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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 '90s. Now they live on opposite sides of the world, so once a week they log on to catch up and make sense of whatever the culture has done this time, laughing at each other along the way.

The result is a funny, surreal trip through current culture, technology, trends and the mysteries of everyday life. What's it actually like to fall for an AI companion? Did Hilaria Baldwin really pretend to be Spanish? Why did movies used to explain their own plot with a rap over the credits?

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

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Alexander Holland 社会科学
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  • Tupac's Murderer - Guilty After Bragging on YouTube

    Tupac's Murderer - Guilty After Bragging on YouTube
    2026/09/07

    After almost 30 years, someone has finally been convicted for the murder of Tupac Shakur, and the way it happened is stranger than any fan theory. Dwayne "Keefy D" Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder this week for supplying the gun and planning the shooting outside a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas in 1996. He was granted limited immunity back in 1998 for cooperating on an unrelated case, then spent the next two decades describing his role in the murder anyway, in interviews, on Vlad TV, and eventually in his own memoir.


    This week Alex and John (a lifelong Suge Knight defender since age 13) walk through the case: the profer agreement that didn't cover what Davis actually admitted to, the Suge Knight and P. Diddy conspiracy theories that dominated the story for decades, the Biggie/Tupac beef that set the whole thing in motion, and the strange economy of hip-hop YouTube channels like Vlad TV, where guests get paid tens of thousands of dollars to tell stories that can apparently also convict them of murder.

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    57 分
  • Ooshies Fever: The Supermarket Toy Turning Parents Feral

    Ooshies Fever: The Supermarket Toy Turning Parents Feral
    2026/08/31

    Woolworths just ran one of the most successful marketing campaigns in Australian retail history. It was free, plastic, and aimed squarely at six-year-olds.


    This week Alex and John dig into Ooshies: the blind-bag Disney toys that took over Australian supermarkets, gave Woolworths' share price a boost, dented Coles', and turned primary school playgrounds into trading floors. We'll get into the psychology behind blind-bag toys (it's the same intermittent-reinforcement mechanism that makes slot machines addictive), the $30,000 rare-donkey eBay listing that wasn't quite what it seemed, and why it's parents, not kids, actually driving the spend.


    Send this one to the friend in your life who's currently a few hundred dollars deep chasing a rubber Wolverine.

    🛎 Get bonus episodes, early episodes, and exclusive goodies while supporting DPTM!

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    🔌 Connect with us!

    TikTok: ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@dontpraisethemachine

    Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/dont_praise_the_machine/

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    46 分
  • Your Rust Belt Town Just Got Data Centred: Deal With It

    Your Rust Belt Town Just Got Data Centred: Deal With It
    2026/08/24

    There's a data center planned for Utah that was originally supposed to be twice the size of Manhattan. Even after intense local pushback chopped it in half, it's still incomprehensibly massive.


    Alex and John try to picture that (they can't), then get into why old Rust Belt towns are trading steel mills for server racks and getting a fraction of the jobs they were promised. Tax breaks, diesel generators, a 24-hour hum nobody asked for, but hey, John gets to pester ChatGPT with nonsense hypotheticals.

    🛎 Get bonus episodes, early episodes, and exclusive goodies while supporting DPTM!

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    💌 Sign up for John's famous weekly DPTM newsletter

    Click here ➡️ https://dptm.org/


    🔌 Connect with us!

    TikTok: ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@dontpraisethemachine

    Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/dont_praise_the_machine/

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    47 分
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