121: Brains In Jars Go To The Minnesota State Fair
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
We start off with a night call about whether your phone camera knows which part of a photo you’re looking at (it does). More chat about phones and surveillance leads to Elon Musk’s Neuralink and a discussion of futurism (both kinds) and transhumanists. Then we get a night email from a listener in Key West about the bind faced by tourist towns with reopening. Emily makes a case for seeing the ocean safely. Then we are joined by comedian and podcaster Brandi Brown (The Bill Corbett Show) who tells us everything you want to know about the Minnesota State Fair, butter busts, her ongoing State Fair related feud with Amy Klobuchar and much more.
Foot Notes
- Neuralink in Tech Crunch
- Musk worrying about AI
- Thiel worrying about AI
- Brandi on Twitter
- Grain entrapment
- Unofficial rundown of crop art rules
- Princess Kay of the Milky Way
- Klobuchar's state fair debacle
- Seed Queen: The Story of Crop Art and the Amazing Lillian
- Colton
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | It's 10.23 p.m. at the Minnesota State Fair, and you're listening to Night Call. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello, and welcome to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. |
| 0:23.9 | I am Molly Lambert, and with me are Tess Lynch and Emily O'Sheedah. |
| 0:29.4 | And later this episode, we are going to bring on our guest, Brandy Brown. |
| 0:32.7 | She's a comedian from Minneapolis and an expert on the Minnesota State Fair. |
| 0:37.8 | It's a really fun conversation. |
| 0:39.6 | It'll make you wish you could go to a state fair. |
| 0:41.8 | So stay tuned for that. |
| 0:43.0 | But first, we are going to jump into it with a night call. |
| 0:46.2 | Hi, my name is Morgan in Chicago, second time caller. |
| 0:50.8 | I have some evidence to add to the folder on Instagram listening to us and or mining all of our thoughts. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm pretty sure that Instagram can tell how long my eye lands on a particular image as I'm scrolling through the explore section of |
| 1:14.6 | Instagram. Like if I'm scrolling through and I see something new to my algorithm and my eye |
| 1:19.6 | lingers on it for a little bit, I'm like, oh, that's all. I've like, I haven't seen, uh, seen those coming up before, you know, like a new kind of dog or something. And then I noticed I'm going like more and more and more and more where it's like all |
| 1:31.3 | within the same hour of scrolling, I can see the algorithm changing as I scroll through |
| 1:37.3 | it depending on like where my gaze lingers the longest. I'm almost positive that |
| 1:43.3 | Instagram knows exactly where we're looking |
| 1:45.9 | in for how many microseconds. And it's freaking me out. Okay, bye. I totally believe this as well, |
| 1:52.2 | by the way. I've had this thought before. 100% you're not alone. 100% believe it. Also continue |
| 1:58.6 | to believe that it's a, the mic is on all the time because |
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