TRASHFUTURE

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Dragnet feat. Josef Burton Apr 01, 2025

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Former US diplomat Josef Burton joins November and Riley to discuss the denunciations, deportations, and imprisonment of immigrants in the United States. Also, the degeneration of the state into personal enforcement fiefdoms, and the likely eventual Democratic leadership response (“we would do the black bagging much better”).

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*NATE ALERT* Lions Led By Donkeys is performing live in London on Friday, 11th April! Get tickets here!

*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows

*TF LIVE ALERT* We’ll be performing at the Big Fat Festival hosted by Big Belly Comedy on Saturday, 21st June! You can get tickets for that here!
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

*PREVIEW* My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2: Back in Bed (feat. Mattie Lubchansky) Mar 28, 2025

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Cartoonist, author, and mayor enthusiast Mattie Lubchanksy rejoins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk about the continuing war on the creative industries being waged by AI - including Meta’s great book heist, the Studio Ghibli-fication of fascist imagery, and OpenAI’s attempt to write literary fiction.

Pre-order Mattie's book SIMPLICITY here!

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*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

It Ain’t Half Austere Mar 25, 2025

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Riley, Nova, and HK discuss the Labour Party’s planned campaign of social murder against the disabled in the UK - including a deep dive on the ongoing poster-to-policy pipeline around the recent (and not so recent) attacks on the Motability charity - that is described as “not austerity, because it’s half of what Osborne did.” Also, finance a burrito (US edition), the podcast discusses a new morning routine, and Quibi’s Meg Whitman returns from her ambassadorship to Kenya (???) to a board seat at Coreweave.

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*PREVIEW* Autopen Island feat. Carey Shockey Mar 21, 2025

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Federal labour lawyer Carey Shockey joins Riley, Nova, and Hussein to talk about the rapid deterioration of the rule of law in the United States, its roots in Reagan and the bipartisan support for the Global War on Terror, and the relationship between law, violence, and the inherent contradictions of liberal capitalism.

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MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows

I Hear You Move Carpets Mar 18, 2025

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Riley, Nova, and Hussein talk about the trials and tribulations of trying to give every job in the world to a computer, as “Agentforce” fails to materialise, discuss Jan Marsalek (finally), and look at a terrible new startup. Also, a new Political Son rises… and this one is a soundcloud rapper.

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*PREVIEW* Pump It! ft. Ed Ongweso Jr Mar 14, 2025

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This 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.

Check out This Machine Kills here!

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Crisis of Infinite Farleys feat. A.S. Hamrah Mar 11, 2025

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We start by looking at Canada’s destiny as the last holdout of Deloitte Pride Float liberalism, and then Neom’s ongoing woes as executives supported by McKinsey start frantically figuring out how to make the whole thing work economically. Then, film critic A.S. Hamrah joins Riley and November to talk about AI in the film industry, and the studio executives’ bizarre desire to algorithmically raise the dead.

Buy A.S. Hamrah’s book The Earth Dies Streaming here!

Get access to more Trashfuture episodes each week on our Patreon!

*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:
https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows

Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

*PREVIEW* Mega Dukes feat. Patrick Wyman Mar 07, 2025

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It’s time for another examination of historical parallels with lessons for our own time - today Patrick Wyman joins the gang to discuss the late Byzantine empire… a state with such a self referential, cosseted elite that they found themselves sprinkling imperial procession routes with rose water while their entire society crumbled from the outside in. Also, getting caught red handed in the metaverse, the Shawinigan Cocktail, and butter is churned into guns.

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It’s a Pilled, Pilled, Pilled, Pilled World ft Julian Feeld Mar 04, 2025

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QAA’s Julian Feeld joins us to discuss how Q-Anon has metastasised into mainstream political thought in the global North, and will usher in a whole new era of traumas and catastrophes that will in turn produce yet wilder political tendencies that will continue metastasising. Also, Starmer’s forensic diplomacy lasts all of 45 minutes, the dissociative border patrol, and Miguel Arruda stands firm.

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*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s UK Tour here:
https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows
Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

*PREVIEW* The Honourables feat. Gareth Dennis Mar 01, 2025

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NOTE: There's a slight issue with some echoes in this recording. We're trying to get it all fixed and will update if we can, but we don't want to delay the episode! Thank you for your patience, as ever..

Gareth Dennis returns to discuss infrastructure, growth, and the new airport runways that are about to festoon this island with promises of imaginary growth. But first, we present to you one of the Guys Of All Time.

Get Gareth's book here!

And check out Rail Natter here!

The entire episode is available on Patreon here!