Leighton Akio Woodhouse is a journalist, Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Public, a Substack focused on cities, energy, and the environment. His recent work has been focused on untangling the urban decay that is sweeping through American cities, with a focus on the downwing incentive structures that have created a self-perpetuating homeless industrial complex whose existence depends on the perpetuation of the homelessness crisis. We talk about the decay of San Francisco, how the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the chokehold of emotion-first activism. We also discuss the Twitter Files, widespread involvement of former intelligence officials at high levels at tech companies, and the end goal of clamping down on discourse. Check out more @Twitter: https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse @Substack: https://public.substack.com/ Support the scientific revolution by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub 00:00:00 Go! 00:02:24 Disenchantment with the Left 00:05:28 Chaos in the cities 00:11:31 Techies vs Everyone Else 00:18:20 How the Homelessness Industrial Complex Took Over San Francisco 00:18:56 A Slow Road to Hell 00:34:03 Narratives of Harm Reduction Vs Reality 00:53:42 Monopoly on Violence 01:02:37 Recovery & Decriminalization 01:07:11 The most surprising discovery 01:17:52 Censorship Industrial Complex 01:24:03 The Goal of Censorship 01:30:53 Does Sunlight Really Disinfect? 01:36:07 Covert Intelligence Projects 01:47:19 Disinfo Comes from the Top Down 01:55:47 Dark Money 02:05:58 The Scariest Thing in the World 02:15:37 Closing thoughts #censorship #homelessness #urbandecay Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Michael Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671