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Apr 28, 2025

AI is coming for our jobs, the environment, and is even starting to stand-in for human creativity. Derek Allen, Sam Kirchner and Varvara Pavlova are part of the newly formed direct action group Stop AI, which is particularly concerned about the existential threat of Artificial General Intelligence and the potential...


Apr 21, 2025

Erica Meiners and Priya Kandaswamy on how prison guard unions use the valor of labor movement to reinforce the prison industrial complex. 

TW: Discussion of brutality, murder, sexual assault and suicide of prisoners at the hands of prison employees.

"Prisons Are Anti-Labor Institutions. We Need an Anti-Carceral Labor...


Apr 14, 2025

Malcolm Harris, on how pragmatism has been monopolized by centrists who fail to take climate change seriously—the same kind of centrists who'd trust tech industrialists to save the human race. We discuss why you need a pharmacist on your apocalypse team, and Malcolm's new book, 'What's Left', which understands how...


Apr 7, 2025

After last November's election, everyone from campaign consultants, to media critics, to Donald Trump himself credited alt-right media and the manosphere for making the US a more welcoming place for repressive, retrograde politics and values. 

Ome (@sugarskullangelic on social media) is a sociologist and host of the...