The Pentagon hopes to bolster its tech prowess by partnering with a faltering private sector. 

Topics include: JADC2, DoD, AI, cybersecurity, digital warfare, new Cold War, Iraq War, lies, Post-Truth, Oath Keepers, Jan 6

Biological computers can play pong. 

Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network back up, Everything Everywhere All At Once, schizophrenia, nothing matters, biological computers, Battlestar Galactica, Dr Who, creative projects

The rug of society has been folded over on itself and now its many and varied fringes are on top of each other making quite a mess. 

Topics include: transhumanists are fringe group, emerging tech now in the news, chatbot stories about machine consciousness, Dilbert, AI, Nick Bostrom racist email, Extropians, eugenics, evangelical reactionary takes on tech

Good for nothing but predicting an all too predictable future. 

Topics include: letting people down, staying offline, Eric Schmidt, DOD, technology, motorcycles playing loud music, Rocky movies, Survivor, JFK assassination, Richard Belzer, crime and traumatic TV series, Infowars Junior, establishment MIC moves slow, future cyber terror event, digitized economy, propaganda, China will be blamed, legislation to speed up military spending in Silicon Valley, cyber security

Pondering some of the philosophical and esoteric aspects of artificial intelligence. 

Topics include: advertising on Ochelli Radio Network, not being online, impossible to keep up, technological progress, automation, genetics history tied to eugenics, general public leery of science, cults, secret societies, AI systems, black holes, mysticism, religion vs science, philosophy, no absolutes, quantum theory, alchemy, artistic process, consciousness, creative power, godhood, AGI or narrow AI, Buddha at peace

Uncle becomes the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions. 

Topics include: healthy skepticism, democratization of propaganda, online platforms, martyrs, virtual worlds as sustainable solutions, reversing ecocide with technology, petroleum based products, automation, Uncle guest appearance, brains, Thursday dating app, early internet, profiles to do everything, scams, social media identity imposters, copyright law to protect personal identity, Ochelli card deck

An automated society is now emerging. 

Topics include: busy schedule, important news, social media wasteland, divided population, owners in society, coming economic reckoning, automation, AI generated imagery, ChatGPT, technique, super intelligence, AGI, gaming the system, Game Theory, amassing wealth, quantum computing, virtual world to continue the status quo, pretense, engagement and attention, freedom from consciousness, nihilism, feigned opposition, V For Vendetta, Wachowskis, The Matrix, Truth Movement, Trump, Covid lab leak hypothesis, projection, Kamala Harris, deeds not words, philosophy, Aaron Rodgers and Ayn Rand

So many of the things that have been discussed on this show over the years are now coming to be. The future is now. 

Topics include: automation, robot warehouse pickers, Amazon, Washington Post, MIC, tech industry, normalization, drone delivery, machine learning, AI writing, AI art, Emo, dark warehouse, US and China tensions, microchip factories, PR, artificial wombs, genetic engineering, changing attitudes, deepfakes, perception of reality, nature of technique, mental health crisis, wages going up now, strange contradictions in corporate job market, working remotely, layoffs, annoying debates, portions of the population being left behind, Trump NFTs

The antics of Ye, the man we all love to hate, may be the playing out of a wide scale replay of the many and sordid misadventures of the alternative media. 

Topics include: Spaghetti Western Saloon, Joshua Tree area, making predictions, technologically advanced misinformation, democratization of media, celebrity available to all, social media, legacy media, game theory, Ye likes Hitler, ego, Andy Warhol, Andy Kaufman, fringe conspiracy material, far right extremism, reenactment of past of alternative media for mainstream, racism, fascism, easy to be fooled, George Costanza philosophy, no such thing as total lies, instant gratification, reactionary environment, people hate their work, Banksy, Chris Graves, past interviews, graves of famous people

Thanksgiving is a harvest time festival with corollaries in past civilizations. 

Topics include: Thanksgiving holiday, turkey, meal, holiday myths, Mayflower, Plymouth Rock, pilgrims, symbolism of agriculture and cultivation, civilization, tribal life, harvest Winter and death, stones as foundation of work, Native Americans, reckoning time for American history, corn, Demeter and Persephone, Eleusinian Mysteries, seasons, nature, Classical Civilization, rise and fall of civilizations, comparative religion, general discontent part of larger alchemical process, destruction, shared experience, cooperation, China protests, global wave of nationalism