No Agenda 1909: AI Doom, Immune Amnesia, and the Death of Software

Episode 1909 of the No Agenda Show, titled "Immune Amnesia," published October 4, 2026, features host Adam Curry broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country alongside returning guest co-host Rob Dew (Sir Dusifer). The multi-hour media deconstruction surveys an unusually dense news cycle: the mysterious FlyDubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 incident, the accelerating displacement of commercial software by AI agents, a pneumonic plague death in Russia's Irkutsk region, a measles resurgence in Pennsylvania, violent school protests across France, and the Cornell fraternity allegations drawing commentary from AOC, Sonny Hostin, and Letitia James.

Curry and Dew work through a stacked clip deck that spans multiple ongoing storylines. Threads examined in depth include the FlyDubai near-disaster, with pilot simulator analysis from Erin Burnett's CNN segment and skepticism over the 20,000-foot dive narrative; the "death of software" thesis, including a reverse-engineered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 running Halo assets; NPR's measles coverage featuring immunologist Michael Mina and the concept of "immune amnesia"; GB News and France 24 reporting on burning schools, barricades, and "outsiders" in Paris suburbs; and Meta's new Muse AI agent, Mark Zuckerberg's Charm device, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Silicon Valley's disconnection from the public.

The hosts' media-deconstruction style surfaces throughout. Reacting to a Gen Z TikToker warning about AI-driven reverse engineering of banks, satellites, and encrypted systems, Curry seizes the kicker: "I'm afraid we've opened Pandora's box, but humanity hasn't even recognized it yet because we've been too excited holding it. And now it's become the mark of the beast, the birthing pains of the rapture, the second coming of the nuclear bomb. But instead of fission, it's just text." Dew counters the AI doom with his own experiment building a donation-spreadsheet tool that replaced Microsoft Excel in his workflow. Curry details his new podcastindexrobot.com MCP server, built on the open Podcast Index he co-owns with Dave Jones, demonstrating how an agent can strip six minutes of dynamically inserted ads from Ed Zitron's Better Offline. The segment pivots to a 1999 David Bowie interview with Jeremy Paxman on the BBC predicting the internet as "an alien life form." Elsewhere, the hosts revisit US Air Flight 427's 1994 rudder hardover, cite Camille Paglia on coeducation, and replay a 1994 Today Show clip of Katie Couric asking "What is internet, anyway?" alongside Gina Raimondo warning of "rioting in the streets" from AI job displacement. No Agenda is a long-running, listener-supported podcast hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak that takes a skeptical, independent look at mainstream media, politics, culture, and the forces shaping the daily news cycle.