Ep.399 - Ceuta & The "Manosphere" Industry

In a week where:

1. A solar eclipse comes & goes.
2. Josh Kushner & Bob Iger buy the Los Angeles Lakers for $12B.
3. Parliamentary investigation resumes into Nigel Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election.
4. Jason Arday dies aged 41.
5. Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

In the 1st of two Life segments: (8:05) The Ceuta migration incident has been taking the headlines in the past few weeks as mainstream media has predictably made this a referendum on migration as a concept. So what really happened in the Spanish enclave? (Article By Said Choukri)

In the 2nd Life segment: (22:36) In the time between recording last week's episode & this one Jason Arday died. The Corporate Media & Cambridge are hand-wringing as we speak. (Article By Paul Tiyambe Zeleza)

In Society: (47:19) The "Manosphere" has died down in terms of mainstream attention, but it's still there and similar to the "dating guru" era of the 00s, it's become it's own industry built on grievance. (Article By Miles Klee)

Lastly, in Tech: (1:00:15) We look back at the work of Paulina Borsook, whose work in the 90s around Tech in Silicon Valley now reads as prophetic text, predicting the world we're in now. (Article By Anna Merlan)

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