George and Col return to Content Chaos with a wide-ranging conversation on attention, agency, and the realities behind the headlines. Using their Weekly Review Framework, they unpack the gap between hype and reality in AI adoption, the emotional toll of algorithm-fed pseudoscience, and the civic consequences of performative power. It’s a week of dream recall, media critique, and the slow work of staying awake in a noisy world.

Show notes:

– Neil Postman’s 1997 lecture, “The Surrender of Culture to Technology”: https://youtu.be/hlrv7DIHllE– ICE escalates violence against protesters in Broadview, journalist arrested: https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/ice-escalates-violence-against-protesters-in-broadview-journalist-arrested/