New Odium Symposium. We go through an episode of Loveline, a once wildly popular call-in radio show, then look at where its hosts Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew ended up.
https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/26-chudline-with-172120239 or www.odiumsymposium.com for all the usual rss sources
new Odium Symposium. we look at Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel, and discuss the weaponization of antisemitism and the self-importance of writing a book of twitter screenshots. https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/25-y-word-170681755 or any podcast app
guy on threads told meta's ai to handle his marketplace transaction for a keyboard, it send his address to a potential buyer, brought the buyer to his house, then accidentally taunted the buyer. coulda gone bad
interesting article on embedding tracking into images, audio etc
https://brand.io/article/spymarks/
iirc scott aaronson (notable among our friends) was working for openai on the text version of this a while back
going to keep "4 epistillion percent" in my back pocket from now on
zencastr. it's the new episode processing that hasn't been functioning. had some contact with support, didn't help, currently in the process of getting them to redirect our RSS
https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/24-dolphin-of-169474003
New Odium Symposium episode, "The Dolphin Fucking Elders of Atlantis". We talk about new age crystal healing pioneer Frank Alper and his channeled lectures on Atlantis, Lemuria, Anti-Atlantis, crystals, and the future of humanity.
If you listen anywhere besides Patreon or Spotify, the episode is delayed. Our hosting service went "LLM based" (?) as I recounted previously and then just stopped working. We're switching hosts and will have the episode up as soon as possible.
sartre proven more right every day
i first became aware of srinivasan because he was running an extremely funny bitcoin scam. it was a $400 computer, the crypto mining platform of the future, a veritable font of wealth, and when people got it it was a raspberry pi with some shielding incorrectly attached, so that if you touched it wrong you shorted it and bricked the device. it mined a few cents a year and sent something like half of that to a16z
i also first became aware that noah smith was going to lose his mind when he cited srinivasan approvingly on twitter, i drew his attention to this, and he replied 'no i just asked balaji about this and he said he's cool, that it wasn't a scam and also that he was actually put in charge of it to make it not a scam'
Icarus Robotics is a startup with at least six million dollars in funding so far. the idea is to train robots on human workers to make space mass production... work. or something.
anyway i don't see any red flags
Sarah and Helen are joined by reporter on the far right Michael Edison Hayden to discuss his new book Strange People on the Hill, about what happened when far right propaganda outlet VDARE bought a castle overlooking a small West Virginia town.
We discuss The Camp of the Saints, a racist novel that has quietly become fundamental to how the right wing talks about immigration.
Also, last week we released a members only episode about the pseudoscience paper repository viXra.
Links to more platforms on our website at https://www.odiumsymposium.com/
archive link: https://archive.ph/ONKkm
contextualizes the topic beautifully. you might learn a lot about how american racism relates to capital and art from this article
highlight: most of these guys are into classical art fascism but one of them, a bitcoin guy looking to build a 450 foot tall statue of prometheus, appears to be specifically into italian fascism. his favorite aesthetic is futurism and he hired a futurist sculptor with this "manifesto" on his website:
