You can listen to the LIVE stream here. The month of December played an important role in the American Revolution. Yesterday was the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Reactions to the Boston Tea Party Are Suprising.This is what John Adams had to say on December 17th, 1773, the day after. John Adams, normally a staid and conservative individual, thought that it was the perfect expression by a people who had lost their rights and needed to demonstrate how dire things were. The Last StrawThe Boston Tea Party was the straw that broke the camel's back. For years Ben Franklin attempted to convince George III and Parliament of how unjust the taxes levied on the Colonies were. George III needed to pay for the war against France, and considered…
By Orange And The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to Podcast Post Page Why would we ever feel isolated if we can a presence with at all times, helping us mind our moods? A constant Copilot. [shared_counts] What We Found Unsettling Others May Soon AcceptWhen Chat GPT is so fluent and can even adopt personalities tailored to your whims, why you not turn to it as a companion? Are novel words all that you need to make you forget you're not speaking with a human?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRa6excE6ps&t=188s [shared_counts]
By Orange and The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Ask no questions and you shall be told no lies. That is nearly as disdainful as let them eat cake. [shared_counts] https://youtu.be/eWd5QsZf9oE?feature=sharedLet's Go Back In Time To 2013Senator Whitmer claims she was raped, yet she let convicted felons loose during COVID and just signed a law that gives former convicts voting rights. Does this position square with someone who was a victim of sexual assault?This speech, speaking truth to power, garnered her an interview with Salon Magazine. It appears there is a path to the ascension of power.https://www.salon.com/2013/12/23/why_i_spoke_out_about_my_sexual_assault_sen_gretchen_whitmer_talks_to_salon/I want to ask you about the end of your testimony. You mentioned that the rape, 20 years ago, is “something that I’ve hidden for a long time.” What spurred you to…
You can listen to the LIVE stream here. Our Christmas traditions are a wonderful blend of our western culture. When those values are reflected in literature we want our children to experience them. https://youtu.be/sUGACO6WVI4?feature=sharedThe Melting Pot 1.0Holy, rowan, mistletoe are facets of Germanic and Norse mythology that were transplanted to England with the arrival of the Saxons and again with the Danes.The Yule Log is also a mixture of Christian and Nordic tradition celebrated during the month of December. The Twelve Days of Christmas have their origin in part in the Twelve Days of Yule.https://www.acropolis.ie/magazine-posts/yule/For the people of Germania, Scandinavia, and Anglo-Saxon England, understanding the cycles of nature and the sun, in particular, was critical to survival, and celebrating the winter solstice is an ancient pagan tradition ...Yuletide was extended…
By Orange and The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Increasingly we see a reliance on remote, and automated systems as an expression of faith, whether it be genetic testing guiding our health decisions, or AI acting as a sentinel for our education. [shared_counts] AI Better At Policing Human Behavior Than HumansBig Tech social media companies are THE authority on online behavior, they assure us their AI detection systems are superior to human interaction.https://youtu.be/cFceffZQGuE?si=G_u-9-Xs9B-GYO_VIncreasingly we are turning to authority to do our thinking. Just a few years ago that was a select group on experts who we conversed with via the Internet. WebMD, Wikipedia are entities that represent the efforts of trained of subject matter experts who provide the best advice or knowledge that is the result of the…
You can listen to the LIVE stream here. One town in American hugely influenced our winter holidays. Two self educated women led the efforts to make Thanksgiving a prominent holiday. From Medford to Bedford Falls, these are some fascinating origin stories. Over The River LyricsIn my mind Mark Twain would sound like this southern gentleman, so I created a narration of Over The River with his voice.LyricsOver the river and through the woods,To grandmother's house we go;The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh,Through (the) white and drifted snow!Over the river and through the woods,Oh, how the wind does blow!It stings the toes and bites the nose,As over the ground we go.Over the river and through the woods,To have a first-rate play;Oh, hear the bells ring, "Ting-a-ling-ling!"Hurrah for Thanksgiving…
By Orange and The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream For a year we have warned that AI would become the new infallible source of judgement and expertise, not because it was a superior form of thinking, but because it was yet another mechanism to fool people into believing a source of authority. [shared_counts] https://youtu.be/9B6DMShBV6k?si=aMrBSXXgtcZNtm6lWe Warned That AI Will Be Touted As The Next SaviorIn Severed Conscience, in Rationed State and many other podcasts we have described the bait and switch of AI, where AI will be offered as a superior solution based on higher accuracy yet it will be programmed to merely produce the result that is favored by those untouched by the consequence of their actions. In Artificially Intelligent we wroteIn some case the A.I. application failed…
You can listen to the LIVE stream here. No book captures the American spirit better than The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain's satire depicts the strengths and weaknesses of the 1800s, something we need to learn from. https://youtu.be/-PmmMG-6mwo?si=TSGPqAfu0VXWSYzl Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer We have all, at one or another, been loved by A Tom or pursued a Becky, Mark Twain depicts the courtship of Tom and Becky in such a way that easily conjours our…
By OrangeZipple1 and The Mighty Humanzee Link Back to LIVE Stream Platforms are here to devour your speech, no matter how egalitarian, libertarian the Selected Few may sound. What is it that compels us to acknowledge the Selected Ones? [shared_counts] [shared_counts] Opening Day 1937A better more robust culture, it required more of you. https://youtu.be/Ib8_8gwqezM?si=Lh0EEMC-GjJgAxDNYou Threaten Democracy By Questioning the Vote, But Also By Wanting Local Property RightsIn Michigan, law makers now say due process and the exercise of "democracy" delays the agenda. They forget that they said democracy is what they protect when they reject people such as we who believe in Natural Law, the rule of law, and well, our state laws.https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/commentary/is-democracy-too-messy-in-michiganThere was a consistent thread in the Michigan Senate Energy and Environment Committee meeting Tuesday: Democracy is too messy.…
You can listen to the LIVE stream here. What do we pass on to our children, how do we teach them that it's the consistent, constant, quiet endurance that the true heroes, our veterans possessed that is to be honored? https://youtu.be/txAQK89Mpa4?feature=shared Armistice Day - Never AgainOriginally Armistice Day was a commemoration of the lost American military service during World War I, November 11th the day of the cease fire. It wasn't until 1954, November 11th that it became a day to honor American Veterans of all wars. It was to originally mark the great loss of World War I in hopes that such a conflict would never happen again. Captain Eddie RickenbackerWorld War One AceHe was originally turned down for enlistment for lack of education but was persistent, and on…
