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She sacrificed her dignity so he could be center stage with Kanye as his so-called muse; she "received little in return", other than West's controlling behavior and demands she do what he please – and wear what he wanted. The final straw was said to be when West's former chief of stall, Milo Yiannopoulos, came forward with screenshots he claimed proved the rapper was hooked on nitrous oxide – and alleged West had his own personal drug-peddling dentist to fuel his addiction. Yiannopoulos shared the screenshot via X, writing: "PROOF: Thomas Connelly agrees to deliver recreational nitrous oxide to his heavily addicted patient Ye at the latter's then-residence, Chateau Marmont – the site of dozens of celebrity overdoses and suicides." They added: "Kanye surrounded himself with people who thought he was a genius, and for a long period of time, Bianca did too", noting that the pair have had troubles behind the scenes for months.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Former MMA fighter turned professional Twitter troll Jake Shields has gone down a very dark path in his quest to stay relevant. Find this episode on your favorite podcast player here: https://pod.link/1647010767/Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:In cutting Jake Shields, UFC takes a page out of NFL's playbookhttps://sports.yahoo.com/news/in-cutting-jake-shields--ufc-takes-a-page-out-of-nfl-s-playbook-203152661-mma.htmlBerkeley protests of Yiannopoulos caused $100,000 in damagehttps://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley/index.htmlJake Shields Reportedly Saves Man From Masked Attackers During UC-Berkeley Riothttp://sports.yahoo.com/news/jake-shields-reportedly-saves-man-masked-attackers-during-015236555--mma.htmlRight-Wing Outlets Keep Relying On A Racist Troll Posing As A Researcherhttps://angrywhitemen.org/2019/06/16/right-wing-outlets-keep-relying-on-a-racist-troll-posing-as-a-researcher/Eoin Lenihan Cracks Jokes About AIDS With A White Supremacist In A Recently Unearthed Videohttps://angrywhitemen.org/2019/06/20/eoin-lenihan-cracks-jokes-about-aids-with-a-white-supremacist-in-a-recently-unearthed-video/Paul Nehlen Posts List of Critics, Says '74 Are Jews'https://www.wpr.org/justice/paul-nehlen-posts-list-critics-says-74-are-jewsAUDIENCE CAPTURE - How "Influencers" Become Brainwashed by Their AudiencesAudience Capturehttps://marketingmemetics.com/essays/audience-capture#Jake Shields Says He Issues $200K Fight Offer To 10 Trans Men But ‘Still No Acceptors'https://middleeasy.com/mma-news/jake-shields-issues-200k-fight-offer-to-10-transmen/Far-right figures are spreading antisemitism and conspiracy theories in response to news of a tunnel under a New York synagoguehttps://www.mediamatters.org/antisemitism/far-right-figures-are-spreading-antisemitism-and-conspiracy-theories-response-newsMAGA Influencers Tearing Each Other Apart Over Israel-Hamas Warhttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/israel-hamas-violence-maga-influencer-meltdown-1234857139/Jake Shields Boasts Of Dinner With White Supremacist Nick Fuenteshttps://angrywhitemen.org/2024/04/20/jake-shields-boasts-of-dinner-with-white-supremacist-nick-fuentes/Comments? Suggestions? Email: didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.didnothingwrongpod.com/subscribe

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 414. Regarding this post, Libertarian Answer Man: Breach of Contract, Binding Obligations, and Impossibility, my old and longtime buddy Jeff Barr, a brilliant attorney and legal scholar and fellow Hoppean-Rothbardian (Jeff studied at UNLV under Rothbard and Hoppe), (( See Murray Rothbard as a Teacher: The UNLV Years—A Panel with Rothbard's Former Students (AERC 2023). ))  discussed these issues in further depth today. https://youtu.be/1jtDoShqnmI Jeff and I, it turns out, to my surprise (given past discussions), agree mostly on corporate limited liability, (( See my post Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation. )) and Jeff claims to also agree with the Rothbard-Evers take on contracts—the title-transfer theory. We also agree on terminology, legal issues, possession vs. ownership, and so on. (( Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property”; Mises distinguishing between juristic and economic categories of “ownership”. ))  Yet Jeff still thinks that failure/inability to pay a future debt is "theft," much like Rothbard (and Block) view this as "implicit theft," thus justifying in principle debtor's prison, although Barr thinks the theft is not even implicit; he thinks it's explicit theft. This is the crux of our disagreement. We talked about some preliminary matters first to make sure we are on the same page, and ended with this disagreement. Now that we've laid the groundwork, and identified some terminology and common ground, we may pick this up in a future discussion. More to come.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 414. Regarding this post, Libertarian Answer Man: Breach of Contract, Binding Obligations, and Impossibility, my old and longtime buddy Jeff Barr, a brilliant attorney and legal scholar and fellow Hoppean-Rothbardian (Jeff studied at UNLV under Rothbard and Hoppe), (( See Murray Rothbard as a Teacher: The UNLV Years—A Panel with Rothbard's Former Students (AERC 2023). ))  discussed these issues in further depth today. (Part 2: KOL418 | Corporations, Limited Liability, and the Title Transfer Theory of Contract, with Jeff Barr: Part II.) https://youtu.be/1jtDoShqnmI Jeff and I, it turns out, to my surprise (given past discussions), agree mostly on corporate limited liability, (( See my post Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation. )) and Jeff claims to also agree with the Rothbard-Evers take on contracts—the title-transfer theory. We also agree on terminology, legal issues, possession vs. ownership, and so on. (( Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property”; Mises distinguishing between juristic and economic categories of “ownership”. ))  Yet Jeff still thinks that failure/inability to pay a future debt is "theft," much like Rothbard (and Block) view this as "implicit theft," thus justifying in principle debtor's prison, although Barr thinks the theft is not even implicit; he thinks it's explicit theft. This is the crux of our disagreement. We talked about some preliminary matters first to make sure we are on the same page, and ended with this disagreement. Now that we've laid the groundwork, and identified some terminology and common ground, we may pick this up in a future discussion. More to come.

The one where we talk about what's at stake in the Douglass Mackey/Ricky Vaughn election interference trial, as well as the ramifications of a potential ban on TikTok in the United States.Here are some of the sources we used to create this episode:Douglass Mackey's indictment“There is no place in public discourse for lies and misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to vote,” said Seth D. DuCharme, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “With Mackey's arrest, we serve notice that those who would subvert the democratic process in this manner cannot rely on the cloak of Internet anonymity to evade responsibility for their crimes. They will be investigated, caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”“Protecting every American citizen's right to cast a legitimate vote is a key to the success of our republic,” said William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's New York Field Office. “What Mackey allegedly did to interfere with this process – by soliciting voters to cast their ballots via text – amounted to nothing short of vote theft. It is illegal behavior and contributes to the erosion of the public's trust in our electoral processes. He may have been a powerful social media influencer at the time, but a quick Internet search of his name today will reveal an entirely different story.”The complaint alleges that in 2016, Mackey established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Election, ranking his account above outlets and individuals such as NBC News (#114), Stephen Colbert (#119) and Newt Gingrich (#141).Luke O'Brien's story revealing "Ricky Vaughn's" identity as Douglass Mackey“During Gamergate, a 2014 online harassment campaign waged by misogynists and racists online against women and minorities in the video game industry, Ricky Vaughn linked up with Yiannopoulos and Cernovich, who were ringleaders in the harassment and would both go on to even greater notoriety with their attempts to contaminate American political discourse with conspiracy theories.“I owe a lot to them,” Ricky Vaughn said on a recent podcast.By the beginning of 2016, he was clearly an open “alt-right” white nationalist. He talked about how “the good people are siding with nationalism and the Shabbos goyim shills and the neocohens are siding with the globalists.” He talked about how he wanted to “introduce ideas of racial consciousness into the mix so that patriotic American conservatives don't feel bad about creating all-White communities and shunning mixed-marriages and that sort of thing, because we need racial separatism in order to maintain our unique culture and racial heritage.”Michael Edison Hayden on the Douglass Mackey trial - SPLCMackey's Ricky Vaughn persona seemed to disappear from the web until the DOJ produced these charges in January 2021. After the DOJ charged Mackey, he emerged as a cause célèbre among anti-democracy, radical-right figures, who have depicted him as a victim of state oppression. Daily Stormer and other racist websites raised money for his defense. Fox News' Tucker Carlson inaccurately described Mackey as a “conservative journalist” on his show in January 2021. Following Carlson's segment, an anonymous person dropped $60,000 to Mackey in Bitcoin, buoying his defense, as Hatewatch previously reported."Microchip" interviewed by Jack PosobiecJack Posobiec, a correspondent for One America News Network (OANN), brought a pseudonymous disinformation poster onto the air without providing context of that person's hateful and terroristic beliefs, Hatewatch found.Posobiec produced a segment for OANN in September 2018 in which he interviewed “Microchip,” who was at that time a pseudonymous contributor to the white-supremacist-friendly website Gab. Microchip achieved notoriety during Trump's 2016 run for president for his involvement in a number of high-profile disinformation campaigns. Posobiec also linked his Twitter followers to Microchip's Gab feed at least five times after the interview was aired, archives show. Microchip posted statements to Gab prior to being interviewed on OANN that celebrated Hitler, and alluded to terrorism and murder.Wall Street Journal - TikTok tracking pixels present in government websitesA review of the websites of more than 3,500 companies, organizations and government entities by the Toronto-based company Feroot Security found that so-called tracking pixels from the TikTok parent company were present in 30 U.S. state-government websites across 27 states, including some where the app has been banned from state networks and devices. Feroot collected the data in January and February of this year.The presence of that code means that U.S. state governments around the country are inadvertently participating in a data-collection effort for a foreign-owned company, one that senior Biden administration officials and lawmakers of both parties have said could be harmful to U.S. national security and the privacy of Americans.China's version of TikTok -Deseret NewsAlthough they're both owned by ByteDance, Douyin — China's version of TikTok — offers a different version of the social media app that is unavailable to the rest of the world, especially for children. “It's almost like they recognize that technology is influencing kids' development, and they make their domestic version a spinach version of TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,” Tristan Harris, a former Google employee, and advocate for social media ethics, said of China's approach to TikTok. “If you're under 14 years old, they show you science experiments you can do at home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos and educational videos,” said Harris, according to “60 Minutes,” adding that children in China were limited to only 40 minutes a day on the app.“There's a survey of pre-teens in the U.S. and China asking, ‘what is the most aspirational career that you want to have?' and in the U.S., the No. 1 was a social media influencer, and in China, the No. 1 was astronaut,” Harris said. “You allow those two societies to play out for a few generations and I can tell you what your world is going to look like.” "National Rape Day" hoax goes viral for the second time - Media MattersIn April 2021, a hoax called “National Rape Day” went viral on TikTok. Videos garnered millions of views claiming that on April 24, 2021, large groups of men planned to sexually assault women en masse. Now, the same hoax is reemerging on the very same social media platform, which seems unable or unwilling to curtail the spread of viral misinformation.While the “National Rape Day” hoax had been previously floating around the collective consciousness as an urban legend, it found new levels of virality through TikTok's recommendation algorithm in 2021. The earliest mention of “National Rape Day” on social media that Media Matters could identify was a tweet from April 11, 2021, that read, “Please if you are in the uk, be safe, the boys have made a ‘national rape' day and that's tomorrow.” A screenshot of the tweet was circulating on 4chan's /pol message board the next day.It seems that shortly after this tweet, the hoax started to spread on TikTok, where it went viral. At the time, a Media Matters study found that 48 of the top 50 TikTok videos under the “#April24” hashtag contained misinformation and none of the videos provided a debunk or any factual information. The hoax gained further legitimacy through poor media coverage, which amplified the panic, as well as participation in the trend from some members of law enforcement on TikTok.TikTok's algorithm leads users from transphobic videos to far-right rabbit holes - Media MattersSeveral of the videos fed to our FYP featured audio called “Teddy” which says, “The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” a quote taken from the first line of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski's manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 others in 1978 with homemade bombs. The audio, which already has been used in over 1,200 unique videos, has become popular on right-wing TikTok and particularly in anti-LGBTQ content, based on the frequency with which it emerged during our study. In the videos we reviewed, it was frequently paired with montages of screenshots of LGBTQ people livestreaming on TikTok. These videos not only use an audio that pays homage to a terrorist, but they also promote the harassment of LGBTQ TikTok users. This is our current events recap program, where we offer our takes on what's going on at the bleeding edge of the information war. Feel free to let us know what you think, suggest topics, etc. at didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com, or in our group chat using the Substack app.Thanks for listening,Jay and Griff This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.didnothingwrongpod.com/subscribe

Get ready to bear witness to Milo Yiannopoulos's return to the world of internet drama, alongside internet “journalists” Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. Today, we delve into the shadowy and malicious role Yiannopoulos allegedly played in the legendary dinner between former president Trump, the rapper formerly known as Kanye, and the white nationalist zoomer influencer currently known as Nick Fuentes.Also discussed: the online outcry over a Balenciaga photoshoot that spilled over into the mainstream media, spurred on by YouTuber-cum-Twitter-influencer Shoe0nHead (June Lapine) and the bipartisan outcry that ensued… and why it's all quite silly.Et tu, Milo?Links:ErrataUPDATE: Balenciaga has since dropped the suithttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-02/kering-s-balenciaga-drops-lawsuit-over-ad-referencing-child-pornographyGeorge Takei's Mastodonhttps://universeodon.com/@georgetakeiThe BalenCIAga ConspiracyShoe's Tweet that kicked this offThe pictures in questionThe document in question: Scalia's opinion from United States vs. Williamshttps://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/553/285/#tab-opinion-1962658Note the dates on the chart and teddy bear (bottom-left)Note the Borremans book on the deskThe closest I can get you to Borremans' Fire From the Sun without hotlinking an image (obviously NSFW)https://www.google.com/search?q=fire+from+the+sun+michaelThis diploma either reads “John Phillip Fischer” or “L is real 2401”Fischer's sex crime convictionOli London's tweet, accusing Balenciaga's owner of profiting from CPThe sculpture in question, controversially being auctioned by the company that is owned by the company that also owns Balenciaga (NSFW)https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5335329Fox's indictment of Balenciagahttps://www.foxnews.com/video/6316362543112Slate: “Oh, Dear: Fox News Kind of Has a Point About Those Balenciaga Ads”https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/11/balenciaga-scandal-child-teddy-bears-fox-news.htmlNBC: “TikTok users protest Balenciaga's holiday campaign by destroying bags and shoes”https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/viral/balenciaga-backlash-tiktok-users-destroying-products-rcna59672The Calvin Klein ad from the 90'sAllegedly, it angered even President Clinton!https://www.vogue.com/article/calvin-klein-jeans-90s-ads-kate-moss-mark-wahlberg-controversyI Miss The Old KanyeRecap: Kanye goes “Death Con 3” on the Jewshttps://www.timesofisrael.com/kanye-west-says-hell-go-to-death-con-3-on-jewish-people-after-instagram-ban/The ADL on Fuenteshttps://www.adl.org/resources/blog/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-knowAxios: “Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner”https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-knowWATCH: GOP leaders condemn Trump-Fuentes dinnerHe said, Ye said: Ben Shapiro, Kanye West clash over Trump dinner with Holocaust denierhttps://www.jns.org/he-said-ye-said-ben-shapiro-kanye-west-clash-over-trump-dinner-with-holocaust-denier/Fuentes announces he's taking a break from his stream to join Ye's campaignhttps://cozy.tv/nick/replays/2022-11-26The Guardian: “Milo Yiannopoulos claims he set up Fuentes dinner ‘to make Trump's life miserable'”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/milo-yiannopoulos-nick-fuentes-donald-trump-dinnerTheWrap: “Milo Yiannopoulos' Rise and Fall, From GamerGate to Pedophilia Comments”https://www.thewrap.com/milo-yiannopoulos-timeline-rise-fall-gamergate-pedophilia-breitbart/Milo once owned Dangerous.com!https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/milo-yiannopoulos-sold-website-dangerous/Jesse in NY Mag: “How Breitbart Is Milking the Milo Yiannopoulos Campus-Outrage Outrage Cycle”https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-breitbart-is-milking-the-milo-yiannopoulos-campus-outrage-outrage-cycle.htmlJesse on his newsletter: “No-Platforming Didn't Wreck Milo — *Milo* Wrecked Milo”Milo wants to murder JewsMilo, rocking the most heterosexual haircut I've ever seenKanye storms out of TimCast interviewRolling Stone's coverage of the eventhttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kanye-west-nick-fuentes-milo-yiannopoulos-tim-pool-podcast-1234637817/Politico: “Virulently antisemitic comments by Kanye West spark new GOP criticism”https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/01/ye-antisemitism-republicans-hitler-00071695The mental health argumentUnHerd: “Don't Punish Kanye West”https://unherd.com/2022/10/dont-punish-kanye-west/RAËLISMhttps://jalopnik.com/kanye-banned-twitter-symbol-ufo-sex-cult-racing-driver-1849847363Kanye got substantially more votes per dollar than even Biden!https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-presidential-run-analysis-9477968/Misc.BAP is not happy with any of the figures involved (WARNING: Slurs. A lot of them)https://t.me/BronzeAgePalaestra/685All involved with the dinner say Trump was impressed with Fuenteshttps://www.axios.com/2022/11/25/trump-nick-fuentes-ye-kanyeContrariwise, none were with Trump's 2024 announcement speechhttps://web.archive.org/web/20221125044521/A heavily detailed TimCast piece on the whole affairhttps://timcast.com/news/exclusive-details-ye-brings-nick-fuentes-and-karen-giorno-to-dinner-with-trump/The Guardian: “Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes'”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/donald-trump-shied-away-from-criticising-nick-fuentesGuess who got that article corrected?Patriots.win describes Fuentes as “a short hispanic homunculi that consorts with homosexuals”https://patriots.win/p/16ZWybOvmZ/i-for-one-want-to-welcome-nick-f/c/The alt-right describes Milo as a “paid Zionist operative”https://mainstreettribune.org/2022/11/ye-2024/ This is a public episode. 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Episode 136: Trump, Ye, and Yiannopoulos by Craig Johnson

Note: An article based on the transcript (below) was published as Stephan Kinsella, "Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection," The Libertarian Standard (Oct. 25, 2022). An updated and revised version of this article appears as chap. 11 of Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023). *** Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 395. From the recently-concluded Sixteenth Annual (2022) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 17, 2022). The video as well as slide presentation is also streamed below (ppt). I also recorded a version on my iphone. Also podcast at PFP245 | Stephan Kinsella, “Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection” (PFS 2022). See the following panel discussion at PFP246 | Hülsmann, Fusillo, Israel, Polleit, Kinsella, Discussion, Q&A (PFS 2022). Transcript below. See published article based on this talk, here: Stephan Kinsella, "Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection," The Libertarian Standard (Oct. 25, 2022; https://libertarianstandard.com/selling-does-not-imply-owning-and-vice-versa-a-dissection/); also at Freedom and Law substack. See also Walter Block's response: Walter E. Block, Block, "Rejoinder to Kinsella on ownership and the voluntary slave contract,” Management Education Science Technology Journal (MESTE) 11, no. 1 (Jan. 2023): 1-8 [pdf] For others, see the PFS YouTube channel, including the PFS 2022 YouTube Playlist. [For those interested in the Hoppe ringtone mentioned in the beginning: see this Facebook post or the opening to this podcast by Jared Howe.] https://youtu.be/5Q7chBHfHEQ Odysee: Panel discussion: https://youtu.be/Q3lvh5UqgxU Related: "Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward," the section "Selling Does Not Imply Ownership" The “If you own something, that implies that you can sell it; if you sell something, that implies you must own it first” Fallacies Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property”; Mises distinguishing between juristic and economic categories of “ownership” The Non-Aggression Principle as a Limit on Action, Not on Property Rights IP and Aggression as Limits on Property Rights: How They Differ KOL044 | “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” (PFS 2011) KOL049 | “Libertarian Controversies Lecture 5” (Mises Academy, 2011) KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019) KOL004 | Interview with Walter Block on Voluntary Slavery and Inalienability Thoughts on Walter Block on Voluntary Slavery, Alienability vs. Inalienability, Property and Contract, Rothbard and Evers “On Conflictability and Conflictable Resources” How We Come To Own Ourselves Aggression and Property Rights Plank in the Libertarian Party Platform A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability Cordato and Kirzner on Intellectual Property On the Danger of Metaphors in Scientific Discourse Hoppe, “A Note on Preference and Indifference in Economic Analysis” and “Further Notes on Preference and Indifference: Rejoinder to Block,” both in The Great Fiction   Transcript Selling Does Not Imply Owning, and Vice Versa by Stephan Kinsella From the Sixteenth Annual (2022) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey (Sept. 17, 2022) 00:00:11 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Guido opened with some jokes.  I'm not going to have any jokes, but I'll open with a little light-hearted humor.  This is my iPhone's ring tone, my default ring tone [ring tone].  My wife really loves that, at restaurants. 00:00:32 Okay.  My topic is—my title is Selling Does Not Imply Ownership—Owning, and Vice Versa, a Dissection.  So I want to explore two related beliefs, which I think are fallacious, and they stem from confusions about core libertarian principles and confusions intr...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 392. I was asked to make a guest appearance on SwanBitcoin's Café Bitcoin Tuesday today, with host Alex, where we discussed ownership of bitcoin, property rights, bitcoin maximalism, money vs. language, bitcoin and free speech, and related matters. It was also posted on their podcast feed (iTunes; Spotify; google) and I include here my segment. Related: KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019) KOL085 | The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender (Crypto-Currency Conference, Atlanta, 2013) Transcript: “You Don't Own Bitcoin—Property Rights, Praxeology and the Foundations of Private Law,” with Max Hillebrand (May 23, 2021) KOL386 | Toward Anarchy with Michael Storm: IP, Bitcoin, NFTs, Digital Ownership KOL383 | Bitcoin at PorcFest: Patent Trolls, Bitcoin Ownership, the Mises Caucus and the Reno Reset Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property”; Mises distinguishing between juristic and economic categories of “ownership”

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 392. I was asked to make a guest appearance on SwanBitcoin's Café Bitcoin Tuesday today, with host Alex, where we discussed ownership of bitcoin, property rights, bitcoin maximalism, money vs. language, bitcoin and free speech, and related matters. It was also posted on their podcast feed (iTunes; Spotify; google) and I include here my segment. Related: KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019) KOL085 | The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender (Crypto-Currency Conference, Atlanta, 2013) Transcript: “You Don't Own Bitcoin—Property Rights, Praxeology and the Foundations of Private Law,” with Max Hillebrand (May 23, 2021) KOL386 | Toward Anarchy with Michael Storm: IP, Bitcoin, NFTs, Digital Ownership KOL383 | Bitcoin at PorcFest: Patent Trolls, Bitcoin Ownership, the Mises Caucus and the Reno Reset Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property”; Mises distinguishing between juristic and economic categories of “ownership”

Biden to cancel up to $10K in federal student loan debt for certain borrowers and up to $20K for Pell Grant recipients. The whole government student loan program is a massive subsidy – an enormous giveaway – to institutions of higher learning. They learned long ago that the easy availability of loans means they can keep raising tuition and other fees. After denying any knowledge of the Raid on Mar-A-Lago, according to memos obtained by Just the News, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to launch the criminal investigation into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents and deny Trump's claims of executive privilege. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hires Milo Yiannopoulos as unpaid intern. Yiannopoulos wrote, “Mummy always said I'd end up in government!” Due to YouTube policies violating our principles, We are moving the Live Show to RUMBLE. Hit the link and subscribe. https://www.rumble.com/tpsreportlive Join Alex and Dani live on Monday and Thursday nights at 9 PM on RUMBLE for some fun and games. Live call-in show. #Milo #StudentDebt #Mar-A-Lago ~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ~~~~ If you've enjoyed our content consider supporting the channel by becoming a member! https://tpsreportlive.locals.com

Today I revisited interviews from five years ago and from this year. Conversations that featured Pamela Geller, Milo Yiannopoulos, Doug Giles, and Traci Fenton. I hope you enjoy this blast from the past.Tapp into the Truth: https://tappintothetruth.com/Patriot Music: https://patriotmusic.com/ 

Today I revisited interviews from five years ago and from this year. Conversations that featured Pamela Geller, Milo Yiannopoulos, Doug Giles, and Traci Fenton. I hope you enjoy this blast from the past. Tapp into the Truth: https://tappintothetruth.com/ Patriot Music: https://patriotmusic.com/ 

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 375. This is my appearance on Ep.55 of Mentally Unscripted. Recorded Feb. 8, 2022; released Feb. 10, 2022. Transcript below. https://youtu.be/8SrUo79eiLk Related links: Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright Do Business Without Intellectual Property (PDF) KOL 037 | Locke's Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory Locke, Smith, Marx; the Labor Theory of Property and the Labor Theory of Value; and Rothbard, Gordon, and Intellectual Property Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property” Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes Where does IP Rank Among the Worst State Laws? Patent vs. Copyright: Which is Worse? On the 3D printing threat to patent law Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl (my comments debunking it on Facebook) Lost in Space: The Copyright Dilemma Monkey selfie copyright dispute David Koepsell, Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes (review; blog) Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society (re JK Rowling and Harry Potter movies) Prohibitions of anti-circumvention technology: Anti-circumvention (wikipedia) What is DMCA anti-circumvention? EFF Asks Appeals Court to Rule DMCA Anti-Circumvention Provisions Violate First Amendment From their shownotes: This week, Stefan and Scott welcome Stephan Kinsella to Mentally Unscripted. Stephan is a brilliant, articulate libertarian legal scholar who explains why the mainstream notion that intellectual property spurs innovation is wrong. He dives in by telling us why IP laws are simply government-issued monopolies that actually impede innovation. He explains why removing IP laws would make us more prosperous. And closes by discussing other innovative ways creators can profit without protectionist laws. As always, we're building a community around Mentally Unscripted. So, share this episode with your friends and interact with us at MentallyUnscripted.com. And remember, the conclusion you reach is less important than the process you follow to get there. Guest Information Stephan's Website Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Libertarian Theory and Applications Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom Top Takeaways Intellectual Property (IP) is a body of law whose stated purpose is to protect a specific type of private property, such as inventions and creative works but is really a grant of monopoly power by the state. Instead of spurring innovation and creativity, the monopolistic nature of IP laws stifles new creative output. IP laws could be repealed today, and entrepreneurs would fill the void with new, innovative ways to earn money from their creations. Comments or Questions on this episode? Join the conversation at the Mentally Unscripted Substack. TRANSCRIPT "Transcript: Why IP Laws Destroy Innovation and How Creatives Can Profit Without Them" Stephan Kinsella, Mentally Unscripted (Feb. 10, 2022) 00:00:15 SCOTT GRAYSON: Hi there, everybody.  My name is Scott Grayson, and you're listening to Mentally Unscripted, the podcast where my cohost, Stefan, and I inspire you to think more clearly and have better conversations about the world.  When you ride along with us, we'll take you on a journey that will show you there's always more than one way to look at an issue.  You'll learn to think critically about what you see and hear and how to challenge the narratives that those in power want you to believe.  You won't always agree with us, but that's the point: to learn that we can have de...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 375. This is my appearance on Ep.55 of Mentally Unscripted. Recorded Feb. 8, 2022; released Feb. 10, 2022. Transcript below. https://youtu.be/8SrUo79eiLk Related links: Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright Do Business Without Intellectual Property (PDF) KOL 037 | Locke's Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory Locke, Smith, Marx; the Labor Theory of Property and the Labor Theory of Value; and Rothbard, Gordon, and Intellectual Property Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property” Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes Where does IP Rank Among the Worst State Laws? Patent vs. Copyright: Which is Worse? On the 3D printing threat to patent law Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement | Damien Riehl (my comments debunking it on Facebook) Lost in Space: The Copyright Dilemma Monkey selfie copyright dispute David Koepsell, Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes (review; blog) Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society (re JK Rowling and Harry Potter movies) Prohibitions of anti-circumvention technology: Anti-circumvention (wikipedia) What is DMCA anti-circumvention? EFF Asks Appeals Court to Rule DMCA Anti-Circumvention Provisions Violate First Amendment From their shownotes: This week, Stefan and Scott welcome Stephan Kinsella to Mentally Unscripted. Stephan is a brilliant, articulate libertarian legal scholar who explains why the mainstream notion that intellectual property spurs innovation is wrong. He dives in by telling us why IP laws are simply government-issued monopolies that actually impede innovation. He explains why removing IP laws would make us more prosperous. And closes by discussing other innovative ways creators can profit without protectionist laws. As always, we're building a community around Mentally Unscripted. So, share this episode with your friends and interact with us at MentallyUnscripted.com. And remember, the conclusion you reach is less important than the process you follow to get there. Guest Information Stephan's Website Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Libertarian Theory and Applications Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom Top Takeaways Intellectual Property (IP) is a body of law whose stated purpose is to protect a specific type of private property, such as inventions and creative works but is really a grant of monopoly power by the state. Instead of spurring innovation and creativity, the monopolistic nature of IP laws stifles new creative output. IP laws could be repealed today, and entrepreneurs would fill the void with new, innovative ways to earn money from their creations. Comments or Questions on this episode? Join the conversation at the Mentally Unscripted Substack. TRANSCRIPT "Transcript: Why IP Laws Destroy Innovation and How Creatives Can Profit Without Them" Stephan Kinsella, Mentally Unscripted (Feb. 10, 2022) 00:00:15 SCOTT GRAYSON: Hi there, everybody.  My name is Scott Grayson, and you're listening to Mentally Unscripted, the podcast where my cohost, Stefan, and I inspire you to think more clearly and have better conversations about the world.  When you ride along with us, we'll take you on a journey that will show you there's always more than one way to look at an issue.  You'll learn to think critically about what you see and hear and how to challenge the narratives that those in power want you to believe.  You won't always agree with us, but that's the point: to learn that we can have de...

On the first half of todays show the boys talk about Daylight savings time and the adjustment period we all go through. Tom talks about a shoot out in Cancun and updates everyone on the first ever gay male Homecoming Queen.  We come back and Nick talks about Milo “how low can you go” Yiannopoulos and his recent event at… Read more →

Unwelcomed and Green Card Abuser Milo Yiannopoulos Squats At Penn State in the Name of Free Speech #GoRight and #DeportMilo For AmericaBy 7 p.m. on Shortlidge Road, not far from the venue hosting Yiannopoulos' speech, a crowd of more than 200 bundled in winter coats gathered for a planned protest by student group Students Against Sexist Violence.The crowd slowly swelled to even greater numbers near Thomas Building, while a half-dozen counter-protesters supporting Yiannopoulos followed the moving crowd from a distance, across the street. The two groups exchanged slogans and chants — and insults — but from opposite sides of Shortlidge. “I wanted to make sure I could come out and help show that the overwhelming consensus at the university is that we don't want (Milo) here,” said James Locke, a Penn State junior who had attended “Love is Louder” earlier in the night. “Not only do I disagree with his views, I think they're actively harmful — especially to the LGBTQ community.” Passing cars mostly beeped in support of the anti-Milo crowd, with drivers offering a thumbs-up in their direction. Police stood nearby to prevent any potential altercations, but both groups mostly kept to their own sides, outside of an occasional student getting closer to snap photos or videos with their smartphones.Police were stationed at virtually every entrance to Thomas Building and, like “Love is Louder,” metal detectors were set up near the hosting room. A standing-room only crowd of about 250 attended the speech, with tickets that ranged from free to $55 (including a Milo meet and greet). At least a dozen eschewed masks despite the university's mandate, and Uncensored America — the group hosting Yiannopoulos — began handing out free bottles of water as Yiannopoulos' delay approached an hour.Before the speech, Uncensored America president Luca Miraldi wanted to make clear that his group didn't necessarily advocate or agree with Yiannopoulos' viewpoints regarding conversion therapy, the widely disavowed practice of changing someone's sexual orientation and a big reason for Yiannopoulos' appearance. Instead, Uncensored America invited the speaker the Anti-Defamation League once called “a misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, transphobic troll” because it said it supported the right to endorse any message.“Words do hurt, and we all experience that at some point. Words do hurt — words of rejection, words of exclusion,” he acknowledged. “But, at the end of the day, we're all 18-plus at this university, and I'm not going to be the one to tell somebody to grow up — but I think it's time, if you're going to sign up and pay thousands of dollars to go to a university, you should be willing to open up your mind and be willing to hear things that might be offensive.”Early in the night, students were forced to stand in line for roughly 30 minutes before making their way inside the “Love is Louder” event, which was endorsed by multiple student organizations, the faculty senate and the State College Borough Council. Chris Watkins, a 2020 graduate dressed in drag and performing as “Aurora,” said the HUB counter-event exceeded his expectations. When told of the final attendance numbers for “Love is Louder” compared to Yiannopoulos, Watkins covered his mouth and whispered, “Oh my gosh.”“That makes me tear up almost,” he said. “Knowing I went to school at a place that is so forward-thinking and inclusive — I'm shocked so many people went tonight.” Watkins' friend, Derek Ulrich, a Penn State senior who performs as “Amethyst” and wore a green dress, said he couldn't be happier with how it all turned out. “In my personal life, I'm going through a lot right now — and I really needed that tonight,” he added. “When I came out for my first number and people just yelled, it just made me feel comfortable that people were so supportive. It made me feel like I'm not just a number at Penn State. It felt nice.” The two said they weren't sure what the reception on campus would be to them walking around in drag, whether Yiannopoulos supporters might shout insults, but they said that wasn't an issue. Likewise, they said they couldn't even remember anyone mentioning Yiannopoulos during the course of the night. “Love is Louder” was truly about love and not just hating on the hate, they added.As an employee at the Gender Equity Center, Sophie Kandler was there for the entirety of the four-hour event. She saw at least one Uncensored America member come early for free pizza — “We welcome everybody because we know what it's like not to be welcomed,” she added — and she said the Penn State community showed her a lot Wednesday night, more than she ever expected. “As a transgender woman, it shows me that love is stronger than hate,” she said. “The person they brought to campus today — who has a First Amendment right to be here — he's about hate. He's all about controversy; that's what he does. This is about love. Not everybody in that room, maybe 10%, were gay or LGBT. Most of the people in that room were allies, people who came to show support, to show that love conquers hate, that a positive event will draw people. “That was the whole point — we wanted to do something happy. And it was.”This was written by BY JOSH MOYERRead the Full Article at: https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article255456536.htmlhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/unwelcomed-and-green-card-abuser-milo-yi

Jonny reviews some proposed changes to the curriculum that would make public schools and colleges/universities more welcoming and inclusive for LGBTQ+ students, faculty, staff, and administrators. He then checks in on OnlyFan's response to their attempt to remove explicit adult content from their platform. He ends with news of CoVid and the "miracle" cures the deniers are seeking in livestock dewormer--Milo Yiannopoulis has CoVid, y'all!

Left, Right, or Milo Which is Worse For The Gay Conservative Movement?#GoRightNews with Peter BoykinFull Article: https://gorightnews.com/left-right-or-milo-which-is-worse-for-the-gay-conservative-movement/Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/milo-straight-up-bitchYouTube: https://youtu.be/2aux5SZbL8wRumble: https://rumble.com/vg2hg9-left-right-or-milo-which-is-worse-for-the-gay-conservative-movement.html#GoRight with Peter Boykin a Part of https://GoRightNews.comwith Peter Boykin join him onTelegram https://t.me/RealPeterBoykinGAB https://gab.com/peterboykinPodcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/goright-with-peter-boykin#GoRight Radio http://usa10.fastcast4u.com:6160/streamCheck Out More Videos onGAB: https://tv.gab.com/channel/peterboykinRumble: https://rumble.com/GoRightNewsBitchute: https://bitchute.com/channel/gorightnewsOdysee: https://odysee.com/@PeterBoykin:2Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbJq2br_Uw-tr3e4CIf5TAQCheck Out Our Page onFacebook https://www.facebook.com/GoRightNewsOfficialPlease Show Your Support by helping to cover the costs for these podcasts,Donate directly atPaypal: https://paypal.me/magafirstnewsBuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PeterBoykinPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterboykin#GoRightNews

Jonny reviews some of the important push back and likely consequences for the various legislation limiting how trans youth can compete athletically. He then discusses Milo Yiannopoulos's attempts to resuscitate conversion therapy and the ex-gay movement. He ends the show with some news from Marvel and DC about an upcoming summer Pride spotlight on LGBTQ+ heroes and villains.

Hour 1 * Guest: Richard Mack – CSPOA.org. * Heritage Action for America Executive Director Jessica Anderson joined Fox & Friends – We announced an initial $10 million investment into our new grassroots campaign— Save Our Elections. For the first time ever, will be focusing on state laws. * Vote Democrat: It’s Easier Than Working! – Freedom Watch. * The Arizona Department of Education declares that babies show the first signs of racism at three months old and that white children “remain strongly biased in favor of whiteness” by age five. The document also instructs schools on how to “change what it means to be white”. * Future King William Hits Back at Meghan’s Racism Claims: ‘We Are Very Much Not a Racist Family’! Hour 2 * Portland rioters attack federal courthouse, set fires, and bash Biden: ‘New president same imperialism’ – Violence erupted in Portland on Thursday night as rioters targeted the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse. Federal officers were dispatched to quell the unrest that included fires and windows smashed. * Utah Sen. Mike Lee said that Democrats are seeking long-term power by pushing their HR1 voting bill, legislation he says was “written in hell by the Devil himself. Everything about this bill is rotten to the core. * Conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has made changes to his life, claiming that he is now straight according to LifeSite News. Yiannopoulos, a former editor with Breitbart, said he now identifies as an “ex-gay” and abstains from sex to consecrate himself to St. Joseph. * Kentucky Senate Passes Bill to Make Taunting Police a Crime. * Should We Just Raise the White Flag and Surrender? – Never! – America’s Survival, Inc. * Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, They Are Underestimating Conservatives! * You can help restore hope in our country! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

* Portland rioters attack federal courthouse, set fires, and bash Biden: 'New president same imperialism' - Violence erupted in Portland on Thursday night as rioters targeted the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse. Federal officers were dispatched to quell the unrest that included fires and windows smashed. * Utah Sen. Mike Lee said that Democrats are seeking long-term power by pushing their HR1 voting bill, legislation he says was "written in hell by the Devil himself. Everything about this bill is rotten to the core. * Conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has made changes to his life, claiming that he is now straight according to LifeSite News. Yiannopoulos, a former editor with Breitbart, said he now identifies as an "ex-gay" and abstains from sex to consecrate himself to St. Joseph. * Kentucky Senate Passes Bill to Make Taunting Police a Crime. * Should We Just Raise the White Flag and Surrender? - Never! - America's Survival, Inc. * Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, They Are Underestimating Conservatives! * You can help restore hope in our country!

Today, Milo Yiannopoulos opens up to John-Henry about his journey out of the homosexual lifestyle. Yiannopoulos speaks from the heart as he shares what he sees to be ‘a cluster of symptoms from childhood trauma,' the role St. Joseph played in his transformation, and how he hopes to help others. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Milo Yiannopoulos Now Ex-Gay? :: Catcalls :: Disney Removes Animated Movies from Disney Plus Kids Section :: Civil War Statues :: Lincoln the Tyrant :: Black Asian Calls In :: Hosts - Ian, Aria, Bonnie

MILO IS NOT OK! Then Really Is Any of Us?#GoRight with Peter BoykinEpisode 1Bhttps://youtu.be/cTWNVz_LNp4

(Part 2 only on Censored.tv) That's where we get to do stuff that YouTube would poo-poo us for. GOML LIVE streams on Censored.TV every Thursday, taking your calls and hitting on all the things that are fun and good. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Just getting back from covering the Roger Stone trial in DC. We recap some moments throughout the trip, and present our final filming there, that Ryan fucked up, because Gavin got him very drunk. In the ep, Milo and Gavin call Amtrak to investigate why Milo's ticket home was terminated. We learn some troubling and sad things about the girl behind the "water attack" on Milo and Gavin, and much more.

Milo Yiannopoulos came over to my apartment to have one of my favorite talks ever on this podcast. It's a talk about trolling. Milo is one of the best in the world at it. This is gonna take you a week to listen to. The intro goes for 57 minutes alone. You can skip it if you want, but it's 53 minutes of content that you'll be missing about my own start in trolling. Trolls are the most maligned and misunderstood of all the world's artist. And I don't use the term "artist" lightly. Trolling is an art form. I've been looking forward to this episode for months now. And you're going to love it or ABSOLUTELY HATE IT. I hope you're the former. But if you're the latter, then we got you. You've been trolled. pWn3d. Tour Dates Nashville - Oct 17-19 San Jose - Nov 7-9 Chicago - Nov 16 tix at www.arithegreat.com

Stories from the Week   Thank you to Glenda from the for joining us. Also check out

Stories from the Week   Thank you to Glenda from the for joining us. Also check out

A discussion about Candace Owens account suspension on Facebook, they stated was in violation of their community standards. The dust-up uncovered an internal document that contained names of prominent conservative-leaning representatives targeted by Facebook. Also, we discuss the power of social media as it relates to voting, influencing policy, & social interaction in general #hateagent #Facebook #CandaceOwens #suspension #FBcensors #hivemind #groupthought #the1stAmendment #Twitter #liberalismisamentaldisorder #MichelleMalkin #miloyiannopoulos  #MeWe #Gab #socialmedia 

In this week's episode, Jimmy recaps his week to talk winning over a twitter troll, his appearance on Jim & Sam and the recent backlash towards the Legion of Skanks for booking Milo Yiannopoulos.

Tuesday May 06, 20193PM Live Broadcast -  https://youtu.be/iNfsghVolNs  Episode #1528 - The Pete Santilli Show  - Tuesday - May 06, 2019 1528 - 3P - BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Deep State Cronies Behind Alex Jones Facebook Ban HUGE: Facebook Hired Former Hillary Press Director to Inform Media of Alex Jones Ban http://ow.ly/9aON30oFrzm  When Big League Politics contacted Facebook to clarify why Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos were banned by Facebook and Instagram, we discovered the Facebook employee assigned to handle these communications is the former Press Director of Hillary For America.Sarah Pollack is the Policy Communications Manager for Facebook who responded to Big League Politics when we sought comment on why Jones, Watson, Loomer, and Yiannopoulos were banned. Today’s Special Guest: David Fleeman WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE - David Fleeman who just won a weekend hunting trip with Ted Nugent for himself and a guest - will be on The Pete Santilli Show today @ 3:30 Eastern to announce who he chose to go with him -- We are happy for these 2 most wonderful people!! We will be live streaming today on YouTube, Facebook, and DLIVE - https://hunternation.org/2019-dream-hunt-winners/  

Facebook bars Farrakhan, Jones, and Yiannopoulos; Democrats continue to smear Attorney General William Barr; and we check the mailbag! Date: 05-03-2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Milo Week concludes as Yiannopoulos shares his designs for a new conservative news platform, ponders the government’s role in protecting free speech, and shares his thoughts on the burning of the Notre Dame cathedral.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When the duo of Art Kulik and Ashton Bingham created Trilogy Media, a YouTube channel featuring live skits to annoy and generally waste the time of incessant telemarketing calls they were being besieged with, they didn't realize that they were starting a social media juggernaut which also provided instruction to viewers seeking to avoid the scams. The team now makes live appearances across the country at such places like nursing homes where the most vulnerable victims of these scams reside so they can teach these audiences how to avoid falling into these traps. As the holiday season approaches, these scams will even increase with a wave of fake charity callers looking to raise funds. Both Ashton and Art will join me to talk about their work. Milo Yiannopoulos has a new book out, Diabolical: How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims Like Me—and Why He Has To Go, and in Diabolical, Milo levels his critical eye at the Catholic Church, an institution he reveres but which, under the leadership of what he calls a "Lavender Mafia", has become shambolic and depraved. Milo delves into “Who is the real Pope Francis?” “And can the Church survive him?” Yiannopoulos traces the origins of the Church's descent into sin and shame, pointing the finger at left-wing reformers, trendy progressive bishops, gay clergy, and ultimately, Francis himself. Milo will join me to discuss the book. Don't forget about the Edwards Notebook and the Veteran's Tip of the Day! 

When the duo of Art Kulik and Ashton Bingham created Trilogy Media, a YouTube channel featuring live skits to annoy and generally waste the time of incessant telemarketing calls they were being besieged with, they didn't realize that they were starting a social media juggernaut which also provided instruction to viewers seeking to avoid the scams. The team now makes live appearances across the country at such places like nursing homes where the most vulnerable victims of these scams reside so they can teach these audiences how to avoid falling into these traps. As the holiday season approaches, these scams will even increase with a wave of fake charity callers looking to raise funds. Both Ashton and Art will join me to talk about their work. Milo Yiannopoulos has a new book out, Diabolical: How Pope Francis Has Betrayed Clerical Abuse Victims Like Me—and Why He Has To Go, and in Diabolical, Milo levels his critical eye at the Catholic Church, an institution he reveres but which, under the leadership of what he calls a "Lavender Mafia", has become shambolic and depraved. Milo delves into “Who is the real Pope Francis?” “And can the Church survive him?” Yiannopoulos traces the origins of the Church's descent into sin and shame, pointing the finger at left-wing reformers, trendy progressive bishops, gay clergy, and ultimately, Francis himself. Milo will join me to discuss the book. Don't forget about the Edwards Notebook and the Veteran's Tip of the Day! 

Eric Metaxas fires on a lot of creative pistons. He writes like a dream, has a knack for distilling a thousand historical facts and personal details both in his fine books (see below) and on his popular nationally syndicated radio show The Eric Metaxas Show, and also has a rapier-like wit. He also spoke with amiable confidence about his now famous biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the National Prayer Breakfast a few steps away from President Obama. A strange but impressive mashup if there ever was one. I hate him. Okay, back to my show notes. I had interviewed Eric a few years back about his book Seven Women and the Secret of Their Greatness, and remembered vividly his considerable raconteur skills. Then he caught my attention again with an embarrassingly glowing tweet about my Really Controversial Interview with Milo Yiannopoulos the other week. That was it. With a weakness for public praise by intelligent people, I had to hear more. Within hours, the interview you are about to enjoy was set. We talked about the way his new book Donald Drains the Swamp fuses adult non-fiction with children’s fiction, and about the knack with which both Mr. Trump and Mr. Yiannopoulos force onlookers to drop their masks—fast. Pound for pound, I’d say this is the most eclectic of the 103 episodes of The Patrick Coffin Show so far. Per my other Really Controversial Interview with Jordan Peterson, I went Full Metal Catholic and asked the Greek Orthodox cum Evangelical Christian Eric to finish the sentence, “I’m not Catholic, because…” Let me guess. Hopefully, this good humored exchange of ideas about cultural restoration won’t be tagged as Controversial. But you know how people are these days. Enjoy and share!   In this episode you will learn: Why non-Catholics and Catholics have much more in common than in division and why we must be willing to link arms for common cause—without watering down our respective differences How to live a robust, and apology-free Christian faith in a very secular context The top Hollywood scribe we discover during the interview as being a mutual friend Why “underground Christian” is an oxymoron How to use humor as a way to soften your audience and make them more receptive to your message The difference between true and false ecumenism   Resources recommended in this episode: Donald Drains the Swamp by Eric Metaxas Seven Women and the Secret of their Greatness by Eric Metaxas If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty by Eric Metaxas Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas New Errors and Old Labels by Fulton J. Sheen   Question of the week What does this maxim of Peter Kreeft mean to you: “Feuding brothers reconcile when a maniac is at the door.”     Comment below or on our Facebook page "Like" us on Facebook HERE Tweet to Patrick HERE   Don’t forget to Subscribe to the show in YouTube, as well as the full length podcast available in iTunes and other podcast directories, while you are there, please leave an honest review. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. Thank you!               

Update: Hours after this story was published, NYU spokesperson John Beckman released a statement that the university has decided to postpone the classroom appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos. The decision was reached after New York Mayor Bill de Blasio requested postponement "for public safety reasons in light of the nearby Halloween parades and NYPD assessments of risk", the statement said. Original story:Last week, far-right speaker and writer Milo Yiannopoulos took to Instagram to bemoan the fact that no pipe bombs had arrived at the Daily Beast news site when a spate of explosive devices was mailed to CNN and critics of US President Donald Trump.After Instagram removed the post, Yiannopoulos derided journalists who "cry" when he makes a "joke" about a "false flag designed to distract us" from a US-bound caravan of refugees and migrants he baselessly claimed is funded by Democrats. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cody is joined by comedian, writer, and producer Kyle Shire to slowly walk into the ocean (metaphorically… maybe). You can find your copy of the book online and only online. If you find it elsewhere, immediately put it down and walk away.   ‘Dangerous' by Milo Yiannapoulos   The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere.     Show Notes:   Currently Reading: ‘Lady Killer’ by Joëlle Jones   Topics: It gets very gay very quickly.   Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!   WEBSITE: http://Tomefoolery.com   STORE: http://squareup.com/market/CodyMelcherEsq   PATREON: http://patreon.com/CodyMelcherEsq   FAN GROUP: http://www.facebook.com/groups/Tomefoolery

  Ohnoes! This week both Pauls shat up their magic boxes and decided that if they wanted any women to ever touch it again then they needed to do a right-old magic box makeover! They got Ty whatshisface from that American show where they build mansions for orphans and single dads, Taye Diggs, Mike Tyson (from Ip Man) and Tyson Fury* to pitch in with their various views and approaches to life –because after all, what is life if not a celebration of diversity and ruddy well being yourself? I know I'm all about those things! A quick side note: some kids informed us that TY is text speak for "thank Yiannopoulos" and we should be more careful trying to appropriate youthspeak in all future viral marketing campaigns, and actually that technology is advancng at an alarming rate, even for two robust manful millennials like the Pauls, but rest assured folks, they're planning to back all of this up with watching the Emoji Movie, a film about doin' it starring Patrick Stewart and a boy who just can't lay off all the sweets. There should be something on all of this in there. *Tyra Banks was "busy". Featuring: Jimmy Sweetshops, a plea to David Ehrlrich, a real distraction, Rimey apparently, Faris Je t'aime and the big secret about a little boy that all those LIBERALS out there DON'T want you to know! ogtpod@gmail.comhttps://ogtpod.podbean.comhttps://facebook.com/ogtpodhttps://twitter.com/ogtpod  Jingles from episodes 1-50 now available on Bandcamp – just £2.50 for more than 20 tracks! https://ogtpod.bandcamp.com/releases   Dockhead by Paul Goodman is available in paperback for just £5.99. Thanks and please #supportindieauthors! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dockhead-Paul-Goodman/dp/1521335648/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&dpID=41Yh2Hhu87L&dpPl=1&keywords=dockhead&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&qid=1507380952&ref=plSrch&ref_=mp_s_a_1_1&sr=8-1 Check out Paul Salt's reviews on Screen Mayhem HERE! No, here: https://screenmayhem.com/author/paul-salt/  The source of most of the comedy this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlN7tgH376Q

UC Berkeley students and founders of RoBhat Labs, Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte, have launched a Twitter bot checker called Botcheck.me using data science and machine learning to help any user identify fake news.Transcript:Lisa Kiefer:You're listening to Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on KALX Berkeley, celebrating Bay Area innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. And today I have two UC Berkeley students, Ash and Rohan, and they have launched a Twitter Bot checker that has really taken off. We're going to talk to them about how they're battling fake news.I'd like to welcome the UC Berkeley students. What year are you guys?Ash Bhat:We're juniors.Lisa Kiefer:It's Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte. And you've come to my attention because you came up with an innovative Twitter Bot Checker and I assume you've probably come up with a lot of other things too since then. But I wanted to talk to you about your lab, RoBhat lab, which combines your names, that's really great. So tell me first of all, what is a bot?Ash Bhat:Yeah, so one of the things that we've been really looking at was on Twitter. There are a lot of these accounts that try really hard to be human but actually have bot-like behavior behind it. And there are a lot of bots that are really harmless on Twitter. A lot of them are... actually say that they're bots and they actually just tweet out maybe like every word in the English language as an automation exercise, but there are some other bots on Twitter that are actually pretty dangerous and they end up pushing, or re-tweeting a lot of these political propaganda memes or topics and a lot of other people can actually see these bot networks spread this information, look at the information and think that, oh look, my friends are sharing it. There's a lot of people here.Lisa Kiefer:It's legitimate.Ash Bhat:It's legitimate.Lisa Kiefer:Yeah.Ash Bhat:In fact, it's actually been propagated by, you know, hundreds or maybe even thousands of bot-like profiles and it's basically artificially creating this virality on Twitter.Lisa Kiefer:When did you come to the realization that this was a problem that you had to find a solution to?Rohan Phadte:Yes, so in terms of our background, we started out trying to figure out... trying to identify fake news computationally. The way we approached it was trying to figure out where fake news was being spread. So we actually went on Twitter, started looking at the different accounts that are spreading fake news and we started noticing that they didn't look human at all. They were tweeting out every minute, they seem to be tweeting at every hour of the day. And so all of a sudden we're like this seems to not be human. And so that's sort of how we got into this entire...Lisa Kiefer:I read that... What's the guy's name? Yiannopoulos who was here...Rohan Phadte:Oh yeah.Lisa Kiefer:... was that the impetus?Rohan Phadte:Yeah, Milo is definitely an impetus in the sense that's sort of how we got into like the political space. We were both at the protest and while we were there we realized that there is so much misinformation that was being spread about the protest. And that's how we started getting acquainted with the space.Lisa Kiefer:So you are studying what here at UC Berkeley?Rohan Phadte:I'm an interdisciplinary studies field major, so I'm studying like quite a few different majors. So everything from sociology to philosophy to like computer science.Lisa Kiefer:Oh that's a nice mix. What about you?Ash Bhat:I'm studying computer science, electrical engineering. So I mainly the engineering side and doing a little bit of part of breakfast research.So I read that you call yourself Data Scientist. What does that mean exactly?Rohan Phadte:Yes. So in terms of a data science, we're looking at a lot of statistics. Data science is a very sexy word for like a statistical analysis. So we're looking at a lot of texts, we're looking at a lot of numbers and we're trying to make sense of it all. And that's essentially what we do as data scientists.Lisa Kiefer:You started this lab, walk me through your process. What did you need to do first after you realized you want to get truth in the information space?Ash Bhat:It started off as just us working on projects basically just be being like, what can we do? We're computer scientists, we can solve any problem. Like we can try it. You use our technical knowledge like solve any problem and-Lisa Kiefer:You're going to use it for a class project or is this outside of class?Ash Bhat:This is completely outside of class project. Completely outside of class. On nights we're like, "Hey, we should be doing something about this." In fact, one of the interesting things we saw was on Facebook, Facebook announced that they are going to be doing something about solving fake news and like trying to detect and trying to stop spreading it. And then right below that we saw instances of, fake news still being spread by a couple of like friends and profiles.And so we were just like, "Hey, there must be something to be done here." And taking matters in their own hands. We were looking at, hey, we can use our data science and machine learning that we learned at Berkeley to try to create our own algorithms to help solve this problem.Lisa Kiefer:And so what do you do with them? I mean explained to me. I use Twitter very rarely. How would I use your ... What do you call your Bot Checker?Ash Bhat:We call it botcheck.me.Lisa Kiefer:And tell me how I would use that. Walk me through how I can protect my account.Ash Bhat:Botcheck.me is actually a website you can visit and it has a couple of dashboards which talk about the ... Basically talk about the statistics of the current bot network, how they're acting, what are the most recent topics, what are they talking about and there's also a search bar where you can enter in any Twitter username and once you enter then a Twitter username, it will actually send up to our server. We'll run statistical analysis behind the scenes, we'll be looking at the tweets, we'll be looking at the how often they tweet, the tweet timestamps, the number of likes. Basically looking at the profiles network and we can accurately determine whether that profile or not is a bot or human.Lisa Kiefer:How accurately.Ash Bhat:Yeah, so recently when we first launched, we're getting about 93% of high confidence profile bot accounts and then since then, since we have a bunch of feedback from the community, we've actually had about 50,000 users in over 500,000 accounts classified. And that number is just risen since then because has been taking all this input from humans and learning. And so now that number's about 96 to 97%.Lisa Kiefer:That's not bad.Ash Bhat:Because I think it's a great start for understanding the button work on Twitter, especially since there's already not getting out there and just having all the information out there really add can educate a user whether an account or not is actually spreading humans stuff.Lisa Kiefer:When you need this data that to do your analysis, do you have to pay for that from Twitter? How do you get your information?Rohan Phadte:Yeah, so in terms of getting the information, Twitter actually has a public API and so we're actually able-Lisa Kiefer:And what is an API?Rohan Phadte:So API is essentially a ... It's sort of like hitting a URL to get access to information in a way that we can run data analysis on. So Twitter makes a bit of their service of available for developers like us to actually take advantage of and like use for statistical analysis.Lisa Kiefer:Well I didn't know Twitter provided that free. So they're taking a passive stance it sounds like, and letting developers. Why do you think they're taking a passive stance and not doing this themselves?Ash Bhat:We're actually a little bit confused concerning that we're two college students that have been able to build something that you just very clearly want. The response that we've got has been absolutely insane. But that being said, Twitter's a multi-billion dollar company with hundreds if not thousands of engineers and we think they should totally be doing more when this problem is so, so important and a problem that we all face.Lisa Kiefer:Well, have you talked to anyone there? What do you think is the reason? Is it because they need the advertising promotional? They don't want to put any restraints on business or what?Ash Bhat:We're not entirely sure, but one thing that has been pretty fascinating is Twitter hasn't really responded to our comments to us reaching out to them, but also we recently gave a talk at Stanford and I think Twitter was supposed to be there as well, and when they found out we were going to be speaking, I think they dropped out of the talk and so like we're not entirely sure like what's happening. We haven't really heard too much back. But yeah, we are definitely very curious.Lisa Kiefer:Yeah, it seems like Facebook and Twitter and maybe other, they're taking a passive approach like this problem is going to go away.Ash Bhat:Yeah, I mean from I guess one theory that we have and we don't want to speculate too much. It is a very complex area for them to be in, especially concerning even when Facebook try to prevent fake news, they actually got in trouble for seeming a anti-conservative and so there's a lot of this pushback against Facebook or Twitter seeming politically polarized if they were to take a position one way or the other.Lisa Kiefer:One side or the other would accuse them.Ash Bhat:Exactly, yeah.Lisa Kiefer:After all your research, do you think that one side of the political spectrum is using these bots more than others or is it pretty equal?Ash Bhat:In terms of how these bots come out in terms of politics, we've actually noticed bots on both sides of the political spectrum. It's been actually very, very, very scary. We've seen examples such as like the Parkland shootings when bots were tweeting out about gun control from both sides of the debate and what this actually creates is a even more of a divide.And on top of that, the thing that again scares us is these bots are able to sort of influence the conversation. So where in the case of Parkland, where it could have been a conversation were we would've found unity around mental health. It became a conversation where we fought over gun control. These are the different areas where we actually find bot networks incredibly scary in terms of like their effect on how we talk about certain issues.Lisa Kieifer:I mean, how do we know the truth and why is that important?Ash Bhat:Yeah, there was recently an MIT study that came out that said fake news actually spreads a much faster and much broader than real news. And they looked at data from the 2016 elections. And I think the core thesis that we took away from that was fake news is in some ways more sexy, more interesting to read. And thus it spreads virally a lot, easier.That sort of becomes this problem where it's inherently spread spending lot faster, yet it comes with all these different problems that is baked into being fake. And so we're sort of struggling with that. Like, how do we incentivize people to read the truth and also how do we stop fake news from spreading in the first place?Lisa Kiefer:It's an interesting question because education of most people in the country is not that great anymore. And so they're not learning how to critically think. And so there's a reliance instead of doubting something or going deeper, there's just a superficial like, okay that that's the truth. So if you don't have critical thinking skills, you're not going to be able to, to know the difference I think. And that's scary.Ash Bhat:Yeah, like the way we see it internally is like, we almost see it like a mind virus when it comes to like a lot of these ideas in the sense that they sort of spread in the same ways that viruses do. They infect a few like initial people, they start spreading their hosts and the analogy seems to just work almost perfectly.Lisa Kiefer:Yeah.Ash Bhat:Yeah.Lisa Kiefer:And the other side of that is once something is out there, you can't put it back in the bottle. Even if somebody says, no, no, no, no, it's been proven to be wrong. It's already in my head somehow.Ash Bhat:Yeah, it's incredibly hard to quarantine right?Lisa Kiefer:Right. Did you have many challenges when you develop this product and if you did, what were they?Rohan Phadte:Just from a technical standpoint of looking through all the basically statistical models and you have to actually basically teach a computer on how to learn what a bot and what a human is. And so it does take a little bit of engineering time behind it and I a little bit of research to understand how exactly can we make this computer most effectively learn what the difference between a bot and human is.And then even then as you have that very powerful model, it's basically a game of to figure out how can we best release this model out to the public so that they can understand what's going on in their network and how can they use it the most effectively versus becoming a cat and mouse game of like just people calling each other bots and you're a bot, you're not a bot and then making like a flame more based on that.And that's something we really want to avoid. Just want to increase ... Make people more aware of their entire social network without actually making people start calling each other names and saying, hey, you're bot not a bot.Lisa Kiefer:How did you do that?Rohan Phadte:Yeah, so what we wanted to do is we actually made the tool and when we tried to be very careful with here. We tried to basically say, hey, it's a very good tool to help you understand what you're talking to. Is it a bot or is it a human? Are you arguing with specifically someone who actually has an opinion on this versus an automated new account?And our tool is very good at just giving that information saying, "Hey, this is likely to be a bot" but like, "Hey, make sure be warned that this is, this is likely not to be a human." And so it gives that user that information. Just say, "Hey, be a little bit more careful here." If you're arguing and constantly getting, nothing's really making any difference than hey, just be warned that this could be a bot.Lisa Kiefer:So if I'm in conversation with something that may be a bot, what would I see? Some of them are automated at the other end so you can tell the answers are just automated answers.Rohan Phadte:There's different levels of bot to that that we've seen. So some are specifically completely all automated and some of them are are like maybe a mixture. So there's a human behind the scenes and there's could be some automation aspects to the actual itself.And so sometimes you'll be able to like message a bot and you won't get any response back because they're not set up for automation for that. And sometimes you'll be able to get a response back because there's someone controlling it behind the scenes and it's kind of hard to tell. One of the true tales that we can tell from just maybe like the profiles that you can see that there's a lot of retweets, a tweets happened very quickly, a tweets happened every few like few minutes or maybe once every minute happening pretty often close to 24 hours at a day doesn't really stop or maybe specifically re-tweeting the same sources and those are all true tale signs that you can check as a human to see if our this account or not is a bot.Lisa Kiefer:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to Method to the Madness. A bi-weekly public affairs show on KALX Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. Today I'm speaking with founders of RoBhat labs, two UC Berkeley students using artificial intelligence to create a botbuster called Botcheck me, battling fake news.Seems like all of these services started out with a pretty idealistic philosophy, you know, whether it was Facebook or Twitter and the uprising in Egypt, Twitter was great for that. I see it as being a real great tool for journalists who are out in remote areas. It didn't take long though for it to become co-opted. What are your using now besides Twitter? What do you think is the best social media tool right now?Ash Bhat:To answer your question, I think you brought up a really interesting word and that's tool. I think that's totally what these things are, right? They aren't necessarily morally right or morally wrong. It's a tool and can be used in a variety of different ways. And so with Twitter, yes it's been beautiful for things like protests-Lisa Kiefer:Errant springs.Ash Bhat:Errant springs, but that being said, it's also a tool that can be used to create polarization, to create the spread of misinformation. And so like in that perspective, like when it comes down to like what is the best social network? I think all these social networks are tools and it's how we use them and how we like receive our information from them. So it's hard to like answer that question.Lisa Kiefer:Do you feel like you were successful and that you're moving on to new things or are you still working on this Twitter bot?Ash Bhat:So in terms of this problem, the way we've seen it is the first step in solving a problem is identifying it. And so that's sort of what we'd done with Botcheck me like over the past several months, I think society as a whole has become a lot more aware of these problems and we're really happy that we've played a role in terms of helping that happen.But that being said, I guess the next step for us in terms of things that we're working and when we're publishing a report that essentially is going to talk about like, and identify a lot of the different phenomenons that are going on just so that we can start becoming more aware-Lisa Kiefer:What kind of phenomenon?Ash Bhat:For example, like we see these things called DMAs which are distributed misinformation attacks. And so that's sort of what these bot networks are. They're essentially like a distributed way of like a lot of these bots trying to spread misinformation. And so like different concepts like that we're trying to like make available for the public so that we also have understanding for them. And I guess the next step after that is trying to understand ...Once we understand how to detect these problems, how to prevent them so that they don't happen again in the future. And so we're working with groups like the Democratic Party for example, the Democratic National Committee along with different groups to make sure that these sort of things don't happen Again.Lisa Kiefer:Are you working with Republican Party too?Ash Bhat:We've been talking to a couple different campaigns. We haven't had a chance to like have a similar conversation with the Republican National Committee, but we hope to.Lisa Kiefer:So you're moving on to new areas that read that you guys have like a blackboard with 20,000 apps on it. I know you're busy with school, you have to graduate too, but what is your next project or are you just wrapped up completely in what you just told me?Ash Bhat:Yeah, so I guess we can't comment too much on like the different projects that we have behind the scenes just because we have a lot of these different confidential or like relationships that we can't honestly talk about yet. But that being said, this is a problem that we care very deeply about and want to have a huge impact. And so we are actively ... Every single day, we spend time working on coming up with solutions to make sure that these sort of problems don't happen again in the future.Lisa Kiefer:I think it's so wonderful that you are so committed to this idea. How does that happen? You both grew up in San Jose area, correct?Ash Bhat:Yeah.Lisa Kiefer:And you've known each other a very long. Were you neighbors? Tell me about your backgrounds.Rohan Phadte:Yeah, actually Ash and I were basically childhood friends we even get at each other in about middle school. And since then we've been pretty good friends. So we saw each other as like a, you know, in highest and like basically school, I was like competitors, just a little competitive whenever we tried to try like have tests and stuff. But I mean for the most part we've been really, really good friends. We've had cross country together, we used to do robotics together back in high school.Lisa Kiefer:Robotics? Okay.Rohan Phadte:And so yeah, so we've always had an interest in passion in technology and that's just pretty much grown from there. And since when we got both gone to Berkeley, we're like, we have to be a housemates, we had to be roommates. And so that happened.Lisa Kiefer:How does that work out where you're rooming together and you also have a business together? Is that something that must be challenging sometimes?Ash Bhat:The thing that's really interesting about this entire thing is Rohan and I have been building projects since we were like teenagers. What sort of happened was over the past like eight or so years, every year I guess the world just started listing a little bit more and like it's just been very validating to work on these projects that we like build for our friends. And now like we have tens of thousands of people that use us every single day.Lisa Kiefer:And how did you get the word out? I know you grew up in Silicon Valley, so you've probably even run into people that are in this business. How did you make the approach, I don't know, how did you get your support?Ash Bhat:We were working in a space with a huge problem and no solutions. And so, I think it was a byproduct of like us being at the right place in the right time. We're in Berkeley working on computer science in one of the most interesting political probably in history, like in US history. And so like I think there's a lot of a huge component of luck to everything that's going on. And yeah, we're incredibly lucky to be where we are.Lisa Kiefer:Do you feel like the tech field is, it's a crisis point right now? I mean, I deleted my Facebook account. I mean, I just feel like it's not anything but a promotional tool. It's great for marketing, you know, we're companies. But for me personally, I just, I don't know. It's not what I thought it would be. They're definitely getting pushed back right now. There's room for a new company.Ash Bhat:I think we're reevaluating our techno optimism. I think for the past like a generation, we've been very, very optimistic about what technology can do. And in many ways we built these amazing tools that let us be connected to each other, get access to information in a way that we've never had.I have a phone in my pocket that I can ask any question to and it'll give me the answer in a couple of seconds. And like that's an amazing place to be in in terms like a point in history. But that being said, with tools come like the positives and negatives. And I think we're at this point, we've started reevaluating the what technology really means to us. And that being said, I don't think it's anything to base on technology. I think it's more so just natural progression of things.Lisa Kiefer:You're both studying artificial intelligence here?Ash Bhat:Yeah. That's correct. Yeah.Lisa Kiefer:What does that like, can you explain what you're studying here in terms of artificial intel and how you use that in your products?Ash Bhat:Artificial intelligence is a like really fancy word for getting computers to essentially work off of heuristics and essentially automate certain tasks. AI Or artificial intelligence is a very broad term that like covers everything from like machine learning to a lot of the simple apps that we use every single day.Rohan Phadte:So maybe that artificial intelligence is me basically used to make decisions for on layer very large data sets. So on an instance where a human might be overwhelmed with a large amount of data, like gigabytes and you know, penta bytes of data, artificial intelligence is a very good way of basically sorting that in an organizable way. Ways that computers can understand very well and then make high level decisions that are statistically probable to yield the highest result at the end.And this is a very powerful tool. I mean a lot of robots and a lot of self driving cars in fact, use this tool, get a lot of data and then make decisions based off that and they can get some high accuracy results in the end better than a human could.Lisa Kiefer:Right. Except for those few accidents.Rohan Phadte:Exactly. I mean this is all process of development. Yeah.Lisa Kiefer:You've been recognized by wired magazine and CBS News. What other accomplishments are you really proud of since you've gotten into this space of protecting all of us from fake news?Ash Bhat:I think the accomplishment that we're most proud of is the users that we've been able to like work with and the amount of accounts that we've classified. Twitter classified about 6,000 accounts when they came out and talked in front of Congress and I think it was November 1st October 31st last year.Today, we've classified over half a million accounts. Just having like a scope of that, that's what we get up every morning excited about. That's sort of what, what makes all of this so validating.Lisa Kiefer:If somebody approached you, your lab and said, we want to buy you for billion dollars or whatever, would you do it?Ash Bhat:I think at the end of the day like we're chasing after this goal. So like we evaluate all the options that we would have in terms of what brings us closest to like achieving that goal. And so like that's sort of the-Lisa Kiefer:So that's not your goal?Ash Bhat:Yeah. Yeah. That's not our goal. Yeah. Our goal is to like solve the problem that we're working on.Lisa Kiefer:You're natural innovators. Do you feel like this area has a lot of natural innovators because of where you grew up or is it your families? What do you think it takes to truly be an innovator like that? Is it the knowledge you've learned or?Rohan Phadte:Yeah, I think too, in order to be like an innovator in this area, you really need to understand where the problem speaks set and where the problems are in society and how it affects people. And then once you get a good understanding of that, you can actually start developing some interesting technology. And in the case of Ash and I and Botcheck me, we've actually spent months just studying fake news beforehand.Before wrote a single line of code, we studied how it spreads and how it looks at what the previous research papers on this area and looking at specifically how is Facebook and Twitter already trying to tackle this problem already and I think that's really important to truly understand the area before you go and delve in before you can just say, "Hey tech can solve that." Or "Hey, just add a little line of code, artificial intelligence can solve that." It really takes a bit of understanding of the problem space in order to understand what is the best way to attack the problem.Lisa Kiefer:What about money? Did you have to get funding to do this work or are you just doing it? Is it just your own blood, sweat and tears?Ash Bhat:Yeah, so funny story on that. It's our completely our blood, sweat and tears. Like we've been so like so frugal about like every expense we're supporting so many users and like we have to figure out how to like make it super cost efficient. A lot of startups don't necessarily have to like worry about like where do we get money or like they they raise funding. We haven't raised a single cent of capital. It's been just absurd like all the different efficiencies and like hacks that we put together to make this entire service run as as cheap as possible on us so that we can provide it for free for the users.Lisa Kiefer:So how would you make money if you're providing it free? Would you have to run ads on it eventually? What's your model?Ash Bhat:Yeah, so in terms of like monetizing this, we think there, this is a real problem. We see this as like the next generation of spam right now I think, I think we've done a pretty good job of like being sort of the thought leaders and like sort of like the experts in the space. Like as this problem becomes larger and groups like the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, run into these issues, we hope to be the group that solves these issues for them.We have access to the best data just because we have the most amazing users and we have access to the best insights. So like we're thinking through using that and that's sort of where we are looking to like monetize.Lisa Kiefer:So it's like the consulting fee or something like that?Ash Bhat:Not necessarily we want to build products with the insight that have in a scalable way so that all these different groups that are affected by problems like misinformation can actually take our products and solve their problems and we can solve those pain points.Lisa Kiefer:So at some point, you would put a price on that product, is that what you're saying?Ash Bhat:Yeah-Lisa Kiefer:Now it's free but-Ash Bhat:Not for the users, but we are starting to charge big groups like the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, like for these sort of services.Lisa Kiefer:At some point you'll be cut loose of UC Berkeley and you won't have access to that free data, right?Ash Bhat:So we don't actually use any of UC Berkeley's data.Rohan Phadte:So yeah, this is the, for example, the Twitter API is completely public in terms of getting gathering data. We've built this all on our own servers and our own end and so we pretty much have access to everything from the algorithm to the data to basically just the entire pipeline altogether. And so we want to scale this out and the way we can and we want to make it as accessible to all the users as we personally can.Lisa Kiefer:Can anybody have access to this data that you, if you have your own servers and everything?Ash Bhat:We're in a unique position because our users hand classify accounts every single day for us. That's why our models are able to keep up with the changing network. And so that's our proprietary data and the reason why we don't make it public, is because we don't want the bots to learn how we're classifying them as like propaganda accounts. And so we'd love to make that public. But like we were sort of at this like limitation where we're worried that the adversaries that we're sort of going after might learn if we were to like publish the datasets that we're working with.Lisa Kiefer:Has anybody asked you about publishing it?Ash Bhat:People would definitely have. And in terms of adversaries, we are servers get attacked every single day. We get attacked on Twitter every day. We have conspiracy theory videos on us. It's crazy.Lisa Kiefer:Okay. So I would assume that people are going to want to know more about you guys. Do you have a website or how do you let people get in touch with you?Ash Bhat:Yeah, so they can, anyone can email us at hi@robhat.com that's hi@r-o-b-h-a-t.com.Lisa Kiefer:And that's a combination of both of your names, right?Ash Bhat:Yeah, that's correct. Yeah. I make my social media incredibly public like, so it's @theashbot on Twitter and anyone can send me any question. I try to be as responsive as possible. And then if you want to check out botcheck.me like you can just go to botcheck.me, it's just a website and then you can-Lisa Kiefer:And you can download the app and use it?Ash Bhat:Yeah, you can download the chrome extension or you can use a website. We try to make it as easy as possible for our users to use. We've gotten recognized for the work that we've done, but I think from our perspective it's important to like also say that we're like just getting started. We've opened up a lab, it's just the two of us working out of our house right now. We've just gotten started.And so like the, the technology that we're working on to and we hope to release we hope makes a real impact in. We know that we're very lucky that the technology that we've already released has made an impact, but we're really, really excited for what 2018 is going to bring and hopefully what we can do in 2018.Rohan Phadte:We're not the only innovators in this space. There has been some other like great work out there and really encourage that because honestly the adversaries against us and the adversities against democracy in general are great. Automation has created a huge industry for adversarial attacks.In fact, there's actually some new research coming out for like deep fakes and other lip sinking, which is basically like you can use AI to modify videos and modify actual content and there's already Photoshop out there for images, but imagine deepex is basically modifying actual videos so it looks like someone else's face has been photo-shopped on someone else's other face and you get all those same expressions. You get it all the exact same like voices and stuff.Lisa Kiefer:Wow.Rohan Phadte:Like basically content and media in the future is in jeopardy. In fact, really, really dangerous. And so we want to find some sort of way where we can protect all content and make sure the content that you see is completely factual and 100% real because it can be very dangerous if an adversary gets access to this algorithm and basically photoshops a celebrity's face on some other celebrity and you can create these viral trends where fake news is being spread and you can have some really, really powerful consequences.Ash Bhat:Yeah, and I guess to add to that, the thing that really scares us is we already have people in positions of power that call real news, fake news. And the moment that we can't tell the difference between real and fake, we just run into this very slippery slope where those people can call anything fake news and we're not going to be able to prove them wrong. And so we want to build the technology now so that we don't run into that problem in the future.Rohan Phadte:Technology has made everything so accessible, made and use, so easy to read. Get up in the morning, just checking your phone and having the news app tell you, hey these are the top headlines. That convenience, that access is something that's incredibly valuable but it can also be taken in a in a way that can mislead, right?That you have clickbait titles, you have headlines that are completely false and then the content is actually like the complete different from the headline. And so yes, there's going to be some ways where the technology can be used in an adversarial way and I think it's up to technology to try to find ways to fix that again and make that completely a tool that is actually helping humans and helping humanity move forward and getting their information and not just become a disastrous tool that can be used to mislead.Ash Bhat:I also think like we're sort of past the point where we can go back in terms of technology like the Internet, like all these different services are here to stay. Like our generation like grew up on them and doesn't know a world without it. But that being said, I think the way we should be thinking is that with these amazing technologies, we've also created these problems that we should start thinking about solving now before they become much, much worse. And we're already seeing like the effects of that.Lisa Kiefer:But you're both pretty optimistic.Ash Bhat:Yeah. One we do think people need to start thinking about these problems now and we do think there are solutions in the space. Yeah, we are very optimistic that hopefully there's this amazing quote that goes "In the cave that you fear lies the answer that you seek." That's one of the quotes that like we should sort of share within RoBhat labs and, and yeah, this is a very scary, scary time in terms of technology, but that being said, we are optimistic. We might discover we might create something completely new that we were unaware of by like diving into solving this problem.Lisa Kiefer:Okay. Well thank you Ash and Rohan for coming in today.Ash Bhat:Yeah, definitely.Lisa Kiefer:And I'm going to keep track of you and I'm going to want you to come back in when you solve this problem.Ash Bhat:Definitely, yeah.Rohan Phadte:Yeah.Ash Bhat:Thank you.Lisa Kiefer: You've been listening to Method to the Madness. Goodbye weekly public affairs show on KALX Berkeley celebrating bay area innovators. You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes university. We'll be back in two weeks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As we hung out on New Year's Eve, awaiting the frustration of neighborhood fireworks, we talked about how our holidays went, since we hadn't seen each other since our families spent Thanksgiving together! Neither of our Christmases went as planned, but they were still reasonably okay. Hear about Pitney's new obsession and Amelia's Christmas win! Then we fantasized about the best lives we could imagine, pretending that at midnight we could flip a switch and live exactly the life we wanted. Our answers are probably not what you'd think. But they did include a lot of talk about travel, which led us to reminisce about past trips to New York, and OH MY GOD THAT VERITY STORY THAT WAS ALMOST TOO APPALLING TO TELL. We hope you laugh as hard as we do thinking about it! And finally, Milo Yiannopoulos. What a shitbag. We love you for listening! Please take a moment to rate and review us! And please subscribe or add us to your favorites list on your favorite platform so you never miss a show! And share us with your cool friends, not the lame ones. Questions? Comments? Complaints? Write to us at PitneyAndAmelia@gmail.com! Tweet at us at @bitchenboutique! Join the conversation over at our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/155973321651896/ And if you're feeling generous, buy yourself a little something at our Zazzle shop and help to support our show! https://www.zazzle.com/bitchenboutique (Turn off that Content Filter to see the "uncensored" merch!) Who the heck are Pitney and Amelia? A gay guy and his fat friend talking about everything! We've got over 30 years of stories to share about stuff we love, stuff that annoys us, people we've known, places we've been, and things we've seen. Geeky, silly, and always opinionated. NAMES ARE CHANGED TO PROTECT THE GUILTY! We may be awful, but we're right! New episodes every other Friday. Recorded close enough to Austin, Texas to help with their weirdness factor. LGBTQ | Comedy | Pop Culture | Nerd Culture | Horror | Spirituality

Tonight we're talking about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and how she twisted General Martin Dempsey's statement on Colin Kaepernick's right to take a knee during the National Anthem.Let's talk about some gun control. Would love to hear your thoughts as well.And we're also going to talk about the infamous Milo Yiannopoulos who needs no introduction.Find me on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to continue the dialogue!YouTube: Militant Moderatehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOFe4nHeAIJDQg8Atnie4wTwitter: @MiliModeratehttps://twitter.com/MiliModerateFacebook: /MilitantModeratehttps://www.facebook.com/MilitantModerate

Tonight we're talking about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and how she twisted General Martin Dempsey's statement on Colin Kaepernick's right to take a knee during the National Anthem.Let's talk about some gun control. Would love to hear your thoughts as well.And we're also going to talk about the infamous Milo Yiannopoulos who needs no introduction.Find me on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to continue the dialogue!YouTube: Militant Moderatehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOFe4nHeAIJDQg8Atnie4wTwitter: @MiliModeratehttps://twitter.com/MiliModerateFacebook: /MilitantModeratehttps://www.facebook.com/MilitantModerate

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Special guest Jim Guido joins That Old Pod to discuss capitalism and the future of economic theory; and its effects on society in regards to politics, research and quality of life.  Show Notes:Economy definitionAdam Smith and his vision of capitalismNathanial Hayward is recognized only briefly for his discovery of what became vulcanizationLouie Pasteur and his discovery of pasteurizationPebble sold to FitbitWal-Martization of AmericaPepsi vs Coke earningsExamples of Charter and Turner cable availability mapsWork Life BalanceWhat is a photon?Strong nuclear forceWhat portion of atom is empty space?South Park console wars describes beauty of the duopolyPortion of budget that goes to militaryProduction of heroin in Afghanistan goes up 40x since War on Terror beganOzone is beginning to recoverQuantum mechanics and probabilityQuantum mechanics and free willAuto fatalities by yearNumber of drunk driving fatalitiesMilo Yiannopoulos speaking engagement at UC Berkley BlockedGore and Bush debatesIs the Iraq war a mistake?ACLU support KKK right to marchIMF bankrupting nationsSubprime mortgage crisisBank BailoutsPE RatioPE Ratio of major tech companies in 20132000 dot com Tech BubbleMcCain FundingTech companies oppose muslim banFDR infrastructureGrand Coulee DamWhat caused the death of electric trolleys?Screen time for people under 30Elon Musk anti unionBecoming Steve JobsBuckminster FullerGuidoworld

An hour and a half of four mild-mannered men get angry about other people's work. Verbal Discharge accidentally becomes Literary Critcharge this week, as we take on writers, poets, broadcasters and George Osbornes alike. Join us as Jordan gets trapped on a desert island, Robbie appears on another radio show, Ben learns to write, and James uncovers the shameful poetry of a certain Mr. Yiannopoulos...

Were the riots at UC Berkeley warranted? In this episode we go over what happened and the reasons why it may be a bigger issue than most think. Regardless of the recent news on Yiannopoulos, this is an issue that needs to be discussed. Where do we draw the line between the right of free speech  and allowing others to shut it down?  SHOW NOTES Milo Yiannopoulos, UC Berkeley Riots, Antifa What is the Definition of Fascism? Footage of fire and commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3z_jqbLCz0 Milo Response to UC Berkeley riots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0QhSLye7qQ  Watch the TedEd Orwellian video here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-orwellian-really-means-noah-tavlin  CONNECT WITH US: Please share this video with your friends. It’s the biggest compliment you can give us. We cannot grow and succeed without help from people like you. Facebook: https://facebook.com/unframeofmind Twitter: https://twitter.com/unframeofmind

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Robin on what Trump's costing taxpayers, his military troika, Yiannopoulos, deportations—and a free press as "enemy of the people." Guests: Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday on the Oscars; poet Donika Kelly discusses her book, Bestiary. Ann Hornaday: Donika Kelly:

We discuss the issue of standing behind someone, even when you know they are wrong because of politics. Also some thoughts on tyranny and bullying and how those people are created.*Yiannopoulos Ex Extrema*Building a Tyrant*To Serve and Protect*New Immigration Order SoonLiberty Never Sleeps is a conservative podcast with Republican raconteur and rascal, T.W. Williams. Using nuclear fiery rhetoric, Tom addresses issues and events of the day.

The obscene, sodomy-celebrating, and nasty provocateur, rising GOP star, and Breitbart contributor Milo Yiannopoulos was recently invited to be the keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Fortunately, his invitation was quickly rescinded when an interview with Joe Rogan from ten months ago came to light in which Yiannopoulos gleefully recounted performing a sex act on a Catholic priest when Yiannopoulos was 14-years-old. Read more HERE……

We discuss the issue of standing behind someone, even when you know they are wrong because of politics. Also some thoughts on tyranny and bullying and how those people are created.*Yiannopoulos Ex Extrema*Building a Tyrant*To Serve and Protect*New Immigration Order SoonLiberty Never Sleeps is a conservative podcast with Republican raconteur and rascal, T.W. Williams. Using nuclear fiery rhetoric, Tom addresses issues and events of the day.

Jim and Cody Brown from WMMS hang out for a few more drinks and discuss Milo Yiannopoulus, Jim's theory that Mike Pence is a closeted gay man, Cody's experience during the RNC, philosophical discussions about religion and Facebook battles.

Animaine and Dani talk about the most recent Steven Bomb, why Cartoon Network is changing for the worse, Marissa Alexander is free, Carolyn Bryant confesses to lying in the Emmett Till murder trial, the punching of Richard Spencer, Milo Yiannopoulos speech riots, free speech protection for those we disagree with, and more!

UC Davis College Republicans pulled the plug on a January 13 speaking event featuring far-right firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos and pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli after protests against the duo's appearance overwhelmed campus security. The event was destined to court controversy - Breitbart editor Yiannopoulos is a vocal opponent of feminism and was banned from Twitter for conducting a harassment campaign against actress Leslie Jones; Shkreli came to prominence in 2015 for raising the price of a lifesaving drug that combats parasitic infections from $13.50 to $750 per pill in one day. He is currently out on bail for securities fraud. The College Republicans and UC Davis brass tell different versions of the day's events - Capitol Weekly sat down with Davis College Republican President Nicholas Francois and Executive Director Andrew Mendoza to talk about what happened -- and why they wanted to bring such controversial figures to speak on campus. A note: We conducted this interview on Friday, January 20; hours later a man was shot at a protest against Yiannopoulos' appearance that night at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a writer and broadcaster. He is a senior editor at Breitbart.com and hosts "The Milo Yiannopoulos Show" podcast available on iTunes.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a writer and broadcaster. He is a senior editor at Breitbart.com and a regular contributor to Sky News and the BBC. 

This week's episode starts with a look at the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, headlined by President Trump himself. Mike and Jay take a look at the president's stridently anti-media rhetoric as well as discuss someone who wasn't there: conservative provocateur and former Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was disinvited after video surfaced suggesting that Yiannopoulos wasn't entirely against pedophilia in some circumstances. After that, the Guys discuss the recent Justice Department rollback of the Obama rule concerning the right of transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity. Mike sees it as a setback for LGBTQ civil rights, while Jay questions the extent to which this is a right in the first place, and argues that states should have greater say in their education policies - including bathroom access for students. Mike surprises himself by actually complimenting President Trump - for his choice of H. R. McMaster as his appointee to replace Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor. Both Mike and Jay agree that this was a great pick, though it remains to be seen how much President Trump will rely on McMaster's advice, as opposed to that of Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner. Then it's a look at the state of our immigration policy in light of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration enforcement. Mike and Jay consider this in the broader context of our current relationship with Mexico, with Mike pointing out that while Mexico relies on the United States, the relationship works both ways, and that should President Trump decide to come down hard on Mexico, the Mexican government could take significant action of its own in response. Finally, the Guys turn to the Town Hall meeting protests that many Republican members of Congress met with during their 'week off'. Neither Mike nor Jay thinks that protests alone can make a huge difference, though Mike believes (hopes?) that his Democratic Party has learned the organizational lessons of the GOP, and will combine public protests with plenty of behind-the-scenes organizing. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy