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Miss Gayle

I haven't listed to this podcast yet, but the title caught my eye b/c over the years I have had clients who wanted to do fairly complicated bookkeeping using just spreadsheets - and I designed them a template for that, with a shrug. Sure, why not?

Never imagined I'd be thinking about switching to it myself. But here we are.

Luddites sabotaged machinery that was taking their jobs. I want to sabotage spyware & theft-ware.

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-04

Crazy Town 101: Even AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant Asher Miller Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org April 2, 2025 After failing to raise a single dollar for PCI’s newest initiative — the $350 billion Transdisciplinary Institute for Phalse Prophet Studies and Education (TIPPSE) — Jason, Rob, and Asher devise the only profitable pitch for raising capital: using AI technology to cure the loneliness that technology itself causes. Author Brian Merchant joins Asher this week to discuss the rise of the neo-Luddite movement. Featured image of a victorian era dressed character, half men's clothing and half women's clothing, superimposed on a photo of the interior stacks of a server farm, c/o Adobe Stock and Wikimedia Commons. Brian Merchant is a writer, reporter, and author. He is currently reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute and publishes his own newsletter, Blood in the Machine, which has the same title as his 2023 book. Previously, Brian was the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times and a senior editor at Motherboard. Originally recorded on 1/3/25 (warm-up conversation) and 3/24/25 (interview with Brian). Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
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Apr 04, 2025, 09:01 PM·Public
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