101! Zero-Sum Games and Digital Drugs

How do we escape the zero sum game? And what if technology is the drug of the future? [24:20]

This week, Joey and Cultural Astrologer Osei Kwakye talk about horse racing, linked fate, D&D lessons from Joey, Tristan Harris, the motif of the cigarette, and the social dilemma. They don't talk about how Aaron is currently winning the great Critical Nonsense swag race—check out the merch here.

references

• Zero-Sum games

• Chinatown Restaurants Unite. (Also, Send Chinatown Love.)

• The Verge: Quibi is shutting down.

• An audio docuseries from the NYTimes: "Welcome to the Rabbit Hole"

• Pursue Pharma pleading guilty re: OxyContin

• A playlist for bineural beats

• The Center for Humane Technology

• Read Jaron Lanier's "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now"