Jumping off a post on here I saw yesterday, I also listened to "Last Man in Davos" by TrueAnon, and I gotta say -

Wow, did that make me depressed. Why aren't more people talking about it? I feel like the Nick Landian techno-capital singularity nightmare is just around the corner, and I feel like no one is gonna stop it.

I do think that as time goes on, and it becomes more well known, that many may start to talk about it. But for real, what do you guys think?

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    OK, I've had a few beers and it's hot(ish) take time...

    I dig True Anon, I think this new neoliberal shift is sinister and worth discussing, but this episode just hit really wide of the mark for me.

    • It was terribly explained, presented, and more than any other episode I've listened to could really could have used a guest and some structure. But getting more into the argument itself...

    • You absolutely do not need a database or empirical understanding of something (never mind literally everything) to turn it into a commodity, trade, or exploit it.

    • As @Uncle_Hoe put well below, the threat of database, technocracy isn't being categorised, but being left out or considered insignificant.

    • In a material way, how is what's proposed any different from the reality of the world we live in now at the macro level? Do we honestly think there isn't corporate backed conflicts for aquifers because they don't have enough data and an easily explained financial product, as opposed to the risk and expense not (yet) being worth the effort of physically claiming them?

    • sappho [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      This is actually the first TrueAnon episode I ever listened to because so many people on here were talking about it. I had heard good things before but it really left me underwhelmed and I kinda decided that the podcast wasn't for me at all. Any recommendations of episodes that you feel are a better example of why so many on here enjoy it?

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I think most would agree that the Spider Network series are probably them at their niche, well researched hidden history best.

        Obviously a lot of the coverage of the ongoing, less reported Epstein stuff.

        A lot of the one-offs into a well defined topic - St Louis' bizarre occult pre-KKK anti-union history, Deutsche Bank (although the Grubstakers multipart series is better), Peter Thiel & Planitir, & even the Paris Hilton documentary one that's really about abusive 'behavior camps' that Brace has some first hand experience of.

      • rozako [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Their 9/11 series or California wild fires episodes are good. Their episodes with guests on it are usually better and more structured.