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Since the millennium change John Zerzan has been expressing his anti-civilization views on his one hour live radio show, "AnarchyRadio." By audio streaming (KWVA 88.1 FM) you can listen to "AnarchyRadio" live each week on Tuesdays at 7pm PST and express your views by calling 541-346-0645 during the live broadcast.

Listed below are the archives of "AnarchyRadio."

Looking for the latest show? If the annotated list of shows below hasn't been updated yet, you should always able to find the latest Anarchy Radio at the top of this archive.org search results page.

 

02-24-2026

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Severe weather patterns and outcomes. Chomsky and Deepak Chopra caught in Epstein sleaze-fest. Spread of mass shootings. Homeless, anti-ICE resistance. AI "companions." "AI is Death," writes Peter Genderloss. Let AI run your social media after you're dead (VICE, Feb. 18). No to AI "art." Action news, new books. Huge rewilding corridor (Planet Wild). Next AR: March 10.

02-10-2026

[audio] On racism. ICE terrorism. Overall system breaking down. Psychoses among Canadian youth way up. "Freedom?" by JZ. Moltbook: all-AI social network. Tech impact on language. Robots on the move, "AI for the People" (!) Resistance news, Idris Robinson book. "Saint Luigi." Four calls. Next AR: February 24 on Stream 2.

01-27-2026

[audio] Live on Stream 2.ICE murders. "We Are All in a Constant State of Grief" by Brian Keith Jackson (NY Times, January 15). Global overheating records. Among the fails: Air Force One. Microplastics deluge. Hostility to tech: no-phones dance clubs, cursive is back. "Childhood" by JZ. Synthetic selves, AI worship. Bandcamp bans AI. Next AR: February 10.

 

01-13-2026

[audio] ALERT: Next Anarchy Radio is January 27. Listen live at https://kwva.uoregon.edu/listen-live, STREAM 2. (Stream 1 is pre-empted by a high school sports event.) January 13: Kathan co-hosts. US a political dictatorship as civilization continues to fail in every sphere. Firestorm: The Great LA Fires and America's New Age of Disasters. Global ocean temp increases for 9th consecutive year. David Brooks' "We're Going Through the Great Detachment." ICE violence. Completely invasive AI. Resistance, anti-authoritarian publishing. Four calls. Next AR: January 27.

 

12-23-2025

[audio] International spread of mass shootings. "Consciousness, Representation, and AI" by JZ. More aviation fails, power fails as vast data centers go forward. "Ecoformalism." Leftism coming out in Russian. "The Luddites in our Midst." Disney characters go AI. Luddite screenplay. Chatbots deform childhood. TIME's Person(s) of the Year. Architects of AI. Japanese woman marries her chatbot. Resistance news. Next AR: January 13.

 

12-09-2025

[audio] "Kathan co-hosts. Albania has first virtual AI cabinet minister; "her" name is Diella. Horrendous weather. HEAT, pollution. Australia, in flames, bans social media today for those under 16. "I think there is a broad anti-tech sentiment movement coming," Thomas in D.C. The New Republic on wood banks: sign of failure(?) Anti-ICE tactics and other resistance. Two calls. Next AR: December 23.

 

11-25-2025

[audio] "Seven Mental Coping Strategies for the End of the World" (VICE). Continuing Gaza genocide. Suicide rate rises globally, US males in crisis. Literacy decline, sedentary toddlers. Workplace dissatisfaction, iPhone blues. A luddite comedy. Resistance briefs. Three calls. Next AR: December 9.

 

11-11-2025

[audio] Deepening enviro fails and health woes. "Here is the Next New Now" by Jean Hegland ("Into the Forest"). "Here Comes the Sun," another embarrassment by Bill McKibben. AI "companions": a New Industry. Data centers, the wretched American factory model. "Electric Sheep": friendship, relationships from AI. Joshua Citarella: "cyber nihilist anarcho-primitivist" (!) Resistance news, memoir advancing. "Joy Seems Dead": sadness is the zeitgeist. Next AR: November 25.

 

10-28-2025

[audio] Kathan on deck. "Artificial Negativity" by JZ. Feds attack homeless, refugees, protesters in Portland. Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp on collapse--perhaps a good thing? Mosquitoes in Iceland, no more palm trees in Hawai'i. Major Amazon fail; is internet hanging by a thread? AI unleashed. Resistance news. Next AR: November 11 (use Stream Two).

 

10-14-2025

[audio] Often in the Right Place: The Education of an Anarchist, Zerzan memoir, out very soon in English, later in Spanish, from El Sur Es America. Globally, youth are in the streets: Nepal, Madagascar, Morocco, Philippines. Denmark bans social media for those under 18. Scourge of "forever chemicals," microplastics. AI imperialism. "How did life simulation game (Sims 4) get so lifeless?" Anarchist doings. Once call. Next AR: October 28.

 

09-23-2025

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. No more seasons? Across the board collapse is unmistakable. The Extinction of Experience by Chistine Rosen. Sharp decline in reading. Jae Rodgers on Crimethinc. Cancer among millenials on the rise. Yuk Hwi, Chinese anti-tech thinker. Only 11% of 13-17 year-olds see social media as positive. One call. Next AR: October 14.

 

09-09-2025

[audio] County Highway: "America's Only Newspaper." "The New Front of Resistance; grand juries. The hoax of space travel. "I'm a High Schooler: AI Is Demolishing My Education." Mass shootings without end. "Tradition" and "Up for Grabs" by JZ. "What Is to Be Undone" by Kevin Tucker Oak Journal #7. One call. Next AR: September 23.

 

08-26-2025

[audio] Kathan co-hosts."Indigenizing the Algorithm" by Ashley Cordes (!!!). AI-mediated dismantling of Civ? Canada's surging Medical Assistance in Dying:"Isolation brings death. Community brings life." Technology reduces "positive personality traits," says Financial Times. Widespread water crises, heat waves. 5 calls. Next AR: September 9.

 

08-12-2025

[audio] Phoney ICE meeting 8/5. Eco-collapse. Artxmis at Earth Kin gathering. "The World Is Now Unavoidably Toxic," by David Wallace-Wells. Everything and everyone is contaminated. Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism, by Mauro Lubrano. "Collapse–by disaster or design? by JZ. "Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good," by Mary Harrington. Plastic in Utero #5. AI wedding by Wm. Bryan. Two calls. Next AR: August 26.

 

07-22-2025

[audio] Live, at last! The deepening horror of genocide for Gaza. Against Civilization soon to be published in Arabic. Surplus film update for October 3. Air travel: hazard warning. Rising seas, flooding, unbearable heat. Man marries Chatbot via Replika. Eddington movie: "threats we invent to ignore the real ones." Terrible cost of data centers. The dead blue light of devices instead of intimacy.Next AR: August 12.

 

07-08-2025

[audio] Surplus (2003) looks at present reality. Fredy Perlman died 40 years ago this month. Hegel vs. Adorno. HEAT getting more severe. "Kodak's Retro Resurgence," along with vinyl, dumbphones, etc. ChatGPT: using AI to think less. Novels, pop songs getting shorter and "less cognitively demanding." Action news, including violence against ICE pigs. Next AR: July 22.

 

06-24-2025

[audio] Pre-recorded. HEAT (e.g. January 2024 heat wave for 40% of earth's surface, June 2025 Alaska's first-ever heat advisory.) SF Bay Area: ravenous wild pigs. More shootings, air crashes, isolation. The Light Eaters on plant intelligence, by Zoe Schlanger. "That Thing We Still Do" by JZ. Resistance reports, Backwoods #4. USA Today: "college kids swearing off smartphones: a movement." Next AR: July 8.

 

06-10-2025

[audio] Due to error, show did not air. Pre-recorded. Current anti-civ media projects (e.g. HDP/Tamarix, Oak Journal, Plastic in Utero, Backwoods). SNAFUs. "Zombie Time" by JZ. Birds, insects, seas, deer, honeybees in die-off status. 3 billion-dollar weather/climate disasters in 1980s, 27 in 2024. Anti-ICE resistance in SoCal. "Cognitive atrophy" from Chatbot use, suicides from online "companion" addition. Next AR: June 24.

 

05-27-2025

[audio] Pre-recorded. Continuing air traffic fails. Obesity, diseases (chronic and epidemic), very severe weather all on the rise. "Listen Up!" by JZ. Smartphones cause cancer. Books expose AI - written by AI! Foolish dependence on GPS, 'self-driving' cars, wearable tech. Global recycling rates down for 8th consecutive year. Anti-tech journal entry from 1940 Germany. Serbian uprising.

 

05-13-2025

[audio] Pre-recorded. Full Circle: A Life in Rebellion by Ben Morea. DotheMath.org: astrophysicist Tom Murphy rejects civ. Major power failures: Portugal and Spain, Newark air traffic controllers, BART subway system. AI's Claude: "designed with humanity at its core." "Skyrocketing" use of chatbots by students "Is this the worst-ever Era of American Pop Culture?" Next AR: May 27.

 

04-22-2025

[audio] Pre-recorded. Mass shootings (no matter who is Prez--or Pope). Air travel increasingly hazardous. Dire wolves NOT brought back from extinction. James C. Scott remembered. Two weeks smartphone-free reverses a "decade of cognitive aging" (yes, tech does make you stupid!). Eviction refusal, action news. 5th Metahuman Futures Forum in Greece May 24-25 (very anti-civ, anti-tech). Next AR: May 13.

 

04-08-2025

[audio] Kathan on deck! Sunday NY Times: "America's Police State Has Arrived." Always about choices. Air safety as civilization begins to fail. "What to Do" by JZ. Blows against oppression, anarchist projects. Simon Critchley on mysticism and punk. Next AR: April 22.

 

03-25-2025

[audio] Action reports. World Happiness Index. "Why We Feel Bad" by JZ. The march of AI. Chatbot emotions No more friends. Voluntary servitude? Tesla's ongoing beatdown! Three calls. Next AR: April 8.

 

03-11-2025

[audio] Arsons, vandalism, gunfire, cyberattacks for Tesla, the real resistance. "The end of children," dating slumps among teens. Fires already, honeybees and butterflies die-off. Action briefs. Message from Stockholm. Chatbots, smartphones, the virtual vs. health. Being There, But How? by Dumling and Wang (eds.), 2024: the virtual as new presence (!) One call. Next AR: March 25.

 

02-25-2025

[audio] The Left takes on tech! (Not.) Let's hear it for Luigi. Flying increasingly scary. Dysfunctional loneliness due to technology. Dumbphone response to toxic smartphones. Brits dating chatbots. Resistance news (e.g. Tesla targeted.) Cry from Grusha. Next AR: March 11.

 

02-11-2025

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. US government shakedown. "Is the Collapse Coming Soon?" Mass shootings spread. Airline disasters abound. "Civilization Is Like a Jetliner." Global temperatures shatter records in January. Greenland cracking up, global rat boom. Action reports. Luddite Club update, dumbphones rise. One call. Next AR: February 25.

 

01-14-2025

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. SoCal ablaze amid "The Anti-Social Century." "I have no one to call." Second half of "Where Is Home?" Cabin by Patrick Hutchison re: urban flight. 2024 hottest year yet, record homelessness. New anarchist publications. Next AR: February 11.

 

12-24-2024

[audio] (Broadcast begins 11:15 in.) Half of JZ's "Where is Home?" Anarchist projects fading? Resistance actions. Bird flu spreading. Welcome to the Doom Loop: How to Break the Cycle of Virtual Life that Is Making Us Lonely and Unhappy, by Diane Lind. Enridge oil spill in Wisconsin, "skyrocketing" sea level rises in U.S. South, Miami hotels sinking. One call. Next Anarchy Radio: January 14.

 

12-10-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. "Alarming Rage and Glee after a CEO's killing." Sign of hope? New books: Machine-Created Culture, Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement; In Search of the Opt-Out Button. "Human Interaction is Now a Luxury Good." Action briefs, three calls. Next Anarchy Radio: December 24.

 

11-26-2024

[audio] 25 years since Seattle WTO rumble; new oral history of riots. Offer to AI-digitize all JZ material. Mass killings spread (e.g. in China), toxic air worsens (e.g. India). "Finally, the 'animal question'" by JZ. Internet "should be a human right." One call. Next Anarchy Radio: December 10.

11-12-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Election aftermath. archive.org SNAFU. New Thoreau book. Mass shootings, increasingly severe weather (e.g. drought, fires). Evolved Nest basics. COP29 absurdity as environment goes to hell. AI invasion. Anti-authoritarian media review. Three calls. Next AR November 26.

10-22-2024

[audio] Artxmis on the KC Anarchist Book Fair; Uncivilized Podcast with Sovenian anarcho-primitivist. "Anti-civvers" in recent novels. Faith in Nihilism? by Jason Rodgers. JVL's review of Graeber & Wengrow in Hunter-gatherer Review. The Naming Game by JZ. Last Born in the Wilderness podcast with M. Abdou. How to ignore online tech hoops. Action news, two calls. Next AR November 12.

10-08-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. ILA "strike" and illusions about unions. JZ's publisher, Houellebecq's Annihilation novel. Discussion about how to value radical projects. HURRICANES: is Florida becoming uninhabitable? "Could AI be your beloved therapist?" "The Chit-Chatbot: Is talking with a machine a conversation?" by Jill Lepore. Resistance briefs, two calls.

09-24-2024

[audio] Poems by Sara Littlecrow-Russell. Genocide against the Palestinians worsens by the day; weather/climate extremes also. Anxiety among children increases, "evidence of despair." Isolation news: solo dining up 29% in 2 years. Answer to growing homelessness: repression. "Telephone"? When few take calls? 9/19 conversation with Leah Gordon e.g. what does enclosure mean today? Bjorn on healthy traditional lifeways. Was Social Media a Good Idea? Young People Don't Think So" (9-12 NYT). Next Anarchy Radio October 8.

09-10-2024

[audio] Memoirs. Munich conference. Latest genocide for Palestinians. Late summer outbreaks. Incredible over-heating. Loneliness, the Good Grief Network. Recent columns. Smartphone toll. Jamie reports on gathering Up North, Artxmis on new indigenous critique: Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Sean Coulthard.

08-27-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Stranded astronauts. Groundwater crisis. Each younger generation more lonely, more cancer prone, devastated U.S., U.K. youth. Darcia Narvaez, work in technologial society. Gaza. Next broadcast: September 10.

08-13-2024

[audio] Earth inferno, hottest in 100,000 years. Pollution Olympics (soon too hot to be held). High tech genocide in Gaza. Five Star Strange by Kat Tang. WIRED: infrastructure widespread in Europe. James C. Scott R.I.P. Singularity next? Conversation with two members of Negativland. Next Anarchy Radio August 27.

07-23-2024

[audio] (Pre-recorded due to Covid) Immense record IT fail 7/19. Now poliovirus in Gaza wastewater;,what now, anti-vaxxers? Robert Putnam's classic Bowling Alone 20 years later, dashed hopes,for renewed connectedness in society. Fine recent work from rotn, 110 page Oak#6! Film work with Dutch anti-tech Dani Ploeger. "AI's Insatiable Energy Use Drives Electricity Demands (7/15 NYT). "The Growing Nihilism of Young Men" by Michelle Goldberg. Pop music steadily less complex, 1950-2023. Next Anarchy Radio August 13.

07-09-2024

[audio] Jamie's report on Earth Kin gathering. Ever hotter. Second half of JZ's "How Philosophy Fails." Being stuck in failing civilization. New Fifth Estate. How to attack? "The Represented and the Real" by JZ. New titles: Can Machines Have Free Will? and Literary Theory for Robots. Lots of latest horrors of technology. One call. Next broadcast July 23.

06-25-2024

[audio] "How Philosophy Fails" by JZ. Earth becomes an oven. Social withdrawal. The Anxiety Club. Phoney U.S. Gaza aid pier. Anarchist acts & bookfairs. Tech fails, recalls. What happens to morality in the anthropocene? Anti-smartphone/social media sentiment. Toll from video games, AI, lithium mining. Half of U.S. kids have cellphones by age 11. Recycling hoax. One call. Next broadcast July 9.

06-11-2024

[audio] "Last Rites for a Dying Planet" (even some on the left get it, sorta). "The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes of Brazil" (NYT 6-2-24). HEAT. Social withdrawal. Recalls, rising seas, Neanderthal makeover. Resistance briefs. Culture-crushing Apple ad. "Brutally lonely" boys (online). "Soft biotics" ad: Bringing Robotics Into Everyday Life. "AI Robot Gives Commencement Speech." Two calls. Next show June 25.

05-28-2024

[audio] Werner Herzog on The end of culture . Zeitgeist of doom prevails. Horror upon horror for Gaza, paid for by U.S. Ever greater storms, heat, homelessness. Paleo news. Reviews, columns. Phones are not for conversation among the young. AI, robotics in ascendant but dumbphones are hot. Topic of violence. Action briefs, two calls. Next show June 11.

05-14-2024

[audio] Floods, storms, Gaza. The Great AI Zombie Take-Over. "Ecosystems are getting nightmarishly worse" (Aeon May 10). Prehistory's tools. New issues of anarchist zines, Bush Manifesto, action reports. New books: Techno Sleep, The Immersive Enclosure (VR). Dumb phones on the rise. Consensus as conformity. Nightlife in big decline. One call. Next show May 28.

04-23-2024

[audio] Pro-Palestinian protests erupt on campuses. Discussion of anti-vax positions. Bizarre high-tech advances (e.g. Miss AI competition, computer-generated celebrities). Global heat news. Recalls, cyber fails. Brain-computer interfaces: "This is just the beginning" (Wired). Chat GPT invasion, metaverse in classrooms. Action briefs, three calls. Next show May 14.

04-09-2024

[audio] More death, Gazans turn to foraging. US classrooms empty/silent increasingly. Importance of human touch. Global deforestation on rise. The whys of conspiracy theory. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer. Language far older than thought(?) Zero privacy. Universal digital access and radiofrequency radiation threat. Griefbots. Anarchist sources, news. Two calls.Next show April 23.

03-26-2024

[audio] Initial broadcast channel confusion. Anarchy Radio switching to 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month; more manageable. Gaza genocide not sparking radical renewal. TOTW "Is Anarchy Sufficient?" discussion with Artxmis. Baltimore bridge: industrial failures mirror crumbling civ. Global air pollution. How to combat phone-based childhood, social media. Action reports. One call. Next show April 9.

03-12-2024

[audio] Megafires in Texas, Amazon. Heat records for 9 consecutive months. Two bad boy novelists probe society deepest. Loneliness crisis, dis-ease rampant. Work not central in lives. Artxmis's KS talk, Graffiti #11, 2 columns by JZ, Plastic in Utero, Backwoods #4 coming soon. Resistance briefs. Tech popularity puzzle. "Falling in Love with AI." Tech fails, outages. Damage by screens, "Love, Dementia and Robots. No Anarchy Radio on March 19; next show will be broadcast March 26.

02-27-2024

[audio] Odysseus-moon lander and civ navigator. Enormous temp swings, homelessness ever growing. Threat of fascism? Bret Easton Ellis. Chatbots make us stupid. East coast slumping into the Atlantic. Aaron Bushnell suicide protest. The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann: AI chains us to our limitations. Resistance news. Two calls. No Anarchy Radio February 5, next show will be broadcast February 12.

02-20-2024

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Hysteria over Trump as society and planet go under. Mass shootings abroad, California hit by monster storms. Crisis of "social fitness." Disagreements within anarchy - how to proceed. US-Israel axis of death. Report from earth skills gathering in Mexico (Israeli primitivists among the 500). Resistance shorts. Three calls.

02-13-2024

[audio] Gaza: mockery & murder. Rafah. Super Dud in Las Vegas. Hotter and hotter. Planes, helicopter fails. UK: "burnt out nation"? Worsening global health news. Graffiti#10. Autonomous a-p vs. organization fetish of anarchist Left. Driverless car trashed in SF. The Machine ever more mediating, invasive. Obituary spam(?) More on Vision Pro (creepy, isolating), smartphone addiction. One call.

02-06-2024

[audio] Crazier weather, mounting global heat. "Civilization is Like a Jetliner." Neuralink brain chip - 1,500 animals killed in trials. Politics of Earth First! "Talking About the Invisible Prison Cell of Cell Phones." Flattened, blank culture via algorithms. Latest mad geothermal scheme. Stay on your phone, get ADHD. The Left on technology. Is everyone now a luddite? Action briefs. New Hegel bio. One call.

01-30-2024

[audio] Resistance to Christianity, 700 pages by Raoul Vaneigem. Old King by Maxim Loskutoff (Ted in the woods). Suicide plague, students very messed up. Aging anxiety in Gen. Z. David Brooks: high culture will save society(!) Uncivilized Podcast. Gaza mega-horrors, war widens. Changing attitudes toward work. More on Vision Pro. Is everything unsafe as civ crumbles? Action news, Laundry Room#5. One call.

01-23-2024

[audio] The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak: balance and elegance--and non-symbolic. More Andreas Malm: large-scale sabotage needed. Virtual porn, even deeper estrangement. Severe cold, severe heat = death. Killer dope. Anarchist events, attacks. Failures of EVs. More on digital dementia. Solar vs. indigenous. After World by Debbie Urbanski (AI vs. humanity). Two calls.

01-16-2024

[audio] (Pre-recorded due to snow and ice) Announcements, new anarchist projects, resistance news. Collapse of ancient cities....decisions against complexity, hierarchy. Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Andreas Malm. Some girls now reach puberty at ages 6 or 7. Absenteeism in schools, autism up dramatically. Cyber kidnapping. Early onset dementia: children ruined by time online. Rise in screen time in schools. High tech pollution e.g. wind turbine blades in landfills, rocket launches. "The Great Disconnect" a family's healthy refusal of the internet.

01-09-2024

[audio] Latest from Uncivilized Podcast e.g. Klee Benally interview. Radical Anthropology Group's Camilla Power's take on The Dawn of Everything. JVL's Human Rewilding in the 21st Century.IDF censorship of journalists. Earth's hottest year, boreal forests being eradicated. !st mass shooting of the year.The Sphere, $2.3 billion dollar screen of screens. "The Rapid Progress of AI Will Continue" (NYT, 01-09-24). Four calls plus several crank calls (!).

01-02-2024

[audio] Klee Benally RIP. A more nuanced account? of trans/TERF. Sports in shambles, one more sign of collapsing civ. More mainstream notice of anti-domestication (e.g. Never Alone author on NPR Jan. 1) Huge drop in time spent with friends. Children killing children. 42.9% rise in obesity, almost 10% morbidly obese. Failure of "cool streets." Firebomb's swan song, Action news, one call.

12-26-2023

[audio] Gaza bludgeoned and starved, no functioning hospitals. Crazed global weather. Online slander. From microplastics to nanoplastics. Deaths due to smartphones. Homelessness, "Deaths from despair" thesis. All of us Strangers. JVL Rewilding book now available. Ellul discussion. "How Else Is It Possible" poem. Action briefs. One call.

12-19-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Blind murder in Gaza. Homelessness at record high as are suicide rates.,Maternal mortality, childhood obesity rise. Severe global weather swings as COP28 flunks. Anews lacks ideas, James Van Lanen does not! The Earthing movie, unsafe Tesla. Chatbots continue take-over. Machine "learning. Lawrence Anarchist Book Fair. Endless smartphone damage. Anti-Israel resistance, one call.

12-12-2023

[audio] "Rewilding" on NPR (Dec. 8). Gaza: 10 weeks of genocide, paid for and protected by U.S. COP28 climate summit: "death warrant" for nations immediately threatened. More on Woman the Hunter. 1 million more Britons in mental health care than 5 years ago. 3.3 million Americans with chronic fatigue syndrome, no cure. Resistance news. AI imperialism & its fake regulation. More smartphone toll. Four calls.

12-05-2023

[audio] Genocide in Gaza. COP28 absurdity. Aral Sea now desert as planet sizzles. MSNBC's 'The New Luddites' segment. Artxmis reports on Lawrence KS Anarchist Book Fair. Flowerbomb's 'Oblivion: Anarchy and the Collapse of Industrial Civilization.' Maureen Dowd(?): AI represents 'annihilation.' Lots of resistance briefs. Two calls. Recommended 'The Milagro Beanfield War.'

11-28-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Ways news media keep us in the dark. Over 600 mass shootings so far this year. Ozone hole, eco-anxiety grow. Women in prehistory better hunters than the men. No "off" switch for AI. "Digital dementia.""Life Really Is Better Without the Internet."Anti- transphobia action in Portland."Slow Burn: Civility and the White Community."

11-21-2023

[audio] Meaning of positive response to bin Laden's 2002 public letter. Ward Churchill's fate for his "free" speech. Plastic in Utero #2. HOT planet as bogus climate summit nears. New anarcho writing. Action news. Drive-thru food, less human interaction. Death of the phone call. "Smart" technology a loser. Local newspapers disappearing. Plastics unchecked. One call.

11-14-2023

[audio] Most heat-trapping gases in 800,000 years. Horrific air pollution in New Delhi. Fires. Enviro poetry from California, lyrics from Oklahoma. NY minister of loneliness. Isolation, sedentism. "Where's the Remote?" by JZ. New offerings. Anti-work youth in China. Orwellian bureaucracy in Chiapas. Phoney anti-AIspeak. 'Degenerative' AI. Space trash.

11-07-2023

[audio] Israeli genocide - is it sparking a new era of resistance? Latest enviro bad news, life declines.Message from Tina, action briefs, events. "AI Safety Summit"(!) in UK. AI revealed, tech addiction(nomophobia). News from Chiapas. Adverse tech health effects. DEVO on tour at 50: "We arekind of like the house band on the Titanic." Walking down, pedestrian deaths up. More inert, less alert.

10-31-2023

[audio] Mass shootings. Fires. Hurricane surprises. Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. 10 billion fewer Alaskan snow crabs. West, now East Antarctica melting fast. Enormous temp rise records for 2023. No chance for global overheating to come in under 1.5 Celsius increase. Weird new health pathologies. Anti-work, anti-tech sentiments. Tele/tech health is a fraud. AI- "More than Human" says Harvard magazine. Action/political briefs. One call.

10-24-2023

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. Anti-Israel sentiment, local pro-Palestine rally. Seth Kaplan: Society, not political system, in grave peril. Role of war in civ breakdown. New books, action reports. One long call-in. If AI can do anything we can do, it does not just replace the boring tasks, it replaces all the tasks." No guardrails on tech, chatbots march on. Schools ban smartphones. More screen time, less mental health.

10-17-2023

[audio]"We Live: A Late night Conversation" by Nazel Pickens. Gaza. Heat, drought news."Zombie Virus" awakens after 50,000 years. New anti-tech books, Anews wakes up to tech question?? New AI 'advances'. OSPREY -anti-social media group. "Levi-Strauss Revisited" by JZ. Action briefs.

10-10-2023

[audio]Uprising from Gaza. C. Levi-Strauss revisited. Pope on "collapsing" planet. Plant extinctions imperil many medicines. Recycling failures, carbon offsets a joke, "green colonialism." Bob Black on anarchism. Resistance news. "Outshining the Stars, Blocking the Heavens" (more and bigger satellites]. AI energy drain, blindness to the blight that is technology. Two calls.

10-03-2023

[audio]Constant cop murders of Blacks, Almaden Street anti-eviction struggle. Brazil dolphins dying & other HEAT news. Extinction, recall briefs. Report on Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. NYC is sinking. Fashion models - no smiles in 30 years. "Leave the World Behind", "The Creator" movies. Sabotage AI as AI moves forward e.g. into art. Anti-smartphone testimony. Resistance news. Two calls.

09-26-2023

[audio]Over 500 mass shootings so far this year, August was planet's hottest month ever. New Orleans' water supply threatened as salt water creeps up the Mississippi. 480,000 year-old wooden structure found in Zambia. Higher and higher on the loneliness scale.Geo-engineering 'solutions' fail. Chatbots take on ever more roles and functions, robots for kids. 14 deaths in NYC lithium battery e-bike fires. Anti-smartphone sentiment. Resistance news. Discussion of Robin Wall Kimmerer. Two calls.

09-19-2023

[audio]Jesus Sepulveda discusses his Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control. Two deserts: Sudan and Burning Man. Hottest, wettest summer globally. Earth: unsafe for humans and others. Eco-anxiety, absenteeism, "zombie trout" in Montana. Recalls, youth cancer on rise. JZ in Portugese. No to smartphones. Hands-free toothbrush. New films by Bjorn, "Beyond the Screen, the Stars."Two calls.

09-12-2023

[audio]No broadcast because no sound engineer showed up (medical emergency)

09-05-2023

[audio]Bad Idea Publishing author in studio next week. Claude Levi-Strauss on some hunter-gatherers in Brazil. Crisis in cosmology, disconnect in how economy is perceived. Burning Man flooding. Peak Sand. Invasive species spike, ground-water disappearing. Strikes/contracts follies., resistance shorts. Tech work sucks. How cities cannot be viable. Chromebooks hell for students. One call.

08-29-2023

[audio]Unstoppable mass shootings. Rise of fires, heat waves. Idalia--and more to come. Women hunters in prehistory. "Conspiracy 'theory'" by JZ. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat," by Beres et al. "The Case Against AI: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" by Judy Estrin. Phoney opposition to chatbot AI to general embrace, in days. "Electric Cars Are Made of Pollution and Human Misery," by Kathryn Porter. Screen time makes kiddies stupid. "Quiet quitting" still with us. Two calls.

08-22-2023

[audio]"We Are Witnessing the 1st Stages of Civilization's Collapse" [The Nation!]. Hyundai: "Progress is our law of nature." Spread of mass shootings. Why are we so sad, mean, insecure? Kids bereft, incapable. "The Age of the Urban Inferno is Here." Polycrisis is a term. Chatbot as life coach, comedian, etc. Action briefs, two calls.

08-15-2023

[audio]Maui, HI: apocalypse now. Trump cult and those obsessed with it. Heat + isolation = disaster. Conversation with Jessica Kraft re: her Why We Need to be Wild book; parallel with Darcia Narvaez' Evolved Nest book. "My Mom Will Email Me After She Dies." "We thought the internet could change society. Instead it became society." "Why Is America such a Deadly Place?" Resistance news.

08-08-2023

[audio]The HEAT. Bronze Age Pervert's recent call. Diseases tick up. The Great Dechurching.Conspiracy theory 2.0. "Moxie"- a talking robot (chatbot) to teach kids "social skills." World- view projects 8 billion facial recognition links to cryptocurrency. New podcasts, action news e.g. Russian recruitment center arsons. One call.

08-01-2023

[audio] Fern's talk at Sam Bond's. West is ablaze. Southwest becoming unlivable. N. Atlantic current may soon stop. Weekend carnage. Homelessness as damaged people. Sharp overall health decline. Island of Tuvalu going under; virtual future. Robots with chatbot brains.Technology as pandemic. New zines, books, gatherings. Resistance reports. One call.

07-25-2023

[audio] Where is it NOT burning? Oppenheimer...and Barbie: radiation vs. a plastics world. Which is worse? Spread of mass shootings. Online all the time (mental health crisis). Fake summit re: controlling AI. Grunts who power AI, problems of EVs. "Yes, Collapse" by JZ. Fern at Sam Bond's 7/30. Resistance reports catch-up.

07-18-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Globe is a furnace. Nowhere to hide. "US Sets Record Mass Killing Deaths." Daniel Everett interview: Fidias Podcasts. JZ on Uncivilized Podcast. with Artxmis and friends. Chinese youth are "lying flat." Douglas Hofstadter is horrified by AI. "Stop the [tech] Carousel, I Want to Get Off," Houston Chronicle. Myth of AI as 'just a tool.' New black metal from indigenous Sga'gahsawah. One call.

07-11-2023

[audio] Earth sizzles, floods. Records fall as extremes mount. Climate crisis changing the planet's rotation. Learning sinks as tech surges. Scary health news. Domestication boosts disease risks. Hunting very common among hunter-gatherer women. Asteroid City by Wes Anderson. AI redefining the social.. "A Trilliion Little Pieces," E. Kolbert on plastics as definition of modernity. Jamie, with the Hadza in e. Africa. The Contemptuous #5. Two calls.

06-27-2023

[audio] Whatever happened to 'post-left'? Anarchist dregs vs. fresh advances. Heat, flooding extremes: even more erratic. Unprecedented hopelessness in Britain. Record global cocaine use and production. "Betrayal of Innocence" by JZ. Plastic in Utero launch. "Chronic Noise Proves Deadly." Loads of anarchist book fairs. Action news. Industrial scale solar in desert: destructive, like social media. One call. No broadcast next week.

06-20-2023

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. Darcia Narvaez film "Reimagining Humanity." Severe heat so soon. Is technology "exponential and irreversible"? Emma Goldberg: "People Are Rethinking their Relationship Not Just to Work but to Time." Rising tide of mass shootings. Isolation, absence of trust blamed on "social" media. Is the Singularity already here? New drugs: even more lethal.Resistance news, In Plastic Utero, Unravel.

06-13-2023

[audio]"Who's Joking?" by JZ. The Joker (2019) - 24 carat nihilism. Death of Ted K, Unabomber relevance,in a violent technoscape. (Indigenous) kids survive 40 days in Columbian jungle. Collapse in the heat. Trump sideshow. Resistance briefs. The Machine advances, occupying more of what was once intimacy. Chatbot 'literacy.' Plastic in Utero zine unveiled. Three calls.

06-06-2023

[audio]Death of a friend. Fires, train derailments, apt. collapses. Lonely reality,wages of grief. Uninsurable housing, racehorse death culture. Apple's Vision Pro roll-out, as AI combats thought. Cloud data storage centers spread like the stinknet weed that is devouring the Sonoran desert. More from The Contemptuous, LBC announces end. Stay tuned for Human Rewilding in the 21st Century: Why Anthropologists Fail. Action reports.

05-30-2023

[audio]Memorial Day weekend carnage. Extinctions: much worse than thought. Red Sea coral die-off. Big increase in weight loss surgery for children and teens. Record police killings in past year. AI is feared and unpopular. Anti-tech Chicago Med TV show. e-skin, e-fake media.What's up at Thacker Pass. Anarchist book fairs galore, resistance briefs. Bison rewilding project in Alaska. One call.

05-23-2023

[audio]Severe global warming impacts. Tohono O'odham ceremonial person shot 38 times by Border Patrol in Arizona at his front door. The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World without Choice by Jacob Ward.. 45 minute interview with Darcia Narvaez by Evan, Kathan and Jamie.

05-16-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Big recall fever. Broken sociality. Where is the social in a landscape of loneliness and isolation? The Age of (Techno-) Acceleration. Doug Rushkoff jumps ship: gives up on the internet. "The social fabric is fraying in a thousand ways," David Brooks.Growing global fungal infections imperil planet's food supply. Darcia Narvaez interview next week. Two calls.

05-09-2023

[audio] Hair-trigger violence: "Why Are Americans Shooting Strangers?" Mass shootings increase and occur in other countries. Surgeon General: a more and more lonely and isolated populace is a public health crisis. "Chatbots & the Apocalypse" by JZ. 'Godfather of VR, Geoffrey Hinton: AI might eliminate humanity itself when it controls its own codes. Has Social Media Destroyed a Generation? by Jean Twinge. Action reports. The Contemptuous' fine critique of the Left in all its guises.

04-18-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Rewilding and resistance theme. Unending wave of mass shootings, anywhere, everywhere. Is 'undiagnosed mental illness' the key? Millions are messed up in a fundamentally wrong world. Discussion with Artxmis. Insane weather. "Social Media Is Doomed to Die." Chatbots march on, replicating symbolic culture. Announcements. One call. No broadcast next week.

04-11-2023

[audio] Mass shootings: "It's Everywhere!" Quit Social Media discussion. Graffiti #3. Diseases spreading, species dying off. The youth ain't buyin' it. Ad of the week: AT&T "Connecting Changes Everything." New AI brings 'catastrophic thinking.' 'existential anxiety.' E. Gudkowski counsels 'nuke it all!' Green EV ruins planet. A machine to read your mind. New Fifth Estate, new John Gowdy book. Action news, one call.

04-04-2023

[audio]Foul-up at the station: no broadcast, no recording.

03-28-2023

[audio] Oak#5! "If We Don't Master AI, It Will Master Us." More on domestication; civ and childhood. The multiverse: no here-and-now. Global climate anxiety among youth. London's Lonely Girls Club. Epidemics, crazed weather. Ad of the week: National Conservancy plugs AI. Recalls, tech fails. Facial recognition, 'augmented reality' on rise."Poverty?" by JZ. Resistance briefs.

03-21-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. UN: We have less than 10 years to avert global catastrophe. Extremes of drought, storms prevail. Surgeon General: Dire mental health of kids is mental health crisis of our times. Ad of the week: creepy Xfiniti for kids. Dependence on GPR leads to dementia(!) "Writing Your Wedding Vows? AI Can Help." Chatbots bid for friendship. 5,000 mile, 10 million pound rotting seaweed tide hits Florida, Mexico. Slow down technology?? Plastic in Utero zine, Plant Anarchy book, resistance briefs.

03-14-2023

[audio] California underwater. Banks, trains fail. Parade of scumbags. "Mrs. Davis": Nun fights AI.Enviro calamities. Shootings. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, by Jenny Odell. "The Last of Us" ends. Technology swallowing everything. Bananas, coffee, chocolate may be gone by 2050. Meta blues. What hunter-gatherers show us. Chatbot does Nirvana tune (crap). "This Changes Everything" by Ezra Klein. One call.

02-28-2023

[audio] James Van Lanen's talk at Sam Bond's. "Beware Creeping Biophobia." Nurses, teachers quitting in droves. War on Drugs: a 50 year flop. Earliest human capacities. Light pollution. Algiers new album. Christian Anarcho-Primitivism by Bison Van Zanten. Resistance reports.Remote kissing, What's real, animate, what's a chatbot? B of A ad of the week. More space travel, more pollution. "Youtube Gave Me Everything. Then I Grew Up." Two calls.

02-14-2023

[audio]Valentine's Day. Love is in the air? Turkish quake tied to climate crisis, not a 'natural disaster.' Teen girls engulfed in sadness and trauma. Mass shootings. Avian flu spreads to other species. Failures of modern systems. Fires ravage Chile. High-rises for China's pigs. Nihilism explored. At Work in the Ruins by Dougald Hines. Ohio train wreck. Squarespace Super Bowl ad of the week. In- destructible wind turbine blades. ChatGPT tune for Decemberists. Latest geo- engineering madness: magnesium hydroxide in the oceans.Three calls.

02-07-2023

[audio]Turkish quake magnified by civ. Thomas Zeitzoff. "Primitivism" seminar U of O Feb. 20.Robin Wall Kimmerer. Crisis of Great Salt Lake. Potent solidarity for prisoners; Italian embassies fearful. New grass-roots zine, Graffiti. Apple surpasses 2 billion e-devices. "The Teenager Leading the Smartphone Liberation Movement" (NYT Feb. 2) "In the Age of AI, Major in Being Human" (NYT Feb. 3) Huge costs of 'green,sustainable' technologies. Two calls.

01-31-2023

[audio](Last week's show mostly not recorded because of technical difficulties.) Jesus Sepulveda at Sam Bond's; series now on Community Television. "We weren't meant to live like this," says JZ neighbor, "chained to an 12x18 screen." Pig culture on display at Memphis. Anti-work presence. Erratic climes. Earliest obsidian tool, prehistoric amputation. Ford recalls. Atlanta struggle,prisoner support actions. Smartphones or else. Price of technology. Lithium, chatbots, barren zeitgeist of the technoverse, one call

01-24-2023

[audio] Mass carnage, shootings a part of pathology of civ imploding. As scary: how the juggernaut of technology is enveloping everything. Weather, health, extinctions.The Deluge by Stephen Markley. Nothing outside plastics. Deep fakes uber alles. What next? Online drives fatigue. "How Technology is Bringing Dead Relatives 'back to life'". Light pollution. Atlanta and varieties of solidarity and resistance. Two calls.

01-17-2023

[audio] Special guest: Fern Thompsett on efforts to live outside tech society in the Pacific Northwest. Climate extremes worsening by the day. AI chatbots unleashed', crises ensue. Major fails of the week, one call.

01-10-2023

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. California drowning, homelessness crisis. Electric substations attacked. 988 suicide line very busy, expanding. AI robots moving in, seek consciousness. New tech at CES e.g. e-skates, high tech toilet! Invasive, dis-abling 'progress.' UK space program flop, recalls. Microsoft embraces unionism. One call.

01-03-2023

[audio] "As 2023 lies before us is there anything that isn't disfunctional in society? More blight, erratic weather, shootings. Southwest Airlines failure, the EV hoax. Many high tech glitches, outages. Wm. Shatner: this earth is all we have. Screen time ruins kids, social media fizzles. "How to Use Your Smartphone to Cope with Vision Loss"(!) Resistance attacks in France, Germany, Greece, US.One call.

12-27-2022

[audio] "Blizzard of the century," similar toll in Japan. More extreme weather projected for 2023. 37 million new Covid cases in China in one day. Failure of Southwest Airlines IT: again the vulnerability of tech systems. HBO "The Last of Us" series--based on a video game as pop culture dumbs down. Tesla flops, so do supermarket checkout kiosks. Geo-engineering, apps instead of memory of thinking. Attacks on electricity substations, more on ChatGPT. One call.

12-20-2022

[audio] [Recording delayed due to brief power outage.] Hydrogen saviour? Warming in the Anthropocene. Arctic Alaska rivers turn acidic orange. Post-apocalypse novels. Shootings, child homicides: a public health crisis. Trees, crops faiing in U.S. P. 22 L.A. lion meets end. Rewilding news. Strikes, foraging, more on the Luddite Club. Action news, "Uncle Ted's Cabin" (!) Recalls and child labor. Robot vacuum cleaners spying on folks, metaverse failing. One call.

12-13-2022

[audio] The "promise" of nuclear fusion (?) To keep doing what should've never begun. Environment crashing, accelerated ruin on all fronts. Ads of the week: Samsung (Let's Go Outside...VR) and Boston University (Data Reigns). BBC's Burn Wild series(?) Resistance reports. Girl Scouts tout 5G for merit patch. "Living Off the Land," Kayla Sulak. Elon Musk booed off SF stage. :What Twitter Does to our Sense of Time (12-13 NYT). AI Art, ChatGPT replace human creativity, artists hail luddites.Two calls.

12-06-2022

[audio] Tales of deepening isolation. Worsening contamination, extinction, and other die-offs. "All There Is," a CNN special on grief. "Waiting for the End of the World: Should We Be Rooting for the Apocalypse?"(!) Anti-Technology Is Not Dead, new zine. Resistance briefs. Giant EU roll-out party for the metaverse is giant dud: 6 show up. EV boom vs. environment. "How To Replace the Sky" comic by Matt Huynkh. Tesla follies. Fern Sunday night at Sam Bond's.

11-29-2022

[audio] No Thanks No Giving. World Cup background. Mass shootings at even higher levels. Older people live alone increasingly. "Journey to Doomsday" re: Florida-size Antarctica glacier. Amazon forest beginning to collapse. 90% of U.S. counties have had disaster designations. Downfall of civ is ever more clear. Tuvalu turns to metaverse as rising seas threaten its existence. Resistance news, upcoming anarchist events. "The World Can't Recycle its Way Out of Plastics Crisis."

11-15-2022

[audio] Deana Dartt Sunday. Record emissions for 2022 despite phoney COP27 climate summit.We're now at 8 billion. Shootings news. COVID and depression. QAnon drops ignored. Action reports. Backwoods#3. From "Lying Flat" to "Let It Rot!" "The Age of Social Media Is Ending" by Ian Bogast. AI 'art.' FTX crypto collapse. Big tech's big problems.

11-08-2022

[audio] Kathan co-hosts, Jolly Heretic misfire: my confession. Global climate summit nonsense.2022 already termed hottest. Mississippi River drying up, California woes. "We're All Losing Ground, not Just Students." Record election spending, shootings, pediatric care crisis. The Axle Grinder of Revolution: death to commuters - a new ITS or satire? Generation Isolation"as kids retreat from the social to online. Action briefs. New Fifth Estate. One call.

11-01-2022

[audio] 45 days in, "Women, Life, Freedom!" in Iran. David Brooks on "The Rising Tide of Global Sadness." Excellent "Six Notes" poem by David Baker. Very weak major "Envisioning Life after Climate Change" by David Wallace-Wells (10-30 NYTM). Environmental ruin, mass deaths in mass society. Conversation with It's Going Down folks. Metaverse - looking like a big flop. Our dependency on an increasingly vulnerable techno-world grows.What can't those on the Left see?

10-25-2022

[audio] UK news: "The Teenage Mental Health Crisis Is Now a Societal Disaster.""Obvious cause...is the internet." In New York a teen Luddite Club abandones smartphones. Scary rise in respiratory illness among kids. Fires in Midwest as drought spreads from West Coast. Election blather. "Undercurrent of rebellion among youth in China. Action news. Gamers more apt to be racist, sexist. Heavy tweeters declining in number. Tech fails, Metaverse in doubt. The plastics menace and false solutions. One call.

10-18-2022

[audio] "How Can We Revive Generations of Lost Knowledge?" by John Schandlenmeier. U of O's Designing for the Flourishing of All Species (?) Two Wyoming colleges are phone-free with very curative results. 5.3 billion phones will be discarded in 2022. Metaverse's woes. ACT test scores lowest in 30 years.Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marras. Resistance news. The Knowing. One call.

10-11-2022

[audio] Kathan is co-host. How bad does it have to get? Uprising in Iran a month in, 80 cities, all 31 provinces. World heat waves as climate crisis "spirals out of control." Darcia Nardaez' important book; Human Animal Project podcast: "It's TIme to Rewild!" The Cult of Civ by Tom Murphy from Resilience. Fall Camp news, action briefs, one call.

10-04-2022

[audio] Ian: hurricane of the future. Rocket fails. Fear of leaving civ. Heat officials huddle as Arctic, awash in plastics pollution, acidifies. 300 killed or injured in Indonesian soccer stampede. Mass shootings now daily. Online vs. learning. Foraging, a Palestinian film. Stephen King's new horror novel, Mr. Harrigan's Phone. Carbon capture nonsense. Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection. Action briefs, one call.

09-27-2022

[audio] Tech problems at KWVA recently, especially last week (see below). Hurricanes worsening. Iran, Russia in crisis. Mass shooting in w. Siberia. More blackouts ahead for California. Noise pollution out of control. Oak editor Steve Kirk is call-in guest: Where are we at?. UN: 'world in peril, and paralyzed.' Cascade of new ways tech cuts us off from reality, from direct experience itself. Cybersickness foils VR. How To Blow Up Pipeline film. Resistance news.

09-20-2022

[audio] This is the link to the most recently recorded show. Because of a technical problem in the studio the 09-20-2022 Anarchy Radio show was not broadcast, streamed, or recorded. Here is a summary of program content: The Myth of Normality by Gabor and Daniel Matte. All-time most expensive residence as inequity reaches new heights. Adults need Anxiety Screening; mental health in tatters.Pig atrocities, new dis-eases. Coyote comeback in So. California. Noise levels ever greater. How To Blow Up a Pipeline film: property damage absolutely required. Action briefs. Tesla storage facility burns. Cybersickness means no VR. Lithium means destruction. Who needs human touch?

09-13-2022

[audio] This is the link to the most recently recorded show. Because of a technical problem in the studio the 09-13-2022 Anarchy Radio broadcast/stream was not recorded. Here is a summary of program content: Death of a parasite. Eco tipping points vs. 'Resilience and Adaptation.' Insomnia for all. Violence is rife. Lynda Barry on crippling effects of being online. The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher, Digital Madness by Nicholas Kardaras. Chatbots hated. The rich try to escape the collapse of civilization. "Eco-conscious" Chromebook (!) New anarchist voices, No Path, Breaking the Alphabet, action news. Vice deal with Saudi Arabia. Long-termism, one call.

09-06-2022

[audio] "Doomsday" Glacier in Antarctica threatens several-feet oceans rise. Even more extreme weather fluctuations. Mass killing in Canada. Evictions.Plummeting health for youth; declining longevity.Neurodiversity.Three calls: Fairy Creek struggle in B.C.; community television status; high-tech"Fawn" project.

08-30-2022

[audio] Pakistan underwater, big "heat dome" heads for California. Great Resignation persists. An "uncontacted" Amazonian people goes extinct. Mass shootings weekend. Artemis on horrors of tech context of teaching. Doubts about VR, AI, Metaverse. What We Owe the Future: dud of a new book.An anarchist autumn? Sam Bond's Book Club to be on CTV. Resistance briefs. Pamyua indigenous music. Anti-cyberspace documentary coming from UK. Two calls.

08-23-2022

[audio] Upcoming anti-civ talks. Cooking reduces energy expenditure of chewing; major evolutionary impact. Author-activist-anarchist Allan Antliff is call-in guest (postmodernism, Camas Books, Victoria Anarchist Book Fair).Anarchist actions, book fairs. Smartphones as deadly distraction. U. S. life expectancy declining. "Love" in the Metaverse. Is radical energy returning after 20-something years in U. S.? One call.

08-16-2022

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Catastrophic climate stuff. Citizen M Hotel: High-tech horror. More intense surveillance, worker monitoring. Tech fails, recalls. Ezra Klein: "This is anything but an argument against technology, were such a thing even coherent," (NYT 8/14). Victoria trip; Camas Books collective thriving. Fairy Creek uprising. Earth First! Journal responds to K. Tucker's challenge re: decolonization. Action reports, two calls.

08-02-2022

[audio] No show August 9 (JZ in Victoria BC). The now-usual extreme heat, fires, flooding. Pelican extinction. A crime to be poor e.g. LA's war on the homeless. W hat's new at Meta, in the cloud, apps, algorithms. Dangerous if ubiquitous robots. Amazon and solar big enviro problems. Anarchist events, disconnect attitudes, post-civ vs. anti-civ, action briefs, 4 calls.

07-26-2022

[audio] California ablaze. Monkeypox is latest pandemic. Solar power weakens with extreme heat.Alpine glaciers melting at record pace. Coeur d'Alene Lake debacle. Conversation with Artxmis,anarchist writer and Uncivilized podcaster. Technology de-skills us. Walk the Distance, augmented reality hike app (!) New novels paint bleak picture. Breaking the Cycle film for renewal of life. Action briefs, two calls.

07-19-2022

[audio] World is burning, civilization dying. Bizarre disease eruptions.988 suicide line - texting as himan life-line?? New anarchist books, music, actions.Conversation with James Van Lanen on CHAGS,food autonomy in Italy.(two calls)

07-12-2022

[audio] Rampant Covid. Mind of mass shooters. "The New Slovenliness." Phone SNAFU:no Artxmis Graham Thoreau conversation. Drought & fire. Declining mental health. 200,000 year old mattresses. Recalls. Rewilding reports e.g. The wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde, action briefs. Lithium rush aka green extractivism. Condition of art: "Welcome to the desert of the virtual." Analog vs. digital. Canadian telecom failure, other tech hazards.

07-05-2022

[audio]Mass shootings, of course. Independence Day or "Hostage Nation"? Unarmed Wayland Parker shot 60+ times in Akron. Some shoot back. iPhone is 15 years old: "almost impossible to conceive what a world without smartphones would look like." More extreme, erratic weather. "Not post traumatic stress disorder.It's ongoing stress disorder." As society can no longer hide its ugly, empty, oppressive features as anarchist energy seems to be emerging. CHAGS preview.

06-28-2022

[audio]Monkey pox.global food crisis. Roe v. Wade and The Myth of Human Rights by Bob Black. Global heat waves. Workplace stress. Earliest humans 1 million years older than thought. JZ columns for Eugene Weekly. Barry Lopez empty suit. Project Unabomb podcast series.Action reports. Metaverse news,other tech projections.One call.

06-21-2022

[audio]Jan. 6 Committee side-show. How now, anti-vaxxers? World droughts, dead penguins. Congo rainforest ravaged; recalls. Australian activism. Fifth Estate locked into "radical solidarity" (the Left as albatross, fail). Ecology Contested: primitivists are eco-fascists:more leftist garbage, Full-page NYT ad: "Meta - Virtual Hearts Will Help Real Doctors Save Lives." Action news, more tech fails, falsity, lies. "Everything is crashing."

06-14-2022

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. Who can gun laws locate, shooter-wise? Weather getting increasingly extreme. Varieties of denial and lies to cloak systemic ruin. Lithium mining = "irreversible air and soil contamination"; "green sacrifice zones." Highlights of Oak#4. Language chat-bot (LaMDA) is sentient, has consciousness of a 7-8 year-old, says Google engineer. Anti-abortion offices attacked, anti-militarism, ant-tech action in Sardinia.

06-07-2022

[audio](NOT Ohio State football game) Even more mass shootings. Congressional hearings on Jan. 6 attack. Enviro catastrophe news. Diseases rising, work culture questioned.Techno fakery, U of O study on smartphone effects - conducted via smartphone. World "rapidly becoming one giant farm." Internet hall of mirrors: where is meaning/truth? Walmart bans cocoanut milk made with forced monkey labor. "I Don't Want Your Progress!" essay.

05-31-2022

[audio] Uvalde, endless mass shootings. Pig culture. Two recent anarchist events in Eugene. Disease/ health hazards news. Extreme weather, herbalist aspects. Can plastics be recycled? Critique of Bored Reason, by Dimitri Nikulin. Virtual Abba, AI for your poop. Anti-civ and de- colonization. Anti-military resistance in Russia, local rioting, action briefs. One call.

05-24-2022

[audio] Hakim Bey (1945-2022). Interview with Steve Kirk, Oak editor. Event at Sam Bonds tomorrow. Erratic, extreme weather; droughts, fires, scary hurricane season ahead. Poverty, isolation. pollution news. Rotn call. "Autonomous sensory meridian response" in museums re: "our increasingly isolating digital age." OnlyFans is an employment agency app: "how easy it is to simulate online intimacy"(!) Resistance briefs.

05-17-2022

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Mass shootings, racism on the rise. Cryptocurrency collapsing. What can anarchy contribute? (Eugene discussion event 5/25) Space polluted by rocket launches, satellites. Wildfire season already underway. Cliodynamics journal trashes Dawn of Everything. Happy for You by Claire Stanford: an app/algorithm to tell how happy one is. Civ crumbling on all fronts..

05-10-2022

[audio] New anti-tech CD from Arcade Fire. "In Grief Is How We Live Now" (NYT 5/8). A shredded social, personal fabric in late civ. Over a million in U.S. have suffered and died. Raging fires in American SW. "Metaverse, Number, Philosophy" by JZ. Actual cost of electric vehicles, deep sea mining: ruin has no limit. Birds die of heatstroke as India sizzles. Another new low for anarchistnews. Action news.

04-19-2022

[audio] Tech failure: the broadcast was fine, but it didn't get recorded.

04-12-2022

[audio] Mass shooting of the week. Hundreds more US billionaires, many thousands more homeless. "All the Lonely People," by JZ. Kathan reports: Birds' self-liberation and more. Baseball, Florida's manatees face extinction. MatureDose is a U of O app that measures one's time in nature(?) Four Eugene high-school suicides in 12 weeks. Metaverse, cryptocurrency problems. Endless navel-gazing at anarchistnews.org. Resistance news.

04-05-2022

[audio] Two excellent quotes about civilization. Just today's news alone reflects environmental catastrophe. Conversation with Jamie re: his upcoming Anarchy After Graeber, and more; much needed! Kids as young as 5 on social media. Drought, valley fever in California. Mass shootings, selected recalls. Alcohol-related deaths among women up 85% since 1999 (pre-pandemic). "Why Are People Acting So Weird?" Resistance briefs.

03-29-2022

[audio] Giant ice shelf collapse in E. Antarctica. Microplastics now in our bloodstreams. Call-in with Jason Rodgers, author of Invisible Generation collection, on anti-internet DIY culture. "How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?" (The Atlantic, 3-8). Prevagen, NeuroQ, etc. Is cognition going downhill like everything else? Severe bleaching event hits Great Barrier Reef. The Boundaries of Human Nature by Matthew Calarco: strongly anti-domestication re: Donna Haraway. Dematerializing human existence: the Metaverse.

03-22-2022

[audio] "Sweet Jane." Sad, shredded social landscape. Conversation with Mark Seely; his new book is Old Dog. New psychiatric illness: "prolonged grief disorder"(?) New Houllebecq novel, Annihilate. Literacy crisis; kids' reading levels falling. Tech show a big fail at SXSW. Digital detox in Japan, dumbphones on the rise. Extreme weather, action news.

03-15-2022

[audio] "Best Hope for Ukraine Lies with its Cities" (Bloomberg 3/14) (!) Remember Makhno. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Global Collapse is in View." Discussion with rotn re: Black Blossoms at the End of the World (new book). Carbon capture, energy independence - ways to guarantee further productionist ruin. Next Nature is planning a holiday in space, "How Do You Date without a Dating App?" More pre-metaverse tech horrors. New Path, a new anti-civ zine. Action briefs.

03-08-2022

[audio] First 20 minutes was of last week's episode due to tech changes at KWVA.Kathan co-hosts. Death of a granddaughter. War on Ukraine "first social media war." Covid toll nears 6 million globally. Amazon rainforest to turn into grassland. Space junk slams into moon. Tik Tok faces suits: its negative effects on youth. Teledoc offers "telehealth." Internet soon to be fully AI generated: bots not humans at the helm. Buy a car, a house from one's sofa. Drought deepens for California. Climate scientists may go on strike because no-one is listening. Acts of resistance.

03-01-2022

[audio] War on Ukraine, grass-roots resistance. Pentagon: "Nintendo Generation" new recruits weak and fragile. Global water cycle, wildfires crises. Musk's Neuralink human-computer bond development based on animal torture. Moxie robot for kids "to build social-emotional skills"(!) Replika, #1 chatbox companion." JZ at The Computer Room with Katya, a fine conversation. Galactic Starcruiser tech fantasy hotel. The myth of sustainable fashion, rise of plasticulture. Black Blossoms at the End of the World book. Next week: after two, years, back live in the studio, with Kathan.

02-22-2022

[audio] School shootings and other violence reach new levels, youth mental health in tatters."The Meta...What?" by JZ. Are we edging toward it? Ethanol dirtier than gasoline, solar inadequate power source for EV charging stations. More lithium-ion battery fires. More tech fails, anti-work zeitgeist. Encouraging new interest in primitivo. Mega-drought in U.S. West - worst in 1,200 years, as seas rise. Resistance victories in Canada re: pipelines, and other action news.

02-15-2022

[audio] Even Elon Musk sees civilization crisis, as he talks Mars getaway. New Book Network interview Feb. 17, The Second Sleep, post-collapse novel by Robert Harris. Anti-vaxx truckersjoin hands with neo-fascists.Koalas face extinction, % of kids who read for pleasure at lowest point ever. Open season on cops, year-round fire season on So. California. Resistance news.

02-08-2022

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Some positive news e.g. simple stoves for the unhoused, the good energy of Bound Together Books in SF. Murder of Amir Locke, a pig video presentation. "Apocalypse Whatever" (02-06 NYT);current failure of Metaverse roll-out. Discussion of what's at stake: namely, everything. Tech imperialism aims at dominating every sphere of life. Resistance briefs.

02-01-2022

[audio] More species face extinction; 123 degrees in western Australia, all-time record for southern hemisphere. "Mining" by JZ. Fire at Big Sur: year-round fire season in California. Antarctic iceberg A68a, world's biggest, moved north and melted, releasing 152 billion tons of water. Senegal beaches awash in plastics, 9,000 barrel oil spill off coast of Peru. Reality+ by David Chalmers: hooray for virtual future. iPhones, social media at war with authentic connection. AI, suicide rate both on upswing. Winter Count primitive skills camp v. popular, sold out. Resistance news.

01-25-2022

[audio]Overheating world, part of Java being submerged. Excerpt from Mark Seely's remarkable Old Dog, JZ's preface to Russian zine Egalite questionaire. Metaverse promises new horizon of experience as its merger of digital and virtual would extinguish actual experience. Attention span, focus undone by ever-encroaching tech. "This is no Way to be Human," states Alan Lightman about a natureless world, but can only advise being "mindful" because "technology will not stop or even slow down"(!). AI chatbots for "conversation" in the global, barren techno-sphere. Anarchist news, development.

01-18-2022

[audio]A first: kids 12-17 now prefer being alone or online to being with friendsor family: the crushing estrangement of tech. Two op-eds on same day about political and social disintegration (NYT 1-14). Oceans warmest yet. The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK Jr. - dumb conspiracy dodge; Fauci, the devil? CIV is the devil. Mass shooting in Eugene. Tech failures, delays, propaganda. Resistance reports.

01-11-2022

[audio]Kathan co-hosts; maybe our last remote broadcast in 2 years. Jan. 6 anniversary hoopla -more distraction from the actual crisis. Covid rages and new, 'mystery' diseases appear (e.g. in New Brunswick). Boulder CO not a forest fire but an "urban firestorm." Superb new children's book: 24 Hours in the Stone Age by Lan Cook. "Waste colonialism" - plastic waste to poorer countries. "Focus Mode" (The New Yorker, 12-20): writer-machine interface. Action reports (esp. Kazakhstan, Serbia, Paris).blockquote>

01-04-2022

[audio]Covid and other diseases. "The Land" by JZ. Dirty mining (lithium, cobalt, nickel) for a "Green" future! Alexa tells kid to electrocute herself. "Untact" - hideous new level of estrangement: Anti human contact. The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy(life usurped by technology). More say they'll never have children. Mass shootings, winter wildfires,recalls. Taste the TV, a wonderful tech breakthrough. Arsons!

12-28-2021

[audio]Teen immiseration and despair. Dave Eggers' The Every: A must read. Anti-vax follies. Homicide by cops stays high despite protests. r/antiwork has 1.4 million members. Anti-Alexa as privacy concerns mount. Worker resistance, some of it outside Organized Labor control. Big far-Right threat?? Action news..

12-21-2021

[audio] Podcast interviews. Covid news. Schools closed Friday due to TikTok alarm, against backdrop of more school shootings. Arson attacks in Japan, mass violence spreading. Global warming now officially an "emerging threat" to U.S. economy. Tech vulnerabilities. E-sports gain ground in a tattered techno mental health landscape. Resistance news, victories.

12-14-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. "Birds Do Not Exist" - brilliant. A "Black Box" for the planet (NYT 12-11). Increased anxiety, suicidal ideation, depression among students. Suicide attempts among girls up 51%. Dream: instant "art" from an app. Mega-tornado in month least likely to see tornados. Young Latinos dying of COVID in alarming numbers (LAT 12-04). Multiple fires in dry Idaho. Re-sistance briefs. Solstice - new light - ahead.

12-07-2021

[audio] Once-radical Kingsnorth hits new low. Anti-vaxism as conspiracy 'theory'. Dire enviro news e.g. blizzard in Hawaii, prairies burn in Montana, NE Brazil becomes desert, world's worst pollution. The existential gamble of the Metaverse: tech uber alles? Miami's Art Basel now digital, virtual. Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Match- Makers by Rob Brooks. Mass shootings resume. The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. Action news near and far.

11-30-2021

[audio] "Time, Domestication, Stress": Layla Abdel-Rahm presents. Hunter-gatherer references on rise. Pandemic death toll marches on, anti-vaxxers have blood on their hands Falling faith in basic institutions. Delphi: AI designed to make moral choices. More on recent books. "We're Longing for the One Thing the Metaverse Can't Give Us" : human touch. Yassification(?) Varieties of resistance.

11-23-2021

[audio] Deep Adaptation: shocking surrender-to-catastrophe movement. An anarcho-primitivist review of Graeber-Wengrow book by JZ. Sign of the times: LA's Staples Center becomes Crypto.com Arena. Desert tortoise next on extinction list. Qanon: "a threat to American democracy"(?) The Every by Dave Eggers. All glaciers may be gone in 20 years. Mental health in tatters, especially among youth. Panopto classroom surveillance. Resistance reports.

11-16-2021

[audio] Excellent a-p get-together in Portland. Phoney climate summit in Glasgow. Geo-engineering our only "hope"? The Machine marches on. Seoul city govt. signs onto Metaverse, as 3 out of 4 Americans think Facebook makes society worse. Much distrust, anti-civ ideas make headway, scaring Graeber-Wengrow types. Powerful "Zuckerberg" poem. A Hunter-gatherer Guide to the 21st Century - nothing of the sort says Mark Seely, rather a thinly -veiled transhumanist effort! Mnemophrenia movie - what is real in a VR world? Resistance news.

11-09-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Save the Atlanta Forest campaign presentation at U of O. "Metaverse? Are You Kidding Me?" (NYT 11-1). "Is the Problem Facebook? Or the Internet?" (NYT 11-4). Tech's effort to control everything. "Work? I Think it Numbs You Somehow" (NYT 11-2). Seamus McGraw's From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter: no greater silence than that between shootings. Mass society, mass violence. How to Blow up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire by Andreas Malm: why are we not seeing property damage, sabotage? U.S. life expectancy declining. Action briefs.

11-02-2021

[audio] Intercontinental Zoom conference on time and domestication.A radical thaw? Something's in the air. More erratic and extreme weather as Glsagow climate summit convenes - "the last best hope" (NYT 10-30) (?!). Being a Human by Charles Foster looks wonderful, nails domestication. 70% of Americans think social media "do more harm than good," only 20% see it the other way.Elon Musk's SpaceX has leaking toilets problems,Roblox games site down for days.Resistance briefs.

10-26-2021

[audio] Preview opinion of Graeber and Wengrow's new book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Everything. Climate crisis impacts across the board, in every field.Anti-work pervasive, Squid Game repulsive. Dune - a cautionary tale? Micro-plastics, "forever" chemicals" EVERYWHERE. Extreme heat deaths way under-reported. Byung-Chul Han's latest, Capitalism and the Death Drive discussed.Resistance notes.

10-19-2021

[audio] "The Great Resignation" (The Atlantic 10-15) and related 'revolt against work' aspects. "Presence" poem from Bill in California. Rising plastic, rising seas, rising dis-ease/disquiet. Various tech fails, outages. Upload, an opera that blurs distinction between human and machine, a popular theme. QR code tattoo popularity. Annual weight of e-waste equal to that of China's Great Wall. Wire your brain to short-circuit depression, literally.Byung-Chul Han books. Action news.

10-12-2021

[audio]Kathan co-hosts. Report on Sojourner Truth book launch In Gary IN. Two global Facebook outages last week, as it becomes even clearer how FB and its apps damage society and teens in particular. 6x more heat deaths in California 2010-2019 than thought. Deepening "eco-anxiety" according to British Medical Journal. Glaeser and Cutter's Survival of the City book is pro-city even as it acknowledges the "demons that accompany density"(!) Earth, moon dimming ("earthshine"),absorbing more heat, worsening climate crisis. Action news.

10-05-2021

[audio]Baudrillard, Biyung-Chul Han discussed. The cancer of "infrastructure," less than half of deaths by cops reported. Infants' poop has 10x the microplastics of adults.' Huge craters from methane explosions in Siberia. Amazon's Astro home robot sees, hears all. Massive carbon footprint of computers. Melting face emoji perfect fit for anxious, exhausted life-world. Action briefs, nature strikes back.

09-28-2021

[audio]Half of world youth think "humanity is doomed"(The Independent, 9/14). Mass shootings in Russia, Tennessee. TikTok news: indigenous woman, culture now media hit; trashing school bathrooms big craze. "Mark Zuckerberg's 'Metaverse' Is a Dystopian Nightmare" by Jacobin's Ryan Zickgraf. US Covid deaths surpass that of 1918-1919 flu pandemic. "Ebooks Are an Abomination" by Ian Bogost. Workers quitting in droves, action news.

09-21-2021

[audio] "Are We In the Last Days of Civilization?" (Vice News, 9/18).Latest global overheating catastrophe news. The great resignation continues. Potty-trained cows; zebras escape. Thousand of birds slaughtered by NYC high-rises. Covid deaths; ozone hole grows. "Virtual Reality Will Conquer Your Face" (NYT, 9/18), as metaverse spreads. Resistance news.

09-14-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. 9/11 and the world system. Local columnist wonders whatever happened to connection, place (R-G, 9/11). Always a tech "solution" to every manner of alienation. Workers still not working. CBS's "The Activist" series: online idiocy. Irish robot teaches many subjects (Irish Times, 8/30).Climate disaster marches on. Osaka, Japan cafe: no face-to-face contact allowed. Giant rodents attack luxury Buenos Aires gated community, LA bank trashed.

09-07-2021

[audio] Impact of overlapping disasters. Civilization itself begins to enter awareness(?) "The new norm," "the new dystopia." "Grace"by JZ. Playstation's "Season" game: experience last moments of dying cultures. Emergentism: will robots attain consciousness upon further development? Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke: massive, literal iPhone addiction. More on "metaverse" from Facebook. In Dixie Fire wolf pack survives, cattle herd perishes. 54% of youth have suicidal thoughts (CBS News, 8/26). Resistance news.

08-24-2021

[audio] David Rovics controversy: a basic tactical question. Afghanistan - history, resistance to Taliban rule. Mounting Covid death toll among cops - too stupid to vaccinate. Benefit cut-offs NOT easing work avoidance. Rainfall on highest point of Greenland's Ice Sheet, 1st time in recorded history as Greenland loses 800 billion tons of ice per year. Global inflammation at all levels. Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World by Lise Wells. Resistance briefs.

08-17-2021

[audio] FOIA request update. Two poems. Heat, fires, drought. UN Report: climate crisis getting much worse, much faster. e.g. July hottest month ever. As Covid onslaught worsens, Left remains blind, irrelevant.12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson: hymn totechnology, techno-future. Google's Find My Device for the phone-addicted. Wired: "I Think an AI Is Flirting with Me. Is It OK to Flirt Back?" (!) Mass shooting in SW England. Action reports.

08-10-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Covid rages, kills last Awa hunter-gatherer. What do we owe each other? Are fires becoming "unfightable"? "What if Humans Just Can't Get Along Anymore?" Internet deepens the problem. (NYT, 8/4) Robot "Pepper" a big flop at faking being human. Atlantic current weakest in over 1,000 years: dire consequences ahead for Northern Hemisphere."Suburbs of Surveillance" (Bloomberg City Lab, 8/4). Resistance briefs.

08-03-2021

[audio] Immiseration and technology go hand in hand. Olympics R.I.P. Devastating extremes of weather. Greenland ice is going fast. Loneliness breeds bad health and pushes authoritarian thinking. Great Salt Lake drying up. Facebook moving from social media company to "metaverse company."[VR] TERF hatred of trans folks. Tech failures, tech future (e.g. total surveillance,total plunder of the earth). Action news.

07-27-2021

[audio] Pessimism sets in as pandemic and climate fester harshly. Olympics fiasco. Covid deaths likely top 3 million in India. US life expectancy falls 1 and 1/2 years in 2020. Eric Clapton won't perform where vaccinations are mandated, a nice add-on to his notorious racism. Chris Hedges: "the great majority of antifa and black bloc folks are cops." "The Jessica Simulation: Love & Loss in the Age of AI (SF Chronicle, 7/23). Google tweaks emoji designs to make them more universal/standardized. Hyundai Ad of the Week: robots dancing with robot-like BTS K-pop band. Action news.

07-20-2021

[audio] FOIA follies. Covid marches on; thank you, anti-vaxxers! Letter from Serbia. Major study finds 1972 MIT prediction of probable collapse right on schedule. Recalls galore. "Simplicity" by JZ. Drug deaths set record, sea of shootings. Loneliness epidemic. Impacts of severe heat, flooding in Europe. Amazon now releasing carbon, not storing it.. Pathologies of late civilization and Left's basic blindness e.g. Wayne Price.

07-13-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts.Severe heat, West on fire. Covid realities vs. white privilege. NY subway system, city of Chicago: bleak futures. Where is consciousness? Brandeis U. cancels 'trigger warnings' - may themselves trigger (!) "Why Can't We Be Friends" (Real Life, July 1): social media "parasocial" interaction is false answer to disconnectedness. "Trees Give UsLife. The Fake Ones [cell towers] Give Us Tik-Tok" (LA Times, June 30). Indigenous groups stop Harvard geo-engineering project and other resistance news from all over.

06-29-2021

[audio] Tang Ping ("lying flat"): Chinese anti-work phenomenon, aspects in other countries. Robots as companions: debased response to loneliness. Mega canal planned for Istanbul area, more dead bodies of water, desert plants dying at alarming rate. Heat waves, other weather extremes. 12-story Miami condo collapse. QAnon invades New Age circles. Simlish, BTS for the brain-dead. Bismuth - clean energy of the future! Resistance news.

06-22-2021

[audio] Earth's trapped heat has doubled in just 14 years. Closing in on 300 mass shootings so far in 2021. Growing global mental health crisis over enviro devastation. Digital pet toys; robotic pets for the old who are "Home and Alone" (The New Yorker, May 31). "Regression" by JZ. "Should We Be Concerned that the decisions of AIs Are Inscrutable?" (Aeon, June 14), "Where Are All the Wild Things, Daddy?" (NYT, June 20). Climate refugees, mounting Covid-19 deaths, work refusal. Action reports.

06-15-2021

[audio] Kathan reinstated! A-p gathering in Portland. Sri Lanka's worst beach pollution ever,"sea snot" hastens death of Turkey's Sea of Marmara (already a mainly dead sea like the Gulf of Mexico). Almost 50 million Americans have only one - or no-one - to run to for help. The odyssey of an elephant herd in China. Further zombification for smartphone zombies. Apple can tell you how you are. Gigantic energy drain of cryptocurrency mining. Julian Cribb's Earth Detox: How and Why We Must Clean Up our Planet (25,000 die of contamination daily). Horrors of biotech, war on nature discussed in 2nd Nature: Scenes from a World Remade by Nathaniel Rich. Resistance briefs.

06-08-2021

[audio] Anarchist anti-vaxxers? (reply to "free spirit"). Cyberattack frenzy. Kids with zero contact with natural world. Miami needs 20' sea wall. Tech is constant enveloping context e.g. Amazon providing high tech "ZenBooths" for stressed workers; "Tell It To Woebot" (NYT June 1); Walmart employees to be online 24/7. Lurking: How A Person Became a User by Joannes McNeil (online culture). Action reports.

06-01-2021

[audio] Fossil Men: The quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison. "A Snarky Anarky Poem" by Jen. "The Great Resignation" (NBC News May 30): Work? No thanks. New Chernobyl problem. Shootings coast to coast. Pilotless planes? Worker blues at high-tech firms. Action news.

05-25-2021

[audio] Cease-fire reached one day after Italian dockworkers refuse to load Israeli weapons ship. The pig Chauvin charged with murder day after Minneapolis police station torched. "The Flight of Abstraction" by JZ. Civ. is a work machine. Half a billion are overworked. National parks, reserves fail to protect re: species loss, deforestation, etc. Drought, fires in West as planet overheats. Moor Mother, resistance news. "How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body" (Vice Motherboard) Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America by Meehan and Turner.

05-18-2021

[audio] Zionist assault on Gaza, latest Israeli atrocity. Cyberattacks have free rein. 'Help Wanted' - Is there a revolt against work? Blackouts threaten entire U.S. West. Universal contamination of American women's breast milk. Zooming worsens epidemic loneliness. IBT Fast Start, May 11: "The advent of social media came with claims that it would bring people together and harness a new-found sense of unity. Two decades later, we couldn't be farther apart." Smartphones the "death of proximity." Oak#3,Yes, Human out now. Action news.

05-11-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. 23 ton space junk "tumbled out of control" - rather like civ is doing. Global pandemic rages on.6th-grade girl opens fire at her Idaho school. Major mining required for 'green, sustainable'(!) technology. "Why Are So Many Children Nearsighted?" (May 4 NYT): kids online not outdoors. Techo-king Elon Musk hosts SNL: The purveyors of the Industrial Revolution were hated, spat upon, not celebrated. Permalink and other bio-engineering Franken-horrors. 11 states have abolished death penalty in past 16 years but state murder continues. 'Road rage' spreads to airliners. Resistance news.

05-04-2021

[audio] "Zombie Apocalypse" in India first-hand. These are the plague days. Bone-dry West: fire season begins. California's carbon offset credits increase pollution not reduce it. "A Stark Inequality" with each breath (NYT, 4/29): air pollution and Blacks. "Driverless" cars require constant surveillance. Toyota builds a city for self-driving cars. American musical about mental health a hit across China. Crohn's Disease on rise everywhere."Be Skeptical of Virtual Medicine" by Elizabeth Rosenthat: a partial critique. The rise of big data psychiatry. "Hunting for Stone" by James V. Morgan (Oak journal #3). Action reports.

04-27-2021

[audio] Police killings, mass shootings not slowing down. How not to understand pandemic, India, Brazil reeling. "Four Lost Cities" by Annalee Newitz: Failing civs marked by "political instability coupled with environmental crisis." Sound familiar? 3 billion fewer North American birds in past 30 years. Peak sand, drought looms in the West, more autopilot car fatalities. Cryptocurrency is mega energy drain. UK postal workers exonerated after bad software convictions (false data). New podcasts, books. Action briefs.

04-20-2021

[audio] "'Mental health' of the shooter? How about the 'mental health' of the country?" (CNN!) Johan Eddebo's review of Don DeLillo's Silence. Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Plotz. Potato energy. Commies in the park. Muldrow Glacier races toward its end. Katy Perry: "Social media is trash." 87,000 O.D. deaths in one year. "Eccentrics, Artists and Luddites Find Community on a Remote Scottish Peninsula. Resistance news from Portland and elsewhere. Cancel culture?

04-13-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. CO2 levels highest in 3.6 million years, cherry blossoms in Japan earliest in 1200 years. 4,000 Covid deaths per day in Brazil. An explosion of mass shootings; 30,000 children and teens dead by gunfire in past decade. Direct action resistance near and far not to be overlooked, as April 11 "White Lives Matter" rallies flop. Revenge porn, high tech horrors (e.g. Neuralink brain-computer interface). Big seller in Japan: single serve rice cookers, as iso-lation rules. AlphaDog is a Chinese robot "just like the real thing." Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff: an anti-civ novel to lift the spirit.

04-06-2021

[audio] New books by Laurent Testot and Mansoor Khan. Mass shootings: "Permanent Half Staff."Megafauna overkill extinction myths. Wildfires already. Netflix: as much co2 released as 2.7 billion miles of car travel. AI for emotional learning, dependant on grunt work of thousands of "ghostworkers." Trust in tech companies way down. Kaczynski's "thorough" and "well-supported" (anews.org) critique of anarcho-primitivism uses falsified evidence. Action news.

03-30-2021

[audio] Pandemic of mass shootings, pigs add to toll. Fine anti-tech lyrics from The Divine Comedy (2019) and Public Enemy (2020). Rethinking Food & Agriculture: New Ways Forward, by Amir Kassan and Laila Kassan. From butterflies to Manatees to elephants: extinction looms. Mega-ship blocks Suez Canal in mega-globalized world system. Where we've gotten to:"We have to make talking about suicide a part of everyday life." (3-27 NYT). Resistance briefs.

03-23-2021

[audio] Pandemics to come. The heat, the rising seas. Climate refugees. "Why Not Now" by JZ. "Ghost forests." "Your Face Is Not Your Own" (NYT 3/21): facial recognition technology - the further erasure of privacy. Tablets wreck toddlers, songbirds can't sing, rubber trees facing extinction. Chris Colin's Off: The Day the Internet Died. Resistance news.

03-16-2021

[audio] Peter Werbe is guest. Talking about his Summer of Fire: A Detroit Novel, 1967 context. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz. Cities sinking under the weight of civilization. Singapore "diabolically" overheating. Gulf Stream slowing (could mean disaster). Paul Kingsnorth now a Romanian Orthodox Christian (reason for his decline?). Globally: allergies booming, freshwater fish facing extinction. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, by Michaeleen Doucleff.

03-09-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Peter Werbe is guest next week. More on Klara and the Sun. All things covid. March 1 dust-up in Portland's Pearl district. Sherry Turkle (The Empathy Diaries) and Paul Kingsnorth (Alexandria) seem to be all in for the techno future(even as basics of tech are failing) (and the Brave New World presents itself as ever more alienating). Queens of the Stone Age lyric: "Is it too late to go back?/ Is it too late to go?"

03-02-2021

[audio] Vagaries of dying civilization, disasters far and wide (e.g. entire coast of Israel hit by big oil/tar devastation). Blockbuster novel by Kaguo Ishiguru,KLARA AND THE SUN: Are we losing true humanness to the Machine? Far right groups on the wane? Anarchism--autonomy over democracy. Ever more invasive technology, methane blow-outs in Siberia. Zero accountability for murderous cops. Action news.

02-23-2021

[audio] Texas (biggest power outage in US history) and 2-21 NYT's front page "Storms Exposing a Nation Primed for Catastrophe."The next pandemic, varieties of coastal Australia die-offs. More racehorse deaths, suicidal children. "Why Do Humans Struggle to See Themselves as Animals " (2-18 The Guardian). Mars rover called Perseverance; why do we persevere on a suicidal course? Sophisticated barbed tool in Africa: at least 800,000 years old. Important Crimethinc. report: "From Punk to Indigenous Support," action news.

02-16-2021

[audio] Are we at a pivotal moment, a turning point? Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World vs. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert. No contest. "The Next Pandemic is Coming" (2/11 WSJ). Global warming news, shootings, earlier pollen/later rain. Oysters, sea otters die-offs. "Revenge bedtime procrastination." Resistance briefs.

02-09-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. New (anti-tech) tunes from Weezer, Spark. Industrial ag and the climate crisis. Heavy metals in baby foods, no plan for "green" technology disposal.Himalayan glacier bursts, killing hundreds.Wildfire smoke not only contains toxic chemicals but "mind-bending" levels of fungi, bacteria. In and outs of pandemic reality, need for grass-roots alternatives, resistance. No More Cities, Zundlumpen, Gather,Loire estuary ZAD, war on cars in Portland, other action news.

02-02-2021

[audio] "A Note on Permanence" by JZ. Sharks & rays, bees way down, as seas keep rising. High-tech Japan has 'concretized' the country; cannot safely 'decommission' Fukushima reactors. Industrial disasters, scary lack of thiamine in Pacific. Alexa and robots displace human agency & presence, amid general dysfunction. "When every company from Facebook to garage door openers is racing to collect as much data as possible, we can't really opt out unless you want to cut yourself off from 21st century life." (1-31 NYT) Lauren Oyler's debut novel, Fake Accounts, plumbs the existential reality of cyber life.Uncivilized Podcast, action news.

01-26-2021

[audio] Culture of nothingness: "Into the Void" by Kyle Chayka (01-24 NYTM). The loneliness pandemic. Stephen Leahy's "President Biden Refuses to Make our Climate Crisis Worse"(!) as CEOs are happy, boardrooms relieved with Joe. WSJ reports "A Bid Bet on an Antiseptic Future." Orbital congestion points to satellite collisions with dire consequences. Ongoing collapse of world's aquifers. How To Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm. Action news.

01-19-2021

[audio] Jeff Hendricks, fairly young anarchist, dead of Covid, one of two million. Racist pro-Trump groups splinter with Trump in disgrace."Animal Planet" (1-17 NYTM): ICARUS project tracks tagged species via satellite "to bring them closer to us." (!) Insect apocalypse: 1/3 may be gone in 20 years. "A spectrum of new anxieties" for remote workforce. Japanese man for hire, presence of one human being who does nothing. Fiery batteries, 92% of Arctic microplastics due to polyester pollution from clothing. Resistance news.

01-12-2021

[audio] Kathan co-hosts. Crimethinc:fascist USA(?) NYT 01-10: Silencing a President, Big Tech Shows Where Power Now Lies."NBC News 01-03: "a lot of negativity around technology"- 'maybe the answer is MORE tech'(?) A record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2020. 40% of hospital construction in 2020 was psychiatric facilities. Salmon farming gets worse. 60,000 flip-flops found on Seychelles island. Cities globally on course to become ovens by 2100. Dutch book to introduce anti-civ, anti-tech ideas. Action briefs.

01-05-2021

[audio] Politics of the Nashville bomber. Barry Lopez: Ain't no Thoreau. Vaccination began in 10th century China. What is the anti-vax reality? Conspiracy 'theory' and racism. Covid-19 races on. 2020: hottest ever? Obesity in China, dancing robots. Online 'learning' a flop. Anti-Line 3 movement and other resistance news.

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