Episode 381 of RevolutionZ starts with my email inbox. “Oprah wants your book, No Bosses.” It sounds like a dumb joke until you realize how convincing modern AI scams have become. A flood of smart, personalized emails targets authors with flattering outreach, credible details pulled from your work and your life, plus plausible offers of aid. Then comes relentless follow-up, and only later, once snared--I wasn't, but almost--the ask for money. The point of recounting this isn’t just to urge avoiding  author marketing scams. It’s to see what these tricks reveal about a rapidly growing misinformation ecosystem of clickbait, deepfakes, fabricated videos, and synthetic “proofs” that can make truth feel unreachable and even irrelevant.

From there, this episode continues presenting The Wind Cries Freedom oral history with a chapter that describes Revolutionary Participatory Society organizing around race after Black Lives Matter and beyond. This time the interviewees dig into successes and failures of anti racist organizing, describing what it takes to win rather than just be right: speaking clearly, building majorities, reducing needless antagonisms, and holding a vision where community differences remain real but racial hierarchy disappears. The conversation also addresses issues of movement leadership, the hard “who organizes whom” question, and how some “privilege” framing can undermine solidarity even when it starts from a real injustice.

The episode then turns to policing, fear, incarceration, and the conditions that make violence feel inevitable, It reports a striking tactic: athletes using labor power to force all-day police-community safety negotiations city by city. There is more, and then the episode closes with some direct pushback on doomerist defeatism by way of addressing a recent Chris Hedges essay including a reminder that we can’t know outcomes for sure in advance, but we can and must choose how we fight. Finally, and not unrelated, we close with an odd humorous but also quite disturbing Sixties story that highlights one kind of nonsense that too often invades left practice.

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