We want to build Google's and Facebooks and AI and giant companies, giant cryptocurrencies,

and now internet communities.

What they want to do is they want to exert authority over others.

What is the reason for the hostility between media and tech?

So for them, the best thing they can do is to put a man out of work. And for us, the best thing we can do is we can put a man on the moon.

Today on the podcast, I'm joined by Bologi Shrina Boston, entrepreneur, investor, and author of the network today.

To talk about one of our longest running shared topics, the conflict between tech and legacy media.

We get into the rise of GoDirect, the financial collapse

of journalism, the media's political capture, and how crypto and AI might offer a path to rebuild

trust, on chain, and on our own terms. Bology calls for a total rethink of what truth

infrastructure looks like and why tech needs to play offense. Let's get into it.

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Bology, another day, another journal hit piece.

We were sort of talking offline about Mark and Ben's Evolution of Media episode.

And let me just more broadly reflect.

You know, I've been friends and collaborators for last 10 years.

And one of the topics we've spent a lot of time talking about is the media, sort of the state of the media, what needs to be fixed about the media, and how to do that.

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