Kill The Computer

MLYP takes us through the history of Palmer Luckey: gamer, founder of Oculus, and (alleged) war criminal.

Slide Show:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kTHSKZQ0hMwY_sNHK5k3peFh5Q2anKdO80qf7Dj7AlM/edit

Full episode: www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer 

The digital safety organization Reset Tech released a 160 page study outlining how the "Manosphere" isn't an organic movement so much as it is a series of financial scams. Miles Klee of Wired Magazine joins us to talk about his piece covering the economics of male rage and offers some thoughts on what some solutions to the issue might look like.

Read the article: https://www.wired.com/story/the-manosphere-isnt-a-movement-its-a-multibillion-dollar-grievance-industry/

Follow Miles: https://www.wired.com/author/miles-klee/

Marcos joins us on the follow-up to our pink slime episode, we talk about the communal costs we incur when local papers die, and the horrors that fill the void when they do.

Follow Marcos: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheHomieCollective

Full episode at www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer

Ricky & Eliot of Internet Today join us for a retrospective on Fruit Love Island, Strawberrina's series of sordid affairs, Italian Brainrot, and the slop economy at large.

Follow Internet Today: https://www.youtube.com/@InternetTodayTV

The Big Mac Index is here, the police used Grok to edit an evidence photo, Linkedin is now offering users the opportunity to report slop, Google pulled its disastrous AI image editing tool they put into Google Earth, you can now bet on wild fire outcomes, and more. We discuss.

Stories read and referenced:

Employees from the world’s biggest AI companies want the US to be ready to slow AI development

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/28/tech/ai-development-tech-employees-open-letter

Linkedin Adds Slop Detection Report Button

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/linkedin-adds-a-button-to-report-ai-generated-slop/

Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-pulls-down-google-earth-ai-feature

Wildfire Betting now on Prediction Market Apps

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/climate/betting-wildfires-polymarket-prediction-market-platforms

Vancouver Police use AI tool to fabricate drug bust photo

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-police-explain-made-with-ai-image-of-seized-drugs-cash/

The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed

https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000011001849/ai-influencers-health-supplements-fake-ads.html