Synopsis
This Human Meme podcast is the inflection point for what it means to live a life of knowing. We are in the critical moment of human induction. David Boles is a writer, publisher, teacher, lyricist and author living and working in New York City. He has dedicated his life to founding the irrevocable aesthetic. Be a Human Meme!
Episodes
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Going Federated: Getting Rid of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram!
03/01/2023 Duration: 22minIt's time to go Federated and other. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his thoughts on getting rid of the big three: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and replacing them with other social media options!
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When AI Writes Your Essay
15/12/2022 Duration: 08minArtificial Intelligence is arcing from art to text! In this Boles.tv live stream update, David Boles shares his thoughts on AI-created essay text, and he recalls the terror of a human essay writing evaluation that his students had to endure at a Jesuit university Freshman writing program.
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Copyright Trolls and DMCA Takedown Notices
05/12/2022 Duration: 17minCopyright trolls need to be stopped. In this Boles.tv highlight, David Boles shares the rage and the fury of being wrongly accused of restreaming audio that doesn't exist. The DMCA Trolls can silence you without curiosity or conclusion, and that needs to be stopped!
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No More Streaming Music
01/12/2022 Duration: 07minMusic streaming does not work for live broadcast. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why music -- even background music and incidental interludes -- no longer works for use during a live stream event.
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Cleanliness Next to Socialness
24/11/2022 Duration: 14minIs social status determined by how, and why, we wash our private bits? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles takes a look at the soapy social issues in conflict, and at frothing play -- when it comes to washing your body into sublime cleanliness. Or not!
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Lion King is the Biggest Bigot on Broadway!
15/11/2022 Duration: 31minIn this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the problem with the Broadway production of -- THE LION KING -- and the bigoted decision by Shelly Guy and Lisa Carling to remove a White American Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf because he wasn't the correct skin color to perform the show. THE LION KING was written, on both the big screen and the musical stage, by White people. The decision to fire Keith Wann will live in infamy across the long, and oftentimes, misbegotten history of Broadway as non-traditional casting, and woke influences, become more important than doing the right thing by the best, and most able, talent.
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AI Bot Thuggery: The Return of Racism in Art!
07/11/2022 Duration: 24minNot all Art collections are created equal. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles grapples with the idea that AI Art may be intrinsically Racist, not because of programming, or ideas, or permissions -- but because of pre-existing data sets that are being used to render images. The presumption of bias of the AI is not in the collector, but in the collection.
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Birthing the Blind Slave
03/11/2022 Duration: 09minWill embryo eugenics create, not a new SuperRace, but a new Race of disabled slaves? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the process of vetting embryos to create a specific sort of person for Racial and Cultural function. SuperBabies in one group and Blind Slaves in another?
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Deadnaming for Profit
27/10/2022 Duration: 26minIs there a religious exemption for Deadnaming? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles wonders about those who get paid to Deadname students as well as when the government decides to Deadname, and then rename. Plus, do religious schools deserve government money for only really teaching religion?
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Instagram Falsely Accuses Me of Violating Community Standards
18/10/2022 Duration: 09minWhere do you go to get your good name back? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the blood-poisoning false accusation that Instagram made against him for somehow violating community standards and then suspending his account. Nothing was violated. No guideline was crossed. There's no way to know the reason for the suspension or how to heal the suspension. No communication. No insight. No caring. Only damage. Only woe.
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Danger of Editing a Twitter Blue Tweet
11/10/2022 Duration: 13minBeware of replying to those with Twitter Blue! In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the danger of replying to someone who has the ability to change their post after your reply is posted. Screenshots are your salvation!
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NYU Betrays Its Faculty by Surrendering to Student Terrorism
04/10/2022 Duration: 25minNYU failed to support its faculty over student threats to the integrity of the learning system. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles digs into the gross negligence of NYU giving in to student threats by firing an Organic Chemistry professor who "wrote the textbook" for the course of study. This is the danger of what happens when a university does not sufficiently protect the value of the learning dyad by favoring student complaints over the authority of the education being taught and evaluated.
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How Far We've Fallen
29/09/2022 Duration: 20minIn light of the fall of Roe; the fall of intellectualism in grief is worse. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines how far we've fallen intellectually as a people over the last half-century. Take note of the life of Bobby Kennedy in in 1968 invoking Aeschylus to assuage the grief of losing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the invocation of vaccine paranoia 50 years later in the anti-vaccine life of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Sometimes the fruit of life falls too far from the tree.
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A Memory of Saul Kripke
19/09/2022 Duration: 16minSaul Kripke, of Omaha, and of belonging to the world, is dead. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles honors the life, and memory, of a genius philosopher who gave intrinsic meaning from his life in Naming and Necessity.
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Doctors Who Quiet Quit
15/09/2022 Duration: 16minQuiet Quitting is all over the news today. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles takes a look at the real reasons behind Quiet Quitting. Even doctors Quiet Quit -- under the guise of not accepting your insurance.
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A Walk Back into the Murder of Wendy Hile
07/09/2022 Duration: 11minA murder lasts forever. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles walks back into the mysterious mist of the 1974 murder of Wendy Hile in Lincoln, Nebraska. The gruesome recovery of her remains made headlines while her killer neighbor stayed silent, feigning innocence.
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American Origami: The Archeology of Murdered Children
06/09/2022 Duration: 16minWe live in a time when the murder of children is ordinary and accepted. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles unfolds the American Origami book -- and discovers an archeology of murdered children, and those the dead leave behind. This is an examination of a dossier of death that requires the strong to say nothing until they see.
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Who Owns a Suicide?
06/09/2022 Duration: 14minWhen a person ends their life, does the context of survivor grief matter? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the motivations of publicly remembering the dead who died by their own hand. How do we set the context of respect and remembering? Is grief sharing only a plot to get Facebook likes and stranger sympathy?
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A Memory of Eric Bentley
06/09/2022 Duration: 31minEric Bentley was a master of the live stage. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the life of this master critic, author, and promoter of what we now consider, the modern drama.
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Of Knowledge, Not Technique
06/09/2022 Duration: 09minThe university is a place for ideas, not for skills. In this Boles.tv highlight, David Boles opens a conversation about the modern day university in the role of our ancient lives.