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Currents 022: Curtis Yarvin on Institutional Failure

Posted January 14, 2021 • 01:12:53

Jim talks to Curtis Yarvin about his recent article, "2020, the year of everything fake": presentism, history, COVID-19 response failures, and much...

Currents 021: John Robb on Jan 6th, 2021

Posted January 12, 2021 • 00:53:32

John Robb talks to Jim about the Jan 6th events at the US Capitol: intel & ops failures, opensource insurgency, social media, Trump, and much more... In...

EP103 James Ehrlich on ReGen Villages

Posted January 11, 2021 • 01:05:06

James Ehrlich talks to Jim about ReGen Villages: community types, de-urbanization & rural living, materialism, agriculture, and much more... James...

EP102 Debora Spar on Technological Impacts on Culture

Posted January 7, 2021 • 01:27:59

Debora Spar & Jim have a wide-ranging chat on some of the insights in her book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. Debora...

EP101 Clayton Banks on the Digital Divide

Posted January 4, 2021 • 01:16:17

Clayton Banks talks to Jim about essential tools & digital literacy, why & how he started Silicon Harlem, community dev, the FCC, and much...