"Join Wall Street. Save the world," The Washington Post urged in 2013. "How to Know Your Donations Are Doing the Most Good," The New York Times proclaimed in 2015. "I give 10 percent of my income to charity. You should, too," Vox advised last November.

Each of these headlines tops a piece that extols the virtues of Effective Altruism, a philanthropic philosophy, for lack of a better term, ostensibly dedicated to the pursuit of the best ways to address large-scale, global ills like pandemics and factory farming, informed by “evidence and reason.” The school of thought, popularized by figures like the academic and author Peter Singer and disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has been widely embraced – or at least uncritically boosted – in mainline media for years.

Superficially, this makes sense. Effective Altruism seems unimpeachably virtuous: It’s great if people want to solve the world’s problems, and so much the better if they’ve done their research. But beneath this surface lies a deeply reactionary movement, predicated on an age-old desire to characterize the wealthy as the solution to, rather than the cause of, the very problems they purport to want to solve.

On this episode, we parse the rise, motives, and influence of Effective Altruism. We look at how the doctrine gamifies wealth distribution, falsely portrays the rich as uniquely qualified to make decisions about public welfare, often provides cover for eugenics and racism, and masquerades as a groundbreaking ethos of data-driven compassion while it merely regurgitates a 100-year-old rich person ideology of supposedly benevolent control over the masses.

Our guest is Dr. Linsey McGoey.

Ep 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media's Softball Treatment of 'Effective Altruism'

Welcome back yall, today we talk about Joe Biden's sex life, global circumcision rates, a van full of men with guns being outside your house, getting your head squished between a brick wall and your 1000lbs of luggage, and we take a quiz which results in some really scary results 

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SD 293 - Never Stop Smoking Weed

Silver Moon X mix
February 2024

Airing Feb. 27, 2024.

12 PM in Brussels on Radio Panik
https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-heure-de-pointe/silver-moon-x-mix/

8 PM in Milan, Italy, Feb. 27 on Radio Raheem
https://www.radioraheem.it/schedule

This mix draws from a live recording of the Silver Moon X album launch that took place at the Mercerie performance space in Brussels, Belgium in October 2023. For this set I mixed in excerpts from the live set with Julia E. Dyck and also an opening ambient set by Jean Grünewald (Ottoman Grüw). For the live set in Brussels, which you hear, Julia and I played a Moog synthesizer, bells, while also reading texts from our first album, I also incorporated synth created by my brother Jordan Christoff. For this radio mix I included tracks created by friends around the world and shared over recent months, including many artists that I have collaborated with for broadcasts on Radio AlHara in Palestine, or around community arts initiatives in Montreal. Also I included a couple of tracks that were just excellent. Thank you for listening. – Stefan Christoff.

Track listing 
(Artist name / track name)

01. Secret Pyramid - Bloom Nightly
02. SILVER MOON X - Live at Mercerie in Brussels
03. Lori Goldston & Stefan Christoff - Birds in Trio
04. Midland - You Never Take Me Dancing 
05. Morgan Buckley - Call Incoming
06. Grim Beverage - A Question as to Where
07. Grim Beverage - Joffe
08. Jean Grünewald - Live at Mercerie in Brussels
09. the new objective - B1, detritus, live at ateliers le château (excerpt)

Silver Moon X - mix

In this Live Show Beg-A-Thon recorded Jan 30, we break down the worst Rise-And-Grind social media stars and how they've moved from Silicon Valley-adjacent to subprime motivational content helping middle and working class people get through the daily grind.

With guest Hussein Kesvani.

Beg-A-Thon Live Show 1-30-24: The Grim Popularity of Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers

YouTuber Rando Slice (Andrew), prison guard Nate Tussle (Branson), and Brody Bliscoe The World Ice Cream Champ (Charles) discuss their wonderful journey aboard the Elvis of the Sea cruise ship. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

323 - Risco Caribbean Presents The Elvis of the Sea

On March 6th, 2024, the Pentagon published a sixty-three-page report on the AARO’s findings in regard to whether our own government is in possession of extraterrestrial technology.  The report stretches all the way back to the 1940’s, and provides a comprehensive look into the ever transforming secret programs created to determine whether or not the truth IS, in fact, actually out there.  Two Fox Mulders (Jake & Brad) and one Scully (Travis) pour through the pages of the recently de-classified docs searching for answers.  Is the government in possession of actual flying saucers?  Or are they just spending lots of money on planes that look like them?  

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Watch “Love & Saucers” here: Love & Saucers (loveandsaucers.com)

Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Episode 271: An AARO To The Knee

Naomi and Michele from the Cargo Cult  podcast (@CargoCultPod) stop by to talk Neuralink, Candace Owens and Boeing.

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RIP Jay Agbon. Check out his special here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1o4L264bqk

Rilo Kiley

Boeing Pains w/Cargo Cult

Jen AKA Big Nasty from The Communist Party USA ATX chapter joins us to talk about her trip to "the New York City of Vietnam." That joke will make sense after you get to the part where we talk about Eric Adams getting his shit wrecked on The Breakfast Club this week.

JEN
@keepaustinnasty

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THE VANQUISHED
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Hanoi Jen

This week Black Agenda Report’s poet in residence discusses his work and learn why Bill Clinton, the CIA director and Tony Blair have all recently visited Guyana. But first we discuss the Black vote and election year politics in the pivotal state of Michigan.

Black Agenda Radio April 5, 2024

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

Beg-A-Thon Live Show 1-30-24: The Grim Popularity of Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers

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