024 - Aesthetic Arbitrage, Breaking Points, and the Media of the Future

Israel-Palestine is a conflict that has hungered to turn hot for decades. However, foreign influence leads to the PR and lobbying war becoming even more important than the military one. In an increasingly common occurrence, differing sides see different realities and information is more about the s…

Enron created shell corporations to hide a ponzi scheme. Media companies are doing the same with their trust and attention. Cactus debunks these tactics, and the actual racist conspiracy theory about the lab leak hypothesis, in this week's episode. Follow Cactus on twitter: https://twitter.com/meta…

Liz Cheney's ouster shows the extent of insular activism in the Republican party - it isn't a Democratic Party - exclusive phenomenon. But it's much harder to remove this incentive from a party than a company, as the former requires activism to exist and gain influence. Across history, political pa…

A cancer cell performs it's function, with one core exception: it doesn't know when to stop. Insular activism replicates this chaos, creating the confluence of uncontrolled radicalization, self-destructive incentives, and institutional sclerosis. Follow Cactus on twitter: https://twitter.com/meta_…