1.13 - Inescapable Podcast - Cheat, Lie, Win

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A cruise ship leaves Argentina on April 1st with a hantavirus outbreak on board.A cruise ship leaves Argentina on April 1st with a hantavirus outbreak on board. Three passengers are dead, the ship is stuck in Cape Verde, and 23 infected travellers have scattered across the world. The media is already calling it the next pandemic. We're not buying it.

The bigger story this week is AI and cheating. A Columbia student built a suite of tools to cheat through his entire degree, used them to land big tech internship interviews, then got put on probation for selling access to other students. It turns out his professors were grading with AI the whole time anyway. Now there's hardware that feeds live answers into your ear during job interviews, and a startup raised millions selling exactly that. We get into what it means that deception has gone from shameful to a product with a pitch deck.

Also this week: the Met Gala's annual parade of costumed degeneracy, Western scholars and the decolonisation of history, new footage from the Titanic debris field, men who snap and drive bulldozers into things, and a robot Buddhist monk in South Korea.

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• Cruise passengers tell of life on board stranded ship after hantavirus outbreak - BBC News
• 23 hantavirus cruise passengers returned home to ‘all corners,’ including Australia — and one is already sick | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines
• KLM air stewardess 'infected with hantavirus' after contact with fatal victim on flight - Daily Star
• CIA Docs: U.S. Ran MK-ULTRA Experiments on Korean War POWs
• Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows | WIRED
• Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly Fast
• Gamer 𝕃𝕏𝕏𝕏𝕍𝕀 on X: "@Mericamemed https://t.co/avfgGJ7LEX" / X
• Is Cluely Scamming Investors? The $120M Red Flags - YouTube
• Cluely (Cheating Tool for Literally Everything) - YouTube
• A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool | WIRED
• Met Gala urine bottle protest targets Jeff Bezos
• The Rock Claims The "Most Masculine Men" Wear a Skirt While Sporting One at Met Gala - Geeks + Gamers
• Yet Another Wasted Met Gala - The Atlantic
• AI told users it was sentient - it caused them to have delusions - BBC News
• Brian Roemmele on X: "Bob Fosse in Little Prince movie, 1974 had a massive influence on Michael Jackson. https://t.co/9KyHDsZp2m" / X
• The Little Prince (1974 film) - Wikipedia

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• What Are Psychedelic Entities? - NOEMA
• Diagnostic dilemma: A woman heard voices telling her she had a brain tumor ‪—‬ and scans confirmed she did | Live Science
• Magellan Titanic - TT24 | Magellan
• vROVpilot: TITANIC on Steam
• Titanic's Debris Field for vROV Pilot: Teaser - YouTube
• Lost necklace from wreckage of RMS Titanic discovered by Guernsey-based firm after 111 years | ITV News Channel
• Artemis II Journey to the Moon - NASA
• Beaver with rabies attacks child | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines
• Man jailed for driving stolen bulldozer across Wolverhampton - BBC News
• Some Remember Granby Bulldozer Rampage 15 Years Later - YouTube
• Coronel Kurtz 🎙 🎬 📚 on X: "Armas de cine: Cuando un hombre blanco se enfrentaba con nativos americanos y se quedaba sin munición porque su rifle era de avancarga, cogía el arma por el cañón y la usaba como una maza, golpeando con la culata si se le echaban encima. Esa acción era tan eficaz que las tribus https://t.co/r6aeA4Kxcp" / X
• The West’s Forgotten Gift: Rediscovering Lost Civilizations
• Brighton museum sends artefacts back to Botswana ‘to give them meaning’
• ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 on X: "APATHETIC MUSEUMS IN AFRICA 🇧🇼 Interesting to think about what ‘returning Botswana’s artefacts’ ‘to give them meaning’ would look like in real life - especially since they would presumably be returned to be displayed in the country’s national museum. Presumably… Remember https://t.co/63KZ0YI7jm" / X
• My friend the witch doctor | West Hunter
• ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 on X: "AFRICAN PEOPLE TAKE BEING CURSED BY WITCHES VERY SERIOUSLY 🇧🇼 In Botswana Henry Harpending meets a man who has been bewitched who will now have to visit a witch doctor to break his curse. He expresses scepticism and is told white people are not vulnerable to witchcraft like https://t.co/rg3jLOxoRb" / X
• ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 on X: "To this end, Lévy-Bruhl introduces the concept of ‘prelogical mentality’ . To his mind this isn’t irrational, just not necessarily ruled by Aristotelian logic. Contradictions are not only tolerated, but often embraced in these myths and rituals https://t.co/QQBeTnNL6Q" / X
• ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 on X: "REASONING, MAGICAL THINKING AND EVIL WIZARDS IN AFRICA From Polish Author Ryszard Kapuściński’s Book ‘The Shadow of the Sun’, about Reasoning and Magical Thinking in Africa: “Suddenly, I heard murmurs, steps, then the rapid patter of bare feet. Then silence once more. I looked https://t.co/ZkhG1OCkrS" / X
• STRANGER THAN HEAVEN launches this winter
• Marcelame on X: "I FOUND IT https://t.co/Od7DGJmcDT" / X