Stand-Up Call - 8/1/25
Welcome to All Hands on Deck—a special podcast for Tortuga Society members and Tortuga Media paychads.
These are recordings of Tortuga’s biweekly standup calls, in which our guys convene to update the group on progress with job stacking and assorted ventures, theorycraft business ideas, and shoot the shit on issues of the day.
Most episodes will be available to paid subscribers — our spicer discussions will be exclusive to full Tortuga Society Members.
Topics Include:
Bliss is alive!
Beta launch of “Radical Undoing”: a Reich-inspired body-work coaching service
Muscle-armour release techniques: breath work, movement, and psychophysical integration
Sexual liberation through orgone energy and pelvic de-armouring practices
Potavoz Pirate’s Tortuga Media primer on prompt engineering: best practices and open DMs
Repurposing Substack content: strategies for republishing and sustaining member engagement
Building LinkedIn presence: notification management, connection tactics, and recruiter signal
Low-touch news habits: tuning out the daily cycle and sanity preservation
Sydney Sweeney “Great Genes” campaign and eugenics rhetoric controversy
Nature vs. nurture debates: hereditarianism’s policy downstream in Western governance
Russiagate revelations and the “censorship complex”: Matt Taibbi’s leaked documents
Mainstream media collapse: late-night hosts, network fragility, and ideological purges
Perpetual prosecution politics: office holders as prisoners-in-waiting in a banana-republic model
AI-driven predictive modeling: stacking historical cycle theories (Spengler, Fourth Turning, Armstrong)
Martin Armstrong’s Pi-cycle: Western decline and China’s ascendancy by 2032
Decentralization forecast: power devolving to states, municipalities, and localized cyber-fiefdoms
Urban ungovernability: professional exodus, tax-base erosion, and post-industrial decline
Pirate praxis: job-stacking as asymmetric raiding of parasitic tertiary sectors
Defense-driven tech buildout: DoD compliance rules, domestic chip fabs, and the threat economy
AI model collapse risk: synthetic vs. human-generated data and the mean-user feedback loop
On-chain LLMs for closed communities: Telegram-integrated models and bespoke prompt engineers
Proposed Tortuga Debate: is AI overhyped or the real game-changer for civilization?
