Tech giants like Google and Facebook have conquered — some would say killed — the internet. Elon Musk used his platform to help elect Trump, and Silicon Valley elites want to gut the public sector. OpenAI and Microsoft aim to wipe away millions of jobs. Uber is driving down wages. Apple is impenetrable. Amazon is inescapable. All this high tech, and our quality of life is getting lower. The system has crashed. So, System Crash: a weekly tech news show willing to tell the hard truths about ho ...
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Crashing the System is recorded in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood, home to one of the most diverse working class immigrant communities in the U.S. We here at Crashing the System bring you progressive movement news, views, and analysis from a fighting independent political perspective. Hosted by Vex Humana and John Beacham.
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Some news, as they say: System Crash is going on hiatus as Brian and Paris are overloaded with other projects they need to take care of. Thanks for plugging in, and stay tuned to this feed for updates on what's next. Until then, subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine, check out Paris’ newsletter Disconnect, and go listen to Tech Won’t…
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Palmer Luckey Wants to Arm the West With AI Weapons
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33:33Brian is out this week, so we’re dropping one of our bonus episodes to give you a preview of the benefits of supporting the show over on Patreon. In the episode, Brian and Paris dig into Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey’s scary vision for the future of warfare — and how he plans to profit off the whole thing. Arming countries to the teeth with automated w…
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The Ban on State AI Laws is Dead, Canada Bows to Trump and Big Tech, and the AI Backlash Grows
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57:30This week on System Crash: Canada drops its digital services tax under pressure from Trump, the 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation is dead, and the backlash to generative AI just keeps growing. Plus, Peter Thiel and his buddies are starting a new bank named after something else from Middle Earth, Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs, and pe…
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This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, where Paris and Brian present the first System Crash Culture Club by interrogating the new film Mountainhead and how it gets into the minds of our Silicon Valley oligarchs. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the show…
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AI Has Its Day in Court and Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Already a Menace in Austin
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57:56This week on System Crash: A court rules Anthropic can train on copyrighted works as long as they’re not pirated, and Elon Musk rolls out Tesla’s Robotaxi service in Austin — with all the problems you’d expect. Plus, Australia’s social media ban for under 16s moves forward, a new Fairphone is coming soon, Brian has a new series, and more! Subscribe…
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The Rise of the AI Military Industrial Complex, Trump’s Scam Phone, and Israel-Iran Slop
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48:49This week on System Crash: A new player is about to take the smartphone world by storm, the AI industry is forging deeper partnerships with the military, and the Iran-Israel conflict is already overrun with AI slop. Plus, Tesla pauses production again, AI is creating problems for libraries, some Danish governments want to get off Microsoft, and mor…
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This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, digging into Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey’s scary vision for the future of warfare — and how he plans to profit off the whole thing. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the showParis Marx, Brian Merchant által
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk Clash While Protesters Burn Waymos in Los Angeles
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47:23This week on the show: The Donald Trump/Elon Musk feud continues into a second week and protests torch Waymos as Trump ramps up an authoritarian clampdown of Los Angeles. Plus, Ohio state mandates AI use to make undergrads “bilingual” in AI, video game performers have a tentative union agreement, Chinese tech companies are restricting AI tools, and…
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What Elon Musk’s “Exit” From White House Really Means and What’s Next for DOGE
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55:26This week on the show: Elon Musk is out at DOGE, kind of. He leaves with a black eye, literally. And figuratively. We dive into what Musk’s exit means for the Department of Government Efficiency, the role of the Tesla Takedown protests in tanking his reputation, and where things stand to go from here. PLUS: Musk’s failed quest to kill OpenAI’s Star…
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Sam Altman and Jony Ive Are Making an AI Device, OpenAI Gets Desperate, and Trump Goes After iPhones
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49:46This week on System Crash: Sam Altman and Jony Ive announce they’re expecting — a piece of AI hardware. Donald Trump wants to hit iPhones with a 25% tariff if Apple doesn’t start making them in the United States, and we discuss whether that’s possible. Plus, BYD beats Tesla in Europe, Google’s Veo 3 goes viral, Duolingo tries to clean up its AI mes…
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Teens Are Done with Big Tech’s Internet, Google Triples Down on AI, and Grok is Pro-White Genocide
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56:35This week on System Crash: A new poll shows that nearly half of all teens wish the internet simply did not exist, and what can we say, the children are the future. Meanwhile, the reason why the kids hate the internet are dead set on making it all worse: Google and Microsoft announced their plans to continue stuffing AI into every available surface—…
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Republicans Want to Ban AI Regulation, Our New Luddite Pope, and the Obscene Saudi Spectacle
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57:43This week on System Crash: The Vatican has spoken and we have a Luddite Pope; the Republicans are pushing a 10-year ban on state AI regulations to sate their tech industry friends; and Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia shows the power and geopolitics behind AI. Plus, Canada’s AI minister, UK artists pushing back on copyright changes, Microsoft layoffs, …
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The AI Education and Jobs Crisis, OpenAI’s Corporate Drama, and Zuck’s AI Friends
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1:00:33This week on System Crash: AI madness hits a new peak: Mark Zuckerberg has a plan to give everyone AI companions, OpenAI’s boardroom drama gets a new chapter, and the impact of AI on education and work has become a full-fledged disaster. Subscribe to Paris’s newsletter Disconnect. Subscribe to Brian’s newsletter Blood in the Machine. Support the sh…
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This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, pulling back the curtain on former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s pivot to a national security hawk using the threat of China to sell artificial intelligence to the military. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the show…
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Canada Rejects DOGE, Bezos Caves to Trump, and the Tech Billionaire Signal Club
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50:33This week on System Crash: Mark Carney is elected prime minister of Canada with a promise to take on Trump and accelerate AI adoption. Jeff Bezos backs down on Amazon’s plans to display how much tariffs have increased prices. Tech billionaires are radicalizing in a bunch of weirdly named Signal groups. Plus, X users drop, Duolingo replaces workers …
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Tesla is Tanking. What That Means for Elon Musk and DOGE ft. Geoff Dembicki
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58:39Elon Musk is trying to clean up the mess his DOGE escapades have made for Tesla — and it’s not going very well. Brian and Paris dig into the terrible news he had to share in the company’s earnings call and whether we should really believe his claims about scaling back his DOGE involvement next month. Either way, the right still loves the idea: Pari…
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Science Fiction in the Days of American Authoritarianism ft. Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders
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40:12In the latest episode of our Elon In Power series, we’re joined by sci-fi authors and Our Opinions Are Correct co-hosts Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders to dig into how science fiction shaped Elon Musk, and how Musk uses it to shape his own mythology. We explore the problems with how Musk interprets (and fails to interpret) sci-fi stories, an…
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What the Trade War Means for Tech, Musk, and American Workers
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48:36Liberation Day has come and gone, leaving Brian and Paris to pick up the pieces. So the Trump administration may or may not have used ChatGPT to whip up its half-assed plans to instigate a global trade war, which tanked the market for days on end before Trump hit the pause button. There’s still much wreckage to sort through: Elon Musk is furious at…
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OpenAI’s Massive Funding Round and Equally Massive Insult to Artists
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53:44After a few weeks of digging into Elon Musk’s past, Brian and Paris are taking a little break to dig into recent tech developments. They discuss the troubles facing Tesla, OpenAI’s new funding round, and the despicable display of AI-generated Studio Ghibli images circulating on social media. Plus, they discuss some important labor stories and how G…
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How Elon Musk Used Tesla to Build His Power ft. Ed Niedermeyer
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1:10:49In our new series Elon In Power, we’re digging into the billionaire’s history to find out how he got to this point and what his past tells us about who he is today. For our second episode, Ludicrous author and Autonocast cohost Ed Niedermeyer joins the show to dig into the history of how Elon Musk took over and reshaped Tesla, how he built the comp…
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This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, breaking down the White House crypto summit and recent speeches by AI and crypto czar David Sacks praising Donald Trump. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the showParis Marx, Brian Merchant által
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SpaceX and the Foundation of Elon’s Empire ft. Lora Kolodny
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57:47In our new series Elon In Power, we’re digging into the billionaire’s history to find out how he got to this point and what his past tells us about who he is today. For our second episode, CNBC Digital tech reporter Lora Kolodny joins the show to fill us in on how SpaceX got off the ground and the role it’s played in building Musk’s empire. Subscri…
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Elon in Power: The PayPal Mafia and Building the Myth of Musk ft. Max Chafkin
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45:33In our new series Elon In Power, we’re digging into the billionaire’s history to find out how he got to this point and what his past tells us about who he is today. For our first episode, Bloomberg senior reporter and author of The Contrarian Max Chafkin joins the show to give us the scoop on Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and the ups and downs of his …
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The Promise of a New Tech Era ft. Ed Ongweso Jr.
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57:54Donald Trump finally launched his trade war on Canada and Mexico. For two days. Some tariffs remain, and they could all be back in April, and who knows what happens then. As Trump abandons allies, there’s a lot of uncertainty—but there’s also opportunity. Silicon Valley wants its alliance with Trump to cement its global power, but what if the actio…
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Paris and Brian Crash a BioTech Conference
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55:44In a break from chronicling Elon Musk’s takeover of the US government, Paris and Brian share some thoughts from Monterey, California, where they attended a convening to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Asilomar biotechnology conference. They reflect on how AI is playing into conversations about biotech’s future and the unsurprising deregul…
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Taking Down Tesla ft. Alex Winter
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51:12A media narrative has taken shape that there’s little resistance to Trump and Musk, but protests against the administration’s antidemocratic push for power are growing. In fact, they’re everywhere. This week Brian and Paris chat with actor, director, and activist Alex Winter about the Tesla Takedown protests he’s been helping to organize, how quick…
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This is a preview of System Crash’s monthly bonus episode, looking into a recent op-ed by none other than Peter Thiel that gives us important insight into how he’s thinking and the political moment we find ourselves in. To get the full bonus episode, become a supporter on Patreon. Support the showParis Marx, Brian Merchant által
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Silicon Valley Enters Its Imperial Era
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1:00:27Silicon Valley hard at work turning DC into an AI-fueled dystopia. This week Paris and Brian dig into three big trends all converging at once: Elon Musk’s expanding power over the federal government, JD Vance’s speech in France declaring American AI will “dominate,” and Meta’s soaring share price on its pivot to AI strategy. Things seem to be going…
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Elon Musk's Digital Coup and the Future of the Internet ft. Cory Doctorow
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47:20Paris is out this week, so we found another esteemed Canadian writer, activist, and tech critic to log in as System Crash's first-ever guest host: Cory Doctorow. Brian and Cory examine Elon Musk’s campaign of governmental destruction in Washington DC, how enshittification will continue to unfold in 2025, and what, if any, hope there is for us, the …
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Did a Chinese Startup just Burst the AI Bubble? ft. Ed Zitron
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56:07Is the AI hype going to evaporate after Chinese startup DeepSeek shows it can do generative AI way cheaper than OpenAI, Anthropic, and big tech? AI watcher and tech PR guru Ed Zitron joins Brian and Paris to break down what the company has achieved and why it completely upends the assumptions the US AI boom was built on. Ed Zitron is the host of Be…
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The Rise of the Silicon Oligarchy ft. Jacob Silverman
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57:05Trump’s back in office, Elon’s doing “awkward hand gestures,” and the oligarchy 2.0 is right behind them. This week on System Crash, Paris and Brian welcome special guest Jacob Silverman to dive into the grotesque spectacle of Trump’s second inauguration, why he lined up the nation’s tech titans for the occasion, and where this Silicon oligarchy is…
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What Meta Wants From Donald Trump ft. Jason Koebler
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1:01:54Jason Koebler joins the show to chat with Paris and Brian about the looming TikTok ban (that got even less likely after we recorded) and what Mark Zuckerberg is really looking for from the Trump administration. Plus, the new Free the Feeds initiative, John Deere in the FTC’s crosshairs, and more bad AI news. Mentioned this week: Jason Koebler is a …
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Mark Zuckerberg Saves Free Speech
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54:32The new year has arrived, and luckily Mark Zuckerberg has started it by saving free speech! Brian and Paris break down the latest announcements from our benevolent social media overseer, what they signal about the tech oligarchy’s embrace of MAGA, and how they’re crushing any attempts to rein in their power. Plus, how Elon Musk is interfering in po…
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Welcome to the Intelligence Age: Dissecting the Tech Titans’ Key Ideas of 2024
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57:40Every month, Brian Merchant and Paris Marx will be digging into writings, worldviews and future visions of the tech titans shaping our lives, exclusively for Patreon supporters. To give you an idea of what that will sound like, the first bonus episode is free for everyone. To keep getting them, support the show at patreon.com/systemcrashpod. In thi…
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The Looming Specter of the TikTok Ban
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55:31After hearing from a very special guest, Brian and Paris consider: Is the US really about to ban TikTok? If nothing changes come January 19th, it will. We explain why Congress *really* moved to shut down the massive social media app, and what might happen next, now that the Supreme Court is getting involved and Trump's changed his mind. Plus, Elon …
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The Great Crypto Conquest of 2024 ft. Molly White
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1:04:00Brian Merchant and Paris Marx are back with the very first guest of System Crash: Molly White! With Molly’s help, we walk through the biggest stories in the crypto world. We explore the resurgence of crypto, how its backers influenced the election and won Trump’s favor, what the crypto industry wants from the incoming administration—and how it plan…
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ChatGPT’s Sad Second Birthday
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53:01Brian Merchant and Paris Marx are back to celebrate ChatGPT’s second birthday while questioning how OpenAI is really doing as it embraces advertising and the rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk continues to escalate. Mentioned this week: Brian has a new report out with the AI Now Institute: AI-Generated Business: AGI and the Rush to Find a Wor…
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Please Reboot Your System
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54:51The system is crashing, and we’re here to guide you through the wreckage. In the inaugural episode of System Crash, Brian Merchant and Paris Marx dig into how the alliance of Donald Trump and Elon Musk—along with his Silicon Valley cohort—is poised to transform both our politics and the tech world. Plus, how generative AI is trained on thousands of…
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The system, clearly, has crashed — and we’re here to help you dig through the wreckage. System Crash is a weekly tech news show willing to tell the hard truths about how tech — and the titans who own and operate it — is really transforming the world, hosted by Paris Marx and Brian Merchant. Tune in Friday for the first episode. Theme music is “Dyst…
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Hurricane Season; Free Lamar Johnson; Crazy Brexit
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49:52Episode 59: We talk with attorney Heather Benno about the case of Lamar Johnson, an innocent man denied justice in a St. Louis court. News and views: Brexit, Amazon fire, Ismail B. Ajjawi. Editorial: Hurricane season and the capitalist system.Listen, share, support!www.patreon.com/CrashingtheSystemwww.gofundme.com/crashing-the-system-podcasttwitter…
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Economy Crash?; Hong Kong; Mass Shootings; Omar & Tlaib; Venezuela Embargo
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54:42Episode 58: We are joined by Daniel Sankey to talk about the looming economic crisis. News & Views: Hong Kong Protests, Racist Mass Shootings, Omar & Tlaib barred from Israel; Venezuela Embargo.Listen, share, support!www.patreon.com/CrashingtheSystemwww.gofundme.com/crashing-the-system-podcasttwitter.com/CrashingDSystemwww.facebook.com/CrashingtheS…
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White Supremacy is the USA; Trump's Racist Attacks; LEAD OUT NOW Chicago
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55:52Episode 57: We speak with the Prairie Communist, Don Gross, about the LEAD OUT NOW Campaign. The theme of this episode is Trump's dangerous racist offensive, the democrats and the need for a real people's resistance.Listen, share, support!www.patreon.com/CrashingtheSystemwww.gofundme.com/crashing-the-system-podcasttwitter.com/CrashingDSystemwww.fac…
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