We’re going in for a threepeat – it’s Data Centers 3, as we continue with our analysis of the data center industry, the opposition to these hyperscale projects, and the real impacts on social communities and natural ecosystems. We get into the industry playbook of using “counterinsurgency tactics” to undermine opposition to these data centers and the ideological playbook of effective altruists treating these projects like they are just 4X strategy games. Plus how Mr. Wonderful is terraforming Utah by building a massive natural gas power plant to fuel a hyperscale data center right on the shores of the Great Salt Lake.

In 2025, researchers at the University of California submitted an academic article related to a case study of what they called “New-onset AI-associated Psychosis”. The article breaks down the case of a 26 year old woman who was hospitalized after she began to believe her brother was speaking to her through ChatGPT. Unfortunately, this was not an isolated incident and in today’s episode Liv examines similar stories that have emerged in the wake of the AI chatbot surge. Along the way, she explores how the companies behind these chatbots plan to prevent situations like this from happening - or if they plan to at all - and even shows what happens when a user becomes overly reliant on their AI and begins to sound like one themselves. In Jake’s words: “They are not making anything that’s dope.”

EDIT: It's fixed!

Just doing my regular Monday morning routine illegally downloading paywalled bourgie podcast for my bike commute, but seems like the xml links down @jumble@hexbear.net

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Former character actor Peter Coyote joins Will to talk about his new book Smothered by Riches, a polemic on the collapse of the New Deal consensus and the legacy of the Powell memo. He and Will talk about the history of neoliberalism from the Chicago boys to Bill Clinton, Peter’s decades-long political life including time in an Anarchist theater troupe, and a bit of Zen Buddhism for good measure.

A really interesting interview with a 1960s student activist

Haven't listened yet but from the title alone I know it's gonna be good.

The parent company of the satirical publication The Onion has a deal to take control of Infowars, the conspiracist media machine built by Alex Jones for the past 26 years. It is a proposed six-month licensing arrangement, pending approval from a Texas judge, with an option to renew. That is expected to be approved this Thursday, April 30th.

Travis and Jake speak to former NBC News reporter and The Onion CEO Ben Collins about the deal, the new creative vision for Infowars, what it means to Sandy Hook parents who were victimized by Jones, and comedian Tim Heidecker's role as creative director for the venture.

Before that, Julian joins us to unpack theories related to Cole Tomas Allen, the Torrance man who was charged with attempting to assassinate the president after attempting to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8289978

Lots of good listener/ reader questions.

Welcome to our debut show! This week, Adam talks with Reo Eveleth, journalist and podcaster, about who gets to imagine the future, the power that comes with that role, and why certain visions of the future have endured in American culture. They also discuss problematic faves, radical almanacs, a hundred years of horrifying manifestos, and the virtues of being cheesy.

About the show:

Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be.

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I've listened to a few of his podcasts and they seem pretty good.

What are your suggestions? She's not much of a video watcher.

In this second season, co-hosts and (I want to) believers Brad Abrahams and Jake Rockatansky embark on a six episode journey into Instrumental Transcommunication -- the idea that living humans in the present can communicate with dead humans living in the past. Old radios, analog clocks, and ancient computers could hold the key to understanding the world of the paranormal in a grounded, scientific way. What if WE are the ghosts in someone else's time?

To introduce the concept of ITC, Chapter One sees Brad and Jake diving into Ken Webster's 1989 book “The Vertical Plane” -- a strange tale involving a BBC Microcomputer, and a man living in the 1500’s.

Some really fun time travel slop.

I like listening to it while trying to sleep or while doing work in the background, and the history gives me inspiration for what to write about

But is there anything I should know that might be controversial or something wrong dropping the whole series for?

Also recommendations for similar podcasts would be nice

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45064005

I hope they're next. Baffling people, the few among them that could hypothetically deserve to live someday are deeply confused + useless. Escape Reddit & start posting #different. Kill the Redditor in your mind.

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1s4gm6n/the_adam_friedland_show_subreddit_banned/

We get our SF billboard specialist and recovered startup person Wendy Liu in to talk about the newest scandal rocking Silicon Valley: a company that can only be described as Theranos for Compliance.

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Spending your time promoting AmeriKKKan policy debate as entertainment is bad enough, without even talking to Nazis. Do kids need to spend their time dreaming of emulating ChomsKKKy v. BucKKKley/FouKKKault? That's the effect of bringing US propaganda to such an inquisitive audience. It consumes their dreams! Where did yours go, Grey Wolves? Track them down for me, would you?

Alternative media is just an endless dispute over who is more disappointed in the tragic lost potential of the Third Reich's role model. The exception is pretty much just Marandi-types who get suckered into it to the point they retweet Klandace.