Special Interview Recorded (12/19/2025) And Uploaded Here (1/1/2026)

(NOTE: you can watch a video of this interview from Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/68ho4P-RHO8?si=3ebS2y1g1xmiLyIM)

In this special we speak with Jacob Ward, who is a journalist who has worked for NBC, PBS, Al Jazeera and other news sites. Ward has covered tech for a long time including as Editor in Chief of Popular Science Magazine. Nowadays you can find him at The Rip Current with Jacob Ward (here: https://www.youtube.com/@byjacobward).

Jacob Ward also wrote the book The Loop - How AI is Creating A World Without Choices and How To Fight Back: www.jacobward.com/work-1/theloop-y3fw2

In this special we talk about the direction AI may be heading, if Crypto has any good qualities, and some of the most obvious examples of open corruption from the Trump regime.

Here are links to a few items by Jacob Ward discussed in this special:

This is Not What Crypto Is For. And Yet It Is. (May 26, 2025): https://theripcurrent.substack.com/p/this-is-not-what-crypto-is-for-and

99% of Crypto is a Scam (with Molly White) (Jul 30, 2025): https://theripcurrent.substack.com/p/99-of-crypto-is-a-scam-with-molly

AI is Creating a ‘Hive Mind' — Scientists Just Proved It (Dec 04, 2025): https://theripcurrent.substack.com/p/ai-is-creating-a-hive-mind-scientists

AI Has Us Lying to One Another (and It's Changing How We Think) (Dec 18, 2025): https://theripcurrent.substack.com/p/ai-has-us-lying-to-one-another-and

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