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b'We talk about the federal intelligence agencies being big fans of great books and movies, and writing about them in their little newsletters. Then move on to a big discussion about how the tech industry has been buoyed by a whole lot of nothing: zero interest rates, zero marginal costs, zero regulation, zero oversight. Those zeroes are key to the political economic foundation of Silicon Valley. And now \\u2013 due to social, financial, and technological factors \\u2013 the zeroes are increasing slightly. Will AI be the perpetual value machine that finally helps capital resolve all its contradictions and ascend to the next level? Of course not. But that won\\u2019t stop them from trying to force the impossible anyway.\\n\\nArticles we discuss \\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 \\u201cHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\\u201d Move Poses Terror Threat, Kansas City Intel Agency Claims https://theintercept.com/2023/04/11/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-movie/\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Is Environmental Radicalism Inevitable? https://newrepublic.com/article/171560/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-young-activists\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 TechScape: The end of the \\u2018free money\\u2019 era https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/11/techscape-zirp-tech-boom\\n\\u2022\\u2022\\u2022 Putting the Silicon in Silicon Valley https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n06/john-lanchester/putting-the-silicon-in-silicon-valley\\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)'