Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of the Left Podcast

Now everyone knows the rule about not meeting your heroes because they'll so often

disappoint you. Well today we look at the most

disappointing yet most idolized false heroes of our day, the Titans of Tech, and the

zainy hijinks they've been getting up to recently.

Sources providing our top takes today include Jacob Ward,

more perfect union, decoder, internet today,

today explained, cold fusion, There are no girls on the Internet, and Zoe B.

Then in the additional sections after the show, we'll dive deeper into that word you keep using, in which Tech Bros misunderstand the world, Silicon

Valley, emphasis on the con, Microsoft The Destroyer, and thank you for your service in which people doing good work get fired.

A couple quick thoughts on Scarlet Jahanson and her threatening legal action

against open AI. For those, for anyone who doesn't know, right? She says that

she was approached back in September by Sam Altman saying will you please voice our new chatbot and she said no thank you

And then two days before the demo she says she was approached again directly by him and asked to reconsider and before she had a chance to

respond they went ahead and debuted this new voice that sounds eerily like her, right?

And it is a reference of course to the 2013 film,

Her by Spike Jones, and, you know,

Sam Altman even says her in a tweet that he put out around the time of the demo

so a couple things first the utter railroading of normal inputs you know when you don't get permission for a thing you do it anyway

is a classic, it's a hallmark of tech folks who think about, you know, Democratic inputs only up to the point that they get in

their way.

That's been my experience.

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