Comedy Gems. Podcasts. Radio. Video.

November 4, 2020March 24, 2021

“Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a minefield.” – Jerry Stiller

Comedy Gems: Podcasts, Radio and Video (US/UK 1980 to 2019)

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
Brass Eye – Chris Morris
Patrice O’Neal and Louis CK on Opie and Anthony
YKWD: Robert Kelly and various comic guests
Bonfire: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Two Sons (Big Jay/Soder Riff)

COMEDIANS INCLUDED:

Chris Morris
Dudley Moore
Peter Cook
Louis CK
Patrice O’Neal
Robert Kelly
Big Jay Oakerson
Dan Soder
Mark Normand
Joe List

Andrew Schultz
Anthony Cumia
Nick Mullen
Bonnie McFarlane
Mike Cannon
Tim Dillon
Mike Suarez
Gabby Bryan
Von Decarlo
Rich Vos

LESSWRONG
SHEERPOST
Error
SLASHDOT
DW.COM
SCIENCEDAILY
EUREKALERT
PHYSORG
MEDICAL
ZEROHEDGE
JANES
DEFENSENEWS

What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity?

16 May 2021 - Daniel Kokotajlo

Published on May 16, 2021 10:10 PM GMTI'm looking for a list such that for each entry on the list we can say "Yep, probably that'll happen by 2040, even conditional on no super-powerful AGI / intelligence explosion / etc." Contrarian opinions are welcome but I'm especially interested in stuff… [...]

Against Against Boredom

16 May 2021 - Logan Zoellner

Published on May 16, 2021 6:19 PM GMTI'm trying to clarify some feelings I had after reading the post Utopic Nightmares. Specifically, this bit:But in a future world where advancing technology’s returns on the human condition stop compensating for a state less than perfect hedonism, we can imagine editing boredom… [...]

Why Glen Weyl is a technocrat

16 May 2021 - ChristianKl

Published on May 16, 2021 6:01 PM GMTIn 2019 Glen Weyl wrote the article Why I Am Not A Technocrat where he asserted that while he isn't a technocrat the rationality community is technocratic. I think he suffers from a case of projection because he fails to understand the problem… [...]

Power Outage Chances

16 May 2021 - jefftk

Published on May 16, 2021 4:40 PM GMT On yesterday's post about generators, Chris asked whether power outages are worth planning for. That's a good question: very roughly, you can think of whether it is worth spending $X to handle an emergency with probability P as whether you'd be willing… [...]

Thinking About Generators

16 May 2021 - jefftk

Published on May 16, 2021 2:40 AM GMT Every so often I think about what we would do in an extended power outage. Generally this comes up when a crisis is in the news, so not a good time to buy things. During the February Texas Storm I set myself… [...]

On "Epistemic Trespassing" and Intellectual Modesty

16 May 2021 - Aidan_Kierans

Published on May 16, 2021 12:40 AM GMTEpistemic status: I’m moderately confident in the positions I endorse here, and this series is the product of several months’ research, but it only skims the surface of the literature on these questions.Bookkeeping: This post is part of a short series reviewing and… [...]

Suppose $1 billion is given to AI Safety. How should it be spent?

16 May 2021 - hunterglenn

Published on May 15, 2021 11:24 PM GMTWhat are the current bottlenecks in AI Safety progress, and if they were solved with money, what would be the next bottlenecks? Do current researchers need more money? Do we need to catalyze the creation of more researchers? Do we need to alter public… [...]

[Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time (05/17)

15 May 2021 - adamShimi

Published on May 15, 2021 10:07 PM GMTJust like every Monday now, researchers in AI Alignment are invited for a coffee time, to talk about their research and what they're into.Here is the link. And here is the everytimezone time.Note that the link to the walled garden now only works for… [...]

The Purpose of Purpose

15 May 2021 - G Gordon Worley III

Published on May 15, 2021 9:00 PM GMTI often make reference to the category I call variously purpose, care, concern, meaning, norms, or telos (I'll just use "purpose" from here on out to point to it).I've not really explained what I mean by it in great detail.That's a problem because… [...]

How Can One Tell What Is Beautiful?

15 May 2021 - Erich_Grunewald

Published on May 15, 2021 12:55 PM GMT The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art [...] if we can discover some quality common and peculiar to all the objects that… [...]

Chris Hedges: Israel, the Big Lie

14 May 2021 - Moderator

Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S. [...]

Maj. Danny Sjursen: The Russian Bounty Story Is a Deadly Example of Fake News

14 May 2021 - Moderator

The Afghanistan War veteran weighs in on U.S. intelligence agencies’ recent admission that a report that the Taliban had been paid by Russia to kill Americans is most likely false. [...]

Israeli Defense Farce

13 May 2021 - Moderator

Mr. Fish Dwayne Booth (a.k.a., Mr. Fish) is a cartoonist, freelance writer and ScheerPost regular who has been published in many reputable and prestigious magazines, journals and newspapers. In addition to Harper’s Magazine, his work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones Magazine,… [...]

How Biden Enabled Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians

12 May 2021 - natashahz

President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have already shown their cards when it comes to Israel no matter what they pay lip service to now. [...]

Israeli Real Estate Agent

12 May 2021 - Moderator

Joe Biden’s First 100 Days Were a Pentagon Prize

11 May 2021 - Moderator

The saddest story of the Biden moment is that, amid proposed domestic advances, the Pentagon is still going to be funded and fed in the all-too-usual, wildly profligate fashion. [...]

Lee Camp: 13 Facts About American Prisons That Will Blow Your Mind

10 May 2021 - Moderator

The U.S. prison system is a crime against humanity. Here are just some of the reasons why. [...]

Chris Hedges on the Ruling Class’ Revenge Against Julian Assange

7 May 2021 - Moderator

Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges joins Robert Scheer to discuss the WikiLeaks founder’s plight as he languishes in a British prison. [...]

Corporate Media Keep “Confirming” the Same False Story

5 May 2021 - Moderator

Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation. [...]

Chris Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled By Joe Biden

3 May 2021 - Moderator

What is exceptional about America is its culture of sadism. [...]

This Invisible Essential Labor Force Is Organizing for a Better Life

3 May 2021 - Moderator

The migrant women farmworkers who put food on our tables are organizing for a better future after the pandemic. [...]

Why the ACLU Abstained From the BLM Censorship Controversy

2 May 2021 - Moderator

The once-principled group issues P.R.-scripted excuses or engages in obfuscation to avoid taking stances that would offend its liberal donor base. [...]

David Harris on Whatever Happened to Americans’ Moral Compass

30 April 2021 - Moderator

Journalist and anti-war activist David Harris speaks to Robert Scheer about his resistance to America’s genocide in Vietnam and his education in federal prison. [...]

Matt Taibbi: Why “Securing Democracy” Will Be Taught in Journalism Schools

29 April 2021 - Moderator

Haters gonna hate, but Glenn Greenwald's latest is a field guide to bringing home (another) scoop of a lifetime. [...]

Standing with Women Water Protectors

28 April 2021 - Moderator

The Ojibwe, who are fighting a massive assault on their ancestral territory, are on tenterhooks waiting for a White House decision that could forever change their lands and lives. [...]

Lee Camp: The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us

26 April 2021 - Moderator

If you're looking for proof the CIA and the whole cavalcade of other intelligence agencies working with them have gotten too big, look no further than the DNI's latest report. [...]

Melina Abdullah: ‘When We Fight, We Win’

23 April 2021 - Moderator

As the jury was deliberating its verdict in George Floyd’s murder by former police officer Derek Chauvin, BLM co-founder Melina Abdullah spoke with Robert Scheer about the movement’s enormous impact and the work that remains. [...]

Glenn Greenwald: What Americans Must Urgently Learn from Brazil

22 April 2021 - Moderator

Chris Hedges talks to the journalist Glenn Greenwald on this week’s “On Contact” about his reporting exposing the corruption among Brazil’s political, judicial and economic elite. Greenwald was able to show through a trove of documents how the current Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and his crypto-fascist party manipulated the legal… [...]

The Director of National Intelligence’s Hypocritical Annual Threat Assessment

21 April 2021 - Moderator

DNI Avril Haines' Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intel Community is written in classic DC-establishment-ese but leaves room for plenty of policy indecency. [...]

What the U.S. Could’ve Done With the $2 Trillion Spent on the Afghanistan War

20 April 2021 - Moderator

Rather than leave 240,000 people dead, the U.S. could have greened half its electrical grid--for starters. [...]

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Wealthy Install Location-Tracking Apps to Establish Proof-of-Residency for Tax Purposes

16 May 2021 - EditorDavid

The New York Times shares the dilemma of Jeff Sheu, managing director of a private equity firm, who is "exactly the type of high earner California does not want to lose. When people in his tax bracket leave, the state is likely to audit them to make sure they really… [...]

Researchers Build Tiny Wireless, Injectable Chips, Visible Only Under a Microscope

16 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Implantable miniaturized medical devices that wirelessly transmit data "are transforming healthcare and improving the quality of life for millions of people," writes Columbia University, noting the devices are "widely used to monitor and map biological signals, to support and enhance physiological functions, and to treat diseases." Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger… [...]

Study Finds Alarming Levels of 'Forever Chemicals' In US Mothers' Breast Milk

16 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Slashdot reader Hmmmmmm quotes the Guardian: A new study that checked American women's breast milk for PFAS contamination detected the toxic chemical in all 50 samples tested, and at levels nearly 2,000 times higher than the level some public health advocates advise is safe for drinking water. The findings "are… [...]

New Spaceport Announced In Nova Scotia - Operational In 2023

16 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Slashdot reader boudie2 writes: Maritime Launch Services has secured financing it says will allow it to begin construction on a spaceport facility this fall and get its first launch off the ground in 2022. The first Cyclone 4M medium-class launch vehicle would take off in 2023. The company wants to… [...]

Two Satellites Lost after Rocket Lab's Second-Stage Booster Fails to Reach Orbit

16 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Space startup Rocket Lab "lost a pair of satellites as the second stage of one of its Electron rockets failed to make it to orbit Saturday," reports CNET: After a successful liftoff from the company's New Zealand launch facility, something went wrong after the first stage booster separated from the… [...]

How America Will Improve Its Cybersecurity

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Politico writes: President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered a sweeping overhaul of the federal government's approach to cybersecurity, from the software that agencies buy to the security measures that they use to block hackers, as his administration continues grappling with vulnerabilities exposed by a massive digital espionage campaign carried out… [...]

Analyzing 30 Years of Brain Research Finds No Meaningful Differences Between Male and Female Brains

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

"As a neuroscientist long experienced in the field, I recently completed a painstaking analysis of 30 years of research on human brain sex differences..." reports Lise Eliot in a recent article on The Conversation. "[T]here's no denying the decades of actual data, which show that brain sex differences are tiny… [...]

Pipeline Attacked by Ransomware Has Now Resumed Normal Operations

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Though halted last week by ransomware, America's largest gasoline pipeline announced Saturday that it's resumed normal operations, reports the Associated Press, "delivering fuel to its markets, including a large swath of the East Coast." Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline had begun the process of restarting the pipeline's operations on Wednesday evening, warning… [...]

Report: 65% of Social Media Anti-vax Propaganda Comes From Just 12 People

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Long-time Slashdot reader jhylkema writes: Just 12 people account for the lion's share of anti-vaccination propaganda posted to three of the leading social media outlets, according to a study from a London-based group opposed to online hate and disinformation. A study (PDF file) conducted by the Centre for the Countering… [...]

University Cancels $700,000 in Student Debt for 220 Graduates Affected by the Pandemic

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Delaware State University -- also known as DSU -- "is cancelling more than $700,000 in student loans for recent graduates hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic," reports CNN: DSU will cancel $730,655 for more than 220 people, the school announced this week... "Too many graduates across the country will leave… [...]

Is Computer History Also a History of Physical Pains?

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

"Decades before "Zoom fatigue" broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind," argues Laine Nooney (in a condensed version of a chapter in the 2022 book Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society.) Slashdot reader em1ly shares its… [...]

Russia Races to Beat Tom Cruise and NASA With First Movie Filmed in Space

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Which country will shoot the first movie in outer space? Russia is now "in a race with the United States to claim the achievement," reports NBC News. 36-year-old actress Yulia Peresild and 37-year-old director Klim Shepenko will complete Russia's cosmonaut-training program, ultimately taking two of the three seats aboard the… [...]

Three Students Sue Lambda School Alleging False Advertising

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

Lambda School -- incubated at Y Combinator -- raised $130 million in venture funding from several investors including Google Ventures. Its original business model involved six-month virtual computer science courses for $30,000, remembers TechCrunch, "with the option of paying for the courses in installments based on a sliding scale that… [...]

'How Lies on Social Media Are Inflaming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'

15 May 2021 - EditorDavid

The New York Times reports on misinformation that's further inflaming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In a 28-second video, which was posted to Twitter this week by a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to launch rocket attacks at Israelis from densely populated… [...]

Cloudflare Wants To Kill the CAPTCHA

15 May 2021 - BeauHD

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Cloudflare is testing out the possibility of security keys replacing one of the most irritating aspects of web browsing: the CAPTCHA. CAPTCHAs are used to catch out bots that are trawling websites and are often implemented to prevent online services from being… [...]

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