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85. Dispatches from the Apocalypse - Left POCket Project Podcast Jan 16, 2023

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In this episode, Richard & Wendi discuss a few news items around AI, art for public consumption, and policing as well as the strange trajectory of left populism in the US — Readings & Resources: “Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards” https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/artificial-intelligence-risks-could-outweigh-rewards/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiJSeBhCCARIsAHnAzT9D1dggb9QOTo4kwLegy_vpFIaGCGGfwIDgE3bTP2AFB23Zkh-RNNYaAoj3EALw_wcB#/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=ai%20issues&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=ai%20issues&hsa_cam=15231245947&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=602983206464&hsa_grp=140558910707&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=b&hsa_tgt=kwd-607311173958&hsa_net=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=&hsa_cam=14323626438&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=571210950443&hsa_grp=132253490540&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=&hsa_tgt=dsa-1556830528721&hsa_net=adwords “AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare” https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060 “Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police” https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/ “Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain” https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/15/mlk-statue-boston-backlash/ Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil. Ana Lucia Araújo - Slavery in the Age of Memory https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory-9781350048492/ “New 9 ft. sculpture pays tribute to Biggie Smalls in Brooklyn” https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-9-ft-sculpture-pays-tribute-to-biggie-smalls-in-brooklyn/ “Boston unveils "Embrace" sculpture of MLK and Coretta Scott King” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boston-unveils-embrace-sculpture-mlk-coretta-scott-king-rcna64990 “Understanding the AI Alignment Problem” https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-brian-christian/ E. M. Forster - The Machine Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22%20is%20a,and%20Other%20Stories%20in%201928. --- -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Let It Play” by Miguel Migs (ft. Martin Luther) --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

84. Sad Beige - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast Jan 09, 2023

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A discussion of the "sad beige" trend and other aesthetic choices in childrearing that carry thinly-veiled messages of classism, moralism, and misogyny. -- Readings & Resources: "The Sad Beige Trend Goes against All My Wild Instincts" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/04/the-sad-beige-trend-goes-against-all-my-wild-instincts "The Miseducation of Maria Montessori" https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-miseducation-of-maria-montessori --- -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Prey for Peace" by Joyce Muniz --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

83. I Promise I Am Alive - Left POCket Project Podcast Jan 02, 2023

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A quick update -- -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "(Just Like We) Breakdown" by Hot Chip --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

82. Words that Light Fires - Interview w/Brent of Rad Reads - Left POCket Project Podcast May 11, 2022

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In this episode, we speak to Brent of Rad Reads, a youtube channel where discussions of radical texts takes center stage. Readings & Resources Audio/Video: Rad Reads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFDSgzcZsjOi8XnWD2TlKg -Review: Blood in My Eye by George Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_b-0ab5ljE -Discussion: Struggling with Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJdHNl4zcs -Other Media: Twitter: RadreadsB Instagram: radreads94 Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72413401-brent Marxist Paul -”Wretched of the Earth with Rad Reads”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDDjC9ZlYA Louis Allday - Liberated Texts: https://liberatedtexts.com/ Louis Allday - “Our Enemies Know the Power of Books” (Interview) - Millennials are Killing Capitalism Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/anticapitalist-millennials/our-enemies-know-the-power-of Left POCket Project Podcast - “Combahee River Collective Statement” (Reading Revolution Discussion): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/47-combahee-river-collective-statement-readingrevolution/id1329313097?i=1000489874990 Books/Essays/Articles H. Rap Brown - Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin Frantz Fanon - Wretched of the Earth (Constance Farrington Translation) James Yaki Sayles - Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings George Jackson - Blood in My Eye Robin D. G. Kelley - Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonalism J. Moufawad-Paul - Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain Harry Haywood - Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: A History Edward Onaci - Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State Sanyika Shakur - Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy Toni Morrison: Playing in the Dark The Bluest Eye Sula Dan Berger - ““Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika” https://www.aaihs.org/free-the-land-fifty-years-of-the-republic-of-new-afrika/ Atiba Shanna - “On Captured Citizens, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War: a New Afrikan Perspective http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/Republic_of_New_Afrika/513.RNA.Atiba.Shanna.On.Captured.Citizens.pdf Additional Authors Mentioned: Gloria Naylor Ursula K. Le Guin Octavia Butler Walter Rodney Gerald Horne

81. Love as the Practice of Freedom (discussion) - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast Jan 24, 2022

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In this episode - a Reading Revolution installment - we discuss the essay "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks and how it can apply to our contemporary leftist formations and debates on revolution. --- Readings & Resources bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" (essay) https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf "Love as the Practice of Freedom" (audio) https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/77-love-as-the-practice-of-freedom-readingrevolution-left-pocket-project-podcast Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of "Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJKJZU7xXU&t=532s bell hooks on Freire https://t.co/vIrwItLrO4 The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514 ---- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

Mutual Aid Alert - MASKS Jan 12, 2022

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I'm taking requests again for N95s Contact me for a packet if you're: -an outward-facing worker in financial need -disabled/pregnant/elderly/caretaker in financial need who requires high-grade masks for daily tasks twitter: @MuseWendi twitter: @LeftPOC patreon.com/leftpoc email: leftpocketproject@gmail.com to donate to my efforts, please visit: paypal: http://paypal.me/wendimuse venmo: @wendimuse cashapp: $wendimuse please write "masks" in the notes & be sure to spell my name correctly (i not a y) so it goes to the right place finally, please find the funding/spending chart here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n5GRmfPjOdapwFVFdPpd7rQRp31Gc6SrPiyjREAmbU4/edit?usp=sharing

80. My Problem with China in Africa - Left POCket Project Podcast Dec 31, 2021

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A spicy take to close out 2021 and Podmas on "China in Africa" -- -Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

79. What Goes Unsaid on Family Social Media - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast Dec 31, 2021

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In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #20, I talk about the dark underbelly of mom and family based social media. --- Readings & Resources "Biracials Are Fighting for Their Lives on TikTok" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJJBW8VkeZM --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q

78. Anger - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast Dec 28, 2021

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In this episode, a #ComradeMommy installment and Podmas #19, I talk about anger. --- Readings & Resources "What will the pandemic look like in 2022?" interview w/ Eric Topol https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2021/12/16/what-will-the-pandemic-look-like-in-2022 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Image by Noa Denman --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

77. "Love as the Practice of Freedom" - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast Dec 25, 2021

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In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment and Podmas #18, I read "Love as the Practice of Freedom" by bell hooks. --- Readings & Resources bell hooks - "Love as the Practice of Freedom" https://uucsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

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