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You’re Not Bad at Relationships, You’re Overloaded
How digital life is degrading real life connections
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
Breaking Up With ChatGPT Was Just the Beginning
A real-time update from 5-weeks of trying to defund fascism
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
Defunding Fascism with Cut Off the Spigot
the power of the collective boycott
 • Life With Machines, Cut Off the Spigot, and Baratunde Thurston
45:11
The Receipts Are In: AI Is Still Not Taking Your Job
Last year we called it. Now the data proved it. Our video goes farther
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
AI and cognitive liberty with Nita Farahany
we've lost our freely thinking minds
 • Baratunde Thurston, Nita Farahany, and Life With Machines
47:17

February 2026

Anthropic Holds the Line and We Question the Need for Speed
Our latest video essay is up on YouTube
 • Life With Machines
Who Gets to Decide If You Stay Dead?
The global legal scoreboard on Meta's ghost patent
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
Meta Patented Your Ghost
Death is just another engagement problem to solve
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
Love Is a Verb, and Our 250-Year Relationship: Esther Perel + Me Live
A conversation with Esther Perel on interdependence, civic intimacy, and AI
Published on Speak Easy • 
38:23
We’re On YouTube (And We’re Coming for Zuck)
Mark Zuckerberg keeps killing friendship.
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
Seeing Is No Longer Believing
ICE, deepfakes, and how to know what's real with Sam Gregory
 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston
44:02

January 2026

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