Escape Your Algorithm

Escape Your Algorithm

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Escape Your Algorithm episodes

  • #142 Paying attention and Being Present

    A grab bag of items that asks for attention and presence.

    • The Daily Zeitgeist clip
    • Surveillance is sapping our humanity
    • The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year awards 2025
    • One of 1000 places to see before you die: The Grenadines
    • Excerpt : We can feel it coming
    • How much is a trillion?
    • 7 laws of pessimism Intro and #1

      • Made for real humans by real humans on 12/23/25

      More show links protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

      https://unherd.com/2025/09/surveillance-is-sapping-our-humanity/

      https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/17/the-anti-sports-personality-of-the-year-awards-2025?ref=thebrowser.com

      https://freemindgazette.substack.com/p/we-can-feel-it-coming

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

       

      38 min
    • #141 Nuclear Incarceration vs Kurt Vonnegut

      Featured Video: Every Nuclear Bomb Detonation in the 20th Century

      Animal of the Day 
      Think Again, Adam Grant
      Reading: Foma, Wampeters and Granfalloons, Kurt Vonnegut
      Electronic Frontier Foundation's White Paper on Flock ALPR
      Maven and Cali Pitts on prisons, jails, mass incarceration and the carceral bureaucracy of the US
      Made for real humans by real humans on 11/25/25
      Show links protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

      54 min
    • #140 Mind-altering weapons vs what socialism got right

      Digital Protection:

      How to opt out of training google AI with your Gmail 
      How to check whether your passwords and logins have been compromised
      Tapas Topics: 
      1,000 Places to See Before You Die, Etymology (Antarctica, Pundit)
      Articles:
      Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/mind-altering-brain-weapons-no-longer-only-science-fiction-say-researchers
      1.3 billion leaked passwords exposed online in massive new collection — what to do now and how to check your passwords
      https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/1-3-billion-leaked-passwords-exposed-online-in-massive-new-collection-what-to-do-now-and-how-to-check-your-passwords
      What Socialism Got Right
      https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-socialism-got-right/

      Show links:  protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

      Made for real humans by a real human on 11/25/25 

      35 min
    • #139 the Hobo Code & James Burke to real Big Brother?
      • Giant Armadillo
      • Narcissism
      • James Burke on Hardcore History 2008
      • Hobo code
      • 1000 places to see: cattedrale di santa maria la nuova
      • Flock Explained from Law and Disorder with Kat Brooks
      • Matt Stoller Big
      • and conversation with Maven, Ayanna, Bluntninja and Cali Pitts 
        • Made for real humans by real humans on 11/13/2025
        Show links protopage.com/escapeYourAlgorithm
        1 hr 7 min
      • #138 Wikipedia, Chernobyl, Trump Thanks Us

        Animal of the day, a US President Fact Card, Literary Term, About Time Card, articles about Chernobyl's damaged nuclear power plant, Langley contributes stories to Wikipedia and why Donald Trump is  "Thanking you For your attention in this matter"

        Then Cali Pitts and Maven discuss their ideas about the US constitution and institutions and their effects on our shared, divided community.
        Made for real humans by real humans on 12/09/25
        In the live Podbean audience: Kdubb, mamabeartracy, bluntninja, KGCNRadio, RalphWilliamPodcast, JustJim
        Show links protopage.com/escapeYourAlgorithm

        Chornobyl’s Multi-Billion Dollar Tomb Is No Longer Effective After Drone Attack

        https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/chornobyl-drone-strike-breach/

        Wikipedia co-creator Larry Sanger reveals how the CIA secretly hijacked entries to re-write history

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15150661/Wikipedia-Larry-Sanger-CIA-hijacked-entries.html

        Thank You for Your Attention

        https://brownpoliticalreview.org/thank-you-for-your-attention/

        1 hr 4 min
      • #137 Time Traveling with NASCAR UFOs

        To brother Cali and brother Deeko,thanks for joining for the live show.

        Highlights include  Literary Term, Etymology of the day, and Time Knowledge, 
        (in order Farce, Fact, and International dateline)
        The shape of earth, according to Columbus
        NASCAR's court case
        Recommended Listen Ren "Losing It"
        Made for real humans by real humans on 12/04/25
        Show links protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

        37 min
      • #136 Vape Batteries in The Foster Portfolio

        Cali Pitts of KGCN Radio and Maven are escaping algorithms

        YouTuber turns disposable vapes into battery wall that runs his whole workshop https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/youtuber-builds-power-system-using-vape-cells

        Kurt Vonnegut The Foster Portfolio read by LaVar Burton
        https://levar-burton-reads.simplecast.com/episodes/the-foster-portfolio-by-kurt-vonnegut

        Made for real humans by real humans on 11/11/25 

        For more show links protopage.com/escapeYourAlgorithm

        53 min
      • #135 Yo! Be a better learner of humanity's endgame

        Ayianna and Cali join Maven for conversation outside the algorithm

        Sources in this episode (also at Protopage.com/Escape Your Algorithm)

        Clothes from beer and pharmaceutical waste
        History of "Yo"
        Want to be a better learner? Start by noticing how you think.
        Humanity's Endgame

        Made for real humans by real humans on 11/20/25 

        58 min
      • #134 Hitchhikers Guide to MMT and System Collapse

        Segments include: "Best of The Left" on Nuclear Arms, "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" primer on Modern Monetary Theory, parts of "Humanity's Endgame", four "random" chapters from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and etymology of the day.

        Show links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

        Made for real humans by real humans on 11/18/2025

         

        55 min
      • EYA Episode 133

        Bring your curiosity and escape with Maven on Podbean. 

        Always made by real humans, for real humans. 

        Recorded on November 11, 2025

        Armistice Day and author Kurt Vonnegut's birthday

        Our live studio audience included Podbean hosting legends Mama Bear Tracy and Ralph William of W-ESN, Cali Pitts and Lisa of KGCN Radio Network and Deeko of Ascot Radio. 

        History of Armistice Day (now Veteran's Day)

        Animal of the day
        Excerpt of Interview with Kurt Vonnegut
        Thinking again
        A few short chapters of Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
        Literary Term

        Show links at protopage.com/EscapeYourAlgorithm

        To join the live recordings, download the podbean app iOS and Android.

        47 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.