Trans Resister Radio

At this point, everyone seems to have had enuff of Vladimir Putin. However, all the grievance narratives in the world aren't enuff to stop Smash Mouth from churning out the hits.  Topics include: Global Propaganda Matrix, online propaganda, Vladimir Putin and his war, Vlad Vexler, decline in acceptance for RT in US alt media, Palantir, vying for global soft power influence, anti socialist propaganda as standard line for US establishment, Silicon Valley capture of government, grievance narratives, China leveraging Iran War, alternative to US, China likely promoted MAGA to destabilize US, obvious Chinese influence ops and international PR across social media, anti data center movement and allegations of Chinese influence, zeitgeist of pessimism, nostalgia for 90s and 2000s decades, Smash Mouth new Single Had Enuff, AI slop artwork

Soft power becoming software power, and the hope is to embed it as the OS for every government in the world. Behind the veneer of the ever-present online propaganda, lies this simple motive. When we talk about new cold wars, national security, or even a world war, this is the prize that all of the power brokers, decision makers, and stakeholders have as their motivation. It isn't complicated, but it is hidden in a web of synthetic digital complexity that we need to break away from as soon as possible.  Topics include: Revolve book, Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, disinformation, influence operations, online space is propaganda space, conspiracy media co-opted, Open AI and Anthropic news, sandbox test, AI development and integration into world governments, technocracy, destruction of old government, Eric Schmidt, NSCAI, framing the new national security context around AI, China as new Cold War enemy, cyber security threats, current presidential administration no more than a bought off clown show, tra

Our shared digital hall of mirrors becomes more and more advanced, and so we must somehow find a way to advance ourselves beyond and outside of it. Don't let your fringe ideas clash too hard with another's apparently conflicting views. The same sponsor may likely have brought you both messages in the first place.  Topics include: free stickers offer, elusive truth, long term coverage of AI topic, current AI systems, possibility of AGI, transhumanist movement, posthuman, science fiction, Conspiracy Culture and Truth Movement, dominant minority, mainstreaming of conspiracy concepts, semantics, perception vs reality, similarities of different fringe groups, history of internet, concept of internet as a distinct thing almost gone, social media dominance, data centers, future digital personal assistants, conspiracy ideas as propaganda, Cronenberg like reality, digitization of everything, amalgamation of media, augmented and virtual reality, beyond divide and conquer 

Monaco is the second smallest nation on Earth, and clearly an example of a country made for international financial purposes. Old money families controlled the world that created Monaco, but are the New World masters of tech now rising up to challenge them on the world stage?  Topics discussed: new Age of Transitions stickers, Looksmaxxing, online influencer culture, leg lengthening surgery, Connor Murphy death by gold, alchemy, transhumanism, Tech Oligarchs funding looksmaxxers and other influencers, social class structures, upper upper and lower upper class, Old Money vs New Money, Monaco country created by Old World establishment for banking purposes, Rothschild family, symbolism in Monte Carlo, new US power elite want to create new financial system, crypto currency, Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto similar to Saint Germain, conspiracy culture tropes within other online influencer niches, Technocratic elites control of Conspiracy Culture, New World Order

Dialog, the pet Bilderberg style secret society of Peter Thiel, is now an open secret. Is that a good or bad thing for PT and friends? The countercultural capture of the online world has to be recognized.    Topics include: confusion, technological change, AI, AGI, possibility of Technological Singularity, economic bubble, practical applications and reasons for AI, Libertarianism is useless, enshitification of internet, Dialog secret society, Bilderberg, Peter Thiel, secret societies, Elon Musk as proof of concept for building Tech Oligarch cult of personality, elites of recent past, Palantir, US technocratic takeover, online content creators are the new propagandists, useful idiots and conscious agents, MAGA trojan horse worked, transhuman future, transhumanism, forcing masses into metaverse life, living in Roblox, luxury bunkers, true globalists, possibility that counter cultural social media accounts are actually helpful to the establishment, Conspiracy Culture thoroughly hijacked

Palantir will not be denied a defense contract. They are well on their way to becoming the totality of the US government itself. All hail our Monopoly Capitalists overlords who have thwarted the evil Woke Army who tried "debanking" them. Honestly though, we all need to get better at seeing through their new media propaganda.  Topics include: long game of digital media production, China summit, Palantir lawsuit against Pentagon/DIA, MARS, Project Maven, Big Tech becoming new Military Industrial Complex, FAA, Destroy and Rebuild, Silicon Valley billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Marc Andreesen, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, Trump admin 2.0, puppet regime bribed and totally corrupt, first AI mass layoffs are in Tech, data centers, pollution, ownership of social media, new mainstream media is social media, counterintelligence techniques, cooptation of Conspiracy Culture, technocracy, confluence of different propaganda narratives, US decline benefits China, inconsistent messaging of propaganda concerning Chin

The recent US presidential trip to China was most interesting for what has not been said out loud. TSMC remains a lynchpin within this new world system emerging out of AI development.  Topics include: Ochelli dot com down, UAP video shot in Landers, Trump visit to China, Xi JInping, Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, tough guy Pentagon is for optics, CEO delegation, trade war shift, Taiwan as the lynchpin issue, ambiguity of US position on Taiwan, possibility of war, Jensen Huang, Nvidia, AI arms race, TSMC the one and only premiere fab in the world, failure/revocation of CHIPS Act, real powers in control of US, Technocracy, Elon Musk, Tesla business in China, MAGA's previous campaign ideologies hollow, internal strife in US benefits China, Global Propaganda Matrix, influence ops everywhere and from multitudinous sources, alt media and conspiracy narratives align with foreign influence ops, propaganda, reality of New World Order, US government being purposely being destroyed to be rebuilt, Putin's war in Ukraine, so

We are living under Biff Tannen style governance. We should pay close attention when our reality starts taking on the characteristics of dystopian popular fiction.  Topics include: Lyft ride truth evangelism, Conspiracy Culture, more people exposed to and in agreement with fringe ideas than ever, social media as broadcast mechanism of conspiracy ideas, analytics tools driving content, ubiquity of gambling, legalization of online gambling, dopamine response, prediction markets, new kinds of insider trading, more and more corruption, Biff Tannen style governance, Onion takeover of Infowars, satire of Conspiracy Culture long overdue, tecnocratic new world order, tech oligarchs, propaganda and Culture War distraction, crypto scams, new ASMR content pivot 

Palantir/Alex Karp's book The Technological Republic has been distilled down to 22 easy to digest points this past week. Here, Aaron gives his commentary on them. Palantir and their fellow Silicon Valley technocratic institutions are succeeding in taking over the United States, and ruling via a renewed system of war and "deterrence."  Topics include: Palantir and the new Silicon Valley MIC, fascist technocracy, Alex Karp, The Technological Republic, morals and ethics, old aerospace being pushed aside, Iran War showcasing loss of old American Empire and its old aerospace weapons, $1.5 trillion defense budget for Golden Fleet and Golden Dome, old apps not good enough, new transhuman tech and virtual worlds, soft power, Great Powers Competition, bringing back military draft, faux Libertarian talking points, public figures, influencers, politicians, new Age of Deterrence, progressive ideals of Neoliberal Order, Elon Musk, X as personal promotional tool, violent crime political push for Law and Order, MAGA as prop

The MAGA media world has suddenly come down with a serious case of TDS. It seems as though they have taken on the banner of "Dump Trump." On whose behalf do these morons speak, and what is it do we see coming in the near future?  Topics include: Trump more trouble than he is worth, tech oligarchs will fire president, Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley, rant Truth Social post, MAGA media world now against Trump, insult comic routine and other go to techniques now backfiring, Manosphere, Rogansphere, no loyalty or ethics, media charlatans need to be held accountable, alt media is just alt propaganda, online analytics tools, Melania Trump Epstein statement, more media face time for JD Vance, future cyber terror events will substantiate Vance to American public, Iran war, China, geopolitical great powers conflict, foreign influence ops targeting the US have been ongoing for years and have worked, MAGA built to destroy America from within, alt media taboo in talking about foreign influence ops, cybersecurity, CIA elevati

Aaron does a quick update on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast.    Topics include: video series about Conspiracy Culture/alt media, conspiracy theorist term CIA, charlatans, alt media irredeemable, actual truth, qui bono

Transhumanism, and all of the technologies associated with it have become topics that have become better known over time. There remains a very misunderstood, and important history behind the fringe movement.  Topics include: camping in Yosemite, changing online media landscape, so-called democratization of media, algorithm at center of everything, IMG_0001 website, visual experimentation with livestream, Let's Paint TV guy still around, Tom Green influential media creator, transhumanism, tribal political divisions within greater transhumanist movement, Peter Thiel, Martine Rothblatt, Postmenderism paper predated Culture Wars, emerging and converging technologies

The new holy war in the Middle East is the same old war in the Middle East, but it has had a tech upgrade. Cyber capabilities and global influence operations now rest neatly in the center of this, and all other wars moving forward.   Topics include: new streaming graphics, Iran War, through line from War on Terror to present, post-9/11 America, compartmentalized history with presidential administrations, Israel Bible study propaganda in US, Evangelical voter base a defect propaganda target, generic use of esoteric religious terminology and iconography, US troops told they are bringing about return of Jesus and Armageddon, Pete Segeth insane crusader warrior ethos, past US sponsored regime changes in Iran, Cyber now central aspect of all war, digital surveillance and data-driven targeting, influence ops now admitted to more freely to public, Global Propaganda Matrix, possible cyber false flags, Vance the preferable guy to put in place by tech oligarch MAGA political sponsors, failing US empire, becoming Tank M

The old YouTube channel has been brought back, and you will be able to watch the live-stream video versions of The Age of Transitions podcast there from now on.    Topics include: reinstating the old YouTube ADDTV channel, live-streaming the podcast, leaving YouTube video, old problem of unwanted ads, new problem of algorithmic dominance, content creation in service to the algo, online super ego, classic conspiracy take of media manipulation vs new emergent media manipulation, technique Jacques Ellul, autonomous systems where technique goes, AI, agentic AI, automation of labor, addictive nature of social media is designed, digital priesthood, artificial synchronicities, Culture Wars as propaganda, ecological disaster of data centers

In daily life, we sometimes experience synchronicities. Now that we live in a totally surveilled world, it is hard to tell whether a synchronicity is natural or synthetic.  Topics include: Looking For Truth in all the Wrong Places, working on a video series, original ADDTV YouTube channel, work life, cell phone surveillance, CCR Born on the Bayou, John Fogerty, listening devices, synchronicity, data collection, personalized ads, reflecting on your day, anecdotal stories useless, distrust of self, demoralization, open society, AI, doing your own research, Conspiracy Culture, alternative facts done more harm than good, mainstreaming fringe ideas for propaganda purposes, QAnon, Epstein drama, free will, capacity for conscious choice, artificial overlay on top of life, confusion, art a form of channeling, collaborating with machines, destruction of Constitution, AI created podcasts

A brief show to explain a little bit about the purpose of The Age of Transitions podcast.  Topics include: emails, streaming, video podcasts, purpose of the podcast, critique of technology, transhumanism, intentional destruction of US government, alternative media, Truth Movement, Conspiracy Culture, online personas, noticing formulas, movies are dying medium

Aaron and Chuck have a conversation about their experiences making media online over the years. Things keep changing for the worse, and any semblance of a free internet looks doomed to extinction.  Topics include: internet history, podcasting, live-streaming, true crime content, media history content, Howard Stern, satellite radio, history of comedy content, Opie and Anthony, Ai remaking content, inaccuracy, alternative media history, cable access television, Mae Brussell, old free website platforms, tape trading, micro broadcasting, Alt Right monopolized alt media identity, white nationalists, extremists believe the false narratives about themselves, talk radio, new age material in alt media past, Red Ice Creations, algorithm in control, designed to fail Star Trek series, using Woke as controlled opposition, QAnon and Pizzagate, Hulk Hogan will be the new conspiracy rabbit hole, Cass Sunstein, Obama era, CIA defining conspiracy theory, Warren Commission criticism, propaganda, America being destroyed, calling

This new year is proving difficult to keep up with. On both the domestic and international fronts, there is no end of trouble. Whatever you do, don't trust Nick Shirley.  Topics include: different ways to support the show, wild new year, Venezuela military operation, Maduro NY court case, Cartel de los Soles not a real cartel, criminal government, no rules or accountability, Global propaganda Matrix, new digital propaganda not properly understood, influencers are propagandists, social media, selling us brain chips, big money tech bought up media and government, Post-Truth World, Minnesota child care scandal, Nick Shirley, evolution of Truth Movement/alternative media, JD Vance promotion of Shirley, PPP scandal forgotten, noticing recurring narratives and talking points, executive branch blocking legislation based on YouTube videos, video titles, video from inside El Salvador prison, young people caught up in attention economy, testing the public, fake tough guys, pretending to be anti-Neocon, American imperia

The underground counterculture world of independent DVD production spanned a huge variety of niche interests. Outlaw motorcycle stunt man Ghost Rider is an example of something that can never be replicated in today's world of total surveillance.  Topics include: Ghost Rider motorcycle DVDs, underground indy media in 90s and 2000s, Bum Fights, INDECLINE graffiti collective, ADDTV, underground audio, Bam Margera, CKY, Jackass show, Big Brother videos, skateboard culture, Jump Off a Building Toy Machine video, Pennsylvania, prostitution, Bill Hicks, irony of laws, real life characters, modern internet motorcycle outlaws always get caught, surveillance built into technology and media, content creation, cameras ubiquitous, AI, no escape for anyone, TikTok divestment, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Middle East sovereign wealth films, total corruption, big money buying off executive branch, Paramount, David Ellison, Warner Brothers Discovery, buying up all media, Netflix, CBS, Bari Weiss, pay to play, CNN, technocratic olig

There is a major narrative shift now underway, and it centers on everyone being sick of our Strong Man in chief.  Topics include: attention economy online, digital media, rage bait, click bait, analytics, influencing elections, right wing content creators, Alex Jones, MAGA, public relations, Trump losing support, medical issues, oligarchs in control, Neocons, exploitation of conspiracy theories, purposeful destruction of American government, consolidation of all media, America Fest, Shapiro vs Carlson, deconstructing media, Bernays, propaganda, early optimism over internet, career as online content creator, public should demand to know who pays content creators, mad about Trump after they sold the administration in the first place, useful idiots, hollowness of social media success, Candace Owens growing audience, Roger Stone vs Steve Bannon, disinformation, tiers of power in right wing media, medium is in ultimate control, AGI, transhumanism, anxiety over the future, new robber barons, sci fi reality, relying