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This week we're joined by returning guest Tracy Rosenthal to discuss the Zohran Mamdani mayoral campaign: how it was shaped, how it won the Democratic Primary, what it may look like going forward, and how the rest of the media and political class is reacting to it. But first, we catch up on some housekeeping re: Israel and the U.S.'s war against Iran, and talk very briefly about Peter Thiel's fixation on the Antichrist.

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Episode 398: If You Don't Fight, You Lose (w/ special guest Tracy Rosenthal)

Black Panthers, Third World revolutionary movements, CIA surveillance and plane hijackings. Elaine Mokhtefi is a century of history in a person. We speak to her about her experiences as an activist ranging back to protesting segregation in 1944. Her book Algiers: Third World Capital is an enthralling testament to a life of involvement in the tangible fight for freedom and justice in colonized and exploited countries.

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Elaine Mokhtefi (E330)

Comedy legend Larry Charles (Fridays, Seinfeld, Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm & much more) returns to the show to discuss his new book Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter. We have a wide ranging discussion of Larry’s life in comedy including post-war Brooklyn as a comedy incubator, grinding out avant-garde sketch comedy with Andy Kaufman, the prevalence of coke and other drugs in the comedy writing scene, getting tackled by the Secret Service trying to get a joint to Jimmy Carter’s sister, and the difficulties in comedic creative relationships. Larry also gets candid about his disappointment with the prevalence of zionism among his erstwhile comedy partners, and we talk about the humanizing force of humor in the face tragedy and despair.

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947 - Laugh Now, Cry Later feat. Larry Charles (6/30/25)

We read through the Jane Street-funded arms trafficking allegations made against a South Sudanese activist, talk Sudan and South Sudan, ask what the hell Gary Kasparov is up to, and give a classic coup review.

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Episode 472: The Jane Street Coup

John Washington joins us to discuss his recent piece in the New York Review of Books, "The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag." 

Check out John's article here: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/06/01/the-roots-of-bukeles-gulag/

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Deep Background on Bukele's Gulags in El Salvador / John Washington

Have you been having fun with the newest slate of AI tools? Have you been doing research with GPT-5? Coding your projects with Claude? Turning pictures of your friends into cartoon characters from the Fairly Odd Parents using the image editing tool Nano Banana? 

Are you impressed with what they can do? Well guess what? You’re only impressed with them because you’re basically a naive child. You’re like a little child with an etch a sketch who is amazed that they can make crude images by turning the knobs, oblivious to greater possibilities. At least, that’s the impression you get when listening to tech leaders, philosophers, and even governments. According to them, soon the most impressive of AI tools will look as cheap and primitive as Netflix’s recommendation algorithm in 2007. Soon the world will have to reckon with the power of Artificial General Intelligence, or “AGI.”

What is AGI? Definitions vary. When will it come? Perhaps months. Perhaps years. Perhaps decades. But definitely soon enough for you to worry about. What will it mean for humanity once it's here? Perhaps a techno utopia. Perhaps extinction. No one is sure. But what they are sure of is that AGI is definitely coming and it’s definitely going to be a big deal. A mystical event. A turning point in history, after which nothing will ever be the same.

However, some are more skeptical, like our guest today Will Douglas Heaven. Will has a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London and is the senior editor for AI at MIT Technology review. He recently published an article, based on his conversations with AI researchers, which provocatively calls AGI “the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time.”

Jake and Travis chat with Will about the conspiracy theory-like talk from the AI industry, whether AGI is just “vibes and snake oil,” and how to distinguish between tech breakthroughs and Silicon Valley hyperbole. 

Will Douglas Heaven
https://bsky.app/profile/willdouglasheaven.bsky.social

How AGI became the consequential conspiracy theory of our time
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1127057/agi-conspiracy-theory-artifcial-general-intelligence/


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The first three episodes of Annie Kelly’s new 6-part podcast miniseries “Truly Tradly Deeply” are available to Cursed Media subscribers, with new episodes released weekly.

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Cursed Media subscribers also get access to every episode of every QAA miniseries we produced, including Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View, The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams, and Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar. Plus, Cursed Media subscribers will get access to at least three new exclusive podcast miniseries every year.

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REFERENCES

Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado7069?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Why AI Is Harder Than We Think
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12871

AI Capabilities May Be Overhyped on Bogus Benchmarks, Study Finds
https://gizmodo.com/ai-capabilities-may-be-overhyped-on-bogus-benchmarks-study-finds-2000682577

Examining the geographic concentration of VC investment in AI
https://ssti.org/blog/examining-geographic-concentration-vc-investment-ai

Margaret Mitchell: artificial general intelligence is ‘just vibes and snake oil’
https://www.ft.com/content/7089bff2-25fc-4a25-98bf-8828ab24f48e



AGI Is a Conspiracy Theory (E347)

Travis View visits Jake & Julian to talk Reddit bans, 4chan / 8chan reactions and theories, Q drops, the Voat exodus, Tech companies becoming the arbiters of truth, the MSM (or Main Stream Media for normies), and George Papadapoulos' Twitter renaissance. Oh and Werner Herzog interviews Alex Jones on our show.

Episode 7: The Great Reddit Bans of 2018 - feat. Travis View

Jared Holt (journalist for Right Wing Watch, host of the SH!TPOST Podcast) joins Jake’s & Julian to discuss his contribution to getting Infowars banned from multiple platforms, that sweet sweet George Soros money, whether it’s alright to trust corporations to regulate speech, the time Alex Jones called him a Nazi in public, and what the deal is with this pesky FISA declassification stage show that keeps entertaining the QAnon community.

Episode 8: The Information Wars feat. Jared Holt

Joined on this one by Nathan Bernard, who tells us about founding Bernard Media, working with Vic Berger & Tim Heidecker, being doxxed Gavin McGuiness & his Proud Boys, smeared by Mike Cernovich, and bitched at by Ben Shapiro. We talk about Vladislav Surkov and our age of post-information, comedy in the age of whatever you want to call this hell, and probably you, buddy.

Episode 9: Doxxed But Not Forgotten Feat. Nathan Bernard

Jordan Uhl joins us to talk about the Compassion Party, a Q-believing, hyper-religious, pro-marijuana, anti-abortion party running candidates in Rhode Island — who were arrested the day after we recorded this episode with 48 pounds of weed. We then move on to Jordan's amazing Go Fund Me for a New Jersey man who was videotaped shaving on a commuter train (by some asshole). Other topics: homelessness, poverty, Bernie, and reasons for the rise of the QAnon movement.

Episode 10: The Compassion Party Feat. Jordan Uhl

We discuss the general QAnon version of Adrenochrome, then present some scientific research, then move on to some evidence of very real silicon valley technocrats consuming blood via a company called Ambrosia, which has allegedly caught the attention of wealthy investor Peter Thiel. Travis also tells us about Jewish Blood Libel, an old anti-semitic conspiracy theory that has similarities with the current movement's beliefs. Fun episode!

Episode 11: Adrenochrome Feat. Travis View

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.