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  • This week’s episode of The Age of Transitions podcast is an interview of Eray Özkural. An AI professional, transhumanist, and all around free thinker, he has a lot of first hand experience from within the world of artificial intelligence technology that he talks about here.

    Topics include: Marvin Minsky, Usenet, philosophy of mind, machine learning, biocomputing, history of AI, AI research shut down on purpose, AI Winter artificially induced, experts can be fooled by propaganda, misinformation, science of influence, media, examachine, Open AI, scare tactics to keep tech in hands of a few, Sam Altman, free markets

  • Apparently, The End of Democracy is upon us. As that plays itself out, let’s try to get a firm hold on whatever is left.

    Topics include: crafting propaganda narratives, artificial world, self, epiphany, human experience, American democracy, presidential election, lost faith in electoral process, true wealth hoarded, turned on each other, foundations, anti-intellectual sentiment, rapid change, Singularity, history, stake holders, gaming the system, virtual life, scapegoating, generational warfare, led by analytics and algorithms, art, truth, upcoming interviews, future options

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  • Some thoughts on the many changes and many ages of transitions that we can look back on. Changing media and political trends have intertwined and brought us to a new marker post. Where do we go from here?

    Topics include: Age of Transitions, technology, change, subconscious, historical marking posts, Newt Gingrich, politics and media, online reality, party politics, MAGA, fringe conspiracy culture, stolen election narratives, Election Day, ramping up police state, law and order, blanket distrust of politics and government, propaganda, conspiracy theory used as weapon, alchemical metaphors, heat, end of democracy, P Diddy, fringe radio, Tupaq and Biggie murders, black conspiracies, William Cooper, periods in conspiracy culture, self publishing, podcasting, internet history, albums on vinyl, Rush Limbaugh, outsider politics, truth movements subsumed by political movements, Putin, Butler assassination attempt

  • National security elites wish we were still living during the War on Terror years, but the glory days are gone for the US. Procuring government contracts to simply become wealthy is not good enough anymore. Meanwhile, those claiming to speak truth to power are simply recycling old tropes that no longer apply.

    Topics include: prophets, IronNet, national security, cybersecurity, NSA, stock prices, C5 Capital, Russia, Keith Alexander, War on Terror, post war US history, foreign policy, wars of aggression, Pienaar, Russian oligarchs, making money for its own sake, corruption, imperial power, false pretexts for wars, 9/11 terror attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush administration, torture, Truth Movement, loss of civil liberties, unitary executive, Neocons, USA had privileged position, no global challengers, revolving door between public service and private industry, MIC, F35, ED 209, transitional period, Great Powers Competition, BRICS, dominant minority, Post Truth Movement, worn out tropes, funding for Ukraine vs past wars, Silicon Valley vying for more MIC influence, Global Propaganda Matrix, billionaires, falls from grace, double headed eagle, glorious past of various nations

  • Is Lauren Southern having a private crisis of conscience? Signs point to the probability of this, but only time, and Southern herself, may tell.

    Topics include: status of Ochelli Radio Network, Brady Bunch collective style video podcasts, agendas, taboo topics, shifts in alternative media, Tenet Media, Lauren Southern, Alt Right, women in media, Charlottesville, young people difficulty with decisions, owning the libs, attention for its own sake, White Noise documentary, Gavin McInnes, misogyny, racism, business as usual for other Tenet affiliated creators, trad wife social media trend, Flintstones, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, Civil War Monuments, free speech, Red Pillers, The Matrix, occult significance of Seven Mountains Mandate, NAR evangelical sect, Microsoft reopening TMI, AI power requirements, belief that AI is overhyped, Heritage Foundation, theocracy, conscience, Sam Altman, Open AI

  • Harping on the Russian influence, but also making time for what China is up to these days according to the NSA. You may want to throw out your old smart toaster just to be safe from the botnet.

    Topics include: Russian influence on alternative media, Post Truth Movement World, shared interests, global propaganda matrix, governments, taking offense to more, social media, justifying being online, surveillance of everyone, Tenet Media, Tim Pool the world’s biggest moron, Canada, Foreign content creators exerting influence over our national politics, paranoid alt media creators, defense of independent editorial control, other media companies shutting down, financial backers pulled out, guise of free speech, hosts and creators who don’t tow company line are dropped, RFK and Don Jr piece about Ukraine long range missiles, $100K per episode, promotion of civil war, sense that Justice may be done, exploding pagers, Israel, cell phones, future terrorism, NSA Twitter post, PRC botnets, hacking, IoT devices, DDoS attacks, cybersecurity, update devices and get rid of old ones, smart devices, consumer culture creates security risks, Communism vs Capitalism, Cold War 2.0, questions of grey areas concerning war, geopolitics, dystopia, historical perspective, confusion, cognitive dissonance, confidence in knowing what is real, work of podcasting vs manual labor, tools of alt media

  • Chuck joins the show to talk about the Russian propaganda influence over the alternative media. This is a topic that many would prefer to ignore, but it has to be taken seriously, and understood at a level that goes beyond opinion.

    Topics include: Russian propaganda money, patriot radio stations, RBN, 2015, alt media dramatically shifted to Trump support, offers of money to go along, Roger Stone, apologists for Trump, QAnon, outsider iconography, large networks buying up all online media, Newsmax TV channel, PSYOPS, RT promoted, bans from social media never seem to stop big names, unwitting useful voices for Russia, Lee Camp, culture war, Western values vs Russia is the East, generic Ukraine smears, Pizzagate, every liberal woman accused of being a man, useful idiots, free speech as a marketing tool, absurd amounts of money for podcasting, money for YouTube videos, funneling money through phony advertisers, Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, etymology of opinion, Post Truth World, social media

  • As the Culture War rages on, there continues to be a surprisingly serious battlefront in the world of online comedy. High ranking general Joe Rogan recently had a very public meeting with Lord Thiel. Sorting information from disinformation in the midst of this is easier said than done.

    Topics include: syncronicity, Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan interview Peter Thiel, Singularity Institute, org name changes, AI, billionaire, Erich Von Daniken, Ancient Aliens, Wokeism as extreme religion, contradictions, Libertarianism, climate science, computer science, Bilderberg, AGI, NPCC film festival, Cinefamily LA, nihilism, stand up comedy, Comedy Culture War, JRE is the biggest podcast, 250 stand up comics left, The Elephant Graveyard YT channel, Rogan’s Netflix special, Rogan Sphere, making a career out of podcast appearances, hacks, Rogan’s song and dance becoming stale, generic conspiracy podcasts, whining about woke, sycophants, Austin comedy scene, Comedy Mothership, left and right wing factions of comedy, Kill Tony, Harland Williams, David Lucas, Tom Green, web-o-vision, early days of live streaming and podcasting, Matt Walsh at the DNC, the Not Racists, PR for a movie, attention economy, entertainment careers in digital age, following analytics, getting a reaction, no real ideology, posts becoming more extreme over time, quality original content, divide and conquer

  • Pack up your bags, you’re being moved into a Freedom City. Don’t worry, it’s not an Agenda 21 Fifteen Minute City. We all know that would be a nightmare. This is a utopian new way to live that comes with a brand new and improved form of government.

    Topics include: questions to ask to understand the world, ambiguous non answers, Deep State, billionaires, presidential election, narratives, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, social media platforms used for propaganda, confusion and obfuscation, MAGA money support, Mark Cuban, government run as a business, Libertarian ethos blended into Trump campaign messaging, mainstreaming of conspiracy culture, Republican Party changed by far right fringe ideas, Silicon Valley Libertarians, Marc Andreessen, Techno Utopian Manifesto, alt media online augmented reality, tech upgrades bring propaganda upgrades, technocracy, PR is Trump’s only skill, generative AI political candidates, Peter Thiel, LLMs, JD Vance, insult comedy, fake masculinity, culture war, evangelicals, Putin, Post Truth, Triumph the Dog, internal war within MIC, desire to recreate American governmental structure, Curtis Yarvin, techno-feudal city states, Freedom Cities, Pronomos Capital, rebranding, network state, Space X and Brand X, Agenda 21 population movements, 15 minute cities, Zeitgeist Movement, Venus Project, martial law, Alex Jones, left/right paradigm

  • The digital charlatans are outnumbered only by their legions of online devotees. Understanding the basic nature of our current augmented reality is a necessary first step toward independent thought.

    Topics include: June Lake Eastern Sierras, nature, boring artificial world, no true collective human goals, inadvertent problems of technological civilization, pollution, environmental degradation, technique, undeniable reality, wealth inequality, political turmoil, Trump’s appeal to underclass, everything is a con, planned obsolescence, Harris and Democrats have the advantage at present, RFK Jr and Joe Rogan, nihilism of Rogan’s brand, podcast medium, how to get engagement on Twitter X, Stephan Molyneux, exploitation of social media, augmented reality, online personas, propaganda, few people realize extent of digital exploitation, trending topics, taking things for granted, useful idiots, special interest groups, disinformation, online literacy, evil of television, scams, meaning of life, wasting time, honesty

  • Fires can be great, but it depends on who sets them. Is that a brush fire set by a Revolutionary Patriot, or is it one of those Molotov Cocktails that Antifa throws?

    Topics include: independent media, anti intellectual trend, no more books, meme language, grotesque aesthetics, propaganda, dueling narratives, Project 2025, MAGA, exploitation of conspiracy culture, Alex Jones, playing the victim, Joe Biden gone, violence around election, Charlottesville, US intelligence establishment and Russia, PA Farm Show Arena, Paul Dans, Kevin Roberts book title edited, need to know basis, Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America, sun symbolism, Jordan Maxwell, dawn of a new day, fire, occult meaning, Revolutionary Faith, James Billington, conjuring Revolutionary War, Fire in the Minds of Men, Taking Back Washington to Save America, lit match cover image, publishing is dead, JD Vance foreword, muskets, pushing idea of new Civil War, amalgamation of Revolutionary and Civil War, domestic warmongering, Freemasonry, dumbed down, Billionaire Libertarians, war over new Military Industrial Complex, Palantir, old Aerospace companies vs new VC Tech businesses, Pentagon

  • The propaganda machine is rolling away as the political rallies are rallying a little too hard. In a world gone mad how does everyone have all the answers? What if they never did?

    Topics include: back on the show, immediate responses to news, paid propaganda, actual work, independent media, motives, noticing patterns, talking points, Jump to Conclusions Mat, Trump assassination attempt, Crooks, Secret Service failure, Democrats did it narrative, lawfare, playing the victim, spiritual battle, deep state, Trump sons, stochastic terrorism, Trump as a liability to his own campaign, MAGA movement bigger than Trump, martyrdom, narcissism clouds grander vision, aging, distancing from Project 2025, Heritage Foundation, Bannon, Kevin Roberts, cult of personality, being on TV, JD Vance, replace all bureaucrats, Peter Thiel, venture capital, Silicon Valley, unitary executive, Bill Kristol, Neocons, erosion of civil liberties post 9/11, Supreme Court, official duties, founder’s intent, Libertarian technocracy, virtual reality, 1984, mind control, alternative media built up to now, flip flopping, culture war, being triggered, political stunts, virtue signaling, Cowboy Catholic posturing, getting attention for political advantage, authoritarianism, Trumpamania, billionaires making money, Andreesen, Techno Utopian Manifesto, saviors

  • In this podcast a tired guy talks about religion. Is he tired of religion? Maybe.

    Topics include: Project 2025, religion, missionary work, Jesus Christ, Christianity, esoteric aspects of all religions, comparative religion, fear of the occult, Godfrey Reggio, living in a monastery, brotherhoods, fundamentalism, Christian Nationalism, public and private schools, peace, reincarnation, ego, human experience, quantification and objective truth seeking, mortality, alchemy, transhumanism, destroying religion with ignorance, AI booms and busts, generative AI imagery, AGI, everyone questioning reality, Dark Night of the Soul, theocracy

  • It’s funny how those who are screaming and shouting the loudest about the Truth are actually driving us further and further away from realizing it.

    Topics include: desert weather, the conspiracy is the conspiracy, truth seeking, alternative movements, fringe topics, dominant minority, online media, global propaganda matrix, shifting narratives, 180 degree turns in opinion, basic truth, divide and conquer, actually confronting the actual problem and enemy, Occupy Wall Street, discontent directed toward political movements, MAGA, QAnon, basic elements of history ignored, American exceptionalism, delusion, genocide of indigenous people, racism, the not racists, Christian religion, money backing propaganda, common people pitted against one another, angry mob as the enemy, status quo, authoritarian movements and impulses, Heritage Foundation, destruction of civil liberties during War on Terror

  • Did the “Tiananmen Square never happened” tweets fool you? It wouldn’t have if you had seen Shen Yun. America can become even more greater by electing the best rich guy for the job. Our problems aren’t so hard to fix when all the answers just seem to keep falling right in our lap.

    Topics include: help promote the show, different sources of content online, propaganda from everyone, disinformation, government, narratives, Chinese Twitter posts, Tiananmen Square, Tank Man, Chinese propaganda, Epoch Times, Falun Gong, religious cults, over the top homophobia, CFO money laundering, what people say means nothing, basic corruption, Shen Yun, Russian propaganda ubiquitous, online news sites used as propaganda portals, Russiagate, Intelligence community shared beliefs, Stop the Steal, geopolitics, competition over resources, US spread thin, divided population, minimum wage increase in CA, insane profits, political cults, apparatus behind Trump, Project 2025, Truth Movement roots of MAGA, redirected energies, coming protests over election results, Insurrection Act, Idiocracy in real life, states pitted against one another

  • Freelance writer, researcher and historian Robert Skvarla is the guest on this episode of the show. You may know him as the smoking alien from Twitter. This interview was most definitely a close encounter of the informative kind.

    Topics include: Pennsylvania, fringe topics, X Files, 90s paranormal and conspiracy boom, writing, hidden American culture, Trump, left vs right wing conspiracy material, propaganda, Edward Bernays, misinformation, Havana Syndrome, narrative wars, defense contracts, civil liberties, truth, inner enemy, DHS accused of being too woke, DHS INA, Project 2025, right wing new turn against intelligence and DOJ, government contingency plans, Rex 84, McCarthyism, concentration camps, conspiracy concepts derive from true histories of oppression, culture wars, political campaign noise, being online, Twitter, micro celebrity, new student protests, crime statistics inaccurate and used for political benefit

  • Entertainment media is shifting. Meanwhile, the continuing corporate takeover of all internet is only picking up more speed and momentum.

    Topics include: remixing the shows, content creation, corporate takeover of online media, Big Tech, MIC, Conner O’Malley, Standup Solutions, mixed media comedy, satire, Google borders change on maps, subversive comedy, new media, Marc Rebillet ad for Google, entertainment, Google employees resign in protest, Alphabet, SEO industry, AI generated imagery dominating image search results, fantasy art, Dead Internet, attention obsession, artificial intelligence does not have intelligence, terminology, hacking slavery, deep fakes, online services, terms of service, ubiquitous surveillance, link back to your own website, idiocy of online content, search may be dead, TikTok as source of information, continuum of our world, thought experiments, seeking truth, climate change, online discourse not inspiring

  • We have been told that alchemy was no more than the delusions of Medieval drug addicts. Might there be more to the story than this?

    Topics include: misfits, confusion, rapid change, alchemy, medieval addicts smoking lead, human experience, philosophy, abstract thinking, imagination, flying sticks, time, Great Work, ages, technique, taking our world for granted, thinking as hard labor, creative power, artifice, magic, mental health crisis, attaining inner peace, esoteric practices and goals, meditation, miracles of modern world, mystery of prehistoric humanity, biology, mining in space, the Tao, greatest truth defies quantification, death, ego, humility, nature, creation and creator, transhumanism, metaphor of lead into gold, limits of language, art of multiplication, Crone aspect of goddess, deleting discomfort, maturity, silliness of politics, tent revivals, perfect eternity, it’s a bible

  • An unexpected hero arises to take on our old enemies, the Neocons. Not the hero we expected, but most likely, the hero we deserve.

    Topics include: Future of Humanity Institute closing, Oxford, transhumanism, Nick Bostrom, Anders Sandberg, WTA, h+, eugenics, Silicon Valley billionaires, Simulation Hypothesis, racist emails, dysgenics, artificial intelligence, progressive version of transhumanism, fringe ideologies and groups, IEET, Martine Rothblatt, EA, Longtermism, national economic systems, technological development, Neoliberals, Neocons, establishment in crisis, Erik Prince, Blackwater, Xe, Bush Administration, War on Terror, MIC, Indo-Pacific military theater, pivot away from Middle East, defense spending, Reagan, Cold War, post communist Russia, focus on private sector to save governmental failure, Eric Schmidt, national security shift, Boeing, whistleblowers’ deaths, basic corruption, focus on profits over all else, financialization, wealth gap increasing, money isn’t real, lack of economic philosophy, no accountability, dismantling of legitimate protest, Israel, student protests, banning campus protests, 2024 presidential election, AGI, major governments want to steer their own new world order, space vs the desert

  • The Age of Transitions is your one stop shop for important tech news. Make your way through the shadows and over to this podcast to learn a thing or two. There are other shows out there that you may not want to listen to, lest you get us all into more trouble than we are already in.

    topics include: Silicon Valley new MIC, expert opinions, one stop tech info hub, AI, nascent technologies, Kissinger, CHIPS Act, TSMC, semiconductors, China and US, Taiwan, Arizona fab, national security, LLMs, graphics cards, shadow people, fringe and alternative communities always degrading, the conspiracy is the conspiracy, 9/11 Truth, Ron Paul campaigns, Alex Jones as the Joker, marketing, Stop the Steal rally, fringe ideas going mainstream, electing a US president, adversarial aesthetics for public political protests, confrontation videos, narratives, propaganda, relating to MAGA crowd motivations, rapid contradictions, accountability, deep state, alternative figures prefer to play the victim, massive narrative shift, Republican establishment, instability, stolen election, guns, desire for civil war, possible election outcomes