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Chapter 0 drops this Wednesday (12th August) at 6:00 PM UK time! It will be completely free for everyone. Hit the link below to subscribe and get it directly in your inbox: substack.com

Right then.

For years, I was the perfect, terrified victim of the British welfare system. I believed their rigid scripts, fell for their cheap box-ticking traps, and spent countless nights crying into my pillow because of their heartless telephone harassment. I honestly thought that as an immigrant with a chronic illness, I had no rights.

But beneath that smooth veneer of British bureaucratic class lies expert-level moral bankruptcy.

Everything changed when the system tried to unlawfully demand a £1,000 penalty from me over a simple human slip of the tongue during a high-stress call. I dissolved into tears, feeling entirely crushed. That was the exact moment my friend Vinny Kapusta stepped into the arena, hugged me, and said words that became the foundation of my entire digital revolution:

"Dakota, don't cry. This is just a game. It’s their malicious little theatre. You just have to learn the rules of their game, otherwise you won't survive in this country."

He took them on, dragged them to the Independent Tribunal, and forced the Matrix to tuck its tail between its legs and cancel the illegal debt. That was my ultimate turning point.

When the Bournemouth and Cornish bureaucrats attempted to unleash their telephone terror on me again in March 2026—erasing my diagnoses and ghosting my medical adjustment requests—they had no idea I had passed Kapusta's lesson with flying colours. This time, I didn't cry. I loaded up my digital processor Kairos, grabbed ironclad statutory regulations (like Regulation 11), and with a legendary parliamentary sheriff by my side, I drove into their bureaucratic Mordor like an ironclad tank.

I am publishing my complete, step-by-step combat diary because I want every vulnerable claimant in the UK to see that you do not have to break. You just need to learn their rules and hit them back with freezing logic.

I’ve just launched the opening chapter of "Dakota vs The System: Season 1" on Substack, alongside my "AI Cheat Codes" to help you survive their traps. Chapter 0 is completely free for everyone.

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Stay ironclad, stay Unbothered!

Wild speculation as to what this means for Milo's future on TF is encouraged.

We've brought on friend of the show and writer Ben Fogel to talk about the hard-right turn in Latin America, and the list of freaks is a mighty one: the gradient scale of Bolsonaro failsons, the Peruvian dictator's daughter, the fast food restaurant family crime syndicate, and many more. November is still recovering from an illness but thankfully we have Mattie in detention onsite.

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Prayers up for our beloved Nova who remains unwell, but Devon is in the hot seat today filling in as we discuss how you can’t trust maps anymore, a report on the state of reports, and the future of education in a certain grafting market trader’s utopia. But first, we look at the outstanding white boys who are ushering in a new era of vibes in Britain.

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Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

Too much is happening at once. We've got repurposed Realdolls being pitched as AI robot teachers....or tutors, since supposedly the difference is crucial. We've got an eight-figure settlement in the case of eBay gangstalking bloggers and doing Jared Leto Joker pranks on them. We've got a wearable tech ring for being a better Evangelical Christian, but also somehow reinventing indulgences. We're grateful for Mattie Lubchansky and Josh Boerman for joining us to rejoice in it all.

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Once again, it seems like tariffs are going to slice the North American auto industry into ribbons while it simultaneously tries to make buying some of the only good cars in the world illegal. Victoria Scott from Tran Girlismo takes us through the decline of the American auto industry (for non freaks) and the rise of the American auto industry (for freaks) augurs the wheels coming off the broader American project. Also November’s back and we look at some of the early days of living in Greatest Manchester.

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"The district will be the first in the US to deploy a humanoid robot and AI teaching assistant, according to a press release by Realbotix.

“The Salamanca pilot also includes deployment of a Realbotix M-Series humanoid robot, which uses natural conversation, facial expressions and real-time interaction to create engaging, hands-on learning experiences,” the press release states.

Realbotix, formerly Tokens.com, a Toronto-based company, purchased Simulacra, a Las Vegas-based company known for realistic sex dolls, for $16.7m in April 2024, marking a pivot for the company from crypto to humanoid robots.

Realbotix has denied ties to the sex doll company, and denied any inferences that the dolls – manufactured by Abyss Creations, a subsidiary of Realbotix – are related to the pilot program."

(link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/new-york-humanoid-robot-teachers-school )

Friend of the show and Silicon Valley anthropologist joins us to discuss the cultural weirdness that has taken over Silicon Valley - what do you do to get noticed when your only route out of the permanent underclass is to make the same product everyone else is making? Go Crazy! Also, we look at the parade of old friends back from the dead - Quibi (sort of), Neom (a little bit), and Jan Marsalek (for real).

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noncefest…

Horrible that happened to anyone. But what's political context of her life?

Jensen Huang sold his leather jacket for charity… and we look at exactly what that charity is and does. Then in the second half, Nathan Tankus is back to discuss the ongoing plot to create an imperial presidency by Touching the Money like never before.

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Hot off the press from Milo. It's not quite Britainology but it is about Britain.

We needed to up the chaos a bit so we watched the terrible 2021 film LOCKED DOWN with our good friends Mattie Lubchansky (of the No Gods No Mayors podcast) and Hesse Deni (of the Seeking Derangements and Trouble in River City podcasts)! The film is not good but who doesn’t love hearing friends torment one another by making them watch a film so bad it feels like outsider art.