#world class podcasting

[mentornationpodcast]

Can you get Rich from Investing in Wine? with Anthony Zhang

In this episode I interview Anthony Zhang. Anthony is the Founder of vinovest.co, a rapidly growing platform that allows people all around the world to invest in wine and manage their investment entirely from their smartphone. With alternative investments exploding right now such as sports cards, NFTs, crypto currencies, I thought it would be powerful to interview an expert on wine since it has outperformed the S&P 500 for the last 30 years.

#mentor nation #mentor nation podcast #mentor podcast #podcast #podcasting #mentor podcasting #business podcast #world class podcasting #world class podcast #podcast with John Abbas

[worldsbeyondpod]

The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived! It’s our pleasure to announce that the Witch Class is now available to playtest, free for patrons. With spell tokens, covens, and curses, explore a variety of flavorful new mechanics at your table.

In the next few months we'll be putting together a questionnaire for anyone who's interested in giving us feedback, so keep your eyes open for that. We can't wait to hear your thoughts!

Check out the new class, and much more, at patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber

Extra special thanks go out to our incredible collaborators on this project:

Design: Mazey Veselak, Brandes Stoddard Additional Design & Editing: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Hannah Rose, Erika Ishii Playtester in Chief: Erika Ishii

Layout: Ruby Lavin

Illustrators: Corey Brickley, Tucker Donovan, Lorena Lammer, Taylor Moore

#worlds beyond number #ttrpg podcast #lou wilson #erika ishii #the wizard the witch and the wild one #actual play #podcast #ttrpg #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #Witch class #dnd 5e

[andthebeanstalk]

My first time watching Glass Onion it was obvious that Miles' speeches were bullshit, but I still searched for any hidden meaning there might be.

The second time is a different experience though because every time my brain starts to search for meaning, I feel like Benoit Blanc discovering that no, there is absolutely no hidden meaning.

It's bullshit it's all nothing nothing nothing! It is just how you end up talking when everyone reacts to your self-aggrandizing word vomit like it is actually wisdom.

Also, legit, when Miles gave his stupid bullshit speech about what the word 'disruptor' means to him, I shit you not I was like holy shit am I back in business school right now?!

Miles must have given speeches like that at 100 business school graduations, goddamn.

Like, the motherfuckers really do sound like this. We didn't have any billionaires come, but we had a lot of millionaire guest speakers in my classes, and they fucking talk like that.

They all think they're rugged capitalists, but they're just glass onions!

#original #glass onion #it's just. business school prepared me really well to succeed in the business world as a straight white neurotypical #able-bodied cis man with a large network of very wealthy friends and family #I really would have killed it if I wasn't a queer autistic cripple! #even the best teachers seemed incredibly unaware of the enormous privilege that they were assuming in their students when they taught #but they basically presupposed you had infinite energy and savings and a disturbingly large number of my classes were just #lectures about pushing as hard as you can no matter what #they used Starbucks as an example of an admirable case of somebody who persisted in going to 150 investor pitches before being approved #and like. how many people do you know who have enough savings to schedule plan and attend 150 investor pitches? #how many people do you know who could set up even 12 through their connections? #where are those savings coming from? where are those investor pitch meetings coming from? those aren't easy to get!! #but none of this was ever mentioned it was just awesome that the guy kept trying I guess. #I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to have dug deeper into some of the examples we were given that a lot of those #real life businesses probably started with a big big loan from somebody's parents #I was listening to the show you're wrong about which is a really good podcast and Michael Hobbs was like #anytime you see an article glorifying someone's financial success especially at a young age you should control F for 'parents' #because chances are you will probably see the word 'parents' somewhere next to the words 'million dollar loan' #anyway college is a scam. the community aspect was incredibly cool but I don't see why we as a culture need to only be able to access that #kind of community when we are paying a scam Institution a shitload of money for Educations that aren't helpful for the majority of us #if College was free then people could actually study things that are useful or fun for them #I took most of my courses just to fill out my major too. the point wasn't to learn it was to graduate. #and then it turned out that if you're disabled in the way i am it doesn't matter if you have a college degree! #but I'm sure miles would say I just need to pull myself up by my bootstraps. and that's why I'm glad his life got exploded 😌 #andi kept him around for his money - why else would he be there when no one even liked him?? #he was the bankroll #one time I swear to god we just had the guy from American Psycho just a real ass Patrick Bateman #it was wild watching that movie later and being like ???? I know this guy! #outside of the actual murder scenes everything in that movie is not exaggerated in the slightest those bitches really are like that #like my parents are not 1% level rich so there'd be no giant loans but they are rich. it'd be stupid to act like i didn't benefit from that

[wreathedwith]

When I was struggling to come to terms with my own schooling and upbringing and the awfulness of it, I read this whole thing about Philby and his betrayal and it just really sat well with me. I just thought: yeah, of course. Of course he did that. Of course he wanted-- Of course it was a big 'fuck you' to the establishment. Of course it was. He just sat there, for years, watching them squirm because he fucking hated them. And I think Cornwall, I think le Carré, he definitely hated them as well.

Ben Willbond, Comfort Blanket podcast on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

#Ben Willbond understands class! #Ben Willbond understands his own trauma! #Ben Willbond feels partially but not fully and fluently part of various worlds and spheres! #this was an excellent podcast and accurate and savage and heartbreaking #Ben Willbond #go off ben yes the establishment is awful #the best observers are writers actors and spies

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#this podcast is such a gem #god bless them all class dismissed #pod meets world #boy meets world #boy meets world edit #boy meets world edits #bmw #bmwedit #bmwedits #danielle fishel #rider strong #will friedle #mr feeny #meatloaf #gif #gifs #gifset #1x8

[manybackflips]

Guilty Gear Strive really ended with Asuka starting a podcast huh.

What does he even talk about?

Did Daisuke include this because he saw how Americans were starting podcasts left and right?

Was it just funny to imagine a world-class terrorist rant about botany on his moon base?

That would be a lot like tuning into the latest podcast on your radio and there’s the leader of ISIS talking about his pet gerbil.

#guilty gear #guilty gear strive #ggst #asuka r kreutz #podcast #world-class terrorist #That Man

[thebirdandhersong]

🌨

#very few things are more depressing than listening to your friends #talk about money material pursuits wanting to live a ''rich'' life #and how wealthy/upper class they'd like their future husbands to be #i am still mentally sitting at that table shrinking in my seat thinking: #what is wrong with a simple and humble life?? does it matter what kind of car you own? #ok maybe it's depressing to me because the world seems so small and sad suddenly #when earlier in the day (while i was looking at the sea #and reading the part in the inklings biography where cs lewis starts doing #those bbc broadcasts on faith and morality #and eating ice cream and talking about thomas hardy and george eliot with another friend #and seeing the january stars come out in the sky #and listening to joy clarkson talk about romanticism on her podcast #and writing bits of prose and poetry down) the world seemed so beautiful and expansive #is it not enough to live a simple life and think and write about beautiful truthful good things? #does it MATTER so much if your boyfriend cant tell his soup spoon from his dessert spoon?? #will delete later i am just........dazed and strangely sad

[sigynpenniman]

All those posts saying we need to teach people on this site the difference between creators and corporations and who we really need to hate are so right because I seriously saw someone make a post listing David Tennant as the 14th doctor and TMA2 as both shameless nostagiabait cashgrabs and I don’t even know how to explain to someone how different of a class TMA is from doctor fucking who

#and to be clear I am thrilled about David Tennant 14th doctor #I’m not saying it’s a bad thing #but you cannot seriously #suggest that the motives of BBC #and the guys who made TMA #are even in the same class #independent queer podcast creators making another season of their beloved show is not even vaugely similar in any way #to a billion dollar studio bringing back their most popular actor #to renew interest in one of the biggest media franchises in the world

[mentornationpodcast]

A convo with my old apartment neighbors who became millionaires in 3 years with Austin Peckham

In this episode I interview Austin Peckham. Austin was my neighbor when we lived in an apartment complex just a few years ago. He was doing freelance video work after teaching himself to use a camera on youtube and his wife was studying for her real estate license. 3 years later they are self made millionaires. He has directed and produced music videos for major artists and his wife is one of the top realtors in the country.

#mentor nation #mentor nation podcast #mentor podcast #podcast #podcasting #mentor podcasting #business podcast #world class podcasting #world class podcast #podcast with John Abbas

[worldsbeyondpod]

A meeting of the Coven of Elders is nigh … and meanwhile, our Coven of Designers is eager to receive your official feedback on the witch class! We promise that, unlike certain Elder Coven witches, we have Ame’s best interests at heart. In fact, we want to make her abilities (and Fox) even better—and that’s where you come in.

If you’ve played a witch, played in or run a game with a witch, or even just read through the PDF, we would love to hear from you in this survey! (If you already left a comment on Patreon, it would be super duper helpful if you could also put your feedback in the form, but we will read the comments regardless.)

The feedback form will be open for a month, through midnight Pacific Time on Sunday, March 10th. The most helpful feedback is simply telling us what you enjoyed or didn’t enjoy and why, not what you think the mechanics should be. Too many cooks in the cottage’s kitchen and all that.

Friends, spirits, wanderers between worlds—thank you. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

Access the survey here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98344047

If you've not yet tried the Witch Class, consider pitching in $5 a month to our Patreon for access to that, and so, so much more bonus content!

#worlds beyond number #the wizard the witch and the wild one #aabria iyengar #erika ishii #lou wilson #ttrpg #ttrpg podcast #brennan lee mulligan #podcast #actual play #witch class

[yu3s]

* local wizard stumbles out of final exams covered in blood

#yu.txt #classes finished a little while ago actually but i had to fix my sleep schedule and stuff :o also i've been listening to the worlds beyond #number podcast and it is so good for doing chores i've never been more excited to wash dishes or fold laundry !!

[swiftful-thinking13]

there’s a 99% chance that your bad future therapist is in my cohort :DD

#now I understand why people have shit therapists I’m literally in class with them #I don’t even know where to start #how about with the old white man who told me that I’m sexist because I wouldn’t hug a male client after I made it abundantly clear that I #wouldn’t hug ANY client as I think it’s crossing boundaries #OR! how about me explaining the importance of cultural competence to my classmate who said that skin color isn’t a factor in therapy ???? #ORRRR OR my other classmate who referred to the LGBTQ+ community as the LGBT-whatever #ESP DURING PRIDE MONTH ???? wtf bro #i will never forget when I had to explain to someone why you shouldn’t say the r-word :) #this rant is probably fueled by my internalized ageism but my fucking god #teach! yourself! to! be! culturally! competent! #read books! watch documentaries! listen to podcasts! read articles! #one day these people are going to sit with someone emotionally vulnerable and breach the standard of care bc of their ignorance #again maybe I’m just being ageist #but if you are 40+ and want to become a therapist because you’re bored—DON’T DO IT #you will seriously end up hurting people with your lack of awareness and empathy #and if you do it is IMPERATIVE that you familiarize yourself with today’s world and cultures outside of your own #for crying out loud #sorry for the rant but I’m fuming #I just had to respond to someone’s discussion thread about how *mean* and *unfair* it is to blame white men #and ofc it was a white woman who wrote it bye

[t-jfh]

How do you imprison an ex-president with lifetime Secret Service protection?

If Trump is convicted, his Secret Service protection may be an obstacle to his imprisonment.

All former US presidents, including Donald Trump, are provided Secret Service protection for life — technically this entitlement and protocol applies, even if Trump were to be convicted and sentenced to prison or home confinement.

By Spencer S. Hsu, Carol D. Leonnig and Tom Jackman

The Washington Post - August 4, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/04/trump-criminal-cases-prison-secret-service/

This article originally appeared in The Washington Post August 4, 2023. It was republished in Australia by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age - August 5, 2023:

YouTube video >> Please Explain Podcast - Inside Politics: Is Donald Trump going to jail? [Podcast (televised) 4 August 2023 / 18mins.+35secs.]:

From the newsrooms of The Age and SMH, Please Explain Podcast provides daily insight to the stories that drive the world.

On Tuesday 1 August 2023 in the Federal District Court in Washington DC, special counsel Jack Smith filed an indictment against former US president Donald Trump, for his role in the violent aftermath of the 2020 US election.

Trump faces four criminal charges related to alleged conspiracies to overturn the results of the 2020 election and obstruct the process of certification of those results on January 6 2021, the day of the violent Capitol riot.

If convicted, Trump could potentially go to jail for decades.

Please Explain Podcast host Jacqueline Maley talks with North America correspondent Farrah Tomazin and international editor Peter Hatcher on the latest charges against Donald Trump.

Try looking at the Trump legal saga without congratulating yourself.

How the Modern Meritocracy made Trump inevitable.

By David Brooks

This article originally appeared in The New York Times August 2, 2023. It was republished in Australia by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age - August 7, 2023:

#Youtube #World politics #US politics #Donald Trump #Donald Trump faces Federal conspiracy charges #US Secret Service protection of ex-president Donald Trump #US special counsel Jack Smith #‘​Please Explain Podcast’ host Jacqueline Maley #North America correspondent Farrah Tomazin #International news editor Peter Hatcher #Cartoon by Matt Golding #Democracy #Democracy vs. authoritarianism #Partisan politics in contemporary America #Class warfare & political polarisation in contemporary America #Culture wars in contemporary America

[cryptotheism]

Tell us about the wellness to fash pipeline tho

Here's a recent piece from the guardian on wellness communities and Qanon, so don't take my word for it.

"Wellness" is not just alternative medicine, it is essentially a theory of the body which posits if something makes you feel better, you are better in some meaningful way. I would argue it one of the most commonly held nonreligious magical beliefs in the modern world.

Wellness as a concept has its genesis in the 1950s with "workplace wellness" programs, a sort of budget alternative to offering employee healthcare benefits. This was an era soaked in itinerant business preachers offering classes on things like "hypnosis at a management level" and "yoga to improve leadership abilities". I am exaggerating for effect, but not by much.

The capitalist medical system regularly abandons people. We've all heard stories of profit driven pharmaceudical companies holding the ill hostage for extreme markup on life-saving medicines. People have real, legitimate, reasons to mistrust medical professionals.

Let's say you have chronic pain, and everything your doctor offers you is either ineffective, expensive, or addictive. You are desperate for literally any release, so you start looking into other solutions. You will find an OCEAN of snake-oil salesmen willing to sell you "the secrets doctors don't want you to know."

What is frustrating, is that pain is actually partially psychological. Some wellness techniques may have an actual, medical, benefit on some patients. The worst thing a conspiracy theorist can have is a point. So now you actually do kinda feel better, and you have a sense of loyalty to the grifter selling you 300$ Sumerian Cock Oil Pills. These people are the core of the wellness industry. They are the examples that everyone else points to and says "Well it worked for them!"

Reactionary thought blooms in environments like this. If the medical industry can't be trusted, what else can't be trusted? At any given time, you are two clicks away from "vaccines cause autism." Three clicks away from "Cavemen were 15 feet tall because they only ate meat." And four clicks away from "The medical industry is controlled by The Jews to drain our wallets and keep us sick." Echoes of Nazi attitudes towards German-Jewish doctors are a common backbeat.

Wellness itself is relatively harmless, (compared to the things it is adjacent to) but it acts as a sort of idealogical airport that exposes the curious to a deluge of potentially radicalizing communities. The longer you spend in communities like this, the higher the chance you'll come across something that meshes perfectly with your own biases.

If y'all wanna learn more about wellness and pseudomedicine grifters, I highly recommend the podcast Maintenance Phase.

#antisemitism #conspiracy #pseudomedicine

[ms-demeanor]

Why reblog machine-generated art?

When I was ten years old I took a photography class where we developed black and white photos by projecting light on papers bathed in chemicals. If we wanted to change something in the image, we had to go through a gradual, arduous process called dodging and burning.

When I was fifteen years old I used photoshop for the first time, and I remember clicking on the clone tool or the blur tool and feeling like I was cheating.

When I was twenty eight I got my first smartphone. The phone could edit photos. A few taps with my thumb were enough to apply filters and change contrast and even spot correct. I was holding in my hand something more powerful than the huge light machines I'd first used to edit images.

When I was thirty six, just a few weeks ago, I took a photo class that used Lightroom Classic and again, it felt like cheating. It made me really understand how much the color profiles of popular web images I'd been seeing for years had been pumped and tweaked and layered with local edits to make something that, to my eyes, didn't much resemble photography. To me, photography is light on paper. It's what you capture in the lens. It's not automatic skin smoothing and a local filter to boost the sky. This reminded me a lot more of the photomanipulations my friend used to make on deviantart; layered things with unnatural colors that put wings on buildings or turned an eye into a swimming pool. It didn't remake the images to that extent, obviously, but it tipped into the uncanny valley. More real than real, more saturated more sharp and more present than the actual world my lens saw. And that was before I found the AI assisted filters and the tool that would identify the whole sky for you, picking pieces of it out from between leaves.

You know, it's funny, when people talk about artists who might lose their jobs to AI they don't talk about the people who have already had to move on from their photo editing work because of technology. You used to be able to get paid for basic photo manipulation, you know? If you were quick with a lasso or skilled with masks you could get a pretty decent chunk of change by pulling subjects out of backgrounds for family holiday cards or isolating the pies on the menu for a mom and pop. Not a lot, but enough to help. But, of course, you can just do that on your phone now. There's no need to pay a human for it, even if they might do a better job or be more considerate toward the aesthetic of an image.

And they certainly don't talk about all the development labs that went away, or the way that you could have trained to be a studio photographer if you wanted to take good photos of your family to hang on the walls and that digital photography allowed in a parade of amateurs who can make dozens of iterations of the same bad photo until they hit on a good one by sheer volume and luck; if you want to be a good photographer everyone can do that why didn't you train for it and spend a long time taking photos on film and being okay with bad photography don't you know that digital photography drove thousands of people out of their jobs.

My dad told me that he plays with AI the other day. He hosts a movie podcast and he puts up thumbnails for the downloads. In the past, he'd just take a screengrab from the film. Now he tells the Bing AI to make him little vignettes. A cowboy running away from a rhino, a dragon arm-wrestling a teddy bear. That kind of thing. Usually based on a joke that was made on the show, or about the subject of the film and an interest of the guest.

People talk about "well AI art doesn't allow people to create things, people were already able to create things, if they wanted to create things they should learn to create things." Not everyone wants to make good art that's creative. Even fewer people want to put the effort into making bad art for something that they aren't passionate about. Some people want filler to go on the cover of their youtube video. My dad isn't going to learn to draw, and as the person who he used to ask to photoshop him as Ant-Man because he certainly couldn't pay anyone for that kind of thing, I think this is a great use case for AI art. This senior citizen isn't going to start cartooning and at two recordings a week with a one-day editing turnaround he doesn't even really have the time for something like a Fiverr commission. This is a great use of AI art, actually.

I also know an artist who is going Hog Fucking Wild creating AI art of their blorbos. They're genuinely an incredibly talented artist who happens to want to see their niche interest represented visually without having to draw it all themself. They're posting the funny and good results to a small circle of mutuals on socials with clear information about the source of the images; they aren't trying to sell any of the images, they're basically using them as inserts for custom memes. Who is harmed by this person saying "i would like to see my blorbo lasciviously eating an ice cream cone in the is this a pigeon meme"?

The way I use machine-generated art, as an artist, is to proof things. Can I get an explosion to look like this. What would a wall of dead computer monitors look like. Would a ballerina leaping over the grand canyon look cool? Sometimes I use AI art to generate copyright free objects that I can snip for a collage. A lot of the time I use it to generate ideas. I start naming random things and seeing what it shows me and I start getting inspired. I can ask CrAIon for pose reference, I can ask it to show me the interior of spaces from a specific angle.

I profoundly dislike the antipathy that tumblr has for AI art. I understand if people don't want their art used in training pools. I understand if people don't want AI trained on their art to mimic their style. You should absolutely use those tools that poison datasets if you don't want your art included in AI training. I think that's an incredibly appropriate action to take as an artist who doesn't want AI learning from your work.

However I'm pretty fucking aggressively opposed to copyright and most of the "solid" arguments against AI art come down to "the AIs viewed and learned from people's copyrighted artwork and therefore AI is theft rather than fair use" and that's a losing argument for me. In. Like. A lot of ways. Primarily because it is saying that not only is copying someone's art theft, it is saying that looking at and learning from someone's art can be defined as theft rather than fair use.

Also because it's just patently untrue.

But that doesn't really answer your question. Why reblog machine-generated art? Because I liked that piece of art.

It was made by a machine that had looked at billions of images - some copyrighted, some not, some new, some old, some interesting, many boring - and guided by a human and I liked it. It was pretty. It communicated something to me. I looked at an image a machine made - an artificial picture, a total construct, something with no intrinsic meaning - and I felt a sense of quiet and loss and nostalgia. I looked at a collection of automatically arranged pixels and tasted salt and smelled the humidity in the air.

I liked it.

I don't think that all AI art is ugly. I don't think that AI art is all soulless (i actually think that 'having soul' is a bizarre descriptor for art and that lacking soul is an equally bizarre criticism). I don't think that AI art is bad for artists. I think the problem that people have with AI art is capitalism and I don't think that's a problem that can really be laid at the feet of people curating an aesthetic AI art blog on tumblr.

Machine learning isn't the fucking problem the problem is massive corporations have been trying hard not to pay artists for as long as massive corporations have existed (isn't that a b-plot in the shape of water? the neighbor who draws ads gets pushed out of his job by product photography? did you know that as recently as ten years ago NewEgg had in-house photographers who would take pictures of the products so users wouldn't have to rely on the manufacturer photos? I want you to guess what killed that job and I'll give you a hint: it wasn't AI)

Am I putting a human out of a job because I reblogged an AI-generated "photo" of curtains waving in the pale green waters of an imaginary beach? Who would have taken this photo of a place that doesn't exist? Who would have painted this hypersurrealistic image? What meaning would it have had if they had painted it or would it have just been for the aesthetic? Would someone have paid for it or would it be like so many of the things that artists on this site have spent dozens of hours on only to get no attention or value for their work?

My worst ratio of hours to notes is an 8-page hand-drawn detailed ink comic about getting assaulted at a concert and the complicated feelings that evoked that took me weeks of daily drawing after work with something like 54 notes after 8 years; should I be offended if something generated from a prompt has more notes than me? What does that actually get the blogger? Clout? I believe someone said that popularity on tumblr gets you one thing and that is yelled at.

What do you get out of this? Are you helping artists right now? You're helping me, and I'm an artist. I've wanted to unload this opinion for a while because I'm sick of the argument that all Real Artists think AI is bullshit. I'm a Real Artist. I've been paid for Real Art. I've been commissioned as an artist.

And I find a hell of a lot of AI art a lot more interesting than I find human-generated corporate art or Thomas Kincaid (but then, I repeat myself).

There are plenty of people who don't like AI art and don't want to interact with it. I am not one of those people. I thought the gay sex cats were funny and looked good and that shitposting is the ideal use of a machine image generation: to make uncopyrightable images to laugh at.

I think that tumblr has decided to take a principled stand against something that most people making the argument don't understand. I think tumblr's loathing for AI has, generally speaking, thrown weight behind a bunch of ideas that I think are going to be incredibly harmful *to artists specifically* in the long run.

Anyway. If you hate AI art and you don't want to interact with people who interact with it, block me.