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I'm everywhere, but today I'm joined by the author of a book about how much I should be punished, what punishments I deserve, and how long I should be punished.

I'm, of course, talking about more everything forever, written by astrophysicist, Adam Becker. Adam, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me yet. It's good to be here. What's the book actually about? I apologize. No, it's okay. The book is actually about the horrible ideas that tech billionaires have about the future, that they're trying to shove down our throes and why they don't work. So you're an astrophysicist, right? Yeah, by training. What is that? Well, I did a PhD in astrophysics looking at how much we could learn about what was happening right after the Big Bang by looking at what was happening in the universe, you know, what's happening in the universe right now. So how did you get into the touching in the world of Silicon Valley? Because you have to talk

about some of the dampest perverts I've ever done seen. Yeah. Well, I started out my career as a

science journalist straight out of grad school and was writing mostly about physics.

And what were you writing?

I was writing for pretty much everybody.

I started at New Scientist and then moved on to writing for the BBC, wrote a book about quantum

physics, wrote some stuff for NPR, The New York Times, scientific American, yeah.

And, you know, like was sort of having a normal science journalist career.

And then in 2016, the weirdest fucking thing happened.

What happened?

I don't know.

We elected a fascist.

Oh, right.

Yeah.

That thing.

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