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The Pentagon hopes to bolster its tech prowess by partnering with a faltering private sector.  Topics include: JADC2, DoD, AI, cybersecurity, digital warfare, new Cold War, Iraq War, lies, Post-Truth, Oath Keepers, Jan 6

Biological computers can play pong.  Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network back up, Everything Everywhere All At Once, schizophrenia, nothing matters, biological computers, Battlestar Galactica, Dr Who, creative projects

The rug of society has been folded over on itself and now its many and varied fringes are on top of each other making quite a mess.  Topics include: transhumanists are fringe group, emerging tech now in the news, chatbot stories about machine consciousness, Dilbert, AI, Nick Bostrom racist email, Extropians, eugenics, evangelical reactionary takes on tech

Good for nothing but predicting an all too predictable future.    Topics include: letting people down, staying offline, Eric Schmidt, DOD, technology, motorcycles playing loud music, Rocky movies, Survivor, JFK assassination, Richard Belzer, crime and traumatic TV series, Infowars Junior, establishment MIC moves slow, future cyber terror event, digitized economy, propaganda, China will be blamed, legislation to speed up military spending in Silicon Valley, cyber security

Pondering some of the philosophical and esoteric aspects of artificial intelligence.  Topics include: advertising on Ochelli Radio Network, not being online, impossible to keep up, technological progress, automation, genetics history tied to eugenics, general public leery of science, cults, secret societies, AI systems, black holes, mysticism, religion vs science, philosophy, no absolutes, quantum theory, alchemy, artistic process, consciousness, creative power, godhood, AGI or narrow AI, Buddha at peace

Uncle becomes the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions.  Topics include: healthy skepticism, democratization of propaganda, online platforms, martyrs, virtual worlds as sustainable solutions, reversing ecocide with technology, petroleum based products, automation, Uncle guest appearance, brains, Thursday dating app, early internet, profiles to do everything, scams, social media identity imposters, copyright law to protect personal identity, Ochelli card deck

An automated society is now emerging.  Topics include: busy schedule, important news, social media wasteland, divided population, owners in society, coming economic reckoning, automation, AI generated imagery, ChatGPT, technique, super intelligence, AGI, gaming the system, Game Theory, amassing wealth, quantum computing, virtual world to continue the status quo, pretense, engagement and attention, freedom from consciousness, nihilism, feigned opposition, V For Vendetta, Wachowskis, The Matrix, Truth Movement, Trump, Covid lab leak hypothesis, projection, Kamala Harris, deeds not words, philosophy, Aaron Rodgers and Ayn Rand

So many of the things that have been discussed on this show over the years are now coming to be. The future is now.  Topics include: automation, robot warehouse pickers, Amazon, Washington Post, MIC, tech industry, normalization, drone delivery, machine learning, AI writing, AI art, Emo, dark warehouse, US and China tensions, microchip factories, PR, artificial wombs, genetic engineering, changing attitudes, deepfakes, perception of reality, nature of technique, mental health crisis, wages going up now, strange contradictions in corporate job market, working remotely, layoffs, annoying debates, portions of the population being left behind, Trump NFTs

The antics of Ye, the man we all love to hate, may be the playing out of a wide scale replay of the many and sordid misadventures of the alternative media.  Topics include: Spaghetti Western Saloon, Joshua Tree area, making predictions, technologically advanced misinformation, democratization of media, celebrity available to all, social media, legacy media, game theory, Ye likes Hitler, ego, Andy Warhol, Andy Kaufman, fringe conspiracy material, far right extremism, reenactment of past of alternative media for mainstream, racism, fascism, easy to be fooled, George Costanza philosophy, no such thing as total lies, instant gratification, reactionary environment, people hate their work, Banksy, Chris Graves, past interviews, graves of famous people

Thanksgiving is a harvest time festival with corollaries in past civilizations.  Topics include: Thanksgiving holiday, turkey, meal, holiday myths, Mayflower, Plymouth Rock, pilgrims, symbolism of agriculture and cultivation, civilization, tribal life, harvest Winter and death, stones as foundation of work, Native Americans, reckoning time for American history, corn, Demeter and Persephone, Eleusinian Mysteries, seasons, nature, Classical Civilization, rise and fall of civilizations, comparative religion, general discontent part of larger alchemical process, destruction, shared experience, cooperation, China protests, global wave of nationalism

The great filmmaker Godfrey Reggio is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions. Most famous for his Qatsi series of films, he continues creating to this day. Godfrey also just received a lifetime achievement award at the Santa Fe International Film Festival.  Topics include: Estrangement cells, posthuman, human environment has changed, our miracles are our afflictions, cannabis, sun gazers, monasteries, apostle, rename the world, sacrament, sound is the beginning, The Word, language, telepathy, minds are chemical zones, black ground, color, our schizophrenic nature, actors, under standing, masks, three as one, Darwin, fathers of the desert, open for contemplation, fragility of humanity, jaw bones, right brain Hell, monitored by the cloud, good and evil as twins, to be bardic, hope the most confusing virtue, hour before the dawn, end of the age, future present, eternity, the blue, the black, souls, circle the square

The many promises of technology fuel so much of our drive toward the future. To giant rocks this passing of time is next to nothing.  Topics include: Patreon content, Godfrey Reggio interview, Sunday nights, Landers, Giant Rock, time relative to geological history, Millenarianism, Y2K, technological promises, fire symbolism, alchemy, art of multiplication, creative outlets, circadian rhythm, Ochelli poker scheme, Friday nights, livestream karaoke, Chris Graves, bad wifi connection, upload speeds, AOC and Elon Musk, blue checkmark on Twitter, social media rules don’t always apply, Musk loves publicity stunts, Geraldo, remembering phone numbers, video versus audio broadcasting

Civilization was grown, as crops are grown, from the seed that is agriculture.  Topics include: Halloween, Trunk or Treat, evangelical take on holiday, theocracy, superstition, civilization, technology and science influence on society, leaders as gods, agriculture prime element in dawn of civilization, holidays relation with seasons and growing crops, harvest, death and rebirth, life and death, human influence over nature, Freemasonry, Great Work, apotheosis, Fertile Crescent, dark forest, archetypes, fear of wilderness and wild animals, clearing land for fields, Anarcho-Primitivism, politics, Christian Nationalism, elections, Nancy Pelosi home invasion

Live on a Sunday again. A call comes in from Chris Graves, and we get an update of The Ochelli Radio Network.  Topics include: broadcasting, radio stations, Cooley, Ohio, side by side UTVs, Los Angeles, Uber Eats

Aaron makes it back to the microphone for a special broadcast live from Landers, CA.  topics include: talking about different topics than others, technology, media, Landers California, George Van Tassel Integration, Giant Rock, the desert

The further we move forward the more exhaust we leave behind us.  Topics include: trends, opposing forces, time, environmental destruction, artificial world, Fourth Industrial Revolution, technological utopianism, all things green, politics, solar power, carbon dioxide, electric vehicles, water problems in Southwestern states, grass lawns, anarcho-primitivism, observing nature, population reduction occurring, eugenics, Generation Z, climate change, toxicity, wealth concentrated at top, luxury bunkers, marketing works on elite class, plant based meat alternatives

The Buddha does not laugh out of ignorance of the pain and suffering in the world, but rather in spite of it.  Topics include: laughter, laughing Buddha, pain and suffering, enlightenment, awareness, defying logic, taking things too serious, certainty of death, finality, Yoda, worry, international propaganda efforts, Russia, Cold War 2.0, insular national internet infrastructures, Leviathan, CA wildfires, Hemet, Inland Empire, Scientology’s Gold Base, peripheral places

Beware of propaganda from everyone and coming from everywhere. As a best practice you may want to “trust no one.”  Topics include: Age of Transitions 2 intro video, Revolve book reviews, deep brain stimulation, medical brain implant experiments, compulsive behavior, opioid addiction, Parkinsons, Navy Twitch livestreams, military recruitment, gaming, Department of War Studies King’s College London, alumni in social media and journalism, NATO propaganda, Russian propaganda, Chinese propaganda, Cold War 2.0, Atlantic Council, CNN changing formats, new “liberal” Fox News channel, Mike Judge, Arcade Fire controversy, California alchemical gold rush, New Gold Dream

Our world is full of contradictions, and we are left here to make sense of it.  Topics include: collective confusion and frustration, social contradictions, anomie, technology, production and consumption, environmental degradation, technique, system feeds itself, resources hoarded, corporations, artificial entities, Florida pirate Jimmy, shifting beliefs, fringe ideas gone mainstream, extreme actions seem more possible now, conspiracy thinking

Quantum computing may offer a way to power emerging tech such as Ai or AGI.  Topics include: livestreams, quantum computing, quantum theory, physics, entanglement, mysticism, Ai, qubits, time and space, Robin, Fibonacci laser, Golden Ratio, Ai generated artwork, text prompt to image, NFT market, Beeple, Jimmy James, metaverse, Paris Hilton, digital immortality, Ozzy Osbourne, The Congress movie, Robin Wright, Carrie Fischer deep fake in movie, Star Wars, Turing test