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Year of the Potato Oct 15, 2026

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Use coupon code POTATOYEAR for half off the first month of your Patreon subscription from now until Halloween at www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer
Articles discussed:
Character AI: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/just-5-years-in-interactive-chatbot-platform-character-ai-files-for-bankruptcy/
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-afraid-characterai-bankrupcy

Kelly Clarkson Bird Drama: https://slate.com/life/2026/10/kelly-clarkson-art-of-play-brooklyn-store-bird.html
Accenture: https://www.404media.co/accenture-tells-employees-they-can-now-spend-only-29-on-claude-per-month/

Elon Musk says he's had AI 'psychosis' half a dozen times in the last year https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ai-psychosis-2026-10

Preview: The Hum ft. Saul Levin Oct 08, 2026

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Full episode: www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer
Saul Levin is the Program Director for the Center for Nonviolent Conflict Research and host of The Hum podcast, which serves as the oral history of the fight against data centers. He walks us through what successful municipalities have done to push back and what you can do if one pops up in your neighborhood.
Follow Saul:
https://x.com/thehumpod
Read the column he co-authored in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/08/ai-datacenters-democracy

The Most Dangerous Games Ft. TWOAPW Oct 03, 2026

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Brian and Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds join us to discuss The Worst of All Possible Books: Mr. Beast's LLM-ridden slopfest "The Most Dangerous Games".
Follow TWOAPW: https://www.worstpossible.world

Preview: The Basilisk's Roko Oct 01, 2026

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FULL EPISODE: www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer
June and Maddyson walk Caleb through news of Candace Ownen's alleged romantic past and the personal lives of many influential conservatives. Then we read a follow up on our previous episode about Brown Brothers Media's ties to Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein, how Suno sucks (sorry for the outro) and a story about people "tormenting" LLMs.
Brown Brothers Media Update:
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ghislaine-maxwell
Torturing Chatbots
https://www.404media.co/someone-torturing-llms-in-a-robot-prison-has-triggered-the-dumbest-debate-in-ai-yet/

Fake Empire Sep 23, 2026

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Maggie Harrison Dupre returns with Jon Christian to take us through their reporting on Brown Brothers Media, a family operated slop mill that quietly reached tens of millions by gaming Google with thousands of fake articles written with fake bylines by personas with falsified credentials. Oh, and by the way, they had a Shaman.
Read the article here: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire
Follow Maggie: https://bsky.app/profile/mharrisondupre.bsky.social
Follow Jon: https://bsky.app/profile/jonchristian.net

Preview: The Curious Case of Alpha School Sep 21, 2026

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A tech billionaire and Trump donor bankrolled an "AI focused" private school that costs $50,000+ a year. Kids are allegedly hooked to heart monitors while being criticized, and fail if their heartrate increases too much. They work unpaid "dirty" jobs like scrubbing toilets or manual labor, and strangely have required follower quotas on social media. This is Alpha School, the billionaire-funded AI academy Trump's Education Secretary came to tour.

We spoke with Benjamin Riley, founder of Cognitive Resonance, an education think tank, who is investigating what he believes are many improprieties.
Follow Ben's reporting and future follow-ups here: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/special-report-my-so-called-alpha

A Very Chinese Friday Sep 18, 2026

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Tilly Norwood speaks a little Chinese for for Piers Morgan, America almost goes to war with China over an AI hallucination, AI agents are making the internet a more annoying place, Americans are totally exhausted, and we weigh in on the AI doomerism + Ethical Altruism vs MAGA civil war.
Articles discussed in this episode:
Tilly Norwood Speaks Chinese
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/watch-piers-morgan-gobsmacked-as-ai-actress-tilly-norwood-glitches-out-suddenly-speaks-chinese-during-interview/
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
https://www.404media.co/theres-a-100-chance-ai-agents-are-already-ruining-the-internet/
71% of Americans Say They’re Completely Exhausted
https://gizmodo.com/71-of-americans-say-theyre-completely-exhausted-2000812712

Preview: The Kirkiversary Sep 09, 2026

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One year ago, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while hosting a speaking event on a college campus in Utah. In the wake of his death followed a year of political turmoil, conservative infighting, New McCarthyism, conspiracy theories, organized doxxing + harassment campaigns and worse. Curiously, Kirk's likeness has survived via "kirkification" memes which have endured probably more than any other in the post-Covid internet landscape. Today, we discuss all of this plus our personal stories about being in the crosshairs of the backlash.
Articles + Media discussed in this episode:
https://imperialistrealism.substack.com/p/seven-theses-on-charlie-kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUHpUXlsvbI&list=RDZUHpUXlsvbI&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Sif7s9tlskk
https://www.tiktok.com/@trustmoneyinstead/video/7674836397156519198
https://www.tiktok.com/@bogusia_kirkorowi/video/7676981778518658326

American Panopticon Sep 05, 2026

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First we address America's most pressing issue: the Trump/Jelly Roll divide. Then we discuss Flock Safety, its abuses, the pushback, and more. Note: we initially had a slightly different angle and intro for this episode planned which is brought up briefly. Articles discussed:
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-ai-search-user-interface/

https://www.404media.co/flock-taught-cops-how-to-surveil-no-kings-protesters/

https://www.newsweek.com/anti-flock-camera-protests-surge-12403463

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8W1CpNGgw8
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Preview: The Curious Case of Daejon Love Ft. Ed Zitron, Arif Hasan Sep 01, 2026

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Daejon Love is alleged by the FBI to have defrauded 26+ women of ~1.3 million dollars predominantly by pretending to be a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers. He used social media to poison LLMs into reporting he was a member of the team. To talk about it, we brought Ed Zitron and Arif Hasan on.
Follow Arif: Wideleft.football
Follow Ed: BetterOffline.com

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