Who Will Be the Bill Gates of Perception? feat. Kojo Karam
Kojo Koram, author of "The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs," joins us to discuss what comes next after the War On Drugs and how capital intends to colonise this new frontier… and why Brewdog is involved (again!) Before that though, we discuss Farage’s latest victim stunt and discuss a VERY real company—perhaps one of the realest in history.
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Comments (44)
Kojo’s pronunciation of Peter Thiel turning my head and often unintentionally appropriate.
Rileybrain ass mistake pyromancy instead of pyrotechnics lol.
Thought of Phoebe Cates every time Phoebe Gates was mentioned.
Phoebe Waller Gates
So today I learned about Ann Widdecombe, who was apparently the Joy Division of British right wing politics?
I was not able to find the medium post and would love the link please
I just restarted listening after a while away - sorry if it's a dumb question, but where's Milo?
Touring Canada at the minute
Spy on me, daddy
L no
it feels pretty bad that 10 years ago i got banned from the chapo traphouse subreddit for posting about the guy that stabbed the dictator of his country to death with a butter knife when he saw him on the streets of paris and then convinced a jury not to convict him on the grounds of "too based to put away", and now the libs that banned me are running a successful Propaganda of the Deed deathcult
Honey also is being sued because they secretly replaced affiliate links from individual creators with their own https://www.trevorlasn.com/blog/honey
I bet the reason their extension uploaded that full page source snapshot is that their whole "is this a shopping site" algorithm was (and probably still is but potentially with less sensitive data in the call) just feeding that snapshot into an LLM and asking it "please answer yes or no to whether this looks like a shopping page". And there's the "AI powered" part of it too. If it's being used for that purpose and that's not just pretext for a data harvesting for selling scheme that would be invasive by the standards of that kind of app, I can't think of a single more likely reason why the data would even need to leave the user's device. You can do sane heuristics for a question like that with a handful of if statements. Hell, you could probably have the same LLM vibecode better herusrics that can run within the browser extension. This so fucking funny
Nepo Gates add on is just shittier Honey with the same steal other peoples recommended code, stealing from others to create something worse you sell to more serious people is just how the Gates family operates
Keir Starmer's shooters and Charlie Brown's hos dancing in the club.
My old roommate's sister went to Stanford and hung out w/ Phoebe. They went on a hike w some other girls and Phoebe charged her $6 for a bite of her sandwich. They stopped hanging out eventually bc, and I quote, "We're just very different people" i.e. I don't hang with poors. A real cunt. Roommate's family was extremely wealthy. Dad is a distinguished law professor at UVA. Still too pedestrian for miss gates
I saw this in my emails and I thought oh god did the Worst Substack on Earth get a hold of my email, but it was just you doing a shitpost, thank god
Let’s go Evanston!!! Northern suburbs of Chicago rise up
Hearing that Widdecombe, an old and I assume wealthy, woman being murdered in Dartmoor, my first thought was "Find an exit, 47."
Shadowwar: the hotly awaited follow up to the hit board game Shadowdoge
The less said about their poorly thought through third installment, Escaping Bill Gates' Shadow, the better
Wait, stealing referrals is literally what honey is also accused of doing
You're telling me the daughter of the Microsoft guy made something with security vulnerabilities? Nooooo
Apparently they found "communist litterature" at the home of the widdecombe suspect. ..Which - in a world that increasingly straight up doesn't read books, myself included - is one of those "oh, wow, really? Did it have any pages in it, or was it one of those clutter-items from Skyrim meant to fill up a bookshelf and make the home seem cozier? Was the book next to it named the Lusty Argonian?" Like, what passes for communist litterature in the current state of the UK? A phonebook? Any kind of acknowledgement that a society exists around you, still? Cause if it was The Little Red you know that was strickly for picking up girls at uni, and that spine has never been cracked even once. He just held it up and hoped for the best.
You're joking but I have heard it said that there is only one book of non-communist literature, 1984. Everything else is at best a pretentious distraction from non-fiction and/or The Bible, or more commonly a form of propaganda which targets the kind of person who thinks they're better than you
Keir's shooters must have driven Milo underground lol
For some reason the Sun seem to have posted footage of the Ann Widdecombe suspect taking out the bins and i have no idea how much I'm supposed to be doing semiotics.
Absolutely fascinated with riley's use of the word "pyromancy" right off the bat here and whether it was a slip of the tongue (as pyrotechnics and necromancer both make sense here) or an accidental reveal of his interest in arcane fire magicks
I really love how Mr. Koram calls Peter Thiel "Pedo Pheel".
Absolutely fantastic guest segment btw, really great stuff.
We Are Ann Widdicombe
Kinda funny that I thought the intro was gonna be about Lindsey Graham.
The Reverse Microwave's Guide to Life After We Take All Your Data on Accident
Being like in my mid 20s I knew nothing about Ann widdecombes like actual political stances or anything more that she was like a wierd right wing person there to do posturing and sabre rattling and that's it. After actually looking into it I do think her one actually held belief is in homophobia which is what I think will prevent them from making this mean more than an attempted increase in support for the online safety act or something.
Stanislavski once said that there are no small parts, only small actors. To which the British media-political Establishment seems to have said, hold my Brewdog
Honey extension does this sort of stuffing all the time.
Phoebe Gates’s fraud isn’t original? Like father, like daughter, I guess
Trying to picture Starmer's Fremen and I just can't do it. I lack the imagination.
If Keir does have the deathnote, do us a favor and write down members of the AFA. Sir Starmer, embrace Terry Peck thought, crush the hopes of argentinos, and you will reincarnate as a lotus flower
Project GLAADio, you say?
At this point "Brewdog" is more associated in my mind with being on this podcast for non-flattering reasons than they are a maker of beers of last resort. They're almost like one of those silicone valley companies whose name is now completely disconnected from their current core competency (..as it were). "Yes, I know we're named CompuQuick, but we actually don't do computers or tech-support anymore. We do speculative maintenance, by which I mean we do a kind of fraud that's both too complicated and boring to explain before you lose interest and stop listening to me."
I've never heard the original episode and have only a very vague idea what they're even talking about. Drives me mad
The future of drugs is making your own opium. Synthetics merely derange the organism.
Though more in keeping with the topic of the episode, I have noticed that certain cultivars and crosses seem to be yielding much higher thebane and noscapine moieties, which I think is due to the prevelance of strains used to produce the precursors for oxycodone etc.
