Konstantin Kisin's KGB Konnektions
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
We continue our journey through the weaponized immigrant podcaster universe — this time with Konstantin Kisin. .. read more..
The Human Use of Human Beings
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
When I was writing about AI last night, something kept nagging at me. .. read more..
Kill the AI in your head
Monday, January 27, 2025
The AI wars are back at the top of the news cycle. .. read more..
The internet, computers, genocide
Friday, January 24, 2025
I hate to constantly sing the same song: but really, the thesis of my book Surveillance Valley has been vindicated now a billion times over. .. read more..
THE SUBURBS
Thursday, January 23, 2025
The secret to the American character (a subtle tribute to David Lynch and David Graeber) .. read more..
The naive drug lord
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Ross Ulbricht, victim of the biggest psyop of the internet era. .. read more..
Even Moloch wasn’t so greedy for death
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
If you think of our society as organized in terms of a religion rather than an ideology, our modern industrial civilization has a demonic vibe to it. Democracy? Totalitarianism? What? Lol. None of that matters... .. read more..
The TikTok ban and a weaponized internet
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Everyone these days is convinced that the internet is a weapon…and that America needs to protect itself from evil foreigners who seek to use this tech to destroy the Great American Way of Life. .. read more..
David Lynch, LA fires and influencers
Friday, January 17, 2025
Evgenia and I sit down in the attic to talk about David Lynch’s passing, my failed attempt to make a Lynch film in my early 20s, and the similarities between Lynch and Philip K. .. read more..
The story of how two Beverly Hills farmers privatized water in California
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
With Pistachio Wars finally out and streaming, I was nostalgically looking through some of my old work on the privatization of water and I came across this: a story I did back in 2009 for a defunct online news magazine called Alternet that signaled my intense interest in California’s terraf... .. read more..
Pistachio Wars is out! Watch it tonight.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Rowan and I were starting to plan a big roll-out for Pistachio Wars this spring with screenings in NYC and LA and Bakersfield…followed by a general release on the internet. .. read more..
LA fires, billionaire farmers, and the end of the Hollywood dream
Friday, January 10, 2025
We talk about the fires in Los Angeles, Evgenia’s precog abilities that stopped us from moving back there, the similarities between me and Roman Polanski, and my reporting on the billionaire farmers and old oligarchic land speculators that built LA and California. .. read more..
Oligarch farmers and the fires in Los Angeles
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Beverly Hills billionaires, fires, climate change, and the ecocidal terraforming system that underpins the California way of life. .. read more..
The Secret Power of Lex Fridman
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
We dissect the phenomenon of Lex Fridman, America’s newest and biggest court Russian, who leaves Masha Gessen in the dust. .. read more..
An evil AI reads a bit of my novel
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
...and the bleakness of the future. .. read more..
The surprising honesty of Elon Musk, America's most powerful immigrant
Monday, January 6, 2025
Yeah there’s something very pathetic about Elon Musk. .. read more..
New Year Epiphanies
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Listen now | We start off 2025 with this episode — recorded today in Turin. We talk about Yasha’s pneumonia, the struggles and insights we had in 2024, and the things we wish for 2025. .. read more..
MAGA's weaponized immigrants
Saturday, December 28, 2024
If you’ve been following the news you’ve seen how the Musk-Vivek pro-immigration argument — that USA needs to import skilled immigrants to be competitive against China — has divided the happy MAGA consensus. .. read more..
On the aesthetics of early documentaries
Friday, December 20, 2024
Leni Riefenstahl vs Dziga Vertov .. read more..
"The Russia That We Have Lost"
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
We talk to Pavel Khazanov about the delusional ideations of the generation that ended the Soviet Union…children of serfs who began to identify themselves with Russia’s old nobility. .. read more..