Last Born In The Wilderness

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. Furthermore, Byrne elucidates how AI systems are being used in the now weeks-long US-Israel war on Iran, both in the decision to launch this war and in the day-to-day decision-making of military strategists. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/peter-byrne // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

For episode 400 of Last Born In The Wilderness, Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises accentuate and accelerate in their intensity, so do our responses to them. // Episode notes + transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/dare-carrasquillo-3 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises accentuate and accelerate in their intensity, so do our responses to them.  // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

I'm joined by Dr. Špela Šalamon, Nuclear Medicine Specialist Physician and biomedical scientist. She has contributed to global efforts in understanding and mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 and published several papers addressing the risks following COVID-19 infections, emphasizing the necessity for proactive health measures. In October of last year, she co-authored and published the AJPM Focus review article, COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? The review compares and contrasts “observations of the immunological impacts of COVID-19 and HIV infections […] examining shared and distinct mechanisms, such as immune dysfunction, vulnerability to opportunistic infections, accelerated aging and neurocognitive disorders, […] highlight[ing] critical parallels and their implications.” // Episode notes + transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/spela-salamon // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Dr. Špela Šalamon joined me to provide an evidence-based comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, based on a review she co-authored and published for AJPM Focus: COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Writer, researcher, and movement strategist Ben Lorber returns to the podcast to discuss his recent deep dives into the ascendancy and growing influence of the groypers, led by the charismatic, tenacious, and odious Nick Fuentes—a significant part of the rising and contentious anti-Israel wing of the America First movement. // Episode notes + transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/ben-lorber // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Writer, researcher, and movement strategist Ben Lorber returns to the podcast to discuss his recent deep dives into the ascendancy and growing influence of the groypers, led by the charismatic, tenacious, and odious Nick Fuentes—a significant part of the rising and contentious anti-Israel wing of the America First movement. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Journalist and author Omar Zahzah joined me to discuss digital settler-colonialism, hegemony, and the Palestinian liberation struggle in the digital age. Zahzah is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/omar-zahzah // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Journalist and author Omar Zahzah joined me to discuss digital settler colonialism, hegemony, and the Palestinian liberation struggle in the digital age. Zahzah is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness