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Holy schnitzel listen to the life of my man Alan Flowers. Talks growing up gay in Chicago in the 50s, his clothing biz in the 60s, selling everything and moving to Gympie, Australia (where he's not legally allowed to return), his flower biz in the 70s, his experience with aids, and some epic sex life riffs. All that and he ain't finished yet. God bless him.

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on uncertainty and leaning on history, crypto price increases (yawn), one reason the super wealthy invest differently than us, Tik Tok and Trump's anti capitalist tendencies, and the world's playbook for China.

Happy birthday to our producer Chuck Finch, pumped to have you aboard brother, fists up

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on Jeff Bezos' letter to congress, your Covid-19 update ™ (the flattening of the curve begins...AGAIN), tech regulation is coming but so is crypto (Augur v2, Visa, Office of the Comptroller of Currency, Financial Action Task Force on stablecoins, and NYSE Arca issuing bonds on Ethereum).

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on culture war exhaustion, Bitcoin and gold, William Barr calling Apple a China pawn, Twitter hack and Coinbase stopping transfers, Ethereum settling more value per day than Bitcoin, Augur v2, the fracturing of the internet into US, China, EU, and India lines, the internet failing so far to live up to its mission of routing around censorship, and rising Covid-19 deaths in the US.

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on Bari Weiss' resignation from the New York Times, TikTok, and China's lashing out against liberalism.

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on people focusing too much on political affiliation (a good person is a good person), cult following of presidents needs to end, humanity being a spec of dust in space worries me, low probability / high impact events that are threats to humanity, extreme political views in the US is overblown, The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, attitudes on homosexuality correlated with a country's wealth, and why covid cases are increasing and deaths are decreasing.

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on Hong Kong's fight for liberty, NBA and China, protesting and Covid-19, we still don't know how to use fast internet, tech widens the margin of error, cancel culture hurts the public square, Facebook as a nanny, Augur v2 launch, tech to combat speech moderation by big tech platforms is coming online, new Reddit hate speech rules, torrenting was never about free shit, screen names were cool, and why being long humanity is the only way to live.

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on the state of the pandemic, the right to protest lockdowns and social injustice and the right to religious gatherings, if you protest and don't vote you aren't protesting, executive order limiting immigration to protect labor market, stop calling everything fake news, Apple claiming moral superiority while bending over backwards to comply with censorship from the Chinese Communist Party, crypto stablecoins (Tether is sketchy), and valuing the COMP token.

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on the Chinese Communist Party's threat to freedom everywhere (treatment of Uighur Muslims, Kasakhs, and Hong Kong), Apple and Google monopolies (App Store and Ads), Compound Finance and Reddit's 430 million users chart the way for a new age of community governance built on cryptocurrency, Trump threatens protestors, Bolton DOGS Trump, and in a democracy the one thing that matters is the SCOREBOARD (Susan Rice's comments). Oh, and WEAR A MASK.

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by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber

Riffing on a speech thought experiment, campaign zero which seeks to overhaul police forces, reaching out to your lawmakers, racial inequality after racism, James Mad Dog Mattis dogs Trump, remember when we laughed at church goers, zoom and podcast censorship in China, and crypto company Compound Finance token distribution.

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Links: • Campaign Zero, Defund12.org • Racial Inequality After Racism • James Mattis Denounces Trump • CCP, Zoom, and Podcasts • Compound Finance Governance

by no gradient, produced by chuck "finch" finley, music by chris hoog, artwork by logan faerber