The Bliss of Confirmation Bias — w/ Covfefe Anon

<p>Covfefe Anon returns to Plausibly Deniable to discuss the bliss of confirmation bias: how to engineer a viral take, why the edit may be the native medium of the 21st century, and why Angry Birds might be the most fascist movie ever made. Lukas, Saila and Covfefe review films they have not seen, explain why ironic criticism only makes its targets cooler, and consider whether Confirmation Bias is actually a better name for the podcast.</p><p><br /></p><p>The conversation also covers Ryan Gosling, Barbenheimer, James Bond, public-domain superheroes and AI remakes, Joe Biden and the death of the presidency, girl-avatar growth hacks, GPUs and matrix multiplication, phonics and grade inflation, business-school arbitrage, solo-podcast psychosis, radicalized wives, Twitter jannies, boomer game, hair-loss hopium, live-editing reality, friendship simulators, freedom of association, and the “blood diamonds attack” on crypto.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sponsored by:</p><p><br /></p><p>Polymarket: https://polymarket.com</p><p>Zcash: https://z.cash</p><p>CitizenX: https://citizenx.com</p><p>Passage Press: https://passage.press</p><p><br /></p><p>Watch, listen, and join the discussion:</p><p><br /></p><p>Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org</p><p>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PlausiblyDeniableExperience</p><p>Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3cU3OBRKnYGY7fyGF6x2Th</p><p>Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plausibly-deniable/id1866452505</p><p>Substack: https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com</p><p>X: https://x.com/PD_EXP</p><p><br /></p><p>Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ</p><p>Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore</p><p>Covfefe Anon: https://x.com/CovfefeAnon</p><p><br /></p><p>Contact: plausiblydeniableshow@gmail.com</p><p><br /></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p><br /></p><p>00:00 How to Engineer a Viral Take</p><p>01:02 Intro and Sponsors</p><p>01:48 Reviewing The Odyssey Without Watching It</p><p>05:15 Spoilers, Millennial Slop, and the Last Shared Culture</p><p>10:40 Meta-Level Lying, LARPing, and Intrigue-Maxing</p><p>17:24 Ryan Gosling’s Drive and the Single-Mom Concession</p><p>20:28 Barbenheimer and the Fascism of Angry Birds</p><p>24:03 Ryan Gosling vs. Angry Birds and the Communist Sequel</p><p>30:00 James Bond Rides Bitch</p><p>32:55 Public-Domain Superheroes and AI Remakes</p><p>34:11 Activated Charcoal and the Final Original Podcast Episode</p><p>37:12 Patrick Bateman, Starship Troopers, and Failed Irony</p><p>39:44 GEOBODEN and Joe Biden’s Final Act</p><p>42:58 The Presidency Is a Puppet Show</p><p>46:49 The Edit Is the Native Medium of the 21st Century</p><p>50:02 One Reader and Ninety-Nine Edit Watchers</p><p>52:09 How to Manufacture a Viral Take</p><p>54:46 The Girl-Avatar Growth Hack</p><p>58:39 GPUs Accidentally Built Superintelligence</p><p>1:02:14 Schooling, Phonics, and the End of Reading</p><p>1:07:11 Harvard Sells Credentials, Not Education</p><p>1:12:03 Business School, Bar Prep, and Clicker Arbitrage</p><p>1:15:36 Solo Podcasting Causes Mental Illness</p><p>1:17:34 Candace Owens and the Radicalized Wife</p><p>1:22:20 Men Lead, Women Follow, and Soy Turns You Into a Deer</p><p>1:24:09 Should We Rebrand as Confirmation Bias?</p><p>1:26:30 Emotional Programming and Mental Illness as a Defense</p><p>1:29:18 The Brain-Damage Loophole</p><p>1:33:27 Mom Gets Banned and Twitter Jannies Get Rich</p><p>1:38:22 Boomer Opportunity Stories and “May I Meet You?”</p><p>1:42:46 Hot-Girl Signaling, Hair-Loss Hopium, and Recycled Tweets</p><p>1:46:15 Broken Twitter Search, Outsourced Editing, and Dog Clickers</p><p>1:49:48 Live-Editing Reality and the Ex Who Shrunk Seven Inches</p><p>1:52:33 The Bliss of Confirmation Bias</p><p>1:55:08 Friendship Simulators and the Blood-Diamonds Attack</p><p>1:58:54 Freedom of Association and Memetic Stink</p><p>2:02:20 Outro: Should We Rebrand?</p>