Quinn Slobodian
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708 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It seems to be working.
I mean, it is troll.
Absolutely.
And it has to be because there's no political constituency for resistance, right?
I mean, that's the problem, is that because the whole American economy has
joined this one-way bet on generative AI, very much including the Democratic Party, which of course was the natural partner of Silicon Valley for decades and decades.
Remember people sort of needling Barack Obama about saying he might go to Silicon Valley and become a venture capital investor after his presidency?
Well, that's what Al Gore literally did.
He worked for John Doerr at one of the main VC funds and was helping push the clean tech boom that we talked about in the 2000s.
So right now, if there's a governor or a president at Rahm Emanuel or a president Gavin Newsom, you can easily imagine how he makes nice with this whole class very quickly because right now there's no other game in town.
It does need to be grassroots because it's going to take the whole population to be like, we don't agree with this.
We don't consent to this.
We need something different.
Yeah, I mean, it depends on how...
radical you want to dream, but I would say... Dream, baby!
Well, I mean, I think that more incremental already feels like a dream at this point, but the Bidenomic interlude was actually a very good faith effort to do just that, right?
It was an economic policy shop that was filled with
Bernie Sanders people and Elizabeth Warren people who had studied their neoliberalism and who were like, we need to switch this up.
We need return to better workers' rights.
We need a care economy.
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