Alex calls shenanigans on Sydney and Kevin's relationship, and Kathy brings some news from our friends making AIs in Ethical Edmonton!

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With the help of a calculator panda, the business unicorn breaks her silence.

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Alex and Kathy talked in December about Twitter. Hindsight sure is an interesting thing. They also celebrate no San Francisco Murder Bots, mourn the loss of the Mars Rover, and look forward to what might come next for the social Internet.

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Kathy and Alex share their squishy thoughts about the viral sensation of AI avatars, independent art, open-source software, and the late great turtles.

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UPDATE ON THE KILL BOTS! San Francisco supervisors bar police robots from using deadly force for now : NPR

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Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model - Waxy.org

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Alex and Kathy discuss broken fingers, folding, and a fictosexual man in love with a hologram.

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Alex and Kathy might want robots to have rights and bodily autonomy, but it would be nice if humans had it as well.

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Google Insider Claims Company's "Sentient" AI Has Hired an Attorney

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Alex and Kathy are convinced robots aren't coming to take our jobs...but they SHOULD be.

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Alex and Kathy discuss the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the necessary access to the technology for safe abortions.

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Webster's dictionary defines "muskrat" as "an aquatic rodent of the U.S. and Canada with a long scaly laterally compressed tail, webbed hind feet, dark glossy brown fur and Twitter's supreme agent of chaos.

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future: Vance, Ashlee

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Black Creators On TikTok Say Their Accounts Are Being Banned

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Alex and Kathy go on Display.

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