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#1599 Taming the Beast: AI Regulation Before Human Relegation
Air Date 12/20/2023 AI needs to be regulated by governments even though politicians don't understand computers just as the government regulates the manufacture and operation of aircraft even though yo
Bonus Sample #283 Meaningless rituals are useful but self-driving cars are more questionable
Air Date: 12-15-23 Today, Jay!, Amanda, and Deon discuss: - why humans need rituals for mental health and community - what happens when corporations try to adopt rituals - what happens when squishy-bl
#1598 Kiss of Death: Henry Kissinger's Bloody Legacy of Indifference
Air Date 12/12/2023 Henry Kissinger, it turns out, was actually a pretty good representative of the United States, the foreign policy actions we took, and the reasonings we gave for them over the past
Bonus Samples #281 and 282 No one likes how this is going | Not Worth It
! Original Air Dates 12-3-23 and 12-10-23 We discuss in episode #281: - the impacts of a stratified wealth disparity - the anti-social habit we're adopting that will make us more anti-social - the des
#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity
Air Date 12/8/2023 Neoliberalism has created a lot of economic suffering and insecurity in addition to weakened social ties over the past few decades. And now, in what may be the most devastating resu
#1596 Building a positive future by first envisioning it and then designing it
Air Date 12/5/2023 It's important to focus on positive visions and not only get stuck in doom cycles of complaining about what's going wrong. So, we're looking at a variety of positive visions includi
#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move (Throwback)
Original Air Date: 10/8/2022 Today, we take a look at the recent elections in Italy, Brazil and Sweden where far-right parties are either taking power or looking to maintain it as well as the parallel
#1595 Pushing for Medicare For All in the Laboratories of Democracy
Air Date 11/29/2023 The movement for universal health care is still underway, though it rarely gets recognized in mainstream discourse. The death of Medicare For All (M4A) activist Ady Barkan is an oc
#1594 Testing New Climate Solutions: Geothermal and Geo-Engineering
Air Date 11/26/2023 As the hottest year in 125,000 years or so begins to come to a close, we turn to two projects still in their infancy that have big plans to decarbonize our electricity generation o
#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad (Repost)
Original Air Date 10-5-2022 Today, we take a look at the life and legacy of President Ronald Reagan, the last transformational U.S. president who's regime we are still living in. Between his neolibera