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The Utah County Ritual Abuse accusation take an even weirder turn as we look into a firsthand account of the Therapist’s attempts at mind control, manipulation, and terror.

UNLOCKED! Episode 233: Utah Detective

We examine a pair of Twitter spaces, one successful (TrueAnon & frazzledrip), one a disaster (Ron DeSantis & Elon Musk). Plus Bill Gates blackmailed by Epstein and explosive allegations in the USVI lawsuit.

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Episode 294: Bodies And Spaces

"Is artificial intelligence advancing too quickly?" 60 Minutes warns. "BuzzFeed CEO says AI may revolutionize media, fears possible 'dystopian' path," CBS News tells us. "TV and film writers are fighting to save their jobs from AI. They won't be the last," CNN reports.

Over and over, especially in recent months, we hear this line: AI is advancing so fast, growing so sophisticated, and becoming so transformative as to completely reshape the entire economy to say nothing of our shaky media landscape. In some cases, those in the press deem this a good thing; in others, a bad thing but in terms that get the problem all wrong. But virtually all media buy the basic line that something big and transformative isn’t just coming, but is in fact already here.

Obviously, we can't predict the future, but we can comment on the present. Yes, AI platforms can generate low-level marketing copy, pro forma emails, and shitty corporate art. But progress in these capacities does not, as such, portend a radical advancement into actual human intelligence and creativity.

Meanwhile, there’s little to no evidence to support the claim that AI, namely large language models like ChatGPT, actually can perform – or even intervene to save time performing – any type of high-level writing craft, journalism, fiction, screenwriting, and a host of “creative” production.

So why do we keep hearing otherwise? What purpose does this type of religious-like providential thinking serve? And who stands to benefit from the vague sense of a future of AI-written essays, articles, and scripts, no matter how terrible they may be?

In this episode, we explore media's current Inevitability Narrative, namely its credulous warning that ChatGPT is about to do the work of media and entertainment professionals, examining the ways in which this narrative, despite the evidence to the contrary, serves as a constant, implicit threat to workers and a convenient pretext for labor abuses like wage reduction, layoffs, and union-busting. We also review how this media hype works to obscure the very real, banal harms of AI, such as racism, surveillance, over policing and lack of accountability for the powerful.

Our guest is Rutgers professor Dr. Lauren M.E. Goodlad.

Episode 183: AI Hype and the Disciplining of "Creative," Academic, and Journalistic Labor

Might have gotten a little carried away on this one. Sorry in advance

Also, Tom lost his job, so we need your support on Patreon now more than ever: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 293: The Shackleton Condition

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Jared Fogle goes to college — and against all decency and good taste, becomes the Führer of Fast Food Nation. Plus: porno rentals, stalking rumors, a brief history of Subway, Black Jareds, health halos, and more.

Episode 296: The Fogle Files Part 2 (preview)

Today we’re joined by Professor Corey Robin, author of "The Reactionary Mind" and "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas," for a conversation all about one of the most powerful reactionaries in the world: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. We discuss the origins and contours of his conservative ideology, and how they reflect the development of race, class, law, power, conservatism and liberalism over his lifetime.

You can pick up "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627793834/theenigmaofclarencethomas

Chapo Trap House

738 - They Smile In Your Face feat. Corey Robin (6/5/23)

Matt goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Small whites, dueling apocalypses, Gulf War trading cards, Spanish civil war

Grill Stream

252 - Hogan's Gyros 06.01.23

We sit down with author Jim DiEugenio to chat about his work on the Oliver Stone films JFK Revisited and JFK: Destiny Betrayed, chasing down assassination leads for thirty years, what Hollywood and the media get wrong, and much more. 

Check out Jim’s work at: www.kennedysandking.com
Listen to our previous JFK coverage: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod?filters[search_query]=jfk

Episode 298: James DiEugenio

We look at Trump’s response to his federal indictment, and how he still manages to outswag Ron Dion DeSantis.

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741 Teaser - They Indicted Me!

We take a look back at 300 episodes of TrueAnon... forgive us this indulgence… and talk about Anchor, San Francisco, how and why things change, and much much more.

Episode 300: Episode 300

The boys look at the Wagner Group failed(?) coup(??) of Russia(???) over the weekend(????). Then, some more on the submarine disaster, RFK Jr. and the people who believe current events as a factor of time’s linear progression are, in general, a “psyop”.

TORONTO: tickets still available to our show there Thursday, August 17: https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10005ED4F0FB3932

Our friends Steven Donziger and Chris Smalls in association with Little Secret LA are going on tour this summer, find dates and tickets here: https://www.littlesecretla.org/hotlaborsummertour

744 - People Who Died (6/26/23)

TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane. Every other episode is a Patreon exclusive: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod