The amount of overtly pro-CIA crap on Wikipedia is sickening.

Creating a parallel system to the current FAILING SYSTEM.

Non human created artificial hierarchical direct democracy  horizontally integrated cooperatives.

This autoplayed after Chapo. Complete dogshit. Jake Flores please give up, quit, etc.

This episode we down some energy drink and dive into the legacy of Michael Savage, and the footnote of Rockstar Energy Drink, his son Russell Weiner. Featuring our special guest from Chapo Trap House, Felix Biederman. The lads were having so much fun that the audio get's a little bit crispy here and there, but it just goes to show you how spicy the show and the subject is this time around. Don't forget to check out Sean and Yogi's Twitter/Instagram for more info about their live shows in Seattle and Portland, and feel free to support us on our Patreon.

Episode 249: Russ Weiner, Michael Savage, & Rockstar Energy feat. Felix Biederman

“Supply and demand.” “It’s just Econ 101.” “Most economists agree...” “There’s always trade offs.”

Over and over, media and policymakers spew the same tired recitations meant to convey the seemingly natural, immutable laws of economics. "The economy," we’re told, is thriving when business owners and job creators are making record profits, and failing when investments in social programs have simply grown too high — and that’s the way it is and will, and should, always be.

These terms, phrases and sentiments are part of a lexicon of economic euphemisms, cliches, and other forms of business-school speak designed to blur class lines and convince us that our economic system — entirely a result of policy choices largely designed to further enrich the wealthy at any the expense of the broader welfare — is a function of cold, hard science, with rules and principles no more pliable than those of physics or chemistry.

But why should we be expected to just accept that a news report that “the economy” is on the upswing means the average worker is doing any better, when all evidence is to the contrary? Why should our media’s economic so-called “experts” come from a pool of elite economics departments beholden to corporate donors and right-wing think tanks? And why must “the economy” be defined in terms of whether the Dow is up or down, instead of whether people have food, housing, healthcare, and job security?

On this episode, part one of a two-part series, we examine the first five of our ten most popular clichés, jargon, and rhetorical thingamajigs that economists, economic reporters, and pundits use to sanitize, obscure, and provide a thin gloss of Science-ism to what is little more than power-flattering, cruel, racist, austerity ideology.

Our guest is writer Hadas Thier.

How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part I)

Probably missed bleeping out a few times they mentioned Jacques' Aunt's name. Oh well.

Links:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/fashion/18nutria.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/11/bushwick_designers_make_clothe.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/rayne-frog-festival
https://www.shrimpandpetroleum.org/

https://www.flydenver.com/great_hall/denfiles

intro/// Swamp Dogg - The Mind Does the Dancing while the Body Pulls the Strings (1974)
outro/// Alfonso Lovo - Sinfonia del Espacio en Do Menor (1976)

SD 110 - Trans Miss Frog Louisiana

Look I know we've been talking about Spotify a lot but somehow we got legendary musician, recording engineer, and music industry iconoclast Steve Albini to come on and talk about it so everyone sit down and shut up and listen because class is in SESSION. Also there's an audio problem at one point in the episode but we fix it and I couldn't take it out because it would have messed up an important part of the conversation. Also if you're the band that practices next door to me congratulations you're now on a track with Steve Albini kind of.

STEVE ALBINI
(he's anti-plug but check out this thing he wrote in 1993 which we reference on the podcast)
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

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The Problem With Spotify w/ Steve Albini

And introducing, a guy who nobody knows at all, someone who has released music that literally not a soul cares about...it's Bob Dylan! Just kidding, we are aware he's very popular. And he had a very popular...memoir? autobiography? autofiction? book to prove it. On this episode, we discuss Bob's 2004 "tome" Chronicles, Vol 1 with two guys who certainly know their Empire Burlesque from their Blood On The Tracks — Evan and Ian from the Jokermen Podcast! We get into many but definitely not all things Bob, from his weapons-hoarding NYC roommate, to his obsession with the Civil War, to his completely obscure "numbers" system that apparently has influenced his live shows for the past like 40 years, and the Jokermen school us in some elite and deep-cut Bob Dylan anecdotes along the way. Listen now and you too might have a time that might have a-changed, at some point.

Buy Bob's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Chronicles/Bob-Dylan/9780743244589
Jokermen Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jokermen-a-podcast-about-bob-dylan/id1519299517
The Jokermen Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jokermen

Songs in this ep:
"The Times, They Are A-Changin' (8-Bit)" - ChubbyBunny
"Blonde On Blonde" - Nada Surf
"Jokerman" - Bob Dylan
"Maggie's Farm (Live At Budokan)" - Bob Dylan
"Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" - Bob Dylan
"The Man In Me" - Bob Dylan
"Series Of Dreams" - Bob Dylan

And Introducing

#107 BOB DYLAN! (feat. Jokermen)

We chat with our friend Andrew (@illybocean) about home cooking, cooking for kids, Australian culinary history, restaurant/tipping culture in Australia and answer some listener questions.

Intro track: Los Belkings - Sabata
Outro track: Shinichi Atobe - Heat 1

Episode 1 - A Filing Cabinet For Meat

give me sugar. in water. 

www.patreon.com/generationloss

238 // Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

We check in on our old friend / enemy / mentor, Masayoshi Son, and see how the SoftBank Vision Fund has been faring over the last year. The Masa multiplier effect is his ability to amplify the state of the larger tech sector. When it’s good, it’s really good. But when it’s really bad—in the way tech sector valuations have been dropping this year—oh boy, it’s enough to make you want to [redacted]. Fortunately, nobody has a stronger stomach for loss than Masa.

Some stuff we reference:
••• Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place | The Economist https://www.economist.com/business/2022/05/14/tech-bubbles-are-bursting-all-over-the-place
••• After a bruising year, SoftBank braces for more pain | The Economist https://www.economist.com/business/2022/05/16/after-a-bruising-year-softbank-braces-for-more-pain 

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161. Visions of Bubbles Dancing in My Head

Dimitri and Khalid investigate the murky grail quest of poet-turned-SS Ahnenerbe officer Otto Rahn, including: his books “Crusade Against the Grail” (1933) and “Lucifer’s Court” (1937), getting personally hired by Heinrich Himmler to search for ancient Aryan treasures, Rahn’s obsession with Parzival graal myths and the medieval Cathar civilization of southern France, the vicious Catholic crusades against Cathar heretics, sicko Crusader Popes skinning archbishops alive, egalitarianism and gnosticism in Cathar society, and haunting parallels between the crimes of the “Luciferian” Catholic Crusaders and the Luciferian SS.

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#120a - TRIUMPH OF THE GRAAL: SS Obersturmführer Otto Rahn’s Crusade for the Grail (Pt. 1)

Acclaimed guitarist Nate Ruess (@NwistyOnline) joins Charles and Alex to listen to cartoon characters doing covers of classic rock songs. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

152 - What If Homer Simpson Adopted Bugs Bunny? (ft. Nate Ruess)

We are joined by Abeba Birhane — Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation — for a critical discussion about the release of GPT-4 and OpenAI. We also get into the excellent work that Abeba and colleagues have done mapping the specific values encoded into, and the surveillance pipeline that influences, the vast majority of AI/ML research. 

••• Abeba’s twitter: https://twitter.com/Abebab
••• Abeba’s paper – The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3531146.3533083 

Stuff we referenced
••• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will reshape society, acknowledges risks: 'A little bit scared of this' https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/openai-ceo-sam-altman-ai-reshape-society-acknowledges/story?id=97897122 
••• GPT-4 Technical Report https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
••• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
••• The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science? https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-sparks-of-agi-or-the-end-of-science
••• GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-benchmarks

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243. GPT-4 and the Politics of OpaqueAI (ft. Abeba Birhane)

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The Problem With Spotify w/ Steve Albini

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