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EPISODE 294: An Unbelievable Amount Of Deadly Hammers [FIXED]

Yeah I'm thinking we're back. Back with a big one. Back with Bono. He wrote a memoir called Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story and we're podcasting all about it. Well, not all about it, but about half of it, because Bono's book is so meaty that it requires a two-part podcast. We dig into Bono's early life in bubblin' Dublin, the crucial single week where he asked out his wife and joined U2, his political awakening and initial transition into "foreign dignitary," and the time he made a Parmesan cheese sandwich at Paul McGuinness's house. It's a wild ride, and an Irish one. Missed you guys :)

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Songs in the episode:
"With Or Without You (8-Bit U2 Cover)" - 8-Bit Misfits
"Teenage Kicks" - The Undertones
"I Will Follow" - U2
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" - U2
"Pride (In The Name of Love)" - U2
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid
"Where The Streets Have No Name" - U2
"Where The Streets Have No Name (Live)" - The Killers
"Big Boy" - Viagra Boys and Jason Williamson
"The Fly" - U2

And Introducing

#116 BONO! pt. 1

We get into Evgeny Morozov’s latest essay on the geopolitical interests and military neoliberalism that’s really driving the AI arms race. Morozov traces today’s developments back to the Cold War – not just as a metaphor, but by showing how many of the same people and institutions are still in positions of power. To understand the America vs China framing of technological competition, which is now so dominant and two-dimensional in the discourse about AI, we must see how it is stoked by people like Eric Schmidt and Gilman Louie and their  networks of influence, capital, and ideology.

Article we discuss:
••• AI: the key battleground for Cold War 2.0? | Evgeny Morozov https://mondediplo.com/2023/05/02china 

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253. The Cold War Origins and Future of Today’s AI

BPRA, WGA, NJP (No Jake Podcast), it's all here

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Big Sky Country w/ Neda Davarpanah

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: The Jetsons, More Gulf War trading cards

Grill Stream

248 - Wifi-Connected Vat-Grown Human Husks 05.05.23

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: EUIV stream wrap up, Supreme Court, Debt Ceiling, Hollywood strikes

250 - Crunchwrap Supreme Court 05.18.23

Cory Doctorow — returning champion, friend of the show, and author of the new novel Red Team Blues — joins us to chat about fiction (science), finance (crypto), forensics (accounting), and much more. You never knew forensic accounting could be so radical and thrilling, but Red Team Blues is an immanent critique of techno-financial capitalism in the guise of a page ripping novel. We cover a lot of ground, all of it fascinating, as we always do when Cory comes on TMK.

••• Buy Red Team Blues: https://craphound.com/shop/
••• Follow Cory: https://twitter.com/doctorow 
••• Cory’s blog: https://pluralistic.net/ 

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257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)

Bono part deux — for a relaxing time, make it governance time. We hit the second half or so of Bono's book Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story and get into his advocacy, his lobbying, his product-launch mindset, his south of France hedonism, his relationship with God and his overall reflective vibes. Unos dos tres catorce bitches!

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Music used in this episode:
"Vertigo (8 Bit Raxlen Slice Chiptune Remix)" 
"Staring At The Sun" - U2
"Discothèque" - U2
"Miami" - U2
"If You're Gonna Break My Heart" - Inhaler
"Elevation" - U2
"Party Time" - Northern Boys
"Vertigo" - U2
"Gossip" - Måneskin
"The Miracle of Joey Ramone" - U2
"Blind Elevation" - Molly Mashup O'Brien

#117 BONO! pt. 2

Christopher Bell joins us to talk about his new film "Miss Me Yet," a look back on the presidency of George W. Bush, playing later this month at the Spectacle Theater in NYC. We also talk about how it's orange outside.

CHRISTOPHER JASON BELL
https://www.spectacletheater.com/miss-me-yet/
https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell

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Miss Me Yet w/ Christopher Bell

Charles and Alex catch up on OK Go's cereal lawsuit, Rivers Cuomo's visit to the Rock Hall of Fame, and guys who still talk about Bored Apes every day. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit