Mastodawn

MMR Nmd Aug 12, 2025

#TheLever is definetly a great media and its podcasts are both radical and unbiased (yes, it is possible).

Listening to the latest podcast of Augut 11th 2025, I discovered a movie from #AriAster, #Eddington

"You might recognize director Ari Aster from his groundbreaking horror films like Hereditary and Midsommar.

But Aster just dropped the scariest film of his career: Eddington, a dark COVID-19 comedy starring #JoaquinPhoenix, #PedroPascal, and #EmmaStone, about social media-driven polarization, gun violence, and the looming tech takeover.

Today on Lever Time, David Sirota speaks with Aster about the inspiration behind his all-too-prescient film.

Did the coronavirus pandemic break our brains, leaving our communities with no commonly accepted set of facts?
How do we navigate today’s AI slop-driven informational hellscape?
And is it possible to avoid the twisted fate of Eddington, Aster’s fictional New Mexico town?"

Listen to the podcast, it's 35 minutes of intelligent interview and thoughtful answers.

And, oh, go and see the movie, I definitely will, I will be the first time in ages I'll pay for a ticket rather than qBit it.

https://www.levernews.com/ari-aster-thinks-youre-being-manipulated/

#MassManipulation #NewMexico #Movies #Pandemic #Coronavirus #Covid19

Ari Aster Thinks You’re Being Manipulated

Master of horror Ari Aster tackles the scariest film of his career — about the real-world villains hiding in our midst.

The Lever

Kevin Karhan

Apr 29, 2025

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes the problem is they are way better at #Propaganda and #MassManipulation, otherwise no #WageWorker would vote for their candidates.

And that is literally the problem!

By the time we'd see any #uprising they'd already entrench themselves with people willing to mow down unarmed protestprs with belt-fed machineguns and automatic grenade launchers without hesitation.

Or gotten themselves enough #RoboDogs and #RemoteTurrets to not need masses of soldiers to begin with, and instead enforce their own #Neofeudalism remotely like #warlords who have #drones at their disposal instead #ChildSoldiers!