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Douglas Rushkoff

@rushkoff.com
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I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human. Subscribe: www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff Support: www.patreon.com/teamhuman

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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 24/06/2026
" Overtly, if you're gonna do something outwardly, again, without drama, without confrontation, without declaration, get away from cruel people." - @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social on a new Team Human. Stream now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr17... Stream ad-free now: www.patreon.com/teamhuman
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 16/06/2026
The Silicon Valley longevity trap is an absurd myth. My new Team Human monologue premieres at 12pm ET on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=olu4...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 28/05/2026
"  AI will be probably going for the most probable end to a sentence. If by limiting language you can limit consciousness, then by extension, by expanding language, you can expand consciousness." - Alan Moore on Team Human. Stream and subscribe now: youtu.be/6LkbtIzlR7k
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 28/05/2026
" The universe that each of us perceives is our universe. We are the God at the center of it, and so we should be. This is anarchism." - Alan Moore on Team Human. My conversation with Alan Moore is now streaming on YouTube: youtu.be/6LkbtIzlR7k
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 27/05/2026
The legendary Alan Moore joins me on Team Human. Tonight, Tuesday, May 27, at 7 PM ET on YouTube. Subscribe and click "Notify Me" to join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lkb...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 24/05/2026
I'm fascinated by sports conspiracy theories. Like here, Google has already published that the Spurs will beat Oklahoma tonight. (see Game 5 preview at bottom of image) #nba
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 13/05/2026
Gratitude is an act of rebellion. Charlotte Binns joins me on this week's Team Human. Now streaming wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvc9...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 28/04/2026
The legendary David J. Haskins of Bauhaus joins me for a special Team Human YouTube Premiere on Tuesday, April 28 at 9:00 PM ET. Don't miss it. Click "notify me" and subscribe on YouTube now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1EK... Then, join me for a Q&A on Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/teamhuman
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 24/04/2026
Alan Moore on Team Human. Coming this May. Subscribe on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts to be the first to see it. Premiere information coming soon. www.youtube.com/@douglasrush...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 21/04/2026
"If there wasn't such immense peril for all of us bound up in all this [AI] stuff, it would just be so beautiful and mythological and poetic." - Philip Rosedale. Philip Rosedale on Team Human. Streaming on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts on Wednesday, April 22.
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 09/04/2026
Can Humans First, a "nonpartisan social movement that puts the future of AI in hands of everyday people," be trusted when it brings together everyone from Steve Bannon to Susan Rice? @kattenbarge.bsky.social joins me on this week's Team Human to discuss. Stream now: youtu.be/x8JYQ2d4ofs
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 09/04/2026
Is the Humans First AI "movement" an authentic grassroots coalition or a political Trojan Horse? @kattenbarge.bsky.social joins Team Human to discuss the bipartisan coalition bringing together Steve Bannon and Susan Rice. Stream now: youtu.be/x8JYQ2d4ofs
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 08/04/2026
How do big tech companies stand to benefit from AI safety legislation? My conversation with @kattenbarge.bsky.social premieres live on YouTube at 12 PM ET. Join the Premiere now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8JY...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 02/04/2026
By 2016, Larry Ellison said that Oracle had data on 5 billion consumers. What's he doing now that he has access to Medicare records and military systems at the highest civilian and DOD security clearance level? Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Rd...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 19/03/2026
Is the White House prepping for the end of the world? In my new monologue, I discuss the American Taliban theology driving current U.S. foreign policy. Stream "The Holy War Delusion" from Team Human now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxlF...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 11/03/2026
Grant Morrison on the tech elite: "The more you impoverish people...the more they'll rise up. And the more your nightmare dream vision of zombies climbing the walls of your compound will be ratified..You got all that money, give it away for fuck sake, man." Watch now www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzq...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 10/03/2026
Grant Morrison on the tech elite: "The major mistake they're making is that they want to live forever. " Morrison joins me on Team Human tonight. Join the premiere here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzq...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 10/03/2026
Tonight. Grant Morrison and I in conversation for Team Human's first-ever YouTube Premiere. 7 PM ET. I'll be in the chat the whole time. And for Team Human patrons, a livestream Q&A with me immediately after the premiere at 8:15 PM on our Patreon.. Join us live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzq...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 08/03/2026
Bad things happening in the real world are often really good for the fake world. We're all busy working pointless tasks to create one fake thing to pay for another fake thing. For some sociopathic billionaires to game their escape from reality. Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B06X...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 06/03/2026
 We are not viral media. We are vital organisms. X is not the real world. Those who live by X usually get taken down by the platform as well. Stream and subscribe: youtu.be/B06XKbec75c
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 03/03/2026
“I don’t think there’s a phrase that better characterizes the Internet we have now than, 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted.'" - @shirachess.bsky.social Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 28/02/2026
It's too easy to look at Epstein's world and say, "Those people are a different species." They're not, and that's what we need to reckon with. In one of my most urgent Team Human monologues, I discuss Epstein, Dawkins, and the banality of evil. Stream & subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGvo...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 22/02/2026
I was explaining to my class that magic isn't real. Real magic would be if I pointed my fingers at a fly and it fell. And when I did that... the fly dropped. Team Human with @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social. Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZVO... Support: www.patreon.com/teamhuman
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 21/02/2026
The whole concept of “employment” was invented as a way of preventing us from getting wealthy. Stream and subscribe "The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other" from Team Human www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q62...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 19/02/2026
Tech billionaires don't care if we survive. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social explains the bunker mentality of the Silicon Valley elite. They believe their wealth will insulate them from the crises they’ve helped accelerate. Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEM...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 18/02/2026
How are laws like KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) being used to kill anonymity and harvest biometric data? @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and I discuss on Team Human. Stream and subscribe now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEM...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 26/11/2025
We keep framing AI like a person, but that changes how we trust it, fear it, and hand power over to it. Watch now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=47CI...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 12/11/2025
Corporations invaded the net, took it over and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare. But they are ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they are leaving it behind for something abstract and better. Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 07/09/2025
A tech bro on acid is just a tech bro on acid.
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 06/09/2025
In his Prison Notebooks, written under the repression of Italian Fascist regime, Antonio Gramsci said politics is downstream of culture But while politics may be downstream of culture, culture is downstream of rapport. If you don’t have rapport, then culture ends up being about difference.
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 10/04/2025
How can mystery and safety help us build stronger communities? Radha Agrawal, author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again on a new episode of Team Human. 📺 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Vg...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 31/03/2025
Can America inform itself through journalism? I asked @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social, Founder of The Fucking News, to discuss the question Walter Lippmann and John Dewey debated a century ago on a new episode of Team Human. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8M4...
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Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com · 25/03/2025
"I don't believe that the apocalypse is around the corner. I believe that even if everything is hell, even if everything is shit, that we keep living and we keep finding joy and beauty in it." @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on a new episode of Team Human. Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojJk...
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