New Disinformation and Old Diseases feat. Anna Merlan (E328)

Ugh, I love y'all, but every time you talk about AI I wish you would just actually learn what it is. "We are getting to the point where AI is so good that people are accusing real photos of being AI." This has been true for almost two years. We are getting to the point where AI is so good that people will be accusing real VIDEOS of being AI

Please leave AO3 alone, Snake!

Unrelated, I was wondering if everyone had gone out drinking before recording this. Then realized I had accidentally set it to . 75x speed. Whoops. Great episode

The AI is like…I’m starting to wonder if like, half of people have kind of thought that movies were real this entire time. Like they would say they know they’re not real but like in their brains they’re subconsciously kind of confused about it, if that makes sense. And the AI is just like, we can’t handle it. Like as a species it’s blowing our minds. Like uncovering the limits of human intellectual capacity maybe? Idk if I think about what this means for the human race for too long I start to freak out haha

Ya but the Elders of Zion had to be better than the Young Whippersnappers of Zion, right? Right?

I really appreciate Julian's deadpan honesty about our situation, and it's time people stop trying to dumb it down with nostalgia/self medication. Democracy comes by the barrel of a gun.

Slipping that goonies reference in there at the end

The energy between Jake and Julian is so good lately lol

man i hate this stupid evil country

the idea of all health problems being the result of personal choice is so strongly just an echo of evangelicalism’s view on sin and prosperity gospel. be good and good things will happen. do bad and bad things will happen. the logic even a child knows better than.

Weirdly l always kind of thought my pandemic-safety precautions as a sort of modified miasma theory. (basically the air from inside other people's lungs was the miasma, avoid buildup of other people's lung gas). But that was applying a personally useful metaphor, not designing policy around an idea of contagion that was deprecated in the... 19th century?

Annie Kelly

WHO advice is STILL to get vaccinated, wear a mask and increase ventilation to avoid lingering health issues from Covid infection. Health issues such as... "How does Covid-19 affect your heart? We explain what Covid-19 does to your heart and circulatory system and how it can lead to conditions such as blood clots, heart damage, palpitations and high heart rate." https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/what-does-coronavirus-do-to-your-body

Regarding thinking something real is actually AI, one little morsel of pleasure I used to get each morning when I log in to work was seeing whatever photograph was being served up to me that day. It wasn't much, but I liked it. Then there was a day that I thought the picture looked fake. I looked around online, and it appears that Windows sometimes use AI images , so now instead of a moment of pleasure in looking at an interesting spot on our beautiful little planet, I get a moment of wondering if what I'm looking at is even real. I hate it.

The more I hear about the people that make up MAHA the more I’m wondering if drug testing does not exist for them.

Going back to the elders of Zion really is an old school move, even modern neo-nazis just treat as a cute antique.

I hope once Trump loses all motion, he goes back to his election season stunts of working various jobs for photoshoots. Then we might see him actually laying some bricks down.

After eight years, I think Julian's greatest accomplishment is getting Travis to say "lib."

The consequences of turning to the poison for the cure, as Travis put it, are even more far reaching. There are a ton of freelance writers, translators and other creatives on the Internet who have lost clients because their texts were put through an "AI detector" and labeled AI despite being 100% original. This iteration of the timeline is going to SUCK hard.

people will continue to not know what they might do all the way up until they are in the oven

100% a QAA Classic.... (courtesy of your "Be Smarter Than A Virus®" supporter from Hawai'i...

Was this recorded before the NYT published RFKj miasma thinking as if it were a legitimate perspective 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I don't really get what Julian was getting at about how liberals shouldn't have been calling things disinformation. Clearly the idea being subverted just to dismiss anything you dislike on both sides is downstream of that but like, Trump did and does create and spread disinformation constantly. Is the idea that should have just been ignored so that the right wing wouldn't be calling things misinformation now? I think they would be calling shit fake either way, I just don't understand what the smugness about that whole point was

Y’all have to call out the fascism in Trumps language that’s leading towards genocide. Fascism uses the language of an “ invasion” to call for the “internal cleansing” by ICE.

Jake, no one outside of the north burbs knows what Hackneys is

jake

Marriage to a Canadian does not equate to Canadian citizenship! Sorry 😞

Facts don't care wether you're hard or not JULIAN!

A Post-Irony & Post-Truth society is a recipe for a grand & expedient collapse.

Are you guys ever going to cover trumps disinformation campaign against Iran? Trump used disinformation to attack Iran. You should make an episode about that

Woke up to a new episode?? Happy Father's Day to me baby

I cant wait for ww3. How many Americans are going to die for israel?

I’ll go to Jules…

@grok is it true that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house?

I once read a comment that said maybe if we could dose everyone in the world with some ✨shrooms✨ and have juuuust the right Ted talk live streamed at the same time, we could save the world…and I day dream about that everyday. 🤣🥲

Hackney’s mentioned!! Love when North Shore Chicago Jake comes out

For the record: I grew up in South Carolina. Yes, that one; part of the collective land that would absolutely lose their shit when a person of color would drink out of a whites only water fountain, not too long ago. I read the elder protocols. I devoured Behold a pale horse. I raised an eyebrow and whispered “What if it is true?”, time and time again, up to birth of Qanon. Then I discovered this podcast. I started out listening to it in order to fact check or debunk it. Everything that was presented, checked out each and every time. Slowly, my brain caught on and I realized that I was being fooled and lied to all those years ago. Ladies and gentlemen of the podcast , I cannot thank you enough for the quality of said podcast. I eagerly await each and every week for a new episode, for a new piece of information that exposes the lies that seemingly pop up like a Hydra. Keep fighting the good fight.

“Militant Democrats” huh? My beer sprayed out my nose on that one.

Also, unwed Australian here... 💒👰😉

Miasma is what they thought caused the plague... RFK Jr is LITERALLY taking the American health system back to the DARK AGES!!! You guys are fucked...

“Doing drugs with community members and it was healthy and good” Damn straight man.

We’re at GOOFCON 0, no minutes till midnight goofy balls

Third and gay

Liv Merlan

Love u guys