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Trump’s Top Spy Has One Job: Revenge

Explore episode Jun 3, 2026

You have characters across Silicon Valley and venture capital, men who brag about having zero introspection, men who refer to people as meat computers, who have espoused all kinds of misogynistic and xenophobic rhetoric. And these are the people that we are supposed to entrust for us to design this technology that again will remake the world. No thank you.

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Trump’s Top Spy Has One Job: Revenge

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