This week: Americans love blowing themselves up with fireworks almost as much as the Dutch do. Plus: A horseshoe-themed Great American Hall of Name, and a selfless act of strategic viral TikTok kindness.
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EPISODE 256: Bocce For Cowboys

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Dimitri and Khalid talk to machine learning engineer Pale Rider about the recent controversies concerning Google’s LaMDA and the discourse around “sentient” Artificial Intelligence, including (but not limited to): the design of Language Models (LMs), the algorithmic laundering of bias and the veneer of objectivity, racist predictive policing tech, whether LMs can actually be scaled up to achieve “sentience” one day, Cajun Discordian Blake Lemoine’s history of contrarian idealism from being a conscientious pagan objector in the US Army to his sex-positive Cult Of Our Lady Magdalene, Dimitri Itskov’s 2045 Initiative to achieve avatar robot bodies and sloppy disc immortality, and the dangerous MK vibes of the Black Mirror-inspired Replika AI app. [Part 1 of 2.]

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#124a - MAN IN THE BLACKBOX: LaMDA and the Rise of "Sentient" AI (with Pale Rider)

Originally published to Patreon on 9/11/2021. 

In this third edition of Shano's Brainos (really, that's still what we're calling it) on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Shane talks through the disastrous and ongoing war on terror, how imperial ideologies get formed, and considers what it means to live through history.

Unlocked: Shano's Brainos - 9/11

We are joined by Justin Roczniak—of the excellent engineering disasters podcast, Well There’s Your Problem—to talk about the potential freight rail strike that has been brewing for a long time and near-future scenarios for the supply chain. We discuss the horrid labor conditions in the industry and the scourge of Precision Scheduled Railroading, a system of management that has transformed the entire railroad sector so it serves one god: The Operating Ratio.  

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Some stuff we reference:
••• SMART-TD, BLET joint statement on rail embargo https://smart-union.org/smart-td-blet-joint-statement-on-rail-embargo/
••• A Nationwide Freight Railroad Shutdown Could Cost $2 Billion a Day https://www.aar.org/economic-impact-of-railroad-shutdown#
••• ‘It’s Going to End Up Like Boeing’: How Freight Rail Is Courting Catastrophe https://www.vice.com/en/article/3angy3/freight-rail-train-disaster-avoidable-boeing 
••• Rail Strike Threatens to Slow US Supply-Chain Recovery https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-12/supply-chain-latest-us-railroad-strike-threatens-supply-chain-recovery
••• Rail Unions Are Bargaining Over a Good Job Made Miserable https://www.labornotes.org/2022/02/rail-negotiations-are-about-good-job-made-miserable 

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192. Why the Trains Don’t Run on Time (ft. Justin Roczniak)

Dimitri and Khalid talk to returning guest Jay the Neuroscientist (@The_Hague_ICC) about the deeply influential but ostensibly defunct field of cybernetics, including: the science of steersmanship/adaptive systems, the broader definition of “machines”, the non-modern ontology of early cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, the UK Ratio Club, eugenicist suslord Julian Huxley, the American Macy Conferences, Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, ontologies of performance vs. knowledge, negative feedback, and LSD “blitz therapy”. Part 1 of 4.

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#126 - WE ARE THE ROBOTS: A Subliminal History of Cybernetics, Part 1 (with Jay @The_Hague_ICC)

Andrew, Lucy and Theo are joined by Trashfuture's Riley to solve liquid mysteries, resolve stinky workplace disputes, reflect on strength-based surgeries, consider the smell of milk jugs and much more.

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EPISODE 271: Bodily Beschamel (Feat. Riley Quinn)

Dimitri and Khalid talk to ex-Moonie @Alisa_Mahjoub about the Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, including: growing up as a Second Generation Blessed Child in Indiana and realizing the Moon Organization was nefarious, the Moonie-adjacent assassination of Shinzo Abe, John Gorenfeld’s ill-fated 2004 book “Bad Moon Rising” and conspiracy shitcoating in the publishing industry, Moon’s early days in (future) North Korea and Japan, running a spy ring/sex cult in Pyongyang, Colonel Bo Hi Pak, buying influence in Washington, possible interlocks with MK-ULTRA, manufacturing a Manchurian Messiah, Moral Re-Armament hitting ‘em high and Scientology hitting ‘em low, Belgian noble suslord Arnaud de Borchgrave running the Washington Times, Qanon synchronicities with the Shincheonji Church of Jesus and Falun Gong, Moon bankrolling the American Right throughout the 70s and 80s, and more. Part 1 of 2.

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#130 - BAD MOON RHIZOME, Part One: Tracing the Moonie Octopus (with @Alisa_Mahjoub)

This week: Robots stealing jobs in Japan, Australian companies at the forefront of future wasteland enemy technology, a personal insight into grease theft, and the Clipping Report.
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EPISODE 275: The Pengelly 'With Meat' Hypothesis

Dimitri and Khalid continue answering questions from the Grotto discord about: Thomas Pynchon’s vaccination status, whether the Sacklers are literal Satanists, possible water/wind analogues to jinn, the eerie connections of NY Post journalist “Larry Celona” to Kubrick and Epstein, the Stargate theory for the invasion of Iraq, thoughts on American fraternal societies that mimic the Freemasons, and some candidates for the “Esalen of the east coast”. 

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#133 - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XVII, Part 2

"Oral. Santa said oral." It's a Christmas movie that dares to center incest, nazi breeding experiments and a cast clearly paid in cocaine. Thank you, Brad, for this Christmas delight. Keep in mind last year was "Babes in Toyland." Be grateful.

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Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Premium Episode 194: Elves (1989) Movie Night (Sample)

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Base and Superstructure, need & want, uhhh a lot of stuff in this one.

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234 - Friday Night Fish Fry at the VFW 12.16.22

A p*dcast where Dimitri (@drposhlost) and Khalid (@khalidbinyaqub) explore deep politics, occult history, conspiracy, and ontological ops from a critical-paranoid perspective.

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#133 - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XVII, Part 2

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