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Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire, Divine Fits + more joins us to discuss music, and how it juxtaposes with "MAGA Rap", a closed loop system operating not as art, but propaganda.

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The Smiling Man returns to discuss the demise of Sora, what it means for the future of Open AI, and the future of the racist cuckold anthropomorphic fruit video economy.

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Gita Jackson, co-owner of Aftermath, joins us to talk about their newest piece on "Woke 2", we have a loose conversation on the institutional failures of yesterday's resistance, and get into the path towards Total Woke Victory.

Read Gita's latest at Aftermath: https://aftermath.site/woke-2-wokeness-black-lives-matter-activism/

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The Homie Marcos returns. We discuss everything from philosophy, to diner goths, scrambled eggs and tossed salads, Afro Man's recent legal troubles and more.

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What if instead of buying items from a store or website, "micro influencers" could host QVC/Home Shopping Network style streams you could buy from, with included gambling elements? The fine folks at the Whatnot app bravely answered. Spoilers: it sucks a lot!

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We discuss the history of celebrity clone replacement conspiracy theories and their place in the broader political moment.

Articles discussed in this episode:

Clones and zombies: rethinking conspiracy theories and the digital public sphere through a (post)-colonial perspective: Iginio Gagliardone, Matti Pohjonen, Stephanie Diepeveen & Samuel Olaniran

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2239890

Why Is the Internet Obsessed With Celebrity Clone Conspiracy Theories? By Carly Thomas

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/internets-obsession-celebrity-clone-conspiracy-theories-1236520246/

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Maddy Joins us to talk about Erika Kirk in a loose, free-form ep. This was originally recorded about two weeks ago so the drama may be slightly behind.

Our lost show with Maddyson drops this month only at Patreon.com/KillTheComputer

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Matt from A Bit Fruity joins us to recap a discussion he and June had with Ashley St. Clair, former conservative influencer and mother of Elon Musk's child. We talk about if, when, and how to give conservatives an off-ramp from the MAGA movement, how to identify grifters capitalizing off of that moment, and more.

Watch the interview/support Matt here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG-pL7aZoeY

Super Bowl, baby! We talk about the TPUSA half-time show and how it was an egregious, humiliating failure for the MAGA movement. Don't worry, Caleb didn't talk about any actual football stuff in this one. We did make fun of the ads, though.

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Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds joins us to talk about Melania (2026).

Follow Josh: https://www.worstpossible.world/

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Maddy was originally going to come on and discuss the Secret Life of Erika Kirk (which we will be doing later) as well as plug the new L O S T bonus sideshow. However we wanted to start the episode with some thoughts on the current situation in Minneapolis, which ended up eating up an entire hour. Take care of yourselves as best you can, please.

Maddy will be back for the Erika ep and our LOST miniseries soon, both of which you can find here at Patreon.com/KillTheComputer

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It's estimated that Grok, Elon Musk's chatbot formerly known as "MechaHitler" is now generating upwards of thousands of images of CSAM a day. While other countries are moving to outright ban it, Elon Musk is shrugging it off, his friends like Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney are rallying to his side, and the Trump administration, perhaps unsurprisingly, is silent. We brought on journalist Maggie Harrison Dupré to discuss her article on the subject and more.

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https://bsky.app/profile/mharrisondupre.bsky.social

https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison

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Eoin Higgins, author of the book Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left joins us to discuss his book, the media landscape in 2026, and more.

Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Owned-Billionaires-Bought-Loudest-Voices/dp/1645030466

Support Eoin: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/subscribe

We're back from our holiday break, thank you for sticking with us. More to come very soon, in the meantime, you can find the remainder of this episode at www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer

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Hussein Kesvani, freelance journalist, co-host of Trash Future and 10k Posts, joins us for our first ep of the year. In it, we borrow a term from our friend Ed Zitron known as "The Rot Economy". Instead of applying the theory to products and services, we ask what happens to the human brain when companies know they're harming their users...

We take a trip down memory lane and discuss the history of alt-tech microblogging platforms like Parler, Gettr, Gab etc that, while failing, ultimately served to pave the way for Trump's Truth Social and Elon Musk's "X". As usual, along the way we discover some interesting critters.

Note: this episode was originally recorded on September 29th. We're unlocking it because we may not be releasing another episode on the main feed before the end of the year. Thank you for being with us, we hope you have a wonderful New Years and look forward to our best...

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Janie from the homie collective joins us again for the episode we were supposed to record last time, the worst tweets of Q3 and Q4. Part two coming shortly on Patreon. In the meantime:

Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lXu9PlS5ocynhXRdJwSS413UOHPl6MykWDpecDxUagk/edit?usp=sharing

Support Janie at www.JanieDanger.com

While recording our end of the year worst tweets episode, Caleb lost power mid-recording due to the recent extreme weather in the PNW, so June and Janie decided to pivot into a free-form conversation about art and music. We decided to release it as bonus content while we finish two bracket episodes. Sorry for the delay, we'll get those out to you ASAP!

Support Janie at https://www.janiedanger.com/

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MLYP is back to take us through some of the worst DIY projects from the early internet. Harrowing.

Essential slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uHYOQLcSt3sfxYR6WeIXMeuD0biGIenSG9Uzwuew6Ns/edit?usp=sharing

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We discuss Samantha Fulnecky's abysmal essay and then unwrap the history of her family how this entire stupid situation was a transparently crafted grift from the start.

Follow Parker at Pakermolloy.com on Bluesky or www.readtpa.com

We start this ep by discussing how social media completely redefined Charlie Kirk's life and death through the use of "Kirkification" edits. Then we take a more serious look at the "Grieftech" industry-- people who want to revive the dead in the form of AI for profit.

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The original plan was for Jeremy to join us to finish some of the news articles from last ep, but instead turned into a loose form discussion on some of the horrifying ways tech companies are profiting off of our isolation.

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In the midst of a slew of Epstein dumps, Ed Zitron released an interesting article about Open AI that got lost in the noise regarding some, let's say, financial irregularities he believes are a possible sign of the bubble beginning to burst.

Follow Ed at BetterOffline.com

Caleb's friend, former spaces collaborator, and KTC discord mod Corby aka Noumena joins us for a wild ride through the world of r/kitchencels. This episode will be much improved with a visual guide, which can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13teJqhkWba2ej2LWv4l-w-6O-QLXpZhp4pfoZXnGLs0/edit?usp=sharing

To see more of Corby's slop meals, Charlemagne Benoit posts, and more Kitchencel content, join the discord at www.Discord.gg/KillTheComputer

Mia from the It Could Happen Here podcast joins us to talk about how billionaires are trying to control information to such a degree that they own the very concept of truth itself, from paying more to rig elections than they'd be taxed by their political adversaries, to buying out legacy news outlets, to Elon's new abomination "Grokipedia".

Listen to It Could Happen Here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/

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Happy Halloween!

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Charles from the ALAB and City Saint/Country Saint podcasts joins us to read some news

Follow Charles @Ugarles on microblogging platforms, or https://linktr.ee/ugarles and ALAB at https://www.alabseries.com/

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Rod Breslau joins us to discuss the ongoing Saudi takeover of esports & more.

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NSPM-7 labels the beliefs millions of Americans hold as ideas related to domestic terrorism. It gives the Federal Government sweeping authority to impose huge sentences for minor offenses, reappropriates funding towards joint task forces for hunting down "domestic terrorists" and also allows the government to strip the non-profit status of organizations the administration deems hostile. For now, it seems like Ken is one of the few journalists taking it seriously, so we brought him on to talk.

Follow Ken: https://www.kenklippenstein.com

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We take a look at some of the things Elon has promised to create but welched on, then look to the future with some of his new ideas such as "Baby Grok" "xAI Games" and "Grokipedia".

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