In this week’s episode, we discuss AI, specifically how Grok responded to the prompt “image of Cartesian crisis,” whether AI is conscious, and whether it makes art. What is art, and are humans required to make it, or do search and memory suffice? Not art: the rendering of the national anthem at the Democratic National Convention. Speaking of which: what demographic is most strongly democratic? Answer: Childless, never married women ages 20 – 45. We discuss how this affects policy and society. And: the quasi-announcement that Kennedy may leave the presidential race. Finally—Zack is going off on new adventures.
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Mentioned in this episode:
The national anthem by the women’s caucus at DNC: https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1825937644951650319
Maternal Love and the Mama Bear: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/maternal-love-and-the-mama-bear
Brides of the State, by David Samuels in UnHerd: https://unherd.com/2024/08/the-march-of-kamalas-brides/
Rescue the Republic – September 29 on the National Mall: https://jointheresistance.org
Olympus Spa, a traditional Korean nude spa for women in the Seattle area, was told by the state of Washington, now upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, that they must let men in, so long as those men think they’re women. Judge VanDyke’s dissent correctly summarizes the issue as one of “swinging dicks.”
Heather Heying explains:
"These are such clowns. These judges are such clowns. And one of them’s a woman who apparently gives no fucks about the women and girls as young as 13, who might go to this amazing spa and be exposed to a very confused and mentally unstable man who’s got his balls and dick out.
More likely, frankly, most of us who once went to this amazing business are not going to go anymore. They’re going to have put out of business a Korean family who happened to be conservative Christians because of what? ...
"From your perspective, how good are your AirPods for you?
The answer is: that depends if you’re a mouse that was bred in one of these idiotic protocols.
If you are a mouse, where do you get AirPods? You probably want AirPods, maybe more than one set.
If you’re not a mouse, then this is an indicator that it’s actually dangerous.
The fact that the mice live longer is not good news.
It’s bad news because a toxin that you will not tolerate well will function like chemotherapy, or in this case like radiation therapy does on a cancer patient."
Clipped from Episode 316, Bret and Heather discuss a new paper that finds infection tends to lead to greater frailty in older people. This reverses the causality of Terrain Theory of Disease (frailty of the body leads to greater susceptibility of infection), and also provides support for a prediction made by Bret and his co-author Debbie Ciszek in the unpublished, longer version of their reserve capacity paper from 2002.
Mentioned in this segment:
Ragusa et al 2026: https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gerona/glag043/8497853
Weinstein & Ciszek 2002: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11909679/
The Parasite of Tomorrow
How history repeats itself
Based on the image, (assuming you read it) what does the word “groupeur” sound like?
According to Nesta Webster in her book World Revolutions, a groupeur is someone who helps gather a crowd around a message—often by drawing attention to it in a way that appears natural or spontaneous. Their role is to amplify and focus public attention, turning passive observers into an engaged group.
The term “groupeur” appears in her account of the French Revolutionary period, particularly around the movement associated with Gracchus Babeuf (which I'm learning about)
I don’t know… but doesn’t that sound a bit familiar?
To me, it resembles Nick Fuentes and the Groypers—how they’re able to capture the frustration of everyday people and channel it in a particular direction.
(As an aside.. did anyone else notice how Nick Fuentes, and the groyper army.. used all their power to smash Tucker and Candace in the moments after Charlie Kirks death?)
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