Dear, surviving, audient: how is it hanging? We\I sympathize. If you were looking to art as an answer, hoping for some revolutionary frameworks, or just plain ol' solace inside -- -- I'm afraid most of the pod's going to tell you to keep looking. In this one we watched 2 "political" movies released this year: Ari Aster's Eddington and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. More generally, the 2 movies raised the question of what it means to ...
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Dear, surviving, audient: how is it hanging? We\I sympathize. If you were looking to art as an answer, hoping for some revolutionary frameworks, or just plain ol' solace inside -- -- I'm afraid most of the pod's going to tell you to keep looking. In this one we watched 2 "political" movies released this year: Ari Aster's Eddington and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. More generally, the 2 movies raised the question of what it means to ...
Revenge of the Nerds: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley, Crypto Fascists and Other Sad Shit
5 Star Tossers
1 hour 26 minutes
10 months ago
Revenge of the Nerds: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley, Crypto Fascists and Other Sad Shit
Welcome to a sad episode about the sad state of our world. If you thought the nerds taking over for the jocks was a sign of liberation, think again. The spiteful nature of the nerds knows no limits and certainly knows even less about care. Referring at times to the now canceled 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds, we read this fantasy into the new conservative self-made man, the one who "does their own research," but never rereads. Are algorithims and social media inducing us all to live as socia...
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Dear, surviving, audient: how is it hanging? We\I sympathize. If you were looking to art as an answer, hoping for some revolutionary frameworks, or just plain ol' solace inside -- -- I'm afraid most of the pod's going to tell you to keep looking. In this one we watched 2 "political" movies released this year: Ari Aster's Eddington and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. More generally, the 2 movies raised the question of what it means to ...
