Heat Death of the Universe

Begin with a call to prayer, naturally. What's in a meme? McDonald's tries to appeal to the perverse Dutch/Danish psyche with a virulent advert for the holidays and we are compelled to rhetorically ask: can aesthetic outrage actually move markets or will the artificial slop flood continue regardless? Internet censorship: bad idea for numerous reasons or VPN who care? What will you tell your non-existent offspring about your time in the great typeface wars of 2025? The US President of Peace co...

Finally, someone has a real plan to end the vaguely defined problems in the middle east, and that hero's initials are PBD. Various developments in the wholesale murder spree the US government is carrying out in the Carribean. Trump receives FIFA's highest award. Tucker Carlson has an unusual fixation this week, also may be consuming mind-shattering amounts of nicotine. Nap, racist tirade, nap: They're calling it the greatest regimen ever, says recent Peace Prize winner. What is Tim Dillon exa...

We talk about some stuff and apologize for it all along the way. Remembering v. 'membering. Dictionaries force their words to compete for dominance. Suicide and litigation collide in dispiriting fashion. Device hoarding and planned obsolescence add new rungs to old ladders that turn out to've been cages all along. Korean ferry crashes, loneliness. A well-known LLM settles the mystery of Elliott Smith's death once and for all. The penetrating gaze of antizionism and the epic meme reactions to ...

We've returned from the temporary grave to the temporary non-grave. Some explanation about the absence is given. Then we catch up on the last five months of The News. C'mon, you know the thing. Recorded on Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 around 11.00 AM Korea Standard Time Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY Support: patreon / buzzsprout Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org Genral Recommendations Josh's Recommendations: 1) David Berman's band, Silver Jews, and book of poetry, Actual...

Recorded half a day before the US officially struck Iran, we vented, cleansed, and purged about the last week, which was jam-packed with escalations between American's gun in the shape of a genocidal illegal settler colonial state and Iran, including all of the absurd beyond all parody and satire levels of ulcer-forming propaganda and pseudo-debate and commentary surrounding this. Before and after that we try to keep things a little lighter and discuss how the universe is cruel because Kristi...