Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Episode 233: Critical Massholes

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Right now, there are a few under-reported legal attempts being made to rein in the tech giants that today, well, monopolistically reign. Just like I did in my last, I'll cover yet another of these attempts in this Episode 233: Critical Massholes.

In this episode, I read from: two articles from the series Big Tech On Trial, by Lee Hepner and Matt Stoller; Shoshanna Zuboff's book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power; an article from The Register; and, from his 1934 book I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked, Upton Sinclair's observation I call the Sinclair Maxim.

I played for you: Weird Al Yankovick's version of The Brady Bunch theme; and the wizard himself imploring Dorothy and the Gang to please ignore him, that from the third movie version of The Wizard of Oz. (Did you know there were two silent versions of the Wizard? There were. Weirdly, I couldn't find any audio clips from these to include in the show!) I opened the show with Shoshanna Zuboff backed by KMFDM, and I'm closing today with Julie & Rolf & The Campfire Gang doing "Over The Rainbow".
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  1. JimDecember 20, 2023 at 12:57 PM

    Hey, Pim!

    Interesting. She reminds me a lot as someone who pursues the kind of reality framing that Charles Eisenstein had on his show ( in which I no longer partake). In fact, her vocabulary is so of this culture it reminded me why I don't listen to Charles anymore. I like him; I just don't always understand him, or find I clash with his framing.

    I'm not bashing these ideas at all; you're right, she's interesting. The hurdle? I almost feel she and others like her are using a vocabulary almost alien to my own; even though we are talking about the same things, I find myself thinking "WTF?!", or, if I make it through the sentence and find consilience, I have to consult a dictionary to make sure.

    I guess I am too much the snarky cynic. Personally, I think it's my key attracting charm. ;-)

    Thanks for reaching out!

    Later!

    —Jim, Your Ad Attacker

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