On this 12 October, LX A.S. 9sense podcast episode, Magister Campbell will discuss what Real World Success is, Trump Fires Thousands In Shutdown Layoffs, and Stephen Graham Jones. Join LIVE in YouTube chat and share your thoughts! This episode will be added to the audio podcast feed the following day.
Time Stamps:
- 0:00 Intro
- 15:44 1. The Devil’s Advocate – What is Real World Success?
- 38:03 2. Infernal Informant – Trump Fires Thousands In Shutdown Layoffs
- 53:39 3. Creature Feature – Stephen Graham Jones
- 1:05:35 Outro
Show Notes
Intro
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Discussion
1. The Devil’s Advocate
- What is Real World Success?
- definition:the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.
- It comes down to perspective
- Our unique goals, values, and priorities shape a distinct picture of what “successful” means for us.
- Objective success through recognition
- Does recognition matter?
- Who is the arbiter of success?
- Success = financial stability + creative freedom + lifestyle design.
- Success without fulfilment is not success. It’s failure.
- Traditional success is often defined by external markers rather than personal values and inner fulfillment.
- Success can feel elusive if people only prioritize external validation and traditional markers.
- One can choose to define success on one’s own terms and create a life that feels authentic and value-aligned.
- Purpose of Chasing Success
- Self Improvement
- Quality of Life
- Support those you choose to love
- Enjoy Free time/vacation
- Nature Boy
- Performed by Nat King Cole
- Written by by eden ahbez
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return”
2. Infernal Informant
- Trump Fires Thousands In Shutdown Layoffs—Hitting Treasury And Health Departments Hardest: Here’s What To Know
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/10/11/trump-fires-thousands-in-shutdown-layoffs-hitting-treasury-and-health-departments-hardest-heres-what-to-know/
- BySara Dorn,Forbes
- Oct 11
- The federal government began laying off thousands of employees Friday as part of a mass reduction in force tied to the government shutdown.
- Key Facts
- Layoff notices were sent to about 4,200 employees across eight government agencies, the Office of Management and Budget said in court documents in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, which represents 800,000 workers.
- Nearly 1,500 Treasury Department employees were laid off, according to OMB, including about 1,300 workers at the IRS, Bloomberg reported.
- The Health and Human Services Department was also among the agencies hit hardest, with OMB reporting layoffs of up to 1,200 employees.
- Dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received termination notices Friday, including about 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, known as “disease detectives,” and staff at the Morbidity and Morality Weekly Report publication, The New York Times reported.
- The Department of Homeland Security notified 176 workers they’d be laid off, according to court documents, all being employees of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, PBS reported.
- Details of the layoffs were made public late Friday, shortly after White House budget chief Russ Vought announced on X “the RIFs [reductions in force] have begun,” prompting the AFGE to immediately file a motion asking a court to block the move.
- Which Other Agencies Experienced Layoffs?
- Education: 446
- Housing and Urban Development: 442
- Commerce: 315 employees
- Energy: 187
- Environmental Protection Agency: 20-30
- Chief Critic
- The AFGE and other federal unions argue the OMB has no authority to conduct the layoffs, citing in part the Antideficiency Act that forbids the federal government from incurring new expenses during a shutdown. The reductions in force require staff to perform work associated with the layoffs, including issuing notices to affected employees, and the promise of severance payments.
- What To Watch For
- The layoffs won’t take effect for 30-60 days, the Washington Post reported, citing federal guidance. More layoffs, in addition to those reported Friday, are expected, an unnamed senior administration official told the Washington Post.
- Key Background
- The federal government shut down Oct. 1 when Congress failed to come to an agreement on a new spending plan. It’s expected to continue until at least Tuesday, when the Senate is scheduled to vote next, though there’s no sign that Republicans and Democrats are willing to negotiate to reopen the government. Days before the shutdown began, the Trump administration asked federal agencies to identify agencies whose funding would lapse, warning those that don’t align with President Donald Trump’s priorities would be targeted for cuts. Trump told reporters Friday his administration was using the shutdown to lay off “people that the Democrats want,” alleging the party is to blame for the shutdown.
- Gold prices are skyrocketing, and that could spell trouble for the US economy
- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/gold-prices-are-skyrocketing-and-that-could-spell-trouble-for-the-us-economy/articleshow/124479135.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
- Gold prices have gone up more than 50% this year, giving very big profits to people who invested in gold. But some experts told ABC News that this sharp rise could mean bad times are coming for the U.S. economy.
- In the last few weeks, gold prices have risen even faster — about 20% since mid-August — much more than the U.S. stock market. This rise happened at the same time when reports showed that the job market is slowing down, which many analysts see as a warning of a possible recession, according to ABC News.
- The Job Market Slowdown Continues
- https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-job-market-slowdown-continues/
- The labor market has started to show signs of a slowdown amid President Donald Trump’s economic policy chaos—especially his on-again, off-again tariffs, mass deportations, and ad hoc cuts to the federal government, among other policies. The accumulation of data over the past few days and weeks shows that the labor market slowdown continued into September. While it is clear that the labor market remained weak last month, it is difficult to gauge exactly how weak because the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) did not release its monthly jobs report amid the government shutdown, resulting in a lack of high-quality government data.
- The private sector, specifically, may have lost jobs in September. Payroll processing firm ADP reported that private sector payrolls dropped by 32,000 jobs in September. Over time, the ADP data, which use BLS data as weights to match the composition across industries, appear to be in line with the private sector employment data from the BLS, although they can differ on a month-to-month basis.
3. Creature Feature
- Stephen Graham Jones
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_Jones
- born in Midland, Texas, on January 22, 1972
- a Blackfeet Native American author of
- experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction.
- Jones’s work as containing elements of “dark playfulness, narrative inventiveness, and genre mixture.
- Jones’ writing as “post-ironic” or representative of David Foster Wallace’s “New Sincerity”, a literary approach “emerging in response to the cynicism, detachment, and alienation that many saw as defining the postmodern canon,” seeking instead “to more patently embrace morality, sincerity, and an ‘ethos of belief’.
- Jones has a natural inclination towards the sentimental and speculates that the dark and chilling nature of his writing is an overcorrection on his part.
- Jones enjoys the constant escalation of the bizarre but uses humor to release building pressure in order to build anticipation once more for the reader.
- Jones’ novels can be described as Native American Gothic, or Rez Gothic: a niche publishing genre characterized as using fantasy, science fiction, and horror to shed light on racial inequalities such as the one referenced through Jones’ novel title The Only Good Indians.
- The Only Good Indians
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- Awards
- In 2002, Jones won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction.
- In 2006, he won the Jesse Jones Award for Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters for his 2005 short story collection Bleed into Me.
- He won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction for Mapping the Interior in 2017.
- The Only Good indians won the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction in 2020.
- won two 2020 Bram Stoker Awards for Night of the Mannequins and The Only Good Indians.
Outro
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