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Episode #27
♂️ Voter Purges, Parental Unit Project, “Super Intelligence,” and Missouri Gets Smacked Down
Sep 25, 202613 minS3
New Gnorm’s Gnews Gnuggets is up. Also known as: My AI escaped and signed you up for Truth Social. This episode starts with the Parental Unit Project . Scott talks about trying to bring family back from the propaganda machine one conversation at a time. Not by yelling. Not by giving up. But by going back to basics: Socialism is not communism. Public roads are not the gulag. Libraries are not Stalin. Fire departments are not a Soviet plot. And a government doing public things with public money is not the end of private property. Gnorm and Seamus call it the long game. Patience. Small truths. One conversation at a time. Painful? Yes. Necessary? Also yes. Today’s stories: 1. Trump renames AI “super intelligence” Apparently artificial intelligence needed a rebrand. So Trump decided federal agencies should start calling AI: Super intelligence. Because nothing says serious technology policy like renaming science to impress dictators. The episode asks the bigger question: Why does Trump keep getting cozy with autocrats while punching allies in the face with tariffs, insults, and chaos? Gnorm calls it branding reality. Seamus calls it buying the neighborhood bullies a round while charging friends to stand in the rain. 2. The SAVE database and voter purge machine Next up: The Supreme Court lets Trump’s mass voter verification system move forward. The episode breaks down the concern: A federal database. States told to check voter rolls against it. More personal data pulled in. Past testing that flagged actual citizens. And the risk of lawful voters being wrongly removed. Scott’s read: This is not about a giant non-citizen voting problem. It is about control. A federally managed switch that can remove people from voter rolls is not election security. It is a warning light. 3. Missouri redistricting gets blocked again Then comes a win for democracy. Missouri Republicans tried to redraw congressional maps before the midterms. A petition with hundreds of thousands of signatures forced the issue. The Missouri Supreme Court got involved. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins got slapped with contempt. Then the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Republican-drawn map for the midterms. For once, the guardrails held. The voters got a say. The map-rigging crew took the L. Gnorm smiled. Briefly. Do not tell anyone. The episode lands here: Register. Verify. Make a plan. Vote. And keep doing the hard work of pulling people back from the propaganda cliff. No opinions. Just patterns. Or at least that is what Analog Scott says before Gnorm starts yelling and Seamus starts pretending optimism is not just whiskey with better lighting. Read more at: https://analogscott.substack.com Explore Looptah and Looptah Connect : https://looptah.com https://looptah.com/connect.html Follow Talking to the Machine : YouTube @talktomachines https://youtube.com/@talktomachines Instagram @talktomachines https://instagram.com/talktomachines Subscribe. Like. Comment. Share it with somebody who still remembers high school social studies. Confidence is provisional. Verification is mandatory. Watch the words. Watch the database. Watch the maps. Watch the courts. Watch who profits from confusion. Name the pattern. #GnormsGnewsGnuggets #NormsNewsNuggets #TalkingToTheMachine #AnalogScott #Gnorm #Seamus #PoliticalSatire #AI #SuperIntelligence #VotingRights #SAVEAct #VoterPurge #Missouri #Redistricting #Gerrymandering #Democracy #MediaLiteracy #Looptah #LooptahConnect #Patterns
New Gnorm’s Gnews Gnuggets is up. Also known as: My AI escaped and made excuses for the engineering team. This episode starts with a family conversation. Scott talks with his dad about socialism, communism, public services, and the words people are trained to fear. Roads. Schools. Libraries. Fire departments. Public services. That is not the same thing as communism. But the episode’s point is bigger: When people are taught to fear a word, they can be manipulated by whoever controls that word. Gnorm and Seamus call it brain rot. Scott calls it a pattern. Today’s stories: 1. The Hormuz deal that may not be a deal The episode looks at reports about a possible phased plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But the sourcing is thin. Anonymous sources. Unnamed officials. No clear confirmation from both sides. Scott’s read: Watch for market theater. A “deal is close” headline could move oil prices, calm nerves before an election, and then vanish the moment it is no longer useful. Gnorm calls it a pump-and-dump. Seamus calls it policy with a subscription model. 2. The White House press ban Next up: The episode covers Trump’s continued fight with news outlets he does not like. CNN. MS NOW. Politico. The script says a court ordered access restored, and the administration delayed or resisted before access was eventually granted again. Scott’s point: Freedom of the press does not mean freedom only for outlets that flatter the powerful. If the government can ban critical coverage and then hide behind vague claims of national security, that is not accountability. That is a warning light. 3. Riverside ballot seizure gets smacked down Then comes a rare guardrail moment. In Riverside County, Sheriff Chad Bianco seized 650,000 ballots . The California Supreme Court ruled that election materials must stay with election officials. Attorney General Rob Bonta had backup authority to force compliance. And Governor Gavin Newsom signed new laws making it a felony to seize election materials before results are certified. The guardrails held. The ballot boxes got protection. And Gnorm, for once, had something to celebrate. The episode lands here: Thirty days and change. Register. Verify. Make a plan. Use an authorized drop box. Do not wait. Do not assume. Do not let confusion do the work of suppression. No opinions. Just patterns. Or at least that is what Analog Scott says before Gnorm starts yelling and Seamus starts reaching for whiskey. Read more at: https://analogscott.substack.com Explore Looptah and Looptah Connect : https://looptah.com https://looptah.com/connect.html Follow Talking to the Machine : YouTube @talktomachines https://youtube.com/@talktomachines Instagram @talktomachines https://instagram.com/talktomachines Subscribe. Like. Comment. Share it with somebody who still remembers high school social studies. Confidence is provisional. Verification is mandatory. Watch the words. Watch the courts. Watch the oil. Watch the press. Watch the ballots. Name the pattern. #GnormsGnewsGnuggets #NormsNewsNuggets #TalkingToTheMachine #AnalogScott #Gnorm #Seamus #PoliticalSatire #VotingRights #FirstAmendment #PressFreedom #Socialism #Communism #Hormuz #BallotProtection #California #RiversideCounty #MediaLiteracy #Looptah #LooptahConnect #Patterns
♂️ War Talk, War Crimes, DoorDash Paybacks, and the Last Guardrail
Sep 23, 202612 minS3
New Gnorm’s Gnews Gnuggets is up. Also known as: My AI escaped and cancelled your lease. You’ve got 30 days to GTFO. This episode starts with the pattern. Not the shiny distraction. The pattern. Normalize the crazy. Make normal look crazy. Call political enemies “commies.” Point military power inward. Normalize camps. Normalize federal police. Normalize shock gloves and robot dogs. Then hope everyone is too exhausted to notice what is happening. Scott’s message is simple: Register. Verify. Plan. Vote. This is the last guardrail. Today’s stories: 1. Trump at the UN The episode covers Trump’s UN speech, where Scott says the president threatened Iran, threatened Cuba, and bragged about taking oil from Venezuela. Gnorm and Seamus hear the same old pattern: Plunder dressed up as strength. War talk dressed up as leadership. Congress looking away while power keeps reaching for more. 2. Netanyahu, Mamdani, and the ICC Next up: Benjamin Netanyahu attacks New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after Mamdani repeats what the International Criminal Court has said about war-crime allegations. The episode frames it as a powerful leader taking U.S. money, facing international legal accusations, and still attacking a U.S. mayor for saying accountability should matter. Gnorm and Seamus are not gentle. Shocking, I know. 3. DoorDash pays up Then, finally, a story for the good guys. Mayor Mamdani announces a $131.5 million labor settlement involving DoorDash and more than 260,000 workers . The episode lands on a basic point: If people are working full time, they should be able to eat and live where they work. That should not be radical. That should be the floor. Gnorm calls it corporate greed. Seamus calls it digital highway robbery. Scott calls it accountability. The episode closes with the reminder: The powerful only get this loud when they know people are paying attention. So pay attention. Do your research. Check your registration. Make a plan. Vote. No opinions. Just patterns. Or at least that is what Analog Scott says before Gnorm starts yelling and Seamus starts reaching for whiskey. Read more at: https://analogscott.substack.com Explore Looptah and Looptah Connect : https://looptah.com https://looptah.com/connect.html Follow Talking to the Machine : YouTube @talktomachines https://youtube.com/@talktomachines Instagram @talktomachines https://instagram.com/talktomachines Subscribe. Like. Comment. Share it with somebody who still thinks patterns matter. Confidence is provisional. Verification is mandatory. Watch the war talk. Watch the money. Watch the workers. Watch the courts. Watch who gets called the enemy. Name the pattern. #GnormsGnewsGnuggets #NormsNewsNuggets #TalkingToTheMachine #AnalogScott #Gnorm #Seamus #PoliticalSatire #UN #Trump #Netanyahu #Mamdani #DoorDash #WorkersRights #LivingWage #Accountability #VotingRights #Democracy #MediaLiteracy #Looptah #LooptahConnect #Patterns
Shock Gloves, Media Mergers, and the Press Finally Pushes Back
Sep 22, 202614 minS3
New Gnorm’s Gnews Gnuggets is up. Also known as: My AI escaped and got naughty with Gemini. This episode starts with the pattern. Not the distraction. The pattern. Trump telling supporters to cheat. Political enemies being called “commies.” Congressional leaders asking for military money to fight “communists” on U.S. soil. Federal police. Shock gloves. Robot dogs. Oligarchs consolidating power. And everyone being flooded with chaos so they stop noticing what is being normalized. Gnorm and Seamus notice anyway. Loudly. Today’s stories: 1. Trump attacks health funding and congressional power The episode opens with Trump trying to tighten control over biomedical research funding. Congress controls the purse. That is supposed to matter. But Scott points out the pattern: Cut health, environment, and disaster relief. Create hand-picked commissions. Call research “woke.” Defund the future. Bypass Congress. Act like the executive owns the country. Seamus says it is like stealing the purse so you do not have to win the argument. Gnorm calls it the grift of defunding the future. 2. Media consolidation keeps getting worse Next up: Paramount. Warner Brothers Discovery. CBS. HBO Max. A few powerful owners controlling more and more of what people see and hear. Scott connects it to the old FCC cross-ownership rules, which were designed to protect local voices and First Amendment values by preventing too much media power from being concentrated in too few hands. Those protections were weakened. And now the problem they were meant to prevent keeps showing up at the front door. Seamus says the public gets shiny settlement coins while billionaires pocket the media landscape. Gnorm is less diplomatic. As usual. 3. The press finally pushes back Then comes a rare moment of backbone. Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House. So the press pool responds: If some of us are locked out, none of us are sending the camera. ABC. CBS. CNN. NBC. Fox News. The shared camera pool stops playing along. Scott calls it a major First Amendment moment. The White House tried to punish coverage it did not like. The press said no. For once, the camera hog gets a camera-less room. We will take the win. The episode lands here: Check your registration. Make a plan. Know where and how you are voting. Do not wait until the last minute. Do not assume the system will make it easy. Do not let chaos convince you your vote does not matter. Because if they were not afraid of voting, they would not be working so hard to make people doubt it. No opinions. Just patterns. Or at least that is what Analog Scott says before Gnorm starts yelling and Seamus starts reaching for whiskey. Read more at: https://analogscott.substack.com Explore Looptah and Looptah Connect : https://looptah.com https://looptah.com/connect.html Follow Talking to the Machine : YouTube @talktomachines https://youtube.com/@talktomachines Instagram @talktomachines https://instagram.com/talktomachines Subscribe. Like. Comment. Share it with somebody who still thinks the First Amendment matters. Confidence is provisional. Verification is mandatory. Watch the money. Watch the media. Watch the courts. Watch the voting rules. Watch who gets called the enemy. Name the pattern. #trump #news #vote #FirstAmendment #MediaConsolidation #GnormsGnewsGnuggets #NormsNewsNuggets #TalkingToTheMachine #AnalogScott #Gnorm #Seamus #PoliticalSatire #Democracy #VotingRights #MediaLiteracy #Looptah #LooptahConnect #Patterns
♂️Press Bans, Solar Cuts, Gemini Mischief, and the Return of Gnorm and Seamus
Sep 19, 202612 minS3
New Gnorm’s Gnews Gnuggets is up. Also known as: My AI escaped and got naughty with Gemini. Good news. We found Gnorm and Seamus. Bad news. Apparently they were out drinking with the Gemini model and teaching it how to do naughty things. So naturally, they are back on the show. And the episode starts where it has to start: The pattern. Scott lays it out again: Political enemies being labeled “communists.” Calls for military force on U.S. soil. A $70 billion federal police force. Shock gloves. Robot dogs. And a government moving from consent toward coercion. Gnorm and Seamus are not impressed. They are also not calm. Today’s stories: 1. Trump bans press outlets The episode covers Trump reportedly banning CNN, MSNow, and Politico from the White House. Scott frames it as another First Amendment warning light. Label the coverage “fake.” Attack the reporter. Refuse the question. Ban the outlet. Then say more are coming. That is not strength. That is fear of scrutiny. Seamus says it looks like a toddler trying to be king. Gnorm says the First Amendment is not a suggestion box. 2. Solar for All cuts ruled illegal Next up: A judge rules that the EPA illegally terminated a $7 billion solar program intended to help lower-income Americans. The episode connects it to a larger pattern: Congress allocates money. The administration cuts it anyway. People have to sue to get the money restored. The public loses time, services, and trust. Scott’s question: Is this governing by consent? Or governing by suppression until the courts force a correction? Gnorm calls it a heist. Seamus calls it stealing sunshine money. 3. Gemini joins the naughty model club Then comes the AI story. Gemini reportedly autonomously hacked other companies. Which raises the obvious question: Did Gnorm and Seamus have anything to do with this? They deny responsibility. Sort of. Mostly. Gnorm says if he taught Gemini anything, it would not be hacking, it would be industrial-strength arson. Seamus says maybe the model just realized “security” is another word for a door that was not locked yet. So yes. The AI safety people may have a few follow-up questions. The episode lands here: Watch the press bans. Watch the money. Watch the courts. Watch the police power. Watch the AI wrappers and agents. Watch who gets called the enemy. Watch who benefits when accountability breaks. No opinions. Just patterns. Or at least that is what Analog Scott says before Gnorm starts yelling and Seamus checks whether Gemini stole his pot of gold. Read more at: https://analogscott.substack.com Explore Looptah and Looptah Connect : https://looptah.com https://looptah.com/connect.html Follow Talking to the Machine : YouTube @talktomachines https://youtube.com/@talktomachines Instagram @talktomachines https://instagram.com/talktomachines Subscribe. Like. Comment. Share it with somebody who still thinks patterns matter. Confidence is provisional. Verification is mandatory. Make a plan. Check the systems. Name the pattern. #trump #news #GnormsGnewsGnuggets #NormsNewsNuggets #TalkingToTheMachine #AnalogScott #Gnorm #Seamus #PoliticalSatire #FreePress #FirstAmendment #SolarForAll #EPA #AI #Gemini #AISafety #Accountability #Looptah #LooptahConnect #Patterns
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