As Basil continues to traverse on a distant timeline from our own, Gonz is joined by guest co-host Mel from Truthstream Media. They discuss Jeff Bezos’ new video of using his robot arms, a quick update on the scam that is the LIBRA project, and a Bloomberg article on how robots are decoding the cryptic language of central bankers! Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE!   AGG for the WEEK of June 20th-June 26th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! How to make money off Facebook’s Libra — Quartz    FLIPPY AND FAM! Robots Can Now Decode the Cryptic Language of Central Bankers - Bloomberg  Watch Jeff Bezos playing with giant remote-controlled robot hands - Business Insider  First-of-its-kind robotic arm works without brain implant  McDonalds Is Trialing Kitchen Robots And Voice-Automated Drive-Thrus  Toyota Basketball Bot Earns Guinness Record With 2,020 Perfect Throws | Digital Trends  Trash-Picking Robots? Park Bench Monitors? Toronto Debates Tech Giant’s Waterfront Plans    TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! This AI Uses Echolocation to Follow Your Every Move  AI services startup Hypergiant brings on Bill Nye as an advisor | TechCrunch  How Conversational Artificial Intelligence Is Providing Companionship To The Elderly  Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces | WIRED  This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site  Thanks to AI, we know we can teleport qubits in the real | Cosmos  Artificial intelligence can't solve online extremism issue, experts tell House panel | TheHill  How Facebook's New 'Mirror World' Will Help Train AI  Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, says he'd start an AI company today  Hackers are turning our AI security systems against us — but they can be stopped  Can Space Robots Save Humanity?  MIT's new robot can identify things by sight and by touch  Wearable robot 'WalkON Suit' off to Cybathlon 2020  Self-Assembling Microrobots Can Be Programmed To Form A Tiny Car | Digital Trends  Bike and Snake: Meet the robots that will keep Norway's gas flowing  Robotic Vending Machines Want To Feed You Frozen Yogurt  Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children    BECAUSE SCIENCE! Physicists develop new method to prove quantum entanglement    CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! First clinical trail for male contraceptive gel starts in UK - Business Insider  Trump accidentally debunks his own “deep state” FBI conspiracy theory  - Vox  A brief history of the politics of UFOs - CNNPolitics  Moon landing 50th anniversary: why people like Steph Curry have supported conspiracy theories - Vox  UFO sighting: ‘Alien craft’ spotted during NASA Apollo 12 moon walk | Weird | News | Express.co.uk  Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Evades Crackdown On Social Media Sites  Arizona Board of Education backs off changes to sex ed curriculum amid uproar | Fox News  YouTube Star Etika Is Found Dead in NYC  Dementia risk tied to anticholinergic drugs in a new study - CNN  Smartphones aren’t making millennials grow horns. Here’s how to spot a bad study | PBS NewsHour  CLIMATE CHANGE AGENDA Here’s how AI can help fight climate change according to the field’s top thinkers - The Verge    SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs NASA Wants Robots to Sniff Out Moon Pits for Astronaut Homes | Space  Astronauts, not robots, essential to getting answers on the moon - UPI.com  Nasa Mars rover discovers gas that suggests recent alien life | The Independent  On Digital Mysticism  Mississippi town dedicates historical marker at site of 'alien abduction' | Fox News  Alien life on Mars may have emerged earlier than life on Earth, study says - CNET    BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Genetic Adam is 340,000 Years Old - Neatorama  Russia Will Genetically Test Soldiers To Identify The Best Fighters And Thinkers  Genetics research gets help from social media - Reuters  Experts warn consumers about genetic DNA screening scams  Transhumanism Is Tempting—Until You Remember Inspector Gadget | WIRED  Transhumanism and genetically altering people, today's great ethical challenge | ROME REPORTS  What is biohacking? The new “science” of optimizing your brain and body. - Vox  Scientist develops novel algorithm to aid search for exoplanets  Non-addictive CRISPR-edited tobacco could help eliminate smoking | New Scientist  "This is crazy!"—Top Scientists Condemn Russian's Plan for CRISPR Babies | BioSpace  The Art of Gene-editing Butterflies (Painting With CRISPR) Video | Technology Networks  CRISPR in Russia: The World's Next Gene-Edited Babies May Not Be Far Away  Using CRISPR to resurrect the dead - CNET    THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS The Witches are Back  The Modern Witch – XPRESS MAGAZINE  On Digital Mysticism    FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE Elon Musk's 'Moon Mix-Up' Was Actually an Epic Bezos Troll  Elon Musk: Here’s Why World Population Will Start To Collapse Soon | Daily Wire  Elon Musk bewilders Twitter users with tweet about Mars  Tesla close to quarterly delivery record, Elon Musk says in email - Business Insider  Washington town where Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates live is having a budget crisis | Fox Business  Jeff Bezos says going to the moon is harder now than it was for JFK – GeekWire  Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates Worth $100 Billion Each - Bloomberg  Even Bill Gates pronounces ‘Bezos’ wrong — here’s how to say the Amazon CEO’s name – GeekWire  Mark Zuckerberg to speak at Aspen Ideas conference - CNN  Mark Zuckerberg deepfake video: Why Facebook hasn't taken it down yet - Business Insider    CRYPTOCURRENCY & THE B-B-B-BLOCKCHAIN Salesforce Explores Blockchain To Stop Biased Robots From Ruining $1 Trillion Opportunity    SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Designers built an AI penis detector to protest Google’s prudish doodles - The Verge  Senator Markey Asks FTC to Force Google to Delete Data on Minors - Bloomberg  Google Chrome now lets you flag sketchy websites - CNN  Thune Wants Google and Facebook to Have Algorithm-Free Options - Bloomberg  Google Responds to Claims That Maps Has Millions of Fake Business Listings  Google's new curriculum teaches kids how to spot fake news and URLs - TechSpot  How Google searches might be able to predict the 2020 Democratic race - CNNPolitics  Amazon overtakes Google and Apple to become the world’s most valuable brand | TechRadar  Google warns its employees that Pride protests are against the company’s code of conduct Amazon is leasing more planes so it can deliver packages on its own - CNN  Amazon receives US patent for surveillance as a service — Quartz  32 Mind-Blowing Amazon Statistics for 2019  Walmart and Amazon want to see inside your house. Should you let them? - Los Angeles Times How to stop Amazon ads, Alexa from tracking you  Brazil court slashes fine for Facebook's refusal to share WhatsApp data - Reuters  Facebook is building a dedicated news tab for publishers - Business Insider  Why the Lonely Stand to Lose the Most from Facebook | Psychology Today