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Hello and welcome to a very special Thanksgiving monologue.

I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

And, well, this one's about you and it's about thanking you for the last year or two and

saying that this show really does mean a lot to me perhaps more than it should and this journey

has become oddly personal in that the show's allowed me to explore this kind of complex relationship

I have with technology,

the industry, the media, my peers, my own identity, which all sounds a bit much I realize,

but I mean it sincerely, and I think at this point, you've kind of worked out that's my whole bag.

And I recognize I still sound congested. Sophie made it very clear. This is all I'm doing this week.

I've got to recover, and I will recover a promise. But I wanted to say that our humanity is what

makes us different from the machines. And that's what makes this show special. And I'm endlessly

grateful for the hundreds of thousands of human beings who listen to or read my work every

month. I love hearing from you. I'm so grateful for your generosity, your intellectual interest in my

work, and in many cases great empathy and capacity for good. And the conclusion of the AI bubble,

I think it's going to be a referendum on the status quo, a stress test of the

tech industry's largest firms and collective intellect and honestly imagination. Either I'm wrong

and the growth train suddenly sprouts from Open AI or Microsoft or Anthropic, or I'm right,

and hundreds of billions of dollars got burned on unprofitable software and even less profitable

hardware. While I've complained in the past about feeling alone in this, I never really have been,

and you've all kind of made me realize that. From the early days of my newsletter and better offline,

many of you have been calling bullshit on AI too in my comments and emails on the Reddit, And a lot of you are, honestly, not far from

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