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Politics, detention centers, deportations, AI, tariffs, crypto, dev environments on Android, peace, love, and back in wonderful Europe :)

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Investing in Bitcoin, Elon complainers, macro outlook, we are brainwashed, some quality EDM, fun predictions for 2025

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2024-12-28 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Pop punk, quantum vs BTC, occultism & reality, AI driven development, looking for aliens, BTC bar conversations, society of AI agents, politics & tech 2024 reviews, Trussell & Rogan, city & rural folk

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Crypto bull run AI craziness, 2025 tech predictions, bond markets panic, US economy and world outlook, having a famous dad, scottish realism for democrats

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Degrass on maybes & buddhism, MSM vs podcasting, chatting programmers, memeplexes & memetics, BTC and Reddit, Tarantino & Avery, and our bots heavy future

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2024-12-07 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Bitcoin & geopolitics, money history, India shorting USD, etherium 3 way war, Apple AI, censorship industrial complex, Irish elections, Saylor & Elon, AI memecoins trending, $100K BTC

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UK healthcare++, the big Bluesky migration madness, Bitcoin & memecoins are blowing up, forums are still cool, making music with AI, crypto-anarchism, aliens and lost civilisations detour

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JD Vance, state of the UK, bitcoin & memecoins, wine tasting and coding, Lessig, Bricks & mBridge, Kemi Badenoch, Elon Musk, left Trump analysis, Dave Smith, and Web Components still cool

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Genes need a future, Russia is mental, specialists vs generalists, VC tough years, inflation demystified, rewilding the Earth at scale, deep fakes future, and Uk politics

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2024-09-21 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Alien life in the universe, Google anti-trust deep dive, the history of beards, and lots lots more...

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Stablecoins are interop, the cyclical galactic magnetic reversal change, free money & britpop, blogging and web2, Schiff BTC smackdown, and the biggest Trump assassination conspiracy eva

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2024-09-07 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Bitcoin end is the beginning, second brains, theories of everything, media manipulations and market distortions, LLM video game characters, 20 years of podcasting!

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2024-08-31 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Future of JS runtimes, exponential thinking & tech revolution, Eth, BTC, Gold, Telegram, lofi Hip Hop chill, Labour economy & short selling, beautiful paradoxes, and buddhism, and peace & aliens

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2024-08-24 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Bitcoin public corporate playbook, bull market predictions, Thiel on AI and aliens, culture jamming with urban art, exposing media manipulation with supercuts

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2024-08-17 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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World politics, US Tech antitrust, S.American hyperinflation, astrobiology & assembly theory, Eastern European comedy, Apple, immigration, UFO Chief, Linux, Musk & riots, Yen carry trade, BTC & macro

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2024-08-10 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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US Election buildup, Middle East turmoil & geopolitics, boots on the ground with homelessness, future of liberalism & conservatism, Saylor on surfing the Bitcoin bull market, and Germans on drugs!

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2024-08-03 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Useful info about UBI, China vs US in power, fun politics, the stablecoins & treasuries end game, macro analysis, well balanced double acts, a side order of techno and of course aliens

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ChatGPT hype, handling homelessness, caffeine facts, businesses and worker fairness, weird internet art, crypto zeitgeist, network states, US poverty, solving starvation, punk rock energy, NFTs r cool

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Monetary policy, intelligence agencies, AI vs crypto, aliens, Bitcoin treasuries, everyday novelists, evolutionary biology vs modernity, Solana fundamentals, quantum computers, EU politics, EDM duos

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Far out science, Diggnation reunion, comedy & Carl Yung, crazy politics, Bitcoin crashes, video games & philosophy, atemporality of music, the USD afterparty, europe, and frankencompanies

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US EU French and UK Politics, music industry & AI, money problems in developing nations

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AR & VR, memecoins, macro, digital media publications, liberalism, national debt, history of elections, free speech, state dysfunction, resolving disputes, UK politics, authoritarianism, sad tech

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UK & France election politics, Bitcoins future with inscriptions and runes, St George & the history of dragons, Trump on All-in pod, science & UFOs

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Linux desktop movement gets a big boost, the dollar and petrodollar are dying, being a VC is changing, the surprisingly interesting history of men’s suits, EU elections and Microsoft & AI

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2024-06-01 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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2024-04-20 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Peak AI, alternative git interfaces, Hendrix, tokenised wine, debt & the boomer industrial complex, arguing about archaeology, future of podcasting, Ai eats european languages

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2024-04-13 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Sun, moon & the solar eclipse, Tom Hanks spaceman, Bitcoin lending, student debt, civil war dystopia, Bitcoin’s design, Tik Tok ban, monopolies, free speech

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2024-04-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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A fantastic mix of tech related podcasts from state of the tech scene reviews to hobby project development, and some interviews with very interesting people. Your gonna love it.

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2024-03-30 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Bitcoin scaling, social media federation, Bitcoin on feature phones, Microstrategy strategy, the slaughtering of good media outlets, fascinating Bitcoin mining dynamics

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2024-03-23 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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TikTok ban, volcanos & the Pixies, Bitcoin basics from 2022, podcasters talking to podcasters, crypto narratives for 2024, AI models vs reality, EU regulation, tech innovation droubt, Apple antitrust

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2024-03-16 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Apple & DMA & webapps & iOS browser diversity, Gilded age entrepreneurship, Rogan, Tiktok, Filterworld, running restaurants, bitcoin bull run, RFK

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2024-03-09 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Social media vs personal websites, AI and deep fakes, future of money and crypto, history of Ukraine, history of curry, building the next era of the internet, social media traps

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2024-03-02 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Quartet of Bitcoin, Right to repair, what the fed owns, developing software for satellites, Bach, accessibility & reality of web components in production

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2024-02-17 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Lots of interesting AI podcasts, no Vision Pro stuff, aside from a bit of commentary from me. I’m still very ill, so please bear with me.

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2024-01-27 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Focus on tech this week, trying to take my mind off of anything related to terminal breaths, which is very much a thing and very scary. The world keeps on turning.

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2024-01-20 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith

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Sort of a quiet week but still a few interesting and important topics: Bitcoin scaling, HTMX, regulation in the EU and open source AI.

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