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Read With MeNetanyahu, Trump, and StalinWherein Ben and guests discuss world leaders people won't stop revering for some reason. Lior Tepper brings updates from the trial of Netanyahu in Israel, Eve Gaumond and Alicia Wanless discuss Trump's meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister, and Marichka Hlyten explains why there were Stalinist marchers in DC last weekend. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dogshirtdaily.com/subscribe2025-05-071h 02
In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVNetanyahu, Trump, and StalinWherein Ben and guests discuss world leaders people won't stop revering for some reason. Lior Tepper brings updates from the trial of Netanyahu in Israel, Eve Gaumond and Alicia Wanless discuss Trump's meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister, and Marichka Hlyten explains why there were Stalinist marchers in DC last weekend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-05-071h 02
Read With MeAI, Analysis, and the AudienceWherein Eve Gaumond discusses new AI experiments, Minna Ålander discusses European political analysis, and Ben encourages audience participation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dogshirtdaily.com/subscribe2025-05-021h 00In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVAI, Analysis, and the AudienceWherein Eve Gaumond discusses new AI experiments, Minna Ålander discusses European political analysis, and Ben encourages audience participation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-05-021h 00
Read With MeWill Canada Vote For Annexation?Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss the upcoming Canadian elections. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dogshirtdaily.com/subscribe2025-04-241h 03In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVWill Canada Vote For Annexation?Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss the upcoming Canadian elections. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-04-241h 03
Read With MeHow To Become A SlumlordWherein Ben and Eve Gaumond discuss Eve’s new venture into exploiting the working class. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dogshirtdaily.com/subscribe2025-04-161h 00In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVHow to Become a SlumlordWherein Ben and Eve Gaumond discuss Eve’s new venture into exploiting the working class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-04-161h 00
Read With MeCraziness In CanadaWherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and Eve Gaumond discuss the craziest recent events in Canadian politics, including lies, plagiarism, and threats of secession. Anastasiia Lapatina joins in to discuss the last episodes of her podcast on US-Ukrainian relations. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dogshirtdaily.com/subscribe2025-03-311h 03In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVCraziness in CanadaWherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and Eve Gaumond discuss the craziest recent events in Canadian politics, including lies, plagiarism, and threats of secession. Anastasiia Lapatina joins in to discuss the last episodes of her podcast on US-Ukrainian relations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-311h 03
Read With MeCanadian ElectionsWherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss the upcoming elections in Canada. Also, Ben has a new puppy. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dogshirtdaily.com/subscribe2025-03-2459 minIn Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVCanadian ElectionsWherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss the upcoming elections in Canada. Also, Ben has a new puppy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-2459 minIn Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVMake-Up, Trains, and Humanitarian CrisesWherein Ben celebrates his new career as a make-up influencer, Eve Gaumond tells us about her train journey across Canada, and Holly Berkley Fletcher reminds us that there's an ongoing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-121h 00In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVIntelligence, Rhetoric, and ProtestWherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond welcome reporter Shane Harris to discuss Trump's cut-off of military intelligence to Ukraine. We also talked about the State of the Union, the latest SCOTUS ruling, and why there haven't been large-scale street protests in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-03-061h 01In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVComedy HourWherein Ben, Eve Gaumond, and Holly Berkley Fletcher shoot the shit for an hour about whatever's on their minds: Dan Bongino, UFC, Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship, foreign election influence. You know, funny stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-02-281h 03In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVThe Supreme Court Reads The PollsWherein Ben and Eve Gaumond welcome Jonathan Rauch to talk about the political role of the Supreme Court. Also, Anastasiia Lapatina and her estimable baby are in DC for the launch of her new podcast on US-Ukrainian relations. Register for the launch event here: https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-ukraine-fate Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-02-2057 minIn Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVThe New Techno-PlutocracyWherein Ben welcomes Raluca Csernatoni, a European scholar, to discuss European responses to our developing techno-plutocratic hellscape. Alicia Wanless, Eve Gaumond, and Jonathan Rauch join in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-02-071h 03In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVHypothetical War CrimesWherein Ben discusses the barriers to US occupation of Gaza, Eve Gaumond discusses tariffs, and Shane Harris discusses the CIA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-02-051h 02In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVEthics and AmbitionWherein Ben takes a step back from our many crises and muses on the ethical obligations of career civil servants, to what extent presidential administrations actually get to set their own agendas, and other questions in the background of the current moment. Eve Gaumond and John Hawkinson weigh in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-01-311h 03In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVLast Show Before the ApocalypseWherein Ben celebrates our last show before Monday's apocalypse by rambling about bipartisanship, tariffs, assassinations in Canada, Aileen Cannon, and an old Finnish miner in Montana. Eve Gaumond, Alicia Wanless, Richard Wattenbarger, and Anna Bower join in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-01-171h 02In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVJohn Ratcliffe: It Could Be WorseWherein Ben welcomes Shane Harris to tell us about John Ratcliffe, Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence. As Trump nominees go, he's not that bad, but that doesn't mean he doesn't suck. Holly Berkley Fletcher and Eve Gaumond join in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-01-061h 00In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVThe Generative AI BubbleWherein Ben welcomes Gary Marcus to discuss AI: what's real, what's bullshit, and what happens next. Eve Gaumond and Matteo Carraba join in. Find Gary's new book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551069/taming-silicon-valley/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-01-0459 minIn Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVHow to Wreck the Federal GovernmentWherein Ben welcomes Jody Freeman to discuss Trump's plans for structural deregulation of federal agencies. Holly Berkley Fletcher and Eve Gaumond join in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-12-301h 01In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVMake-Up and Undersea CablesWherein Ben hosts a rollicking panel discussion, with Holly Berkley Fletcher, Eve Gaumond, and Antti Ruokonen, all gathered to discuss the CIA, talking cacti, Russian attacks on internet cables, and Eurovision. Also, Ben premieres his new Get Ready With Me video. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-12-271h 01In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVThe AI is Still RacistWherein Eve Gaumond follows up on yesterday's experiments with getting OpenAI's video platform to make antisemitic content, and it gets worse. Merry Christmas! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-12-2427 minIn Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVDo Antisemitic Androids Dream of Hasidic Pigs?Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond try to trick OpenAI's new video tool into making antisemitic propaganda, and it's shockingly easy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-12-231h 01In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVOn Cursing and Chris WrayWherein Jonathan Rauch persuades Ben to swear off swearing, and Marty Lederman discusses Chris Wray's resignation. Alicia Wanless and Eve Gaumond cohost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-12-121h 00In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVHow to Hack AIWherein Eve Gaumond joins Ben to discuss strategies for getting new AI tools to break their own content guidelines for our amusement. John Hawkinson gets roped into explaining what a quantum computer is, and Joel Woodward drops by with questions about Dog Shirt TV's future as a revolution in morning television. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-12-101h 01In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVThe Greek Chorus Plans The ShowWherein Ben, Eve Gaumond, and Holly Berkley Fletcher try to plan future episodes by pondering what grim fate will befall us next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-11-271h 00In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVEve Seizes Control and Interviews BenWherein Eve Gaumond decides that she is in charge and turns the show into an extended interview with Ben about the news that happened yet this week: the crazy cabinet appointments to come, what Ukraine is going to do with the new power to use long-range missiles to hit targets in Russia, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-11-181h 00In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVOn Populist Movements ElsewhereWherein we get a report on the populist movement in Canada from Eve Gaumond, and a report from the analogous movement in Finland from Antti Ruokonen. Hosted on Acast. 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Arbiters of TruthChatGPT Tells AllYou've likely heard of ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI. But you’ve likely never heard an interview with ChatGPT, much less an interview in which ChatGPT reflects on its own impact on the information ecosystem. Nor is it likely that you’ve ever heard ChatGPT promising to stop producing racist and misogynistic content. But, on this episode of Arbiters of Truth, Lawfare’s occasional series on the information ecosystem, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with ChatGPT to talk about a range of things: the pronouns it prefers; academic integrity and the chatbot’s likely impact on that; and...2023-02-0159 min
In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTVCanadians Truckers Take Over the ShowWherein Canadians overrun In Lieu of Fun in a fashion not seen since the War of 1812. Eve Gaumond guest hosts. Alicia Wanless returns to talk truckers and ideology. And we are joined by Glen McGregor, senior political correspondent for CTV news in Ottawa. Genevieve and Ben try to prevent the White House from being burned down in the invasion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-02-101h 03