Episode #43: Meme Coins and Moon Mines: Surveillance in the Age of Trump and Musk
Welcome to Stewart Squared podcast with the two Stewart Alsops. In this wide-ranging conversation, the Stewarts kick off with a personal dive into the early days of Internet telephony via Netscape and InSoft, but quickly spiral into the present, grappling with the geopolitical consequences of space-based surveillance, the moral bankruptcy of Trump’s crypto antics, and the disturbing creep of domestic surveillance powers enabled by legal shifts like the Patriot Act and recent Supreme Court decisions. They challenge the legitimacy of the “information age,” weigh the ethical decay of digital…
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