This Machine Kills

Jathan Sadowski, Edward Ongweso Jr., Jereme Brown
jathansadowski1@gmail.com (+1 verified host & producer email)

Booking Overview

This Machine Kills is a technology-and-political-economy podcast that critiques how innovation, infrastructure, and corporate power shape democracy and everyday life. For PR pros, it’s a strong outlet for voices doing policy, labor/infrastructure advocacy, or critical scholarship on tech systems—especially around data centers, energy, and governance.

Metrics

Episodes: 481

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

30s Ad: 158 - 195, 60s Ad: 189 - 227

Host

Jathan Sadowski - Co-host of This Machine Kills; a writer and researcher focused on technology, political economy, and critical/left perspectives on innovation and infrastructure (including technology labor and the ...

Edward Ongweso Jr. - Co-host of This Machine Kills; a journalist and commentator writing about technology, politics, and the power structures behind innovation. Runs a related Substack (thetechbubble per episode links)...

Jereme Brown - Producer (and music credit per episode links) for This Machine Kills. Not identified in the data as an on-mic host or interviewer.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Scholars, journalists, policy advocates, or technical-ecosystem experts with credible public work on the political economy of technology (e.g., infrastructure and energy impacts of computing), governance/democracy implications, or organized resistance/alternatives to hyperscale tech projects; strong publication record and ability to articulate systemic critiques.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or longform reporting on technology and society, Peer-reviewed or widely cited research in policy/STS/economics/environment, Policy writing (white papers, testimony, or governance proposals), Field reporting or community-based investigation tied to infrastructure impacts

Recent Topics

Technology, Political Economy, Infrastructure, Data Centers, Energy, Governance, Democracy, Corporate Power, Labor, Climate

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
This Machine Kills
:

Patreon Preview – 458. Seduced by the Slop Tsunami

May 20, 2026

We chat about how so many people keep getting seduced into thinking chatbots are conscious, or just keep hedging their bets in some kind of Cyber-Pascal’s Wage, or just keep lying to prop up an industry and culture they are invested in perpetuating. Then we argue why, rather than just be eroded into acquiescence by an overwhelming tsunami of AI, rather than being bowled over and washed out to sea, you should never give these systems and their booster the benefit of the doubt. Never accept tha...

457. DC3: The Terraforming

May 13, 2026

We’re going in for a threepeat – it’s Data Centers 3, as we continue with our analysis of the data center industry, the opposition to these hyperscale projects, and the real impacts on social communities and natural ecosystems. We get into the industry playbook of using “counterinsurgency tactics” to undermine opposition to these data centers and the ideological playbook of effective altruists treating these projects like they are just 4X strategy games. Plus how Mr. Wonderful is terraforming...

Patreon Preview – 456. Do Not Question Project Cannoli

May 08, 2026

We go in for a second helping on analysing the opposition to data centers. After further deconstructing the arguments against opposition, we do what none of them actually do: pay attention to the actual material conditions on the ground. We discuss reporting on why real communities are opposed to these infrastructure projects and how these projects are being pushed through in black-boxed, stonewalled, fast tracked ways that are designed to ignore, dismiss, and override anybody who isn’t immed...

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