This week on Trashfuture, Gareth Dennis joins us to discuss the future of Great British Railways, plus a deeply cryptic AI-for-British-Rail pamphlet, and our theory that we can only save the UK economy by building Ultra-Manchester (which includes a Mound).

This week on Trashfuture, we're talking about the campaign to block Palantir from working with the NHS... but we also make time to discuss a man so dedicated to anime that he's accused of terrorism.

We invited our friends Ben Fogel and Mattie Lubchansky to discuss how Latin America shows us the future of politics: AI slop campaigns, fake video endorsements, aggrieved fast food chain scions, and meme coin economics

Devon is in the hot seat today filling in for Nova, as we discuss how you can’t trust maps anymore, a report on the state of reports, and the future of education in a certain grafting market trader’s utopia.

We absolutely had to talk about a recent court verdict in which eBay’s executives gangstalked two bloggers and had to pay an eight-figure settlement. Mattie Lubchansky and Josh Boerman joined us to revel in the sheer madness of the aggrieved corporate security cult.

Hesse (@ZeroSuitCamus) from Seeking Derangements and Movie Mindset joins us for an episode of pure cinema… because Doug Liman intends to AI generate a blockbuster called Bitcoin, we just had to watch his previous effort: a hammy attempt at covid filmmaking called Locked Down.

Kojo Koram, author of "The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs," joins us to discuss what comes next after the War On Drugs and how capital intends to colonise this new frontier… and why Brewdog is involved (again!)

For this week's free TF, it's a special collaboration with @edzitron of the Better Offline podcast, in which we discuss THAT SoftBank presentation. You know, the one. With the metaphors.

On this week's free episode of Trashfuture, we've invited friend of the show Séamus Malekafzali on to explain whether or not the Strait of Hormuz is open, and why the only people who seem to have any real plan for the future are the scammers on prediction market platforms

Josh Boerman joins us to talk about Peter Thiel’s bargain bohemian grove, an AI avatar company with a macabre and deeply stupid twist, and then we revisit old friend Knightscope Security to explore what can only be described as “police robot foot fetish fan fiction.”