podcasts

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3711697

Will and Hesse are joined by Nick Newman of The Film Stage to talk about two early films from director David Cronenberg: Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977).

Haus of Decline has a podcast now

It seems to be happening more frequently that I'll be listening to a pod that discusses current events (online & otherwise) and they just utterly fail to describe what the fuck even happened. Like they'll just obliquely reference some event and it's assumed the listener already knows about it and is tuning in for the discussion. maybe they'll actually explain but only after at least few minutes of comments which I have no context for and can't really parse.

maybe I'm noticing this becasuse I'm recovering from terminally online syndrome, maybe they're getting lazier, but It's happened in chapo trap house, wtyp, seeking derangements, possibly even true anon(?). Never citations needed though, they're goated.

If you're a podcaster and you're going to discuss some current event please actually relay what happened (who, what, when, where, why) for your audience before making jokes about it.

idk, maybe this is a neurodivergence thing. and yes I am actually listening.

As of last week, OpenAI is now worth $157 billion - yet below the hood is a far darker story. In this episode, Ed Zitron explains the cold, hard truth - that OpenAI is a terrible business that burns billions of dollars, and its failure to scale its cloud business tells a dark tale about the wider generative AI industry.

Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" genocide in Gaza.

By popular request we're bringing on Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada to talk about the overall situation in the Palestine/Lebanon battle-space and how the IOF will not be able to maintain its operations forever. Israel is also facing social and economic collapse, but we're still a ways from that.

anyone have a MDC premium feed they'd be willing to share? podking has been down for a few weeks and I'm losing faith!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3646216

Will and Hesse are joined by Andrew Hudson from the E1 podcast to talk about two great horror sequels: George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986).

In this episode of Citation Needed, Crypto Skeptic and Software Developer, Molly White, gives a talk at XOXO Festival where she reminisces about her childhood experiences discovering the World Wide Web for the first time. Through narrating her early days online, Molly highlights how the early web, though flawed, was an exciting new ecosystem where human expressions and connections were made and flourished.

She contrasts the web of her childhood with the web of today, which she bemoans as having become a tool used by Tech Giants for extracting data, time, and money from their users, effectively abusing them and contributing to a more isolated, alienating world.

Molly White concludes her talk by pointing out how the Tech Giants that have come to dominate our online lives have started to falter under increasing levels of scrutiny as more and more people are becoming aware of how these Tech Giants are exploiting their users in exchange for profit and power. She then outlines how those of us who grew up loving the web can reclaim it for ourselves once more.

You can find this podcast presentation as a blog post on the Citation Needed Website.

Show notes

We chat with Marijam Did, author of the new book Everything to Play For, which bridges radical leftist politics and video games through a real material analysis of video games as an industry, art form, and social space. Marijam lays out the case for why these two communities of radical leftists and gamers—which have largely been distinct and even antagonistic to each other—need to be brought together for the betterment of both sides. Leftists and gamers have a lot to learn from each other. Indeed, as we argue, they need each other.

Marijam’s new book – Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3086-everything-to-play-for

Gamers rise up

Will World War Three happen yet? We think we'll make it to Halloween at least, so that's fun.

Their recent episodes on the Lebanon front have also been good.