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- 1 weeks ago6 min
A tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart and Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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- 2 weeks ago22 min
Unicron debunks the Fermi Paradox
From the dying breath of Orson Welles to the terrifying silence of the Fermi Paradox, this video essay explores how a 1986 toy commercial accidentally birthed the ultimate symbol of late-stage capitalism: Unicron. We dive deep into the Hasbro marketing psy-op behind The Transformers: The Movie, the bleak reality of the Great Filter, and why the "Machine God" isn't lurking in the cosmos—it's already here running our economy. New to the channel? Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6czzarv3tM&list=PLc7I2hzudyX-dUh7nGMt19sNUVHihRaBl #Transformers1986 #FermiParadox #Unicron #VideoEssay #SciFi #LateStageCapitalism #OrsonWelles #GreatFilter
- 2 weeks ago2h 5m
A very important video essay on Skibidi Toilet
Get your Ctrl + Alt + Communism tee here https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com/products/ctrl-alt-communism 00:00 The Horizontal Scream of the Feed 13:58 Dreams of the Biological Bootloader 22:02 The Full Stack Architecture of the Machine 32:56 The Autonomous Builder 43:12 Capitalism OS 45:42 Prophets of the Machine 50:56 Saints, Sinners, Priests and Madmen 53:55 The Logos of Capital 1:15:32 Capitlaism as Intelligence 1:27:30 The Politics of the Overwrite 1:38:30 The Lossy Compression of the Soul 1:42:16 The future that Capitalism wants 1:46:56 The Emancipation Problem Featuring @TheoVon, Sam Altman, Yanis Varoufakis, Terence McKenna, @TheDangerousMaybe, @ThreeBillionNances, Elon Musk, Nick Land
- Sep 9, 202617 min
Who killed Star Trek Wars?
Star Trek and Star Wars are both dying. Star Trek turns 60 in 2026 with nothing in production. Star Wars just posted its lowest box office opening ever. So. Who killed Star Trek Wars? HINT: it's not JJ Abrams, "woke" or Rey! Featuring: Star Trek at 60, Star Wars, Andor, Disney, Paramount Skydance, Rey, the Prime Directive, Romulus and Remus, and the Pledge of Allegiance. Prompted by @FeralHistorian's video on Star Trek at 60 - https://youtu.be/TQEIHGM-EyQ?is=oSTnY8_V681sd0xH PKD made me make this tshirt - https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com New to the channel? Start here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc7I2hzudyX-dUh7nGMt19sNUVHihRaBl&si=ShXxZXGkPOOHFjd_
- Aug 31, 202627 min
ChatGPT is made of people!
In 1973's Soylent Green, Charlton Heston discovers the miracle food is made of people. In 2026, we're being sold something similar. There is nothing artificial about artificial intelligence. The name was a branding exercise, invented at Dartmouth in 1956 by a man who didn't want to argue with Norbert Wiener about cybernetics. Strip out the god and what's left is the accumulated cognitive labour of humanity, compressed and sold back to us for twenty dollars a month. Not artificial. Collective. Which changes the question from "will the machine wake up" to "who enclosed the commons this time?" On Dartmouth, the Enclosure Acts, Marx's Fragment on Machines, and Vince Gilligan's Pluribus. PKD made me make this tshirt - https://damosays-shop.fourthwall.com New to the channel? Start here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc7I2hzudyX-dUh7nGMt19sNUVHihRaBl&si=ShXxZXGkPOOHFjd_
- Aug 23, 202613 min
Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI
This is how a god dies, not with a cosmic explosion, not with a descent into eternity, but with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks. If five years ago you had asked me for a single symbol to express the first meeting of Humanity and AI, IContinue reading "Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI"
- Aug 20, 202617 min
The 7 levels of meaning in Frank Herbert’s DUNE
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- Aug 13, 202629 min
“F*** you, pay me.” Welcome to techbros feudalism
“A government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.” — Bernie Sanders What does it mean when Apple CEO Tim Cook makes a personal donation of $1 million dollars to Donald Trump’s inauguration? Or when Disney CEO Bob Iger comes out to virtue signal that the hypercapitalist entertainment corporation reallyContinue reading "“F*** you, pay me.” Welcome to techbros feudalism"
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