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October 09 Preview: The Hum ft. Saul Levin
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
25 min
October 04 The Most Dangerous Games Ft. TWOAPW
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
1 hr 40 min
October 02 Preview: The Basilisk's Roko
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/
22 min
September 24 Fake Empire
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
1 hr 3 min
September 22 Preview: The Curious Case of Alpha School
Full episode: www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer

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
29 min
September 18 A Very Chinese Friday
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
1 hr 6 min
September 10 Preview: The Kirkiversary
www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer for the full episode

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
16 min
September 05 American Panopticon
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

Support us at www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer
1 hr 18 min
September 02 Preview: The Curious Case of Daejon Love Ft. Ed Zitron, Arif Hasan
www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer for the full episode

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
30 min
August 29 The Green Ape
Have Americans reached a tipping point with data centers and AI? We discuss.

Support us on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer

Join the game jam: https://forms.gle/Qz1Zus6gDAah7PpH9

Apes & other things mentioned in this ep:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wickerpark/comments/1vhtwev/the_green_ape_changed_their_sign_from_the/#lightbox

https://www.reddit.com/r/wickerpark/comments/1vjc56t/update_on_the_new_green_ape_logo_shes_claiming/

https://x.com/notlarrysabato/status/2084404186330837285
1 hr 3 min