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Don't Praise The Machine (DPTM)

Don't Praise The Machine (DPTM)

著者： Alexander Holland & John Maloney
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Al and John grew up together in the 1990s but now live on opposite sides of the world. Each week, they get together through the magic of the Internet to catch up, make each other laugh and try to make sense of it all.


The result is a funny, surreal and thought-provoking excursion through the arcane recesses of pop culture and technology, and the mysteries of everyday life. What’s it like to have a virtual companion? Did Hilaria Baldwin really pretend to be Spanish? Why did movies used to have a rap in the credits to explain their own plot?


Get in touch at hello@dptm.org or find us on IG @dont_praise_the_machine.

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Alexander Holland アート 社会科学
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  • Screensavers, Ringtones & Answering Machines: A Eulogy for Dead Tech

    Screensavers, Ringtones & Answering Machines: A Eulogy for Dead Tech
    2026/07/27
    Screensavers used to be a whole universe — toasters with wings, mazes drawing themselves, flying stars you could stick your face in. Then one day they just... stopped. This week Alex and John dig up three pieces of tech that were once completely unremarkable parts of daily life and are now totally gone: screensavers, ringtones, and answering machines. Along the way: the accidental birth of the flying toaster, why Jefferson Airplane nearly sued a screensaver company, the Berlin-founded ringtone empire that gave the world Crazy Frog, a $4.4 billion industry that vanished in five years, and the case for the answering machine as the original social media platform.

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    47 分
  • There's Something Missing In The World's Most Liveable Cities

    There's Something Missing In The World's Most Liveable Cities
    2026/07/20

    The 2026 EIU Global Liveability Index has dropped, and Alex and John have a combined 60+ years living in this year's top 10 — which makes them uniquely qualified to ask: is "liveable" actually the same thing as good?


    This week: why the famous rankings are secretly a corporate tool for calculating executive danger pay, what the criteria hilariously refuse to measure (fun, weather, goth scenes, the price of cigarettes), and why the world's "best" cities, New York, Paris, Berlin, aren't anywhere near the list.

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    1 時間 12 分
  • Bonnie Tyler Is Gone. The Power Ballad Went First.

    Bonnie Tyler Is Gone. The Power Ballad Went First.
    2026/07/13

    Bonnie Tyler has died, and with her goes something bigger than one Welsh voice with a rasp.


    Total Eclipse of the Heart is seven minutes of zero-irony emotional maximalism, the kind of song everyone on Earth knew without ever choosing to, and nobody makes anything like it anymore.


    So this week Alex and John tear up the episode schedule to ask the big question: what actually killed the power ballad?


    Along the way: Jim Steinman, the leather-gloved rock opera maximalist who wrote it for a Nosferatu vampire musical (really), the gloriously unhinged music video, the uncredited male vocalist you never knew was on the track, the 1995 Nikki French eurodance cover that fooled a generation, why hair metal bands were contractually obligated to get sentimental, and how irony, algorithms and the death of the school disco slow dance quietly murdered the most sincere genre pop music ever produced.


    Turn around, bright eyes. This one's for Bonnie.

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    44 分
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