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February 3, 2025: Supervillains in tech – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin
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Today: Supervillains in tech – with Greg Epstein, Chris Gilliard, and Jim Starlin
Silicon Valley broligarchs are weirdly similar to super-villains in the comics. Mark hosts a group discussion with Greg Epstein, author of the new book “Tech Agnostic”; surveillance scholar Chris Gilliard; and Jim Starlin, renowned Marvel Comics artist and creator of Thanos.
• Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation, by Greg Epstein, humanist chaplain at MIT and Harvard
• hypervisible – Chris Gilliard on Bluesky
• Gofundme for Siwatu Moore, Greg Epstein’s friend who lost his home in the LA fires
• Kickstarter for Jim Starlin’s second Dreadstar book, which was fully funded. The Kickstarter for the third book, “Dreadstar vs. Dreadstar,” hasn’t been posted yet.
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tim:
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Tom from Stirling:
He programmed that way.
DjLorraine:
ultradamno:
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Danny in Poughkeepsie:
tim:
Ken From Hyde Park:
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Drunken Creep:
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Ken From Hyde Park:
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mndave:
Webhamster Henry:
ultradamno:
tim:
ultradamno:
tom tom the pipers son:
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Franco Twinkie:
VantuckyEd:
Webhamster Henry:
Drunken Creep:
traven:
ultradamno:
traven:
Franco Twinkie:
Kind of punk before punk, I'd say.
Webhamster Henry:
ultradamno:
Handy Haversack:
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tim:
ultradamno:
Joe R.:
PaulRobeson1925:
ultradamno:
Webhamster Henry:
ultradamno:
traven:
Mark T:
ultradamno:
Franco Twinkie:
cosmic matrix:
Tom from Stirling:
ultradamno:
Webhamster Henry:
Webhamster Henry:
tom tom the pipers son:
ultradamno:
cosmic matrix:
red_door_what_for in ypsilanti:
Franco Twinkie:
tom tom the pipers son:
tom tom the pipers son:
cosmic matrix:
Handy Haversack:
ultradamno:
Sean Bikes:
Franco Twinkie:
red_door_what_for in ypsilanti:
GorillaFella:
ultradamno:
Webhamster Henry:
chris in the redwoods:
and hellos all around.
PaulRobeson1925:
Franco Twinkie:
Then he's reduced to a blubbering goon.
PaulRobeson1925:
ultradamno:
Fredericks:
ultradamno:
PaulRobeson1925:
tom tom the pipers son:
Fredericks:
tom tom the pipers son:
ultradamno:
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cosmic matrix:
Handy Haversack:
But no, they are not smart or innovative. They are white and lucky and convinced that the fact that they those factors make them not rich but better than everyone who isn't.
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alanSixº:
ultradamno:
tom tom the pipers son:
Webhamster Henry:
tom tom the pipers son:
tom tom the pipers son:
alanSixº:
sensisio:
tom tom the pipers son:
cosmic matrix:
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C:
Many thanks!
tim:
Franco Twinkie:
Tommy in Neversink:
cosmic matrix:
Deano de los Muertos:
alanSixº:
sensisio:
Tommy in Neversink:
Deano de los Muertos:
Webhamster Henry:
Barbie:
2/3 of the Perrin Family:
GorillaFella:
Old Dave:
ron-ji:
Handy Haversack:
We'll be in NOLA and will miss Movie Night.
ultradamno:
chresti:
alanSixº:
cosmic matrix:
Megaroni:
cosmic matrix:
redkayak:
Franco Twinkie:
Zinn The Mood:
“This country is so basically rotten that a vicious, bigoted pig like John Wayne is a great national hero. Thomas Jefferson would have been horrified by a monster like Wayne - and Wayne, given a shot across the time-span, would be proud to pistol-whip a "radical punk" like Jefferson.
John Wayne is a final, rotten symbol of everything that went wrong with the American Dream - he is our Frankenstein monster, a hero to millions. Wayne is the ultimate & perhaps final "American." He beats the mortal shit out of anything he can't understand. The brainwaves of "The Duke" are like those of the Hammerhead Shark - a beast so stupid and irrationally vicious that scientists have abandoned all hope of dealing with it, except as an unexplainable "throwback." The Hammerhead, they say is no different today than he was in One Million B.C. He is a ruthless, stupid beast with only one instinct - to attack, to hurt & cripple & kill…”
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cbunny:
Thanks for the show Mark and guests.
P-90:
Webhamster Henry:
San Pedro Girl:
alanSixº:
bleubombersune:
tim:
Bea:
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ultradamno:
Old Dave:
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Ken From Hyde Park:
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Mark Hurst:
C:
joe mulligan:
Will thee SG OCNY: