to daylight abductions, from the gutting of libraries to the Tesla backlash, from the Technocracists to the Tradwives, this episode has it all! And by "all" we mean like "a fraction of a percent."

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Oleg returns with more insight into the fall of the Soviet Union, and more parallels to the current situation in the US. Also: vodka.

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Watching this pre-9/11 movie, at this point in history, is like catching a glimpse of an alternate, but still kinda shitty, dimension.

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It was a hell of a year last week.

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CoinOps, X3R0, and Dan welcome special guest Oleg to discuss some interesting similarities between the fall of the Soviet Union and what's happening here and now.

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We kick off season 5 looking back at some media from 2024 that got us through.

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This week, CoinOps can finally shut up about the epic 1969 Sam Peckinpah western: The Wild Bunch. Yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw.

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This ep: a film about every conspiracy theorist's wettest dream. We got re-education camps, a totalitarian government of elites, and something that's not entirely unlike Sasquatch.

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How 'bout a little slice of news? We've got mysterious drones, Pokemon feeding AI, global destabilization, and a corporate correction.

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This ep, we talk about 1998's "Enemy of the State," a 2 hour and 12 minute movie told in a series of consecutive Vine clips.

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Spoopy Season concludes with a discussion on the 2000 film, "The Cell." Slim Goodbody may make an appearance.

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Spooky season goes into overtime, the first of many future crimes of the, ahem, L0W-L1F3Force!

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L0WL1F3 returns with a discussion about a highly-kinetic anime and a cerebral film about a guy that returns to Monke. Harembe wept.

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The crew discusses a Coppola film about a surveillance expert afflicted with shitty opsec and Catholicism.

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The conclusion of our, uh, conversation about Coppola's "The Conversation", a film that prefigured several problems that we now see with the surveillance state, and our position within it. Yay!

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This ep, our good buddy Cyberpunk Librarian joins us to explain the recent Hachette v Internet Archive hullabaloo.

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This ep, we enlist the help of Soft Rock to talk about satire, trolling, and Poe's Law.

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We cannot believe this took two episodes.

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