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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Bonus Sample #291 Recommendations and Manipulations

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Marx, Political, Feminism, Jacobin, Left, Hightower, Politics, Counterspin, News, News Commentary, Maddow, Hartmann, Democracynow, Antiracism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Ezra, Liberal, Intercepted, Hayes, Progressive, Intercept, Intersectionality, Wolff

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Air Date: 2-19-24
Today, Jay!, Amanda and Deon discuss:
- how augmented reality and the Apple Vision Pro affects the human brain
- how algorithms are changing and flattening our culture
- how to take back your life from algorithmic choices

REFERENCES:
The Vision Pro's scary side effect

Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro

We’ve Forgotten How to Use Computers

Have Algorithms Ruined Our Culture?

How to Take Back Your Life From Algorithms

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0:00.0

Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast. This is a sample of our recent bonus episode, usually only available to members.

0:14.0

These episodes are comprised of our crew of researchers, Amanda, and myself all getting together

0:19.3

for a roundtable discussion on topics that we find interesting. So here's a few minutes for free so you can

0:24.9

know what all the fuss is about.

0:27.0

Another quick follow-up. I just made a note here because in a previous bonus show we were trying to figure out what our age is called what is the age we are living in, and then through further conversation, like I

0:46.4

think I tried to zero in on like the way we've probably always been delusional about the stability of life in the past and our

0:57.7

current age is I think I argued sort of marked by how we are unable to be delusional anymore.

1:06.0

So like life was never rock solid, consistent,

1:11.0

something you could depend on,

1:12.0

but we thought it was and and now it isn't.

1:15.9

So I've coined the name of our age and so I'm going to call it the age of disillusionment by dissolution of delusion.

1:26.1

Rolls right off the tongue.

1:27.3

It's a bit of a mouth.

1:29.0

Yeah, I think it will catch on.

1:33.0

Today, though, we do have new topics.

1:35.0

We're obviously going to talk about the single thing that

1:38.0

literally everyone wants to talk about non-stop,

1:42.0

which is the Apple Vision Pro, having been released into the wild and people

1:47.9

using it and mostly doing stupid things with it.

1:52.8

So for this conversation, I want to skip past all

1:57.1

of what has already been said.

1:59.4

I read approximately two dozen articles about it and I found one and a half of them that were

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