Category: Flotsam-and-Jetsam

Nashville’s Big Bomb Was a Very Rare Device, Experts Think

Fire, flash, and power signal a volatile fuel-air mix that even terrorists avoid.

Find his test sites, top bomb experts say.

Anthony Quinn Warner’s device, although probably made of common over-the-counter components, is unique in the annals of mayhem, according to seasoned FBI bomb experts consulted by SpyTalk.

LINK: https://www.thedailybeast.com/nashvilles-big-bomb-was-a-very-rare-device-experts-think

Did An Alternate Reality Game Gone Wrong Predict The Rise of QAnon?

In this fragment of SCHISM we interview the creator of ‘Ong’s Hat’, the first Alternate Reality Game, and ask what his experiences can teach us about the rise of QAnon. Is it possible that the ability to co-create and distribute our own narratives about reality could be altering its basic fabric? And has Noam Chomsky’s concept of ‘manufactured consent’ produced by centralized authority and corporate media now been outmoded by a new era of ‘manufactured dissent’, powered by networks, meme culture and supercharged shitposting? LINK: https://youtu.be/brijcd-8oWE
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Apocalypse Now

Science fiction has always been an outlet for our greatest anxieties. How the genre is exploring the reality of climate change. Plus: new words to describe the indescribable.

LINK: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments