No Agenda Episode 1808 - "Bad Fad"

  No Agenda Episode 1808 - "Bad Fad"
    "Bad Fad"
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  Credits
    "Bad Fad"
    Executive Producers:
      Lubor Benda
      Sir Becoming Heroic
    Associate Executive Producers:
      douglas murray
      Dame Beth
      Ron Sherman
      Sean Homan
      Eli the coffee guy
      Alex - from the frosty Laurentians
      Linda Lu, Duchess of jobs & writer of winning resumes
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      Secretary General Lubor Benda
      Secretary General of the Carnivore Nation
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  Cover Art
    Art By: Comic Strip Blogger
  Shownotes
    Big Tech AI and the Socials
      Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users
      Altman says OpenAI isn't world's 'moral police' after erotica post
      Sam Altman Erotica Statement on X
        We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.
        Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.
        In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).
        In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
    ICE
      No Kings
    Gen Z
      GenZ can'r read cursive either
        ITM Gents:
        Oldish
        Gen Z here - thought you might find this interesting. I know you are
        already aware that many in the younger generation were never taught
        penmanship and cannot for the life of them write in cursive. Given
        that, it only falls to reason that - get this! - many of them are also
        unable to read cursive! Add it to your running list!
        I
        work in a law office where property deeds and land titles have to be
        researched for loan closings, some lenders requiring title searches
        going back for 50-60 years. Many of those older deeds are longhand or,
        at the very least, the ledger index books that have to be searched to
        find the deeds are written in cursive. All of the title researchers
        here are my age or older and have no idea who they are going to be able
        to train to take their place when they retire. They have tried training
        younger people to do the job and while they understand the concept,
        they get lost at a point because they cannot read cursive and they give
        up.
        That
        begs the question - do you suppose that because they were not taught in
        grammar school how to write AND read cursive they lack the ability to
        learn that fine motor skill as adults? Have they passed the point of
        being able to master it? Inquiring minds want to know! Thoughts?
        Thank you for your courage!
        Dame Ronda
      Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users - Ars Technica
    VIDEO is EVIL
      Knight on Video vs Audio
        first, i’m not bothered by your and john’s irritation with video "podcasts,” and respect your take as The Creator. but as a perspective, most of us are visual learners. i can’t even listen to audiobooks because my attention wanders after a few minutes and i have to rewind, whereas even if it’s just two dorks sitting across a desk from each other the visual component keeps me engaged. i listen to almost every NA episode three times, and the only rogan episode I’ve watched more than once are the jordan peterson episodes (idea-dense). i learn and remember better with the insipid video element.
        sir hoopensocker
      Everything Is Television - Derek Thompson
        In Amusing Ourselves to Death1, Neil Postman wrote that “each medium, like language itself, makes possible a unique mode of discourse by providing a new orientation for thought, for expression, for sensibility.” Television speaks to us in a particular dialect, Postman argued. When everything turns into television, every form of communication starts to adopt television’s values: immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity. In the glow of a local news program, or an outraged news feed, the viewer bathes in a vat of their own cortisol. When everything is urgent, nothing is truly important. Politics becomes theater. Science becomes storytelling. News becomes performance. The result, Postman warned, is a society that forgets how to think in paragraphs, and learns instead to think in scenes.
        Link
      Everything is now Television
        You learn a lot about a company when its back is against the wall. This summer, we learned something important about Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. In an antitrust case with the Federal Trade Commission, Meta filed a legal brief on August 6, in which it made a startling claim. Meta cannot possibly be a social media _monopoly_, Meta said, because it is not really a social media _company_.
        Only a small share of time spent on its social-networking platforms is truly “social” networking—that is, time spent checking in with friends and family. More than 80 percent of time spent on Facebook and more than 90 percent of time spent on Instagram is spent watching videos, the company reported. Most of that time is spent watching content from creators whom the user does not know. From the [FTC filing](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18735353/627/federal-trade-commission-v-meta-platforms-inc/):
        > Today, only a fraction of time spent on Meta’s services—7% on Instagram, 17% on Facebook—involves consuming content from online “friends” (“friend sharing”). A majority of time spent on both apps is watching videos, increasingly short-form videos that are “unconnected”—i.e., not from a friend or followed account—and recommended by AI-powered algorithms Meta developed as a direct competitive response to TikTok’s rise, which stalled Meta’s growth.
      Netflix is making a big bet on video podcasts | The Verge
    China
      How U.S. Pressured Netherlands to Oust CEO of Chinese-Owned Chip Maker - WSJ
    Peace Deal
      Why Now? The Lost Chances to Reach a Hostage Deal, and a Cease-Fire, Months Ago - The New York Times
    M5M
      Alex Jones: Supreme Court rebuffs effort to overturn $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment | CNN Politics
    EU UK Ukraine and NATO
      The £1m man: why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine? | Boris Johnson | The Guardian
      EU Ministers Agree on Tighter Control Over the Internet ━ The European Conservative
    SCOTUS
      The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans - The New York Times
      Trump might attend Supreme Court tariff case arguments
    USA
      Walmart exec: U.S. manufacturing comeback is real and good for business
  Clips and Docs
    Art
    All Clips
      +The Pitt - Measels 1.mp3
      OpenAI announces erotica yay!.mp3
      Walmart and ChatGPT data deal.mp3
      BBC - CO2 and climate change.mp3
      Sweden upgrades wartime shelters amid rising tensions with Russia Euronews.mp3
      CBC - ukraine imposes blackouts in most regions.mp3
      Geert Wilders starts his deportation campaign.mp3
      CNN - Tom Foreman -1- fallout over racist Young Republican National Federation group chat.mp3
      CNN - Tom Foreman -2- fallout over racist Young Republican National Federation group chat.mp3
      Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agent ABC Philly.mp3
      CNN -1- ICE rammed.mp3
      CNN -2- ICE rammed.mp3
      Fedderman speaks Truth and sense - Idenifying what Johanna told me.mp3
      ABC WNT - Pierre Thomas - rising tensions over ICE raids.mp3
      Pelosi admits she was responsibility for J6 in documentary footage.mp3
      Trump on worst weaponization of Justice Department get 'em all!.mp3
      Tulis Gabbard unveils Treasonous Conspiracy.mp3
      LindelTV reporter badgers Pelosi over Jan 6 - shut up!.mp3
      ISO rubble.mp3
      ISO Sen Kennedy.mp3
      JD Vance retardo 2.mp3
      Josh Seiter is black.mp3
      LA County supports illegals.mp3
      NO KINGS Oct 18.mp3
      NPR Up First -1- ICE Tactics.mp3
      October 14 resonance.mp3
      Protein Fad Bad 1 npr.mp3
      Protein Fad Bad 2.mp3
      Protein Fad Bad 3.mp3
      Protein Fad Bad 4.mp3
      Religion in AMerica 1 npr.mp3
      Religion in AMerica 2.mp3
      Religion in AMerica 3.mp3
      Religion in AMerica 4 demos.mp3
      Religion in AMerica Demos 5.mp3
      Religion in AMerica kicker 6.mp3
      Shutdown NPR Slant.mp3
      TOK Lecty Gaza Trump.mp3
      Tucker grills ALYMAN 1.mp3
      Tucker grills ALYMAN 2.mp3
      Tucker grills ALYMAN 3.mp3
      Tucker grills ALYMAN 4.mp3
      CLimate CBS 1982.mp3
      GAZA Vacuum police etc.mp3
      ISO Cronkite fun.mp3
      AC 360 - John Berman -2- pentagon's new press access rules.mp3
      AC 360 - John Berman -1- pentagon's new press access rules.mp3
      ABC TW -Ian Pannell - chilling executions amid fragile truce.mp3
      BBC - gazans' stockpilling food.mp3
      CNN - gaza public executions.mp3
      Doosey with Trump after Egypt Deal - I don't think there's anything going to get me in heaven.mp3
      Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says the UK government has been involved in diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza SKY News.mp3
      Rubio - Britain and France caused the collapse of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks.mp3
      Trump Sends Starmer AWAY During Speech! Jeremy Kyle LAUGHS At Prime Minister.mp3
      +The View - Alyssa Farah Griffin - i will wear a MAGA hat.mp3
      Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other KREM.mp3
      ABC TW - Rachel Scott - judge blocks shutdown layoffs.mp3
      President Trump says billions in funding set for Tri-State is 'terminated' ABC BY.mp3
      The Briefing with Jen Psaki - noem's propaganda video airport lines.mp3
      Trade tensions between the US and China renewed over rare earth materials • FRANCE 24 English GOLD RAG DOLL.mp3
      Data shows Trans Identiy dropped by 50%.mp3
      DOJ $15Billion BTC from Pig Butchering Scam.mp3
      AC 360 -1- trump confirms he authorized covert CIA actions in venezuela.mp3
      AC 360 -2- trump confirms he authorized covert CIA actions in venezuela.mp3
      AC 360 -3- trump confirms he authorized covert CIA actions in venezuela.mp3
      Trump - blowing boats out of the water save 25k American lives.mp3
      ABC Reports on the 5th Drug Boat Strike.mp3
      +The Pitt - Measels 2.mp3
      +The Pitt - Measels 3.mp3
      ABC WNT - David Muir - chikungunya virus confirmed in NYC.mp3
      CBS M - Cristian Benavides - S.C. Measles outbreak.mp3
      NBC [WYFF] South Carolina - Measles outbreak.mp3
      PBS Fauci -1- Are we on the vege of another pandemic.mp3
      PBS Fauci -2- Are we on the vege of another pandemic.mp3
      The View - Cheryl Hines - why is bobby less qualified than an economist.mp3
      There's growing concern over a measles outbreak in South Carolina KREM.mp3