Robbie Martin returns to the show to talk a bit about the strange and ever-changing landscape of online media. Media Roots spread deep and sure, but new and evermore beguiling media outlets, personalities, and trends keep emerging at a breakneck pace. Robbie and Aaron do their best to make some kind of sense of it all here.
Topics include: Media Roots, podcasting, Masonic history, alternative media, UFO community, monetization schemes, over saturation, Lex Friedman, Joe Rogan, copies of copies, old conspiracies and hoaxes have lasting power, far right extremism and mainstream convergence, family upheavals, mental health, MAGA, Project 2025, strategy of tension, Jan 6, ruling class factions at war with each other, civil war, QAnon, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Podesta emails, counterintelligence, Accelerationism, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, rightwing influencers, glomming onto fringe topics, 9/11 Truth, Flat Earth, Alex Jones, Singularity, AI, Kurzweil, transhumanism, virtual spaces, fictionally augmented digital realities, LLM fueled disinformation campaigns, Neuralink
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Truth Town Troubles, AoT#420
Boeing's Fall From Grace, AoT#419
The Global Propaganda Matrix, AoT#418
Banning TikTok and Fighting Crime, AoT#417
Great Powers Competition Technological Battle Grounds, AoT#416
American Theocracy 2025, AoT#415
Alex Ansary interview, Back Outside the Box, AoT#414
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Heritage Foundation Project 2025, AoT#406
Illicit Calls, AoT#405
Oops, Peace Not Found, AoT#404
Marc Andreessen Techno-Optimist Manifesto, AoT#403
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