The Age of Transitions
Author and digital filmmaker Aaron Franz hosts this podcast about transhumanism, social manipulation, the occult, and much more.

You can fool most of the people all the time. That’s it. 

Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network swag bags, camping in Sequoia National Forest, power of nature, natural and artificial worlds, transience of life, metaphysics, matter and energy, void, subjective life, creation coming to life, echo chambers, atomized society, digital life, Cult 45, ease of conning masses, conscious vs subconscious, autonomous wheel, computers, algorithms, machine learning systems, dread of future, remixing remaking and rehashing everything, physical and virtual immortality, psychedelic world, alchemy, possibility of authoritarian government, political order

Direct download: 389_Splitting_the_Atomized.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:23am EDT

The Venus Project might bring an abundance of something, but first let’s talk politics. 

Topics include: Neuralink, competing with AI, brain implants, transhumanism, F35 spare parts missing, MIC, Red Team complains about government spending except for defense budget, politics don’t make sense, drone simulation kill operator, out of context, AGI a smokescreen, Peter Diamandis, techno utopian stance harder to promote today, Zeitgeist Movement, Venus Project, abundance nonsense, creativity allows you to realize there are other approaches, depression, infinite possibility, philosophy of society, optimism, life extension, food preservatives, oil, scary Democrats, politics of division, media

Direct download: 388_Abundantly_Clear.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:18pm EDT

Red Pilling ourselves to the point where Social Security numbers are mere zeros and ones for us to bullet time jump through. 

Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network donation swag, big things happening right now, LLMs, deep fakes, AI generated imagery, motion pictures, legislation to halt AI development, Promethean Fire, Social Security numbers, identification, AGI, Ellul, the system molds us, mass man, mass confusion, ubiquitous propaganda and misinformation, social media, internet of the past, AI Gold Rush, gold symbolism, metaphor equal to or greater than reality, Stewart Rhodes and other false prophets

Direct download: 387_AI_Gold_Rush.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:15am EDT

Particle Ion was Aaron’s collaborator on the TransAlchemy blog/website. It has been over a decade since then, but some of the topics discussed on TA are only just now becoming big news stories. 

Topics include: TransAlchemy, making videos, Singularity Summit 2009, Ai art, Midjourney, intellectual property, ChatGPT, LLMs, writer’s strike, actors, deep fakes, Ai generated movies, music, impossible to trust imagery now, internet, metaverse, VR headsets, virtual reality, transhumanism, social media, Twitter, Elon Musk, AGI vs narrow Ai, machine learning, intelligence, consciousness, scientific method, software, AI writing code, hacking, intangibles, occult side of tech, existential threat

Direct download: 386_Particle_Ion_interview.mp3
Category:interview -- posted at: 11:59pm EDT

The practice of science requires philosophical impetus. Every meaningful action we take is predicated by an idea. This is how the intangible alters the physical. 

topics include: science, alchemy, scientific theories, ideas, mysticism, Great Work, Philosopher's Stone, Tucker Carlson

Direct download: 385_The_Philosophers_Theory.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:54am EDT

Living in a machine’s world makes an obsolete man out of all of us. 

Topics include: Columbus 9/11 Truth Group, truthing, film fest, Wind Storm 08, drive to California, Google Video views, interview requests, The Obsolete Man, burning DVDs, computer programming languages, Tandy, early PCs, Windows OS, knowledge limited to using app interfaces, machine world, Battlestar Galactica, training algorithmic systems, AI bias, Elon Musk, internet troll ethos, 3D printing, sculpture, 3D modeling, Fusion 360, art, JFK, martial law for freedom, military dictatorship, Smedley Butler

Direct download: 384_A_Machines_World.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:11am EDT

Vanessa Walilko is the host of the Personal Pans podcast, and guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions. No one ever said that arcane matters had to be dark and scary, so come join us by listening to our brief conversation. 

Topics include: Personal Pans podcast, Pans Paracon, nerd communities, Book It, fundamentalist religion, belief systems, occult info online, metaphysical and physical realities, intelligent design, mathematics and measurements, thoughts, consciousness, missionary work rejected by South American indigenous community, ancient mysteries, paranormal, media literacy

Direct download: 383_Vanessa_Walilko_interview_Personal_Pans.mp3
Category:interview -- posted at: 1:39am EDT

You will use Bing, and you will like it. 

 

Topics include: Bing on Skype, ChatGPT, LLM, artificial intelligence, attention economy, analytics, possibility of alien mothership, Nibiru, Bill Gates, cobalt mining, Trump indictment, Jan 6, Jimmy’s grocery store story, mail getting lost

Direct download: 382_Bing_Grabs_Our_Attention.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:21am EDT

A new Magna Carta for a new day is being written in digital code. 

Topics include: t-shirts and hats, sovereign citizens, Magna Carta, Thanatos, apocalypse, social media, generative AI, Ben Goertzel, machine replacing man

Direct download: 381_The_ChatGPT_Magna_Carta.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:25am EDT

The Pentagon hopes to bolster its tech prowess by partnering with a faltering private sector. 

Topics include: JADC2, DoD, AI, cybersecurity, digital warfare, new Cold War, Iraq War, lies, Post-Truth, Oath Keepers, Jan 6

Direct download: 380_Private_Sector_Reporting_For_Duty.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:22am EDT