Episode 20 - The Untitled Pod

Published Sep 1, 2026 · 41 min

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Summary

No agenda. No single topic. Somehow, still a theme.

Chapters

00:00 — The episode with no title
01:05 — Omarchy funding, security, and a broader audience
06:27 — AI-generated music and who gets to define art
10:16 — Rogue AI agents and the Hugging Face incident
13:29 — When agents talk to other agents
17:37 — Agent-driven shopping and advertising
19:24 — Can brands manipulate AI recommendations?
21:46 — Influencer marketing as model training data
22:47 — The Black Mirror version of agentic advertising
24:24 — Why interruptive advertising deserves to die
25:52 — Amazon’s alleged ad-auction manipulation
27:59 — Meta, youth addiction, and Big Tech incentives
28:43 — When fines become a cost of doing business
33:21 — Are our devices still listening?
35:20 — Responsible tracking and broken audience cohorts
37:47 — Demographics, geographics, and creepy psychographics
38:33 — Cookie banners and a universal privacy control
40:24 — A spam-reporting model for predatory ads
41:12 — Somehow, they solved advertising