[#258] SPYER ED: S. Ann Dunham, Weaponized Anthropology, & the Occulted Origins of Barack Obama by Subliminal Jihad

Dimitri and Khalid speak with academic and Substack writer Vincent Lê about the current fevered dystopian landscape of AI, including: the Silicon Valley philosophy of "Rationalism", the Zizian cult, the qualitative difference between LLMs and self-training AIs like AlphaGo and DeepMind, AlphaGo mastering the ancient Chinese game Go, Scott Boorman's 1969 book "Protracted Game: A Wei-ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy", Capital as the first true AGI system, the Bolshevik Revolution as the greatest attempt to build a friendly alternative AGI, and more...part one of two.

Vincent's Substack: https://vincentl3.substack.com

Dimitri and Khalid inaugurate their long-awaited Pivot To YouTube with their second deep dive into the liminal world of Bigfoot the Jinn. Topics include: the fake Yeti blood oath ritual scandal at a Denver Catholic seminary, renegade Polish artist Stanisław Szukalski’s cryptic race science theories about the eternal human-Yeti war, Szukalski’s friendship with Leo DiCaprio’s dirtbag dad who wrote sus underground comix for Tim Leary and wants to run for President, Bigfoot and the story of Cain, former Congressman/NSA operative Denver Riggleman III’s vaguely erotic book about the Bigfoot community, Yeti-checking the Dyatlov Pass tragedy once and for all, Italian fascist Corrado Gini’s Cold War interest in finding Yeti, the ontological ‘squatch war being waged between Western eugenicists and Eastern Marxists, the King of France’s bigfoot prank that ended in death and horror, and more.

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Dimitri, Khalid, and Jay the Neuroscientist (@the_hague_icc) continue their dive into the origins of the Fundamental Fysiks Group and Jack Sarfatti’s long strange trip, including:

Sarfatti’s uncle and grandfather, the gifted children programs, Courtney Love’s father Hank Harrison attending a West Coast version, Philip K. Dick and VALIS, Jeffrey Kripal’s “Esalen and the Religion of No Religion”, Joseph Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, helicopter inventor Arthur Young’s Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, Werner Erhard, and more…

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Dimitri and Khalid are joined by returning guest Jay the Neuroscientist (@the_hague_icc) for a spiritual sequel to SJ’s Copemorehagen Deception episode (SJ 95), this time focusing on renegade hippie physicist Jack Sarfatti and far-out physics research in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1970s-80s.

Topics include: David Keiser’s book “How the Hippies Saved Physics”, the early ‘70s recession in government funding for physics research, Sarfatti and his repressed God Phone Call, Uri Geller coming to SRI, Bell’s Theorem, fear of the “psy gap”, covert CIA funding conduits, how all of this crunchy North Beach marginalia is merging with UFO and AI God discourse in the 2020s, and more.

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Dimitri unpacks one of the most consequential and murky events in the history of the Cold War: the 1948 split between Tito’s Yugoslavia and Stalin’s USSR.

Topics include: Tito “giddy with success”, tactical disagreements over Yugoslav activites in Albania and the Greek Civil War, the proposed “Balkan Federation” with Bulgaria, the establishment of the Cominform, the blowup in early 1948 over Yugoslav army deployments to Albania, escalating ideological charges from the Soviet Central Committee, Tito’s fateful refusal to accept Stalin’s criticism, the death of General Arso Jovanović on the Yugoslav-Romanian border, escalating charges of treason, spying, and murder from other eastern bloc countries, and an extended oral history of the Goli Otok concentration camp as told by one of its survivors, the pro-Soviet “ibeovci” Yugoslav Communist Vlado Dapčević.

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Dimitri and Khalid continue exploring the strange apartheid-loving life of Elon Musk’s grandfather and whether any faint echoes of Technocracy, Inc. might be found in today’s PayPal Mafia “techno-optimist” AI slop dystopia.

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Dimitri and Khalid investigate Technocracy, Inc., a mostly-forgotten group from the 1930s, its plans for an automated North American “technate” controlled by gray suit-clad engineers, and the dracular life of Technocracy’s leader in Canada, the fascist chiropractor (and Elon Musk’s maternal grandfather) Joshua Haldeman. Part one of two.

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Dimitri and Khalid unpack the life and times of revolutionary imam Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, how his death in 1936 sparked the second Arab Revolt, and why he remains a symbol of Palestinian martyrdom/Arab national liberation up to the present day.

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Dimitri and Khalid explore the deadly climax of the Molly Maguire phenomenon in 1870s Pennsylvania coal country, including: Pinkerton spy James McParlan’s exposure and narrow escape from Schuylkill County, the spectacular(ly corrupt) murder trials from 1876-78 that captivated the nation, Reading Railroad President Franklin B. Gowen’s mesmerizing star turn as lead prosecutor in the courtroom, his four hour Aaron Sorkin monologue about the perfidious Irish conspiracy threatening the very foundations of our (Protestant Capitalist) Republic, squealing witnesses and Pennsylvania Dutch jurors, McParlan/McKenna on the witness stand, Gowen’s relentless drive to convict Hibernian leader “Black Jack” Kehoe of a Civil War murder he didn’t commit, Black Thursday and the Day of the Rope, executing two Mollies just after Governor Hartranft grants a reprieve, the Great Railroad Strikes of 1877, two descendants of convicted Mollies becoming militant IRA-supporting Teamster leaders in the 20th century, Gowen’s HOTGAF arc going off the rails, the Reading’s slide into crushing debt and bankruptcy, getting forced out of the game by a rising JP Morgan, and Franklin Gowen grimly imitating the tactics of his Molly adversaries by shooting a mine boss - himself - in 1889. 

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