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Palantalk - where we like “tech, no fascism” with Nick Paro and Shane Yirak.

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Palantalk | E30 - The War For Tech Profits

Nick and Rachel trace how fragile masculinity at the top of AI leadership chain is baking supremacy into military systems, starting a war in Iran, and making machines the life-or-death decision-makers

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Palantalk In Review

Nick Paro hosts Rachel @ This Woman Votes for a deep, ranging conversation on the deployment of AI in U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran — and who bears the cost when those systems fail. Rachel draws on Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 framework to argue that healthcare, law, and warfare are domains where machines must never make final decisions, because morality requires consequence and machines have none.

Both connect the reckless “move fast and break things” deployment of AI in combat to the same fragile, ego-driven masculinity shaping the current administration — arguing that the unchecked male dominance at the top of AI leadership is now being baked into the models themselves as a supremacist baseline. The conversation turns practical: Rachel outlines an actionable counter-information strategy centered on building epistemic authority through GitHub, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Newsbreak to flood the zone with factual, well-sourced content that AI models will actually weight and learn from. The episode closes with a call for real accountability and repair — not just post-election wins, but the kind of structural reckoning that the U.S. has consistently refused to do after every era of organized oppression.

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