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The internet was supposed to be a decentralised network of people sharing ideas, experimenting with identities, and imagining new possibilities. So how did it become a collection of privately owned platforms controlled by a handful of tech billionaires? From Elon Musk’s control over Starlink in Ukraine to Meta’s alleged interference in Brazilian politics, Douglas Rushkoff explores how the promise of an open internet gave way to systems of surveillance, corporate power, and algorithmic control. Reflecting on his experiences of the early internet, Rushkoff explains the fundamental difference between networks and platforms, why that distinction matters more than ever, and how we might reclaim the decentralised, collaborative spirit of the internet before its owners gain even greater control over our lives.

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I’m retiring the podcast title Team Human, but I’m going to use that channel for my conversations and research interviews for both the new book and my work going forward. Instead of recording an interview with someone who needs to promote the book they’ve just published, I will record the conversation I need to have to figure something out myself.

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What happens when the people holding democracy together are pushed to the breaking point? Douglas Rushkoff speaks with researcher and author danah boyd about the invisible human labor behind America’s institutions, the political battles over who gets counted, and why data is never as objective as we think. From the quiet heroism of civil servants to the erosion of public trust, they explore how democracy depends not just on numbers and systems, but on the people who make them work.

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Psychedelic pioneer and MAPS founder Rick Doblin joins Douglas Rushkoff to explore the future of psychedelic healing after 40 years of fighting for legalization. From the FDA’s rejection of MDMA-assisted therapy to Big Pharma’s attempts to commercialize consciousness, they examine the tension between healing and profit, freedom and control. Can psychedelics help us reconnect with ourselves and each other, or will the institutions bringing them into the mainstream undermine their transformative potential?

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Systems thinker Samantha Sweetwater joins Douglas Rushkoff to explore how we stay human in a world coming apart. They discuss nervous system regulation, embodiment as political strategy, moving beyond oppositional activism, metabolizing grief, reclaiming joy, and building more beautiful ways of living together amid civilizational upheaval.

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Douglas Rushkoff to discuss their new book End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, exploring the forces driving authoritarianism, the seductive fantasy of escape, the growing alliance between technology and power, and what it means to resist by staying rooted in the here and now. Together, they make the case for a politics of “here-ness” - choosing community, solidarity, mutual aid, and a commitment to the living world over bunkers, borders, and dreams of escape.

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Douglas Rushkoff sits down with author, journalist, and Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Andersen to explore what happens when a country can no longer agree on what’s real. Using Andersen’s new novel The Breakup, which imagines a near-future America fractured along political lines as a jumping-off point. They discuss conspiracy culture, the collapse of shared reality, the psychology of political identity, Donald Trump and Spy magazine, AI and technological solutionism, the possibility of American disunion, and why local communities may offer an antidote to our increasingly fictionalized online world. They also reflect on the disappearing culture of magazines, the pressure to constantly produce for platforms, and what writers are actually for in an age of algorithms and instant feedback.

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Artist Kenya (Robinson) joins Douglas Rushkoff to explore what happens when the boundary between art and everyday life disappears. From earning an MFA at Yale to working as a mail carrier and training as an auto mechanic, (Robinson) reflects on class, race, ambition, institutional definitions of success, and learning to see work itself as creative practice. Along the way, she connects automotive systems to tarot, ritual, energy, and “deep magic,” while considering how artists can loosen their grip on recognition, take care of themselves, and transform the ordinary materials of life into something meaningful.

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Douglas Rushkoff is joined by storyteller and thinker Catherine Connors to explore Pope Leo XIV’s remarkable intervention into the AI debate. Together, they unpack his critique of transhumanism, technological inevitability and Silicon Valley’s vision of human progress and his radical case for the dignity, imperfection and magnificence of being human.

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What if anarchism isn’t chaos, but a way of putting human beings back in charge of their own lives? Douglas Rushkoff is joined by former British diplomat Carne Ross, for a conversation about power, democracy, mutual aid, and what it actually takes to change the systems governing our lives.

Ross argues that the means are the ends: we don’t have to wait for a revolution, a new president, or some imagined future society to begin living differently. Instead, meet your neighbors. Share tools. Organize around the needs of your community. Create spaces where everyone affected by a decision has a voice. Rebuild the social relationships that an atomized society has allowed to disappear.

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