This will not change under this political economy.

"FIRE SEASON" How dystopian can you get?  Kick out the homeless and half the country on fire all summer.

If you're below a certain income level, for you the state exists as a purely punitive force

Testicle tanning. Egg slonking. Soy globalists. Cucked hospitals. We explore Tucker Carlson’s recent pseudo-documentary on Fox Nation: The End of Men. In the process we tackle sperm counts, Monsanto, PFAS, and a slew of right wing influencers led by a British man calling himself Raw Egg Nationalist.

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Manclan is a new podcast series by Annie Kelly and Julian Feeld exploring the digital world of masculinity influencers, esoteric manliness rituals, and alpha men. Covering everything from pick up artists to weightlifters, from New Age health perverts to neo-fascists, it’ll also be touching on the pre-internet history of masculinity and men’s movements.

Guest is Paul Cooper: (http://twitter.com/paulmmcooper)
Cover art by Jess Johnson (http://instagram.com/flesh_dozer) 
Theme music by Nick Sena (http://nicksenamusic.com) 
Editing by Corey Clotz. Additional music by Pontus Berghe.

Manclan Episode 3: Tucker Carlson’s End of Men (Sample)

We're back mama's!

Today Jacques breaks his tooth on a rib live, we have our phones make some autofill statements about non-binary people, Hesse getting banned from Valentino, me doing sex work, Kamala being barred out, how stupid the Balenciaga panic is, and we roast that really annoying gay guy on twitter...you know who. 

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SD 178 - Non Binary People Sure Are

"The city has had 125 daily interactions," New York Mayor Eric Adams tells the Daily News. "We’re working to solve the homelessness crisis, with innovative mental health interventions," San Francisco Mayor London Breed tells reporters. The city needs to "clean up homeless encampments," countless city officials tell us. Everywhere we turn, our elected –– largely Democratic –– governors and mayors are talking about quote "solving the homelessness crisis" without specifying what, exactly, these plans entail.

Saying elected officials are going to harass and displace the homeless population until they’re incarcerated or leave our city and wealthy neighborhood sounds unseemly and inhumane. But this –– minus the occasional and insufficient attempts to offer public housing –– is more or less the strategy of most big cities: Send in police to "sweep up" encampments, enforce low-level drug offenses and ticket the unhoused for loitering and camping, But saying this is the plan sounds mean, so, over the past couple of years, as America’s housing crisis has grown more acute and the end of COVID-era tenant protections unceremoniously sunset, a cottage industry of pleasant sounding euphemisms have emerged to sell police-led homeless crackdowns to squeamish liberals.

The right-wing, historically, is fairly upfront with its bootstrap, austerity logic. And they, for the most part, don't run major cities where the homelessness crisis manifests. Liberals and progressives –– short on resources and political incentive to actually address the underlying issues –– need to sell the same played out, discredited carceral attempts at removing Visible Poverty but, unlike Republicans, can't do so in explicit terms. So, a PR regime emerges to paper over these glaring contradictions, leading to heretofore unseen levels of bullshittery.
On this episode, we going to examine four popular euphemisms employed by "blue" city leaders to sell the same old carceral playbook to their wary, self-identifying progressive constituents, how these programs do little to address the central issues of a lack of affordable and free housing, and how city leaders –– with wildly insufficient federal support for housing, a foaming anti-homeless media and suffering from institutional political cowardice –– are left with little more than meaningless "emergency declarations," Tough Guy, Take Charge press conferences, and nice-sounding rehashes of the same failed, cruel policies of austerity and precarity.

Our guest is The Wren Collective's Henna Khan.

Episode 173: How to Sell Police Crackdowns on Homeless People to Liberals

A violent hatred of women. Multi-level marketing. Elaborate ban evasion. These are the tip of the iceberg for perhaps the most visible masculinity influencer of our age: Andrew Tate. We explore the path of “Cobratate” AKA “Top G” and the recent allegations of — according to Romanian authorities — “human trafficking, rape and organized crime”.

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Cover art by Jess Johnson (http://instagram.com/flesh_dozer) 
Theme & music by Nick Sena (http://nicksenamusic.com) & Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Clotz.

Manclan Episode 6: Andrew Tate & Hustler’s University (Sample)

A miracle at Wimpfen further sets back the Protestant cause, forcing them to look abroad for new members of their coalition.

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Hell on Earth

Hell on Earth - Episode 5 Teaser

Our good friend Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) is back to tell us about the NEOM city-state in the Saudi Arabian desert, as well as all the soulless architects and designers working on it. 

You can read Kate's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/line-in-the-sand-wagner

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Episode 277: NEOM Moon (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)

This week we talk about the ecological phenomenon known as "whiskey fungus," followed by a hard pivot into the world of higher ed

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Episode 280: Valedictorian Of The Soft Curriculum

We’re joined by author Lauren Oyler to discuss her new Harper’s article about her experience going on a cruise centered around Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP brand. We discuss performative crying, serial killer branded work-outs, vagina-themed everything, and selling self-actualization. Then, we catch up on an eventful few days in the media, with Musk’s Twitter checkpocalypse, and Tucker & Don Lemon getting the axe at Fox & CNN respectively.

Chapo Trap House

726 - Cruising feat. Lauren Oyler (4/24/23)

"Is artificial intelligence advancing too quickly?" 60 Minutes warns. "BuzzFeed CEO says AI may revolutionize media, fears possible 'dystopian' path," CBS News tells us. "TV and film writers are fighting to save their jobs from AI. They won't be the last," CNN reports.

Over and over, especially in recent months, we hear this line: AI is advancing so fast, growing so sophisticated, and becoming so transformative as to completely reshape the entire economy to say nothing of our shaky media landscape. In some cases, those in the press deem this a good thing; in others, a bad thing but in terms that get the problem all wrong. But virtually all media buy the basic line that something big and transformative isn’t just coming, but is in fact already here.

Obviously, we can't predict the future, but we can comment on the present. Yes, AI platforms can generate low-level marketing copy, pro forma emails, and shitty corporate art. But progress in these capacities does not, as such, portend a radical advancement into actual human intelligence and creativity.

Meanwhile, there’s little to no evidence to support the claim that AI, namely large language models like ChatGPT, actually can perform – or even intervene to save time performing – any type of high-level writing craft, journalism, fiction, screenwriting, and a host of “creative” production.

So why do we keep hearing otherwise? What purpose does this type of religious-like providential thinking serve? And who stands to benefit from the vague sense of a future of AI-written essays, articles, and scripts, no matter how terrible they may be?

In this episode, we explore media's current Inevitability Narrative, namely its credulous warning that ChatGPT is about to do the work of media and entertainment professionals, examining the ways in which this narrative, despite the evidence to the contrary, serves as a constant, implicit threat to workers and a convenient pretext for labor abuses like wage reduction, layoffs, and union-busting. We also review how this media hype works to obscure the very real, banal harms of AI, such as racism, surveillance, over policing and lack of accountability for the powerful.

Our guest is Rutgers professor Dr. Lauren M.E. Goodlad.

Episode 183: AI Hype and the Disciplining of "Creative," Academic, and Journalistic Labor

Did U.S. forces fight and kill a redheaded giant in the Afghan province of Kandahar? Is it possible to connect the dots about the United States’ role in Afghanistan — and the Middle East — without resorting to stories about giants? We answer these questions with Brendan James and Noah Kulwin of the Blowback podcast.

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Brendan James: https://twitter.com/deep_beige

Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Episode 250: The Giant of Kandahar feat Noah Kulwin & Brendan James (Blowback Podcast)

We're joined again by political satirist Tom Walker to discuss: A chemical spill on a bullet train, a wine catastrophe at a dinner party, and one man's penis. Plus: A little bit of Headline News.
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Find Tom at https://www.tomwalkerisgood.com/

EPISODE 317: The Opposite Of Phimosis (with Tom Walker)

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Episode 173: How to Sell Police Crackdowns on Homeless People to Liberals

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