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Wrench In The Gears

by Alison McDowell

Society

Transmuting the emergent digital empire through an examination of social impact finance, behavioral economics, mixed reality, Web 3, and synthetic biology.

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Episodes

  1. Moving Beyond Carbon - How About Peace Corps Recovery Centers? Camelot Corner

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvRicYbX_CU

  2. Courting "Lover Earth" With Cybernetic Community Currencies - Camelot Corner

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffWRhmzoi8

  3. Scientology, Snow White, and SSRIs - Camelot Corner

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FLhv02cyNc

  4. Correcting The Record And The Tokenized Commons

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkIesGovxSo

  5. Green Pilling CHD With Pro-FreeDOM "Environmentalism" - Camelot Corner

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdt9eP85hJ8

  6. The Once And Future Thing - Camelot Update, Plus More Ants!

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06wux_Oy6qw

  7. Selling RFK Jr. on Next Gen Nuclear - A Critical Analysis of Matthew Ehret and Fox Green's "Cheap Energy" Pitch - Part 2

    Resource map here: https://embed.kumu.io/3589bbe4947bb9cb288ce89b7bf36200#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1MYThXN0dTeg%3D%3D

  8. Selling RFK Jr. on Next Gen Nuclear - A Critical Analysis of Matthew Ehret and Fox Green's "Cheap Energy" Pitch - Part 1

    Link to resource map: https://embed.kumu.io/3589bbe4947bb9cb288ce89b7bf36200#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1MYThXN0dTeg%3D%3D

  9. Pharma-Banking Consultant Andrew Pek Landed in the Executive Suite of Children's Health Defense this February - What happened?

    Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8__r9dWCQs

  10. Read Aloud on Radio-Eugenics from Oliver Reiser's 1966 Book "Cosmic Humanism"

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A32Sq0zIhL4

  11. Discussion on Jason's Presentation About Ukraine and Digital Transformation

    Listen to Jason's analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlzM-tEvew

  12. Slime Mold and Reflections on Unity in Politics

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGQscZ5ERrM

  13. Esoteric Seals, Futures Trading, and Linguistic Ops

    Blogged here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/04/24/esoteric-seals-futures-trading-and-linguistic-ops/

  14. Texas Open Education Resources Part 2 With Lynn Davenport - Origins of OER and Virtual Apprenticeships

    Video playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNSjVGWqTO7Ieb_QCLhpyU8tMvMFmsiI Slides, Part 2 Starts at #30: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1734ywaVc260oLT9nrGonbxUR4-HzZqH1brCopeuIbG4/edit?usp=sharing

  15. Texas Open Education Resources Part 3 With Lynn Davenport - Learn Capital Sets Up Shop in Austin

    Video playlist of series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNSjVGWqTO7Ieb_QCLhpyU8tMvMFmsiI Slides, Part 3 Startes at #67: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1734ywaVc260oLT9nrGonbxUR4-HzZqH1brCopeuIbG4/edit?usp=sharing

  16. Cliff and Alison Chat About Persuasion Techniques, Social Steering, the Ant Computer, and Celia Farber's Pro RFK Jr. Substack "The Truth Barrier"

    More about the Substack kerfluffle here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/04/18/digital-sandboxes-cognitive-domain-management-and-rfk-jr-s-presidential-run/

  17. One-Hour Critique of RFK Jr.'s Candidacy and the Creation of a Health FreeDOM Leadership Class (This is the last hour of Digital Sandboxes, Cognitive Domain Management.)

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6fba0EEWb8

  18. Digital Sandboxes and Cognitive Domain Management around the Camelot Presidential Run (RFK Jr.) Take 2

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C80xsmfpAuw

  19. Ground Hog Day with Celia Farber - Plus Read Aloud from "This Pervasive Day"

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PtZ-J4c9E

  20. This Pervasive Day - Zero Knowledge Proofs, Ubiquitous Computing and the Philadelphia Mayor's Race

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJSo2cdNKqI Jeremy Pitts "This Pervasive Day" https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p790#t=aboutBook

  21. How I Think About Things - A Framework for Alison's Investigations and an Invitation

    Blogged here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/04/07/how-ive-been-thinking-about-things-a-framework-for-alisons-investigations-and-an-invitation/

  22. Read Aloud - 2018 Short Story "Overvalued" from Slate

    Here's the story: https://archive.ph/ChDkf

  23. Open Education Resources in Texas, Cybernetic Steering for an AI World - With Lynn Davenport

    In this episode I'm speaking with Lynn Davenport of Dallas on OERs, education privatization, digital media and learning, and social impact bonds. This is the first of a multi-part series. Slides available here:...

  24. Open Education Resources in Texas, Cybernetic Steering for an AI World

    In this episode I'm speaking with Lynn Davenport of Dallas on OERs, education privatization, digital media and learning, and social impact bonds. This is the first of a multi-part series. Slides available here:...

  25. What is love?

    A short talk (5 minutes) on why love doesn't necessarily demand being "nice."

  26. The Green Button, Central Banks, and Cybernetics

    This is the article I read from - CAF interview 2012: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/profit-investment-ecosystem-catherine-austin-fitts-2012-02-13

  27. Unburdening - Getting Some Things Off My Chest

    Link to the map with Drucker: https://embed.kumu.io/d48093bc30060b1acd09df6bd11506a1#untitled-map?s=%23peter-drucker-austrian-management-theorist-prophet-of-stakeholder-capitalism

  28. Flow Life Part 5 - Housing, Seniors, Sustainability, and Rehab in Florida with Brandi Hartley

    This is part of a series exploring themes related to Adam Neumann and Marc Andreessen's new venture, Flow.

  29. Flow Life Part 4 - Property Technology and Web3 Space Colonies with Cliff Gomes

    This is part of a series exploring themes related to Adam Neumann and Marc Andreessen's new venture, Flow.

  30. Flow Life Part 3 - Privatized Education, Affordable Housing, and Faith Institutions in Texas with Lynn Davenport

    This is part of a series exploring topics related to Adam Neumann and Marc Andreessen's new venture, Flow.

  31. Flow Life Part 2 - Smart Housing and Natural Capital with Leo Saraceno

    Second in a series on Adam Neumann and Marc Andreessen's venture "Flow."

  32. "Flow Life" Part 1 - Real Estate or Singularity

    Part 1 of 6 - Series investigating the new "smart" rental project of Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Marc Andreessen (a16z). Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWx83Zb9oMY

  33. Looking Around the Labyrinth - University City Science Center in Philadelphia, PA - Bibliometry, Digital Sensing, Learned Helplessness, and "Character"

    This is the map: https://embed.kumu.io/8fc3c36cc7de713eab0e7d2a09bebdfb#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1ZZ2wyaEN2cQ%3D%3D

  34. Alison and Cliff Gomes Discuss Naomi Wolf's Recent Substack Post on Evil and the Judeo-Christian Covenant

    This is the post we are discussing. https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/have-the-ancient-gods-returned

  35. Natural Assets, Sovereign Nature and Interspecies Games With Jason Bosch and Leo Saraceno

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mClFIDneMsw Leo's article here: https://siliconicarus.org/2023/02/11/natural-asset-managers-how-decentralized-ledger-technology-will-drive-the-ecosystem-services-sector/

  36. Halftime Super Bowl Analysis - Collective Intelligence, Stigmergy, and Pheromones

    Blog post here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/02/17/halftime-super-bowl-analysis-collective-intelligence-stigmergy-and-pheromones/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQGag36nb8

  37. Selling Us on "Game B" - Transmedia Storytelling, Neurohacking, and Alternative Futures

    Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEHDHuTcCvA

  38. World Sensorium Read Aloud - Part 3

    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Rqg1roy4Y

  39. World Sensorium Read Aloud - Part 2

    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5D-MLN7OwY

  40. Overview of the "Handbook of Human Computation" 2013 - 1000+ Pages

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGYE_fm_wmM Book PDF here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Handbook-of-Human-Computation.pdf Human Computation Institute - Cornell: https://humancomputation.org/

  41. Oliver Reiser's "World Sensorium" (World Brain) Read-Aloud Part 1

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmSE7uJhrjQ This is the book: https://www.amazon.com/World-Sensorium-Social-Embryology-Federation/dp/1162738480/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QQRU2O6AAF2J&keywords=world+sensorium&qid=1675912128&sprefix=world+sensorium%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1

  42. "We" Read Aloud Part 3 - Site Visits To Mount Lemmon Outside Tucson, AZ

    Part of a series.

  43. Ants in an Age of Artifice: Tucson Labyrinth

    This is a presentation I gave in Tucson in Late November. We streamed it in early January with a Q&A following. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzUQzija-Z0

  44. Dallas ESports and Bucky Ballers - Jason Bosch, Lynn Davenport, and Alison McDowell About Halfway Through

    Jason and Lynn discuss her new article followed by live Q&A: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dallas-esports-bucky-ballers-lynn-davenport/?trackingId=H724pvZQRKyBi46agfC30Q%3D%3D

  45. "We" Read Aloud Part 6 - Final Installment

    PDF of book: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61963/61963-h/61963-h.htm

  46. "We" Read Aloud Part 5 - Yevgeny Zamyatin

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZveGkaFuS9Q

  47. Boiling Frogs Read Aloud - Plus, Complex Adaptive Systems, Geronimo's Stand, and Gamified Simulations

    This is the blog post I read from: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2019/02/21/boiling-frogs-building-brands-pgs-partnership-with-strive/ Here are the map links: Game B - https://embed.kumu.io/f1084564336eccfa12801c6d9400a205#untitled-map?s=%23game-b-decentralized-self-organizing MetaGame, Geronimo,...

  48. Collective Intelligence Experiment - "Freedom" and School "Choice" In Texas, Plus Revisiting Blockchain Futures Map for Institute for the Future

    Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lQzjWTK2M

  49. "We" Read Aloud Part 4

    Yevgeny Zamyatin 1921

  50. "We" Part 2 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Read Aloud at Titan II Missile Silo NHS Green Valley, AZ

    PDF of "We" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61963/61963-h/61963-h.htm

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Transmuting the emergent digital empire through an examination of social impact finance, behavioral economics, mixed reality, Web 3, and synthetic biology.

Hosted by

Alison McDowell

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How many episodes does Wrench In The Gears have?

Wrench In The Gears has 87 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on May 28, 2023.

What is Wrench In The Gears about?

Transmuting the emergent digital empire through an examination of social impact finance, behavioral economics, mixed reality, Web 3, and synthetic biology.

How often does Wrench In The Gears release new episodes?

Wrench In The Gears publishes a few times a week, based on its 87 episodes since August 2022.

Who hosts Wrench In The Gears?

Wrench In The Gears is created and hosted by Alison McDowell.
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