System Crash Is Paused - System Crash
Some news, as they say: System Crash is going on hiatus as Brian and Paris are overloaded with other projects they need to take care of. Thanks for plugging in, and stay tuned to this feed for updates...
System Crash is on hiatus. I had a great time making the show with @bcmerchant.bsky.social and want to say a big thank you to all of our listeners.
We’ll have an update in the future about our plans for it going forward!
20.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 93 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
What does the new movie Mountainhead tell us about how tech billionaires think?
In a new bonus episode, @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social give their thoughts on the movie, what it does well, and not so well.
Became a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/mounta...
08.07.2025 20:10 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 The 10-year ban on state AI laws is dead
💥 Canada caves to pressure from Trump
💥 The generative AI backlash grows
➕ Peter Thiel and his buddies are starting a new Middle Earth bank, Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs + more!
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
04.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 Anthropic gets a court win on training data
💥 Should training on copyrighted works be fair use?
💥 Tesla’s robotaxis have predictable issues
➕ Australia’s social media ban, new Fairphone, Brian has a new series +more!
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
27.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Good show this week folks, even if things get a little uh unhinged in there
20.06.2025 17:58 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 Trump Mobile takes the phone world by storm
💥 The ties grow between tech and the military
💥 AI slop meets the Israel-Iran conflict
➕ Tesla pauses production, AI hits libraries, governments are getting off Microsoft + more!
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
20.06.2025 17:37 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 The Trump-Musk relationship continues to spiral
💥 Musk should face consequences for DOGE
💥 LA protesters are burning Waymos
➕ Ohio making students bilingual in AI, video game performers have a tentative agreement + more!
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
13.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Newest emotional support tools:
-one hour sitting outside after work: reading, listening to books or podcasts
-cucumber lime water in a big ass Bonne Maman jam jar
- @systemcrash.info podcast
-using a humidifier at night
11.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Palmer Luckey wants Western countries to be armed to the teeth with automated weapons.
In a new bonus episode, @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social dig into Anduril’s scary vision for our future.
Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/palmer...
09.06.2025 15:02 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
On today’s System Crash, listeners hear the consequences of recording about ongoing news on a Wednesday when anything can happen on the Thursday before the episode gets posted on a Friday. Still a great chat with me and @bcmerchant.bsky.social though!
06.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
lol we recorded on Wednesday and posed the question: what will Musk and Trump’s relationship be like after he’s gone and were like ‘only time will tell’
06.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 Elon Musk is out at DOGE (kind of)
💥 Musk tried to kill OpenAI’s UAE Stargate project
💥 Palantir is scooping up data on Americans
➕ ZeniMax workers have a contract, Twitter warning about blue checks in Europe + more!
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
06.06.2025 14:51 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Great episode. A counter to the hype and a way to help hold on to your own sanity.
30.05.2025 22:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join me and @bcmerchant.bsky.social as we dig into the big OpenAI acquisition and its hardware plans, along with what a 25% tariff on iPhones would mean and whether they can really be built in the United States!
30.05.2025 22:11 — 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH:
💥 Sam Altman and Jony Ive get hitched (for AI hardware)
💥 Trump threatens a 25% iPhone tariff
💥 Can an iPhone be made in the USA?
➕ BYD beats Tesla in Europe, Google’s Veo 3 goes viral, Duolingo cleans up its AI mess + more!
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
30.05.2025 22:03 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3
On top of all the great discussions, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and I might have had a little too much fun on this week’s episode 👀
23.05.2025 22:38 — 👍 42 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 2
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 Microsoft adopts Grok after “white genocide” scandal
💥 Big tech can’t see beyond AI
💥 Young people are done with the internet
➕ SpaceX flexes muscle in Texas, newspapers run AI-generated list, Netflix grabs Sesame Street + more!
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
23.05.2025 22:35 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Another fascinating episode of System Crash with @bcmerchant.bsky.social! We have some great conversations about the new Pope, the attempt to stifle US AI regulations, and how AI is becoming central to geopolitics. Make sure to listen!
16.05.2025 16:06 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 Republicans are trying to ban AI regulation
💥 The Vatican has a Luddite Pope
💥 Trump’s Saudi trip shows the geopolitics of AI
➕ Canada’s AI minister, UK artists fight copyright changes, Microsoft layoffs + more!
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
16.05.2025 16:01 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Start with some dunking on Mark Zuckerberg, then get everything you need to know about all the AI madness from the past week.
@bcmerchant.bsky.social and I are really hitting our stride with System Crash lately. Start tuning in if you haven’t already!
09.05.2025 16:06 — 👍 49 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
As always @parismarx.com and I had a good time talking through the bad times (AI edition)
09.05.2025 22:30 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 Zuck drinks coffee “recreationally” with his 15 AI friends
💥 OpenAI will remain a weird nonprofit
💥 Generative AI is harming education and jobs
➕ Tesla sales plummet, PBS Kids is defunded, Google funds “White Mirror” + more!
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
09.05.2025 16:03 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
There's a strong case that Eric Schmidt is the most dangerous actor in the AI world. He sells a zero sum, Sinophobia-infused vision of an AI arms race and preaches relentless data center expansion—and is happily received in the halls of power.
@parismarx.com and I break it all down in this ep:
06.05.2025 18:48 — 👍 105 🔁 37 💬 6 📌 0
Fair odds that these data centers are refashioned as fusion centers, reimagined
08.05.2025 01:13 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Eric Schmidt is using China’s threat to US power as a marketing device to get the Pentagon to buy AI.
In a new bonus episode, @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social pull back the curtain on Schmidt’s evolution.
Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/eric-s...
06.05.2025 02:25 — 👍 42 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
Maybe when we have more detail. Still just pretty vague statements for the moment.
06.05.2025 02:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Don’t miss me and @bcmerchant.bsky.social chatting about Mark Carney’s fondness for AI, Jeff Bezos being pathetic, so much more!
03.05.2025 14:41 — 👍 29 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
This was a Good one
03.05.2025 00:25 — 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
THIS WEEK ON SYSTEM CRASH
💥 Canada rejects Trump — and DOGE-style politics
💥 Jeff Bezos caves to the White House
💥 Tech billionaires are radicalizing in massive group chats
➕ X users drop, Duolingo embraces AI, Microsoft cancels data centers + more!
LISTEN: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
02.05.2025 16:23 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 2
Ótimo episódio do System Crash sobre a burrice e/ou o mau-caratismo dos bilionários que usam a ficção científica pra justificar seus negócios
29.04.2025 13:45 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
