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Full episode: www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer The digital safety organization Reset Tech released a 160 page study outlining how the "Manosphere" isn't an organic movement so much as it is a series of financial scams. Miles Klee of Wired Magazine joins us to talk about his piece covering the economics of male rage and offers some thoughts on what some solutions to the issue might look like.Read the article: https://www.wired.com/story/the-manosphere-isnt-a-movement-its-a-multibillion-dollar-grievance-industry/Follow Miles: https://www.wired.com/author/miles-klee/

Marcos joins us on the follow-up to our pink slime episode, we talk about the communal costs we incur when local papers die, and the horrors that fill the void when they do.Follow Marcos: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheHomieCollective

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Ricky & Eliot of Internet Today join us for a retrospective on Fruit Love Island, Strawberrina's series of sordid affairs, Italian Brainrot, and the slop economy at large.Follow Internet Today: https://www.youtube.com/@InternetTodayTV
 

The Big Mac Index is here, the police used Grok to edit an evidence photo, Linkedin is now offering users the opportunity to report slop, Google pulled its disastrous AI image editing tool they put into Google Earth, you can now bet on wild fire outcomes, and more. We discuss.Stories read and referenced:Employees from the world’s biggest AI companies want the US to be ready to slow AI developmenthttps://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/28/tech/ai-development-tech-employees-open-letterLinkedin Adds Slop Detection Report Button
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/linkedin-adds-a-button-to-report-ai-generated-slop/Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attackshttps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-pulls-down-google-earth-ai-featureWildfire Betting now on Prediction Market Apps
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/climate/betting-wildfires-polymarket-prediction-market-platformsVancouver Police use AI tool to fabricate drug bust photohttps://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-police-explain-made-with-ai-image-of-seized-drugs-cash/The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feedhttps://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000011001849/ai-influencers-health-supplements-fake-ads.html

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The right-wing noise machine spent months trying to destroy Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey. The film opened up to enormous critical and commercial success, so it would seem that they failed. But did they really? Let's talk about it.Note: this discussion is about the discourse surrounding the film, so spoilers shouldn't be a major issue. But beware, we do talk about aspects of the film in a limited capacity.Read Parker's article: https://www.readtpa.comFull episode on www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer 

Michael Maurino aka Iron Stylus is a veteran game developer who has worked on a number of large projects over the years, he walks us through the current landscape of the gaming industry, layoffs, bisexual lighting, what to look forward to in the future, and more.Follow Michael:https://www.artstation.com/ironstylushttps://www.instagram.com/iron_stylus/https://brainstormschool.com/Support us at www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer 

MLYP takes us through America 250's origins through today, and all the baggage that came with it.Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AN-XayXaUfaKngfY_ghphiayJaJ-6WTcIVp9bWeOums/edit?slide=id.g36f69057379_0_79#slide=id.g36f69057379_0_79
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Conservative dark money is funding a network of so-called "pink slime" websites that sell influence to the fossil fuel industry and far-right special interests, where candidates and PACs can simply buy the coverage they want on hundreds, perhaps thousands of websites, and hundreds of millions of impressions across their ad networks. These sites look innocuous, but they're filled with undisclosed press releases, bylined to newsrooms or individuals that often don't exist. What's worse: they now outnumber the country's remaining local newspaper sites, and when Yale researchers put them side by side with the real thing, nearly half of Americans preferred the fake ones. Let's talk about it and what this means for the upcoming midterm elections.www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer
 

What's going on with Mitch McConnell? We talk about it. Plus, Waymo is arresting teens, Trump's airport logo appears to be AI slop, Bluesky rolls out age verification in Texas, and more.www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer for more.
Articles discussed:Mitch McConnell https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/10/politics/mitch-mcconnell-video-stretcher-ambulancehttps://www.tmz.com/2026/07/10/mitch-mcconnell-house-has-carpeting-and-tile-workers/Waymo Calls Police on Teenshttps://abc7news.com/post/waymo-calls-police-15-year-olds-joyriders-underaged-drinking-shooting-toy-guns-driverless-vehicle/19465228/
The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Be AI Slophttps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-airport-logo-aiBluesky age verification begins in Texashttps://www.chron.com/culture/article/texas-bluesky-age-verification-22328414.php

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