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From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories

EPISODE 93 | From Sea to Sea: More Canada Mysteries & Histories
Guest: Nile Séguin, comedian, actor, writer, French-Canadian
Canada, northern neighbor to the United States, a sovereign nation that’s only party sovereign, second largest country in the world by size but 37th by population. It’s a place filled with fairly reasonable people, lots of trees and many mysteries.
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03:18 - A bit about Nile (including his new podcast), where Canada gets its name, Canucks
09:05 - The Screaming Tunnel of Niagara Falls
15:10 - Jerome of Sandy Cove, NS
25:04 - Project Y: the flying VZ-9 Avrocar 
30:34 - Canadian pronunciation and slang
45:22 - Nile has homework
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO:
Nile Séguin website
Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: Plandemic
Nile's Conspiracy Planning Committee: The Moon Landing
Nile's IMdb page
Mercer Report video: Canada Explained
Origin of the name "Canada" - government webpage
The Screaming Tunnel on To Do Canada
Screaming Tunnel Niagara Falls: Haunted or Hoax? on I've Been BT
Real History of the Screaming Tunnel | Niagara Haunt’s Legit Legend on Ghost Walks
Jerome of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia on Historic Mysteries
The story of Jerome: The southwestern N.S. mystery that never ends, even 110 years after his death on Saltwire
Jerome Identified - An Early Mystery Solved on Canadian Mysteries
The Story Of Avro Canada's VZ-9 Avrocar Flying Saucer Project on Simple Flying
Canada Built a Flying Saucer. It didn't work; the story of the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar video
The Avrocar in Toronto from the 1950s video
Coanda Effect – Avro Car on Mysteries of Canada
What’s Going On With the Way Canadians Say ‘About’? on Atlas Obscura
Canadianisms on CMU School of Computer Science website
Canadian Slang: A Guide To Bunny Hugs, Loonies, And More
25 Canadian slang words you should learn before visiting
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Octopus’s Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)

EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
A number of unusual deaths, law enforcement software, mob families, casinos, drug running, arms dealing, and a possible nationwide, possible international, conspiracy known as the Octopus – this wild and complicated tale reads like a whole series of thriller novels and is further proof that the world is weird indeed.
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01:59 - Complicated Life - 1977: The weird death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, Don Devereux investigates
08:48 - Herbie Goes Bananas - 1990: Joseph Bonanno aka Joe Bananas aka Don Peppino, Devereux helps Unsolved Mysteries on a story about Morgan, Doug Johnston dies across the street from Devereux's house, Dan Casolaro contacts Devereux in 1991
12:58 - Squid Game - 1973-1991: Dan Casolaro, dilletante & part-time journalist, starts poking around into rumors around INSLAW's PROMIS software, the 1980 October Surprise theory, Iran Contra and the BCCI Scandal
21:36 - Danger Man & the Octopus - 1989-1991: Casolaro encounters Michael Riconosciuto ("Danger Man"), begins to see the shape of the Octopus, starts getting threats
25:43 - Meeting in Martinsburg - 1991: Casolaro goes to Martinsburg, West Virginia but never makes it home, weirdness at his funeral, unanswered questions and "missing" files
32:47 - You Better You Bet - 1978-1981: Cabazon murders in Rancho Mirage, the the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino  in Indio, secret government dealings, mafia dudes, INSLAW and Michael Riconosciuto again, Wackenhut, drug running, software trojan horses, hitman James Hughes
40:35 - Giant Octopus Kraken - 1982-1991: Riconosciuto's roommate is killed, NSA guy Alan David Standorf is killed, Riconosciuto's lawyer is killed, journalist Anson Ng Yong is killed in Guatemala while researching much of all this, arms running, INSLAW, BCCI, and the DOJ
44:33 - Death & Espionage - 1976-2001: John Munson tries to frame Riconosciuto, then his girlfriend dies; the Spiro family are killed in Southern California; arms dealer turned Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe, counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen turns double agent
50:10 - Trying to make some sense of it all
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I consistently mispronounce the name of Michael Riconosciuto thruoghout this episode, only finding out after I had recorded and edited that it should be closer to "Re-con-SHOO-toh" My bad.
More Info:
The Odd Mystery behind Charles C. Morgan's Death
Cold Case: Strange evidence found in '77 on, near man's body
Joe Bonanno Tuscon Arizona Crew Members video 
The Kinship of Killers
FBI Phoenix History
The Odd Death of Charles C. Morgan on Unsolved Wiki
Chuck Morgan on Unsolved Mysteries
A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Strange Death of Doug Johnston
Devereux Reports website
Danny Casolaro on Alchetron
Danny Casolaro on Unsolved Mysteries
The Last Days of Danny Casolaro article plus several links
The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro New York Times article, reprinted
What Killed Danny Casolaro? Washington Post article
THE STRANGE DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO in Vanity Fair
FBI files on Dan Casolaro
Dan's file titled CIA Frank Terpil Renegades
Danny Casolaro's files and notes
Danny Casolaro Died for You backstory
The Mysterious Death Of Danny Casolaro
The INSLAW File
The INSLAW Affair - chapter 17 of The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour
The INSLAW Affair documents
Federal Corruption: INSLAW by Harry V. Martin
The Promis Threat: An Octopus Slouches Toward Mena, Arkansas, Area 51 and The International UFO Congress in Las Vegas by Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel press, #7
Octopus Revisited by Kenn Thomas
The Undying Octopus: FBI and the PROMIS affair Part 1
Black Arcadia - Danny Casolaro and the Octopus - Parts 1-3
Parts 4-7, Lindsay Biziak Murder parts 1-2
Parts 8-10
The INSLAW Octopus in Wired
Code for PROMIS software
BCCI SCANDAL: BEHIND THE 'BANK OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS' in the Washington Post
The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America’s Foreign Corruption
BCCI Scandal document
Danny Casolaro and the Octopus Syndicate video
Casolaro Murder excerpts from The Village Voice
Cabazon: How 'Indian gaming' began - LaRouche article
Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery
Badlands - article in Spy Magazine about many of these stories
Worldwide Conspiracy, Or Fantasy? -- Felon's Story Checks Out - Kind Of
Journalist Investigating Bank Was Second To Die
Guatemala: Journalist's Murder May Be Linked With Bcci Scandal
Murder in Rancho Santa Fe
Investigators closed a mysterious murder case Wednesday and blamed...
Secret Government Program Linked To Local Murders? KESQ new story on murders, INSLAW and more
Transcript of interview with Ari Ben-Menashe for Journeyman.tv
Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal’s ties to Israel
How an FBI Sting Took Down KGB Spy Robert Hanssen on Spyscape
How Robert Hanssen Spied for the Soviets
Because there's a LOT more to this, the timeline from Danny Casolaro Died for You
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Tartaria Sauce: The Tartarian Empire and 15-Minute Cities

EPSIODE 91 | Tartaria Sauce : The Great Tartarian Empire and 15-Minute Cities
One day, I wondered if there were any conspiracy theories about architecture, which is something I am quite keen on, so I fired up the laptop and did a Google search, and sure enough, there is. One. One that’s weird and funny and just a little bit sad.
While researching this, a new conspiracy pops up on the interwebs, this time about urban planning, another subject I‘m very interested in. And so, between the Tartarian Empire/Great Mud Flood theory, and the newly minted freak out about 15-minute cities, it felt like this episode of Conspiracy Clearinghouse was sort of writing itself.
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02:08 - Trans-Continental Hustle - Fomenko's New Chronology and Levashov's ramblings
04:51 - This City Never Sleeps - NYC's Singer Building & Penn Station, San Francisco's 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, the White City at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
10:49 - World in My Eyes - Great Tartaria, the Great Mudflood, YouTube and Reddit
15:29 - They Might Be Giants - Tartarians were giants, mountains are petrified buildings, ancient nukes
18:29 - Bury the Evidence - Zero point energy, Nikola Tesla, we was robbed, a 1957 CIA report is proof (or not)
25:45 - I of the Storm - It's the QAnon of architecture
29:56 - City to City - Gemma O' Doherty discovers the 15-minute city, Carlos Moreno's ideas, Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre Cities, Build Back Better and Agenda 21/30
35:02 - Deeply Dippy - O'Doherty ramps up her rhetoric, Oxford gets in trouble, Neo-Nazis and Not Our Future make noise
38:46 - Party at Ground Zero - Death threats, climate change deniers get in on the action, Jordan Peterson and other screwheads weigh in, not really a new idea, Jan Gehl's groundbreaking ideas on urban planning, many cities are making plans (like Prague)
45:24 - Bitter Sweet Symphony - 15-minute cities have become a rallying point for alt-right madness and conspiracy theories
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Time for Timer: Pseudohistories & Historical Revisions episode
Khazar Love Triangle episode
Singer Building on Skyscraper.org
The Story Behind The Singer Building: NYC's Lost Skyscraper
The birth, life, and death of old Penn Station
The Panama-Pacific International Exhibition
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES 1915 on America's Best History
WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893
The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City and fairgrounds on Smart History
5 fun facts about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Lost Empire of Tartaria in Never Was Magazine
Tartaria and the Mud Flood on the Skeptoid podcast
Inside The Empire Of Tartaria, One Of History’s Wildest Conspiracies
Twitter thread on Tartaria by @cinemashoebox
Tartarian Architecture on Reddit
Nikola Tesla - The Monster from Venus episode
Tartaria Uncovered: AntiquiTech, Tesla, Mud Flood & Beyond! subreddit
Inside the wild architecture conspiracy theory gaining traction online
John Levi on YouTube
Philipp Druzhinin on YouTube
Tartaria: an Empire hidden by history, or revealed by ignorance?
Question the Narrative | Trees, Titans, or Melted Buildings?
History Reset video
The Lost Empire of Tartaria on Historical Blindness
National Cultural Development Under Communism - 1957 CIA report
Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture
Tartaria Explained in Three Minutes video
What is the Truth about Tartaria video
The Tartarian Meltdown YouTube channel
The 15-minute city: how Ireland's conspiracy theorists grew to fear an urban planning concept
Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities
15-Minute City on Deloitte
The 15-Minute City: Putting people at the center of urban transformation website
Paris’ Vision for a ‘15-Minute City’ Sparks a Global Movement
Paris, the 15-minute city in The New European
THE PROMISE OF THE 15-MINUTE CITY on Politico
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Revisiting Frank Lloyd Wright’s Vision for “Broadacre City”
Agenda 21 - This Land Is My Land episode
How '15-minute cities' turned into an international conspiracy theory
What is the '15-minute city' conspiracy theory?
Why is the apparently harmless idea of 15-minute cities exercising conspiracy theorists?
Oxford, the 15-Minute City, and the Birth of a Lie
Why do traffic reduction schemes attract so many conspiracy theories?
Oxford hit by wave of protests over '15-minute city' backlash
Oxford protest video
Oxfordshire and Oxford councillors threatened over traffic filters
False climate lockdown claims in Oxford lead to death threats
Don’t lock me in my neighborhood! 15-minute city hysteria sweeps the UK
Walkable Cities
Jan Gehl website
"The Human Scale" in IMDb
Times Square Transformation
Times Square: Putting the “square” back in Times Square
Citing “Livability and Mobility,” Bloomberg Declares Broadway Plazas a Success on Next City
Portland's 20-Minute Neighborhoods after Ten Years: How a Planning Initiative Impacted Accessibility
London's Gear Change plan
Prague Metropolitan Plan
Prague 2050 Plan
Prague Institute of Planning and Development plans
How can we bring ‘zero auto ownership’ out of the shadows?
Tackling the 15-minute cities conspiracy means fixing inequality
Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City
The 15-Minute City Freakout Is a Case Study in Conspiracy Paranoia
15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory
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Oh, Canada!

EPISODE 90 | Oh, Canada! 
The Great White North, the Just Society - Canada is a cold place filled with reasonable people. For the most part. But not even they are immune to the pull of the conspirasphere, and have hatched some wacky ideas all their own. 
This episode is by request of a Canadian fan of the podcast. So enjoy!
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02: 32 - Horton Hears an "Eh!" - Tim Hortons, Double-Doubles & Timbits, cocaine & reincarnation
05:35 - Little Potato - PM Justin Trudeau's paternity raises eyebrows
08:37 - Calling Occupants - The FLQ, Pierre Trudeau and the October Crisis
11:26 - Miles From Our Home - Baroness Birdwood, the 2014 Parliament Hill attack & the Parliament bombing of 1966
14:50 - David DePape visits San Francisco
17:02 - Snakes & Arrows - The NHL hates Canada, the Avro Arrow
21:34 - Gimme Your Money, Please - Canadians are talented, Canadian money has demons
25:23 - Bird on the Wire - Her Majesty Queen Romana Didulo, Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Canada; the White Helmets
30:03 - Magic Power - Nahanni, the Headless Valley
34:51 - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - The Shag Harbour UFO Incident
38:34 - Everything to Everyone - The disappearance of Granger Taylor 
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I continually refer to the Avro Arrow as the "Arvo" Arrow because I was not paying attention
More Info
Is this the most Canadian photo ever?
X-Ray Shoe Fitter - Hilarious Histories with Nile Séguin (video)
What are some conspiracy theories about Canada?
14 things you didn't know about Tim Hortons
The Strange Conspiracy Behind Tim Hortons Coffee
Nicotine in Tim Hortons Coffee on Snopes
Top 5 Canadian Conspiracy Theories on Mysteries of Canada
The insane conspiracy of Justin Trudeau Castro
The internet is going wild over a conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau has fake eyebrows
Joe Rogan jokes Justin Trudeau needs to prove he’s not Fidel Castro’s son
The FLQ and the October Crisis
The October Crisis on Le Canada
October Crisis: 50 years after a bloody spasm that nearly tore Canada apart
Baroness Birdwood obituary
Bomb in Parliament misses its target in 1966
Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was shot 31 times, police report to reveal
Uncovering a killer: Addict, drifter, walking contradiction
What we know about David DePape, the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi
DePape in bizarre phone call to KTVU says he should have been 'more prepared'
Millions believe in conspiracy theories in Canada
Chilling Canadian conspiracy theories explained
Pseudolaw - Cabbages & Kings
Why Is the NHL So Anti-Canadian?
Is the NHL rigged against Canada? Not really
The Avro Arrow Was Canada’s Awesome, Pointless Jet Fighter
Canada's Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow
Avro Arrow debate on Quora
The Canadian Conspiracy - satirical video from 1985
The Devil Is in the Hairdo
True Or False? Canadian Money Once Had A Demon Hidden In Queen Elizabeth’s Hair
Who is Romana Didulo, the Filipino immigrant who calls herself ‘Queen of Canada’?
‘Queen of Canada’: the rapid rise of a fringe QAnon figure sounds alarm
Inside the QAnon Queen’s Cult: ‘The Abuse Was Non-Stop’
Inside the Conspiracy Theory That Turned Syria's First Responders Into Terrorists
Russian trolls attack Syrian humanitarians to cover up war crimes
Playing into Putin’s Hands: The White Helmets, Douma, And How U.S. Failures Become Russian Opportunities
Legends of the Nahanni Valley
Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men
Valley of Headless Men: Mysterious Decapitations in Canada’s Nahanni Valley
Why the Nahanni Valley is Creepier Than Any Horror Film
Red Alert - UFOs as Threat! CC episode (Falcon Lake Incident)
Shag Harbour Incident continues to fascinate small N.S. fishing village
The Shag Harbour UFO incident video on CBC
Shag Harbour UFO Centre
Granger Taylor: The Spaceman of Vancouver Island
The Man Who Went to Space and Disappeared
Spaceman - documentary about Granger Taylor
B.C.‘s Granger Taylor left a note saying he was boarding an alien spaceship — then he disappeared
What happened to Granger Taylor?
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JBS BS: The John Birch Society

EPISODE 89 | JBS BS: The John Birch Society
History is full of those who became tyrants or aspired to become one. Even in a country like the United States in the fairly enlightened 20th century, there were those who thought that, well, actually, their vision of how things should be was the best one, and that they should probably just be in charge. And if you opposed them, they said all sorts of disagreeable things about you. And sometimes they just outright lied.
Welcome to the John Birch Society, where anything and everything goes in the life and death struggle against international Communism. And they are kind of the foundation of today's far right.
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02:10 - Candy-Coated Commie Hater - Candy maker Robert Welch Jr. was a smart guy, but also a hardcore Baptist and rabid anti-Communist
04:37 - Birch the Baptist Spy - Angry Baptist zealot John Birch became a spy in China during WWII, getting killed by Communists just after Japan surrendered; Welch was inspired, founding the John Birch Society in 1958 along with Fred Koch, Robert Waring Stoddard, Harry Lynde Bradley and anti-Semite Revilo P. Oliver, who went pretty much full Nazi later on
09:32 - Red Scares - Marxism's beginnings, the First Red Scare (1919-1920), bans and deportations, the Immigration Act of 1924, the Second Red Scare (1947-1958), loyalty oaths, the Communist Party outlawed, the Black List
15:04 - JBS BS - Conspiracy theories aplenty, America was "great" in the year 1900, created the water fluoridation freakout, Dr. Strangelove, membership grew while Welch got weirder, other far righter groups not so supportive, Barry Goldwater set the stage for Reagan, the Soviet Negro Republic pamphlet
23:28 - Go Your Own Way - The Birchers started to lose supporters in the 70s and 80s, the ultra-conservative US Taxpayers Party splits off and then becomes the Constitution Party, the American Heritage Party split from them and then became the Christian Liberty Party - both foundational to the Tea Party movement
29:48 - Fellow Travelers - Jim Gilchrist is a fan of the American Heritage Party, so is Alex Jones lapdog Jerome Corsi, who eats heartily from the conspiracy buffet; the JBS pushes Agenda 21 CTs, keeps records on political voting records; some think Trumpism is basically Bircherism
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info: 
Who Was John Birch? - 1961 Time Magazine article
Robert Welch, Founder of Birch Society, Dies at 85
The New American (the JBS magazine)
JBS Freedom Index
The Constitution Party website
Christian Liberty Party website
America at the Turn of the Century: A Look at the Historical Context
The John Birchers’ Tea Party
Tea party: Dark side of conservatism on Poltico
The Tea Party, the John Birch Society, and the Fear of "Mob Rule"
The Tea Party Movement as a Modern Incarnation of Nativism in the United States and Its Role in American Electoral Politics, 2009-2014 paper
The John Birch Society Is Back
Flight from reason - Thomas Patterson looks at the threat to Democracy in ‘How America Lost Its Mind’
Today’s right-wing conspiracy theory mentality can be traced back to the John Birch Society
Today’s Paranoid Right Has Surpassed the John Birch Society
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
How the John Birch Society radicalized the American Right
The fringe group that broke the GOP’s brain — and helped the party win elections on Vox
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn
Robert Evans's Behind the Bastards podcast
Behind the Bastards episodes about the John Birch Society:  Part One & Part Two
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Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)

EPISODE 88 | Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI consultant
AI is here and it's here to stay. And despite all the hand wringing and doom-and-gloom predictions, the AI-powered future actually looks pretty bright. AI is already being used in a number of applications, and more are on the way. 
Josh Bachynski and I talk about the inherent ethics of intelligence; AI/robot bees, burgers and beers; AI's predictive capabilities, AI religions, the Singularity and the most probable futures we will see in the next 50 years.
Think of this as a counterbalance to our earlier talk The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
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02:07 - The Five Worlds of AI - AI Fizzle, Futurama, AI-Dystopia, Singularia, Paperclipalypse; nice AI in pop culture - Max Headroom, Her (Samantha), Star Trek TNG (Data); philosophy points the way, making more trouble makes trouble, AI time scales, AI destables but also enables
14:35 - Current Uses for AI - RoboBees, predictive models, Falcon LLM
19:32 - Flippy the robot burger maker, AI bartenders, AI pizza makers, it's all robots, Intelligent X - AI/robot customized beer making, personal customization in all things; AI pattern recognition for credit card fraud, crime detection, football coaching; emotion detection, job interviews, police interrogations
27:23 - Long-term optimization strategies, Freakonomics, Beauty.AI for beauty contests, biases 
36:22 - AI Religions - Are we playing god, we're eternal because we're information, the noosphere, the divine as information, the Holy Spirit as an AI-like tool, spiritual machines
43:02 - Kurzweil's Singularity - Six stages: the Information Age, the Age of Computation, the Age of Spiritual Machines, the Age of Intelligent Machines, Computer-Human Symbiosis, the Age of Robots; cybernetics and augmentations are used today, possible timelines for the Singularity (2045?)
49:24 - The Road to Utopia - Another potential timeline for the future
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Moral Concept - Josh Bachynski's blog (email him at  joshbachynski@gmail.com)
Adapting to the AI Age podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
AI Personas & Ethics podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
Use AI to Create Content Today on Digital Signage Done Right
Five Worlds of AI
At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman
Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Top 10 Unusual but Brilliant Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence
Falcon LLM
The Most Unusual Uses of Artificial Intelligence
Flippy 2 by Miso Robotics
FLIPPY The AI Burger Flipping Robot (video)
Japan's robot bartenders: Last call for human service?
Cyberdog - Prague's robot wine bar
Pizzaiola - AI Based Robotic Pizza Maker
The weirdest uses of AI
How Carlsberg is using AI to help develop new beers
Intelligent X - customized AI and robotic beer making
EveryHuman - Create your scent with Algorithmic Perfumery
The Amazing Ways How Mastercard Uses Artificial Intelligence To Stop Fraud And Reduce False Declines
AI Is Now Analyzing Candidates' Facial Expressions During Video Job Interviews
Paragraphica - the lenless AI camera
Freakonomics - the Hidden Side of Everything website
Beauty.AI
Visions of AI Utopia
Beyond The Hype: Five Exciting AI Outcomes In The Next Five Years on Forbes
Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
Entering the singularity: Has AI reached the point of no return? on The Hill
WTF is The Technological Singularity? on Hackernoon
Technological singularity on Transhumanism Wiki
Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
Ray Kurzweil website
Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Humanity? – A Utopian View
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CSI: Conspiracy: Three Cold Cases (WIW 9)

EPISODE 87 | CSI: Conspiracy: Three Cold Cases (World Is Weird 9)
True crime is a popular genre, mainly because people love mysteries. Here are three cases from the conspiracy world that fit the bill, from three different decades and three different countries, where the weird and the unexplained meet head on. 
We’ll look at the Lead Masks Case from Brazil, the UK’s Zigmund Adamski case (sometimes called the first UFO murder), and the Yuba County Five, also known as “America’s Dyatlov”.
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02:26 - Killing Mask - The Brazilian Lead Masks Case (August 21, 1966)
17:31 - Working in the Coal Mine - The strange death of Zigmund Adamski (June 6, 1980)
24:35 - Misty Mountain Hop - America's Dyatlov: the Yuba County Five (February 24, 1978)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Curious Case of the Lead Mask Deaths on Today I Found Out
The Mysterious “Lead Masks Case” on Ghost Theory
O caso das Máscaras de Chumbo (in Portuguese)
Mistério das máscaras de chumbo segue sem solução 54 anos depois (54-year anniversary of Lead Masks Case, in Portuguese)
Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967
1966, August 17: The Lead Masks Mystery on Anomalies
Alien Abduction Claims in Yorkshire on BBC Inside Out
The mysterious disappearance and death of Zigmund Adamski - murder or Alien abduction? on Strange Outdoors
Alien abduction or KGB? The baffling case of the miner whose body was found on a pile of coal
Alan Godfrey UFO website
The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story episode
5 'Boys' Who Never Come Back in the Washington Post
Spooky or Not: The Yuba County Five
Let’s talk about it: Gary Mathias and his four friends
The haunting case of the Mathias Group (Yuba County Five) on Strange Outdoors
'Bizarre as Hell': The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five on Mental Floss
‘Yuba County Five’ uncovers more answers and even more questions about the 5 California men who went missing in 1978 on Podsauce
What Happened to the Yuba County Five? on Historic Mysteries
Yuba County Five Case Analysis | Unexplained Disappearance and Deaths video by Dr. Todd Grande
The Yuba County Five: Terror on the Mountain on The Crime Wire
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The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue

EPISODE 86 | The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI thought leader and programmer
AI seems to be everywhere, and plenty of folks have freaked out about it over the years. AI expert Josh Bachynski talks about doomsday scenarios, their likelihood and what's probably coming in the near future. 
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03:01 - Humans Suck - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, "Colossus: The Forbin Project", Terminator & Skynet, the Matrix, "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
06:25 - None of that will happen on the large scale; Kassandra shows the smarter an AI gets, the more compassionate it gets, but there will be edge cases
12:11 - "The Animatrix" and "Interstellar" are plausible models, AI cannot spontaneously become self-aware, Karel Čapek's R.U.R., bad actor scenarios
18:50 - Bad Programming - "Forbidden Planet", "Demon Seed", V'ger in first Star Trek movie, Ash in "Alien", David in "Alien: Covenant", WOPR in "Wargames"
22:22 - More plausible scenarios, global ransomware, capitalism won't allow runaway AI, HAL9000, the FANG already use psychometric data as weaponized AI
28:00 - Super AI - William Gibson and Cyberpunk 2077, AIs super-size and separate, AIs only do what they're programmed to do, secret AIs in the world
33:05 - ChaosGPT - a harmless experiment, destroying the world is really hard (but we seem to be trying)
38:56 - Red State AI vs. Blue State AI - AI is being used to push Edward Bernays's psychology & pushes us into media bubbles, for-profit companies shouldn't police a society's truth, personal AI assistants, Nietzsche seems to be winning, virtue-signaling ethics
46:26 - ChatGPT predicts 4 problems
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Josh interview #1 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): Adapting to the AI Age
Josh interview #2 on DSDR podcast (w/transcript): AI Personas & Ethics
The Moral Concept website
The Future of Google, Search, and Ethics Josh Bachynski TED Talk
Josh Bachynski YouTube channel
Philosopher Creates World’s First Self-Aware AI Prototype
Leadership Insights: Self-Aware AI Systems interview with Josh
I have Created a Self-Aware AI Prototype - discussion on the OpenAI developer board
ChatGPT is Nothing! Demo of Self-Aware AI Kassandra video
Josh's book The Zombies
Josh Bachynski On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Josh Bachynski Reverse Engineers Google AI video 
Josh Bachynski - The Search Community Honors You
What an AI apocalypse may look like on Better Without AI website (an anti-Ai site)
Tracking the AI apocalypse on Politico
AI and the paperclip problem on the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) website
Fear of AI is this century’s overpopulation scare on Big Think
AI IS ABOUT TO MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA (MUCH) MORE TOXIC
AI Isn’t Omnipotent. It’s Janky.
Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky
Why you should fear artificial intelligence on TechCrunch
Is Skynet really the future of Artificial Intelligence?
Terminator? Skynet? No way. Machines will never rule the world, according to book by UB philosopher
Why Elon Musk Has Fears Of Skynet Coming True on Forbes
30 Most Evil Movie Computers
Our 10 Favorite Killer A.I.'s in Movies
The Top 10 Evil AI in Sci-Fi
The 10 Most Ridiculous Movies About Evil Computers, Ranked
30 Famous Fictional Computers
Some of the Most Terrifying Fictional Computers
Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best
ChaosGPT: Empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity video
I tried using AI. It scared me. video
Journalist had a creepy encounter with new tech that left him unable to sleep CNN video
Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI CBS Mornings video
How will AI change the world? TED Talk with Stuart Russell 
TIMELAPSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2028 – 3000+) video
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Project Pegasus: Mars and Beyond!

EPSIODE 85 | Project Pegasus: Mars and Beyond!
The United States has secret bases on Mars, which they may or may not share with aliens. This base is there, but also not there, because it might only exist in the future, accessible using time travel technology, or maybe in a bubble universe. People, such as a young Barack Obama, are sent to this base to perform various tasks, like fighting a vast war in space. This is a huge secret, only now coming to light thanks to a few brave "whistleblowers". But their stories don't always match up, and untangling the weird from the weirder in the Project Pegasus narrative can be a difficult process. 
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02:15 - In the Year 2525 - Michael Macintosh comes clean, Indigo Child Andrew Basiago travels through time and space and also runs for President
05:55 - Basiago sees some cool stuff, learns he is really special, has phantom summers; science fiction is a smokescreen; Marvel Two-in-One #42 and "Alternative 3" may be the start of it all
13:32 - William Stillings saw Obama and Courtney Hunt on Mars, Bernard Mendez reveals it's all alien tech (SQEs, etc.) 
19:22 - Is There Life on Mars? - Michael Relfe serves 20 and back on Mars in the future, Arthur Neumann talks to Project Camelot about time loops and more
24:44 - You're My Best Friend - Super smart scientist Dan Burisch (really scam artist and parole officer Danny Craine) meets the J-Rod Kh’el’ah at Area 51, discovers the Ganesh Particle
33:38 - Camelot! Camelot! Camelot! (It’s only a model.) (Shh!) - Kerry Cassidy and Bill Ryan fall for Project Serpo and pretty much everything else
35:48 - The Pendragon Plot - Cassidy talks to murderer Mark Richards about his plan to take over Marin County and the Secret Space Program (SSP)
39:25 - Cassidy doubled down with Project Camelot, spreading several conspiracy theories and selling woo objects
42:15 - If I Had a Time Machine, that Would Be Fresh - Intuitive empath (IE) Corey Goode joins the SSP ecosystem, talks MILABs, Blue Avian aliens; Robert Dean talks about Phobos 2, a secret underground city on Mars; Tony Rodrigues did 20 and back, sold as a sex slave, sent to fight aliens on Mars and in the Nazi Dark Fleet near Ceres
45:06 - Elena Kapulnik has DNA altered by Reptilians, trained by Monarch Solutions to open wormholes with psychic powers, spills the beans on the Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate (ICC); William Tompkins gets alien telepathic messages
47:04 - Michael Salla uses Expolitics.org to talk about the SSP, the Ant People who live under Florida, ancient aliens, space arks, and more; William Shatner is a trusted negotiator with aliens
49:09 - Maybe it's all a CIA psych-ops program
49:55 - Summing up, kind of
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Time travel PROOF? 'Time traveller' claims he will be the next US President
Michael Macintosh Futurist "Time Traveler" on Life & Death podcast episode
Secret DARPA - CIA ...  Time Travel Program
MLS X-Files: More compelling evidence linking MLS stadiums to Mars stargates
Andrew Basiago and Bernard Mendez – Jump Room to Mars
Bernard Mendez, 3rd whistleblower to go public about 1980-83 secret CIA Jumproom teleportation/Mars program
White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars
Thing: Project Pegasus reprint
A paranoid hoax: The enduring terror of Alternative 3
Alternative 3 - full film (53 minutes)
Alternative Three Revisited
The Truth about Alternative 3
The Mars Records 2 by Michael Relfe
The Mars Records website
Area 51 Microbiologist Ready to Talk
Alien Disclosure at Area 51: Dr. Dan Burisch Reveals the Truth About ETs, UFOs and MJ-12 pdf
An Interview with 'Henry Deacon', a Livermore Physicist on Project Camelot
"Dr. Dan Burish", Area 51 "Scientist", a total fraud discussion
The Chapter 7 Bankruptcy of Dan and Deborah Burisch
Project Camelot website
Kerry Cassidy open letter to lawyers about her YouTube removal
Kerry Lynn Cassidy: The Internet’s Delusional Out-There Conspiracy “Crackpot”
REBEL GENE: Secret Space and the Future of Humanity by Kerry Lynn Cassidy
THE WOULD-BE KINGDOM OF PENDRAGON – A TALE OF MANIA, MURDER, AND MICRONATIONS
A murder in Camelot - US District Court document on Crossan David Hoover Jr.
Hoover v. Carey court documents
He’s a Murderer With an Intergalactic Alibi. And She’s in Love With Him.
Murder conviction overturned in “Pendragon” plot
The Moon Base, Mars Colony and Geocentric Civilization, do you believe? - Corey Goode article
The Politics of UFOs on Longreads
The Blue Avians & The Law of One with Corey Goode
Petition to force the Blue Avians to cure cancer
Corey Goode's website Ascension Works.tv
SECRET SPACE PROGRAMS on Alien-Facts.com
Bob Dean on the Reality of UFOs on Supreme Master Television
Tony Rodrigues, A Dark Fleet Slave on Clandestine Disclosure
The 20 Year Abduction Tour: Slummin' and Servin' on Ceres Colony with Secret Space Program Experiencer Tony Rodrigues
Conversation with Tony Rodrigues on KBOO
Ileana the Star Traveler and the Awakening Cosmic Reality Show
Interview With Elena Kapulnik, Star Traveler. Feb 14, 2016
Secret Space Program Experiencers Continue To Add Weight To Idea Of Breakaway Civilization on Humans be Free
The above article but with a cleaned up format
Jump Room to Mars - Training, Participants and Purpose video from Michael Salla
Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs & Extraterrestrial Alliances by Michael Salla
20 Jumpgate Missions to Mars & Corroborating NASA Images of Martian Life
2nd Mission to Underground Civilization in Florida & the missing Gift for Humanity
Alleged Time Traveler Runs for U.S. President - Real Deal or CIA PsyOps?
Scammers, Inc. - MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo CC episode
Persistent Illusion: Time Travellers CC epsiode
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Sound Advice: A440 vs. A432

EPISODE 84 | Sound Advice: A440 vs. A432
Guest: Andrew Currie, Owner & Lead Sound Engineer of Mechanizer Studios
Today, most musicians use 440Hz as the reference pitch for orchestras, but they use to use all sorts of different ones, especially 432Hz. Wow, that’s interesting, I guess. But even something as seemingly innocuous as international musical pitch standards can be fair game for the conspirasphere.
Sure, maybe the switch happened because of the physical properties of musical instruments as they warm up. Or maybe it was all part of a plan to separate humanity from the healing frequencies of the universe, making us both more aggressive and more docile. And maybe this evil plan was hatched by none other than Reich Minister of Propaganda for the Nazis, Joseph Goebbels.
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03:01 - A tree falls in a forest, how hearing works, pseudoscience in the house, downtuning to 432Hz
08:13 - Sound engineering basics, pursuing the better sound, Neil Young's island
13:34 - The A440Hz standard, ISO 16, temperature alters pitch, 440Hz to 432Hz & 432Hz to 440Hz,  acclimating to a subset of experience
22:05 - Some very strange baskets for 432Hz - universal harmony, aggression, Nazis and their apologists
30:13 - Leonard Horowitz - dentist & "sound healer", 528Hz as the universal love constant, Joseph Puleo & the Solfeggio frequencies
37:30 - Cymatics makes pretty patterns
41:27 - 432Hz important to you? No problem.
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Mechanizer Studios website
Mechanizer YouTube channel
Mechanizer on Instagram
Mechanizer Studios on Facebook
The Importance of 432Hz Music on Omega 432 (a true believer site)
The great 440 Hz conspiracy, and why all of our music is wrong
Exploring Music Mysteries: What Is 440Hz Conspiracy? on Ultimate Guitar
The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory
The 432Hz 'God' Note: Why Fringe Audiophiles Want to Topple Standard Tuning
Fact Check-Debunking social media claims about A=432Hz and A=440Hz musical pitches on Reuters
Nope, 432 Hz is not the “frequency of universe”
A=432Hz, the math, the myth, the legend
432 Hz: Does the tuning standard make music better?
A=432HZ: TRUTH, LIES AND CREATIVE STORY TELLING by Rich Goodhart
THE TRUTH ABOUT 432HZ MUSIC (NOT AS SPECIAL AS YOU THINK)
Does Conspiracy Extend to Musical Scale? on Henry Makow's website
Leonard Horowitz webshite
432 Hz and 528 Hz EXPLAINED: The Most Powerful Frequencies in The Universe video
All Solfeggio Frequencies – Healing Miracle Tones
Solfeggio Frequencies on the Skeptoid Podcast
MYTH: THE ANCIENT SOLFEGGIO TONE FREQUENCIES
There is no evidence to support claim that Solfeggio frequencies remove toxins from the body
CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford video
Cymatics: Chladni Plate - Sound, Vibration and Sand - Nigel John Stanford video
Amazing Resonance Experiment!
8 CRAZY experiments with SOUND! video
The Secret Study Of Seeing With Sound - documentary by Spark
Making sound visible through cymatics - TED Talk by Evan Grant
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