# tmk (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tmk. Page: Feed: --- ## [Patreon Preview – 470. Choking on Data Exhaust](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/premium-470-choking-on-data) _2026-08-12 · This Machine Kills_ We chat about Ed’s engagement with communities pushing back against data center development in Tulsa, plus some major reporting showing the sheer scale of fossil-fuelled data center development in the United States. We’re talking more than 120 GIGAWATTS of new gas-burning power plants in development just to electrify data centers. There’s simply no way to equivocate about this amount of new… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2380272879-thismachinekillspod-premium-470-choking-on-data.mp3) ## [469. The Maniacs are Running the Asylum (ft. Nikhil Suresh)](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/469-the-maniacs-are-running) _2026-08-06 · This Machine Kills_ We’re joined by Nik Suresh, director of Hermit Tech and excellent blogger on the software industry. You might know Nik for an incredible essay he wrote a couple years ago about piledriving anybody who mentions AI. Well he’s back at it with another great piece analysing the AI mania that has seemingly possessed every manager in every institution in every sector. We chat about where this mania comes… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2377087643-thismachinekillspod-469-the-maniacs-are-running.mp3) ## [Patreon Preview – 468. Vibes Make the World Go Round](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/patreon-preview-468-vibes-make) _2026-07-30 · This Machine Kills_ First we get into a very circular (the strongest shape in nature) deal between Nvidia, OpenAI, and Softbank to finance a $250 billion 10-gigawatt data center complex, powered by a natural gas plant built by the US and Japanese governments, on a decommissioned uranium-enrichment site in Ohio, which will be filled by a further $350 billion of chips sold and financed by Nvidia. All very normal stuff.… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2372318159-thismachinekillspod-patreon-preview-468-vibes-make.mp3) ## [467. Industrial Policy by Other Means (ft. Matt Haugen, Jesse Goldstein)](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/467-industrial-policy-by-other) _2026-07-24 · This Machine Kills_ We chat with Matt Haugen and Jesse Goldstein from the Climate + Community Institute about a new report they co-authored laying out how the US is engaging in industrial policy for AI development in ways that are often indirect, inconsistent, and interpersonal, but ultimately are configured around supporting a specific configuration of (venture) capitalist strategy for intensive, rapid development,… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2367494942-thismachinekillspod-467-industrial-policy-by-other.mp3) ## [Patreon Preview – 466. I’m Evil as Shit](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/patreon-preview-466-im-evil-as) _2026-07-18 · This Machine Kills_ We first open a door by talking about the great new ‘right to repair’ ruling from the FTC, which is the result of a long fight against rentier monopolies and digital enclosure, and should be precedent for expanding these battles and rights much further. We then tune back into hell by discussing how the AI-driven promises of convenience, personalization, and agentic servants are bribes meant to… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2363199359-thismachinekillspod-patreon-preview-466-im-evil-as.mp3) ## [465. Malcolm X1 Technologies](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/465-malcolm-x1-technologies) _2026-07-10 · This Machine Kills_ We chat all about the growing market for humanoid robots. What are the financial incentives and social ideologies driving the creation of technologies designed to directly mimic (and replace) humans—even though such designs make little sense as engineering choices? What kind of society makes these technologies attractive for investors and consumers, but also ultimately doomed to fail as solutions… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2356718678-thismachinekillspod-465-malcolm-x1-technologies.mp3) ## [Patreon Preview – 464. Pep Rally](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/patreon-preview-464-pep-rally) _2026-07-02 · This Machine Kills_ Miracle cures! Get your miracle cures! What the hell are peptides? Why is this class of black/gray market drugs on everyone’s lips and being injected into everybody’s veins? Where did this multi-billion market suddenly come from? We take a look at the political economy of peptides, the pernicious consumerization of healthcare, and the potential consequences of this surging peptidal wave for… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2352222974-thismachinekillspod-patreon-preview-464-pep-rally.mp3) ## [463. The Abuse is the Point (ft. Ben Somers)](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/463-the-abuse-is-the-point-ft) _2026-06-26 · This Machine Kills_ (Sorry we’re a little late; blame producer pneumonia) We open the nightmare world folder and go through a series of stories about technology, surveillance, and policing. Cops using AI to generate “evidential material” in criminal cases, cops using Flock automated license plate readers to stalk people, cops using Flock to wrongfully arrest folks, and then a wildcard: billions of images from the… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2348554382-thismachinekillspod-463-the-abuse-is-the-point-ft.mp3) ## [Patreon Preview – 462. Somebody’s Really Gotta Do Something](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/patreon-preview-462-somebodys) _2026-06-19 · This Machine Kills_ If every billionaire is a policy failure, then the world’s first trillionaire is a far more serious omen of collapse. We spend this episode talking about Muskism, reflecting on an economy that is racing in two very opposite directions, and considering the broader public (non-)response and social ramifications of the Age of the Trillionaire. ••• Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2342258678-thismachinekillspod-patreon-preview-462-somebodys.mp3) ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DihbBZtyTpf9) _2026-06-19 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [461. The Book of Ludd](https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/461-the-book-of-ludd) _2026-06-12 · This Machine Kills_ “Welcome to the Church of Ludd, it’s nice to see you join our congregation. Please pick up a pamphlet as you walk in, which explains how to set up your religious exemption from using AI at your workplace.” — After a fun story about religious refusal of AI, we then chat about the various policy proposals being put forth by folks like Sam Altman and Bernies Sanders which outline how public wealth… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2337796682-thismachinekillspod-461-the-book-of-ludd.mp3)