Escape Your Algorithm

Escape Your Algorithm

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Escape Your Algorithm episodes

  • #152 Our Brains on Words, Pictures and Body Cam Video

    Maven is joined by Cali Pitts, Compton DJ, K-Dubb Tha Ambassador, Alyze Chicago and Smokey Rae-Dior

    On this episode 
    Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection kit (part 1)
    Some People Think in Words, Others Think in Pictures & Feelings
    Pervasive surveillance: Body cams for ICE, local police and prison guards
    Black History is American History: Who was Mary Winston Jackson?

    Always made by real humans, for real humans. 

    Proud member of KCGN Radio Network.
    Listen live on podbean app, every Tuesday and Thursday at 9am pacific time.
    Links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

    1 hr 12 min
  • #151 Dr. Justina Ford and the Nuances of Living = NOT a Band, Yet

    Cali Pitts, Alyze Chicago and BluntNinja join Maven to escape together

    Etymologies
    People who are performatively nice in public, but hostile behind closed doors. Question from Cali: Why do people involve themselves with people they don't care about?
    Memory Crafters Preserve Black Women’s History
    Collective Rethinking: How to Have More Nuanced Conversations
    Flock ALPR in the headlines, an update
    Recorded on February 3, 2026 on the Podbean platform. 
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    49 min
  • #150 Your Dunbar Number isn't Elective

    Maven is joined by Cali Pitts and  Kdubb tha Ambassador

    • POTUS
    • Doomsday clock of the union of concerned scientists
    • Podcast clips from

      • Infinite Monkey Cage Dec 16 2025

      Dunbar number (cognition and limits of friend quantity)

      Disagree Better Sept 9, 2025

      Mental Models 

      • Lateral thinking
      • Elections administration in the USA


        • Links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

        Recorded on January 27, 2026 by real humans 

        1 hr 1 min
      • #149 Chester Arthur meets the qwerty keyboard

        Cali Pitts and K-Dubb Tha Ambassador join Maven for a quick and silly little episode. (May contain some curse words.)

        from the Book of Totally Useless Information -Why keyboards are arranged that way; POTUS Chester Arthur; The Little Zen Companion

        Bonus fellowship convo about Little Shop of Horrors.

        Made by real humans for real humans on January 20, 2026.

        Links to most of the content: https://www.protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm


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        16 min
      • #148 The Shambles of Getting Older

        Cali Pitts, Kdubb The Ambassador and Alyze Chicago join Maven and discuss the book Think Again, about avoiding the pitfalls of overconfidence; word history of "shambles"; basics about the 20th president leads to a discussion about the presidency and then to aliens? 

        Also this episode: a few notes on getting older, Alyze Chicago shares some of her bucket list and Maven gives some context for upcoming elections conversations: the number of elected officials in the USA.
        Made by real humans for real humans on January 20, 2026.
        Links to most of the content: https://www.protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm
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        37 min
      • #147 Not working and not getting old(er)

        Maven is joined by Alyze, kdubb, and  bluntninja


        Escaping to 1 of the 7 laws of pessimism, a clip of trevor noah's podcast on work,
        notes on getting older, Dale Carnegie vs. Lin Yutang: How To Stop Worrying and Start Loafing 

        made by real humans on 1/13/26

        links at https://protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm

        28 min
      • #146 Maven's Wild Rocket Ride of Freedom

        Maven is joined by Cali Pitts, Blunt Ninja,  Keron, Mama bear Tracy, Smokie Rae-dior and KDubb for a full show. 

        (The too-much-fun hour-long cool-down after-party will be available exclusively for the podbean fan club members and discord subscribers. Download the podbean app and join the fanclub)
        Think again
        two word origins and two words that sound dirty but aren't 
        Redefining criminality
        https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enforcement-regime/
        Freedom with Purpose
        https://freemindgazette.substack.com/p/context-basics
        Space X launches more problems
        https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-faa-launch-airlines-safety-explosions-florida-caribbean
        Grazing on public land
        https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-public-lands-investigation-takeaways
        WikiFlix.com
        A clip from Dan Schreiber's "Lazy Code" podcast, "The universe is ONE ELECTRON"
        Recorded, as always, by real humans on January 13, 2026 on the Podbean platform. 
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        42 min
      • #145 From Women's Prisons to Obscure Instruments

        Inside the campaign to close California’s remaining women’s prisons

        https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/inside-the-campaign-to-close-californias-remaining-womens-prisons/

        4th 0f seven laws of pessimism

        https://quillette.com/2024/01/26/the-seven-laws-of-pessimism/?ref=thebrowser.com

        The Technological Transformation of Consciousness

        https://freemindgazette.substack.com/p/the-technological-transformation

        Think Again: Treating disagreements like a dance instead of a battle

        Obscure musical instruments

        https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/obscure-musical-instrument-words

        Made for real humans by real humans on 12/25/25

        More links https://www.protopage.com/escapeyouralgorithm#Sources/Show_Links

        37 min
      • #144 Late 2025 visits 1943

        Small grab bag of fun to explore.

        25th POTUS


        3rd of the 7 laws of Social Pessimism

        Parts of 1943 bestselling true story One World by Wendell Wilkie


        Recorded 12/25/25 
        Made by real humans for real humans.

        https://quillette.com/2024/01/26/the-seven-laws-of-pessimism/?ref=thebrowser.com

        more Links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

        26 min
      • #143 Special Bonus Episode: Not your mama's algorithm

        Bonus holiday episode with Maven featuring Blunt Ninja, Cha Cha, Mama Bear, KDubb, Cali Pitts and Mocha the Cat

        Some adult language. 
        seven laws of pessimism #2
        Long live the aeonophiles!
        https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life
        President Benjamin Harrison
        Recorded 12/23/25 
        Made by real humans for real humans. Fake people: F off.
        More links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

        35 min

      About Escape Your Algorithm

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      Escape your Algorithm is dedicated to creating moments where energies and ideas align, to finding things we didn’t know we were looking for, to broadening our knowledge and adding texture to our understanding.