Jack Graham

In the first part of a two-part episode, we continue to chart the increasingly malignant influence of the IDW and satellites, examining the journey of Heather Heying (of the Dark Horse Podcast which she co-presents with her husband Bret Weinstein) from scientific reductionism all the way to (as she herself puts it) “full TERF”.

Content Warnings for Transphobia, Ableism, anti-Sex Worker stuff, etc.

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Part 2 up very soon.

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Episode Notes:

Previous eps on the Weinsteins and Heying: 60, 61, and 62

Ligand Bonds in Inorganic Chemistry: chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Ino…mpounds/Ligands

Ligand Bonds in Molecular Biology: biologydictionary.net/ligand/

Full notes under Part 2…

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Another special episode this time, as we welcome to the show David Gerard, author of acclaimed takedown of cryptocurrency Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, and Elizabeth Sandifer [who? –Ed], author of acclaimed takedown of neo-reaction Neoreaction a Basilisk, to discuss Scott Alexander (or is it Siskind?) and his blog Slate Star Codex, with digressions into Less Wrong, ‘rationalism’, and why David is responsible for Grimes hooking up with Elon Musk.

Content Warnings apply, as ever.

Also, we once again we have audio that doesn’t quite meet our recent standards, though its perfectly listenable.

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Episode Notes:

Elizabeth’s…

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElSandifer

Site: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/ [i.e. this one –Ed]

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/elizabethsandifer

David’s…

Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgerard

Site: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/overview

Elizabeth’s recent article on Scott Alexander/Siskind: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/

RationalWiki on Scott Alexander: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander…

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This week, special guest Goad Gatsby joins us from the streets of Twitter (you’ll get it later) to tell us all about Virginia’s biggest growing threat, so-called “Trump in heels”, coup-supporting, GOP-suing, fash-associated, plexiglass-encased firebrand, State Senator (and gubernatorial hopeful) Amanda Chase, and her epic struggles against the tyrannical forces of Antifa, the Deep State, RINOs, Covid masks, reality, anyone who criticises her, and – most poignantly – car park cops.  Don’t you know who she is???

Content warnings.

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A little while ago, I published a one of my ghost stories here.  It was quite well received.  I’ve been writing ghost stories for years now.  I have a few ‘finished’, but not quite finished enough to show anyone – if you know what I mean.  I have many others half-written, or begun, or abandoned.  I have lots of ideas for more, including some with quite detailed notes.  I’m thinking about making a concerted effort to write and finish enough to publish in a collection. I’ve been joking about this for a while but recently I’ve started to think ‘why not?’

Here’s one I finished recently.  In fact, I came back to a story that had been sitting partly written in various versions for ages, and I completed a ground-up rewrite in a couple of nights.  It was all a matter of finding the right tense.  Turned out the story needed to be written in ‘third person present’ in order to achieve the effects I was after.  Sometimes these things can hold you up. 

Anyway, here it is.  I should probably warn you that it goes to some very dark places involving sexual abuse. 

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The Doves

She gets the call a few days after Christmas.  

    “He’s dying,” they say.  “It won’t be long.  He asked for you.”

    “He has other family,” says the woman.  “I’m his granddaughter.  His son, my father, is still alive.”

    “Just you,” they say.

    She goes.  She wonders why she is going.  She wonders why he asked for her.

    She sits by his bed.

    He wakes.

    He sees her.

    He reaches out.

    She withdraws from his touch.

    She wonders if he means to ask forgiveness.

    She realises she came to see him die.

    “Feed the doves,” he says.

    “The doves are all dead,” she tells him.

    “Feed the doves,” he says.

    “You killed the doves,” she says.

    “Feed the doves,” he says.

    “Yes,” she says, “I will.”

    When he slips away, she feels no pleasure, no victory.

She inherits his house, his money.  She wonders if it is some gesture of restitution.  

When her parents hear, they will rage.  

She leaves without telling her boyfriend.  The flat is still wrecked, and her body still bruised, from his Christmas Day fury.

The house is long and low and white, curving around on itself like a great bleached pelvis.  It sits alone in a valley, surrounded by trees. 

“You could commit a murder out here and nobody’d know it,” says the taxi driver who drops her off.

She carries her suitcases up the drive, refusing the driver’s offer of help.  She walks around the house to the courtyard at the back, her footsteps crunching on the gravel path that surrounds the house.  

    She passes a structure she doesn’t recognise.  A detached garage.  He must have built it after the last time she came.  He was always a builder.…

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A special episode in which Daniel and Jack are joined by guest Shannon Foley Martinez.  A friendly chat with an insightful, humane, moving speaker.

Owing to technical difficulties the sound quality is not quite up to our recent standard, so apologies for that.  But it’s quite listenable.

Content Warnings.

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Links / Notes:

Shannon’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shannonfoleymartinez

Shannon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/_Shan_Martinez_

Shannon’s website: https://www.shannonmartinezspeaks.com/

Shannon’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1c5KJi9BNS5idiXwqijbwA…

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Here is the next part of the loooong discussion between myself, Jack Graham, and the excellent Holly Boson (@fireh9lly) in which Holly explains Final Fantasy VII to me, a total novice, in pitiless detail.

In this episode we delve into the history and politics of sequels and remakes, and fandom as a way of constructing the self.

Content warnings apply because some potentially troubling issues are mentioned.

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This week, we finally get to the conclusion of our coverage of Tom Metzger (Part 1 here), which takes us on a journey through the early history of hate online.

Content Warnings.

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Intro links:

This Podcast Has Been Declared a Riot: https://this-podcast-has-been-declared-a-riot.simplecast.com/

Even More News, “Reddit and Robinhood for Rubes.” https://evenmorenews.libsyn.com/reddit-and-robinhood-for-rubes-ep-132

Computer/Hacker History:

Livescience, “History of Computers, a Brief Timeline.” https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html

Hackers: History of the Computer Revolutin, by Steven Levy. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hackers/9781449390259/

Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling (full text at Project Gutenberg). http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101

Main Podcast Links:

1985.Cyberhate PDF: simson.net/ref/leaderles/1985.CyberHate.pdf

Chip Berlet, “When Hate Went Online,” adapted from a talk given in 2001, Revised 7/4/2008. https://www.researchforprogress.us/topic/when-hate-went-online/

“While investigating the assassination of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg by neonazi White supremacists, the FBI began to unravel hate group telecommunications by tapping the modem telephone line of Robert Miles.

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“The three earliest race hate BBS systems were: Info. International Network, Aryan Liberty Net, and White Aryan Resistance (W.A.R.) Net.

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“Next to come online (in late 1984 or early 1985) was the White Aryan Resistance BBS in Fallbrook, California, under the auspices of Tom Metzger. Metzger announced the “W.A.R. Computer Terminal” in War ‘85, the newspaper of his White Aryan Resistance (Metzger, 1985). It originally ran on a Commodore 64 with a 300 bps modem (Sills, 1989). Today, most modems run at 56,000 bps, but back then, 300 bps was cutting-edge technology. According to Metzger, “Already White Aryan comrades of the North have destroyed the free speech blackout to our Canadian comrades” (Metzger, 1985). One of the first messages sent out by Metzger was directed at “any Aryan patriot in America who so desires” to arrange for local cable access channel broadcast of Metzger’s new cable TV program “The World as We See It,” later renamed “Race and Reason.” During this same period, there were over one dozen call-in telephone hot lines with recorded messages containing racist and antisemitic material.”

Overthrow, April/May 1985.

“One of our correspondents made an interesting discovery last month. She found the telephone number for one of the bulletin board systems operated by American Nazis. With this number she
was able to log on and get the information that the media has lately been all bugeyed about. Now we are prepared to talk intelligently on the matter.

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“Our point here is simply this: you computer hackers and phone phreaks that are reading this have the ability to uncover and analyze circumstances in ways that most people can’t. Some of you have the ability to recognize touch tones by ear.…

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This week, it’s another of our occasional News Roundup episodes.  This time Jack takes the lead (and Daniel hits the whiskey) for a discussion about Jimmy Dore platforming a Boogaloo Boy.  Plus a couple of other stories, the painful return of an old segment, and a very special but silent guest appearance.

Content Warnings.

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Episode Links/Notes:

Jimmy Dore video ‘Populist Right & Left Joining Forces Against Establishment’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OP5OLBauCg

Jimmy Dore video ‘Radicalised Michigan Anarchist Seeks Unity with the Left’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZMB9052rEs

Sam Seder response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew3ZB7d19lw

Matt Binder response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb1eRi8B3dg

Emily Gorecenski’s Ricky Vaughn tweets: https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1354479956961718276…

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