{"podcast":{"title":"Silicon Curtain","slug":"silicon-curtain-5936295","podcast_index_feed_id":5936295,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/a2dc0f30/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain/featured","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/27223308/27223308-1672150380433-f8bd61637bdca.jpg","author":"Jonathan Fink","episode_count":1576,"summary":"Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/siliconcurtain/subscribe A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias. 1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media, Disinformation, Echo chambers, Economic sanctions, Fascist, Fake news, Foreign correspondents, Foreign policy, Fossil fuel sanctions, George Orwell, History, Hybrid warfare, Industrial disinfo","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T10:18:14.673670+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/silicon-curtain-5936295"},"episode":{"title":"Russia Should be Treated as a Zone of Contagion - It's 'Culture' May Just Kill You!","slug":"russia-should-be-treated-as-a-zone-of-contagion-it-s-culture-may-just-kill-you","published_at":"2026-07-14T17:26:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/silicon-curtain-5936295/russia-should-be-treated-as-a-zone-of-contagion-it-s-culture-may-just-kill-you","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/silicon-curtain-5936295","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/siliconcurtain/episodes/Russia-Should-be-Treated-as-a-Zone-of-Contagion---Its-Culture-May-Just-Kill-You-e3m33j6","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO9431274349.mp3","summary":"Silicon Bites Ep366 | 2026-07-14 | the book and movie Stalker: enter at your own risk, assume everything is hazardous, and stop looking for redemption in the rubble. You may find things of use in the Zone of contagion, but what you find may also corrupt and kill you. ZONE OF CONTAGION: In a single fortnight, the IOC has reinstated the Russian Olympic Committee, Netflix has expanded a Russian cartoon empire into more than a hundred countries, and the Venice Biennale has already spent a season laundering the pavilion of a state that bombs museums and conducts daily human safaris in Kherson Oblast. All while Russian glide bombs hit bus stops in Sumy and ballistic missiles land in Kyiv's residential districts. The West keeps searching for the "good Russia" — the culture, the art, the sport — as if finding it would redeem the state committing the crimes. This is weakness and naivety that will get us all killed. And it is based on extraordinary weakness that verges on complicity with evil. This fictitious good Russia is a convenient excuse for us to take no action to defeat the real Russia – the one attacking Ukraine and us. This blindness to Russia’s evil intent must stop. ----------ACTIVE CAMPAIGN:We are raising funds for 5 of 15 Vampire DronesSilicon Curtain for Kupiansk Vampires. Dzyga’s Paw, together with Jonathan Fink, is joining forces to raise $40,000 to provide the Khartiia Brigade with Vampire Drones.https://dzygaspaw.com/silicon-curtain-for-kupiansk-vampires----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital…","meta_description":"Silicon Bites Ep366 | 2026-07-14 | the book and movie Stalker: enter at your own risk, assume everything is hazardous, and stop looking for redemption in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1749,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/silicon-curtain-5936295/episodes/russia-should-be-treated-as-a-zone-of-contagion-it-s-culture-may-just-kill-you/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/silicon-curtain-5936295/russia-should-be-treated-as-a-zone-of-contagion-it-s-culture-may-just-kill-you.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}