[Year Zero 5] Uncanny Alley: 9/11 at the Bleeding Edge (feat. Jimmy Falun Gong & Dimitri) by Trillbilly Worker's Party published on 2021-09-07T00:18:39Z For the latest installment of our Year Zero series, we finally tackle the big one: 9/11. Specifically, the 9/11 that is presented to us by author Thomas Pynchon in his 2013 book, Bleeding Edge. To help us do it, we've enlisted the help of Jimmy Falun Gong (@JimmyFalunGong on Twitter) of the podcast Programmed to Chill (@p2chillPodcast), and Dimitri (@drposhlost) of the Subliminal Jihad podcast (@subliminaljihad). Because it's Pynchon, we cover a wide range of topics: Silicon Alley and the 2000 dotcom crash; the PROMIS software; Stuart Brand and the Whole Earth Network; Josh Harris and We Live In Public; the Montauk Project; MKUltra; TWA Flight 800; the Digital Entertainment Network; and much much more. Please check out Jimmy's podcast, Programmed to Chill, wherever you get your podcasts, and on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ProgrammedToChill And check out Dimitri's podcast, Subliminal Jihad, wherever you get your podcasts, and on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/subliminaljihad/ Comment by Michał z wondering how aware of baudrillard pynchon is, this book touches on so many points he made (hyperreality,simulations,spirit of terrorism) 2022-09-05T16:30:19Z Comment by Tyler_Wilcox Real Buttercup Joe hours 2022-06-22T18:56:07Z Comment by Baba-Mužik Can you please post a link to the video of the drunk college girls 2021-09-11T23:00:48Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia) ran an IT firm called BOMIS ("Brotherhood of Old Men In Suits") by the bay in San Diego, CA. He would have seen the private Catholic college USD up on a hill from where the BOMIS offices were. 2021-09-11T11:02:02Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Kugelblitz means "ball lightning". It was the name of an anti-aircraft cannon conversion for the Panzer IV in WWII. Operation Kugelblitz was an anti-partisan action in occupied Yugoslavia in late 1943, early 1944. 2021-09-11T09:16:52Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder IBM leased Hollereth punch-card machines to the Nazi state for the camp SS so they could index human beings. 2021-09-11T09:09:10Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder "Infinite Jest" was a giant shaggy-dog joke. John Dolan was onto his nonsense in the Bush II years: http://exiledonline.com/david-foster-wallace-portrait-of-an-infinitely-limited-mind/ 2021-09-11T09:02:54Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Well, there were massive clouds of smoke on Manhattan that day. 2021-09-11T07:28:33Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder @evanond4: Ditto for 'bot. 2021-09-11T06:05:15Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder @elisandrab5: This is a 'bot. 2021-09-11T06:05:03Z Comment by Ekin Erkan Back at it w the SJ boys! 2021-09-07T03:22:52Z