Dennis Broe and Toby Miller are joined by special guest Jules Boykoff who writes about sports with Dave Zirin for The Nation. Jules has written several books on the World Cup and The Olympics including his latest Red Card . He leads off by discussing Trump's overthrowing of the red card which he says was accepted graciously by the player who received it. We talk about the 2024 Paris and the upcoming 2028 Olympics, both of which Jules is covering and which includes militarizing the playing fields, removing homeless and reshaping minority neighborhoods. Finally, we discuss sports betting, how it is a plague on workers, how it is being rigged and how Kalshi stole into the World Cup.

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In Culture & Barbarism 12, Media Scholar Toby Miller from Mexico and Media Critic Dennis Broe from Paris look at the AI phenomenon, from a potentially bursting bubble to "To big to Fail." Market valuation is skyrocketing even as the service continues a massive drive toward job loss—with Amazon's "Fulfillment Centers now being converted into Unemployment Centers—a more total integration into the U.S. war machine and a gigantic and destructive use of resources. Meanwhile, AI in China is being developed in a different way, as the service is integrated into the industrial sector, a rotting core in the West, and used to better people's lives rather than as a new source of profit for the few.

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On Culture and Barbarism 11, Media Analyst Dennis Broe is joined by Hollywood Reporter Chief TV Critic Daniel Feinberg to discuss changes in the TV Series industry involving Mergers, Ai and YouTube. We cover not only the threat each poses to creativity in the industry but also how each of these are influencing the form and content of television series. The threats include: mass layoffs; writers increasingly being paid less on the long march from broadcast and cable TV to Netflix to YouTube, where for the most part they are not paid at all; "creeping AI"; and YouTube and Netflix amalgamating content and erasing distinctions as well as AI and YouTube absorbing advertising dollars that used to go to broadcast TV and the streamers. All of this in not only an industry but also a political climate where regulations are going out the window.

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