0011 Speak to the moon ... a fiction writer special

The Nick Margerrison podcast

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Artificial intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace—what does that mean for the future of technology, venture capital, business, and even our understanding of ourselves? Award-winning journalist and writer Anil Ananthaswamy joins us for our latest episode to discuss his latest book Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI . Anil helps us explore the journey and many breakthroughs that have propelled machine learning from simple perceptrons to the sophisticated algorithms shaping today’s AI revolution, powering GPT and other models. The discussion aims to demystify some of the underlying math that powers modern machine learning to help everyone grasp this technology impacting our lives, even if your last math class was in high school. Anil walks us through the power of scaling laws, the shift from training to inference optimization, and the debate among AI’s pioneers about the road to AGI—should we be concerned, or are we still missing key pieces of the puzzle? The conversation also delves into AI’s philosophical implications—could understanding how machines learn help us better understand ourselves? And what challenges remain before AI systems can truly operate with agency? If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe and leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. Sign up for our newsletter at techsurgepodcast.com for exclusive insights and updates on upcoming TechSurge Live Summits. Links: Read Why Machines Learn, Anil’s latest book on the math behind AI https://www.amazon.com/Why-Machines-Learn-Elegant-Behind/dp/0593185749 Learn more about Anil Ananthaswamy’s work and writing https://anilananthaswamy.com/ Watch Anil Ananthaswamy’s TED Talk on AI and intelligence https://www.ted.com/speakers/anil_ananthaswamy Discover the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship that shaped Anil’s AI research https://ksj.mit.edu/ Understand the Perceptron, the foundation of neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron Read about the Perceptron Convergence Theorem and its significance https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0…

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This podcast sees debut interviews from two excellent guests. Firstly the writer of "Media Monster" OMJ Ryan joins us, his website is here: https://www.omjryan.com/

His book gets a good plug on the podcast and it's easily worth a few of your shekels. Both entertaining and interesting, I read the whole thing in about a week.

Also on the podcast we have another fiction writer, Summer Heacock. Her website is here - www.fizzygrrl.com - and her excellent twitter feed is here: https://twitter.com/Fizzygrrl

Then, towards the end of the podcast, where we traditionally go for a bit of a ramble I mention a bunch of stuff which originally I had loads more to say about... only to accidentally delete the audio I was working on. Hey ho.

The bare bones were -

Blair White says right wing YouTubers are faking resistance to their work:

And Grievance Studies lances the puss filled boil of left wing academia:

https://spectator.us/2018/10/grievance-studies/

And the potted version of what I was going to say was; 'if you spend your time trying to shut people up you are generally helping their cause'. So, who needs a big long hour of audio to say that eh? We're fine. All bases covered. Some of them belong to us.

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0011 Speak to the moon ... a fiction writer special

The Nick Margerrison podcast

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Hmmm there seems to be a problem fetching this series right now. Last successful fetch was on December 12, 2024 14:28 (3M ago)

This podcast sees debut interviews from two excellent guests. Firstly the writer of "Media Monster" OMJ Ryan joins us, his website is here: https://www.omjryan.com/

His book gets a good plug on the podcast and it's easily worth a few of your shekels. Both entertaining and interesting, I read the whole thing in about a week.

Also on the podcast we have another fiction writer, Summer Heacock. Her website is here - www.fizzygrrl.com - and her excellent twitter feed is here: https://twitter.com/Fizzygrrl

The bare bones were -

Blair White says right wing YouTubers are faking resistance to their work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Ft2E_ibxQ

And Grievance Studies lances the puss filled boil of left wing academia:

https://spectator.us/2018/10/grievance-studies/

186 episodios

#Intellectual Dark Web #Religion #Alternativemedia #Conspiracytheory #Discordia #Esoteria #News #Politics #Nick Margerrisons

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Who Killed John Lennon: The lives, loves and deaths of the greatest rock star | INTERVIEW 55:18

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Fun one chatting about John Lennon, recorded it during lockdown... You can get our guest's book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Killed-John-Lennon-Lesley-Ann-Jones/dp/1789461405

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Brent Lee, "ex-conspiracist" | The Cult Of Nick SERIES #23 1:14:18

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Brent Lee has recently featured on the BBC as an "ex-conspiracist". He joins us on The Cult Of Nick to have a chat about how and why his world view flipped. -- Brent's excellent podcat can be found here: Some Dare Call It Conspiracy (Spotify link): https://open.spotify.com/show/4RJCyh4FEiQhZasSe7jHYk?si=37c1c52db8984689 And his "sometimes I'm a bit of a dick" Twitter account is here: https://twitter.com/BrentLeeSDCIC -- Boom - we're back. Does anyone care? Lets find out as we crank up The C.O.N. for one last final series, maybe. -- It'll be a once a fortnight affair this time. We've got some stuff in the can which I'm going to use along with a few new bits we'll make along the way. I got sick during COVID, not of actual COVID but of the way the discussions were going. My answer to it all was the breatharian guy. Notice that didn't get a health warning!? Wow. He was telling people to stare into the sun and only eat fast food. I mean, enough said.…

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I'm sure you'll agree we're in an incredibly grave situation with the climate crisis... 55:14

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Leonard Nimoy banging on about a new ice age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSBn50o_8M No more snow: https://twitter.com/NickMargerrison/status/1688592705721450520 Ice free arctic: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7139797.stm The awesome Sky piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bumKlEoGhvk&t=75s Oh no - look: https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0 These guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JikByJz33Mw Cheeky charley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4l0fES43nc&t=83s This is AMAZING: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bnqs Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nations-vanish-global-warming/ -- Have I missed some? I think maybe I have but I want to post this now... use Google! NM…

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News Views and Reviews: Jordan Peterson; What's the problem? 1:28:20

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This piece is a review of the work of Jordan Peterson. Some of his work. Some of the bits I think you might want to think twice about... I don't use this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymauW6D890U I use this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rdg-0EWQvGU A bit of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kdttcdYzz4 And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Aoy08tjHlg&t=393s Lots of happy love, Nick x…

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Freemasonry and "the other Brotherhood" | The Cult of Nick 56:49

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Today's podcast features the writer of "The Other Brotherhood: When Freemasonry Crossed the English Channel", Darren Lorente-Bull. The book is here: https://amzn.eu/d/iPPmci4 He's here: https://www.instagram.com/darrenlorentebull -- We've got a Facebook page we hardly ever use, why not join that? It's here: https://www.facebook.com/CultOfNick…

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0032 INTERVIEW | The Breatharian Institute of America 1:17:21

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This piece is an interview with Brendon Dey of the Breatharian Institute of America, an organisation founded upon the teachings of Wiley Brooks. A man who became notable after being featured on television in America. A moment our guest Brendon Dey will never forget... This podcast is not to be considered as health advice; it's an interview with a fascinating man who represents his belief system with refreshing honesty. This piece is a real treat for Discordians looking for a fresh and unusual reality tunnel to try for a few days, without following any of the implied advice. In many ways this podcast is intended as a satire on the notion that podcasts should be ever be censored on the grounds that people may follow the advice on them. They shouldn't. Podcast listeners are not idiots, this medium is not - and never should be - the new "radio" or "broadcast" media. It's able to do that but it can do so much more... Check out our guest's instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/breatharianinstitute/ Their website is here: http://www.breatharian.com/breatharians/ The incredible music we use in the background is by the following artists, who flatter the Cult Of Nick by saying they are occasional listeners as well... Complexi-Tales: https://complexi-tales.bandcamp.com/ Mike Richmond: https://mikerichmond.bandcamp.com/ Crednes Codpiece: https://sound4good.bandcamp.com/track/saturnalia Our guest shares these final words: Hi Nick, I wanted to add a couple of details in case you or any of your listeners would care to know. Wiley also told me, as it related to the young women that he saw in the pornography industry, that he would have no interest in being on this planet with all of us at all, doing the things that he did, if he didn't get the joy of looking at these young women's bodies which he considered to be Perfect 🤣 ... And who can blame him? So even though he hadn't had an erection in at least 10 years, he was motivated by the energy of seeing young beautiful women, until the end of his time in the body, on Earth. I thought that I should add this so you could relate maybe on a deeper level, to his position. He made it very clear that he never masturbated, but used the energy that he felt from looking at the women, to produce the feelings of Love and Joy within his body. This is what he considered to be the ultimate highest calling of all humans: to produce Joy (hormones) in our bodies. Cheers! -- Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia!…

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0031 INTERVIEW | Right Said Fred - "We're all criminals!" 1:02:01

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Right Said Fred join us on The Cult Of Nick; they discuss the fact they've been following the alternative media subculture for years, COVID-19, lockdown, vaccines and above all free speech and freedom of expression. The Freds tweet here: https://twitter.com/TheFreds/status/319401200254599168 The arrest of Maya Evans: https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/382277.html Busted for singing karaoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiUeMsR_qXw Arrested for sitting on a park bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zklW0FcDGo Dr Mike Yeadon is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbMJoJ6i39k Carl Hennegan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCGR5FwZr24 Sunetra Gupta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2g2egQ3dl0 Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/ Why a Covid vaccine doesn't mean the end of face masks yet: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/12/covid-vaccine-face-masks-pfizer-social-distancing-remote-working "Operation Lockstep" is here as a pdf: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/Annual-Report-2010-1.pdf The Fourth Industrial Revolution is available as a pdf here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323638914_The_Fourth_Industrial_Revolution_Opportunities_and_Challenges "Right Said Fred - We're not COVID deniers - but living like hermits is killing the country": https://news.sky.com/story/right-said-fred-were-not-covid-deniers-but-living-like-hermits-is-killing-the-country-12136769 The Corbett Report is here: https://www.corbettreport.com/greatreset/ There's a BBC report on the homophobic attack mentioned at the end here: Moscow anti-gay attack condemned - Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell and singer Richard Fairbrass have expressed their shock after being punched by anti-homosexual protesters in Moscow. And... their excellent song is here on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0tvEeiwvrS8uBsFEYqcBaj?si=JUXIEhJtTfulFeW3lk8crg Let's see if we here at the mighty Cult Of Nick can make it a hit, whatever that means these days...…

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0030 Edited INTERVIEW | Sarah Phillimore on UK police and "non crimes" 1:01:05

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This podcast sees us take a look at "non-crimes" and the chilling effect the British police are having as they go online and record social media posts which they've been told might be offensive or maybe upsetting. We get into the subject of transgenderism and the difficulties that arise when the long arm of the law is ready to correct your posts with a metaphorical red pen and the threat of more to come. Our guest - Sarah Phillimore - is a barrister (lawyer) and specialist in family law. She has been drawn into serious legal action after being harassed by the police and their sinister covert accusations of "non-crimes". 23 minutes after this piece was edited, as I was wondering if it was ok to release, this news story emerged: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/children-who-want-puberty-blockers-must-understand-effects-high-court-rules "Children under the age of 16 considering gender reassignment are unlikely to be mature enough to give informed consent to be prescribed puberty-blocking drugs, the high court has ruled." History is a strange beast, perhaps "the right side of it" doesn't actually involve telling children there's something wrong with their bodies so it's time to pump them full of drugs? We will do a call in show on this topic - if you're a long term listener and want to come on follow me on Twitter and message me directly. Looking at arranging one of those over the next month or so: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison Music from Mike Richmond https://mikerichmond.bandcamp.com/ and Complexi-Tales https://complexi-tales.bandcamp.com/ - buy their stuff and support their awesome music!…

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0029 INTERVIEW | ‘Blinded by Corona’ with John Ashton, CBE 56:01

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‘Blinded by Corona’ : ‘How the Pandemic ruined Britain’s Health and Wealth and What to do about it’ is a book written by our guest John Ashton, CBE. It's available here: http://tinyurl.com/blindedbycorona November 2012, he was elected as president from 2013 to 2016 of the Faculty of Public Health. Recently he has been a vocal critic of the UK Government's handling of Coronavirus... he says it was 'too little too late'. What do you think? Contact the show with your thoughts... Our guest tweets here: www.twitter.com/Johnrashton47 I tweet here: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison Our YouTube channel has only recently started, go give it some love: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCry9PW8W67689oi6TJX7Fww Go give this tweet some clicks as well if you get chance, I'm keen to hear what the lead singer of Gene wants to say to the bloke from The Stone Roses, I'm not ashamed to say it's fascinating... https://twitter.com/NickMargerrison/status/1330323755588055042…

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0028 RADIO SHOW | Ian Brown vs Martin Rossiter 1:08:04

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MUSIC in this show: COMPLEXI-TALES: https://complexi-tales.bandcamp.com/ Mike Richmond: https://mikerichmond.bandcamp.com/ Credne's Cod Peace: https://soundcloud.com/crednes-cod-peace Find the raw material for this episode here: https://twitter.com/NickMargerrison/status/1330323755588055042 https://twitter.com/ianbrown/status/1329195482405605383 https://twitter.com/MartinRossiter/status/1328861151304830985 Ian Brown moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jzXZieOaLQ Martin Rossiter moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VemUORCrPQ0 -- Local news report error: https://twitter.com/NickMargerrison/status/1330238682561961985…

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0027 INTERVIEW | Radical Undoing with Garrett Daun 1:15:20

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This piece features a conversation with Garrett Daun about "Radical Undoing". His official website is here: https://radicalundoing.com/ His excellent Facebook Group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/endfakesuffering His YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/radicalundoing Intro and outro music in this episode is from Mike Richmond, find him here: https://mikerichmond.bandcamp.com/ The White Room by The KLF is here: https://youtu.be/n4onQqSMUag?t=2603 Doctorin' The Tardis is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFR_5-EyiA Their amazing comeback is here: https://youtu.be/RM0vhgNqdio Hail Eris, all Hail Discordia! -- PS// Notice the 23's; The J.A.Ms are the original Discordians, you're one of them, you came from Lemuria, you get back there through the moon; with your mind.…

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0026 INTERVIEW | Greg Carlwood of The Higher Side Chats 1:42:24

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Our guest's internet home is here: https://www.thehighersidechats.com/ Johnson and Johnson link: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/ Dr David Kelly, start with this if you're new to the War in Iraq: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/16/david-kelly-death-10-years-on The "coin shortage", not widely reported in the UK, is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/01/coin-shortage-pandemic/ The "digital dollar" project: https://www.digitaldollarproject.org/ The Infectious Myth website: https://theinfectiousmyth.com/ The Contagion Myth is here: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/The-Contagion-Myth/Thomas-S-Cowan/9781510764644 Agenda 21: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21 -- The music in this episode from Complexi-Tales: https://complexi-tales.bandcamp.com/track/the-time-of-antlers…

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0025 INTERVIEW | SSOTBME with Ramsey Dukes 1:35:28

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Magic is the topic that fascinates us all on The CON; this interview is an instant classic, featuring one of the most important writers in the field of Chaos Magic, Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell). "Lionel Snell is, in my opinion, the most lucid, coherent and insightful intellect to emerge from British occultism for some several decades..." - Alan Moore. Tune in for a real treat of magical conversation and theory. Find out more about our guest's work here: SSOTBME The Little Book of Demons My Years of Magical Thinking The Good The Bad The Funny Ramsey Dukes's You Tube Channel With thanks to Complexi-Tales who allowed the podcast to enjoy their music once again this week... find them here: https://complexi-tales.bandcamp.com/album/tings-in-the-wall I tweet here: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison We have a Facebook page, go follow the page: https://www.facebook.com/CultOfNick "How do I pay for the podcast?" - share it, share it far and wise. We're doing pretty well in terms of audience size, that's down to your support. Find us on: Spotify Stitcher Playerfm YouTube Once you've found us, like it, give it a good review, share it and spread it around. There you go, you paid for the podcast, thank you!…

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0024 RADIO SHOW | Turn on, phone in, drop out 2:17:41

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With thanks to the amazing callers... Craig is here: https://www.facebook.com/craig.read.90/ James's twitter is here: https://twitter.com/OverTheMooooon He's done a mix here which he mentions: https://www.mixcloud.com/james-parker3/season-part-03-autumn/ I've decided to link to my YouTube channel, it now has most of these podcasts on it, hardly any traffic there at the moment, this episode is the one James mentions about reincarnation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Y_X96c6f8 Tommy's band is here: https://www.facebook.com/TheNewRighteousMood/ And Qute Zoo Promotions are here: https://www.facebook.com/QuteZooPromotions/ Shane O'Conner can be found here: https://twitter.com/shaneonair And his excellent podcast is here: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3070989 -- This piece features music from BOTH Complexi Tales https://complexi-tales.bandcamp.com/ and Credne's Cod Peace: https://soundcloud.com/crednes-cod-peace -- I'm here: www.twitter.com/nickmargerrison Also, I'm assuming this pdf is legit, it's the thing I mention right at the end of the podcast, get it while you can: https://luminariaz.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-2016-21.pdf C U Next Tuesday!…

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0023 RADIO SHOW | Phone in show - Get a job in cyber! 1:34:55

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