{"podcast":{"title":"ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.","slug":"readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112","podcast_index_feed_id":7658112,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/readmultiplex-com-podcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://ReadMultiplex.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/readmultiplex-com-podcast/20260128_070123_a3c0b2016b37f2d1f92d66e15b307722.png","author":"Brian Roemmele","episode_count":64,"summary":"Multiplex is an experiment, an experiment that will be on going. An experiment in publishing as I am not a professional writer nor will it be likely any contributors would be professional writers. Much of the content for Multiplex will be direct results from first hand empirical research that I am personally working on or other researchers are working on. Multiplex will also follow the work of other great researchers that are inventing new technology or new uses for existing technology. The experimental nature of Multiplex means that content can be dense and sparse at times. What we won’t do is write just to fill in space. We will aim to have regular content for the member-only area, This means that if you choose to become a member you are supporting the work of the writers and not an exact number of postings. There will always be free content to be found on the site as well as the X feed.—Brian Roemmele Website: ReadMultiplex.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T22:21:03.729497+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112"},"episode":{"title":"ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 28: The Skulking Permit Effect.","slug":"readmultiplex-com-the-ai-abundance-warning-hidden-in-a-1956-science-fiction-radio-episode","published_at":"2026-05-16T15:00:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112/readmultiplex-com-the-ai-abundance-warning-hidden-in-a-1956-science-fiction-radio-episode","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/readmultiplex-com-podcast/2831305","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/366493/2831305/readmultiplex-com-podcast/2026_05_16_15_00_19_bda448e7-d228-44e1-a2d5-235441478c11.mp3","summary":"When Lost Colonies Must Invent Vice to Satisfy a Decaying Empire. In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd machinery of bureaucracy and the quiet horror of lost history quite like X Minus One’s “Skulking Permit.” First broadcast on NBC on February 15, 1956 (and rebroadcast on July 4, 1957), the episode adapted Robert Sheckley’s short story from the December 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It remains a razor-sharp parable about how autocratic thinking devours memory, how isolation can breed innocence or oblivion, and how the rediscovery of one’s true origins can shatter a civilization’s self-image. Today, as we stand on the cusp of an AI-mediated Great Forgetting, one Brian Roemmele has chronicled in his writings on the Amnesia Generation, this story reads less like quaint 1950s satire and more like a warning siren for our own future. Read more at ReadMultiplex.com If you find this content valuable, buy us a coffee to support this work: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele","meta_description":"When Lost Colonies Must Invent Vice to Satisfy a Decaying Empire. In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd ma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2345,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112/episodes/readmultiplex-com-the-ai-abundance-warning-hidden-in-a-1956-science-fiction-radio-episode/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112/readmultiplex-com-the-ai-abundance-warning-hidden-in-a-1956-science-fiction-radio-episode.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}