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Antony Rotunno joins us again for the second part of our wide-ranging conversation on the 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis. Borrowing the word "hypernormalisation" from a book by ex-Soviet citizen Alexei Yurchak, in whose writing it described an officially-encouraged delusional state of mind in the gradually-collapsing Soviet Union, Adam Curtis creatively applies the term to the West since the last quarter of the 20th Century; a time in which, he argues, both politicians and citizens have "retreated" from hard problems in favour of "fake" versions of reality, while the banking and technological elites have continued to fill the vacuum with their technocratic systems of "stability" and "control". While we remain unpersuaded by elements of Curtis's overall narrative and gently critical of his somewhat pretentious style, we nevertheless find the documentary rich with fascinating subjects, and share our own perspectives in a relaxed and fairly unstructured way. Note: If you haven't listened to part one of this conversation, please do so first, otherwise you may find it difficult to follow. Music courtesy of Dissident Prophet (https://dissidentprophet.bandcamp.com/) For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com

Many updates today from the Flippy race expanding into pizza and mail delivery, Bezos loses 20 billion in 2 days, a woman marries a ghost and wants babies, Sophia receives the first robot Visa card, and “conspiracy theory” is applied poorly by the mainstream. Join us on Patreon to get MORE!   AGG for the WEEK of Oct. 23 - Oct. 31   YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS! (Updates on stories) Woman claiming to have sex with 20 ghosts is engaged to a spirit | WOAI SEMA show: Pizza Hut to unveil pie-making robot at Las Vegas auto show AI Humanoid 'Sophia' Is Granted First Ever Robot Visa, Speaks With President Bitcoin price: A history of the cryptocurrency on its 10 year anniversary - Business Insider Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever - MIT Technology Review   TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI OH MY! The First Novel Written by AI Is Here—and It's as Weird as You'd Expect It to Be God’s Greater Glory in AI, robotics, nanotechnology The Most Realistic Robots Represented in Movies? Probably the Killer Ones | Inverse ‘Would robot sex count as infidelity? Technically no…’ | Technology | The Guardian Researchers in China develop 'shape-shifting' robot inspired by the TERMINATOR | Daily Mail Online The world’s creepiest robot - Axios The Robot Revolution Is Coming, and Dang Is It Cute - WSJ Fed Scours Data for Signs of a Robot Takeover - Bloomberg $150,000 Hoverbike Now Available for Preorders - Geek.com The world's first humanless warehouse is run only by robots How NASA Will Use Robots to Create Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil - IEEE Spectrum In Norway, a Robot Will Soon be Delivering People's Mail | Digital Trends   BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Genetics research is overwhelmingly white, and holding back precision medicine - Vox   “THE FOUR HORSEMEN of the TECHNOCALYPSE!” Jeff Bezos Just Set the Record for the Amount of Money a Person Has LOST in Two Days “He never paid us a cent”—man suing Tesla has his own lawsuit-filled past | Ars Technica CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! Justin Bieber Is 'Not A Secret Lizard Person,' Says Manager Scooter Braun | HuffPost High-profile conservatives are continuing to share mail bomb conspiracy theories, even after Cesar Sayoc’s arrest | The Independent The conspiracy theory that led to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, explained - Vox Fox has a conspiracy theory problem (opinion) - CNN Conspiracy Theories Drove the Pittsburgh Gunman to Murder - The Atlantic   SPACE/ALIEN/ETs/UFOs                                                    RIP, Kepler: NASA's Revolutionary Planet-Hunting Telescope Runs Out of Fuel Telescope Drama Could Thwart the Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Decoding images from the Golden Record - The Verge Neil deGrasse Tyson: Sci-fi alien invasions reflect human nature — Quartzy War of the Worlds: sci-fi that spawned fake news and a myth — Quartz

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Flippy rings the bell to close the NYSE, theories abound as Forbes reports that NASA “discovered” a rectangular iceberg, Wapo uses broad brushes to associate Christians & conspiracy theorism, DARPA’s super soldier plan goes public via The Atlantic & a Nephilim Update!   AGG for the WEEK of Oct. 16 - Oct. 22 YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS! (Updates on stories) ‘We'll have space bots with lasers, killing plants’: the rise of the robot farmer | Environment | The Guardian Establishing an AI code of ethics will be harder than people think - MIT Technology Review   CAREER ADVICE BASIL WAS RIGHT ABOUT Blockchain engineers are now paid the same as experts in AI - Neowin   TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI OH MY! Artificial Intelligence In Enterprises - Businesses Are Waking Up You Have No Idea What Artificial Intelligence Really Does – Futurism Predictions for the Future of Artificial Intelligence | Analytics Insight The rise of Artificial Intelligence and impending takeover - Livemint The Rise Of The (Self-Replicating) Machines What If AI Can Make Us More Human In The Age Of Robotic Automation? Anki Vector review: Big on heart, not on smarts | VentureBeat Hive CEO Kevin Guo interview on human-powered AI - INSIDER Deloitte survey looks at the biggest risks of artificial intelligence - Business Insider This AI can search for people by height, gender, and clothing in surveillance videos Opinion | Beware the dark side of Artificial Intelligence - Livemint Artificial intelligence — Who is responsible for the outcomes? AI changing the way scientists carry out experiments Scientists Help Robots 'Evolve.' Weirdness Ensues | WIRED Robots! A fantastic catalog of new species / Boing Boing Automation is democratizing experimental science - Axios Boston Dynamics robot dog twerking to SexyBack will rattle your soul - CNET Postman, shopper, builder: In Japan, there's a robot for that - Tech News | The Star Online Japanese unicorn promises 'robots for everyone' in 5 years - Nikkei Asian Review Groundbreaking Moment as a Robot Closes the NY Stock Exchange | Machine Design The truth about robot cats and dogs: can they replace real pets? | South China Morning Post   ART-ificial INTELLIGENCE (AI in the arts) Christie’s, Trying to Be Relevant, Puts AI Art on the Block - The New York Times DeepMind's Eerie Reimagination of the Animal Kingdom This is what AI looks like (as sketched by AI) | ZDNet Do androids dream of electric beats? How AI is changing music for good | Music | The Guardian ai: From Agriculture to Art — the AI wave sweeps in - The Economic Times   CRYPTOCURRENCY AND B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I. - The New York Times   BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM The Biotech Innovation That Will Transform Society Has Arrived (Hint: It's Not CRISPR) University choice and achievement partly down to DNA DNA Tests Don't Prove Elizabeth Warren is Native American: Why Native American Is Not a Race Elizabeth Warren’s pointless DNA test: Why genetic heritage is irrelevant to identity and politics | Salon.com What to Make of Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test - The Atlantic Just about everything you’ve read on the Warren DNA test is wrong - The Washington Post After Warren proves Native American ancestry, Trump pretends he didn’t make $1M charitable offer – ThinkProgress Elizabeth Warren Falls for Trump’s Trap—and Promotes Insidious Ideas About Race and DNA | The New Yorker Geneticists Criticize Use of Science by White Nationalists to Justify ‘Racial Purity’ - The New York Times White-people-only DNA tests show how unequal science has become - MIT Technology Review Genes linked to being gay may help straight people get more sex - MIT Technology Review Want To Know When You'll Die? UCLA Scientist Decodes Lifespan, Learns Exercise Is Bull*hit | Zero Hedge 'Backdoor' eugenics: Are IVF and gene therapy an asset for humanity, or an ethical threat? - RN - ABC News Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here. - MIT Technology Re

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We welcome back long-time friend of the show Antony Rotunno for a wide-ranging conversation on the 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis. Borrowing the word "hypernormalisation" from a book by ex-Soviet citizen Alexei Yurchak, in whose writing it described an officially-encouraged delusional state of mind in the gradually-collapsing Soviet Union, Adam Curtis creatively applies the term to the West since the last quarter of the 20th Century; a time in which, he argues, both politicians and citizens have "retreated" from hard problems in favour of "fake" versions of reality, while the banking and technological elites have continued to fill the vacuum with their technocratic systems of "stability" and "control". While we remain unpersuaded by elements of Curtis's overall narrative and gently critical of his somewhat pretentious style, we nevertheless find the documentary rich with fascinating subjects, and share our own perspectives in a relaxed and fairly unstructured way. Warning: Listeners unfamiliar with HyperNormalisation may find parts of the conversation difficult to follow. This is a reflection of the documentary itself which is rather disjointed and too ambitious in scope. So it might be a good idea—though not necessary, because I do try to explain as much as possible—to watch the documetary first (if you have time, that is!). Music courtesy of Dissident Prophet (https://dissidentprophet.bandcamp.com/) Audio excerpt courtesy of Ben Woodhams (https://www.youtube.com/user/psychonomy) For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com

YouTube goes down for an hour worldwide and conspiracy theories abound, AI trains in virtual worlds, Tesla to serve Tequila, Pepper appears in UK Parliament, Fidelity opens crypto trading, MIT pours in $1 billion into AI, and no matter what, your DNA will be quantified! We also bring you a Nephilim update from American Horror Story. Join us on Patreon to get MORE! No AGG this week, but had a bunch of Updates instead :) #YouTubeDOWN

This episode of the podcast concludes the series on Colossians. While the last chapter of Colossians contains mostly personal references to traveling companions and greetings from Paul, there are several items of interest. Does the chapter refer to a house church led by a woman (Nympha)? Is the “letter to the Laodiceans” a lost letter of Paul—and if so, is that a problem for inspiration?  The end of the letter makes it clear that Paul used an amanuensis (i.e., he dictated the letter). Does that mean Paul wasn’t well ...