In this episode: scamming hotels; when touring gets tough; thin profit margins; the brutal real estate market; signing to a label.

Interviews with: Ben Gibbard, Joel Hamilton, and Laura Dean.

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Keep the Dream Alive Part 2: Damage Control

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Today Jacques sits our white asses down and is accidentally racist while telling us about how Avatar 2 is racist, we do a present review, talk about these two Christian influencers who couldn't stop jacking off to trans porn, Elon Musk trying to kill Steve Aoki. 

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SD 184 - Critical Jacques Theory

This week, Francis speaks with friend of the show and defense journalist Kelsey Atherton (@athertonkd) about the recent phenomenon of balloon interceptions. What’s the deal with these balloons–what is the technology involved, how come we’re just hearing about it now, and should we be concerned about a balloon-centric conflict in the future?

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Balloon Talk feat. Kelsey Atherton

Archeologists Weevil Sinclair (@intellegint), Missouri Payne (@necrobranson), and Prof. Edgar Llewellyn Porch (@charlesraustin) discuss their latest archeological dig in Mauritius. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

275 - Unearthing the Temple of the Dodo Bird

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: papal elections, Mormonism and frontier, anti-Masonic party, collective action, nuclear weapons

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244 - Always Rootin' Never Tootin' 03.31.23

We discuss Jake's "earlier material."

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

248 - Wifi-Connected Vat-Grown Human Husks 05.05.23

"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

UNLOCKED SUBSCRIBER EPISODE 81
We are joined by the legal galaxy brains from the ALAB podcast to disrobe the criminals on the Supreme Court, shed light on the dark ecosystem of legislation mills and demystify the perverted institutions of Big Law

UNLOCKED! Episode 81: SCROTUS

Following today's mob violence at the U.S. capitol building, we break down how, once again, American media would rather ignore homegrown currents of white supremacist vigilantism and their buddy buddy relationship with law enforcement and focus instead on how an anomalous President Trump makes us like those horrible poor people of the Global South.

US Media Incapable of Criticizing MAGA Mobs Without Evoking Racist Cliches About "Third World"

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