Simone and Jean-Paul discuss the ceasefire in Gaza, ICE social media snooping, torture meted out by Israel against the Sumud Flotilla activists, and a threat by the White House to invoke the Insurrection Act, before reviewing a classic Bari Weiss NYT Op-ed in honor of her installment at the top of the CBS Newsroom.

Sorry. This one's a little long.

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Intermission Music: "City view from Torni" by Brylie Christopher Oxley, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

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On this episode, we discuss the distressing executive orders, the US invading itself, the government shutdown, and the humiliation ritual of the top military brass, before diving into the sophisticated politics guiding the Global Sumud Flotilla that was "intercepted" on the way to Gaza.

This week's artifact

Theme Music: "⁠Mock the Afflicted⁠" by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

Intermission Music: reel audio from everydaypalestine

On this second episode of The Red Diaper Pail, we try--and fail--to cheer ourselves up with Trump's lowlights from his speech before the UN General Assembly.

Then, Simone explains what a large language model actually is before we dive into digital romance with Patricia Marx's article for the New Yorker, Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends.

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Intermission Music: "Mystic Mars" by Rewob, Licensed under CC BY 4.0

Welcome to the Red Diaper Pail, a podcast about technology, culture, art, history, politics, and parenting!

On our first episode, we dissect a video by Tad Stoermer, an American scholar of resistance history at the University of Southern Denmark, on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the bizarre reaction by liberals like Ezra Klein.

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