Topping off two days of migraines with part two of #BehindTheBastards Left off with the Powell memorandum, picking up with trickle down economics. I'm sure this will help.
Somehat hilariously I'm simultaneously having a conversation about I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison and that exact story just came up in the latest episode of #BehindTheBastards.
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There's a story behind that. The following was heard on the excellent #BehindTheBastards podcast rather than personal experience. Evidently when they put some Confed. cavalry captain in charge of the K.K.K. they had chosen some celebrity who had a nickname & was known as "wizard." So they made that the job title & called everybody else "cyclops" & so on. #TheMoreYourKnow
The hidden folk at #Yuletide. I retell two related #folktales and speculate about what they say about contemporary society.
I recorded the episode and mentioned the then current state of the pending #VolcanicEruption in #Iceland. While I was doing so, an eruption started. I added a note on this before I uploaded it to Patreon. Now that I am releasing it for everyone, the eruption seems to be over.
I went from writing this to listening to @taylorlorenz talk to @adamconover on #Factually about #SocialMedia. I was a bit disappointed that they didn't use the opportunity to plug their #Mastodon accounts because talking about the alternatives is a big part of changing the internet landscape.
On a walk while listening to a #BehindTheBastards episode about horrible radiation "medicine" sold by William Bailey and the story of the #RadiumGirls and I fittingly crossed this bridge.
The recent #BehindTheBastards episode on the book Going Infinite and #SBF was great. I found it particularly hilarious that Athe author #MichaelLewis thought SBF was an extra special boy because he played #MagicTheGathering.
As a former Magic player I feel equipped to state that this is not the case. I do think it might have appealed to SBF because his parents seem to be the type to buy endless cards for him.
This is the thing that people who don’t understand how Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried got away with it for so long are missing. Smoke, mirrors, fakery, and outright lies are endemic in Sillicon Valley. “Fake it til you make it” (or run out of money lol) is woven into the DNA of the place. It’s hard to identify frauds because everyone uses the same scummy tactics. But we’d rather cast Holmes/SBF as villains than look too deeply at the whole industry. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992737/google-gemini-misrepresentation-ai-accusation
In case there's anyone wondering why so many people are talking about the death of one of history's most prolific death-dealers, here is a six-part history podcast on #HenryKissinger.
#BehindTheBastards is a podcast hosted by #RobertEvans, looking at the lives and context of some of history's most awful individuals. One of his most popular subjects was #kissinger
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
Dracula
Irish novelist and critic, who created Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was born #OTD in 1847. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story.
I wonder why religious conservatives are mostly synonymous with capitalism supporters ? I mean arent most religions inherently socialistic ? What makes conservatives support capitalism , despite not being among the rich?
@clive "Behind the bastards" recently did an episode on that for children's drawing books, which I find even more sinister considering kids at drawing book ages cannot protect themselves from this crap.
"One person recounted how her pole-dancing instructor would – while up the pole, hanging on with her legs – explain how the CIA was covering up evidence of aliens, and offer tips on avoiding alien abduction."
@ciaranryan you know what I actually just started listening to them recently. I like what I’ve heard so for even though it is a little dry for my tastes. I’m more of a #knowledgefight and #behindthebastards type guy myself.
I'm not sure I have fully quantified my thoughts here but the latest episodes from #BehindTheBastards on kidnappings and how the memetic and viral nature of kidnapping content have broken our collective ape brains is so damn good.
Like this is a conversation I have with people constantly in a lot of contexts but definitely intersects strongly with #urbanism.
Constant misunderstanding of fear and crime politics leads to people making bad choices! And there are people out there who get rich off of this stuff! (Surprise: this is a post about car companies too).
The whole bit in the #BehindTheBastards episodes about Libertarian sea nations and how one group tried to set up their own colony but the Tonginese government chased them out just makes me think of this.
I'm listening to the #BehindTheBastards episodes on Qaddafi and Robert Evans mentions this moment.
Being a fluff piece this article fails to mention that when he did this with the bulldozer the wall collapsed outwards onto the crowd that was watching. Which the show compares to something Homer Simpson would do.
I'm seeing where Far Cry 4 got a lot of Pagan Min from.
Excited delirium - Controversial pseudoscientific diagnosis sometimes characterized as a potentially fatal state of extreme agitation and delirium (en.wikipedia.org)
Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?
I wonder why religious conservatives are mostly synonymous with capitalism supporters ? I mean arent most religions inherently socialistic ? What makes conservatives support capitalism , despite not being among the rich?