Magnetofunky: WWT
by Larry Winfield
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The Overdue IRF Stress Test
The Overdue IRF Stress Test
About this podcast
A laid back (and proudly explicit - you bet your ass) personal journal of extremely eclectic music and progressive politics, with a focus on active resistance to the fascist regime.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 103 episodes
- The Overdue IRF Stress Test · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 102To ensure that I'm not getting high on my Incentive Reference Frame Theory, let's run it through an analytical gauntlet... The Front Line - Applying Falsifiability to the Theory…
- The AI Event Horizon · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 101With AI, reality has become a remarkably aggressive co-author in almost every aspect of our lives. And that's a frightening thought, because the event horizon is now clearly in…
- The Technological Ouija Board · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 100One of the darkest analogies of my Incentive Reference Frame theory - a Ouija board that powerful players can't control, but dare not stop playing... The Front Line - A Spooky…
- Rehoboam 0.1 · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 99The rabbit hole that starts with the threat of identity theft can lead inexorably to your digital mirror - an avatar you don't control and aren't even aware of... The Front Line…
- A Post-Midterms Civics Primer · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 98Before getting cynically weary, let's remember how the normal post-election sequence plays out... The Front Line - It's Not Supposed to be a 60-Day Gauntlet Resistance Spotlight…
- The Swing Chasers Party · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 97The Democratic Party Leadership keeps chasing mythical persuadable swing state Republicans while treating its own coalition with disdain, again... The Front Line - The Electoral…
- The Erstwhile President Krasnov · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 96It's a familiar rumor that Cheeto is a compromised Russian stooge following orders, but he's more like a self-dealing Russian oligarch... The Front Line - The Distinction Between…
- The World 9/11 Created · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 95The aftermath of 9/11 hits differently for those who lived through it vs. the 100 million Americans who only know it as history... The Front Line - 25 Years Later Resistance…
- A New Kind of Rabbit Hole · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 94When 21st Century technology accelerates age-old geopolitics, the game starts playing us... The Front Line - When Emergent Behavior Bites Resistance Spotlight - The NAACP Legal…
- The Game Above the Game · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 93The Greenland Energy kerfuffle may be much more complex than geopolitical chess - what if it's part of a very old game of insulated wealth and power, played with updated rules?…
- Taking A Greenland Mile · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 92At first glance it's another ham-fisted geopolitical scenario, but taking a sideways view, there's something else going on here... The Front Line - The Player Is Just Another…
- Smug Sabotage · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 91The Informed Non-Voter vs The Midterms: When confidently cynical disengagement becomes indistinguishable from political surrender... The Front Line - 'It's Not My Problem': The…
- It's Time For The Pre-Obituary · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 90This is not a premature celebration - it's an assessment of the political culture the Orange asshole will leave behind... The Front Line - A Historical Autopsy Resistance…
- This Pandemic Decade · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 89Public health is just one pillar of democracy made progressively less resilient throughout the 2020s by this fascist regime... The Front Line - Exacerbated Crises Resistance…
- Panopticon Politics · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 88The modern panopticon isn't just surveillance cameras and AI algorithms. It's also millions of people voluntarily feeding and maintaining it, one upload at a time... The Front…
- Theory War · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 87The war of competing theories within the Democratic Party is heating up, making the future of the party - and the country - a lot more interesting... The Front Line - The DNC vs…
- Turning Scandalous Into S.O.P. · 60 min · Season 2 Episode 86How our democracy became accustomed to behavior that once was totally unacceptable... The Front Line - The Beltway as Augean Stable Resistance Spotlight - Campaign Legal Center…
- Not in a MAGA-Spangled Mood · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 85America's 250th birthday should be joyful and meaningful, not a grim acknowledgement of the desecration being committed against the nation's soul. It's like watching assholes put…
- Fixing the Invisible Machinery · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 84When the post-crisis era eventually arrives, if we actually hold the many treasonous grifters accountable this time, we'll also have to simultaneously focus on repairing the…
- The Cost of Looking Away · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 83It's one thing to not learn from history. It's a whole other thing to just burn the damn history books... The Front Line - And then we were told to move on... Resistance…
