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Welcome back to the pod! Sanjana Friedman joins us this week. The midterms brought the biggest Republican collapse in decades. Now that the Democrats have flipped the house blue, what does this mean for the country and the tech industry? We break down how the war and gas prices broke MAGA, Prop 40 getting voted down in California, and the politicians & podcasters who still want blood. As always, we end on a high note with our white pill. The newest Pangram update may save the internet from fake AI videos.

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Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Sanjana Friedman

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome back to the pod!

1:30 - Midterms breakdown

26:30 - Thank you Monaco!

27:30 - Billionaire tax voted down in California

46:00 - Thank you Autopilot!

47:00 - Scott Galloway & Kara Swisher want to harm Elon Musk

1:07:30 - Thank you Eight Sleep!

1:08:30 - White Pill - Pangram can now detect AI video

1:25:30 - See you next Friday 🏴‍☠️

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Welcome back to the pod! Liv Boeree is back with us this week. A leaked taped caught Gavin Newsom declaring that the DSA is the future of the Democrat party. Around the same time, another video went viral showing a college girl celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination in front of his friend. Is this the future that the party is supporting? We then get into the midterms and how it will affect the tech industry. Will we have a blue wave? Or is the polling and early voting incorrect? Next up is the much discussed Elizabeth Holmes doc.. we break it all down in the way only Pirate Wires can! Finally, a white pill for Anduril's American made laptop.

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Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Liv Boeree

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome back to the pod

1:30 - The DSA Is the future

19:00 - Tech industry after the midterms

34:00 - Thank you Eight Sleep!

35:00 - Blue Wave in the midterms? vibe check

48:30 - Thank you Monaco!

49:30 - Elizabeth Holmes documentary break down

1:19:30 - Thank you Autopilot!

1:20:30 - White Pill - Anduril’s American made laptop

1:31:00- See you next Friday! 🏴‍☠️

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Welcome back to the pod! Bridget Phetasy joins us this week. Elon Musk became an enemy in the political sphere as pundits, like Kara Swisher, stated that Elon would likely be in jail if Kamala was elected. This was said on the same week that Elon pledged to give every child in America one share of SpaceX, and introduced a flying car with the Tesla Roadster. We then break down the California Wealth Tax vote that is coming soon and if Ilhan Omar really did commit immigration fraud. Thankfully, we end on a high note with a white pill, discussing flying cars, the tech optimist future, and how and how to remove stress when scrolling social media.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome back to the pod
2:00 - They want Elon Musk in jail
29:00 - Culture Fights Back At Shane Gillis Cancellation
31:20 - THANK YOU MONACO
32:20 - California Wealth Tax vote
46:30 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT
47:30 - Ilhan Omarr: citizen or deportation?
1:05:30 - White Pill! We have flying cars
1:20:30 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP
1:21:30 - Wrapping - See you next Friday!

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This week on the pod. Liv Boeree is back! We discuss how NYC is protecting illegal criminals, while prioritizing getting rid of horse carriages in Central Park, why you can no longer be mean to Claude, the cyber attack on a French grocery store, and why we should be pushing to d/acc. Also, woke continues to make a comeback.. the ladies get mad at Shane Gillis' SNL monologue about how women dress as 'whores' in the gym, Metallica frontman James Hetfield receives hate online for not saying the thing everyone wants him to say, and Kelly Clarkson battles with a small business in Brooklyn. Finally, Liv and Solana compare algos to demonstrate just how we all live in different universes online.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome back to the pod!

0:45 - Thank you Monaco for sponsoring the pod! 

1:30 - NYC protects illegal criminals 

17:30 - Horse-drawn carriages are banned

30:30 - Thank you Eight Sleep!

31:30 - Don't be mean to Claude

45:30 - Thank you Autopilot!

46:30 - Should we d/acc? Cyber attack at grocery store

56:00 - Metallica frontman James Hetfield controversey 

1:00:30 - Shane Gillis joke on women at gyms

1:09:00 - Kelly Clarkson vs. Art Of Play

1:14:00 - Comparing X algorithms 

1:28:00 - See you next Friday!

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Welcome back to the pod! This week, Pirate Wires reported on the State Department's fight against censorship abroad. At the same time, French President, Emmanuel Macron, took the stage to denounce America's version of free speech. Sanjana Friedman joins us to discuss free speech maximalism and how Europe's model of speech is seeping into how American's view speech. Also in today's episode, an AI doomer battle! Steven Pinker & Scott Alexander go at it over our favorite discourse.. the AI apocalypse. Should our p(doom) continue to rise? or are we actually looking at the greatest leap in human lifespan? We're then joined by PW write, Nicole Wizman, to discuss California in disarray, and we close the episode debating aliens and Fermi's Paradox (or the newly created.. Solana's Paradox)

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Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Sanjana Friedman, Nicole Wizman

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Back To The Pod!

1:45 - Free Speech Wars between America & Macron

4:45 - What Defines Freedom

12:40 - Macron’s Wife Controversy

18:00 - France Riots

22:50 - THANK YOU MONACO

23:30 - AI Doomer Battle Between Steven Pinker & Scott Alexander

53:55 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT 

54:35 - California In Disarray

1:13:00 - Aliens! Debating Fermi’s Paradox

1:33:20 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP

1:34:15 - Wrapping Up

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This week on the pod, we’re joined by the great @Liv_Boeree! We’re breaking down another crazy week in the AI tech space. From Trump inviting all the tech leaders to DC, to renaming AI to “Super Intelligence”, to Bernie’s AI bill endorsed by doomer groups. We also discuss the infamous data center party in DC that our own Jonas Du put together. Next up, we have @katrosenfield join us to discuss the controversial “Cornell 7” SI case that is taking over the discourse. Kat provides us with insights from her piece that she just wrote in The Free Press. Finally, a white pill! The government made a website that actually doesn’t suck. Are we in a new age of government efficiency?

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Featuring Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Liv Boeree, Kat Rosenfield

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Liv to the pod! 

1:40 - A Week in Super Intelligence

3:30 - Bernie Sanders AI Bill

10:00 - AI Doom vs. AI Optimism

30:45 - THANK YOU MONACO

31:30 - The Viral Data Center Party In DC

47:55 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT

48:30 - The Cornell 7 Story - Welcome Kat Rosenfield

11:00 - White Pill - The New America dot gov site that actually doesn’t suck 

1:25:10 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP

1:26:00 - Thanks For Watching! See You Next Week

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Welcome back to the pod! Today we're talking abundance. After Trump's deal with Greenland this week, we break down that, despite the flaws of the administration, Trump has positioned himself as the abundance president when it comes to American advancement (while the Democrats' abundance agenda has fallen apart.) Also on the show, a NYT writer virtue signals her way into sending her kid to a terrible public school, woke is so back as a lesbian bar breaks the internet for removing their mask mandate, and we have a white pill in human brain development side of science!

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Back To The Pod! THANK YOU MONACO

1:30 - Is Trump The Abundance President?

11:15 - What Happened To The Dems Abundance Movement?

20:30 - The Public School System is Broken

32:35 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT

33:20 - What Exactly Is Happening With Hangings Around The Country?

44:50 - Woke Is Back & Better Than Ever! Lesbian Mask Bar Breaks The Internet

50:21 - Macklemore Cancels Ed Sheeran

1:07:50 - White Pill! Huge Advancements In Brain Science!

1:15:10 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP

1:16:15 - Go See Bridget live! See You Next Week

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Welcome back to the pod! Bridget Phetasy returns to the Pirate Wires podcast as one of our esteemed cohosts. This past week, the internet was consumed by the AI doomerism conversation. The tech people are supporting AI at all costs, the doomers are making their opinions heard, and we at Pirate Wires.. are unsure. We dive into all of the discourse, how Peter Thiel predicted the AI antichrist, the white pill of AI, and we even get into Sydney Sweeney's boobs. We have it all!

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Back To The Pod - Welcome Back Bridget Phetasy!

0:30 - The AI Apocypse - Is It All Over?

24:35 - THANK YOU @MonacoGTM 

25:33 - Breaking Down The AI Discourse

40:00 - Did Peter Thiel Predict The AI Antichrist?!

50:05 - Sydney Sweeney's Controversial Boobs

10:40 - White Pill - How AI Leads To More Creativity - PW Writer Vibe Coded A Viral Video Game

21:40 - THANK YOU @eightsleep 

1:22:20 - AirBnB Wants To Fix The Housing Crises

1:32:15 - THANK YOU @joinautopilot 

1:32:55 - Wrapping Up - Go See Bridget Live in Austin!

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Welcome back to the Pirate Wires pod! The gang is back together for your favorite weekly pod covering tech, politics & culture. PW alum, Sanjana Friedman, returns to the show with Mike Solana in Riley Nork. Today on the pod,  25th anniversary of 9/11 and how the old world feels so ancient, the brain rot phone addiction that led to the decision of the Lindsay Clancy case, another AI doomer has sprung to life from the the bowels of Anthropic, we ponder if we're all in a simulation, and Solana gives us a deep dive into immigration and H1B's. 

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - WE'RE BACK!

2:55 - 9/11 25th Anniversary & Gen Z Irony Posting

8:50 - THANK YOU MONACO!

9:25 - Lindsay Clancy Trial Highlights Phone Addiction Brain Rot

40:45 - AI Death Cult - Anthropic Employee Warns Of AI Doom

1:06:46 - White Pill - Are We In A Simulation - Sponsored By Eight Sleep

1:12:25 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP!

1:13:08 - The Truth About Immigration & H1Bs - Sponsored By Autopilot

1:31:00 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT

1:32:00 - Wrapping Up

1:34:00 - We're Back For Good! See You Every Friday at 4pmET

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Mike Solana & Producer Matt give a send off message. Thanks for being apart of the podcast these past few years! We appreciate every one of you.

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