It sucks that weβre all tied to platforms that watch everything we do and say, while somehow making it harder to actually connect with the people we care about. The more they claim to bring us together, the more isolated the whole thing starts to feel.
08.10.2025 22:31 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Borders sort people into belonging and exclusion. That sorting makes workers easier to exploit, because fear and precarity keep people quiet, while wealth buys freedom of movement. For most of us, borders mean restriction and control.
08.10.2025 20:12 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Why the Internet Just Keeps Getting Worse with Cory Doctorow
The Skeptical Leftist Podcast Β· Episode
Cory Doctorow said platforms donβt care about users or advertisers, only about locking both in. Enshitification explains how the internet became an extraction machine that profits from our dependence.
08.10.2025 17:50 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Revolt, propaganda, and border control, in this episode we dig into youth uprisings in Nepal and Indonesia, Trumpβs visa scams, digital ID schemes, propaganda around Charlie Kirk, AI pushing people into violence, and how elites keep selling lies as progress.
Sources
https://people.com/charlie-kirk-
Revolt, Propaganda, and Border Control
Trump hiked visa fees to $100,000, making immigration impossible for workers while selling βgold cardsβ to the wealthy. Borders have always been about control, not fairness, and this scam proves it again.
08.10.2025 15:36 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The internet was built to connect people and ended up serving those who profit from watching them. Every so-called improvement made it easier to gather data, predict behavior, and control attention. What began as a network of people turned into a marketplace for their lives.
07.10.2025 22:30 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Revolt, Propaganda, and Border Control
Uprisings, propaganda, and scams driving people to resist in Nepal, Indonesia, and beyond.
Indonesiaβs parliament gave itself massive raises while workers struggled to eat. Protests exploded, police killed demonstrators, and TikTok tried to shut down livestreams. Thatβs what βdemocracyβ looks like under capitalism.
07.10.2025 21:32 β π 10 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Cory Doctorow joins me to talk about his new book Enshitification, a deep dive into how the internet went from a space built on openness and creativity to one dominated by corporate control. We get into the pattern behind it allβhow platforms lure people in, trap them, then slowly extract every ounc
Why the Internet Keeps Getting Worse with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow joined me to talk about Enshitification and how Big Tech turned the internet into a system built to trap users and squeeze workers. We dig into monopoly power, labor, and what it would take to rebuild something that serves people again.
07.10.2025 19:15 β π 5 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
People act like uprisings come out of nowhere. In reality, the spark is ignited by years of corruption, broken promises, and frustration. Revolt isnβt random, itβs the only option left when nothing else works
07.10.2025 14:42 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Revolt, Propaganda, and Border Control
The Skeptical Leftist Podcast Β· Episode
In Nepal, young people took to the streets after a social media ban. Within days the Prime Minister was out and a new leader was chosen on Discord. Thatβs how fast things shift when people stop accepting corruption.
07.10.2025 00:33 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
it's tough all around so I totally understand why people have to pull back from supporting a show financially. I can't support all the creators I would like to. Still, if you are someone who likes my work there are a lot of ways you can support it and I always appreciate it
06.10.2025 19:45 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Looking back, it's been a pretty bad year for the show in a lot of ways. I've still had great guests, great conversations, and the audience is still growing but a lot of patrons had to pull back because of lost jobs and of course we saw the hiatus of Red Reviews
06.10.2025 19:45 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
I don't really want to talk about Bari Weiss this week on Loose Wires but how am I supposed to ignore a well known liar being given a major position at a media outlet and getting paid millions of dollars for her misinformation rag
06.10.2025 19:22 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I just ignored the sign and did what I needed to anyway. It's a Planet Fitness, and they're not very good at enforcing the supposed rules they have anyway. Good thing it's cheap
06.10.2025 19:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Capitalism's Gospel of Greed
The Skeptical Leftist Podcast Β· Episode
Propaganda doesnβt need to convince anyone. It just needs constant repetition until lies feel normal. Owen and I broke down how that conditioning works in the latest episode. Watch or listen here:
06.10.2025 18:58 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
It was very good. Everyone should pay for it
06.10.2025 18:03 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Now available for individual purchase, or you could just subscribe via patreon.com/nicemangos :)
06.10.2025 18:01 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
LOL β¦. I wonder why.
06.10.2025 17:41 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
My gym has new signs telling people to put down their phones so they don't slow down the use of equipment and I feel like they don't realize I need something to focus on for the 60 seconds in between sets
06.10.2025 15:49 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
I'm still stuck with that bad taste from a bad faith attempt at gotcha online politics from someone I thought was a friend
06.10.2025 15:24 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Propaganda isnβt always obvious. It shows up in the way headlines soften the truth about state violence, or how debate hosts frame cruelty as common sense. By the time you notice, the lie feels like background noise.
06.10.2025 14:07 β π 17 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0
Attack on βnon-binary and Intersexβ people by anti-non-binary thinkers!
damienmarieathope.com/2021/11/my-b...
06.10.2025 02:09 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Speaking of courts making decisions along ideological lines
thehill.com/policy/e...
06.10.2025 01:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
How is anyone in the US supposed to believe in the court system when judges so clearly make decisions along ideological lines based on the party they were appointed by? It seems even more corrupt than I ever though it was before I knew it was set up this way
06.10.2025 01:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Ember
Standing for Reality: Damien Marie AtHope
Going live at 8 pm Eastern: Standing for Reality: Damien Marie AtHope
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVx7...
05.10.2025 23:40 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
It seems odd to try to dunk on someone who you've had a good online relationship with even if they say something you disagree with. To the point that you can't even let it be if they acknowledge they may have made a mistake. Almost makes the whole thing seem performative
05.10.2025 23:40 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Governments love to dress up new surveillance projects as βmodernization.β Digital IDs, biometric checks, endless databases, all pitched as efficiency. But itβs just another way to lock people out while pretending itβs progress.
05.10.2025 22:30 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
I don't know how long I'll be able to keep my membership active this time but I have to get access to this episode so I'm back for the month at least. π
05.10.2025 21:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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