The Bliss of Confirmation Bias — w/ Covfefe Anon

Covfefe Anon returns to Plausibly Deniable to discuss the bliss of confirmation bias: how to engineer a viral take, why the edit may be the native medium of the 21st century, and why Angry Birds might be the most fascist movie ever made. Lukas, Saila and Covfefe review films they have not seen, explain why ironic criticism only makes its targets cooler, and consider whether Confirmation Bias is actually a better name for the podcast.The conversation also covers Ryan Gosling, Barbenheimer, James Bond, public-domain superheroes and AI remakes, Joe Biden and the death of the presidency, girl-avatar growth hacks, GPUs and matrix multiplication, phonics and grade inflation, business-school arbitrage, solo-podcast psychosis, radicalized wives, Twitter jannies, boomer game, hair-loss hopium, live-editing reality, friendship simulators, freedom of association, and the “blood diamonds attack” on crypto.Sponsored by:Polymarket: https://polymarket.comZcash: https://z.cashCitizenX: https://citizenx.comPassage Press: https://passage.pressWatch, listen, and join the discussion:Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PlausiblyDeniableExperienceSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3cU3OBRKnYGY7fyGF6x2ThApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plausibly-deniable/id1866452505Substack: https://plausiblydeniable.substack.comX: https://x.com/PD_EXPLukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQSaila: https://x.com/sailaunderscoreCovfefe Anon: https://x.com/CovfefeAnonContact: [email protected]:00:00 How to Engineer a Viral Take01:02 Intro and Sponsors01:48 Reviewing The Odyssey Without Watching It05:15 Spoilers, Millennial Slop, and the Last Shared Culture10:40 Meta-Level Lying, LARPing, and Intrigue-Maxing17:24 Ryan Gosling’s Drive and the Single-Mom Concession20:28 Barbenheimer and the Fascism of Angry Birds24:03 Ryan Gosling vs. Angry Birds and the Communist Sequel30:00 James Bond Rides Bitch32:55 Public-Domain Superheroes and AI Remakes34:11 Activated Charcoal and the Final Original Podcast Episode37:12 Patrick Bateman, Starship Troopers, and Failed Irony39:44 GEOBODEN and Joe Biden’s Final Act42:58 The Presidency Is a Puppet Show46:49 The Edit Is the Native Medium of the 21st Century50:02 One Reader and Ninety-Nine Edit Watchers52:09 How to Manufacture a Viral Take54:46 The Girl-Avatar Growth Hack58:39 GPUs Accidentally Built Superintelligence1:02:14 Schooling, Phonics, and the End of Reading1:07:11 Harvard Sells Credentials, Not Education1:12:03 Business School, Bar Prep, and Clicker Arbitrage1:15:36 Solo Podcasting Causes Mental Illness1:17:34 Candace Owens and the Radicalized Wife1:22:20 Men Lead, Women Follow, and Soy Turns You Into a Deer1:24:09 Should We Rebrand as Confirmation Bias?1:26:30 Emotional Programming and Mental Illness as a Defense1:29:18 The Brain-Damage Loophole1:33:27 Mom Gets Banned and Twitter Jannies Get Rich1:38:22 Boomer Opportunity Stories and “May I Meet You?”1:42:46 Hot-Girl Signaling, Hair-Loss Hopium, and Recycled Tweets1:46:15 Broken Twitter Search, Outsourced Editing, and Dog Clickers1:49:48 Live-Editing Reality and the Ex Who Shrunk Seven Inches1:52:33 The Bliss of Confirmation Bias1:55:08 Friendship Simulators and the Blood-Diamonds Attack1:58:54 Freedom of Association and Memetic Stink2:02:20 Outro: Should We Rebrand?