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🗓️ 8 October 2025
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NEWS EP! Government Shutdowns past and present, ICE in Chicago, Trump vs. Big Capital, and Sean's essay on the implications of the international spread of the American petit-bourgeois.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you see these advertisements in the subway for, um, friend.com? |
| 0:10.3 | Yes. |
| 0:11.5 | Although it's marketed as like a supportive device that helps you, you know, go throughout your day-to-day life and, like, gives you little prompts that they, |
| 0:22.1 | it was programmed with the attitude of the company CEO, who is a petulant asshole. So, |
| 0:28.6 | although it is friend, it's like a friend who's always condescending to you. Oh, it's also, |
| 0:35.2 | but it's like totally wrong about everything and uh we all know that friend |
| 0:40.7 | yeah they should uh they should call it that friend if you don't know that friend it might be you |
| 0:46.1 | could be you yeah if you're walking around like why is everybody such a dick to me all the time |
| 0:53.2 | i always end up in these scenarios |
| 0:55.5 | where people are like yelling at me and screaming at me spoiler it might just be you i don't want |
| 1:01.8 | to try the friend pendant but i do appreciate and i posted to this uh effect earlier today i do |
| 1:09.3 | appreciate that every subway stop including my own and the one that I get off |
| 1:14.2 | for at work, people have defaced thefriend.com advertising to say like, fuck AI slop, AI is death, |
| 1:24.8 | AI is terrible, touched grass. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah, and I've also noticed it's inspired people to deface. AI is death. AI is terrible. Touched grass. Yeah. |
| 1:28.5 | And I've also noticed it's inspired people to deface other advertisements that are |
| 1:34.2 | generated by AI. |
| 1:36.2 | Right. |
| 1:36.8 | I saw that today too. |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.8 | You love to see it. |
| 1:40.1 | It's either like some hidden secret cadre of people who are like um maybe they they read like jathan |
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