robot friends

wherein I talk with @maybegray and @QiaochuYuan about flirting, sexual oughtism, cargo cult sexuality, downloading millions of escort reviews, and the international conspiracy of women to gossip about how good specific men are at sex (ft. @selenetelechia)

wherein @corsairmichel and i discuss the aesthetics of murder scenes, what really went down at Waco, working as a bouncer at a strip club, the Bakken oil boom, winters in North Dakota, anarchobaking, and what comprises a community

check his writing and merch at https://thestatelesscook.com/

wherein @BLUNDERBUSSTED and I discuss america's best ice cream, reading groups, the hostility of suburbs to scenes, how hillbilly lives matter, floating signifiers as a means of facilitating individuality, and the adventurous nature of conversation

BEAST publishes at https://blunderbusspress.medium.com/ -- do check out his writing!

wherein amateur statesman @finnonthegin and I talk about china's influence over australia, australia's plucky response, why CCP diplomacy is bad so often, and the price of liquor in australia.  apologies for occasional audio greebling--I think it's still very worth listening to if you're interested in china's growing influence overseas and what it means for the world.

a very special episode, wherein @selentelechia and i discuss getting knocked up; our shopping list; the effects of hormonal birth control; how chainsaws figure into labor; and how we work as a couple. the baby makes frequent and insistent appearances. 

wherein @orthonormalist and I discuss the cultural transmission of one's early internet fora, information wars, living a good life, and projecting oneself infinitely into the future; and discuss whether Jesus or Genghis Khan was more effective in this manner

ortho's forum is at https://aristillus.xyz/ , check it out if his ideas are of interest!

nb, this episode recorded in an unusual setup--apologies for the shakier audio quality, and also for drinking too many beers for breakfast and slowly developing a migraine

wherein @visakanv and I discuss fitting into online communities, literary ethics, reading, fiction and narrative as a basis for life, barbarians real and metaphorical and how to write a good villain

visa broadcasts at http://youtube.com/visakanv and writes at http://visakanv.com/ ; his ebook Friendly Ambitious Nerd is available at https://gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook. visa is a treasure.

wherein @jd_pressman regales us with an intellectual history of rationalism and postrationalism. who is korzybski? what is extropy? in how many ways _is_ big yud like l ron hubbard, anyway?

this episode clocks in at over two hours, and covers a massive amount of ground.

l ron hubbard on DAP:
(part 1)
(part 2)

JD writes at https://www.wrestlinggnon.com/ .

a Battle of the Bots wherein @ollybot_redux and I talk about manifestos, review the matter of Ireland and civic pride in a small country, grade America as a global hegemon, and discuss how we can take children seriously

olly's manifesto can be read here: https://obrowne.eu/manifesto.html