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  • #753 - A Long, Directionless Walk
    Luke tests out the APPLE VISION PRO and it leads us on a long discussion of the many ills (and even some of the upsides) of our emerging techno pseudo-utopia. PLUS: On the return of Sacha Baron Cohen, and on the coming Toronto mayoral election.
    Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://patreon.com/michaelandus
    TORONTO: See Luke in conversation with Matt McManus on "What Is Liberal Socialism?" at Flying Books (371 Queen St. W) on November 23 - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/matt-mcmanus-in-conversation-with-luke-savage-tickets-2003631803661
    Check on Plan 9 from Outer Space on Blu-Ray featuring a booklet essay by Will - https://shop.bfi.org.uk/plan-9-from-outer-space-blu-ray/
    Check out the Michael & Us website and episode guide - https://michael-and-us.com/
    56 min
  • My Tech Workers Have Unionized, 2026.10.05

    Across the tech industry, workers are fed up with endless layoff cycles, overwork, and "AI" tools being forced into their jobs. And their bosses hate to hear it! Emily and Alex are joined by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine, the authors of Against Tech Oligarchy, to discuss the ways workplace organizing is evolving to meet this moment.

    JS Tan is getting his PhD at MIT and formerly worked in tech, where he spent years organizing across the industry. Clarissa Redwine helped organize the Kickstarter union, and cofounded and runs the annual tech organizing conference Circuit Breakers. Their book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, is available now!

    References:

    • Amazon finds cases of AI causing runaway spending on tech projects
    • Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here’s how it imploded.

      • Fresh AI Hell:

      • ICE x Boston Dynamics
      • "OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"
      • Effective Altruists mad about someone "torturing LLMs"
      • Former Seattle City Council president launches centrist slop website
      • Palate cleanser: "New AI Literacy Program Awards Students Free Pizza If They Don’t Know How to Read Books Anymore"

        • Check out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see.

        Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here.

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          • Alex

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          • Twitter: @alexhanna

            • Music by Toby Menon.
            Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. 
            Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.

            1 hr
          • 1081 - Bucket Bunnies feat. Pendejo Time (10/20/26)
            In what critics are calling the most on-topic episode in Chapo history, Jake and Thomas of Pendejo Time join us to explain what a “line wife” and a “bucket bunny” is, and how these subcultures have found their way into TikTok virality. We also talk about the Air Force tech that died by falling at a football game, Call of Duty, The Blind Side, and the right wing’s attempt to rebrand themselves as “sensitive young men.”
            We have Chunks screenings @ Alamo Drafthouses across the country:
            11/9 - San Francisco CA, Q&A with Amber Frost and Nate Fisher
            https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/live-q-a-chunks
            11/11 - Austin TX, Q&A with Chris Wade hosted by Jake Rhodes
            https://drafthouse.com/austin/event/live-q-a-chunks
            11/12 - Denver CO, Q&A with Amber, Chris & Nate
            https://drafthouse.com/denver/event/live-q-a-chunks
            11/15 - Los Angeles CA, Q&A with Amber, Chris, Nate & More??
            https://drafthouse.com/los-angeles/event/live-q-a-chunks
            11/19 - Chicago IL, Q&A with Felix & E1
            https://drafthouse.com/chicago/event/live-q-a-chunks
            Subscribe to Pendejo Time: www.patreon.com/pendejotime
            Jake will be doing a midwest weekend run in November (20th-22nd) in Omaha, Emmettsburg, and Lincoln.
            See Thomas in Brooklyn with Caleb Pitts: https://restlessnites.com/events/calomas30oct2026
            And Pendejo Time live in NOLA and Philly.
            1 hr 27 min
          • The AI Buildout is a Boon for the Fossil Fuel Industry w/ Ketan Joshi

            Tech companies are working with the fossil fuel industry to push unnecessary data center projects while misrepresenting the climate impact — and governments are letting it all happen. Ketan Joshi joins Paris Marx to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment, and how it’s all playing out in Australia.

            Ketan Joshi is a climate writer and data analyst based in Oslo working with climate and environmental groups.

            The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.

            Also mentioned in this episode:

            • Click here to get your first month of Proton Mail for just $1.
            • Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at hyperscalebook.com.
            • Ketan wrote a report on how Big Tech is greenwashing their destructive climate impacts.
            • Ketan worked with Greenpeace to put out a report on how NVIDIA is greenwashing to hide their climate impacts.
            • Ketan worked with Greenpeace on a report that explores how Australia’s data center buildout is completely derailing their renewable energy transition.

              • Support the show

              1 hr 8 min
            • BONUS: Who Moves America feat. Yael Bridge & Antonio Rosario
              Amber Frost interviews Yael Bridge and Antonio Rosario, the director and a subject of the new Teamsters documentary Who Moves America. We talk about previous Teamsters struggles, the state and future of union organizing, and how Yael captured their fight on the precipice of a historic strike.
              Check out the film’s website and its trailer: whomovesamerica.com
              And the fund recommended by Antonio: https://coworkerfund.org/get-funded/amazon-workers-fund-application/
              47 min
            • Yanis Varoufakis on Greece's defence deals with the US and Israel

              US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was on a mission when he visited Greece last week: to shore up defence ties between the two countries, to make new energy routes for US LNG exports and to use Greece as an example of a model NATO ally to the rest of Europe. Greece had its own agenda: deterrence against Turkiye who recently stepped up their global positioning with a defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. 

              • Guest: Yanis Varoufakis - Greece’s former finance minister, leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement and co-host The Econoclasts podcast.
              • Producer: Catherine Zengerer
                • 20 min
              • The News Quiz: Ep6. The Iron Dome

                What's better - an Iron Dome or a Britannia Shield? Why should British parents refrain from sending their children on a French exchange this week? And how big can a pumpkin really be?

                The panel is Daliso Chaponda, Kyrah Gray, Coco Khan and Finlay Christie.

                With additional material by: Carywn Blaney, Adrian Gray and Cameron Loxdale

                Producer: Georgia Keating
                Executive Producer: Pete Strauss
                Production Coordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu
                Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

                A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

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