The Age of Transitions Aaron Franz

An unexpected hero arises to take on our old enemies, the Neocons. Not the hero we expected, but most likely, the hero we deserve. 
Topics include: Future of Humanity Institute closing, Oxford, transhumanism, Nick Bostrom, Anders Sandberg, WTA, h+, eugenics, Silicon Valley billionaires, Simulation Hypothesis, racist emails, dysgenics, artificial intelligence, progressive version of transhumanism, fringe ideologies and groups, IEET, Martine Rothblatt, EA, Longtermism, national economic systems, technological development, Neoliberals, Neocons, establishment in crisis, Erik Prince, Blackwater, Xe, Bush Administration, War on Terror, MIC, Indo-Pacific military theater, pivot away from Middle East, defense spending, Reagan, Cold War, post communist Russia, focus on private sector to save governmental failure, Eric Schmidt, national security shift, Boeing, whistleblowers’ deaths, basic corruption, focus on profits over all else, financialization, wealth gap increasing, money isn’t real, lack of economic philosophy, no accountability, dismantling of legitimate protest, Israel, student protests, banning campus protests, 2024 presidential election, AGI, major governments want to steer their own new world order, space vs the desert

The Age of Transitions is your one stop shop for important tech news. Make your way through the shadows and over to this podcast to learn a thing or two. There are other shows out there that you may not want to listen to, lest you get us all into more trouble than we are already in. 
topics include: Silicon Valley new MIC, expert opinions, one stop tech info hub, AI, nascent technologies, Kissinger, CHIPS Act, TSMC, semiconductors, China and US, Taiwan, Arizona fab, national security, LLMs, graphics cards, shadow people, fringe and alternative communities always degrading, the conspiracy is the conspiracy, 9/11 Truth, Ron Paul campaigns, Alex Jones as the Joker, marketing, Stop the Steal rally, fringe ideas going mainstream, electing a US president, adversarial aesthetics for public political protests, confrontation videos, narratives, propaganda, relating to MAGA crowd motivations, rapid contradictions, accountability, deep state, alternative figures prefer to play the victim, massive narrative shift, Republican establishment, instability, stolen election, guns, desire for civil war, possible election outcomes

Boeing’s very public fall from grace appears to be coinciding with a changing military contracting ecosystem. Commercial airliners are being grounded as the art of war gets a new operating system. 
Topics include: favorite words, time to live in your own head, solar eclipse, Northrop Grumman AI drones, killer robots, MIC, aerospace companies, military contractors, old and new guard, Silicon Valley and tech companies, mass psychology, fall of Boeing, marketing to public, exoteric and esoteric sides of businesses, air travel industry, commercial jets, 747, financialization of business, funny debunking videos, logic of the culture wars, celebrating your accomplishments, Amazon No Checkout shut down, AI object recognition, RFID, tracking chips, sensors, automation, training data, labor intensive, exploits, numbers don’t lie, total surveillance, efficiency, intangibles animating the tangible world, unnecessary complexity, belief, school, pragmatism, defy categorization

We are now trying to make sense of our world from within a global propaganda matrix. It should come as no surprise that most of us are confuse and tired, due to the fact that everyone has been screaming at us in order that we believe their side of the story. 
topics include: cliche advice, too many analogies, Russian terror attack, who will be blamed, ISIS, Ukraine, World Wide Web, all views presented at the same time, tweets, Israel, US intelligence, talking points, bots, embassy warnings, Putin off the record, propaganda for every audience, global propaganda matrix, independent media sources, all media tainted, reactionary takes, reason for confusion and division, information war, world war, analytics, algorithms, numbers game, content creation, attention is the only thing that matters, truth tellers, comedy content, US intel working within Chinese social media, American hypocrisy, deny everything, global tension, global influence and infrastructure building operations, trolling, all social media can go away tomorrow

TikTok may just be the social media app of a new generation, but it is also now on the chopping block of the US government. A lot of legitimate and illegitimate business is done online everyday, and that may have to change soon as well. Where are technology and our government heading in this strange future we are always moving into? 
Topics include: Topics include: digital to analog techno transition, antiquated systems, TikTok ban, Bytedance, Chinese response, national security, international trade, Chinese media and propaganda, psychological operations, free speech online debate, social media apps and companies, marketing, furthering tensions between US and China, Eric Schmidt, Chinese internet, national unrest, surveillance societies, dystopian technological visions, anticrime legislation, crime as a political tool, organized retail crime, public perceptions skewed, fence sales, online retail allowing illegal sales, pushing more law enforcement, evangelical vote, Faith and Freedom, money buys votes, advertising, abortion was enough to convince evangelical bloc, divisive issues

Battle lines appear to have been drawn in the “Great Powers Competition”, but where are they exactly? What is the battlefront, and is it a whole new one for the 21st century? Is AI the all important technology that will allow any given nation to reign supremer over all others? This, and many other questions are asked in this podcast episode. 
Topics include: powers behind presidential candidates, Project 2025, Ron Paul presidential campaigns, Truth Movement ideas, Republican mainstream apparatus, fringe and mainstream intertwined, geopolitical tension, Great Powers Competition, technology is lynchpin to world conflict, technological battlefronts, development of artificial intelligence, economic decoupling, Taiwan, TSMC, semiconductors, graphics cards, AI imagery and art, software and social use of computers, The Internet, various internets, government hour, esoteric interpretation of tech, Pepe the Frog as Kek, trash, disgusting imagery, esoteric understanding needed to interpret memes, online languages, digital spaces, content, social media apps, making a living online, TikTok ban, national security, multiple propaganda streams from varied national sources, schizo online discourse, transhumanism, Game Theory, Google China, full truth always obscured, alchemy, civilization, cyber security, JADC2