Month: November 2024

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TMI 11/29/2024 – The Origin of Black Friday, Whites Voted Trump Into Power, Texas’ D&C Effective Ban Claims Another Life, NY Times’ Call For Better Treatment of Trans Haters Betrayed by Rowling, more

We start this week with a staple of TMI’s Black Friday episodes, with Aldous giving the true story of how Black Friday got its name. Next, we note that no matter how bewildered we may be at Latino or Black support for Trump this year, White people have to face facts: there are too many of us to overcome if enough of us want something.

Then, we look at how state abortion bans, like the one in Texas, stops doctors from performing necessary procedures like D&Cs to save the life of people who have miscarried. Finally, we go over how the New York Times’ exhortation that we should all be nicer to those spreading anti-trans messaging got blown up a few days later when J.K. Rowling decided to savagely go after Barbra Banda for legitimately winning a women’s sports award. All this and more on TMI for Friday, November 29, 2024 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 11/22/2024 – The Inisidious Effect of Atlas’ Secret, How Sarah McBride Has Become Far More Consequential Than Any Other Freshman Congressional Representative, more

On this week’s episode of TMI with Aldous Tyler, we look at how two books, taken together, help explain much of the ethos behind modern American conservatism. Not only do we speak to how Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” had been an obvious cornerstone of the “I’ve got mine, screw you” crowd, but how insidiously “The Secret” managed to creep in and influence our current state of politics.

Next, we look at how tensions flared in Congress as incoming Representative Sarah McBride (D-DE), poised to become the first openly transgender member of Congress, found herself personally targeted by Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC). Mace, in a highly controversial move, criticized McBride’s right to use women’s restrooms, arguing that McBride should be forbidden from accessing them due to her transgender identity, going so far as to introduce legislation to keep all transgender people from being able to use the restrooms that correspond to their presentation. We go over how McBride’s response differs from that of Montana State Representative Zooey Zephyr when she was faced with targeted discrimination in the Montana Legislature, and what the implications are for all transgender people who visit Federally-owned facilities. All this and more on TMI for Friday, November 22, 2024 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 11/15/2024 – Congress Was Ready to Give Trump Tool to Declare Nonprofits “Terrorists” Without Evidence, AOC’s Instagram Survey of Split Ticket Voters Inspires Deeper Look at Voting, more

This week, Congress voted on whether or not to fast track a bill that would hand the Treasury Department the ability to strip any nonprofit of its 501 (c)(3) status by declaring it a “terrorist” supporting organization. This was set to fly trough easily UNTIL Trump got elected and enough Democrats and even one Republican said it was unwise to hand him that power. Don’t breathe too easily, though – this bill can return next year, and wonderful nonprofits like Common Defense and Task Force Butler, who just joined forces to stop fascism’s rise in America, could find themselves decimated by it.

Next, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decided she needed to get to the bottom of why there were so many split-ticket voters – in her case, voters who chose Trump for President and her for Congress. The results of AOC’s Instagram survey are both dismaying and insightful, and inspired ME to ask around to see what insights I could find as well – we report on that.

Finally, we briefly tell you about how scientists are closer to finding the key to how life began, by replicating simplified mitochondria in lab conditions. All this and more on TMI for Friday, November 15, 2024 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 11/08/2024 – How the 2024 Presidential Election Makes America Grim Again, What RFK Jr Intends for Our Health, Baldwin Remains Our Senator, more

On this episode, Aldous goes over the results of the 2024 Election and where we go from here. Then he takes a special look at the proposals of RFK Jr for how he intends to “improve” our public health systems, and finally we celebrate retaining Tammy Baldwin as the Senior Senator for the State of Wisconsin. All this and more on TMI for Friday, November 08, 2024 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!

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TMI 11/01/2024 – OpenAI’s Careless Whisper Puts Hallucinations Into Medical Records, Paraquat’s Links to Parkinson’s Have Become Undeniable, WaPo and LATimes’ Endorsement Failures are Dangerous, more

OpenAI can’t just rely on ChatGPT subscriptions to pay for everything, so they have other professional offerings, like their “Whisper” AI-powered transcription app. The problem is, like other AI Large Language Modeled apps, Whisper has an alarming amount of “hallucinations” – phrases or sentences it just randomly adds without regard to what it was actually supposed to be transcribing. When applied to medical transcription, or interlanguage interpretation, these too-frequent errors become hazardous.

Then, we look at Paraquat (frequently marketed in the USA as Gramoxone) and the fact that despite being banned in many nations around the world – including the nation that MAKES the most of it – it is still used widely in the USA and Australia. Legal challenges are coming down the pike due to mounting evidence of Paraquat causing Parkinson’s, despite the assurances of the manufacturers that there’s no proof.

Finally, we look at the Washington Post and LA Times’ sudden reversal of planned endorsements of the Harris/Walz ticket. They wouldn’t go so far as to endorse Trump, but clearly they are terrified of what he might do to them if he wins. All this and more on TMI for Friday, November 01, 2024 – listen in for YOUR Cure for the Common Media!