Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism. Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need!

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"Everywhere, the bureaucratic logic of organisations merges with the calculative logic of machines, feeding on the data emitted by ever-smaller and more powerful devices that ended up first in the homes, then on the laps, and then in the hands of billions of individuals."

"Having some visionary single decision-maker allows you to be Queen Isabella funding Columbus. I fantasize about well-meaning wealthy leaders guiding humanity with pure intent, giving top scientists the capital to take tenfold actions," Diamandis said.

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New research shows "home insurers consider the credit score of the homeowner more important than the location of the home in setting prices. On average across the nation, it is more expensive to have a poor credit score than to live in a zip code with a high disaster risk."

RT @machinekillspod: 🚨419. The Launch of a Stillborn God🚨. We chat about the disappointing launch and reception of GPT-5 and what this mass….

RT @machinekillspod: 🚨Preview – 418. The Trump Pump🚨. We get into the thick morass of the Trump family’s ongoing entanglements with the cry….

RT @bigblackjacobin: i'm doomed to write a version of this essay every single year. i wrote about Matthew Yglesias' intellectual sophistry,….

Incredible book launch for 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑒 at Victorian Trades Hall last night! We sold out the venue, saw so many wonderful people, and got to talk so much shit about technological capitalism. It doesn't get any better!

“Pushing your business to exploit social crises of which it was a significant driver by deploying dangerously tractable and addictive products with few consistent guardrails is wildly cynical, misguided, pernicious, and depressing. It’s also, unfortunately, extremely normal.”

RT @musharbash_b: Lmao @Noahpinion put out a “big” article defending the honor of corporate landlords this morning only for his analysis to….

These kinda weird, pedantic, too familiar messages from listeners is part of podcasting. But in a real shocker the sender is an award-winning female country music artist from earlier decades—I verified the identity but wont dox—who listens to TMK but finds my accent annoying lmao

My Melbourne book launch is next Thursday! Come see me chat with some really smart friends about the Mechanic and the Luddite. There will be some free drinks and books for sale! Register below.

RT @bentarnoff: Coming March 2026

RT @machinekillspod: 🚨417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx, Brian Merchant)🚨. We're joined by @parismarx and @bcmerchant to….

So far this year, "capital expenditures on AI added more to US economic growth than all consumer spending combined. spending on IT for AI is so big it might be making up for economic losses from the tariffs, serving as a private sector stimulus program."

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AI doesn't just mean investing trillions into building data centres, it means building different types of data centres that are incredibly energy dense and intensive to power and cool the AI chips. Great news in a burning world!

RT @machinekillspod: 🚨Preview – 416. The Neverending Race🚨. We get into Silicon Valley imperialism, American force projection and soft powe….