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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7lDqMXbyfDk8fPXZAWgZDS?si=106TCc1WSW2NVesg7AHcRQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/blake-cunningham/1710062697YouTube Music: https://youtube.com/channel/UCh5isf3WMjT2l3FFeTDmpyQ?si=4Sylg0tXAsQwK__Q Insta: https://www.instagram.com/bud.bc?igsh=djQ1YnpzdnMwcjlu&utm_source=qr Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B08KSGPGFP/blake-cunninghammarketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_qoIA5mgdMPbQGjgkbjosU7cl9 Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/21632379/u My Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1nU9EZLc8488a3UhtPAQ9g?si=77af20407c694062 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blake-cunningham-delirium/id1781779913Youtube: https://youtube.com/@blakecunninghampod?si=uZyexGmKAJgGwIqw What happens to culture when every feed becomes its own country? We take a hard look at power and perception, starting with a volatile week of headlines around Venezuela’s leadership crisis, oil control, and the endlessly loaded word “imperialism.” Instead of treating it as a moral sorting hat, we debate it as a strategy with winners, losers, and predictable spillover into neighboring states. From there, we examine how allies posture, how legal objections collide with real logistics, and why media incentives keep turning regional crises into world-ending narratives.
Then we pivot—from geopolitics to the strange gravitational pull of conspiracy-flavored curiosity, Greenland chatter included. It’s a window into how people crave cinematic answers when the truth is slow, boring, and procedural. Our focus tightens around Iran’s protests, the pattern of pressure and proxy, and a sharp claim: the next era is not World War III, it’s persistent regional conflict amplified by attention economies. That argument sets the stage for our central theme: the collapse of monoculture. Once, a handful of channels and events stitched us together; now, recommendation engines fracture us into microniches where consensus looks like surrender instead of collaboration.
We talk AI without the hand-wringing. Ethics matter, but adoption follows utility: if it does the homework, people will use it. The better question is how to work with the machine so your voice isn’t erased by it. Treat AI like infrastructure, not novelty—curate inputs, learn the tools, and create bridges that move across niches. Along the way, we vent about awards shows, celebrity headlines, and why everything feels thinner when there’s no shared center of gravity. The takeaway isn’t to pine for one monoculture; it’s to build translation layers between communities and choose formats that reward depth over performative heat.
If you dig sharp takes on geopolitics, media incentives, AI, and the future of culture, you’ll feel right at home. Subscribe, share with a friend who lives in a different feed, and leave a review telling us where you still find real common ground.
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By Blake CunninghamCheck OUT my music
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7lDqMXbyfDk8fPXZAWgZDS?si=106TCc1WSW2NVesg7AHcRQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/blake-cunningham/1710062697YouTube Music: https://youtube.com/channel/UCh5isf3WMjT2l3FFeTDmpyQ?si=4Sylg0tXAsQwK__Q Insta: https://www.instagram.com/bud.bc?igsh=djQ1YnpzdnMwcjlu&utm_source=qr Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B08KSGPGFP/blake-cunninghammarketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_qoIA5mgdMPbQGjgkbjosU7cl9 Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/21632379/u My Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1nU9EZLc8488a3UhtPAQ9g?si=77af20407c694062 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-blake-cunningham-delirium/id1781779913Youtube: https://youtube.com/@blakecunninghampod?si=uZyexGmKAJgGwIqw What happens to culture when every feed becomes its own country? We take a hard look at power and perception, starting with a volatile week of headlines around Venezuela’s leadership crisis, oil control, and the endlessly loaded word “imperialism.” Instead of treating it as a moral sorting hat, we debate it as a strategy with winners, losers, and predictable spillover into neighboring states. From there, we examine how allies posture, how legal objections collide with real logistics, and why media incentives keep turning regional crises into world-ending narratives.
Then we pivot—from geopolitics to the strange gravitational pull of conspiracy-flavored curiosity, Greenland chatter included. It’s a window into how people crave cinematic answers when the truth is slow, boring, and procedural. Our focus tightens around Iran’s protests, the pattern of pressure and proxy, and a sharp claim: the next era is not World War III, it’s persistent regional conflict amplified by attention economies. That argument sets the stage for our central theme: the collapse of monoculture. Once, a handful of channels and events stitched us together; now, recommendation engines fracture us into microniches where consensus looks like surrender instead of collaboration.
We talk AI without the hand-wringing. Ethics matter, but adoption follows utility: if it does the homework, people will use it. The better question is how to work with the machine so your voice isn’t erased by it. Treat AI like infrastructure, not novelty—curate inputs, learn the tools, and create bridges that move across niches. Along the way, we vent about awards shows, celebrity headlines, and why everything feels thinner when there’s no shared center of gravity. The takeaway isn’t to pine for one monoculture; it’s to build translation layers between communities and choose formats that reward depth over performative heat.
If you dig sharp takes on geopolitics, media incentives, AI, and the future of culture, you’ll feel right at home. Subscribe, share with a friend who lives in a different feed, and leave a review telling us where you still find real common ground.
Support the show