The Empire of Lies keeps bringing the best media 🐂 shit

good episode but skipping over AI “art” seems like a big omission, especially when its not a hypothetical that artists are losing their jobs to AI work right now.

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In this public News Brief, we detail how uncritical acceptance by centrist––and even liberal––media that the US is seeing an unprecedented "labor shortage" is helping justify repealing child labor protections in roughly a dozen states.

Media's Credulous "Labor Shortage" Reporting Helps Lay Groundwork For Repealing Child Labor Laws

This week it's a grab bag of allergy-fueled bits and news, followed by an op-ed from a friend at the NYTimes about the formula for making crime go up

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Episode 287: Big Time Criminality

"I Was A Teenage Conspiracy Theorist," The Atlantic magazine playfully titled a 2020 essay. "Choose your reality: Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise," reported The Associated Press in 2022. "Do You Know Someone Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories? We Want to Hear About It," wrote The New York Times last year.

Fears of "conspiracy theories" are a common trope in the U.S. media, a worry that's grown more acute with the rise of QAnon, anti-vaxx sentiment, anti-semitism and a host of other dangerous theories that unduly rot brains throughout the country. To a great extent, this understandable: Many ideas that meet the definition of "conspiracy theories" are, indeed, baseless and dangerous and can direct people's political energy and resources into wasteful, racist, and downright stupid rabbit holes.

But that fact shouldn't delegitimize or foreclose all skepticism of those in power, but too often the term "conspiracy theory" is used to do just that. Repeatedly, media lump together so-called conspiracy theories, regardless of their accuracy, rationale, and ideology: at once, UFO chasers, QAnon, and the Black Panther Party being subject to FBI disruption are somehow placed in the same category of paranoid kooks. At the same time, unproven, and often debunked ideas advanced by media that also meet the definition of "conspiracy theories" — such as Saddam Hussein being behind 9/11 or so-called Havana syndrome — are treated as unassailable, meriting ongoing investigation, limitless resources, and of course, utmost solemnity.

On this episode, we detail the double standards applied to conspiracy theories inside and outside of the realm of U.S. corporate media. We’ll examine the development of the concept of conspiracy theories and the media's selective invocations of the term to discredit real grievances directed at American power and the U.S. government, and moreover, how power-friendly conspiracies — namely those focused on Enemy States like the Havana Syndrome narrative — are permitted to fester and grow without pushback because their red yarn dot connecting implicates the right lists of Acceptable Bad Guys.

Our guest is Jacobin writer Branko Marcetic.

Episode 180: Havana Syndrome and the Power of Mainstream, Acceptable Conspiracy Theories

BIKE episode! RONY ISLAM from Chicago, Bike Grid Now! joins us to talk about BIKING or CYCLING or WHATEVER you call it. Also DANNY FELTS returns to the show to also talk about BIKES. BIKES.

RONY ISLAM
@BikeGridNow on everything
BikeGridNow.org

DANNY FELTS
@dannyfelts for SEWING CONTENT on IG

PAID PROTEST NYC
https://dice.fm/event/5rwqw-paid-protest-comedy-show-and-dsa-fundraiser-1st-jun-silo-community-new-york-city-tickets

JAKE ATX SHOWS
https://www.thevelveetaroom.com/shows/jake-flores/bc1ff755-fa23-45b3-a826-16b827967a2b

MERCH
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PATREON+DISCORD
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Premium Rush w/ Rony Islam & Danny Felts

On this Live Show Beg-a-Thon, recorded on May 17, we discuss the pop culture phenomenon and appeal of pseudoarchaeology in its many forms, from fraudulent alternative history books like Erich von Däniken's 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, to television series like "Ancient Aliens" and "Ancient Apocalypse."

Alongside guest Dr. David S. Anderson, we discuss how phony "what if?" theories often go beyond the goofy, guilty pleasure premises of extraterrestrial visitors and lost civilizations to promote Eurocentric, racist pap and a mindless distrust of "the scientific establishment" in the stupidest and least productive way possible.

Live Show Beg-A-Thon: The Very Real Social Brain Rot of Ancient Aliens and Ancient Apocalypse

"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

We are joined by Naomi Karavani and Michele Greenstein of Cargo Cult, the hot new podcast about BIG TECH. We discuss CIA gadgets, the trillion dollar coin, the debt ceiling, and Hannah Gadsby and we all get canceled for being Pablo-matic. 

CARGO CULT
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cargo-cult/id1687043930
@naomikaravani
@peopleconspire

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Pod-o-Matic w/ Cargo Cult

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Jared Fogle goes to college — and against all decency and good taste, becomes the Führer of Fast Food Nation. Plus: porno rentals, stalking rumors, a brief history of Subway, Black Jareds, health halos, and more.

Episode 296: The Fogle Files Part 2 (preview)

We sit down with author Jim DiEugenio to chat about his work on the Oliver Stone films JFK Revisited and JFK: Destiny Betrayed, chasing down assassination leads for thirty years, what Hollywood and the media get wrong, and much more. 

Check out Jim’s work at: www.kennedysandking.com
Listen to our previous JFK coverage: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod?filters[search_query]=jfk

Episode 298: James DiEugenio

In this Live Interview with Nell McShane Wulfhart, we discuss the hidden labor and humiliation of the Airline Industry's "Swingin' 60's" image and how the "pretty faces" behind the tawdry ads fought back.

News Brief: "Go Fly Yourself": Marketing 'Sex' and the Great Stewardess Rebellion of the 1970s

We look at Trump’s response to his federal indictment, and how he still manages to outswag Ron Dion DeSantis.

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Chapo Trap House

741 Teaser - They Indicted Me!

Recorded DJ set from 1984 with Gravers Lane. Recorded at Warehouse on Watts 04/24/2024

Lady Prowl live @ 1984 - 24Apr2024

Tema producido, mezclado y masterizado entre el 20 y el 25 de marzo de 2020, durante la cuarentena por el COVID19. Sevilla y Málaga. 

https://manulandenergyman.bandcamp.com/track/missing-u

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@im_a_ghooost
artwork: Jaime Sanchez @jasamaphoto

Manul & Energy Man ft Broken Lip - Missing U

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Goin out 2-U Freak$$

POSSECAST playlist:
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Following up his wicked release on @bemorechildish

POSSECAST 008: LESHUTLER

Wrapping up a huge day - Violet at Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain 2019.

Violet | Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain 2019

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“No-one has kept the flame alive for longer than DJ Q”​ - ​Resident Advisor

We're proud to announce the return of DJ Q to Local Action — two pitch-perfect UK Garage cuts from one of the most important and influential UK producers of the past 15 years, and the first in of a series of new DJ Q releases for the year ahead. Out Oct 28.

Tracklist:
01. All That I Could
02. It's You

DJ Q - All That I Could

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.

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

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