In this week’s episode, we discuss the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, which has destroyed the neighborhood where Heather grew up. Why does California burn, how are fires different now than they used to be, what happens now? We discuss the Getty Villa and Palisades Village, and why we should care what happens to a wealthy neighborhood in West LA. Also: did the LA Fire Chief drinking the DEI Kool-Aid contribute to the devastation? And when are natural disasters not entirely natural? Then: Zuckerberg announces changes to fact-checking, filters, and trust and safety teams at Meta. It’s not an apology. Are the changes politically motivated, or market-driven, or philosophical, and will they stick? At the same time, Musk announces plans for algorithmic deboosting on X. Zero is a special number.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Scope of the LA fires from The Lookout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjE9xVU4eUA
Heather’s childhood LA fire experience: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/antipode-chapter-1
Jacob Soboroff on the Palisades Fire: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEkTEKdJxe9/
Fox News in Palisades Village: https://x.com/BigFish3000/status/1877008354008035683
Getty History: https://www.getty.edu/press/pdfs/Getty_History_and_Timeline.pdf
DEI LA Fire Chief: https://x.com/amuse/status/1876873508006842709
Zuckerberg announces changes: https://x.com/andrewcurran_/status/1876624442643878065
Musk does too: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875355425601999255
Fact checkers aren’t scientists: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/coming-soon
We have "cartesian blinders being put on us so that we are trying to make sense out of scraps of information and hints." - @bretweinstein
WEINSTEIN: I mean, even if you have your villains who are engaged in the behavior that motivated this war in Iran, even if that's the story, presumably most of the people in the path of these ferocious bombings that he is describing are not deserving of going back to the Stone Age.
In fact, I distinctly remember him telling us that part of what we were up to was liberating the people of Iran from their tyrannical regime.
So if it's the tyrannical regime that justifies the ferocious bombing, then it's a tragedy that other people are going to be sent back to the Stone Ages with them. Right?
HEYING: It's it's not a narrative. It's an incoherent set of talking points.
WEINSTEIN: Yeah, it's a kind of cheerleading that is completely inappropriate from the perspective of the president.
Bret Weinstein discusses the Trump administrations "back to the stone age" recent remarks in the latest episode of The Evolutionary Lens, Episode 320 "Are we back in the stone age?" on DarkHorse.
Bret Weinstein explains, "If you stop businesses from starting here, and if you drive people so that they move elsewhere—even though it's difficult to do—then the point is the tax base dries up, which then forces you to become even more predatory for the people who stayed.
And that's really the thing, right? They're setting themselves up so that they have to go after more and more people, because the people who are starting new businesses are not going to do it here."
Bret and Heather discuss the Cornell 7, sex in modern times, and the plague.
Civil charges have been brought against seven men and several institutions, including Cornell University, by a woman who claims to have been drugged and gang-raped in a fraternity house on campus in October 2024. We go through legal documents and journalism about what happened and discuss consent, drinking and drugs, the Greek system, and what sex has and has not become.
Then: a woman has died of plague in Russia; is a global pandemic coming? We discuss what to look out for.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EJWrPk7h78
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ICXPziVTJKS0dCUHhVdh7?si=Zsy8YzWlRAiWf8nxpk78IQ
Apple: ...
The Cornell 7 story is just one battle in the war against free speech on campuses
How the media is coordinating to weaponize emotions to punish an anti-war movement
You may not have heard, but there was recently an anti-war rally at Cornell, one critics called anti-Israel, that took place days before the Cornell 7 story hit all the major news headlines. I didn't know about it either. I only found out because I was watching the DarkHorse Podcast, Bret and Heather were discussing the Cornell 7, and I kept asking myself the same question: why is this national news?
The answer I found had less to do with what happened in a fraternity house two years ago and more to do with what was happening at Cornell right now.
The Event You Didn't Hear About
In mid-September, a student coalition called Students Not Bombs invited Hasan Piker, one of the most popular and controversial political streamers in the country, to speak on campus. The coalition is pushing Cornell to divest from Israel and its wars. Meanwhile, a ...
