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I feel like every supporter of state-sanctioned killing has their own personal reasons for it, so I felt like the best tactic was to give essentially all of the reasons why it's a terrible idea just to cover all the bases.

And so, to look back, but with an eye on our mind-bogglingly cruel and dystopian present, sources today include Last Week Tonight, The Majority Report, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, Le Show, Redacted Tonight, and Truthdig.

We begin in Oklahoma tonight with an execution that didn't go as planned.

A convicted killer from Oklahoma dies after a botched execution.

I would put money on that, of course, certainly.

That's happening.

This is Truthdig Radio.

We're speaking with Bill Blum.

It was Truthout.

It was Truthdig.

It was The Progressive.

It was a lot of left-wing independent news outlets as well as right-wing independent news outlets and media content creators that got moderated.

Banning a technology based on apocalyptic fantasy rather than real risks like hacked infrastructure and sloppy software is legislating by vibes.

And a cynical view comes from Truthdig.

Both camps are buying the industry's favorite premise, that today's AI is on an inevitable march toward godlike intelligence.

Doom rhetoric turns speculative superintelligence into a reason to panic, while dismissing that rhetoric lets companies keep deploying unreliable systems into infrastructure, warfare, and surveillance, which is increasingly subsidized by taxpayers.