10. The Healthy Skeptic

“This is an irony you couldn’t get away with in fiction—socially impaired programmers creating social media environments for society to socialize within. And the irony doesn’t stop there. Grandin points out that the programmers require intense concentration to look at information for long periods of time. Meanwhile, the technology and media they create distract and fragment people’s attention. Even Grandin, whose condition is characterized by an inability to recognize irony, recognizes this irony.”

0:00 —Intro: You’re not a hoarder, not if you can put it in order…

01:00 —Notes on weaponized autism

12:15 —Alone at the Social Skills Group Therapy

19 minutes

“Witchs Will” by Wilburn Burchette and “No Riders” by Pye Corner Audio

3. TMI

“A street person on a street corner is screaming street words—words that aren’t words, though they come into sharper focus whenever someone walks by.”

00:00 —TMI

01:46 —A sci-fi writer and a scientist disagree about dystopias…

03:55 —TMI

05:42 —A broken TV (signs of reality at the electronics store)…

07:59: —TMI

09:36 —A noise coming from the news anchor’s ear piece…

10:45 —Street Words

15:03 —TMI

16:27 —Stranger’s MacGuffin and the coming of the Roboroach…

21:20 —TMI

24:30 minutes

“Disintegration Loops” by William Basinki

1. Somewhere in the Distant Present

“My personal space has been invaded by a man looking for an invasion by an insect that practices an invasive form of procreation…”

0:00 —The bug-man…

04:15 —Do you ever suspect that the world actually did end in 2012 and we’ve simply failed to notice? …

04:56 —An elevator glitch leads to a staring contest with a stranger in the 4th floor mirror…

12:31 —Another glitch leads to a case of mistaken birthday…

16:41 minutes

“Poa Alpina” by Biosphere, “Unseen Forces” by Justin Walter