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Another post for Shrinking fans

“Segel returns to talk with Terry Gross about his Emmy-nominated series Shrinking, in which he plays a therapist who suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of his wife’s death. Segel opens up about his own therapy, acting opposite Harrison Ford, and overcoming writer's block. He thinks of his vulnerability as a super power. "I'm kind of devoid of pride or shame about the dirty underneath. I'll say the stuff that a lot of people are trying to hide." Segel wrote and starred in the hit comedy film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and played David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour. “

From the episode description:

“With billions pouring into AI based on its promises, Jon is joined by Cory Doctorow, author of “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,” to separate the hype from reality. Together, they examine how the AI industry relies on inflated expectations, question what AI can genuinely do and whether that even matters when selling a product, and explore how the technology is supercharging problems already embedded in our society, including surveillance, labor exploitation, and corporate consolidation.”

Josh Freedman was studying in China and learned about tea! In this post he talks about some Taiwan teas.

Apologies if this has been posted here before. I heard Josh Freedman on the Gastronomic podcast.

The blog (Lawyers, Guns & Money) is worth taking a look at.

I don’t know if anyone on the Bulwark staff monitors these posts but can someone alert them to the Cult, Culture, and Coercion substack and YouTube pages? He knows all about cults, and may have even done a segment on the cult Sam and Will were talking about today in their MAGA Mondays episode.

YouTube link for folks who would prefer to view his work there: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7YWEmQ5oJH19Y3LZhJoTFdAPbDxdJY\_f

These are long articles but will give readers background on what’s been going on with Iran, going back to 1953. Starts with a description of a war game exercise conducted before the 2004 presidential election.

u/BulwarkOnline (I hope I got the user name right)
Episode entitled “The Iranian Regime Isn’t Going Anywhere (w/ Kenneth Pollack)”. It keeps showing a “publisher server error” despite a couple of attempts to download the episode.