What's UP. Thanks for coming to our LIVE SHOW last week, and if you missed it it'll be up SOON on our PATREON. I don't know why i'm typing like this either. This week we discuss the modern resurgence of the "company town" via Amazon's distribution centers, the Nabisco strike, Occupy, elves, Liz Warren, and more.

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Its Not Nips

We talk about the history of AI by drawing out the often very explicit millenarianism that undergirds so much of this technology and its culture over the last 70 years. This strange brew of Eschatological Evangelism and Technological Theology has sustained a cultish faith in AI’s ability to bring about a New Age.

••• Making God | Emily Gorcenski https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/
••• The Taming of Tech Criticism | Evgeny Morozov https://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism 

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302. God is the Machine

We take a deeper look at Nvidia, a company that has — compared to software firms like OpenAI — flown under the radar for both investigative and critical analysis of AI. We discuss their meteoric rise and the monopolistic control they have over the hardware for artificial intelligence through their business for GPUs but also how they have solidified that control through the closed, proprietary CUDA system for AI development. We also get into the journalistic style of great man + myth making + ironic distance that structures how these powerful companies and their “visionary” leaders are covered by the media. Finally, we end with one word: Gooniverse.

••• How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-ai-revolution
••• How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/technology/nvidia-ai-chips-gpu.html
••• Nvidia’s $40bn takeover of UK chip designer Arm collapses https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/08/nvidia-takeover-arm-collapses-softbank
••• SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son piles debt on to Silicon Valley mansion https://www.ft.com/content/1ea9c819-3019-47f6-b768-c92a0d06ecdf 

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311. Selling Pickaxes for the AI Gold Rush

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest programmer Brandon Lim (of Blackbelt Cinema) discuss 1974 Japanese martials arts exploitation movies starring legendary black belt actor Sonny Chiba, with his animalistic turn as the sadistic for-hire Karate fighter in Shigehiro Ozawa's lean and mean yakuza neo-noir meets martial arts action film THE STREET FIGHTER + Kazuhiko Yamaguchi's goofier, comic book mania spin-off SISTER STREET FIGHTER starring Chiba's protégé Etsuko Shihomi.

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Intro // 00:00-11:19
THE STREET FIGHTER // 11:19-1:29:43
SISTER STREET FIGHTER // 1:29:43-2:18:40
Outro // 2:51:00-2:57:26

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315 - THE STREET FIGHTER (1974) + SISTER STREET FIGHTER (1974) ft. Brandon Lim

We discuss the 1982 Israeli siege of Beirut while I have the itis from eating too spicy of a burrito, but first: brain damage awareness.

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Hungover Palestinian History pt 4

We talk to Talia Jane, the reporter who broke the story of Aaron Bushnell's powerful act of self-immolation as protest against the genocide in Gaza earlier this week.

TALIA JANE
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Rest In Power: Aaron Bushnell w/ Talia Jane

Anders introduces his new show about failed Presidential candidates with producer Jules Taylor and a deep dive into Joe Biden's lackluster 2008 campaign. But first, Will Stancil's latest row with Jake Flores and Sleepy Joe's State of the Union.

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Titus Andronicus

Introducing: The Vanquished w/Jules Taylor

Episode 1 of Anders' new podcast. Special thanks to Jules Taylor for producing, Jose Carneiro for the logo and Don Lee for recording the intro and quotes from Walter Mondale.

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The Vanquished - E1

Join us, as we plunge into unexplored depths, into hell itself, to discover why you have to PAY TO DO YOUR FUCKING TAXES IN THIS COUNTRY.

SOURCES:
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24071005/irs-direct-file-free-tax-software-turbotax-review

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DARK PATTERNS: THE ODIOUS WORLD OF TAX SOFTWARE

Kyle Kern aka @laborkyle joins Jake to talk about Alex Garland's big dumb radical centrist film, Civil War.

KYLE KERN
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Civil War w/ Kyle Kern

When a brand new island is discovered in the Pacific, President Cecil Cobra enlists Andrew, Branson, and Charles to fight for control of its resources in a war against every country on earth. Featuring Brendan James, Noah Kulwin, and Zeke Golvin. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

332 - The Silly Guys Go to War

Gothic socialist comedy podcast by three idiot comedians: Jake Flores, Alex Ptak and Anders Lee. @poddamnamerica 
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