What the F**k?

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In this episode I chat with my long time mutual Torii about experiences of injustice, community, and how that's changed (for better for worse) since COVID-19 started.

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Some Links and Resources Mentioned Herein (in no particular order):

• Dr. bird's newest book We Are F**king Machines detailing the envirusment
• Dr. bird's Requirement Politics article about early AOL experiences, etc.
• Dr. bird's book chapter about the #metoo campaign aftermath
• farcaster.xyz (not dot com)
• Ronald Purser's book McMindfulness
• https://farcaster.xyz/torii-stories 
• Mullaney, Peters, Hicks & Philip's book Your Computer is On Fire
• https://www.youtube.com/@nononsensespirituality  -- Nihilism (same name on TikTok)
• https://meshtastic.org/ 
• Dr. bird's SubStack mini series "The Context" about Kirk's legacy of hate
• https://themultiverse.school/x/cyberpony - a group of people working with meshtastic and community gardens and keeping people connected and informed. 
• Harriet A. Washington's Medical Apartheid
• Dr. bird's Car as extension of whiteness article about color-paved racisms
• https://www.tiktok.com/@jonjon.jpeg -- building for living rather than for cars. road safety. urban design concepts
• Types of ableist language and what to say instead
• Dr. bird's memoirs where they talk bout their pre- and present-COVID-19 life

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This is a bonus audio introduction of "Who the Hell Dr. bird Is" for potential guests / listeners to learn who their host is and decide if they want to have a conversation with them on "What the F**k?" about what their lived experiences have revealed to them has/is going well and what needs to fundamentally change.

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For the fullest story, you can read both of their memoirs.

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This is the official preview episode of “What the F**k?”. This project is an extension of my newest book We Are F**king Machines: Why We Are Like This and What We Can Do About It. I will be hosting TikTok lives with random guests, and asking them critical media ecological (artistic, activist, academic) probing questions about our Limited Intelligence, Environmental Intelligence, Relational Intelligence, and the Algorithmic Envirusment (environment + virus), to take an ecological audit of what is going well for us and what we need to fundamentally change in pursuit of liberation for all. I'm looking forward to learning from one another 🌻🐦‍⬛🌞❤️‍🩹💙💛

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Podcast background sounds: crows and relaxing bird sounds.

Dr. bird (she/they/Dr.) continues thought threads from E1: "How We Learn" and E2: "Humans as Media," discussing their critical media ecological view on why the definition and practice of "Authority" was flawed (by design) from the start.

An info dump on how concepts of "authority" have been colonially-founded and capitalist-funded, sickening, disabling, and killing us -- Long -- before the post Roe v Wade, present-COVID U.S. envirusment.

The first Triple A of the COVID-19 Era
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Academic: Kendi Stamped from the Beginning; Haskins The Rise of Universities; Aristotle Whatever LOL / Plato The Phaedrus; Sharma In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-meantime); Sharma Exit and the Extensions of Man (https://archive.transmediale.de/content/exit-and-the-extensions-of-man); Hochchild work on the "second shift"; Noble Algorithms of Oppression; Benjamin Race After Technology [for more, See Also: Bowen That's Miss[ed] Diagnosis to You, Sir (http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/thats-missed-diagnosis-you-sir-mediated-grieving-over-neurodivergent-gender-gap); Bowen Mother as Calendar (https://bbirdbphd.substack.com/p/mother-as-calendar); Christian The Most Human Human; Sharma & Singh's editted collection ReUnderstanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan]
Activism: Spender Invisible Women: The Schooling Scandal, arguably every form of activism that has ever challenged pre-existed authorities but were, at best, overshadowed, erased completely, or at worst systematically eliminated (assassinations etc.) [See Also: Bowers, Ochs, and Jensens Rhetoric of Agitation and Control]
Art: any and all face threatingly mediated revelations about authority revealed through the bot written script trend; Chat GPT; AI art generators (DALLE2) etc.

Dr. bird (she/they/Dr.) begins discussing their critical media ecological work on "humans as media".

Unpacking some basics of the colonially-founded, capitalist-funded, ongoing-Present-COVID-19 denying, anti-intellectual, U.S. envirusment as a Christmas Eve gift.

The first Triple A of the COVID-19 Era
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Academic: Bowen humans as media; Weber rationality into irrationality; Ritzer McDonaldization; Artz neoliberalism; Dr. Sharma & Singh ReUnderstanding Media; Towns Black Media Philosophy
Activism: standpoint theory, arguably every form of activism that has ever existed arguing that our lived experiences inform us as embodied forms of knowledge
Art: forthcoming poetic inquiry article entitled "Requirement Politics" (open access)

(Google also: Dowd's suggestion in Educational Ecologies for a critical media ecology) 

Unpacking: “Do you live in a nation that has disinformed citizens since it’s start?”
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Reminders: You don’t have to have any degrees to do what I do. Everyone has a perspective to tell that can enhance and/or reveal our understanding of the world. Everything is connected. We only know what we know. Everything becomes normal in repetition. 
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Breakdown: In this episode I will be describing some communication basics from my Dr. bird’s eye view. Specifically, the ways I’ve learned about how we all come to learn about ourselves, each other, and everything else. While you listen, I invite you to recollect on your own lived experiences. Consider how and where you learned about how the world is, what you’re capable of, and potentials of what can (or cannot) happen in the future...

There is no shame in admitting we have been miseducated. And when we learn better, we can begin to do better. Everyone deserves better than this harmful world that was built long before any of us were born. After this discussion, I introduce the basic format for remaining episodes: the critical media ecological AAA of the present-COVID-19 and monkeypox context.

Dr. bird’s eye view explains how everything is connected, we only know what we know, and anything becomes normal in repetition. Full episodes coming very soon.

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