Iran War Conspiracy | A.I. Nuclear Escalation Threat | Joint Staff Purge | Palantir Democrats | Ep. 288
New episode of the pod just dropped:
As the Trump administration prepares for war with Iran, why does it suddenly care about manufacturing consent? Inside the US military’s munitions shortfall and what it says about capitalism, oligarchy, and the US relationship with war.
War games with artificial intelligence say chatbots choose escalation to nuclear war 95% of the time.
What’s at stake in Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon, and why it’s not as it seems. The Democratic Party—and American democracy—has a Palantir problem.
Also this episode: why two senior officers have been purged from the Joint Staff. A hot take you’ve surely never heard before.
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