Podcast #144
John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, and Shaenah Batterson
https://www.mintpressnews.com/marco-rubio-perfect-little-puppet-most-dangerous-man-alive/288757/
https://x.com/Kahlissee/status/1879587584999055745
https://x.com/johnsteppling/status/1879862035070222675
https://www.csun.edu/~rdavids/350fall08/350readings/Davis%20Case%20for%20Letting%20Malibu%20Burn.pdf
https://justinpodur.substack.com/p/evaluating-bashar-al-assads-human
Re: Onanistic technology, I have been struck by an underlying quality I detect beneath almost all current pop music. It’s there in Kate Perry, Billie Eilish and the ubiquitous Taylor Swift. It’s a generic watered down streamlined glossy sound that has a curious DOURNESS to it. It feels like the music of machines that used to be human. All spontaneity and joy has been purged from it. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) there is a kind of seductive masochistic sweetness about it.
Weather modification experiments began in the late 40s with Langmuir's cloud seeding in New Mexico, not far from the Trinity site. General Electric excitedly publicized these until New Yorkers took them to court for floods. Afterward any weather modification work was done on the down low. Read The Brothers Vonnegat for this chapter in American progress. As Kurt Vonnegat, himself an post war PR spokesman for GE said, "General Electric IS science fiction."
Shaena might have also referenced the railroad bridge collapse over the St Mary's river up in Corvallis less than 2 weeks ago as an another example of inffastructure failure. That Biden in his final address to the nation credited himself for improving our infrastructure despite doing zip for the residents of East Palestine (or Flint) shows where we are in the United States of Amnesia.