Alternate Current Radio Presents: Boiler Room
Learn to protect yourself from predatory mass media
“The Machine State”
The Social Rejects Club: Hesher & Ruckus
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Tonight on Boiler Room, Hesher and Ruckus examine an American empire drowning in debt, flirting with further geopolitical escalation and losing institutional credibility while simultaneously constructing an increasingly sophisticated technological architecture of surveillance and control.
From $40 trillion in federal debt, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz to Musk’s Texas “Terafab,” border robots, surveillance drones, AI-assisted 911 calls, school sensors, ballistic databases and Flock license-plate readers, the Machine State continues expanding.
Later, the show turns to Washington’s political spectacle, emerging national-security technologies, sunlight sold from space and the increasingly surreal backlash against automated surveillance—including Ben Jordan turning the tools of technological surveillance back on a Flock conference and Darth Vader appearing before the San Diego City Council to advocate monitoring the “rebel scum.”
The empire may be struggling to govern. The machine can still watch.
Sources & References
- Reuters — U.S. Debt Crosses $40 Trillion Threshold After Doubling Under Trump and Biden
- Axios — Trump Again Floats Making Strait of Hormuz a U.S. Territory
- The Hill — Trump Posts Map Labeling Strait of Hormuz as U.S. Territory
- Türkiye Today — U.S., Israel ‘Failed to Achieve’ War Aims, Iran’s Top Negotiator Says
- The Economic Times — A Bombshell Nuke Attack Claim Exposes the Trap Trump Faces in Iran
- Architectural Digest — Elon Musk’s New Texas Factory Will Be the Largest Building on Earth, If All Goes According to Plan
- CBS News — What’s Happening at Big Bend? The Fight to Protect One of America’s Last Wild Places
- ZeroHedge — Humanoid War Robots Could Soon Patrol U.S. Southern Border
- Ars Technica — U.S. Boosts Drone Surveillance as Flesh-Eating Screwworms Spread in Texas
- Inc. — New Orleans Turned to AI to Field 911 Calls; Critics Say It May Miss Crucial Human Cues
- Northeastern Global News — 911 Gets an AI Assist: Lifeline or Liability?
- KOAT — Albuquerque Schools Install Vape Detectors to Create Safer Spaces
- KUNM — Ballistic Machines Find Over 500 Crimes Linked to Guns Used in Multiple Shootings
- Atlanta News First — Inside the Bipartisan Pushback Against Flock Safety’s Surveillance Network
- PBS NewsHour — Trump Previews New White House Helipad
- People — Trump Voter Says He Feels ‘Totally Betrayed’ After Fiancée Is Detained by ICE
- The Independent — FBI Raids Eric Swalwell’s Home in Sexual Assault Probe
- Nextgov/FCW — White House S&T Strategy Calls for New Approaches to Safeguard U.S. Research
- YouTube — U.S. National Security Science & Technology Strategy 2026, Read by Sam Chaney
- VICE — This Company Wants to Sell You Sunlight at Night From Space
- New York Post — Reporters Face Guns and Sirens After Arriving for Vandenberg Space Force Event
- CNN — Hayden Panettiere Report Cited in Show Research
- FOX 5 San Diego — ‘The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock’: Darth Vader Defends Surveillance Cameras
- ABC News — Man Dresses as Darth Vader to Defend Flock Cameras at City Council Meeting
- New York Post — Chucky-Masked Man Terrorizing Philadelphia Has California Connection
- Cybernews — Halloween ‘Purge Night’ Plot to Take Down Flock Cameras Spreads Online
- PR Agent — Brand Comeback: Can MySpace Make a Comeback?
- RELEVANT — MySpace Is Planning a Comeback and Pitching Itself as an Escape From the Algorithm
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