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Human Meme

The Human Meme podcast examines what separates human consciousness from mere biological existence. Each episode investigates the inherited behaviors, cultural transmissions, and cognitive patterns that replicate across generations, shaping how we think, grieve, speak, and remember. David Boles, a New York City writer, publisher, and teacher, hosts these conversations as mindfulness with teeth: no production music, no easy comfort, only the direct inquiry into what makes us recognizably human. Since

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11:24

When Your AI Bot Lies to You!

Human Meme ·

2023/09/13

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experience when his AI Bot lied to him about information found on the internet. Is this acceptable human/AI interaction? Who will do the intervention in this situation to negotiate a settlement of the truth?

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16:54

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Color Line

Human Meme ·

2023/09/06

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the history, and the accountability of the life of Harriet Tubman and how today, her kind legacy is damaged, not by the color of her black skin, but by the color of her original sculptor's white skin and his woke critics.

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23:09

Beauty of Bricolage

Human Meme ·

2023/08/30

Bricolage is more than just something artistic. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his new "Bricoleur" understanding of the "Bricolage" idea in arts and literature, social sciences, anthropology and sociology, and in business management!

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21:24

A Value Society Defines and Condemns Us

Human Meme ·

2023/08/23

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the want of the wicked rich against the real interests of a human society. Do we want our university students to fall in line or break beyond the context? Do we want the highest paid public official of a State to be the football coach? Must we build more prisons to contain the worst of us? Do we honor the Arts, Humanities, and World Languages? If we value what is taken from us, what will we do to take back those totems of what makes us

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17:24

Online Business Review Spam Scam

Human Meme ·

2023/08/16

Reviewing businesses online is a spammy, for-profit, scam. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles reveals why big, online, "mapping" companies make massive profits off the misery of negative reviews of good, legitimate, businesses. What can be done about this for-profit wounding of innocent companies?

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27:20

Total Immersion Learning

Human Meme ·

2023/08/09

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experience with total immersion Italian language learning -- that begins with Busuu, gets thwarted by Babbel, becomes enhanced with Forgotten Books, and is finally celebrated with Cibor TV!

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13:26

New Jersey Turnpike Scam!

Human Meme ·

2023/08/02

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the details of a road scam that some families are running to get free gas and a "donation" from you to ensure their better life on a distant road. Here's how to identify the scam, and then avoid the scam!

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14:24

A Strike Should Mean a Shutdown!

Human Meme ·

2023/07/26

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles digs into the Writers and Actors strike to discover that there are a whole slew of new shows with big names in the pipeline that have been "approved" by the Actors Guild to continue working in the midst of their strike. Why is this allowed? The pipeline of new movies and episodic television should be drained, and left empty, for as long as possible in order to strike a whole new deal.

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13:00

AI Strikes Actors and Writers

Human Meme ·

2023/07/20

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why the current Writers and Actors strike is really only mostly about the role AI will play in society. The crying in the universities has only just begun!

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07:37

Corrected Student Loans

Human Meme ·

2023/07/19

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why the new Biden Student Loan "adjustment" isn't really about "forgiveness" -- it is exactly about "correction."

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11:05

ASL Opera Project: Interpreting Performances for the...

Human Meme ·

2023/07/18

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the moral, human, responsibility for Opera Companies to provide interpreted performances for the Deaf. The program -- founded by Janna Sweenie and David Boles -- is simply called: The ASL Opera Project! Here's how you can get involved!

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11:15

Why Are You Talking to Me?

Human Meme ·

2023/07/12

Negotiating differences between conflicting cultural norms is a challenge. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the wonderment of "culturally allowed communication" on the street between Norway, Los Angeles, New York, Nebraska and Iowa. More often than not, you might just be asked, "Why are you talking to me?"

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11:56

Trash is Money, Water is Free

Human Meme ·

2023/06/28

Big cities have a trash problem. Who pays to cart away the filth? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the way our garbage is counted, quantified, and metered in large urban cores.

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23:33

AI Adriana Lima Disappears in a Discord Shadow Ban

Human Meme ·

2023/06/21

Supermodel Adriana Lima gets disappeared on Discord. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the problem of a disappearing supermodel when the wrong words are used to invoke her extreme beauty! Magic is not afoot, because misdeeds are the undertow!

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17:18

Why the Deaf Must Sing at the Metropolitan Opera!

Human Meme ·

2023/06/14

In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the issue of providing inclusive, and interpreted, performances for the Deaf at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. English text captions are not enough for the Deaf to allow them to match the total, immersive, experience Hearing audiences enjoy. To fully express the complete, human, and emotional life of the Opera, the Deaf require the lyrics to be sung in American Sign Language!

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17:13

Busting Your Chops

Human Meme ·

2023/06/07

There are those who live to bust your chops. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles reveals the real intention of those who live just to give other people a hard time. It doesn't make any sense -- but that's the job of the Chops Buster!

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21:07

Jewish Matchmaking Review

Human Meme ·

2023/05/31

What does it mean to find your soul mate? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discovers the difficult process of Jewish Matchmaking in the Netflix television series of the same name. Lonesomeness begins loneliness and the process of discovering nothing meaningful in the life of loving, begins.

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19:18

Why We are No Longer Friends

Human Meme ·

2023/05/24

Friendship is not being friendly. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experiences with friendships gone wrong, friendships that have been only one sided, and friendships that were nothing more than friendly experiences. How does this happen? What is the cause? David Boles finds out!

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23:14

AI and Medical Interventions

Human Meme ·

2023/05/17

Artificial Intelligence will change how we approach medicine. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares insight into AI and the medical community, plus other interesting uses for AI in artwork, study, enjoyment and the university.

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16:27

AI Robert Frost Poems

Human Meme ·

2023/05/10

The AI analysis of Robert Frost is an empty desire. ChatGPT-4 has no memory of Robert Frost's poem, "The Strong Are Saying Nothing" and in this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles works to explain -- to the AI -- the purpose and meaning of understanding this "lost" (but not lost!) historic poem.

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