Hello everybody, welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

All right. So today is going to be a solo episode. In fact, there's probably going to be more of these as time goes on, which I'll explain here in a bit.

Today I'm going to give you an update on the show. I'm going to talk about

my new job a little bit. I'm going to get into the data center buildout in the country,

the AI bubble, the state of the economy, try to find analogs historically for kind of what we're

seeing. I'm going to talk about the phase of late capitalism, right, that we're in

and wrestle a little bit with the concept of techno feudalism,

which thinkers like Verifoccus and Jody Dean have written about to differing extents.

There's kind of controversy around that term.

Allison and I are doing a full Red Menace episode on the concept of techno feudalism.

And we're going to do that, I think, in a week or two.

So there's going to be much more discussion on that concept and criticism of that concept

or just thinking through the implications of that

concept. But I do want to touch on it a bit today because I think it relates to the huge

data center buildout that we're seeing in this country and the overall state of the economy.

And I also am going to touch a little bit on Trump administration sending the U.S. military down to Venezuela in an act of belligerent aggression against the sovereign state of Venezuela.

The lies that Trump is using around involvement with the cartels and how the rest of Latin America is responding and maybe how it relates, if at all,

to China, Taiwan, and the overall state of U.S. hegemony and its precipitous decline over the last

several years and especially under the Trump administration. But first thing is first.

A week or two ago, a few weeks ago, I talked about this GoFundMe for this family in Gaza, right?

I had my friend B. come on, send a little audio clip explaining the situation.

I'm talking about how it's vetted, verified everything.

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