In this episode, Adam Becker and I talk about our AI overlords and their “philosophical” influences — mostly eugenics-based pseudoscience and bad readings of sci-fi that make tech billionaires feel like they’ve earned their billions by being the smartest people on the planet… while ruining the planet. Recorded Feb 13, 2026. Released Feb 16, 2026.

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (2025) https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781541619593

BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172zsskmkss5ll (start at 39:15)

Rolling Stone Q&A: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tech-billionaires-adam-becker-1235381649/

Dreaming Against the Machine

http://dreamingagainstthemachine.com/

Forthcoming: Adam Becker’s new podcast website (bookmark this now for later!)

Mentioned in our conversation:

I Am An AI Hater by Anthony Moser

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

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Great theorists make you see the world differently forever after. This is the case with my guests for this episode, Zoë Sofoulis (Zoe Sofia) and Ingrid Richardson — brilliant scholars helping us rethink containers and containment as a feminist strategy to rework worldly narratives about what holds, filters, leaks. This conversation was a special honour for me. Recorded January 23, 2026. Released February 2, 2026.

Containment Technologies of Holding, Filtering, Leaking (2025)

https://meson.press/books/containment/

Zoë Sofia Container Technologies (2000)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227700296_Container_Technologies

Shoutouts to:

Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke University Press) https://dukeupress.edu/re-understanding-media

Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech https://www.dukeupress.edu/insufferable-tools

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Paperback –1994 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262631594/understanding-media/

And much more…

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In this first episode of 2026, I speak with Am Johal and Matt Stern, authors of the "O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology" (2025) to better understand what friendship means these days... at the "end of ecology". Is friendship political? Can an AI chatbot be a friend? Recorded Jan 16, 2026. Released Jan 19, 2026.

Matt Hern, Am Johal O My Friends, There is No Friend (pdf)

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/022e1f6f-f14a-4c11-a94c-c95610919f8c/9783839470268.pdf

Below the Radar podcast:

https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast.html

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New Cover art by Oona Ode!

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