Archive - Life With Machines

Superficial Intelligence: Replace Your Spouse

A *totally* sincere response to household robots

Aug 3 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

July 2026

Building Digital Public Parks with Deepti Doshi

Designed for trust and connection, not ad clicks and outrage

Jul 24 • Life With Machines, New_ Public, and Deepti Doshi

51:27

Date Farms, Not Data Centers!

What a desert tech conference taught me about our future with machines

Jul 16 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

The Future Is Not Inevitable

What nurses, truckers, and teachers need to steal from the entertainment industry

Jul 7 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

19:17

June 2026

Superficial Intelligence: Employee Tracking

A *totally* sincere response to workplace AI surveillance

Jun 25 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

Taking Back Your Digital Agency

A conversation with Shae Omonijo on local AI, critical thinking, and the great de-skilling

Jun 23 • Life With Machines, Shae O., and Baratunde Thurston

54:17

You Built This Set of More Ethical Tech

alternatives, resources, and reflections from the LWM community

Jun 18 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

Whose Problems Does AI Actually Solve?

a conversation with Dr. Paul Shattuck on power, extraction, and Indigenous democracy

Jun 12 • Life With Machines, Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD, and Baratunde Thurston

44:48

I Don’t Want to Optimize My Way Out of Being Alive

What a room of filmmakers at Sundance taught me about agency, and the lie we keep calling progress

Jun 4 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

May 2026

The Pope Has Entered the Chat

Comparing Notes with Jacob Ward on the Pope, Anthropic, and data centers

May 29 • Life With Machines, Jacob Ward, and Baratunde Thurston

44:13

They Grew Up With AI. Now They’re Taking Control

The young leaders rejecting big tech’s inevitability narrative

May 26 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

You Don't Need Agentic AI. You Need Agency.

What power humans still get to keep, share, and build together.

May 22 • Life With Machines and Baratunde Thurston

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