New Episode: Ep. 357. Space and Beyond: Week 7 A Roller Coaster Backwards but Faster

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This week, Matt and his new friends roast Earth (not literally), Chris learns the secret to a successful future for all living beings in the universe, and this week’s Wild Card means the guys get a visit from a very special guest!

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That Microsoft has restored WireGuard's ability to release updates is good, sure.

But should we really accept a situation in which Microsoft was able to take it away in the first place?

Different people will have different takes, I appreciate, but so much power concentrated in the hands of one private commercial organisation seems... unwise.

One of the things I thought about when writing "Rainmaker" was how rarely Americans appreciate they are living in a global culture, not an American one, and that American culture, however influential it might be, is parochial, limited by our inability and unwillingness to learn other languages or about other cultures.

Americans still imagine "foreigners" as poor, uneducated "dirt farmers" who have to be "saved" and shown the light of Christianity or Western consumerism or in most cases both.

If you've been hearing something about Anthropic's Mythos model, and wondering why, my new post at Techdirt explains the cybersecurity implications it, and eventually all AI, will have and how we need to reorient our public policy to address those implications (looking at you, copyright law...)

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/10/ai-and-cybersecurity-a-glass-half-empty-half-full-proposition-where-the-glass-is-holding-nitroglycerin/