Attack Ads! The Podcast

Most of us can relate: if we do something too often, specific memories of doing that thing are often lost until something triggers us to remember. Well, I read a lot. Here are some titles I forgot to mention in this Episode 221: Books I've Quietly Read.  Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/04/episode-221-books-ive-quietly-read.html

Once we learn about all the intrusive technologies foisted upon us just to stuff ads in our earholes and eyeballs, paranoia comes naturally.  How much is enough?  When does our paranoia match reality?  I muse that in this Episode 220: Snitches Get Riches. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/04/episode-220-snitches-get-riches.html

We are taught from childhood to save, because a penny saved can lead to a penny earned.  What happens, though, when others have investments that take every penny we have?  I explore this in Episode 219: "Not Totally Without Historical Significance." Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/03/episode-219-not-totally-without.html

Who can we trust in the "sciences"?  In this episode, I offer academic research—later discounted by evidence—for years considered sacrosanct simply because it protects a hidden agenda of political economy.  Hence, today's Episode 218: Why (r > g) Matters. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/03/episode-218-why-r-g-matters.html

I have to say, it's exciting to witness a change in political winds almost the moment it happens…especially when it concerns legality in the world of online advertising! I share this change in the weather in this Episode 217: Chopping At The Golem. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/02/episode-217-chopping-at-golem.html

We all like to eat. There are, sadly, very profitable reasons to keep the various processes dictating how the food we buy is created well hidden. Today I point out just some of the lowlights you find alongside Episode 216: The Dirt Road To Serfdom.  Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/02/episode-216-dirt-road-to-serfdom.html

Everybody likes to suggest changes that will fix problems found in everyday life. What we don't often have, though, is a clear idea of whether those utopian changes will—or won't—work. I present one example in this Epiosde 215: The Libertarian Delusion. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/01/epiosde-215-libertarian-delusion.html

Advertisers scheme ways to spread filth; but low-margin retailers can't stop these intrusions without angering shareholders. This creates a creeping tendency toward abominations in stores. I give a chilling example in this Episode 214: Medium unCoolers. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/01/episode-214-medium-uncoolers.html

Advertisers want to know you because pitches to receptive audiences sell product. But before surveillance technology existed, how did they do that? To help, there's an obscure but key theory to know in this Episode 213, one named The Audience Commodity. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2023/01/episode-213-audience-commodity.html

Everything seems chaotic today, what with supply chain disruptions, staffing shortfalls, and this wave of union activity, all panicking employers. What could be the reason? How about math? I explore that in this Epiosde 212: Get Thee To The Moil! Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/12/epiosde-212-get-thee-to-moil.html

Parody goes beyond laughter: it can help all of us see silliness in what we never questioned; help us see our naked marching monarch. I explore ideas I've had, along with terms others have coined on this topic, in this Episode 211: Back To Basics. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/12/episode-211-back-to-basics.html

Question: Why is the largest river in South America called the Amazon? I recently re-read some important source material, and got some surprises on that and other important topics I hope you'll share in this Episode 210: Prehistory, Lost & Found. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/11/episode-210-prehistory-lost-found.html

At this rate, we humans face a hot climate blanketing the planet with the over two centuries of fuel exhaust we have already dug up and burned. There are solutions out there. I share a dirty, meaty one in this Episode 209: Partners In A Symbiotic Dance. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/11/episode-209-partners-in-symbiotic-dance.html

What do you think: will we as a species starve to death, or merely roast? Trying to thread that policy needle is proving a challenge, one that (for me, at least) needs to be itself challenged. Hence, Episode 208: Peddling the Nitrogen Cycle. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/10/episode-208-peddling-nitrous-cycle.html

Is your phone listening to what you say when you aren't using it to actually make calls? That's what it seems everyone is wondering; but how to find out if it is? I ponder one possible answer to that question in this Episode 207: Take Two, Phase One. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/10/episode-207-take-two-phase-one.html

Extra! Extra! Read all about (maybe) good news for newspapers! Hey, a guy can dream, right? Best of all, this might be the very thing that ends our scourge of disinformation! I look into this possible solution in this Episode 206: Good News For News? Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/09/episode-206-good-news-for-news.html

What each of us shall find in our future, sadly, too often depends not upon good planning, smarts, and gumption, but rather on who happen to be your mom and dad. Thus it's hardly a meritocracy that dictates Episode 205: All That You Can Be. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/09/episode-205-all-that-you-can-be.html

Let's remember Howie's 1958 holiday, the one that turned out to be "I Must Work More!" In this Episode 204, Our Howie Holidays… of Work, I explore just some of the forces that try to convince us to stop worrying, but to never, ever stop working. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/08/episode-204-our-howie-holidays-of-work.html

We last left the six-hour workers at the Kellogg's factory when the war ended in 1946. What new challenges to their shorter work shift will confront them next? That is the question for this Episode 203: KSD Unquieting Hearts For Profit. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/08/episode-203-ksd-unquieting-hearts-for.html

We humans are hyper-social critters. For that reason, it can be difficult for us to discover which of our ideas social pressures unknowingly impose upon us. Changing our minds can thus require a kick implied in this Episode 202: Right In The Heartballs. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/08/episode-202-right-in-heartballs.html

After over eight years of doing this show, I still maintain the best source for show topics comes directly from listener feedback. I have listeners and commenters Pim and Dode to thank for this Episode 201: After Long Silence. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/07/episode-201-after-long-silence.html

Time to review my first experiment conducted to try to determine if my phone listens to me… when it should not. To see if I manscaped well or if I nicked the berries, check out Episode 200: Shees Reminded Me of Science. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/05/episode-200-shees-reminded-me-of-science.html

I will maintain as long as I am able to speak that we must learn from history, if only to avoid making mistakes already made… well, making them again… and again… and…. I look back to the Crash of the 1930s in this Episode 199: Ultima Ratio Plebium. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/05/episode-199-ultima-ratio-plebium.html

We humans bear complex mental mechanisms, which are often general enough for experiments to tease out some rules that govern our behavior. Knowing how these rules can manipulate us helps us realize the title of this Episode 198: We Are Not So Smart.   Find the Shot Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/05/episode-198-we-are-not-so-smart.html

Workplaces are social dynamos. Quite often—and often by design—how we are paid and scheduled interferes in what people really want from their work. This is the long-existing division I discuss in today's Episode 197: The Rabbits and the Work-Hogs. Find the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/04/episode-197-rabbits-and-work-hogs.html