!chicanery !stalin-gun-1 !citations-needed

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Get yr fill of doomerism/failed state slop !sicko-pig Also, starts with an extremely frank discussion of the Gazan humanitarian crisis that seems almost unconscionable to hear from a "mainstream" media outlet.

I mean, I understand the need for a more darker, serious et professional tone, so to speak, in Season 2 and Season 3 (Since it's the history of Cuba et DPRK that we're talking about, who've been terrorized by the U.S.A)

But that makes me all the more excited just wondering what's to come when listening to them talk about Afghanistan in Season 4, since I'm wondering if they'll talk about it in a more lighter or darker tone...

> SHOW NOTES > > With the dust settling, we can take a broader view of the whole OpenAI debacle, what likely caused an internal culture war to boil over into a corporate coup, how OpenAI’s convoluted governance structure made a lot of people ignore the obvious power at play, and what this all means in a bigger sense for the ongoing development of AI. > > ••• OpenAI and the rift at the heart of Silicon Valley https://www.ft.com/content/a6505db4-c8d4-44c1-a030-502b364ed370 > > ••• OpenAI’s board had safety concerns. Big Tech obliterated them in 48 hours https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-11-20/column-openais-board-had-safety-concerns-big-tech-obliterated-them-in-48-hours

We were going to make a serious and informative episode about what you should look for when buying a used car, but instead we goofed off and dared each other to buy shitty unreliable cars for $5,000. We did sprinkle in some practical advice here and there, or at least you might learn what not to do from our bad decisions.

Alex will be back for a Part 2 soon, where we'll discuss practical, economical, and boring cars that you should buy if you're smarter than us.

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The rest of the ads have been taken down by now 😢

> Follow me to the Himalayas as I try to answer Wendy Paintings questions about inter-dimensional Big Foot. I will make an attempt at revealing how the British Operation Phoenix precursor was responsible for one of the most sold anti-communist book in history and how they spiked it with Yeti mythology. I will then try to link it with that bogeyman which have been haunting me all autumn. That's right more Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels insanities as I read to you from his Theozoology. > > After that there will be some free wheeling as I answer Fergal from The Kingless Generation and contemplate on my daily and not so daily life in Japan.

part 1 here https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-tsyrp-1b72f25a

> Hello and Welcome to the first QnA. I have received a fair share of interesting recordings and written questions which I will my very best to answer. This will become at least three episodes in total. I answer some hosts from other shows that I have visited, old time supporters and guests. Everything from personal questions and the possible childhood damage that led to this show, the real shit of Nordic Noir film-tips, the research of Stieg Larsson, Freud and The Uncanny in 18th century horror short stories and what the Sandman might teach us about Capitalism. Anti-Soviet appropriation of the Abominable Snowman Yeti and the possibility of a Lemur Big Foot. The demonology of landlords during the European peasant rebellions. Bodhisattva-Maoism in Nepal, why the repressed is returning and of course whether Hitler is dead or not. This and much more, so please take a stroll in the autumn landscape while I try and brighten up your weekend!

> Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (1976) by Joseph Weizenbaum displays the author's ambivalence towards computer technology and lays out the case that while artificial intelligence may be possible, we should never allow computers to make important decisions because computers will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom.

> Weizenbaum makes the crucial distinction between deciding and choosing. Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed. It is the capacity to choose that ultimately makes one a human being. Choice, however, is the product of judgment, not calculation. Comprehensive human judgment is able to include non-mathematical factors such as emotions. Judgment can compare apples and oranges, and can do so without quantifying each fruit type and then reductively quantifying each to factors necessary for mathematical comparison.

Part 2 here

> SHOW NOTES > > We finish our run through Ivan’s parents’ adventures, including their support for Kenyan Mao Mao revolutionaries and participation in the American-sponsored “Kenyan airlift” that also produced Barack Obama Sr, supporting Greek, Turkish, and Mexican communists in their way, but for one reason or another being unable to stop their son Ivan from becoming the essentially conservative creature of the British establishment that he became, really quite naturally given the course that they had consistently set him on: elite boarding school, Harvard—and then came Hiroshima...

part 3 was paywalled

https://podbay.fm/p/the-kingless-generation/e/1700192062

> Ivan Morris, Weeb Superspy 3: in the shadow of HUAC [PREVIEW] > > SHOW NOTES > > We follow Ivan’s parents, the peripatetic idle rich leftist novelist/journalists Ira and Edita Morris, from their wartime career “writing” in Haiti on the eve of the coup that brought the progressive President Estimé to power, then making “democratic” anti-fascist propaganda for the American Office of War Information and the Voice of America while moving in Brecht’s circle including the Eisler siblings, whose persecution by the House Un-American Activities Committee led the brothers to flee to Europe and the sister, Ruth Fischer, to turn anti-communist professor at Harvard. In this context, Edita leaves behind a most puzzling letter to a member of the Eisler family, talking mysteriously about “the step which I have taken”..._**

!meow-coffee

> In this 14th installment of Matt’s (increasingly un-) Inebriated Past series, we begin what should be a 4 part look at the Spanish Civil War. In this installment, Matt guides from through the decaying Spanish Empire of the 19th century, through the social classes of village and city, the attempts for liberal reform in the early 20th century, the roots of Spanish anarchism and socialism, and finally the establishment of the 2nd Spanish Republic setting the stage for apocalyptic conflict.

> Special thanks to Travis from the (great) band Activity for the Spanish Bombs cover that anchors this ep. Check out their latest release here: https://activity.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-in-the-room

I'm just happy to hear Matt's voice

Good episode and apparently interesting book discussed !meow-floppy

Incidental thoughts:

When you search for a word, you don't have a map of statistical likelihood of the word appearing, you start from the concept/shape of what you want to say.

Nice thought about "you wouldn't let dolphin be a judge, despite them being intelligent"

Why won't ai believers relay all their life to chatgpt and stop fearing death? You have immortalized yourself allegedly then.

Also interesting thought about godel incompleteness applying between matrix operation and natural neural networks

Very interesting discussion about austrian economics.

Before you throw tomatoes, it goes over that initial thrust of austrian argument "not making new stuff" is stronger than "you can't calculate this shit" (which also applies to neoclassical economics). You can in fact calculate this shit, especially now, but if your plan is static, it doesn't adapt to the new industries demand, it cant even perceive it if you dont build feedback mechanisms

Have you considered that if you remove the t, citation becomes cia-ion !soviet-hmm

!live-tucker-reaction!stalin-gun-1!citations-needed

Mit einen Gast aus der Gruppen Gegen Kapital und Nation

Ich fand die Folge richtig empfehlenswert und hat mMn mehr Einsichten angeboten als 90% der üblichen Kritik gegen diese Partei.

You know how capitalist rags talk about Communism as an infectious ideology that can subvert the mushy minds of marginalized people, rather than being a natural response by thinking people to the material conditions they're subjected to? This episode is about that

>In this installment, Dan and Jordan enjoy an episode where Alex seems to be begging to be allowed to quit, before moving on to interview a weird self-help fellow and a young fool preaching MAGA communism.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israelis-keep-hurting-their-own-pr

evangelicals build robot god, have orgies in front of it to grow its brain, news at 10

> SHOW NOTES > > I remain haunted by the ghost of a weeb, a shitlib superspy who, after cutting his chops as a naval intelligence officer in U.S.-occupied Hiroshima and Tokyo, wrote some of the first English-language scholarship of any depth on the Tale of Genji and the martial ballads, published geopolitical strategic analysis on how the Fourth Reich might best rule Japan, and was the preferred translator and lifelong friend of aesthetic GLADIO agent Mishima Yukio—all at the same damn time. On this outing we begin to deal with his parents: I promise you’ll never guess what they did for a living.

Part 1 preview here https://podbay.fm/p/the-kingless-generation/e/1676165665

> SHOW NOTES > > In this ongoing series, we savor the weebery of the greatest weebs of history, pondering the roles they play in various regimes of class struggle including whiteness, patriarchy, capital, and data counterinsurgency. This time, the President of the United States joins me from the Minyan to explore the life of Ivan Morris, a Swedish-Jewish man who grew up in rural France and New York City, attended the most elite of British boarding schools, joined American naval intelligence, and proceeded to act the proper British gentleman from his perch atop the crown jewel of American Japanology, the department at Columbia. He is most famous for his work on Heian court literature, as well as his promotion of anti-Communist liberals like Maruyama Masao, but in fact he was also the preferred translator and close companion of Japan Romantic aesthete and fascist paramilitary leader Mishima Yukio. In what became his final book, and a classic among the Japan Panic–era Anglo-American business class, Morris gave an interpretation of Mishima’s spectacular death by outlining a series of tragic heroes in Japanese history, from which he derives a Japanese national character that is chivalric and militant enough to achieve honorary whiteness but ultimately docile, clumsy, and non-threatening. Meanwhile, at the core of Morris’ most important chapter here lies an interpretation of medieval Japanese political economy that seems utterly alien to the subject at hand but which bears striking resemblances to the PR logic of GLADIO and the strategy of tension. Sadly no further explanation was forthcoming from Morris himself, as he was mysteriously found dead in a cheap hotel in Bologna shortly thereafter and only a few years before the Bologna train station bombing...

Our beloved Large Adult Son went on the Age of Napoleon podcast and gave his thoughts about Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, which I saw somewhere that Matt said it was his favorite book.

It’s a pretty great rundown of the book; I especially enjoyed the insight he had into Marx’s “sack of potatoes” comment.

Happy Eighteenth Brumaire, comrades!

I've been really digging The East is a Podcast for this. Definitely been the best pod to help me feel sane lately, their Tankie Group Therapy eps with the Electric Intifada peeps haven't necessarily been informative but just hearing a bunch of reasonable people talk about this stuff while everyone else in the imperial core is completely deranged has been helpful, and the ep from a few days ago with the International Coordinator of Samidoun was really interesting

The Citations Needed live shows have also been really great, having Adam's crystal clear focus on beating down lib talking points like a decorated Twitter veteran is cleansing to the soul.

RWN has been doing some Hamas deep dives but I haven't checked in since their first few breaking news eps.

I thought the Chapo ep with Mohammad Alsaafin was good, but I don't really listen to the show so I don't know if they've done much since then.

text they're talking about: Between the Sea and the Security Fence

> In each case, the abstract works to optimize and rationalize all of the violence that relentlessly circulates, to classify life so as to better calculate and complete its destruction, to give form to a war and peace that only promise to annihilate you at different speeds.