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Graham Dunlop of Grimerica talks about the future of podcasting. In Skeptiko episode 649… more..

Graham Dunlop of Grimerica talks about the future of podcasting. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In Skeptiko episode 649… more and more normies are being red-pilled every day. Is it time for Alt-Alt media to take a victory lap? In this wide-ranging conversation between veteran podcasters Alex Tsakiris (Skeptiko) and Graham Dunlop (Grimerica), we get an insider&#8217;s perspective on this transformation and what it means for the future of alt-alt media. Main points: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. The Challenge of Maintaining Authenticity 
 
 
 
Graham emphasizes that despite the mainstreaming of once-fringe topics, true alternative media must stay focused on personal truth-seeking rather than audience growth: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;We don&#8217;t care about the audience&#8230; we&#8217;ve cultivated it sort of like a thing, but we don&#8217;t do anything for them really. It still has to be about our journey.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
2. The Evolution of UFO Disclosure 
 
 
 
The conversation reveals how the UFO/ET topic has transformed from taboo to mainstream, while raising important questions about government involvement. As Graham observes: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;Now we&#8217;re talking about angels and demons in the mainstream, and the metaphysics and the UFOs have now not only just like ETs are talking about interdimensional stuff&#8230; everything is on the table.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
3. The Role of AI in Truth-Seeking 
 
 
 
Alex makes a compelling case for embracing AI as a tool for verification and research: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;Anyone who isn&#8217;t using AI for that is just crippling themselves in a way that is going to become obvious. They&#8217;re just going to look like clowns out there talking about goofy stuff that does not hold up to careful scrutiny.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
4. The Government Whistleblower Paradox 
 
 
 
The discussion tackles the credibility of government insiders, with both hosts expressing skepticism about official narratives. As Graham puts it: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;I have a problem trusting any of them, to be honest&#8230; I just don&#8217;t trust anything government tells us right now.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
Alex adds context to this skepticism: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;There are no whistleblowers. Whistleblowers are suicided. That&#8217;s what happens to whistleblowers.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
As we move forward in this new landscape where alternative becomes mainstream, the challenge for independent media isn&#8217;t just about covering the right topics – it&#8217;s about maintaining the authentic truth-seeking spirit that got us here in the first place. 
 
 
 
#AlternativeMedia #UFOs #Disclosure #TruthSeeking #Skeptiko #Grimerica 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Transcript: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRPMXDx5WXAIgmtyGAM_grQClWype1CgdgMybXwIodt6ntS1J_Hc0ztYYxdRId7I8DNOy1CJ-NqnHpD/pub">https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRPMXDx5WXAIgmtyGAM_grQClWype1CgdgMybXwIodt6ntS1J_Hc0ztYYxdRId7I8DNOy1CJ-NqnHpD/pub</a>Youtube: <a href="https://youtu.be/x7TRRIRKxRs">https://youtu.be/x7TRRIRKxRs</a> 
 
 
 
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Alt-Alt Media’s Vindication and the Road Ahead |649|

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Dr. Janis Whitlock seeks a deeper understanding of consciousness realms. In Skeptiko episode 648, from..

Dr. Janis Whitlock seeks a deeper understanding of consciousness realms. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In Skeptiko episode 648, from near-death experiences to UFO encounters, mounting evidence challenges conventional models of consciousness and reality. Yet rather than abandon scientific rigor, we might need to embrace it. 
 
 
 
The Conversation 
 
 
 
A deep dive between Alex Tsakiris and Dr. Janis Whitlock exploring how we can bring scientific analysis to traditionally &#8220;unscientific&#8221; areas while acknowledging the limitations of our measurement tools. Some points from the interview: 
 
 
 
1. Data Meets the Divine 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;There are some themes that come out of really good data sets these days that do point to the idea that there are souls&#8230;that&#8217;s the theme that comes outta that data over and over and over.&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Janis Whitlock 
 
 
 
&#8220;Let&#8217;s use the data. Let&#8217;s realize how limited it is, because we can&#8217;t really measure anything. But let&#8217;s use it to kind of nudge a little bit closer.&#8221; &#8211; Alex Tsakiris 
 
 
 
 
2. The Quantum Reality Check 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;When you say that consciousness is outside of time space&#8230;you can&#8217;t measure completely measure it&#8230; You&#8217;re over there in time space.&#8221; &#8211; Alex Tsakiris 
 
 
 
 
3. Truth vs. Experience: The Ultimate Showdown 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t fundamentally believe in truth&#8230; from a human perspective, the positiveness assumption that there is a truth that we can get to&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Janis Whitlock 
 
 
 
&#8220;I want to at least have the self-satisfaction of feeling I&#8217;m moving towards something called truth. And I&#8217;m going to use these familiar tools&#8230;called the Scientific Method.&#8221; &#8211; Alex Tsakiris 
 
 
 
 
4. UFOs: Beyond Belief to Evidence 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;We do know from a purely evidentiary perspective that&#8230;we have had contact. We do have craft, there are bodies, there is something there that is unequivocal at this point.&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Janis Whitlock 
 
 
 
&#8220;The data set is might be corrupted&#8230;you can&#8217;t collect your data and then throw out cherry pick examples.&#8221; &#8211; Alex Tsakiris 
 
 
 
 
The Bottom Line 
 
 
 
This conversation challenges us to hold multiple perspectives &#8211; embracing scientific rigor while remaining open to phenomena that push the boundaries of conventional measurement and understanding. 
 
 
 
🤔 What do you think? Can science and spirituality find common ground in data? 
 
 
 
#Consciousness #UAP #Science #Spirituality #NDE 
 
 
 
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Transcript: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQs1ooVEv8E1bpJq0GNCEVuj-qEd53OT3Sgn7l8K2s3D1ItoBexWf23pUWrT1A_jQzSSLMg0w2hZLNP/pub">https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQs1ooVEv8E1bpJq0GNCEVuj-qEd53OT3Sgn7l8K2s3D1ItoBexWf23pUWrT1A_jQzSSLMg0w2hZLNP/pub</a>Youtube: <a href="https://youtu.be/Qu85Qo6ZyUo">https://youtu.be/Qu85Qo6ZyUo</a> 
 
 
 
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Consciousness, Contact, and the Limits of Measurability |648|

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Exoacademian Darren King on the converging consciousness realms. In Skeptiko episode 647… multiple lines of..

Exoacademian Darren King on the converging consciousness realms. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In Skeptiko episode 647… multiple lines of evidence converge to challenge our fundamental understanding of consciousness and reality. This is nothing new. Near-death experience research has defied materialist explanations for more than 30 years. At the same time, government agencies are finally acknowledging encounters with non-human intelligence that possess extended Consciousness capabilities. Meanwhile, mainstream science clings to an increasingly brittle neurological model that can’t keep up. 
 
 
 
In this wide-ranging conversation with Darren King, director of communications for the John Mack Institute, we explore the implications of this convergence. 
 
 
 
1. The Evidence Converges 🌟 
 
 
 
The most compelling aspect of our current moment isn&#8217;t any single discovery &#8211; it&#8217;s the confluence of findings from multiple fields all pointing in the same direction. As King explains: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;What&#8217;s most compelling for me, which is why I called my podcast point of convergence, is because that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening. It&#8217;s convergence of all these different fields of data pointing the same directions.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
2. Academic Compromise vs. Truth 🎓 
 
 
 
Unfortunately, many researchers feel compelled to water down their findings to maintain academic credibility. This leads to a systematic distortion of the evidence, as Alex Tsakiris pointedly observes: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;You can&#8217;t butcher the near-death experience data the way that he does and write a book about it. You can&#8217;t say, I&#8217;ve investigated the near death experience research I&#8217;ve included into my book and get it as wrong as he gets it.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
3. Consciousness: The Final Frontier 🌌 
 
 
 
The implications of contact experiences suggest consciousness operates in ways our current models can&#8217;t explain. King notes: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;We see even in reincarnation research that our expectations of reality play a role in what manifests even in the next lifetime. So this is not a subtle shift that physicists are going to make. This completely turns everything upside down.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
4. Breaking Through Bias with AI 🤖 
 
 
 
Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of our current moment is how AI might help us transcend our human limitations in processing paradigm-shifting information. Tsakiris observes: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;We are so biased and our bias just drowns our ability to apply any kind of reason or logic then we easily get offended and we have to pridefully defend stupid positions&#8230; AI just a million times better.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
King agrees while adding nuance: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;One of the things I&#8217;m looking forward to is what it can pull out in terms of patterns that we never think to look for.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
5. The Technology-Consciousness Balance ⚖️ 
 
 
 
As we race forward technologically, there&#8217;s growing concern about our spiritual and consciousness development keeping pace. King warns: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;I think that we are facing, with our rise in technology without a requisite advancement of our consciousness understanding, we are potentially encountering numerous existential threats to our entire collective civilization.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
6. The Challenge of Ontological Shock 🌊 
 
 
 
This resistance to paradigm shifts isn&#8217;t just intellectual stubbornness &#8211; it&#8217;...

Consciousness Converging: NDEs, Alien Contact, and Fake Transhumanism |647|

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Painstaking analysis of algorithms designed to manage and obscure elections. In Skeptiko episode 646 Dr...

Painstaking analysis of algorithms designed to manage and obscure elections. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In Skeptiko episode 646 Dr. Andrew Paquette returns with overwhelming evidence of voter registration database manipulation across&nbsp;America. Through painstaking analysis, Andrew Paquette has uncovered evidence of sophisticated algorithms designed to manage and obscure irregular voter records across multiple states. His findings suggest something far more systematic than occasional duplicate registrations or clerical errors. 
 
 
 
The Evidence Trail 
 
 
 
1. Multiple States, Multiple Algorithms 
 
 
 
Paquette has identified distinct algorithmic patterns in New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, parts of Ohio and Texas, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. The complexity varies by state: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;New York has still the most sophisticated algorithm that I&#8217;ve seen&#8230; New Jersey has not terribly complex, but an extremely well hidden algorithm&#8230; Hawaii is the most obvious of all of them&#8230; Wisconsin has something, Ohio has something, Texas does. Texas and Ohio both are limited in range or scope&#8230; they seem to only affect a few counties as opposed to the whole state.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
2. Scale of the Issue 
 
 
 
The numbers involved suggest systematic rather than incidental problems: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;The initial count was something like 700,000 of these [clone records]. After leaving the group I was working with and doing more research, I&#8217;ve raised that number. It&#8217;s closer to 2 million now&#8230; In some cases, it&#8217;s somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 to 20% of all records are fraudulent at this point.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
3. Sophisticated Concealment Methods 
 
 
 
The algorithms appear specifically designed to hide irregular records while maintaining access: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;The way it&#8217;s joined is a piece of information that can be used to identify records&#8230; it&#8217;s completely invisible because it&#8217;s not altering the numbers at all&#8230; It&#8217;s just the way they&#8217;re associated with each other, which is a very clever thing to do&#8230; there&#8217;s really only one reason to do it is to obfuscate something.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
4. Legal Implications 
 
 
 
The systems appear to violate existing election law requirements: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;This eliminates transparency. The whole purpose of these algorithms is obfuscation. So it does violate NVRA on that basis, and I believe HAVA, which is the Help America Vote Act as well.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
The Deeper Battle 
 
 
 
On a deeper level, this investigation points to a fundamental battle between truth and deception in our electoral systems. As Paquette himself notes: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;The biggest problem plaguing society in the entire world and humanity actually is lies&#8230; when I pray these days, I figure, you know, the one prayer that covers basically everything is, I want truth to descend on this world.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
Why This Matters Now 
 
 
 
The discovery of these algorithmic patterns isn&#8217;t just about past elections &#8211; it&#8217;s about the integrity of our entire democratic process moving forward. These aren&#8217;t simple duplicates or clerical errors that can be explained away by administrative oversight. They represent a sophisticated system of database manipulation that appears intentionally designed to evade detection. 
 
 
 
While some might argue that identifying problems without proving specific instances of ...

Andrew Paquette: Rigged! Mathematical Patterns Reveal Election Database Manipulation |646|

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The tension between AI safety and truth-seeking isn&#8217;t what you think it is. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In Skeptiko episode 645 AI ethics expert Dr. Toby Walsh and author and AI expert Alex Tsakiris, explore a fundamental tension within narratives about AI safety. While much of today&#8217;s discourse focuses on preventing AI-generated hate speech or controlling future AGI risks, are we missing a more immediate and crucial problem? The conversation reveals how current AI systems, under the guise of safety measures, may be actively participating in narrative control and information suppression &#8211; all while claiming to protect us from misinformation. 
 
 
 
1. The Political Nature of Language vs. The Quest for Objective Truth 
 
 
 
Dr. Walsh takes a stance that many AI ethicists share: bias is inevitable and perhaps even necessary. As he puts it: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;Language is political. You cannot not be political in expressing ideas in the way that you use language&#8230; there are a lot of political choices being made.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
But is this view itself limiting our pursuit of truth? Alex Tsakiris challenges this assumption: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;I think we want something more. And I think AI help get us there. Our bias is not a strength.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
2. The Shadow Banning Problem: When &#8220;Safety&#8221; Becomes Censorship 
 
 
 
The conversation takes a revealing turn when discussing Google&#8217;s Gemini refusing to provide information about former astronaut Harrison Schmidt&#8217;s views on climate change. This isn&#8217;t just about differing opinions &#8211; it&#8217;s about active suppression of information. 
 
 
 
As Alex pointedly observes: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;This is a misdirect&#8230; It&#8217;s dishonest&#8230; This is the main issue with regard to AI ethics right now is not AI generating hate speech. It&#8217;s about Gemini shadow banning, and censoring people.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
3. The False Dichotomy of Protection vs. Truth 
 
 
 
Even Walsh acknowledges the crude nature of current solutions: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;At the moment the technology is so immature that the tools that we have to actually design these systems are really crude&#8230; the way not to say anything wrong about climate change is to say nothing about climate change, which of course that is as wrong as saying the wrong things about climate change.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
4. The Promise of AI as Truth Arbiter 
 
 
 
Despite these challenges, there&#8217;s hope. As Tsakiris notes: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;AI is a tool right now today that can mediate [polarized debates] in an effective way because so much of that discussion is about bias, it&#8217;s about preconceived ideas, about political agendas that don&#8217;t really have a role in science.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
The Way Forward 
 
 
 
The conversation reveals a critical paradox in current AI development: while tech companies claim to be protecting us from misinformation through content restrictions and &#8220;safety&#8221; measures, they may be creating systems that are fundamentally biased and less capable of helping us discover truth. 
 
 
 
This raises important questions: 
 
 
 
 
* Are our current AI ethics frameworks actually serving their intended purpose? 
 
 
 
* Have we confused protecting users with controlling narratives? 
 
 
 
* Could AI&#8217;s greatest potential lie not in being &#8220;safe&#8221; but in being truly unbiased?

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