Transhumanism, and all of the technologies associated with it have become topics that have become better known over time. There remains a very misunderstood, and important history behind the fringe movement.

Topics include: camping in Yosemite, changing online media landscape, so-called democratization of media, algorithm at center of everything, IMG_0001 website, visual experimentation with livestream, Let's Paint TV guy still around, Tom Green influential media creator, transhumanism, tribal political divisions within greater transhumanist movement, Peter Thiel, Martine Rothblatt, Postmenderism paper predated Culture Wars, emerging and converging technologies

The new holy war in the Middle East is the same old war in the Middle East, but it has had a tech upgrade. Cyber capabilities and global influence operations now rest neatly in the center of this, and all other wars moving forward.

Topics include: new streaming graphics, Iran War, through line from War on Terror to present, post-9/11 America, compartmentalized history with presidential administrations, Israel Bible study propaganda in US, Evangelical voter base a defect propaganda target, generic use of esoteric religious terminology and iconography, US troops told they are bringing about return of Jesus and Armageddon, Pete Segeth insane crusader warrior ethos, past US sponsored regime changes in Iran, Cyber now central aspect of all war, digital surveillance and data-driven targeting, influence ops now admitted to more freely to public, Global Propaganda Matrix, possible cyber false flags, Vance the preferable guy to put in place by tech oligarch MAGA political sponsors, failing US empire, becoming Tank Man

The old YouTube channel has been brought back, and you will be able to watch the live-stream video versions of The Age of Transitions podcast there from now on.

Topics include: reinstating the old YouTube ADDTV channel, live-streaming the podcast, leaving YouTube video, old problem of unwanted ads, new problem of algorithmic dominance, content creation in service to the algo, online super ego, classic conspiracy take of media manipulation vs new emergent media manipulation, technique Jacques Ellul, autonomous systems where technique goes, AI, agentic AI, automation of labor, addictive nature of social media is designed, digital priesthood, artificial synchronicities, Culture Wars as propaganda, ecological disaster of data centers

In daily life, we sometimes experience synchronicities. Now that we live in a totally surveilled world, it is hard to tell whether a synchronicity is natural or synthetic.

Topics include: Looking For Truth in all the Wrong Places, working on a video series, original ADDTV YouTube channel, work life, cell phone surveillance, CCR Born on the Bayou, John Fogerty, listening devices, synchronicity, data collection, personalized ads, reflecting on your day, anecdotal stories useless, distrust of self, demoralization, open society, AI, doing your own research, Conspiracy Culture, alternative facts done more harm than good, mainstreaming fringe ideas for propaganda purposes, QAnon, Epstein drama, free will, capacity for conscious choice, artificial overlay on top of life, confusion, art a form of channeling, collaborating with machines, destruction of Constitution, AI created podcasts

A brief show to explain a little bit about the purpose of The Age of Transitions podcast.

Topics include: emails, streaming, video podcasts, purpose of the podcast, critique of technology, transhumanism, intentional destruction of US government, alternative media, Truth Movement, Conspiracy Culture, online personas, noticing formulas, movies are dying medium

Aaron and Chuck have a conversation about their experiences making media online over the years. Things keep changing for the worse, and any semblance of a free internet looks doomed to extinction.

Topics include: internet history, podcasting, live-streaming, true crime content, media history content, Howard Stern, satellite radio, history of comedy content, Opie and Anthony, Ai remaking content, inaccuracy, alternative media history, cable access television, Mae Brussell, old free website platforms, tape trading, micro broadcasting, Alt Right monopolized alt media identity, white nationalists, extremists believe the false narratives about themselves, talk radio, new age material in alt media past, Red Ice Creations, algorithm in control, designed to fail Star Trek series, using Woke as controlled opposition, QAnon and Pizzagate, Hulk Hogan will be the new conspiracy rabbit hole, Cass Sunstein, Obama era, CIA defining conspiracy theory, Warren Commission criticism, propaganda, America being destroyed, calling out digital platforms in generic way, Rumble will be the same as YouTube, fake independent creators, Google Video, The Age of Transitions video, inaccurate view counters, Revolve book sales, low podcast numbers, James Corbett, Ochelli Effect, infiltration and redirection, memory holing independent media producers

This new year is proving difficult to keep up with. On both the domestic and international fronts, there is no end of trouble. Whatever you do, don't trust Nick Shirley.

Topics include: different ways to support the show, wild new year, Venezuela military operation, Maduro NY court case, Cartel de los Soles not a real cartel, criminal government, no rules or accountability, Global propaganda Matrix, new digital propaganda not properly understood, influencers are propagandists, social media, selling us brain chips, big money tech bought up media and government, Post-Truth World, Minnesota child care scandal, Nick Shirley, evolution of Truth Movement/alternative media, JD Vance promotion of Shirley, PPP scandal forgotten, noticing recurring narratives and talking points, executive branch blocking legislation based on YouTube videos, video titles, video from inside El Salvador prison, young people caught up in attention economy, testing the public, fake tough guys, pretending to be anti-Neocon, American imperialism, Rubio, plans for Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, Network State, New World Order under construction, dangerous international tensions, US break from NATO, China military drills around Taiwan

The underground counterculture world of independent DVD production spanned a huge variety of niche interests. Outlaw motorcycle stunt man Ghost Rider is an example of something that can never be replicated in today's world of total surveillance.

Topics include: Ghost Rider motorcycle DVDs, underground indy media in 90s and 2000s, Bum Fights, INDECLINE graffiti collective, ADDTV, underground audio, Bam Margera, CKY, Jackass show, Big Brother videos, skateboard culture, Jump Off a Building Toy Machine video, Pennsylvania, prostitution, Bill Hicks, irony of laws, real life characters, modern internet motorcycle outlaws always get caught, surveillance built into technology and media, content creation, cameras ubiquitous, AI, no escape for anyone, TikTok divestment, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Middle East sovereign wealth films, total corruption, big money buying off executive branch, Paramount, David Ellison, Warner Brothers Discovery, buying up all media, Netflix, CBS, Bari Weiss, pay to play, CNN, technocratic oligarchy taking over American government, AI economic bubble, bringing nuclear power plants back up and running, nuclear fusion company merge with Trump media, data centers, so called green energy just a competitor being pushed out of the market, chemical industry takeover of EPA, doubling legal level of formaldehyde in air, real criminals at the top of the system, new media also part of propaganda system, right wing influencers, in-fighting of MAGA, JD Vance doing damage control at TPUSA America Fest