Trans Resister Radio

Social media is dominated by trolls, and they have used their influence to wreak mass destruction on and off line.  Topics include: making sense of things, no allegiances, social media interactions, Tim Pool, bots, trolls, sarcasm, communication, social media Nihilism, trolling is now seen as good, MAGA riding dark online wave, Russian money, Tenet Media, targets of propaganda, alternative thinking taboos, American decline, divide and conquer, Trump vs Musk, telling jokes, rising to top by being an internet troll, comedy routine at debate, Vivek Ramaswamy, being the biggest winner and loser at the same time, billionaires acting like clowns, pro wrestling, is the fight real?, technocratic overlords, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, Administrative State, privatized system of control, attention economy, pay to play, possible schism within right wing world, MTG, Alex Jones, making excuses for Palantir, hall of mirrors, alternative is already the new mainstream, Steve Albini, being confrontational for its own sake, recanting edge lord past, analog media is dead, living a virtual reality, deflecting, nebulous enemies, literally demonizing your enemy, Golden Age, Western geopolitical alliances breaking on purpose, alchemical dissolution, nebulous ideas as enemies, Red Pill, cosplaying The Matrix, 3 AIs talking to each other

Pearse Redmond makes his grand return as a guest on this special episode. Reflections on an ever changing digital media space, and our collective struggle against confusion are had along with some memories of days gone by.  Topics include: early Porkins Policy Radio episodes, looking back at earlier days of podcasting, KONY 2012, information overload, Musk's black eye, possibility of P Diddy pardon, early Epstein coverage, bitterness, commoditization of stories, idea that Trump would expose Epstein truth, alt media personalities exploiting story, dog whistle, end of conspiracy media, MAGA establishment pretending not to be the establishment, public threshold for failure low, J6 pardons and claims of Antifa involvement, live-streamers portraying themselves as truth tellers, war Gaza, simulation and virtual reality, RFK Jr, kicking the can down the road, not reading news can be good, debate culture, reactionary content creation, the platform leads the creator, analytics and SEO, rise of AI, nothing is real or original, lack of superintelligence, college students cheating with AI, mediocrity in and out, new Mission Impossible, social media platforms as propaganda platforms, perception warped, Great Powers Competition, resources, multipolar world, international propaganda, soft power, becoming radicalized to good causes can lead to disaster

The distraction machine is constantly being upgraded. Don't think it won't get you.  Topics include: Patreon supporters, online platforms, Trump's BBW, new kind of material for shows, fake Prince tape at Diddy trial, falling victim to disinformation, AI automated content generation, salacious stories used to propagate misinformation, exploitation of counter culture, key words and SEO, attention economy, narratives, propaganda, distraction and misdirection, Epstein, Bongino and Patel as traitors to the cause, twisting truth movement as a way to vote in a new regime, tech oligarchs, Tim Dillon CNN interview, part of a new establishment, lame talking points, wishing the shills well, far right hate conspiracies have gone mainstream, White Genocide in the White House, receipts talking point, media is saying Elon Musk is stepping down, Grok, fat guy on Ozempic, eugenic breeding program, South Africa, legitimate disruptor would be good, possible cooptation of alternative community building, Network State, Freedom Cities, alt media already coopted, real story of longterm goals of DOGE, technocracy, possible privatization of USPS, hostile takeover by Amazon, cancelling X premium

Peace through strength involves taking world tours to make the big technological deals.    Topics include: communication breakdown, technology leading humanity to its own ends, digital dark age, Middle East presidential tour, technological arms race, AI, microprocessors, G42, Humain, China, Saudi Arabia, NVIDIA, AWS, AI zones, UAE, propaganda, TSMC, Taiwan, government contracts, X pure propaganda platform, transitions, fighting the establishment, nationalism, cyber security, free will impossible in techno prison, make the most out of your situation, false consciousness of AI systems, intergenerational warfare, accountability, no normal, impossible to plan a life, metadata

While the United States proudly destroys itself, other global power players take the opportunity to bolster their “charm offensives.”   Topics include: bad information, information warfare, conspiracy culture, analytics tools, pitting the poor against each other, woke scapegoat, racist posts, alchemical process of social deconstruction, QAnon, obvious conspiracy traps, possessed by misinformation, faith in authority figures, America being purposely destroyed, intellectual self defense, salesmanship, divide and conquer, immigrant scapegoat, promoting idea of civil war, technocratic control system, Palantir, Big Tech, artficial control systems, new MIC, luxury bunkers, excitement about possibility of apocalyptic events, world views of the United States, destruction of anti-war movement, UK history of appeasing fascists, moronic shills, talking points, being the person no one likes, burnt at the stake, Meta hiring former Pentagon officials, Llama AI, charm offensive, military and government contracts, IShowSpeed in China, Chinese international propaganda campaign, soft power, targeting younger generation, Voice of America targeted by Trump administration, China portraying itself as the better alternative to US, geopolitics, new power players, efficiency propaganda point, Libertarian farce, pride in being a total misfit, digital tyranny, spiritual resistance, Eye of Sauron, Lord Of the Rings, no Red Pill or other pills

Robin Unger returns to the show to pick up where we left off talking about Carroll Quigley. This episode is more about the alternative media landscape generally. A hollowed out shell of what it once was, so much of supposed counter culture is now being used to sell authoritarian technocracy.  Topics include: Mark Carney, establishment leaders, The Age of Transitions video, Truth videos from aughts, Alchemy in Popular Music, Mystery Girl Roy Orbison song, Bono, Themes & Memes, Carroll Quigley, Curtis Yarvin, orbital power, UN as a problem, weapons as unifying political tools, changing alternative media takes, Dark Enlightenment, Libertarian farce, fascism, technocracy, Anglo American Establishment, promotion of dominant minority, Left Hand Path occultism, Zelensky Star Wars fandom, the Dark Side, National Reconnaissance Office, selling counter cultural narratives, QAnon, intel ops, The Storm, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, MAGA infighting, pretending to be antagonistic, Biosphere 2, stirring the pot, Roger Stone hiding away, Jason Bermas, Australian fronted media companies, supporting political candidates only to disrupt elections, alternative media ventures as a means to mask actual sources of funding, hijacking Truth Movement, Flat Earth, DOGE, Alex Jones support from Musk, The Onion short lived ownership of Infowars, Canadian trucker convoy protest, Bill Cooper, exploiting emergency powers, Patriot Act, PNAC, shilling for new establishment, Tucker Carlson, Curt Weldon, 9/11 Truth, converging interests, Cass Sunstein white paper about weaponizing conspiracy theories, military intelligence, terror acts instigated by feds, Michigan governor kidnapping plot, Operation Gladio, making media about weaponization of alt media, Media Roots, James Corbett, return of Sibel Edmonds, spiritual self improvement

Are we now living in a Great Powers Competition or Great Powers Cooperation? The story changes daily, so pay close attention to be able to make any kind of sense of it all.  Topics include: technology, transhumanism, singularity, global tech war, development, trade, geopolitics, propaganda, social media information war space, influence operations, Huawei microchip developments, TSMC, Taiwan and China, GPU, graphics chips, AI, LLMs, NVIDIA, tariffs, AI arms race, 910C chip, SMIC fab, Sophgo, threats of invasion, changing perceptions of the Great Powers Competition, CFR, silliness of propaganda narratives, exploiting American bias, government claiming to be business, exploitation of American conspiracy culture, philosophy of current presidential administration based on conspiracy ideas, American Exceptionalism as a weakness, Russian influence ops, question of scale, Tim Pool in Whitehouse press room, Bizzaro Nature Boy, flimsy ideological environment, no consensus, dependency on digital information space, Elon Musk inflated autobiography, Big Tech power brokers both powerful and foolish, believing your own propaganda

Aaron takes the opportunity to do a bit of brainstorming and reflection on media production. We live in a time of flux, and all we can do is keep moving within the raging current. One can stay afloat by simply realizing the reality of the situation, and not merely being washed away.  Topics include: Candid Truth, being invited onto shows, Revolve book, being around for years, ebb and flow of popularity, drop off of female audience for Ochelli Effect, Skype as an original online broadcasting tool, Discord, herbivorizing predators video debate, bioengineering, content farm, time to create content, true independence is valuable, algorithms, online propaganda, social media online propaganda war, taboo topics, influencers, interesting email feedback, connected fringe groups, actual research, optimism, motivation, rules changing constantly, Uncle's TikTok, short videos, Meria Heller as the Italian Grandma, social media as a form of therapy, layers of translations, international audiences, banned in China, propaganda specific to TikTok, propaganda is not completely untrue, exploiting US weaknesses, new normal in media, playing with crazy

Robin Unger comes on to talk with Aaron about Carroll Quigley. Infamous in the world of conspiracy culture, some of his best work continues to go mostly unnoticed. His book, The Evolution of Civilizations, is looked at here.    Topics include: Canada, Carroll Quigley, Evolution of Civilizations, Historical Analysis, Tragedy and Hope, Cecil Rhodes, Council on Foreign Relations, foreign policy think tanks, Georgetown University, Bill Clinton, right wing conspiracy culture, John Birch Society, Alan Watt, Anglo-American Establishment, scientific method applied to history, social sciences, Anna's Archive, Weapon Systems and Political Stability, unfinished manuscript, Classical Civilization, Western Civilization, Middle Ages, 7 stages of civilization, mixing of civilizations, instruments of expansion, institutions become special interests, MacMillan publishing issues, book plates destroyed, Allen Dulles, no true secrets in intelligence work, open source intelligence, no secrets in nuclear research during the Cold War, GSG & Associates, Milner Group, DeBeers Diamonds, Rhodes Scholars, All Souls, British Empire, Lyndon LaRouche, current Age of Conflict, inner class wars, tech takeover, Technocracy Incorporated, Robin's art projects

Everyone is a victim of American Exceptionalism.  Topics include: podcast reviews, algorithms and shadow banning, future listens, Herbivorize Predators livestream debate, Robin Unger, Carroll Quigley, Uncle livestreams, normal life, digital world, contradictions, transhumanism, Martine Rothblatt, new propaganda narrative, Destroy and Rebuild, regime change, civil liberties, talking points, Joe Rogan's podcast spinoff TV show, merging with machines, Elon Musk, X as propaganda platform, Tesla boycott is working, vandalism of Tesla as propaganda, fire symbol, uptick in racist posts, typical progression to full white supremacy, mainstreaming of fringe ideas, conspiracy culture, no talk about occult concepts, globalism, Great Powers competition, US national identity crisis, clashing with former allies, global influence ops, strength, China, Russia, fall of Soviet Union, trained to only look inward, veiled national arrogance, possible collusion between domestic and foreign power players, heresy, closed minds, tariffs, new American imperialism, North American Union, rare Earths, Greenland, Social Darwinism, leaders can barely speak, throat nanobots used to neutralize targeted individuals via squirt gun

We are now witnessing a complete upgrade of the US government and our very lives. The War on Terror foundation and blueprint is there, and being used to go even further. There can be no true freedom from here on out, but there sure will be a lot more things labeled as “liberty.” Will you “stand with” this abomination?  Topics include: Bookshop dot org affiliate link and buying books, techno eugenics, recent guests, digital propaganda stream, Tech moguls in charge of our government, total control, flaunting themselves in public view, evolution of Military Industrial Complex, Big Tech takeover from Aerospace, national security, defense, DIB, DIU, Eric Schmidt, cyber security, AI, future warfare, implied crony capitalism, F35, new dominant narrative centered on government waste, Deep State boogeyman, pure Libertarian Capitalism, Art of the Deal, new American Imperialism, American exceptionalism, cyber terror attacks, new rulers will exploit attacks, Musk and his super geniuses, desire for apocalyptic events by super rich, DOGE, facade of efficiency, AI directed government, ownership of data, privacy, Peter Thiel brand of Libertarianism, freedom and liberty, crushing individual rights, War on Terror foundations, PNAC, safety and security, 9/11, enemy combatants, Bush as the bad guy, daughter Cheney, DC corruption, MAGA narrative, 1776ing, Orwell, Erik Prince criticism of War on Terror, anti-establishment aspect of new dominant propaganda narrative, the new mainstream media, enemy networks capitulation, future of cable TV, social media is the new mainstream, interactive media, algorithms, systems designed to promote favored content, former iconoclastic critics of establishment now are mouthpieces of ruling regime, information war, bullhorns, brazen attitude at street protests, international deals, social media feeds meant to distract and confuse, Freedom Cities vs 15 Minute Cities, constant updates, lowest common denominator continues to work, guise of conservatism, I Stand With movement

Gil Duran is an independent journalist and mind behind The Nerd Reich Blog, which is one of the absolute best sources of information about the Big Tech billionaires who are now attempting a hostile takeover of the United States government. In this interview, he talks about this Earth shattering story that can no longer be ignored.  Topics include: Silicon Valley, freelance journalism, transhumanism, Bryan Johnson, Don't Die conference, cult like ideology, life extension, true believers, fringe vs mainstream ideas, Neuralink, X, algorithm, billionaires, rich people are crazy, long form podcast interviews, journalists tuned out, career in politics, hostile takeover, California Forever, Solano County, secret group buying up farm land, slow growth ordinance, Network State, Mark Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz, Amsterdam conference, surveillance and high end security, unite left and right to reject the development project, false claims of addressing the housing crisis, special economic status, Freedom Cities, Peter Thiel, potential takeover of FDA, hierarchical society controlled by a corporation, luxury bunkers, apocalyptic ethos, prepper movement, the Sovereign Individual book, homeless epidemic, accelerationist Millenarian philosophy, Exit, Voice, stealing other's ideas, Curtis Yarvin, CEO as dictator of federal government, Butterfly Revolution, duty of the Press, old and new media, Fifth Generation Warfare, 5GW, controlling perception, John Robb, information war, pressure on academia, religion, parallel reality, propaganda, disinformation, Russian influence ops, talking points, kleptocracy, oligarchy, Autocracy Inc book, Project Russia, town hall confrontations, Democratic Party hiding, former political suicide not a problem for new power players, need for pushback, force leaders to action, moral battle, AI, sci fi villains, dystopia, power of the people, fake strength, nothing but show, accountability, rationing eggs, superficial media narratives, data that federal government holds

Anita Say Chan is the author of “Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future.” Here, she speaks about her book and the very important connection between eugenics and the current Big Tech data regimes that we all live under.  Topics include: Uncle is on vacation, Ochelli Radio Network, Skype going away, 666-HELL, Singularity Summit 2009, eugenics, transhumanism, Bookshop(dot)org, University of Illinois, history of information sciences, data economy, predictive methods, social media, STEM, Silicon Valley, archives, critical humanities, Francis Galton, colonization, against diversity, demise of the West, paranoia, racial demise, datafication of populations, natural hierarchy, numbers, disinformation, non-Nordic classes, immigration laws, criminality, policy lobbying, misuse of science, sterilization laws, patrician classes, California eugenic policies, Stanford, Elon Musk, funding far right political movements, global order, attack on democracy, racial hierarchy, US as model for Nazi Germany eugenics, techno eugenics, false empiricism, divest from public institutions, Thiel, Andreesen, radical elitism, MAGA, promoting procreation of the well born, super genius, biological predetermination, Silicon Valley, Modi, Hindu Nationalism, Facebook in India, social media posts leading to real world violence, mob violence, attacks on minority populations, regulation on AI, public safety, psychopathic cost benefit analysis, taking power back

The new political propaganda machine did not just appear overnight. It's been a long road built in a relatively short period of time, and we are speeding down it now. If you just merged onto this freeway be warned, nothing is as advertised on the billboards. Topics include: no Uncle show this week, 2009 Singularity Summit, Peter Thiel, Ray Kurzweil, NYC, MIRI, Google, Macroeconomics and Singularity, Libertarian politics, government contracts, intelligence, Palantir, PayPal Mafia, billionaires, limited government, consolidation of fringe and mainstream, alternative media, ideological shifts, political technology, social media, big data, surveillance, Big Tech, crazy wins elections, data as a commodity, analytics, Information Age, political campaigns as potential data purchasers, world of contradictions, technocracy, Trump and Musk, crypto, claims to be disclosing hidden secrets, chainsaw at CPAC, transhumanism, zero charisma spokesmen, Joe Rogan, podcasts, comedy, fake underground, Gravitron ride, online media is the new establishment, cult of personality, X, AI, Culture Wars as a distraction, executive orders made to placate the electorate, propaganda, Thiel Fellowship, powers that be now on public display, talking points, acting like automatons, Russian disinformation, confluence of interests, Hulk Hogan, Idiocracy, dumbing down of America, Ochelli Radio Network, performance art, stand up comedy, branding, There is an Us and Them however you've gotten the identities of both wrong

Freelance journalist and author, Tea Krulos, is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast. His zine, Political Monsters, has built onto a theory that posits that there are more vampire movies during Democratic presidencies, and more zombie movies with Republican administrations. Tea's addition to this concept is that Trump has a whole horror genre unique to his reign, the killer clown movie.   Topics include: Political Monsters zine and ebook, horror movies, original theory from Obama years, Democratic vampires and Republican zombies, collective fears, Trump clowns, MAGA Party, Great Clown Panic of 2016, archetypes, data presented in graphs, Dracula, public domain, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Nosferatu, war commentary, Hollywood copycat films, collective reality, identity narratives,  new fears, chaos, other subgenres to look for, Joker, rabble rouser, Jan 6, nostalgia, movies on TV, YouTubers, Juggalos, Violent J, DC march, live presentations, Milwaukee, Lion's Tooth bookstore

The Global Propaganda Matrix is raging onward in this world gone mad. Be on the lookout for the transformation of the “alternative media” into the fully fledged patriot media.  Topics include: transhumanism, converging technologies, current events emergencies, AI, tech and biology merger, posthuman, continuum of human history, big picture, DeepSeek, generative AI, ChatGPT, NVIDIA, cheap development, national security, shift in MIC, Aerospace vs Big Tech, arms race, Eric Schmidt, NSCAI, DIB, DoD, app stores, Chinese app controversies, TikTok, digital hall of mirrors, Strong Man, US picking fights with neighbors, North American Union, Mexico, Canada, Greenland, change in alternative media, temporary identity crisis, New World Order, game show host savior, patriot propagandists, peace through strength, cyber warfare, false flag terrorism, 9/11, The Apprentice, administrative state, various forms of online propaganda, Elon Musk, Alternative for Deutschland, idiotic trolling, prodding the opposition, scapegoats, social media are propaganda distribution networks, shills, reposting every lie, bully techniques, actual resistance, free thinking, using culture wars as a weapon, data and analytics, command and control, technique

Strong Man is back, and he has come toting a stack of executive orders. Make no mistake, these EOs have not appeared out of thin air. They were written in advance by the Project 2025 team at the Heritage Foundation. Is our glorious leader trying to endear himself to the electorate by fulfilling campaign promises, while also setting up his billionaire backers for total takeover?  Topics include: word of mouth podcast promotion, The Third Rail, Ochelli Radio taking new hosts, garage bands, foray into alternative media, transhumanism, insight from doing this for a long time, return of Strong Man, big changes, Project 2025, Newt Gingrich, hippies, bald identity, Turning Point USA, executive orders, DOGE repurposed USDS, assassination records releases, J6 pardons, campaign promises, immigration enforcement, alt media bought and paid for, tech overlords, USPS will be given to Bezos, inauguration parties for online media creators, voices of dissent now appearing, Stargate, Steve Bannon, AfD party, Musk, Nazi salute, alt media identity crisis, doing something different 

As everyone frets about the impending “ban” of TikTok the world's greatest businessman and politician is already two steps ahead and solving the problem. In an uncertain future the one thing that we can make out is that everyone stands to get something out of all the great deals that are yet to come.  Topics include: David Lynch, David Wants to Fly, upcoming inauguration, TikTok Supreme Court ruling, supposed ban, China, Joe Biden, Bytedance, Trump with final say on any issues, technocracy, billionaires buying influence, wooing younger generation, online propaganda, Xi Jinping, changing narratives, the best is yet to come wall poster, alt media having temporary identity crisis, rebranding, popular apps from China, left-right paradigm, doing business as new American political propaganda model, social media as propaganda distribution network, shills, when the fringe becomes mainstream, patriotism, North American Union used to be a great evil, Columbus Oh, Anduril Arsenal-1 drone factory, Peter Thiel, jobs, new MIC, Newt Gingrich worried about immigration enforcement

The year just started, and is already throwing all kinds of unexpected events our way. Is this merely the harbinger of even wilder things to come?  Topics include: Goat Mountain video, technocratic oligarchy, Musk, Trump, Greenland, Canada, TikTok Supreme Court, Great Powers Competition, online propaganda, Culture War, Los Angeles fires, natural disasters, World War 3, hybrid and cyber war, underwater structures, UAP drones, military denials, Lakehurst base, UFOlogy, orbs, UAP in Southern California Inland Empire, sightings all week long, drone forms, orb form morph into drone form UAP, types and patterns of lights, Lake Hills, patrolling drones, large bulbous headlights, drawings and notes, no sound in flight, out in plain sight, Radio segue about UFO, online message boards and apps with posts about sightings, cannabis, surreal reality, current events also bizarre, Trudeau resignation, former allies possibly becoming enemies, media changes, George W Bush, War on Terror propaganda, billionaire late comers donating to inauguration, unfettered power brokers, no hiding the truth, billionaire tech moguls podcast guest appearances, regular people in good spirits despite things getting worse, sense of togetherness, better communication and understanding, culture war issues always infused into stories that would otherwise unite everyone, staying on track, digital surveillance, distraction, human interaction goes in the right direction, noting pitfalls, The Event, luxury doomsday bunkers, guests using AI to find the show, Say Yes to the Guest

We are in the thick of The Age of Transitions now. It's a time of technocracy, and control by Big Tech oligarchs who have bought and paid for the government. Not even the former beneficiaries of the MIC are safe from their data driven rule by force.  Topics include: Chuck not well, Ochelli Radio Network, new Rumble channel, Patreon content, Singularity Summit interviews, new Themes & Memes episode, peers, tech oligarchs, shadow banning, share the show, AI powered guest referral systems, transcripts, artificial intelligence, MIC shifting from aerospace to Big Tech contractors, Space X, Palantir, Anduril, Open AI, consortium, retooling DoD, CDAO, JAIC, DDS, JADC2, Trump presidential campaign, tech billionaires, technocracy, cybersecurity, cyber 9/11, War on Terror, national security, social media, global propaganda matrix, exploitation of anti-establishment ideas, rise of online media, analytics, data surveillance, weaponization of culture war, Ramaswamy and Musk, acquisition of foreign talent in tech, MAGA base racist, Andreesen, Thiel, deportation agenda, new Cold War, China as antagonist, drag time story hour, divide and conquer, Trump himself not in charge, watch for narrative changes, TikTok divestment, Trump meeting with Bytedance CEO, Bezos, media now bowing to new administration, no one cares about truth, DOGE tool to remove regulation, civil liberties, privacy, Project 2025, prison industrial complex cashing in on deportation, police state, martial law, PNAC, Neocons, War on Terror continued, Mangione, billionaire podcast guests

John Kirwin is the author of The Conspiracy Theorist Survival Guide. In this interview he talks a bit about the book, and his motivations in pursuing the truth as he sees it.    Topics include: Wake up or else, 508(c)1, legal education, Sovereign Citizen trigger term, conspiracy theorist trigger term, Federal Reserve, rifts in family life, ultimatums, God, religion, truther group, mind control programming, personal sacrifices, waking up, charlatans, insinuation of character flaws, 10 rabbit hole portfolio, normies, false narratives, chemtrails, in the world not of the world, willful ignorance, vaccine as bioweapon, vaccine issue forcing conversation to extremes, absolute truths, virologists, conspiracy ideas used in mainstream, red pills, UFOs, states banning chemtrails, children's library books, alternative space doing more harm than good, digital propaganda space, covert influence operations, citizen journalism, weaponized government, money for hurricane victims, choosing not to give up, Mandela Effect, vivid memories undone, convictions, pop culture, misremembering the same way, conventional thinking, implanted thoughts, mathematic impossibilities

David Hirschfeld is the founder of Tekyz software development company. In this interview he shares some interesting examples of how he has used artificial intelligence for projects that he has worked on. There are also some speculations on what we may expect to see in the near future.  Topics include: Patreon material, David Hirschfeld, software development, Tekyz, artificial intelligence, no one understands how AI works, technology, training data, medical devices, AI integrated into new software, AI development assistant, idea that AI hype is overblown is wrong, Elon Musk, data centers, robotics, autonomous vehicles, parking garages, rideshare companies, Waymo, regulations, DOGE, AI hallucinations subsiding, coding, self improving systems, autonomous vehicle safety, AGI, data privacy, agentic workflow, Microsoft reopening Three Mile Island, geopolitical side to AI development, tech administered influence operations, near future implications

A quick update to let you know about some live-streams and Patreon content you may have missed.  topics include: Themes & Memes, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular, Singularity Summit 2009 video tapes Patreon shows, transhumanism, listener suggestions, making media fun

Onions are known to cause tears, but this time they ain't the tears of liberal snowflakes. No way, these are the tears of everyone's favorite rightwing beefcake.  Topics include: Patreon content, Singularity Summit 2009, NYC, James Hughes, 2B movie premiere, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular, video, changing media landscape, legacy media vs new media, Onion auction purchase of Infowars, Alex Jones, satire of alt media overdue, shills, Paul brothers, making money from media production, advertisers, home shopping channels, viewer demographics, content creator as career, online media high production value, Global Propaganda Matrix, fabs, microprocessors, TSMC, Intel, world war, CHIPS Act, technology, New Albany OH, Columbus, Les Wexner, Mike Jeffries, get rich quick, billionaires, made in America, gods, Antichrist

The glorious leader will soon make his triumphant return to the office he was born to sit in. In truth, he likely won't do much more than sit, but he is bringing all of the best people to help him to do the job.  Topics include: Patreon improvements, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular live-stream, return of Trump, Stop the Steal 2, election fraud, content creators are always right, MAGA marketing, Trump brand, techno oligarchs, Big Tech, Silicon Valley Libertarianism, loss of civil liberties, technocracy, Freedom Cities, coming challenges, Grifter Industrial Complex, dying Legacy Media, Neocons, Bush administration, unitary executive, War on Terror, racism, Patriot Act, Supreme Court ruling on Presidential immunity, disenfranchised working class, Trump not actually in charge, Project 2025 is the plan, lawyers have written executive orders, old age, America First, foreign policy, karma, World War 3, South China Sea, Indo Pacific, China, Russia, Japan, Australia, Phillippines, Taiwan, Chinese statements placating the American ego, cyber attacks, new patriotic propaganda campaign, PNAC, “alt media” is the establishment again, Strong Man, outlawing dictionaries

This week's episode of The Age of Transitions podcast is an interview of Eray Özkural. An AI professional, transhumanist, and all around free thinker, he has a lot of first hand experience from within the world of artificial intelligence technology that he talks about here. Topics include: Marvin Minsky, Usenet, philosophy of mind, machine learning, biocomputing, history of AI, AI research shut down on purpose, AI Winter artificially induced, experts can be fooled by propaganda, misinformation, science of influence, media, examachine, Open AI, scare tactics to keep tech in hands of a few, Sam Altman, free markets

Apparently, The End of Democracy is upon us. As that plays itself out, let's try to get a firm hold on whatever is left.  Topics include: crafting propaganda narratives, artificial world, self, epiphany, human experience, American democracy, presidential election, lost faith in electoral process, true wealth hoarded, turned on each other, foundations, anti-intellectual sentiment, rapid change, Singularity, history, stake holders, gaming the system, virtual life, scapegoating, generational warfare, led by analytics and algorithms, art, truth, upcoming interviews, future options

Some thoughts on the many changes and many ages of transitions that we can look back on. Changing media and political trends have intertwined and brought us to a new marker post. Where do we go from here?  Topics include: Age of Transitions, technology, change, subconscious, historical marking posts, Newt Gingrich, politics and media, online reality, party politics, MAGA, fringe conspiracy culture, stolen election narratives, Election Day, ramping up police state, law and order, blanket distrust of politics and government, propaganda, conspiracy theory used as weapon, alchemical metaphors, heat, end of democracy, P Diddy, fringe radio, Tupaq and Biggie murders, black conspiracies, William Cooper, periods in conspiracy culture, self publishing, podcasting, internet history, albums on vinyl, Rush Limbaugh, outsider politics, truth movements subsumed by political movements, Putin, Butler assassination attempt

National security elites wish we were still living during the War on Terror years, but the glory days are gone for the US. Procuring government contracts to simply become wealthy is not good enough anymore. Meanwhile, those claiming to speak truth to power are simply recycling old tropes that no longer apply.  Topics include: prophets, IronNet, national security, cybersecurity, NSA, stock prices, C5 Capital, Russia, Keith Alexander, War on Terror, post war US history, foreign policy, wars of aggression, Pienaar, Russian oligarchs, making money for its own sake, corruption, imperial power, false pretexts for wars, 9/11 terror attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush administration, torture, Truth Movement, loss of civil liberties, unitary executive, Neocons, USA had privileged position, no global challengers, revolving door between public service and private industry, MIC, F35, ED 209, transitional period, Great Powers Competition, BRICS, dominant minority, Post Truth Movement, worn out tropes, funding for Ukraine vs past wars, Silicon Valley vying for more MIC influence, Global Propaganda Matrix, billionaires, falls from grace, double headed eagle, glorious past of various nations

Is Lauren Southern having a private crisis of conscience? Signs point to the probability of this, but only time, and Southern herself, may tell.  Topics include: status of Ochelli Radio Network, Brady Bunch collective style video podcasts, agendas, taboo topics, shifts in alternative media, Tenet Media, Lauren Southern, Alt Right, women in media, Charlottesville, young people difficulty with decisions, owning the libs, attention for its own sake, White Noise documentary, Gavin McInnes, misogyny, racism, business as usual for other Tenet affiliated creators, trad wife social media trend, Flintstones, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, Civil War Monuments, free speech, Red Pillers, The Matrix, occult significance of Seven Mountains Mandate, NAR evangelical sect, Microsoft reopening TMI, AI power requirements, belief that AI is overhyped, Heritage Foundation, theocracy, conscience, Sam Altman, Open AI

Harping on the Russian influence, but also making time for what China is up to these days according to the NSA. You may want to throw out your old smart toaster just to be safe from the botnet.  Topics include: Russian influence on alternative media, Post Truth Movement World, shared interests, global propaganda matrix, governments, taking offense to more, social media, justifying being online, surveillance of everyone, Tenet Media, Tim Pool the world's biggest moron, Canada, Foreign content creators exerting influence over our national politics, paranoid alt media creators, defense of independent editorial control, other media companies shutting down, financial backers pulled out, guise of free speech, hosts and creators who don't tow company line are dropped, RFK and Don Jr piece about Ukraine long range missiles, $100K per episode, promotion of civil war, sense that Justice may be done, exploding pagers, Israel, cell phones, future terrorism, NSA Twitter post, PRC botnets, hacking, IoT devices, DDoS attacks, cybersecurity, update devices and get rid of old ones, smart devices, consumer culture creates security risks, Communism vs Capitalism, Cold War 2.0, questions of grey areas concerning war, geopolitics, dystopia, historical perspective, confusion, cognitive dissonance, confidence in knowing what is real, work of podcasting vs manual labor, tools of alt media

Chuck joins the show to talk about the Russian propaganda influence over the alternative media. This is a topic that many would prefer to ignore, but it has to be taken seriously, and understood at a level that goes beyond opinion.  Topics include: Russian propaganda money, patriot radio stations, RBN, 2015, alt media dramatically shifted to Trump support, offers of money to go along, Roger Stone, apologists for Trump, QAnon, outsider iconography, large networks buying up all online media, Newsmax TV channel, PSYOPS, RT promoted, bans from social media never seem to stop big names, unwitting useful voices for Russia, Lee Camp, culture war, Western values vs Russia is the East, generic Ukraine smears, Pizzagate, every liberal woman accused of being a man, useful idiots, free speech as a marketing tool, absurd amounts of money for podcasting, money for YouTube videos, funneling money through phony advertisers, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, etymology of opinion, Post Truth World, social media

As the Culture War rages on, there continues to be a surprisingly serious battlefront in the world of online comedy. High ranking general Joe Rogan recently had a very public meeting with Lord Thiel. Sorting information from disinformation in the midst of this is easier said than done.  Topics include: syncronicity, Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan interview Peter Thiel, Singularity Institute, org name changes, AI, billionaire, Erich Von Daniken, Ancient Aliens, Wokeism as extreme religion, contradictions, Libertarianism, climate science, computer science, Bilderberg, AGI, NPCC film festival, Cinefamily LA, nihilism, stand up comedy, Comedy Culture War, JRE is the biggest podcast, 250 stand up comics left, The Elephant Graveyard YT channel, Rogan's Netflix special, Rogan Sphere, making a career out of podcast appearances, hacks, Rogan's song and dance becoming stale, generic conspiracy podcasts, whining about woke, sycophants, Austin comedy scene, Comedy Mothership, left and right wing factions of comedy, Kill Tony, Harland Williams, David Lucas, Tom Green, web-o-vision, early days of live streaming and podcasting, Matt Walsh at the DNC, the Not Racists, PR for a movie, attention economy, entertainment careers in digital age, following analytics, getting a reaction, no real ideology, posts becoming more extreme over time, quality original content, divide and conquer

Pack up your bags, you're being moved into a Freedom City. Don't worry, it's not an Agenda 21 Fifteen Minute City. We all know that would be a nightmare. This is a utopian new way to live that comes with a brand new and improved form of government.  Topics include: questions to ask to understand the world, ambiguous non answers, Deep State, billionaires, presidential election, narratives, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, social media platforms used for propaganda, confusion and obfuscation, MAGA money support, Mark Cuban, government run as a business, Libertarian ethos blended into Trump campaign messaging, mainstreaming of conspiracy culture, Republican Party changed by far right fringe ideas, Silicon Valley Libertarians, Marc Andreessen, Techno Utopian Manifesto, alt media online augmented reality, tech upgrades bring propaganda upgrades, technocracy, PR is Trump's only skill, generative AI political candidates, Peter Thiel, LLMs, JD Vance, insult comedy, fake masculinity, culture war, evangelicals, Putin, Post Truth, Triumph the Dog, internal war within MIC, desire to recreate American governmental structure, Curtis Yarvin, techno-feudal city states, Freedom Cities, Pronomos Capital, rebranding, network state, Space X and Brand X, Agenda 21 population movements, 15 minute cities, Zeitgeist Movement, Venus Project, martial law, Alex Jones, left/right paradigm

The digital charlatans are outnumbered only by their legions of online devotees. Understanding the basic nature of our current augmented reality is a necessary first step toward independent thought.  Topics include: June Lake Eastern Sierras, nature, boring artificial world, no true collective human goals, inadvertent problems of technological civilization, pollution, environmental degradation, technique, undeniable reality, wealth inequality, political turmoil, Trump's appeal to underclass, everything is a con, planned obsolescence, Harris and Democrats have the advantage at present, RFK Jr and Joe Rogan, nihilism of Rogan's brand, podcast medium, how to get engagement on Twitter X, Stephan Molyneux, exploitation of social media, augmented reality, online personas, propaganda, few people realize extent of digital exploitation, trending topics, taking things for granted, useful idiots, special interest groups, disinformation, online literacy, evil of television, scams, meaning of life, wasting time, honesty

Fires can be great, but it depends on who sets them. Is that a brush fire set by a Revolutionary Patriot, or is it one of those Molotov Cocktails that Antifa throws?  Topics include: independent media, anti intellectual trend, no more books, meme language, grotesque aesthetics, propaganda, dueling narratives, Project 2025, MAGA, exploitation of conspiracy culture, Alex Jones, playing the victim, Joe Biden gone, violence around election, Charlottesville, US intelligence establishment and Russia, PA Farm Show Arena, Paul Dans, Kevin Roberts book title edited, need to know basis, Dawn's Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America, sun symbolism, Jordan Maxwell, dawn of a new day, fire, occult meaning, Revolutionary Faith, James Billington, conjuring Revolutionary War, Fire in the Minds of Men, Taking Back Washington to Save America, lit match cover image, publishing is dead, JD Vance foreword, muskets, pushing idea of new Civil War, amalgamation of Revolutionary and Civil War, domestic warmongering, Freemasonry, dumbed down, Billionaire Libertarians, war over new Military Industrial Complex, Palantir, old Aerospace companies vs new VC Tech businesses, Pentagon

The propaganda machine is rolling away as the political rallies are rallying a little too hard. In a world gone mad how does everyone have all the answers? What if they never did?  Topics include: back on the show, immediate responses to news, paid propaganda, actual work, independent media, motives, noticing patterns, talking points, Jump to Conclusions Mat, Trump assassination attempt, Crooks, Secret Service failure, Democrats did it narrative, lawfare, playing the victim, spiritual battle, deep state, Trump sons, stochastic terrorism, Trump as a liability to his own campaign, MAGA movement bigger than Trump, martyrdom, narcissism clouds grander vision, aging, distancing from Project 2025, Heritage Foundation, Bannon, Kevin Roberts, cult of personality, being on TV, JD Vance, replace all bureaucrats, Peter Thiel, venture capital, Silicon Valley, unitary executive, Bill Kristol, Neocons, erosion of civil liberties post 9/11, Supreme Court, official duties, founder's intent, Libertarian technocracy, virtual reality, 1984, mind control, alternative media built up to now, flip flopping, culture war, being triggered, political stunts, virtue signaling, Cowboy Catholic posturing, getting attention for political advantage, authoritarianism, Trumpamania, billionaires making money, Andreesen, Techno Utopian Manifesto, saviors

In this podcast a tired guy talks about religion. Is he tired of religion? Maybe.  Topics include: Project 2025, religion, missionary work, Jesus Christ, Christianity, esoteric aspects of all religions, comparative religion, fear of the occult, Godfrey Reggio, living in a monastery, brotherhoods, fundamentalism, Christian Nationalism, public and private schools, peace, reincarnation, ego, human experience, quantification and objective truth seeking, mortality, alchemy, transhumanism, destroying religion with ignorance, AI booms and busts, generative AI imagery, AGI, everyone questioning reality, Dark Night of the Soul, theocracy

It's funny how those who are screaming and shouting the loudest about the Truth are actually driving us further and further away from realizing it.  Topics include: desert weather, the conspiracy is the conspiracy, truth seeking, alternative movements, fringe topics, dominant minority, online media, global propaganda matrix, shifting narratives, 180 degree turns in opinion, basic truth, divide and conquer, actually confronting the actual problem and enemy, Occupy Wall Street, discontent directed toward political movements, MAGA, QAnon, basic elements of history ignored, American exceptionalism, delusion, genocide of indigenous people, racism, the not racists, Christian religion, money backing propaganda, common people pitted against one another, angry mob as the enemy, status quo, authoritarian movements and impulses, Heritage Foundation, destruction of civil liberties during War on Terror

Did the “Tiananmen Square never happened” tweets fool you? It wouldn't have if you had seen Shen Yun. America can become even more greater by electing the best rich guy for the job. Our problems aren't so hard to fix when all the answers just seem to keep falling right in our lap.  Topics include: help promote the show, different sources of content online, propaganda from everyone, disinformation, government, narratives, Chinese Twitter posts, Tiananmen Square, Tank Man, Chinese propaganda, Epoch Times, Falun Gong, religious cults, over the top homophobia, CFO money laundering, what people say means nothing, basic corruption, Shen Yun, Russian propaganda ubiquitous, online news sites used as propaganda portals, Russiagate, Intelligence community shared beliefs, Stop the Steal, geopolitics, competition over resources, US spread thin, divided population, minimum wage increase in CA, insane profits, political cults, apparatus behind Trump, Project 2025, Truth Movement roots of MAGA, redirected energies, coming protests over election results, Insurrection Act, Idiocracy in real life, states pitted against one another

Freelance writer, researcher and historian Robert Skvarla is the guest on this episode of the show. You may know him as the smoking alien from Twitter. This interview was most definitely a close encounter of the informative kind.  Topics include: Pennsylvania, fringe topics, X Files, 90s paranormal and conspiracy boom, writing, hidden American culture, Trump, left vs right wing conspiracy material, propaganda, Edward Bernays, misinformation, Havana Syndrome, narrative wars, defense contracts, civil liberties, truth, inner enemy, DHS accused of being too woke, DHS INA, Project 2025, right wing new turn against intelligence and DOJ, government contingency plans, Rex 84, McCarthyism, concentration camps, conspiracy concepts derive from true histories of oppression, culture wars, political campaign noise, being online, Twitter, micro celebrity, new student protests, crime statistics inaccurate and used for political benefit

Entertainment media is shifting. Meanwhile, the continuing corporate takeover of all internet is only picking up more speed and momentum.  Topics include: remixing the shows, content creation, corporate takeover of online media, Big Tech, MIC, Conner O'Malley, Standup Solutions, mixed media comedy, satire, Google borders change on maps, subversive comedy, new media, Marc Rebillet ad for Google, entertainment, Google employees resign in protest, Alphabet, SEO industry, AI generated imagery dominating image search results, fantasy art, Dead Internet, attention obsession, artificial intelligence does not have intelligence, terminology, hacking slavery, deep fakes, online services, terms of service, ubiquitous surveillance, link back to your own website, idiocy of online content, search may be dead, TikTok as source of information, continuum of our world, thought experiments, seeking truth, climate change, online discourse not inspiring

We have been told that alchemy was no more than the delusions of Medieval drug addicts. Might there be more to the story than this?  Topics include: misfits, confusion, rapid change, alchemy, medieval addicts smoking lead, human experience, philosophy, abstract thinking, imagination, flying sticks, time, Great Work, ages, technique, taking our world for granted, thinking as hard labor, creative power, artifice, magic, mental health crisis, attaining inner peace, esoteric practices and goals, meditation, miracles of modern world, mystery of prehistoric humanity, biology, mining in space, the Tao, greatest truth defies quantification, death, ego, humility, nature, creation and creator, transhumanism, metaphor of lead into gold, limits of language, art of multiplication, Crone aspect of goddess, deleting discomfort, maturity, silliness of politics, tent revivals, perfect eternity, it's a bible 

An unexpected hero arises to take on our old enemies, the Neocons. Not the hero we expected, but most likely, the hero we deserve.  Topics include: Future of Humanity Institute closing, Oxford, transhumanism, Nick Bostrom, Anders Sandberg, WTA, h+, eugenics, Silicon Valley billionaires, Simulation Hypothesis, racist emails, dysgenics, artificial intelligence, progressive version of transhumanism, fringe ideologies and groups, IEET, Martine Rothblatt, EA, Longtermism, national economic systems, technological development, Neoliberals, Neocons, establishment in crisis, Erik Prince, Blackwater, Xe, Bush Administration, War on Terror, MIC, Indo-Pacific military theater, pivot away from Middle East, defense spending, Reagan, Cold War, post communist Russia, focus on private sector to save governmental failure, Eric Schmidt, national security shift, Boeing, whistleblowers' deaths, basic corruption, focus on profits over all else, financialization, wealth gap increasing, money isn't real, lack of economic philosophy, no accountability, dismantling of legitimate protest, Israel, student protests, banning campus protests, 2024 presidential election, AGI, major governments want to steer their own new world order, space vs the desert

The Age of Transitions is your one stop shop for important tech news. Make your way through the shadows and over to this podcast to learn a thing or two. There are other shows out there that you may not want to listen to, lest you get us all into more trouble than we are already in.  topics include: Silicon Valley new MIC, expert opinions, one stop tech info hub, AI, nascent technologies, Kissinger, CHIPS Act, TSMC, semiconductors, China and US, Taiwan, Arizona fab, national security, LLMs, graphics cards, shadow people, fringe and alternative communities always degrading, the conspiracy is the conspiracy, 9/11 Truth, Ron Paul campaigns, Alex Jones as the Joker, marketing, Stop the Steal rally, fringe ideas going mainstream, electing a US president, adversarial aesthetics for public political protests, confrontation videos, narratives, propaganda, relating to MAGA crowd motivations, rapid contradictions, accountability, deep state, alternative figures prefer to play the victim, massive narrative shift, Republican establishment, instability, stolen election, guns, desire for civil war, possible election outcomes

Boeing's very public fall from grace appears to be coinciding with a changing military contracting ecosystem. Commercial airliners are being grounded as the art of war gets a new operating system.  Topics include: favorite words, time to live in your own head, solar eclipse, Northrop Grumman AI drones, killer robots, MIC, aerospace companies, military contractors, old and new guard, Silicon Valley and tech companies, mass psychology, fall of Boeing, marketing to public, exoteric and esoteric sides of businesses, air travel industry, commercial jets, 747, financialization of business, funny debunking videos, logic of the culture wars, celebrating your accomplishments, Amazon No Checkout shut down, AI object recognition, RFID, tracking chips, sensors, automation, training data, labor intensive, exploits, numbers don't lie, total surveillance, efficiency, intangibles animating the tangible world, unnecessary complexity, belief, school, pragmatism, defy categorization

We are now trying to make sense of our world from within a global propaganda matrix. It should come as no surprise that most of us are confuse and tired, due to the fact that everyone has been screaming at us in order that we believe their side of the story.  topics include: cliche advice, too many analogies, Russian terror attack, who will be blamed, ISIS, Ukraine, World Wide Web, all views presented at the same time, tweets, Israel, US intelligence, talking points, bots, embassy warnings, Putin off the record, propaganda for every audience, global propaganda matrix, independent media sources, all media tainted, reactionary takes, reason for confusion and division, information war, world war, analytics, algorithms, numbers game, content creation, attention is the only thing that matters, truth tellers, comedy content, US intel working within Chinese social media, American hypocrisy, deny everything, global tension, global influence and infrastructure building operations, trolling, all social media can go away tomorrow

TikTok may just be the social media app of a new generation, but it is also now on the chopping block of the US government. A lot of legitimate and illegitimate business is done online everyday, and that may have to change soon as well. Where are technology and our government heading in this strange future we are always moving into?  Topics include: Topics include: digital to analog techno transition, antiquated systems, TikTok ban, Bytedance, Chinese response, national security, international trade, Chinese media and propaganda, psychological operations, free speech online debate, social media apps and companies, marketing, furthering tensions between US and China, Eric Schmidt, Chinese internet, national unrest, surveillance societies, dystopian technological visions, anticrime legislation, crime as a political tool, organized retail crime, public perceptions skewed, fence sales, online retail allowing illegal sales, pushing more law enforcement, evangelical vote, Faith and Freedom, money buys votes, advertising, abortion was enough to convince evangelical bloc, divisive issues

Battle lines appear to have been drawn in the “Great Powers Competition”, but where are they exactly? What is the battlefront, and is it a whole new one for the 21st century? Is AI the all important technology that will allow any given nation to reign supremer over all others? This, and many other questions are asked in this podcast episode.  Topics include: powers behind presidential candidates, Project 2025, Ron Paul presidential campaigns, Truth Movement ideas, Republican mainstream apparatus, fringe and mainstream intertwined, geopolitical tension, Great Powers Competition, technology is lynchpin to world conflict, technological battlefronts, development of artificial intelligence, economic decoupling, Taiwan, TSMC, semiconductors, graphics cards, AI imagery and art, software and social use of computers, The Internet, various internets, government hour, esoteric interpretation of tech, Pepe the Frog as Kek, trash, disgusting imagery, esoteric understanding needed to interpret memes, online languages, digital spaces, content, social media apps, making a living online, TikTok ban, national security, multiple propaganda streams from varied national sources, schizo online discourse, transhumanism, Game Theory, Google China, full truth always obscured, alchemy, civilization, cyber security, JADC2

It actually does matter who wins the upcoming American presidential election. Donald Trump is not simply running by himself. He has the backing of a massive evangelical political apparatus.  Topics include: no phone lines, propaganda has changed, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, Donald Trump, presidential election, American Autocracy Threat Tracker, dictatorship, Christian Nationalism, alternative media bias, prejudice, powers behind Trump campaign, Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, cults, Center for Renewing America, theocracy, spiritual warfare, Truth Movement corruption and co-optation, Tea Party, Ron Paul, cult of personality, Christian take on conspiracy material, Alex Jones, mainstream conservative politics, MAGA, battle within Republican Party, America First, geopolitics, great powers competition, Cold War, world war, Israel, Russia, international use of culture wars, China invasion of Taiwan, US domestic turmoil, new US Civil War, law and order, crack down on political protests

Alex Ansary is the guest on this episode of the podcast. After a break of a couple of years he has returned, and is now making new episodes of Outside the Box TV.  topics include: Outside the Box, solar flares, eclipse, Gaza, off grid living, Tucker Carlson, Putin, Russia, China, build up to a world war, big names in alternative media, mainstream conspiracy theories, solar maximum, Elon Musk, 2030, WEF videos trending on purpose, paranormal, ChatGPT, racially charged social media posts, TikTok, white supremacy, counterfeit 9/11 truth, spiritual warfare, Portland, human trafficking, World War 3, hacking, eclipse, possession, civil war, new Top Gun, Iran, biased online platforms