finally someone is speaking the hard truth out loud that nobody's been brave enough to say. can you even imagine how the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, or Aztecs could have gotten anywhere without long-form podcasting?
>Who is the conqueror of physical reality: the man who sleeps on a bed of nails or the man who sleeps on an inner-spring mattress?
mattress ad, it checks out
“Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone
you depend on. We’re the people who laugh at. We make the bad tweets.
We’ll talk you asleep. We defend the nazis. We defend the people who
hate minorities. We are crooks and grifters and we think we know
everything.
We are the middle children of history, raised by the internet to
believe that someday we’ll be wageslaves to billionaires and go into
space, but we won’t. Do not fuck with us.”
Podcasts are safe spaces for lazy intellects in the guise of guys
being guys.
But seriously, every podcast the totally not radicalizing algorithm
recommends me is the same. The guest is a tolerably civilized “rational”
critic, whose sheer coat of intellectual legitimacy is enough to
spellbind his sycophantic host. The guest’s specialties is invariably to
not read that which he criticizes, to produce strawmen
at industrial speed and to espouse dogma. Dogma is known “common sense”
as long as it’s right-wing dogma, for the record. The guest is a fragile
creature indeed, as the starry-eyed host happily protects the him from
the horror of having an opponent. Obviously, the podcast format is just
too constraining to allow such a thing.
There is only one good podcast, and it is The West Wing Thing, which is two left-wing writers bitching about the surprisingly successful and pernicious influence that The West Wing has had on liberal politics.
OK there are a couple of other good ones but I usually tune out after a few episodes, and I only listen to podcasts when I’m cooking anyway because even good podcasts are generally boring; listening to a few guys talk essentially about themselves is even worse than watching dopey TV, and I don’t really watch TV in the first place (I’m a Sopranos and X-Files completist but that’s about it these days, and I watch The Simpson’s when I’m drunk and sad).
I still want to get my rival to The West Wing Thing up, called the Mid-West David Foster Wallace Thing or some such, which does the same thing but with David Foster Wallace - on the other hand that would mean reading David Foster Wallace...
Wow, someone downvoted my comment. I can’t believe that there are
people out there who want to shut down all internet discussion across
the world like that. Smh.
Gotta love this game of telephone that happens with scientific
studies.
Science: We can’t rule out that the idea that fever and other side
effects of the vaccine contributed to the slightly early death of these
people who were about to die.
NY Post: These people died after taking the vaccine.
To be fair this specific argument is weakened as a counter to the vaccines because it can be, and has been pushed, in the other direction: co-morbidity is a thing, and there are people out there who will use it as a bludgeon against the severity of the actual virus.
They’re wrong to do it, but that doesn’t make it right to use the same argument in the opposite direction.
These were in large part terminally ill patients. It's not wrong in this case, and it is wrong when they use it against the virus.
An argument isn't a worse argument because a person uses it in bad faith in another circumstance.
In case you are wondering about the story, approx 50 people die a day
in Norwegian nursing homes. I don’t know all the ins and outs of the
statistics, but there are about 30k people in long term care in Norway
and about 30k people have been vaccinated. So it certainly looks within
the “unsurprising” range to me.
There definitely is an endemic problem with modern institutions, and
our responsibility is to harness information technology in order to
create more antifragile organizational forms with better checks and
balances that are more immune to power influences and which would
protect independent thought. However, Weinstein’s desired world of
independent brocasters spewing out all manner of nonsense without new
organizational forms to reign them in is what has and will continue to
create a dystopian fiefdom out of The
Internet Of Beefs
Try to shut down Independent long-form podcasting & watch what happens to your civilization.
civilisation rests on the soft bedrock of mattress ads
(not a hard bedrock, as memory foam would imply memory and history)
twitter response:
“I put podcasts almost on the same level as the printing press in terms of human progress.”
BAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA
There is no appropriate response to this stuff besides explosive laughter
“Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who laugh at. We make the bad tweets. We’ll talk you asleep. We defend the nazis. We defend the people who hate minorities. We are crooks and grifters and we think we know everything.
We are the middle children of history, raised by the internet to believe that someday we’ll be wageslaves to billionaires and go into space, but we won’t. Do not fuck with us.”
“Podcasting IS the “loophole”.”
BAHAHAHAHAHA
Podcasts are safe spaces for lazy intellects in the guise of guys being guys.
But seriously, every podcast the totally not radicalizing algorithm recommends me is the same. The guest is a tolerably civilized “rational” critic, whose sheer coat of intellectual legitimacy is enough to spellbind his sycophantic host. The guest’s specialties is invariably to not read that which he criticizes, to produce strawmen at industrial speed and to espouse dogma. Dogma is known “common sense” as long as it’s right-wing dogma, for the record. The guest is a fragile creature indeed, as the starry-eyed host happily protects the him from the horror of having an opponent. Obviously, the podcast format is just too constraining to allow such a thing.
Long-form podcasts are the only thing in all of reality that’s not *checks notes* socially engineered by institutions.
“Just watch what happens to your civilization.” Jfc, I wish we could ban these “long form podcasts”, forgive me I’m over them.
Wow, someone downvoted my comment. I can’t believe that there are people out there who want to shut down all internet discussion across the world like that. Smh.
printing press mad libs has come so far
Gotta love this game of telephone that happens with scientific studies.
Science: We can’t rule out that the idea that fever and other side effects of the vaccine contributed to the slightly early death of these people who were about to die.
NY Post: These people died after taking the vaccine.
This guy: VACCINES ARE MURDER!
Well, now that your boss sued a blog into oblivion, sure.
“Make your own website with SquareSpace!”
In case you are wondering about the story, approx 50 people die a day in Norwegian nursing homes. I don’t know all the ins and outs of the statistics, but there are about 30k people in long term care in Norway and about 30k people have been vaccinated. So it certainly looks within the “unsurprising” range to me.
There definitely is an endemic problem with modern institutions, and our responsibility is to harness information technology in order to create more antifragile organizational forms with better checks and balances that are more immune to power influences and which would protect independent thought. However, Weinstein’s desired world of independent brocasters spewing out all manner of nonsense without new organizational forms to reign them in is what has and will continue to create a dystopian fiefdom out of The Internet Of Beefs
Gee, if only there were some facts about the population who’s already got access to the vaccine we could use to shed light on this data….