For the latest installment of our Year Zero series, we finally tackle the big one: 9/11. Specifically, the 9/11 that is presented to us by author Thomas Pynchon in his 2013 book, Bleeding Edge. 

To help us do it, we've enlisted the help of Jimmy Falun Gong (@JimmyFalunGong on Twitter) of the podcast Programmed to Chill (@p2chillPodcast), and Dimitri (@drposhlost) of the Subliminal Jihad podcast (@subliminaljihad).

Because it's Pynchon, we cover a wide range of topics: Silicon Alley and the 2000 dotcom crash; the PROMIS software; Stuart Brand and the Whole Earth Network; Josh Harris and We Live In Public; the Montauk Project; MKUltra; TWA Flight 800; the Digital Entertainment Network; and much much more.

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[Year Zero 5] Uncanny Alley: 9/11 at the Bleeding Edge (feat. Jimmy Falun Gong & Dimitri)

We examine the rise of mobile gambling in America, the push to legalize sports betting, big data's drive to create infinite markets, and the digital superstorm of machine-engineered psychosis.

Episode 215: Marching Into Madness

Jake is back from tour and his brain is slow mud. Luisa talks to him about offices, The Office, old bookers, business cards, Roe v Wade, automation, and more!

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Nate is back and he joins Francis to discuss a recent article in Task and Purpose about a dress-uniform ribbon apparently becoming a more select award when it used to be given to everyone. So, why the change? Are we finally done with the GWOT? Is the Army going to stop giving out ribbons like candy? You be the judge.

For this week’s bonus, Francis pulls a Joe and runs a history lesson about a very badly built boat with our resident boats expert, Carey Shockey. Enjoy the preview in the episode, and if you want the full thing, it’s available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/true-story-of-69912329

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We check in on our old friends/enemies at the New York Time, then get to some listener mail about effective altruism, all before offering a smart, nuanced, and critical defense of the CIA. You see, it’s not that we are angry, we are just disappointed at the CIA’s continual failure to live up to its own potential for greatness. 

Stuff we reference:
••• Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/has-the-cia-done-more-harm-than-good 
••• The Responsibility of Intellectuals https://chomsky.info/19670223/ 
••• It's Lonely in the Metaverse: Decentraland’s 38 Daily Active Users in a $1.3B Ecosystem https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2022/10/07/its-lonely-in-the-metaverse-decentralands-38-daily-active-users-in-a-13b-ecosystem/ 
••• ‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html 

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199. The CIA is a Land of Contrasts

This week Francis talks with investigative journalist James Stout about the prevelance of 3D printed guns in the hands of revolutinaties fighting against the oppressive and genocidal military government of Myanmar. James met with the many of the young people who have been fighting this war for the last eighteen months.  Check out the five part series featuring interviews with the fighters here

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Printing a Revolution

This episode we are joined again by C Derick Varn for another holiday episode on Jean Baudrillard. With the post-modern fog of war surrounding conflicts like the Ukraine and Syria in mind, we decided to revisit his collection of essays first published in 1991 "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place." And what we found there was maybe less than what we were hoping for.

#152 - The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

This week it's: A floor gun in Texas, a mystery smell in Texas, an aircraft prank crime in Texas, a URL feud in Kansas, and a misidentified flying prank over Lancashire. 

The clicking was Lucy it turns out.
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