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*PREVIEW* Play-Doh's Symposium feat. Brian Merchant

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this week's bonus episode, friend of the show Brian Merchant joins Riley, Hussein, and Nate to discuss an ed-tech security firm selling digital hall passes for anti-vaping counterinsurgency. We also discuss Brian's writing about ways in which AI is supplanting professional roles in... education, but also in NCAA athletics training? With predictable results. Check out Blood in the Machine here! Have you lost your job due to AI? Check out AI Commons, who raise money to help people in your situation, and also allow you to share your story (anonymously) if you want to. If you want to hear more, you can get the whole episode on Patreon here! TF Merch is still available here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here:https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

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0:00.0

I have a screenshot of encounter prevention working.

0:03.3

Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.

0:04.2

Taylor Harris has been blocked for meeting with Sophia Clark.

0:07.7

Sorry, you can't start this past right now because you can't, you're not allowed to be friends

0:13.4

with another student, basically.

0:15.1

These students vape in the bathroom together.

0:18.1

These students vape in the bathroom together. So what they doing fucking network

0:23.9

centric warfare against the students is like one person puts in a data point like we've perceived

0:28.1

vaping activity at this location, this date time group. You know, it's like all bathroom

0:32.8

vape attempts have marked in Zulu time just to we don't confuse them with time zones.

0:37.0

These two students were they were engaged in vaping. And so they're just like, have marked in Zulu time just to we don't confuse them with time zones, right?

0:40.3

These two students were, they were engaged in vaping.

0:43.0

And so they're just like, they've got, I don't know,

0:47.0

you would basically need someone to like sift this and analyze it and start entering in,

0:48.1

like patterns and stuff.

0:49.7

Like, this is insane.

0:52.7

This sounds like fucking military, like human intelligence stuff.

0:53.8

So two things.

0:57.4

Number one, it's weird that every time we've talked about technology going into schools, every time, it's always been roughly around the same theme, which is, damn,

1:03.0

this seems like they're putting an army in here. Yeah, be advised. We've got a positive ID on

1:09.2

vape clouds. They're fat as shit and really like it smells like

1:12.1

strawberry. We think Harrison Clark have had another meetup. Like we're going into the teen

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