Behind the Bastards

Robert tells Ify about the time tech weirdo's recreated Hell using AI and Robert pisses off a VP at Google. Plus: More cult shit!

(Adapted from his article in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/)

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Robert sits down with Ify Nwadiwe to talk about the weird cult that's formed around AI, and some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. (Adapted from his article in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-companies-advocates-cult-1234954528/)

(2 Part Series)

Sources:

1. What Makes a Cult a Cult? | The New Yorker
2. The Wide Angle: Understanding TESCREAL — Silicon Valley’s Rightward Turn | Washington Spectator
3. We need to examine the beliefs of today’s tech luminaries
4. This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go - The New York Times (archive.is)
5. Effective Accelerationism — e/acc - e/acc newsletter (archive.is)
6. The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz (archive.is)
7. https://abtinmus.medium.com/nick-land-for-dumbies-technological-singularity-and-capital-as-a-runaway-system-4fac0c9a163e
8. https://web.archive.org/web/20141007023855/http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2014/10/hyper-racism.html
9. https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/25345
10. https://regressstudies.substack.com/p/technocapital-is-eating-my-brains

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Now bereft of their children, the Finders slide into old age and irrelevance with one last attempt to freak out the normies.

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Were The Finders a CIA operation? The short answer is "maybe"! The long answer is... this episode.

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After almost twenty years of quiet growth the Finders explode into public awareness when they are accused of sex trafficking children, possibly for the CIA.

(Or the Devil.)

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Robert sits down with Jamie Loftus to tell the tale of Marion Petty, the man whose cult was accused of trafficking children and may have been part of a CIA op. Or not! It's very unclear!

(4 Part Series)

Sources:

1. https://apnews.com/article/4c5cd8141e930159ea3e4f0492a41ade
2. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x53vg/the-finders-cult-from-the-80s-was-patient-zero-for-epsteinand-pizzagate-conspiracies
3. https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/287890/finders-keeper/  
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/07/officialsdescribe-cult-rituals-in-child-abuse-case/11f05df1-48e0-41f7-b46d249c0bd2bc39/  
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/07/finders-group-has-its-roots-in-popular60s-hippie-refuge/2d6b5d9d-904f-4acd-a371-f560fca68b39/  
6. https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders/the-finders-part-01-of-04/viewr 
7. https://www.gnosticwarrior.com/finders.htmlhttps://joncohen.org/wp-content/uploads/1988/11/In-Search-of-the-Finders-New-Times-version-.pdf
8. https://www.amazon.com/Gamecaller-Mr-Tobe-Terrell/dp/1974059308

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Our tale of Orange County bastardry reaches it's apex in John Schmitz, the conspiracy maniac who ran against Nixon from the Right and blazed the trail that led us to Donald Trump

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