Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast. This is a sample of our recent bonus episode usually only available to members.

These episodes are comprised of our crew of researchers, Amanda, and myself all getting together

for a roundtable discussion on topics that we find interesting. So here's a few minutes for free so you can

know what all the fuss is about.

If we want to do another 30 minutes on the cyber truck, I'm ready.

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Please know.

Okay.

This article, it doesn't quite end, but it comes close to ending with this flourish and for those who listen to the last episode

You know that I enjoy a good flourish in an article

So it says and this one is not ironic, our children are not data sets waiting to be quantified, tracked, and sold.

Our intellectual output is not a mere training manual for the AI that will be used to mimic and plagiarize us. Our lives are meant not to be optimized through a screen, but to be lived in all of our messy tree climbing night swimming

adventuresome glory we are all better versions of ourselves when we are not tweeting or clicking like or scrolling, scrolling,

scrolling.

And then very soon after that, there was a phrase in this article that just went by un-highlighted in the middle of a sentence.

I don't know if they coined it, but the phrase, algorithmic feedbags.

Did that stick in anyone else's brain?

Because holy shit, I love that so much.

That, I mean, strap a dew face

strap it to his base it's like the vision pro right right yeah that one's even

more literal but yeah oh man the yeah the feed bag there's something about the feedbag I don't know what that is but

it's so appropriately dehumanizing that's what it is?

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