Uncanny Valley : Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union

Brian Barrett: Justice for sharks. If there's one thing this podcast is about, it is justice for sharks.

Leah Feiger: They're so wonderful. They didn't disrupt the cables, but it is such an interesting thing, because obviously this piece, it gets into so much of the physical building of all of this and having to grapple with the natural world, and changing currents and temperatures and what does that look like.

Zoë Schiffer: This is still how it runs, right? Satellites and wireless networks are there, they're relevant, but the actual physical cables, this is still the backbone of the internet.

Brian Barrett: And they're still being deployed. I think Google and Meta both have their own giant undersea cable projects. They're still launching new ones, faster connections, and they're also very political. I think in 2024 there was a spate of severed ...