A butterfly sanctuary in South Texas accused of "human trafficking" by redpilled lunatics. We spoke to Marianna Treviño-Wright, the head of the privately owned, non-profit National Butterfly Center about the unhinged confrontations on her property and how it all started with a government plan to "build the wall". On team redpill, we've got a cast of awful characters including Pennsylvania congressional candidate Kimberly Lowe and Brian Kolfage, the grifter behind an organization called "We Build The Wall".

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In this week’s episodes, we dig into an excellent (and very long) new law article, which is crucial for understanding the history, mechanics, constraints, and consequences of venture capitalism. How did this very particular model of investment, which is guided by its own idiosyncratic interests and structural imperatives, come to hold the reins of our global innovation system? And what does that mean for how key decisions are made about technological development?

Article we discuss:
••• Enhancing the Innovative Capacity of Venture Capital | Peter Lee https://yjolt.org/enhancing-innovative-capacity-venture-capital 

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238. Ventures in Capitalist Innovation, Part 1: History and Mechanics

We are joined by Antony Loewenstein — author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World — to discuss his extensive reporting on the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the policing tactics and surveillance technologies that are tested on Palestinians before sold as part of lucrative global export industry, and how the dynamics of occupation never stay within their cordoned zones but always expand to capture increasingly more people and places.

••• Antony’s book: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory
••• Antony’s twitter: https://twitter.com/antloewenstein 

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262. – How Israel Battle Tests Occupation for the World (ft. Antony Loewenstein)

We look into a new startup – Inflection AI – that has raised $1.5 billion, was co-founded by tech elites, and just released an AI chatbot, Pi, that is meant to be your ultra friendly, personal companion, coach, creative partner and more. We place our bet that this won’t be the last time we hear about Inflection AI. Everything about this company — its funding partners, founders’ pedigrees, AI product, and public mission – points to Inflection AI becoming even bigger and unavoidable. 

Stuff we reference:
••• AI Funding Explosion: Inflection AI Nabs $1.3B, Runway and Typeface Also Raise Big https://news.crunchbase.com/ai-robotics/funding-explosion-venture-generative-ai-unicorn/
••• Inflection AI https://inflection.ai/ 

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266. Your Own Personal Intelligence

We are joined by Quinn Slobodian — author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy — to discuss the libertarian extremism that forms the intellectual foundation for right-wing movements. We can see how the fringe beliefs of anarcho-capitalists — like Murray Rothbard (neo-confederate secessionist) and David Friedman (medieval LARPer) — are gaining broader influence, even becoming mainstream. On one hand, they are raving lunatics, ideological zealots, and explicit racists. On the other hand, the utopias they desire can be found manifested in the zones and policies — like gated communities and gutted education systems — that have been surging for decades.

••• Quinn’s book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250753892/crackupcapitalism 
••• Quinn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/zeithistoriker 

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283. Nerds of the Lowest Order (ft. Quinn Slobodian)

We finally did a UFO episode, and it’s our retelling of one of the most confounding and mysterious cases on record: The Socorro Saucer. This case has all the makings of a cognitive conundrum: a credible main witness (Lonnie Zamora), secondary witnesses, physical evidence, the Air Force classifying it as unknown, and a lack of convincing alternate explanations. This UFOlogical tale is told in parallel with the story of the Jacques Cousteau of UFOs (and channeler of ascended masters), the swaggiest researcher of them all, Ray Stanford… who also found dinosaurs in a NASA parking lot. Featuring an interview with journalist skeptic-believer D. Dean Johnson.

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The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena.

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Editing by Corey Klotz.

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The Spectral Voyager Episode 6: The Socorro Saucer (Sample)

Media personality and pal of ours, Jamie Peck joins Jake to discuss what the fuck was going on during the Indie Sleaze era, why people are talking about it again, how it relates to our respective lives, and why we're throwing a SHOW about it that's also my birthday here in Los Angeles (TICKET LINK BELOW).

JAMIE PECK
https://linktr.ee/jamiepeck
@jamie_elizabeth
@ELCPod
https://www.patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism

THE WOKE MOB
https://www.youtube.com/@TheWokeMob

CRIME WAVE
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crime-wave-an-indie-sleaze-party-tickets-785522397637?aff=oddtdtcreator

SOURCES
https://www.vice.com/en/article/d383aq/did-the-era-of-the-strokes-set-rock-and-roll-back
https://www.meetmeinthebathroomfilm.com/

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Crime Wave w/ Jamie Peck

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

Nate Ruess joins Charles and Alex to discuss his collaboration with Connie Connecticut, Cheech and Chong's new vodka bong, and… Did Green Day get TOO political on their new one!? Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

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192 - Really Really Hot Drink (ft. Nate Ruess)

Josh Terry (@JoshhTerry) joins Charles and Alex for a not-that-strange trip through the music of the Grateful Dead. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

196 - One-Hour Not-Very-Strange Trip (ft. Josh Terry)

We discuss the story of a cop's battle with an acorn and some surprising moves from former skater Beto O'Rourke. Then, an interview with Palestinian-American organizer Adam Y. Abusalah (@adam_abusalah) who fills us in on the anti-Biden "Uncommitted" campaign ahead of Tuesday's primary in Michigan.

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Uncommitted in Michigan w/Adam Y. Abusalah

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266. Your Own Personal Intelligence

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