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Dystopia Now

Kate Willett and Emile Torres

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Dystopia Now is a show where a comedian (Kate Willett) and an academic (Emile Torres) explore the philosophies and religions of Silicon Valley and tech billionaires shaping our country, our world, and our future.
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TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

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a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism by @raaleh, @HKesvani, @milo_edwards, @inthesedeserts and @postoctobrist
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Join an experienced Gamemaster as he explores two of his very favorite systems. From medieval dungeons to corporate skyscrapers, Tyler Hapney has ran it all. Listen in as he shares his thoughts and experiences running his friends through the Forgotten Realms and Night City! Galactic Rap Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Silicon Curtain

Jonathan Fink

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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/siliconcurtain/subscribe A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias. 1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media ...
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The Startup Podcast

Yaniv Bernstein, Chris Saad

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A guide to the unique mindset and approach that drives Silicon Valley style disruption. Build product, raise money, and scale your startup like the best. TSP hosts Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein share practical advice based on decades of experience at Google, Uber, and their own startups.
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Fun City

Fun City Ventures LLC

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A narrative play RPG podcast set in post-climate catastrophe New York City, in the year 2101. With Jenn de la Vega, Nick Guercio, Shannon Odell, and Bijan Stephen. GM'd by Mike Rugnetta with troublemaker Taylor Moore.
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What is happening to our economy and our politics? Are we stuck forever in this corporate dystopia? What can we learn from the failures of radical politics over the last 100 years? Commandante Alpha talks in depth to experts from the fields of Political Economy, Politics, Science, Philosophy, Complexity, Mathematics, Music, and the Environment.
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Whether it was a reaction to the politics of the time or the rapidly approaching end date of the Mayan calendar, the pop-cultural landscape of the early 2010s can be best remembered for one thing: dystopian literature. Join plucky young heroines and podcast hosts Daphne and Kellie as they dive into all of your favorite young adult novels and series from this era as we reread the revolution. We lived through it once and are back to recap, review, and discuss all the best and worst that the wo ...
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The Retro Futurist project is an examination of themes in pop culture by Hoptimus.Themes of society in alternate timelines projected by cultures of the past or present. These are timelines where a once thriving society was turned to dystopia or taken over by tools of mankind. Places where society has lost its soul in pursuit of technology. To redeem our future is to talk of the past future and steer the soul of mankind forward...
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This Week in Dystopia

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

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This Week in Dystopia is a podcast hosted by Christopher Robichaud, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Lecturer. A podcast of politics, theory, and pop culture, This Week in Dystopia, brings commentary from the halls of Harvard to everyone's headphones.
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Radio Free Dystopia

Radio Free Dystopia

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A podcast about what we learn when facts and dystopian fiction start to look the same. Join dystopian novelist Toby Ball, journalist Meg Heckman and assorted guests as they talk about authoritarianism, free speech, environmental decay and what it means to commit acts of resistance. Also: Power, privilege, freedom and – perhaps most importantly of all – hope.
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After Impact

Rebecca Kopycinski

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After Impact follows the story of Reagan Esther Myer, one of the survivors of a mysterious apocalyptic event called Impact. Shortly after joining the pilot program for ThotBot, a brain implant that erases "harmful" memories and dulls emotions, she begins her life living in an abandoned shopping mall and producing survivalist tutorials for a crumbling world. Shortly after arriving at her new post, she finds a cassette tape detailing her very own journey from the day of Impact -- June 21, 1995 ...
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Redefining Society and Technology Podcast

Marco Ciappelli, ITSPmagazine

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Musing On Society, Technology, and Cybersecurity | Hosted by Marco Ciappelli Let’s face it: the future is now. We live in a hybrid analog-digital society, and it’s time to stop ignoring the profound impact technology has on our lives. The line between the physical and virtual worlds? It’s no longer real — just a figment of our imagination. We’re constantly juggling convenience, privacy, freedom, security, and even the future of humanity in a precarious balancing act. There’s no better place ...
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News from a Boring Dystopia

News From a Boring Dystopia

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“News from a Boring Dystopia” is an international relations and geopolitical podcast trying to bring a little light into this darkest timeline! Each week panelists enter into discussion about the international current events topics of the week. Donate for more episodes: https://www.patreon.com/NFBDpatron https://anchor.fm/nfabd/support Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nfabd/support
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A sci-fi anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a self-contained story focusing on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. Best rated episodes include "How to keep device drivers from crashing" (comedy), "Planned obsolescence" (drama), "White Algorithm's burden" (true crime), and "All unsaved progress will be lost" (alternate history). New stories take time but are coming out regularly. Becom ...
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Without us knowing exactly how, the transition towards a planetary civilization within our lifetime is not only necessary, it’s possible. Welcome to a series of mapping, discovering and cross pollinating the various building blocks that catalyze radical systemic change. Drop out of the collective agenda setting that we are heading towards dystopia. Drop out of your own fears that withhold you from living your full potential. ​ In our hearts we all share the precise knowledge that a life divi ...
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Step into a reimagined world where the intrigue of The Thousand and One Nights collides with the tech-drenched, power-fractured streets of modern Britain. Set in a near-future London and the misty hills of the Lake District, Pavement & Shadows follows two powerful brothers—one a visionary tech mogul, the other a radical eco-hacker—whose lives are shattered by betrayal and bound again by a pact to rediscover truth through storytelling. Guided by a mysterious older woman, they trade tales nigh ...
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Quick journey? Need a short respite from the everyday? Take a listen to stories from the far future to the distant past, with gothic landscapes, dystopia, dark fantasy, myths and space opera, pure science fiction and fantasy. These Fantastic Worlds features new weekly short stories by Jake Jackson.
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Winston Smith's Diary

Winston Smith III

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George Orwell's nightmarish dystopia laid out in "Nineteen-Eighty-Four" is becoming evermore manifest with each passing day. Join me as we take on the would-be technocrats of our current world, and tell them where they can shove their totalitarian fantasy. We'll be talking about the nature of power, absolute governmental corruption, actual "conspiracies", propaganda, censorship, and other tools used to stomp out dissent. DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER Free thinking, critical thinking, alternate histo ...
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Utopian Horizons

Utopian Horizons

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Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.
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Breakers

Sammy Walsh and Sam Kulper

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BREAKERS is Shepherd Grey’s account of what life looks like after organized civilization crumbles as he and his faithful canine companion, Rommel, venture out from their home in Virginia to try and count themselves among the survivors. It has been several years since the outbreak began. The virus is just a sick and twisted part of life now. You test as much as you can, but there is no “preventing” it, only staying alive until you catch it. “Red you’re dead” is a phrase all too commonly heard ...
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Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky | QCODE

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Imaginary Worlds sounds like what would happen if NPR went to ComicCon and decided that’s all they ever wanted to cover. Host Eric Molinsky spent over a decade working as a public radio reporter and producer, and he uses those skills to create thoughtful, sound-rich episodes about science fiction, fantasy, and other genres of speculative fiction. Every other week, he talks with filmmakers, screenwriters, novelists, comic book artists, game designers, and anyone who works in the field of make ...
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Ad Vincere Mundi

Alexis Baker

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I cover Classical History as well as Christian history and theology from a non-orthodox Christian perspective. I will talk about everyone and everything. 'Western Civilization' is a lie, Rome was a dystopia, everyone was gay, and Jesus wasn't white. Twitter: @Ad_Vincere_Pod
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I realize that for most of us it is extremely traumatic to fully grasp just how wrong this world has become. And just how far and fast this has happened/is happening. But this podcast gives an interesting, thorough, and dispassionate analysis of just how and why we got to here from there. Further, by using established, mainstream science, it then presents a clear, complete, non-ideological picture of human behavior and the human condition. Kind of like a really interesting college course. No ...
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3 Dooms of America

Eugene Fairfield

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"Prophecy is not a prediction of tomorrow. It is a description of the doom contained within today." Three stories of the end of American society, from one Tuesday, the 11th of September into the near future. Shock & Awe: "At the end of this story, a baby will be born, and touch off an insurrection. Before that, a woman makes breakfast." The Greening of Blue England: "It took three-quarters of a ton of plastique to get rid of all the box stores in Taft Corners." Spider's Dreams: "The rose is ...
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Become a subscriber and join our listener chat: https://www.patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow This week, we explored the tech billionaire fixation with cryonics, mind uploading and life extension. We’re just a couple of decel deathists! (You’ll see what we mean) In the intro this week, we talked about Superman’s critique of tech billionaires, Mountainhead,…
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Is training AI on copyrighted content stealing, or just learning? A major U.S. court just weighed in, and the verdict could rewrite the rules for startups using generative AI. Too many founders assume "training data" is fair game but that blind spot could cost them billions. In this episode, Yaniv Bernstein and Chris Saad, experienced startup opera…
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⸻ Podcast: Redefining Society and Technology https://redefiningsocietyandtechnologypodcast.com _____________________________ This Episode’s Sponsors BlackCloak provides concierge cybersecurity protection to corporate executives and high-net-worth individuals to protect against hacking, reputational loss, financial loss, and the impacts of a corpora…
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Edition No194 | 19-07-2025 - The divisive and controversial “Russia Hoax” has made a reappearance on the political scene, and this time it’s the ringmaster of politics, Donald Trump that has reanimated it. And there is nothing accidental about the timing as the Epstein scandal deepens and broadens. Grab your tin-foil hats—because we’re diving into …
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Livestream with Jonathan MS Pearce and Andrew Perpetua. Focusing on the alleged connections between Jeffrey Epstein and Russian Intelligence, the state of the Russian war economy, Putin's rapidly degrading war machine, and the problems in Russia's military industrial complex. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary …
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Edition No193 | 18-07-2025 - After episodes that focused on the utterances of Igor Girkin (Strelkov), here is another repugnant character, but one nonetheless that is speaking out about the ineptitude and pointlessness of Putin’s war against Ukraine. Is this the start of a Z-Patriot rebellion, something that Putin is likely far more fearful of, tha…
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A comprehensive investigation by DFRLab and OpenMinds exposes a vast, coordinated Russian bot network exploiting Telegram to disseminate pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian propaganda across occupied Ukrainian territories. ----------Yuliia Dukach leads Disinformation Investigations at OpenMinds, focusing on Cognitive Threats Intelligence and Response, e…
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For the next film in our Virtual Insanity series, we’re headed to the land of the rising sun to uncover the story behind one of the most iconic animes ever made: Mamoru Oshii’s GHOST IN THE SHELL. In this episode, we trace the origins of the cyberpunk classic, starting with Masamune Shirow’s original manga and following the career of visionary dire…
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For this week's bonus, we're joined by writer, cartoonist, host of No Gods No Mayors, and friend of the show Mattie Lubchansky to discuss the goings on in New York City. The general consensus of the local Democratic Party: get behind the primary winner, Zohran Mamdani! The general consensus of the freaks and ghouls contingent: get weird with it! Fi…
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Edition No192 | 17-07-2025 - What has been the reaction to Trump’s ultimatum of military backing and sanctions increases after 50 days? We break down Western and Ukrainian responses, but crucially also the reaction from Russian leaders and propagandists. Without giving too much away, the Russian reaction can be summarized as “so what”. It seems the…
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"Why does he shoot the meat?" You've been asking since the very beginning, and the day is finally here! We're joined by special guest and unabashed Shatter Me fan AllieReads to cover Tahereh Mafi's 2011 hit novel. We talk about the fandom's undying love for Aaron Warner, share some intimate fully-clothed shower moments, and come out in favor of lea…
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⸻ Podcast: Redefining Society and Technology https://redefiningsocietyandtechnologypodcast.com Title: The Human Side of Technology with Abadesi Osunsade — From Diversity to AI and Back Again Guest: Abadesi Osunsade Founder @ Hustle Crew WebSite: https://www.abadesi.com On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abadesi/ Host: Marco Ciappelli Co-Found…
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Is Apple losing its edge in the AI race? And what does it mean for startups when big tech strip-mines entire companies for talent? Many early entrepreneurs believe giant tech firms are unbeatable, but this episode reveals how even industry leaders can stumble—and what founders can learn from their missteps. In this episode, Chris Saad and Yaniv Ber…
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Edition No191 | 17-07-2025 - Putin’s Economic Terminal Spiral — More Guns, No Butter, and Not Much of anything Else. This is what happens when you launch a war, alienate the civilized world, and try to run a dark-ages style empire on barrels of crude and a bunch of Telegram propagandists.Let’s dig into the quiet implosion of the Russian economy – r…
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Edition No190 | 16-07-2025 - Brains Over Brute Force – Zaluzhnyi's Vision of Future WarfareGeneral Valerii Zaluzhnyi, now ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom, has written a foreword to the 2024 book by Ukrainska Pravda journalist Roman Romanyuk “What Will Be Used to Fight in World War III”. In it, he outlines his vision for the future of wa…
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I’m speaking today with Yevhen Lyr, author of the novels, The God of the Steps (Євген Лір «Степовий бог») and The Flood. On June 6, 2023, the Kakhovka Dam in Russian-occupied Ukraine was destroyed, unleashing catastrophic flooding in Kherson and surrounding regions. It is widely believed to have been a deliberate act of ecocide by Russian forces. T…
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The production design of the film Fantastic Four: First Steps is an homage to the early ‘60s comics created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. While Kirby is best known for his bold, fist-popping drawing style, he was also a great storyteller who redefined what comic books could be. He was appreciated by hardcore fans at the time, but he never got the sam…
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Perplexity.AI: “Get ready for a no-holds-barred deep dive into the most ridiculous AI controversies of our time! Host Darren O’Neill tears apart the myth that AI guardrails actually work, exposing how Grok’s recent “anti-Semitic” meltdown reveals the fundamental flaw in trying to control these digital genies once they’re out of the bottle. From Cha…
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Edition No189 | 15-07-2025 - Today’s episode, Trump’s 50‑day ultimatum to Putin, is this a serious threat, or another way of kicking the can down the street? We look at Russia’s looming summer offensive, and what it all means for Ukraine. Trump gave Putin “another 50 days… or else,” hinting at 100% secondary tariffs on Russia or its trading partner…
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We’ve got trans sex worker and writer Jack Parker on to discuss the strike at the Scarlett Letters bookshop, which you can support here! Also, the first half of the episode is the TF chaos configuration of Milo, Hussein, and November, discussing football’s golden orb and the Trumpworld meltdown over the Epstein case files. Check out Jack’s book her…
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We're back for another round of Skins Series 2, but Brenna has mixed feelings. It probably has something to do with the death of Peter Capaldi's character, as well as the fact that one of the two episodes is about Michelle. Plus: Cassie travel logistic questions, hook-ups galore, and continued proof that the only good Skins parent...is a dead one? …
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Duncan Moench on "soylent screens" and producerism Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" [0:01:51] - "Interview with Duncan Moench" [0:07:12] - "Mark's comments" [0:48:51] Posthuman - "The Screens Of Our Lives" [0:57:46]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153977By Mark Hurst and WFMU
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Live stream with DW Phillips, Honor Phillips and Jonathan MS Pearce. ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment.…
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Live stream with Yuri Rashkin. ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrain…
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Can you really build and launch a startup without writing code, or even knowing how to? As AI tools promise lightning-fast product development, many founders still fall into old traps: over-validating, under-executing, or waiting too long for a technical cofounder. In this episode, Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein are joined by Eric Simons, founder o…
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Edition No188 | 14-07-2025 - Russia’s demographic reckoning is going to be brutal—this is a story too urgent to ignore. We’ll explore how Putin’s catastrophic war, fully enabled by the Russian people, authoritarian secrecy, and a collapsing birth rate are intersecting to redefine the Russian state—and cast a grim shadow over its future. The Russian…
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We finally did it. The gang got together, including some of YOU, the subscribers, and we saw James Gunn's SUPERMAN! Join us as Justin, Todd and Gary break down their thoughts on this new movie and where we think the DCEU can go from here. If you like us reviewing new films? Let us know! We're here for you! We can do this more often if the demand is…
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Lesia Ogryzko is a visiting fellow with the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She leads a Ukrainian think-tank on security and defence, Sahaidachnyi Security Center, and is board member of Ukraine’s biggest expert coalition on the country’s reconstruction, RISE Ukraine. Previously, Ogryzko served as international …
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Edition No187 | 13-07-2025 - In this Silicon Bites, we’ll look at the latest comments of Russian patriots calling out their own army – not for its crimes but for its ineffectiveness, and inability to mount breakthrough offensives. There are rumours of North Korean troops being drafted to support, Putin’s “last throw of the dice” in a major summer o…
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In-Depth Discussion with Paul Warberg: Ukraine War, Russian Propaganda & Global GeopoliticsIn this episode, Jonathan interviews Paul Warberg, an independent open-source geopolitical analyst renowned for his content within the pro Ukraine activist community. They delve into Paul's background, motivations, and his rapid rise as a credible voice in th…
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Hoptimus is joined by the almighty Andrew to once again get into some anime. This time the seminal 1985 Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. The sequel to the original Gundam 0079 by Yoshiyuki Tomino. This time the tables have turned and what was once the “Good” guys of the Earth Federation have become a group of thugs called the TITANS. Coming to stop them is…
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Edition No186 | 11-07-2025 - The Assassination of Ivan Voronych will send shock waves through the intelligence community in Kyiv and across Ukraine. On 10 July 2025, the heart of Kyiv turned into a crime scene. Colonel Ivan Voronych, a senior officer in Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), was shot dead in broad daylight in Holosiivskyi district.Here'…
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Edition No185 | 11-07-2025 - Today, an exploration of Grok’s extreme political rants, that have enraged vatniks and Z-Patriots, especially about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For those who may live under a rock, and not know what Grok is, it’s the AI assistant on Elon Musk’s ‘X’ platform. And like its creator it seems to court controversy and have …
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DESCRIPTION: Insights from Ukrainian Perspective: Russian Propaganda, Military Strategy, and the FutureIn this episode, the host is joined by Operator Starkey, a former Ukrainian military veteran, to discuss various topics including his experiences with Russian propaganda, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the essential role of volunteer…
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"You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!" HACKERS hit theaters in 1995—and mostly flatlined. But before it became a cult phenomenon, it was a risky producti…
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In this week’s Glitch Tape, I utilize three distinct British accents to bring to life a short story about a man, his kid, and a “rum” shopkeep/conjurer in H.G. Wells’ short story, The Magic Shop. That’s GENUINE magic, of course. Anytime I can put on a wild cockney accent, I’m going to do it. This is the last Glitch Tape for now as I pivot my time a…
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We performed live—all five of us!—at the Big Fat Festival in London on 21st June. This is a recording of that performance. We very much hope you enjoy it. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows *TF LIVE ALERT* You can get tickets for our show at the Edinburgh Fri…
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A quick reminder that your responses to Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After is due Friday, July 18. And also: the announcement of our August 2025 selection, which is Elizabeth Acevedo's Clap When You Land (2020). If you wanna read along, the due date for responses is Friday, August 22. Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Instagram and BlueSky …
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