WCS 69: Monday’s exploding devices, et al

The robber baron era is upon us, and your ass ain’t eatin’

On Monday, America turns back its clocks is a thing I’ve been saying this week, but that’s only true in the cultural sense. This weekend ought to see us preparing to join a brave new world of tech-forward governance.

For example, I am bracing for my phone to explode on the first call of next week.

Let’s have a big thank-you to our corporate media overlords for breaking their embargo on the decades-old news that America’s bound for oligarchical rule. Brought to you by the people who decided humanity should learn the benefits of psychedelics five decades after San Francisco’s Summer of Love, this news allows you to feel like we can affect the course of monstrously unfettered commerce. And isn’t that good enough?

For minions in the making.

The time we handed over our digital societies to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, two people who visibly struggle with relating to people. That won’t be a species benchmark, will it? And those memories of a temporarily abandoned former President Trump helicoptering away from the White House with no one there to see him off. What might have been only looks more lovely when contrasted with four very real years of shit on the national menu.

Now, let’s do the 10 thing again!

10 Please don’t water the Resnicks

Stuart and Lynda Resnick are the California water power couple. When parts of LA went up in flames last week, the couple behind The Wonderful Company came to the conversation fore as Golden State H2O mavens.

(Take everything you are inclined to from the podcast episode number)

Having gone to J-school at a university in California‘s Central Valley, I am semi-fluent in the complicated politics of California water. So, when right-wing talking points instantly over-simplified and distorted the causes behind LA’s struggle to make fire bye-bye, I went looking for clarity and found some in The Dollop, a comedy history podcast that I first came to know from its White supremacy in Oregon episode.
The Dollop