Onions are known to cause tears, but this time they ain’t the tears of liberal snowflakes. No way, these are the tears of everyone’s favorite rightwing beefcake.

Topics include: Patreon content, Singularity Summit 2009, NYC, James Hughes, 2B movie premiere, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular, video, changing media landscape, legacy media vs new media, Onion auction purchase of Infowars, Alex Jones, satire of alt media overdue, shills, Paul brothers, making money from media production, advertisers, home shopping channels, viewer demographics, content creator as career, online media high production value, Global Propaganda Matrix, fabs, microprocessors, TSMC, Intel, world war, CHIPS Act, technology, New Albany OH, Columbus, Les Wexner, Mike Jeffries, get rich quick, billionaires, made in America, gods, Antichrist

The glorious leader will soon make his triumphant return to the office he was born to sit in. In truth, he likely won’t do much more than sit, but he is bringing all of the best people to help him to do the job.

Topics include: Patreon improvements, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular live-stream, return of Trump, Stop the Steal 2, election fraud, content creators are always right, MAGA marketing, Trump brand, techno oligarchs, Big Tech, Silicon Valley Libertarianism, loss of civil liberties, technocracy, Freedom Cities, coming challenges, Grifter Industrial Complex, dying Legacy Media, Neocons, Bush administration, unitary executive, War on Terror, racism, Patriot Act, Supreme Court ruling on Presidential immunity, disenfranchised working class, Trump not actually in charge, Project 2025 is the plan, lawyers have written executive orders, old age, America First, foreign policy, karma, World War 3, South China Sea, Indo Pacific, China, Russia, Japan, Australia, Phillippines, Taiwan, Chinese statements placating the American ego, cyber attacks, new patriotic propaganda campaign, PNAC, “alt media” is the establishment again, Strong Man, outlawing dictionaries

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