pirate wires #81 // it’s all happening | Continue reading
pirate wires #79 // a full primer on the elon twitter saga, a secret world of billionaire texts EXPOSED, media distortion, and yes he bought the company (again (maybe)) | Continue reading
pirate wires #77 // a brief history of tech industry stasi shit, the downfall of andrew tate as a blueprint for 2024, and the final boss of internet censorship | Continue reading
a new era of industry, china's dominance in critical materials, and what america must do about it. | Continue reading
pirate wires #74 // tom cruise reborn (psychiatry edition), a short list of conspiracies we now call news, AOC's fake cuffs, gay frogs, and twilight for the establishment | Continue reading
for us to solve the challenges ahead, there needs to be an "us" | Continue reading
pirate wires #73 // bodegas: the unlikely nexus of american culture, rise of the brodega mindset, and greta thunberg's anti-bro war on nuclear power | Continue reading
pirate wires #71 // pirates seize the polls | Continue reading
Listen now (21 min) | an interview with mitch horowitz, author of occult america, on "damned data," the stubbornly natural occurrence of the supernatural, and how to make a wish come true | Continue reading
federal "disinformation board" falls apart, chief censor nina jankowicz resigns, and what the hell is going on at the washington post (cont'd) | Continue reading
the power class claims musk is a supervillain. the truth is simpler: he wants free speech. they don't. | Continue reading
pirate wires #68 // the rise of "moderate" political censorship, "astonishing individual freedom," and nourishing the soul's desire | Continue reading
pirate wires #66 // will smith kicks a hole through the discourse, embracing cartoon physics in the clown world, and how to believe in literally everything | Continue reading
pirate wires #65 // facebook-liking death threats, neutral commitments to state propaganda, and here comes your weird messy future | Continue reading
pravda, the collapse of truth in a world without trust, and dawn of the reality entrepreneur | Continue reading
pirate wires #63 // truckers and wordcels and cartoon apes, trudeau's rainbow-colored iron fist, an unholy alliance of powers, and the future of resistance | Continue reading
pirate wires #62 // book bans coast to coast, math is racist, and okay listen: if our only options are censor or be censored, no hard feelings but it's time to torch the libraries | Continue reading
pirate wires #61 // the covid misinformation game and rogan vs. the boomers, social media fame in the twilight zone, hype house, and west elm caleb | Continue reading
technology is a mirror: a few thoughts on the singularity, and seeing ourselves in artificial intelligence | Continue reading
pirate wires #58 // recalling UFOs, the invisible virus, war on nuclear meets the war on space, and america’s vanishing act | Continue reading
defending free speech in a time of ascendent authoritarianism was always a losing battle. but jack dorsey tried. | Continue reading
pirate wires #57 // inflation won't happen, doesn't exist, doesn't matter, is a good thing actually; tech anti-trust croynism; and why are broken people only ever blaming things that work? | Continue reading
diagnosing our "attention-monster social media," fighting back against our would-be censors, strategy for success, and doubling-down on free speech | Continue reading
pirate wires #56 // flexport's ryan petersen tackles the supply-chain crisis, convergence: CEOs are journalists are politicians, press vacuum, and elon musk vs. the UN | Continue reading
pirate wires #55 // nuclear fallout from chappelle's most boring netflix special ever, activist insanity, tech execs push back, and brian armstrong's new way forward | Continue reading
pirate wires #54 // instagram's suicide farm, media distortion, and navigating three weeks of facebook hysteria | Continue reading
pirate wires #54 // instagram's suicide farm, media distortion, and navigating three weeks of facebook hysteria | Continue reading
pirate wires #53 // the ethics and legality of biden's unprecedented forced vaccination campaign, no one trusts you for a reason, and a few suggestions | Continue reading
banned from youtube for sharing footage of his work on a covid vaccine, josiah zayner makes the case for the average person's right to self and science | Continue reading
pirate wires #52 // the wealthy tech elite's improbable love affair with karl marx, is the future of web3 authoritarianism?, lol it's not, and a friendly welcome to the bitcoin dictator | Continue reading
pirate wires #51 // we interrupt this failure for some hero shit, unpacking the ivermectin debate, and trust is earned — so earn it or sit down | Continue reading
pirate wires #50 // from the fall of the towers to the fall of kabul, mimetic theory, caliphate chad has entered the chat, sex work is canceled, and the rise of american authority | Continue reading
a deep dive into the equity hustlers destroying American education from top to bottom | Continue reading
pirate wires #49 // "infrastructure" isn't infrastructure, banning crypto (still not infrastructure), the price of ambition, and a road trip through america's essential spending | Continue reading
pirate wires #49 // "infrastructure" isn't infrastructure, banning crypto (still not infrastructure), the price of ambition, and a road trip through america's essential spending | Continue reading
pirate wires #48 // bernie sanders vs. apollo, bluecheck anti-moon crew logs on, billionaires in space!, and the slow redrafting of our heroic history continues | Continue reading
pirate wires #46 // columbia university's prestigious degree in destitution, our national debt crisis, snake oil academics, and ending our culture of college | Continue reading
pirate wires #45 // the political lust for megafires and blackouts, this is your ocean on socialism, and a few words on real “progress,” from nuclear power to terraforming earth | Continue reading
a journey into the esoteric faith shaping the american fringe | Continue reading
pirate wires #41 // israel vs. palestine vs. apple, the media's amplification of crazy activists, and maybe we should talk about the chinese slave labor | Continue reading
pirate wires #40 // apple's war on chaos monkeys, rewriting history, i think you love to be offended no offense, and the choice between outliers and stagnation | Continue reading
pirate wires #36 // authoritarianism intensifies, free speech shots fired from the court, should we destroy the court actually? and anyway who cares, we're making out with strangers again | Continue reading
from fursuits and sex stuff to literal communism, a primer for the unlikely subculture living on the frontlines of our culture war | Continue reading
science, culture, and a journey through the world of fasting | Continue reading
pirate wires #28 // the gamestop blitz of 2021, information disaster (again), the media wants your microphone, and should marc andreessen literally be forced to talk to me? | Continue reading
pirate wires #25 // tech's extraordinary act of censorship, power, implications, and maybe we should talk about the shadow state | Continue reading
pirate wires #23 // san francisco techxodus (fact vs. twitter), strip mining palo alto for silicon (i guess), anatomy of a city hall disaster, and fight or flight? | Continue reading