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De Kai, the man who built the world’s first global translators and AI systems, says we better learn to parent our AI offspring before it’s too late. The author of Raising AI argues how we behave in front of AI’s matters more than whatever we tell them.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Use the code “rush10” to receive 10% off of Cobi Dryer sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.comGet bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, LatinX professor, and the author of Hospicing Modernity as well as the upcoming book Outgrowing Modernity, my favorite civilizational doula, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Use the code “rush10” to receive 10% off of Cobi Dryer sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.comGet bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, the author of TechGnosis, High Weirdness, and the just released history of the LSD medium Blotter, esoteric scholar Erik Davis.https://techgnosis.com/Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.comGet bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rushkoff explains the two ways we can understand magic in order to experience more of our embodied lives.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Use the code “rush10” for 10% off Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.comGet bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi.New Millennium Boyz: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/New-Millennium-Boyz/Alex-Kazemi/9798888459539 Alex’s website: https://alexkazemi.com/Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Use the code “rush10” for 10% off Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff: Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.comGet bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the CommonsProgram at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.comGet bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tomorrow on Conner's podcast, Against Everyone.Conner's Patreon: patreon.com/connerhabibConner's Website: connerhabib.comTeam Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.comGet bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Has digital technology turned us all into fascists? Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideology of one "side." He shows how technology, psychedelics, and business are all "non-specific amplifiers," yielding different results depending on what we bring to them. He asks us to consider what would happen if we stopped seeing issues in terms of "sides," and why our current media and political environment makes that so difficult. How do we break the fascistic state of mind? Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/

Playing for Team Human today, occult historian, author, and esotericist Mitch Horowitz, sharing the formulas that give us all access to Practical Magic. Mitch Horowitz: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/Practical Magic: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/booksTeam Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/

Edward Ongweso Jr., Senior Researcher at Security in Context and co-host of This Machine Kills, journeys with us into the political economy of technology and the deep crazy that is informing the collapse of the still viable, if problematic, civilization. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/

Radha Agrawal, Co-Founder of Daybreaker and author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again.About Radha AgrawalRadha Agrawal is a dynamic entrepreneur, Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Community Architect of Daybreaker, a global wellness movement with nearly half a million members across five continents. She’s co-founded and invested in several wellness companies, including THINX, and launched DOSE by Daybreaker, a membership platform focused on practicing joy.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/

Douglas Rushkoff recognizes the high weirdness of our circumstances, and the universal strange characterizing this moment in our shared history. He also offers four recommendations for us to take agency over our situation.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/

Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, proves there's still a path forward for the fourth estate.You can view the full video conversation: https://youtu.be/b8M4zkhtTZgTeam Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/

Artist and writer Molly Crabapple helps us retrieve the purpose of the artist - particularly in hard times.About Molly Crabapple:Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Toulouse Lautrec, Diego Rivera and Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War.’ She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, received global praise and attention. Her animated films have been nominated for three Emmys and won an Edward R. Murrow Award.Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director of Local Futures, shares the power of local connections and building resilience - even against the globally-scaled abstract monsters threatening human sustainability and sanctity today.About Helena Norberg-HodgeHelena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day and the International Alliance for Localisation. Helena is the author of several books, including Ancient Futures (“the inspirational classic” -- Random House), an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies. Her latest book is Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness.Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon.-------------------Hosted by Douglas Ru

Rushkoff discusses what we can do in the face of political. cultural, and economic phenomena – and why the Team Human mission hasn't changed.Support Team Human

Dr. Mara Einstein, author of Hoodwinked: How Marketers Use the Same Tactics As Cults, helps us recognize the cult tactics being used to hoodwink us into submission and get us to act against our own self-interest. This conversation was recorded February 4, 2025.About Dr. Mara EinsteinDr. Mara Einstein has written books on branding religion (Brands of Faith), cause marketing (Compassion, Inc.), and deceptive marketing practices. This last book was Black Ops Advertising, which The New York Times called “well-researched and accomplished” and The Guardian agreed, saying “Einstein’s explanations of all this – from internet news organisations to TV product placement and even dating sites – are thoroughly researched, elegantly explained and often alarming, even for readers familiar with most of the above facts in the abstract.”Support Team Human

Grant Morrison and Douglas Rushkoff celebrate the publication of the first biography of Robert Anton Wilson with author Gabriel Kennedy (PropAnon). Kennedy and Morrison walk us through the Chapel Perilous and land us safely back in consensus reality.

Rushkoff discusses the importance of looking between major global events in order to find connection and meaning.

Rushkoff shares a new monologue that makes sense of Trump's latest round of seemingly outlandish proclamations.