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.

Messages:

• Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainstTheMachine

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• Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts!

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.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8007221

Will and Hesse talk about the 2026 Oscar race.

The war isn't going well for the United States. Let's talk with anthropologist Dr. Katie Keene-Montgomery about how and why people are still trapped in this absurd narrative. Nobody exists outside of propaganda. Here are the six layers of narrative production for reference:

1. Economic interests that require a threat environment to stay profitable

2. Elite networks where consensus forms before any public debate

3. Funded think tanks that convert that consensus into expert opinion

4. Official language and legal designations that install the frame

5. Media systems that distribute it as neutral coverage

6. Public opinion polling that returns the result as democratic mandate

7. Repeat. This is continuous and cyclical.

Today's true anon ep #530 "hate line #1". Does anybody know about the guests? It seems like a press tour appearence to promote their HBO tv show. Neither of which have any relation to the usual themes of TA. I didn't catch any mention that they have any social connection or other explanation. And TV show sounded quite boring, its about homeowners petty fighting.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6iWHd3SuJMR71xPMs9KJ4d

Friend of the show Bikrum Gill is joined by Helyeh Doutaghi to discuss the resistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the US-Zionist war of aggression. The discussion focuses on the strategic objectives pursued by Iran in its resistance, and what the larger stakes are for the region and the world-system as a whole. It considers how Iran’s resistance represents a historic advance for forces of anti-imperialism. Finally, the episode explores the basis of the specific social, historical, and theological bases of Iranian sovereignty.

I thought this was an interesting interview.

Episode 449 of your kickstarter sucks at 42:30

CW casual ableism

If you find the audio they say "fucking stupid" a whole lot and i believe JF says 'mental problem' once to deride people.

they are doing some dumb bit about if they move to japan they wouldn't be allowed to have tattoos (they're doing british accents... this is a really dumb podcast) and mike goes

"oh you'd have to cover up your death's head hehehe"

and JF just goes so hard

"i got that when i was young... you know.... this is fucking nuts if you're falling for this guy you need to hit yourself on the head. If you're a platner guy you need to do some laps i don't want to hear from you"

Fuckers on a podcast where the most common words are probably "fart, uuhhhh, ummm, i dunno" and they're better than some communists

Hi guys! It’s Wednesday and the War against Iran is going so well that US Regime Media has just dropped the new talking point to all its local subsidiaries - What’ll it be this time? "Short term pain for long term gain."

We discuss the regional chess board and the global chess board, the fight for the petrodollar, and the complicity of the Gulf States in the war against Iran.

Read Elina's Article here! https://exenophontos.substack.com/p/war-on-iran-oil-empire-and-global

In this urgent episode of The Silk and Steel Podcast, Carl Zha is joined by returning guest Dr. Warwick Powell (Australia) to dissect the catastrophic first weeks of the Trump administration's war against Iran. What was supposed to be a "wham-bam, thank you ma'am" decapitation strike has spiraled into a nightmare that is exposing the hollow core of American military power and the unraveling of the US empire.

We break down:

How the US military is running out of ammunition and missile interceptors just weeks into the conflict

The destruction of US THAAD systems in the Gulf and what it means for global power projection

Why the "US security umbrella" is now exposed as a Potemkin village

The shocking decision to dismantle missile defenses in South Korea to protect Israel—and what it tells US allies in Asia

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the SECOND and THIRD order effects on global supply chains (sulphur, copper, fertilizers, and even AI data centers!)

Why China's much-mocked investments in electrification and renewables now look like genius-level foresight

The coming collapse of the petrodollar system and what replaces it

Taiwan's reckoning: why the island's youth no longer want to die for a fantasy

Plus: Why China won't "invade" Taiwan, why Japan's militarization ambitions are doomed, and how the global south will leapfrog the West using Chinese solar and EVs.

Dr. Warwick Powell is a author, academic, and policy advisor. Follow his work at: warwickpal.substack.com

His new book "Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters" drops March 15th on Amazon.