man i was at work all day and only found out when i went to a live taping of the trashfuture podcast last night. that was a surprise

Definitely literally. There's a startup for bourgeois vampires: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-01-17/startup-offers-young-blood-transfusions-to-rejuvenate-the-body

"my mom thinks its the royals, my dad thinks its the clintons" is an absolutely legendary quote

this is totally unrelated, but the prison system is torture huh

I cannot believe how close to The 120 Days of Sodom this is. Centuries of the ruling class only changing in appearance and nothing else.

Welcome to our new mini-series Hinge Points, a tour of historical “what-ifs.” We’re publishing the first episode free to all. Subsequent episodes will post on Fridays exclusively to subscribers on patreon.com/chapotraphouse.

Matt and Danny Bessner, from the American Prestige podcast, take you on a tour of the history of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and explore the importance of the party's decision to vote to fight World War I. They examine the party's structure and history, the clash between party elites and workers, and the importance of nationalism, exploring why World War I represented such a devastating blow against international socialism.

Hinge Points

Hinge Points Episode 1: Social Democratic Party Poopers

“Follow The Data” is the name of a Bloomberg Philanthropies podcast that debuted 2016. “How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing,” a 2018 NPR headline read. “Data suggests that schools might be one of the least risky kinds of institutions to reopen,” an opinion piece in The Washington Post told us in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Over the last 20 or so years, a trend of labeling concepts as “data-driven” emerged. It applied, and continues to apply, to policies affecting everything from education to public health, policing to journalism. Decisions affecting these areas will be more thoughtful, the idea goes, when informed and supported by data. In many ways, this has been a welcome development: The idea that a rigorously scientific collection of information via surveys, observation, and other methods would make policies and media stronger seems unimpeachable.

But this isn’t always the case. While gathering “data” is a potentially beneficial process, the process alone isn’t inherently good, and is too often used to obscure important and requisite value-based or moral questions, assert contested ideological priors and traffic in right-wing austerity premises backed by monied interests. When our media tell us a largely unpopular, billionaire-backed idea like school privatization, “targeted” policing, or tax incentive handouts to corporations have merit they’re backed by “the data,” what purpose does this framing serve? Where does the data come from? Who is funding the data gathering? What data are we choosing to care about and, most important of all, what data are we choosing to ignore?

On today’s episode, we’ll look at the development of the push to make everything data-driven, examining who defines what counts as “data,” which forces shape its sourcing and collection, and how the fetishization of “data” as something that exists outside and separate from politics is more often than not, less a methodology for determining truth and more a branding exercise for neoliberal ideological production and reproduction. 

Later on the show, we’ll be speaking with two guests: Abigail Cartus is an epidemiologist at Brown University. She focuses on perinatal health and overdose prevention in her work at The People, Place & Health Collective, a Brown School of Public Health research laboratory.

Episode 162: How the "Data-Driven" Label Sanitizes Cruel Austerity Politics

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

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We take a trip with Marlon Ettinger to a LaRouche Conference in Manhattan and  talk about the nature of truth and reality

Episode 250: Lyndon LaRouche: Assassins Creed III (trailer)

It is Halloween and our gothest pals have joined us to act out a play Jake wrote after reading a Russian novel and working 1000 bar shifts.

THE MASTER OF MARGARITAS
starring

Jake Flores @feraljokes
Anders Lee @andersleehere
Alex Ptak @ptaktestkitchen
Jamie Peck @jamie_elizabeth @ELCpod
and narrated by
Ashley Darrow @darrowvania @HorrorVanguard

MERCH
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Pod Damn Theater Presents: The Master of Margaritas

Charles, Alex, and Tom write a chart topping dance song to make the club go crazy. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

137 - Party Till I Stop (ft. @tom_on_here)

We've gazed into the abyss many times before but the Ray Romano/Gene Hackman comedy WELCOME TO MOOSEPORT (2004) - in which a former U.S. president runs for mayor against a small-town handyman - comes close to breaking us. PLUS: We recap the U.S. midterms, and ask: Is Ron DeSantis a serious threat to Donald Trump? (Short answer: no)

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Michael and Us

#380 - Occupy Mooseport

We discuss the shocking attempt on Jeffrey Epstein's life and scrutinize the players in the Epstein Extended Universe via the Little Black Book.

Kevin Spacey -- Let Me Be Frank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZveA-NAIDI

Episode 2: Epcronomicon

We discuss news of the week, Victoria's Secret, real estate, and Eugenics Sex Farms.

Episode 3: Sex Farm

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Brace goes sickomode on Area 51 while Liz has thoughts on Epstein Drip

Episode 9: Take Me To Your Dealer

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

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