Bill Gates - the sixes on his head look fuckin great!

Money hides stupidity if you know how to do it right, and Gates' people keep the news away.

Bill Gates is a Harvard drop-out - he should have nothing to do with education.

I do have to say that I've heard of PS teacher "rubber rooms" before, and I think it's bad that teachers can spend close to a decade (in some cases) sitting around doing nothing.

More bashing of free enterprise without the least appreciation for the wealth it has created for mankind --- especially for the very poorest of the world.  Grossly unequal distribution of wealth, though one of the shortcomings of free enterprise --is NOT a reason to discard the system, especially considering the prosperity it has brought to people all over the world.  Stick to what you guys know (which is not economic theory).

"Why are there Billionaires?" Amber A'lee Frost

pretty much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZ3rwP5Czw

For the latest installment of our Year Zero series, we finally tackle the big one: 9/11. Specifically, the 9/11 that is presented to us by author Thomas Pynchon in his 2013 book, Bleeding Edge. 

To help us do it, we've enlisted the help of Jimmy Falun Gong (@JimmyFalunGong on Twitter) of the podcast Programmed to Chill (@p2chillPodcast), and Dimitri (@drposhlost) of the Subliminal Jihad podcast (@subliminaljihad).

Because it's Pynchon, we cover a wide range of topics: Silicon Alley and the 2000 dotcom crash; the PROMIS software; Stuart Brand and the Whole Earth Network; Josh Harris and We Live In Public; the Montauk Project; MKUltra; TWA Flight 800; the Digital Entertainment Network; and much much more.

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[Year Zero 5] Uncanny Alley: 9/11 at the Bleeding Edge (feat. Jimmy Falun Gong & Dimitri)

Lucy, Andrew, Theo, and Ben bring you: A scam that promises to put a silverback gorilla directly into the back of your Mazda 6, a Cincinnati Chilli Parent Trap situation, and the trials and tribulations of a Finnish penis.
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EPISODE 238: Thick With Weasels

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We dig into the details of FTX’s collapse. FTX is not an isolated event. FTX is not a bad apple.  FTX is not uniquely mismanaged. FTX is not a cautionary tale. FTX is not a stunning surprise. FTX is a systemic problem, a vehicle for structural levels of fraud, another in a long line of liquidity crunches for crypto, a litmus test for credible due diligence, a fork in the road for the crypto economy, institutional investors, and government regulators.

••• It Was All a Game for Sam Bankman-Fried https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/it-was-all-a-game-for-sam-bankman-fried.html
••• FTX’s Balance Sheet Was Bad https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-14/ftx-s-balance-sheet-was-bad 
••• FTX held less than $1bn in liquid assets against $9bn in liabilities https://www.ft.com/content/f05fe9f8-ca0a-48d5-8ef2-7a4d813af558
••• Sam Bankman-Fried Was Supposed to Be Different. He Wasn't. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7epm/sam-bankman-fried-was-supposed-to-be-different-he-wasnt 
••• Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Crypto Empire Is Officially Bankrupt https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkmvw/sam-bankman-frieds-ftx-crypto-empire-is-officially-bankrupt 

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209. NOFTX

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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

With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) recently happening, we dig into the political economy of green policy, green investing, green finance, green technology, green capitalism. What is driving the transition necessary to sustain the billions of lives – and trillions in profits – on Earth? Who are the vanguards of sustainability lighting our way into the future? 

Stuff we reference:
••• The Wall Street Consensus at COP27 | Daniela Gabor https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-wall-street-consensus-at-cop27/
••• Money and the Climate Crisis https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/money-and-the-climate-crisis/ 
••• The ESG Mirage https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-what-is-esg-investing-msci-ratings-focus-on-corporate-bottom-line/ 
••• Neoliberalizing Space | Jamie Peck, Adam Tickell http://overgaardtonnesen.dk/TEKSTERNE/03-Peck-Tickell-Neoliberalizing-Space.pdf 
••• Fossilised Capital: Price and Profit in the Energy Transition | Brett Christophers https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 

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216. How Green Finance is Making an Investable Future

As we enter 2023, it's time for our annual look back on the movies that defined our podcast over the past 12 months. In our third Year-in-Review Extravaganza, we're handing out awards for Best Movie, Worst Movie, Best End-of-History Movie, Thing We Liked Growing Up That Holds Up Relatively Well, Best Tubi Movie, and more. Will Alexandra Pelosi win an award? Will Dinesh D'Souza go home empty-handed? What about Trump vs. the Illuminati? Tune in to find out!

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#391 - The Third Annual Michael & Us Year-in-Review Extravaganza

We offer some thoughts on where the tech sector is heading right now, how the markets are performing amidst a down turn, and what big trends for tech and capital are looking strong in the new year.

Stuff we reference
••• A new era: the end of cheap money https://www.ft.com/content/6d312b6c-9f74-4816-ad7e-7e797c5e0f6b
••• Silicon Valley start-ups race for debt deals in funding crunch https://www.ft.com/content/d12a4baa-53c6-4256-b125-d25622f9555f 
••• Silicon Valley staff rush to offload start-up shares as valuations plummet https://www.ft.com/content/7178364f-1f0d-46e4-9692-b648ea258d06 
••• Private Markets Don’t Like to Go Down https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-04/private-markets-don-t-like-to-go-down#footnote-1 
••• Forecast: Startup M&A Could Pick Up In 2023 As Fundraising Tightens Further https://news.crunchbase.com/ma/startup-forecast-2023-fundraising-venture-valuations/ 
••• A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/technology/generative-ai-chatgpt-investments.html

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223. Money for Nothing? In this Economy?

Bea and Abby speak with Kim Garrett about the train derailment in East Palestine as part of the ongoing disaster of industrial capitalism, the environmental impacts of not just industrial accidents but everyday industry, and how our healthcare system fails to address the needs of those put in harm's way.

Kim Garrett is an environmental health researcher working at the intersection of environmental toxicology, public health, and environmental justice.

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Today we answer a handful of listener questions. Most of your boyfriends are gay sorry to tell you that now but if he listens to this show its kind of over for you. Also, I reveal Jacques subconscious to him and he has a shocking physical reaction. 

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SD 210 - Listener Questions

Russia, as we all know, has sinister “oligarchs” whereas in the United States, we are told, we have “philanthropists,” “job creators,” and “titans of industry” who earn their wealth through hard work, moxie, and guile. Aside from a few cartoonishly evil billionaires – like the Walton family, Peter Thiel, and the Koch brothers – the average American has a warm and fuzzy feeling about the super wealthy. 

The most notable of these Benevolent Billionaires is Bill Gates, whose foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, operates the largest overseas “nonprofit” regime in the world, worth over 40 billion dollars–– twice that of the next biggest foundation. The Gates Foundation receives almost uniformly softball coverage from the media, many of whom receive funding from Gates through various investment and donor arrangements, both from his personal coffers and the foundation that bears his name.

In this two-part episode we ask how much this network of patronage effects Western media’s overwhelmingly positive and uncritical coverage of Gates. How can one can be critical of this type of massive outsized influence without devolving into paranoia? What is the nature of the capitalist ideology that informs Gates’ so-called philanthropy? And how do his programs often harm those they allegedly aim to help?

We are joined this week by Dr. Linsey J. McGoey, associate professor of sociology at the University of Essex and author of the book, “No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy.”

Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire - Bill Gates and Western Media

We take a detailed look at the career of Elizabeth Warren, granddaughter of a white man who murdered an unarmed Native American in 1906

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