Directionless Angst or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Algorithms

Cast Iron Brains is back with an hour of questioning why we spend so much time paying attention to things that don’t matter, don’t make us happy or smarter, and that we absolutely already know are bad for us. What are we even doing here, the podcast asked itself, and the podcast had no answer. If you’d like to get in touch, you can find us on Facebook or Twitter, and you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Here’s some stuff me mentioned on today’s show:

I just want to see all the heads exploding in rage.

Right wing folks will constantly assert their incorrect responses as correct and blame everyone but themselves, but we all know she was right all along…

(But seriously though, it's gotta be Burton.) pic.twitter.com/IrfnQtXJ5t

— Just One Shot Left (@mileselam) April 19, 2021

Werner Herzog on the languages he can speak, and the one he won’t.

Bill Maher: “Give it to me straight, Doc.”

Guy on Twitter: Bill Maher and Tucker Carlson are the Same Bad

Bill Maher is a hack comic from the 80's who confuses his smarminess with intelligence. He's a talking head with no formal education... no different then Tucker Carlson.

— KEV (@ANIMALKRACKA) April 17, 2021

Tucker Carlson normalizes white supremacists for right-wing viewers.

Bill Maher normalizes white supremacists for liberal viewers.

The latter is much more harmful. pic.twitter.com/VhWEgUXlB3

— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) April 17, 2021

Lynching. Murder by cop. Inbred monarchs. Slavery. Fascism. Reality-show Presidents. The Electoral College. White-sauce on barbecue. Ranch dressing. Tucker Carlson. Bill Maher. https://t.co/rLiAnfiVIM pic.twitter.com/BewSK8AkXy

— Ji Yeon Kwon (@wwing1234) April 17, 2021

Bill Maher and Tucker Carlson are two sides of the same faded, crud-covered coin.

— Nico R (@UB_Opethian) April 17, 2021

Some Person on Twitter: Liberal New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg is an unapologetic anti-black and anti-trans white supremacist

People really do have short memories around here. Unfortunately for Michelle Goldberg, a lot of the Black women she bullied and targeted are ✌🏾respectable✌🏾 journalists and authors even by her whit feminist standards... and we talk.

So... https://t.co/I83BtIhK50

— ⚓️🚢Imani Gandy 🚢⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) February 28, 2021

Me, carefully reading the article from seven years ago, looking for evidence of Goldberg having revealed her inner anti-black, anti-trans white supremacy:

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Media Twitter: Andrew Sullivan is very bad!

sully going full mask off is in a way pretty refreshing

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) April 19, 2021

The disgrace of Andrew Sullivan is not that he’s an openly racist eugenicist, but that he never hid what he was and yet still had a vibrant career in paid formal media.

— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) April 19, 2021

andrew sullivan is just one iteration of the type of guy who thinks it's not racism if you have a good enough reason for thinking a race is inferior

— Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) April 19, 2021

Andrew Sullivan's tweets from today are really quite breathtaking—he spent the evening both attacking people for claiming he believes in innate racial differences in intelligence and mocking people for suggesting that innate racial differences in intelligence don't exist.

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) April 19, 2021

And here’s that crazy Tesla story that has Abe all worried about the coming Robit Wars:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40234/no-one-was-driving-in-tesla-autopilot-crash-that-killed-two-in-texas-police

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/40250/elon-musk-denies-autopilot-use-in-fatal-tesla-crash-as-feds-investigate-police-seek-warrant-for-data

See you next week!