Pump It! ft. Ed Ongweso Jr
Added 2025-03-14 18:49:27 +0000 UTCThis Machine Kills’ Ed Ongweso Jr returns to the pod to talk about his series of essays talking about what he calls The Silicon Valley Consensus - an ongoing chapter in our interest in the convergence of reactionary politics and the profusion of data centres all over the world. Also, Trump says “everything’s computer”, and Rachel Reeves claims to eat crumbs from under couch cushions to manufacture consent for the largest act of planned social murder in the U.K. since 2010.
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Blank Space slaps though. My favorite Taylor song by a mile and a fun pull at kareoke
norma1one
2025-06-08 17:00:35 +0000 UTCI bet nothing feels better than making a point and having a guest say "exactly" and then substantively build on your point
Man2quilla
2025-03-21 13:07:02 +0000 UTCThe Samsonite store near my house just became a pokestop?
Man2quilla
2025-03-19 22:25:43 +0000 UTCIt's probably overstating the case a little (in terms of this is for sure the 2008 bomb again I think there's a lot of candidates for that, she's right everything you buy is a scam), Private Equity tends to overleverage their acquisitions and now that interest rates are rising a whole bunch of retailers that could shamble along forever at 0% are really feeling the pinch. And pension funds have always bought shit, probably some combination of ineptitude and the fact the lack of real growth opportunities is driving capitalism mad. Also there's the fact no one has any money for things that aren't rent, healthcare, car or food, so I'm honestly surprised more consumer companies haven't been going under since 2022. In terms of Joann's, it's never really been possible to save money sewing but at least materials used to be cheap, but somewhere in the last couple years every hobby has been classified. You used to be able to get raw materials for cheap at least even if you could never compete with the slave labor on making something, but now it's all a luxury hobby thing so even materials are priced at not a we're store that sells commodities but this is luxury good that says you're rich enough to have a hobby- it's fucked. And the Joann's near me refuses to hire people so the line is forever long at the check out, you can never find anything as the store is always a mess or doesn't have what you need anyway, and it's over priced.
jamin
2025-03-18 13:23:27 +0000 UTCGod that's it isn't it. Trumps just a ex order away from creating the department of America dignity or whatever
Malcontent Battery Pack
2025-03-18 01:08:51 +0000 UTCNewsom could've been Khalif Ornia
hence therefore
2025-03-17 22:13:11 +0000 UTCI know it’s not popular but I desperately need yall to get my man on from the FT and explain why every business (Joann’s) is going under. Is this video frfr or total BS? https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2g38Ltw/
Joey Bag O Doughnuts
2025-03-17 21:30:38 +0000 UTCI often don't find him funny either but some how the world's richest* man and most powerful* man trying and failing to be used car salesmen hawking shitty EVs on the Whitehouse lawn was the thing that broke through for me. We just live in the upside down world.
jamin
2025-03-17 19:15:30 +0000 UTCA trillion dollars?! How much freaking REAL infrastructure could you build for that much?!?
jamin
2025-03-17 18:22:37 +0000 UTCRachel Reeves, the first politician brave enough to ask the question of "What if we made the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch official government policy"
Barney
2025-03-17 14:02:31 +0000 UTCIt's true after all that we all get up and make capitalism each day and just stopping believing in it is enough, but that only applies to the worst people in the world at JPMorgan.
jamin
2025-03-17 13:16:43 +0000 UTCcan't wait for the new Act Blue text, "Hey y'all, Pete Buttigieg here, I'm gay and my dick is small"
mexicanhalloween .
2025-03-16 19:02:32 +0000 UTCThe Mr Beast version is just expired Feastables.
James Rule
2025-03-16 18:59:29 +0000 UTCFeels Freudian
Jermy
2025-03-16 15:17:30 +0000 UTCI’d like to point out that “robot” comes from a Slavic word for “slave” with “Slav” itself being the root for the word “slave”
Jermy
2025-03-16 15:13:46 +0000 UTCChildren of men the book: quietus is being chained to a boat and drowned with 50 other old people in the ocean. Children of men the movie: quietus is a pill/drink poison that kills you instantly. The book version sounds cheaper lol
Thomas Cain
2025-03-16 05:57:51 +0000 UTCMakes me sad because I agree with it in principle, but I didn't realize until embarrassingly recently what it would mean in our privatized healthcare system, and it made me very disappointed in lots of things
Karl's Declassified
2025-03-15 23:59:52 +0000 UTCPeople are saying it more and more!
etienne
2025-03-15 20:14:51 +0000 UTCDon't worry they won't execute you. You'll just have to do a stint in the Tesla 'workhouse' piloting a remote control robot bartender. It's only the people who aren't able to convincingly pretend to be Grok that will be executed...
trev
2025-03-15 19:31:05 +0000 UTCChrist didn't realize there was a push to allow assisted dying to be done via private companies, I hate how often the way the assisted dying debate sidelines the risk to poor people, when I've talked to people about it they've been surprised when it's suggested that people's decision to die might exist in a social and economic context
Emma Shannon
2025-03-15 18:05:37 +0000 UTCYou know that Newsom is a cool guy because he married and divorced Kimberly Guilfoyle (Donald Trump’s Jr’s ex-fiancée), briefly dated a 19-year old, then had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife.
Allen
2025-03-15 17:07:33 +0000 UTCTo tie it into the back half of the episode, the whole system is held together by people believing in it. If literally every finance and business guy in the world is reading BAD NEWS BAD NEWS every single day, someone is going to blink.
Oliver Elliott
2025-03-15 15:30:01 +0000 UTCNewsom, Labour, much of corporate America, apparently Chuck Schumer have all bought into the idea that this is the Thousand Year Reich and they should jump on board early. Unfortunately for them, and as noted on the episode, this is a speed run to disaster and they are all foolishly attaching themselves to it. Read the WSJ or FT and it is -relentlessly- terrible news. And once it all truly implodes, -everyone- will know who is at fault.
Oliver Elliott
2025-03-15 15:26:27 +0000 UTCEd pronounced Afrikaners eer style like engineers TMK gang take a shot
Tristan Ryan
2025-03-15 14:58:13 +0000 UTCI think he’s especially funny when his total contempt for the people who lick his boots comes out.
Oliver Elliott
2025-03-15 14:37:59 +0000 UTCMan... BetterHelp will give _anyone_ a sponsorship
Ijon Tichy
2025-03-15 14:18:15 +0000 UTCthink the news on NHS England warrants some further attention - caveated with the fact that I obviously don't trust Labour as-is with the service, but it's hard to shed any tears over a Tory privatisation vehicle that Corbyn himself planned to abolish?
HJC
2025-03-15 12:29:36 +0000 UTCSpending my last seconds on Earth wondering why I have to watch adverts before the suicide booth activates.
Fluffythecruel
2025-03-15 12:28:53 +0000 UTCWhen they eventually start doing austerity against American cops because there's nothing else left, you think it's gonna be like The Thunder Warriors or The Horus Heresy
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-03-15 12:19:29 +0000 UTCProfound irony
Pilfering Kibble
2025-03-15 12:13:05 +0000 UTCBooking future flights to London so I can watch performative charity videos while getting nailgunned to death in the Mr Beast suicide booth.
Pilfering Kibble
2025-03-15 12:11:30 +0000 UTCThe ugliest, dumbest people on earth are always the biggest proponents of eugenics
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-03-15 10:42:33 +0000 UTCalso, nova’s outburst of ‘i feel like i’m going insane’ is a very good summary of how it feels to work at a university at the moment (or the arts, or culture, or anything that’s not finance probably)
Nina
2025-03-15 10:34:03 +0000 UTCi like to pair the podcast with my anti-depressants (no wine in the morning (yet))
Nina
2025-03-15 10:31:47 +0000 UTCrachel reeves announces she is now a filter feeder made me laugh out loud. riley needs to also visit places like perth, canberra, tartu, and vilnius to do stand up comedy.
Nina
2025-03-15 10:30:13 +0000 UTChe's definitely not consciously funny, but sometimes the combination of his disintegrating braincells, the absurd contrast between his deeply petty mobbed-up-rich-guy background and his current incredibly high-stakes job, and his general hostility to being Normal combine to produce some proclamation or act that is so surreal that you kind of have to concede that there is some humour there? Like, if I'm remembering it correctly, 'happy thanksgiving to everybody, even the haters and losers' back before(?) his presidential run. If America had to have a demagogue rise to power at some point this is probably the most bleakly funny way it could have happened...
marilyn
2025-03-15 09:36:36 +0000 UTCIt's just eugenics and malthusianism all the way down huh?
Leith Martin
2025-03-15 09:19:26 +0000 UTCI thought I was going a little crazy. Nothing that freak has said has ever gotten a laugh outta me I been hearing him blather since the 80s
Garth Hansen
2025-03-14 23:43:51 +0000 UTCTrumpsayingwrong.gif
Roger Peet
2025-03-14 23:32:49 +0000 UTCYou all are on a tear recently; this is back to being the most useful podcast I listen to. Really appreciate it.
Roger Peet
2025-03-14 23:32:10 +0000 UTC:3
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2025-03-14 22:50:06 +0000 UTCOh no, Seaside Mark needs those benefits : (
Madison Watson
2025-03-14 22:18:49 +0000 UTCI know this is a class thing (it's a grind to make current events programming one or more times a week and Donnie Deals provides an unending stream of slop to mediate), but the U.S. president is not actually funny.
Andrew Davis
2025-03-14 21:29:17 +0000 UTCWhoever's going to be interviewing Steve Bannon? Right now that's the New Statesman. You guys need to puncture that boil of columnists.
Jacob Barlow
2025-03-14 21:06:19 +0000 UTCCan't wait till Canada is annexed and I'm executed for not being able to afford the state required cybertruck.
James Rule
2025-03-14 20:26:31 +0000 UTCfeeling like both the US and UK are like very close to just earnestly doing the Local 58 "CONTINGENCY" video just cuz doing anything else is considered woke or whatever
Lain of the Wired
2025-03-14 19:50:06 +0000 UTCEVERYTHING IS COMPUTER
marilyn
2025-03-14 19:27:34 +0000 UTCFirst
Allen
2025-03-14 18:56:47 +0000 UTC
