Is 2026 becoming the year Big Tech finally started losing?
In Episode 150 of Divulgence, we look at the growing backlash against the technologies that have rapidly reshaped everyday life—from Flock surveillance cameras and massive AI data centers to social media addiction, autonomous machines, and artificial intelligence itself. Meta faces an enormous settlement over allegations involving harm to young users, communities are fighting back against surveillance and data centers, and even some of technology’s biggest champions are beginning to question how quickly AI is moving.
Meanwhile, Congress has an AI problem of its own, with staffers increasingly turning to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini to help research legislation, draft amendments, prepare hearing questions, and even write speeches. What are they being paid for?
We also dig into an increasingly unpredictable political landscape ahead of the 2026 midterms. Democratic socialists are scoring surprising primary victories, Trump-backed candidates are showing signs of vulnerability, Texas may be more competitive than expected, and the federal government is dramatically expanding its role in election security.
Plus: Milo Yiannopoulos gets deported by ICE after years of advocating aggressive immigration enforcement, Pete Hegseth continues reshaping the Pentagon, Canada’s confrontation with Trump may be strengthening Mark Carney, China expands its artificial-island infrastructure in the South China Sea, and the USS Abraham Lincoln finally heads for shore leave in Thailand after more than 250 days at sea - and that could mean a lot of prostitution!
Also in this episode: the Tates’ rented luxury lifestyle, mysterious nighttime visitors to New York City’s sewers, Berlin’s debate over a surviving Nazi bunker, Kanye West’s troubled Russian concert plans, America’s $40 trillion national debt, the strange new market for ordinary 1980s and ’90s cars, and much more.
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