The Age of Transitions

Dialog, the pet Bilderberg style secret society of Peter Thiel, is now an open secret. Is that a good or bad thing for PT and friends? The countercultural capture of the online world has to be recognized.     Topics include: confusion, technological change, AI, AGI, possibility of Technological Singularity, economic bubble, practical applications and reasons for AI, Libertarianism is useless, ensh...

Palantir will not be denied a defense contract. They are well on their way to becoming the totality of the US government itself. All hail our Monopoly Capitalists overlords who have thwarted the evil Woke Army who tried "debanking" them. Honestly though, we all need to get better at seeing through their new media propaganda.   Topics include: long game of digital media production, China summit, Pa...

The recent US presidential trip to China was most interesting for what has not been said out loud. TSMC remains a lynchpin within this new world system emerging out of AI development.   Topics include: Ochelli dot com down, UAP video shot in Landers, Trump visit to China, Xi JInping, Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, tough guy Pentagon is for optics, CEO delegation, trade war shift, Taiwan as the lynchp...

We are living under Biff Tannen style governance. We should pay close attention when our reality starts taking on the characteristics of dystopian popular fiction.   Topics include: Lyft ride truth evangelism, Conspiracy Culture, more people exposed to and in agreement with fringe ideas than ever, social media as broadcast mechanism of conspiracy ideas, analytics tools driving content, ubiquity of...

Palantir/Alex Karp's book The Technological Republic has been distilled down to 22 easy to digest points this past week. Here, Aaron gives his commentary on them. Palantir and their fellow Silicon Valley technocratic institutions are succeeding in taking over the United States, and ruling via a renewed system of war and "deterrence."   Topics include: Palantir and the new Silicon Valley MIC, fasci...

The MAGA media world has suddenly come down with a serious case of TDS. It seems as though they have taken on the banner of "Dump Trump." On whose behalf do these morons speak, and what is it do we see coming in the near future?   Topics include: Trump more trouble than he is worth, tech oligarchs will fire president, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley, rant Truth Social post, MAGA media world now agains...

Aaron does a quick update on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast.     Topics include: video series about Conspiracy Culture/alt media, conspiracy theorist term CIA, charlatans, alt media irredeemable, actual truth, qui bono

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 liv...

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 administr...

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,...

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, d...

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,...

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 Mat...

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 audi...

There is a major narrative shift now underway, and it centers on everyone being sick of our Strong Man in chief.   Topics include: attention economy online, digital media, rage bait, click bait, analytics, influencing elections, right wing content creators, Alex Jones, MAGA, public relations, Trump losing support, medical issues, oligarchs in control, Neocons, exploitation of conspiracy theories,...

Don't feel bad if you aren't sure what to do right now. Even the high and mighty captors of America are relying on social media analytics to know what to say.   Topics include: esoteric transhumanism, Peter Thiel, Patreon, AI automating online content creation, waiting for something to happen, no normal life, rapid pace of change, Big Tech AI projects, data centers, electrical power needs increasi...

Strong Man is living in a glass house, and he isn't one for setting stones aside. Even Roger Stone may not be able to save him now.   Topics include: Lancer conference, Revolve book, audience, niche topic, Sora video, AI, transhumanism, uploading consciousness, digital clones, soft uploads, technocrats controlling government and more, purposely destroying old government, new mainstream media, soci...

Silicon Valley billionaires have been exploiting the MAGA movement to do their political bidding. The Rockbridge Network has been established to keep this ball rolling forward into the future.   Topics include: back from break, eczema, minuscule audience, top transhumanism podcasts, online living, tech billionaires, propaganda, mainstreaming fringe online ideas, woke joke, Rockbridge Network, Ohio...

The maniacs taking over the US government are actually idealistic. They are the quixotic, dark idealists, pushing their Dark Enlightenment philosophy.   Topics include: Don Quixote, quixotic, idealists, etymology, Tron Ares, occult concepts, virtual reality, Monterey CA, mundane world, The Ninth Gate, Grail legend, Left Hand Path occultism, dark idealism, Peter Thiel, Anti Christ lecture series, m...

America First is going full steam ahead as our new technocratic overlords successfully consolidate media. They use the platforms they buy to turn the population inward, and against itself, all the while international influence shifts to America's adversaries.   Topics include: esoteric side of transhumanism, Looking For Truth in all the Wrong Places, living online, social media, information war, p...

Aaron and Chuck have a conversation about foreign influence campaigns. Getting beyond confirmation bias is a real stumbling block when it comes to this topic.   Topics include: Revolve, esoteric side to transhumanism, old days of Truth Movement, conspiracy and fringe topics exploited by establishment, early days of podcasting, alternative media scene infiltration, politicized narratives, JFK resea...

The new mainstream media is social media, but the new propaganda is starting to look similar to the old War on Terror propaganda.   Topics include: digital media, Truth Movement shifted into the influencer economy, emerging technologies, TikTok divestment going through, Larry Ellison Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, TikTok ban story was a farce, social media being bought up by tech oligarchs, truth is...

Trying to find some meaning with the insanity of this digital simulacrum. Also, just another take on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.   Topics include: Patreon posts, small audience, hermit tendencies, This is Not Real Life Book, Lauren Southern, Alt Right, Unite the Right rally, White Noise documentary, honest behind the scenes stories, Tenet Media, Charlie Kirk assassination, video all over so...

The pretense of being a Libertarian was just too much work to keep up with for Peter Thiel, and so a new label has been conjured up to describe him. As a contrarian, he now has the luxury of not having to believe in anything, and instead maintain an appearance of antagonism to the status quo.   Topics include: Patreon posts, Carroll Quigley, mainstreaming of conspiracy culture, transformation of f...