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Welcome back to the pod! Sanjana Friedman joins us this week. The midterms brought the biggest Republican collapse in decades. Now that the Democrats have flipped the house blue, what does this mean for the country and the tech industry? We break down how the war and gas prices broke MAGA, Prop 40 getting voted down in California, and the politicians & podcasters who still want blood. As always, we end on a high note with our white pill. The newest Pangram update may save the internet from fake AI videos.-Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/-Get $500 off your Eight Sleep pod: https://www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast-Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Sanjana FriedmanSign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike Solana On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Welcome back to the pod!1:30 - Midterms breakdown26:30 - Thank you Monaco!27:30 - Billionaire tax voted down in California46:00 - Thank you Autopilot!47:00 - Scott Galloway & Kara Swisher want to harm Elon Musk1:07:30 - Thank you Eight Sleep!1:08:30 - White Pill - Pangram can now detect AI video1:25:30 - See you next Friday 🏴‍☠️#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

Welcome back to the pod! Liv Boeree is back with us this week. A leaked taped caught Gavin Newsom declaring that the DSA is the future of the Democrat party. Around the same time, another video went viral showing a college girl celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination in front of his friend. Is this the future that the party is supporting? We then get into the midterms and how it will affect the tech industry. Will we have a blue wave? Or is the polling and early voting incorrect? Next up is the much discussed Elizabeth Holmes doc.. we break it all down in the way only Pirate Wires can! Finally, a white pill for Anduril's American made laptop.-Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/-Get $500 off your Eight Sleep pod: https://www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast-Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Liv BoereeSign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike Solana On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Welcome back to the pod1:30 - The DSA Is the future19:00 - Tech industry after the midterms34:00 - Thank you Eight Sleep!35:00 - Blue Wave in the midterms? vibe check48:30 - Thank you Monaco!49:30 - Elizabeth Holmes documentary break down1:19:30 - Thank you Autopilot!1:20:30 - White Pill - Anduril’s American made laptop1:31:00- See you next Friday! 🏴‍☠️#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

Welcome back to the pod! Bridget Phetasy joins us this week. Elon Musk became an enemy in the political sphere as pundits, like Kara Swisher, stated that Elon would likely be in jail if Kamala was elected. This was said on the same week that Elon pledged to give every child in America one share of SpaceX, and introduced a flying car with the Tesla Roadster. We then break down the California Wealth Tax vote that is coming soon and if Ilhan Omar really did commit immigration fraud. Thankfully, we end on a high note with a white pill, discussing flying cars, the tech optimist future, and how and how to remove stress when scrolling social media.-Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/?utm_source=piratewires&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=2026_piratewires-Get $500 off your Eight Sleep pod: https://www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast-Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Bridget PhetasySign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike Solana On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Welcome back to the pod2:00 - They want Elon Musk in jail29:00 - Culture Fights Back At Shane Gillis Cancellation31:20 - THANK YOU MONACO32:20 - California Wealth Tax vote46:30 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT47:30 - Ilhan Omarr: citizen or deportation?1:05:30 - White Pill! We have flying cars1:20:30 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP1:21:30 - Wrapping - See you next Friday!#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

This week on the pod. Liv Boeree is back! We discuss how NYC is protecting illegal criminals, while prioritizing getting rid of horse carriages in Central Park, why you can no longer be mean to Claude, the cyber attack on a French grocery store, and why we should be pushing to d/acc. Also, woke continues to make a comeback.. the ladies get mad at Shane Gillis' SNL monologue about how women dress as 'whores' in the gym, Metallica frontman James Hetfield receives hate online for not saying the thing everyone wants him to say, and Kelly Clarkson battles with a small business in Brooklyn. Finally, Liv and Solana compare algos to demonstrate just how we all live in different universes online.-Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/?utm_source=piratewires&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=2026_piratewires -Get $500 off your Eight Sleep pod: https://www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast-Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Liv BoereeSign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike Solana On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Welcome back to the pod!0:45 - Thank you Monaco for sponsoring the pod! 1:30 - NYC protects illegal criminals 17:30 - Horse-drawn carriages are banned30:30 - Thank you Eight Sleep!31:30 - Don't be mean to Claude45:30 - Thank you Autopilot!46:30 - Should we d/acc? Cyber attack at grocery store56:00 - Metallica frontman James Hetfield controversey 1:00:30 - Shane Gillis joke on women at gyms1:09:00 - Kelly Clarkson vs. Art Of Play1:14:00 - Comparing X algorithms 1:28:00 - See you next Friday!#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

Welcome back to the pod! This week, Pirate Wires reported on the State Department's fight against censorship abroad. At the same time, French President, Emmanuel Macron, took the stage to denounce America's version of free speech. Sanjana Friedman joins us to discuss free speech maximalism and how Europe's model of speech is seeping into how American's view speech. Also in today's episode, an AI doomer battle! Steven Pinker & Scott Alexander go at it over our favorite discourse.. the AI apocalypse. Should our p(doom) continue to rise? or are we actually looking at the greatest leap in human lifespan? We're then joined by PW write, Nicole Wizman, to discuss California in disarray, and we close the episode debating aliens and Fermi's Paradox (or the newly created.. Solana's Paradox)-Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/-Get $500 off your Eight Sleep pod: https://www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast-Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring: Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Sanjana Friedman, Nicole WizmanSign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike Solana On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Welcome Back To The Pod!1:45 - Free Speech Wars between America & Macron4:45 - What Defines Freedom12:40 - Macron’s Wife Controversy18:00 - France Riots22:50 - THANK YOU MONACO23:30 - AI Doomer Battle Between Steven Pinker & Scott Alexander53:55 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT 54:35 - California In Disarray1:13:00 - Aliens! Debating Fermi’s Paradox1:33:20 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP1:34:15 - Wrapping Up#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

This week on the pod, we’re joined by the great @Liv_Boeree! We’re breaking down another crazy week in the AI tech space. From Trump inviting all the tech leaders to DC, to renaming AI to “Super Intelligence”, to Bernie’s AI bill endorsed by doomer groups. We also discuss the infamous data center party in DC that our own Jonas Du put together. Next up, we have @katrosenfield join us to discuss the controversial “Cornell 7” SI case that is taking over the discourse. Kat provides us with insights from her piece that she just wrote in The Free Press. Finally, a white pill! The government made a website that actually doesn’t suck. Are we in a new age of government efficiency?-Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/-Get $500 off your Eight Sleep pod: www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast- Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Liv Boeree, Kat RosenfieldSign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike Solana On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Welcome Liv to the pod! 1:40 - A Week in Super Intelligence3:30 - Bernie Sanders AI Bill10:00 - AI Doom vs. AI Optimism30:45 - THANK YOU MONACO31:30 - The Viral Data Center Party In DC47:55 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT48:30 - The Cornell 7 Story - Welcome Kat Rosenfield11:00 - White Pill - The New America dot gov site that actually doesn’t suck 1:25:10 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP1:26:00 - Thanks For Watching! See You Next Week#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

Welcome back to the pod! Today we're talking abundance. After Trump's deal with Greenland this week, we break down that, despite the flaws of the administration, Trump has positioned himself as the abundance president when it comes to American advancement (while the Democrats' abundance agenda has fallen apart.) Also on the show, a NYT writer virtue signals her way into sending her kid to a terrible public school, woke is so back as a lesbian bar breaks the internet for removing their mask mandate, and we have a white pill in human brain development side of science!-Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/-Get $500 off the NEW Eight Sleep Pod 6: https://www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast- Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring Mike Solana, Bridget Phetasy, Riley NorkSign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike Solana On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaRiley On X: https://x.com/rylzdigitalBridget On X: https://x.com/BridgetPhetasyTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Welcome Back To The Pod! THANK YOU MONACO1:30 - Is Trump The Abundance President?11:15 - What Happened To The Dems Abundance Movement?20:30 - The Public School System is Broken32:35 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT33:20 - What Exactly Is Happening With Hangings Around The Country?44:50 - Woke Is Back & Better Than Ever! Lesbian Mask Bar Breaks The Internet50:21 - Macklemore Cancels Ed Sheeran1:07:50 - White Pill! Huge Advancements In Brain Science!1:15:10 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP1:16:15 - Go See Bridget live! See You Next Week#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

Welcome back to the pod! Bridget Phetasy returns to the Pirate Wires podcast as one of our esteemed cohosts. This past week, the internet was consumed by the AI doomerism conversation. The tech people are supporting AI at all costs, the doomers are making their opinions heard, and we at Pirate Wires.. are unsure. We dive into all of the discourse, how Peter Thiel predicted the AI antichrist, the white pill of AI, and we even get into Sydney Sweeney's boobs. We have it all!-Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/-Get $500 off your Eight Sleep pod: www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast- Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Bridget PhetasySign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike Solana On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaBridget on X: https://x.com/BridgetPhetasyRiley On X: https://x.com/rylzdigitalTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - Welcome Back To The Pod - Welcome Back Bridget Phetasy!0:30 - The AI Apocypse - Is It All Over?24:35 - THANK YOU @MonacoGTM 25:33 - Breaking Down The AI Discourse40:00 - Did Peter Thiel Predict The AI Antichrist?!50:05 - Sydney Sweeney's Controversial Boobs10:40 - White Pill - How AI Leads To More Creativity - PW Writer Vibe Coded A Viral Video Game21:40 - THANK YOU @eightsleep 1:22:20 - AirBnB Wants To Fix The Housing Crises1:32:15 - THANK YOU @joinautopilot 1:32:55 - Wrapping Up - Go See Bridget Live in Austin!#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

Welcome back to the Pirate Wires pod! The gang is back together for your favorite weekly pod covering tech, politics & culture. PW alum, Sanjana Friedman, returns to the show with Mike Solana in Riley Nork. Today on the pod,  25th anniversary of 9/11 and how the old world feels so ancient, the brain rot phone addiction that led to the decision of the Lindsay Clancy case, another AI doomer has sprung to life from the the bowels of Anthropic, we ponder if we're all in a simulation, and Solana gives us a deep dive into immigration and H1B's. -Thank you to our PRESENTING sponsor Monaco! https://www.monaco.com/-----Get $500 off your Eight Sleep pod: www.eightsleep.com/piratewirespodcast-Check Out Our Pirate Wires FLAGSHIP fund on Autopilot: https://marketplace.joinautopilot.com/landing/5890/1390461?referrer=AP Featuring Mike Solana, Riley Nork, Sanjana FriedmanSign Up For The Pirate Wires Daily! 3 Takes Delivered To Your Inbox Every Morning:https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyPirate Wires On X: https://twitter.com/PirateWiresMike On X: https://twitter.com/micsolanaTIMESTAMPS:0:00 - WE'RE BACK!2:55 - 9/11 25th Anniversary & Gen Z Irony Posting8:50 - THANK YOU MONACO!9:25 - Lindsay Clancy Trial Highlights Phone Addiction Brain Rot40:45 - AI Death Cult - Anthropic Employee Warns Of AI Doom1:06:46 - White Pill - Are We In A Simulation - Sponsored By Eight Sleep1:12:25 - THANK YOU EIGHT SLEEP!1:13:08 - The Truth About Immigration & H1Bs - Sponsored By Autopilot1:31:00 - THANK YOU AUTOPILOT1:32:00 - Wrapping Up1:34:00 - We're Back For Good! See You Every Friday at 4pmET#podcast #technology #politics #culture #tech #ai

Mike Solana & Producer Matt give a send off message. Thanks for being apart of the podcast these past few years! We appreciate every one of you.Subscribe to Pirate Wires to keep up with the latest: https://get.piratewires.com/pw/dailyIt's goodbye for now. But you never know when we may raise the pirate flag again 🏴‍☠️