True stories sent in by our listeners. Would you eat a cookie given to you by Michael Flynn? Would you get pilled by a taxi driver's scrapbook? Have your family members slipped down the rabbit hole? Can Spanish sperm bless a plasma company's quarterly earnings? Find out.

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It’s a fan cam episode for our favorite tech columnist, Brian Merchant, who had two pieces come out recently that are back-to-back bangers. First is about why all the people making and selling AI keep talking about being afraid of their own creations. It’s Frankenstein meets sorcerer's apprentice but as a marketing strategy for their own power (and their unique ability to control that power). Second is about what all these people should actually be afraid of. As history shows us, there is more than one way to crash a computer.

Article we discuss
••• Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be | Brian Merchant https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-31/column-afraid-of-ai-the-startups-selling-it-want-you-to-be
••• Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they should be | Brian Merchant: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-03-24/column-how-afraid-should-silicon-valley-be 

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245. Shook Ones (Tech Style)

We discuss Jake's "earlier material."

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Jake The Edgelord

To commemorate the indictment of Donald Trump, Jake searched high and low for a movie involving the arrest of a president. The closest he got was the 1996 film "My Fellow Americans." The screwball conspiracy road comedy stars Jack Lemmon and James Garner as rival ex-presidents, clearly stand-ins for George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who are forced to team up in order to expose a frame job. Along the way they evade murderous NSA agents and meet ordinary Americans. Jake guides us through this mostly forgotten relic of the 90s which somehow combines a hokey, naive vision of American politics with a maximally cynical portrayal of deep state agents shaping history behind the scenes. 

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Join Travis, Jake, and Brad, as they cautiously step aboard a flying saucer to attend a sleep-away camp on an alien planet… for ten years.  Uncover the amazing, maybe true story of an extraterrestrial exchange program that began in the years following the alleged crash landing in Roswell, New Mexico.  This story has got something for everyone:  Aliens, Clones, the DIA, Time Travel, JFK, and even a little Spielberg!  Does a wondrous utopia beckon us from the far rim of the galaxy?  How’s the cuisine over there?  Where might one go to the bathroom?  The answers to these questions, and many more, await you on the surface of Planet Serpo.  

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Annie Kelly delves deep into the pilling of Andrew Bridgen – a British politician who, until very recently, was a backbench MP for the Conservative Party, representing North West Leicestershire.  After a chance encounter with a quack cardiologist, and the weight of the pandemic on his shoulders, Bridgen’s political views slid quickly from ‘run of the mill conservative’ to ‘anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.’   Jake’s health anxieties are triggered over and over as Annie walks him and Travis through a portrait of a pilled MP.

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We get into Evgeny Morozov’s latest essay on the geopolitical interests and military neoliberalism that’s really driving the AI arms race. Morozov traces today’s developments back to the Cold War – not just as a metaphor, but by showing how many of the same people and institutions are still in positions of power. To understand the America vs China framing of technological competition, which is now so dominant and two-dimensional in the discourse about AI, we must see how it is stoked by people like Eric Schmidt and Gilman Louie and their  networks of influence, capital, and ideology.

Article we discuss:
••• AI: the key battleground for Cold War 2.0? | Evgeny Morozov https://mondediplo.com/2023/05/02china 

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253. The Cold War Origins and Future of Today’s AI

"Streamers, memers and gamers." Voyage to the center of a social media platform made by the redpilled for the redpilled. 

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Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: EUIV stream wrap up, Supreme Court, Debt Ceiling, Hollywood strikes

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250 - Crunchwrap Supreme Court 05.18.23

Cory Doctorow — returning champion, friend of the show, and author of the new novel Red Team Blues — joins us to chat about fiction (science), finance (crypto), forensics (accounting), and much more. You never knew forensic accounting could be so radical and thrilling, but Red Team Blues is an immanent critique of techno-financial capitalism in the guise of a page ripping novel. We cover a lot of ground, all of it fascinating, as we always do when Cory comes on TMK.

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••• Cory’s blog: https://pluralistic.net/ 

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257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)

Charles and Alex catch up on OK Go's cereal lawsuit, Rivers Cuomo's visit to the Rock Hall of Fame, and guys who still talk about Bored Apes every day. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

165 - Perfect Score

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.

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