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MIT Media Lab After Dark Part 3: We Just Make Boxes here feat. Sarah Taber

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

You’re well accustomed to us just sort of riffing as we go along, but this week we speak with crop scientist Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) on the topic of the MIT Media Lab and their supposedly brilliant ‘food computer.’ Sarah joins Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Alice @AliceAvizandum as we discuss in even more detail why tech lords’ conception of the world’s problems are just, well, weirdly off the mark! If you want to hear part 1 of our MIT Media Lab series, get it here: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/mit-media-lab-after-dark-part-1/ Part 2 of the series is available on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30213119 *COME SEE MILO* If you want to catch Milo’s stand-up on tour, get tickets here: https://linktr.ee/miloontour If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31753429

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0:00.0

So there's a mystical land called Twitter.

0:20.0

And there, it's, everything is magical and different.

0:24.3

And it's like our world, but it's changed in some ways.

0:28.3

And so, um, recently, uh, famed author J.K.

0:32.1

Rowling decided to take to this Twitter place, uh, and just really go fully mask off about certain views, about the immutable

0:44.1

biological nature of sex and gender.

0:48.6

And it's, of course, this has made a lot of people very angry as well.

0:52.5

It might have done.

0:54.8

I don't think anyone was surprised by this is the thing.

0:58.8

No, no.

0:59.6

I mean, she, the, um, J.K. rolling just up pulling out a, pulling out a big fat, like,

1:04.3

multi-million dollar wand and being like, mascuscus, obficus women, canticus, nutticus. I think it's just, like, worth noting that this is someone who, like,

1:11.6

so the last J.K. Rowling scandal

1:13.0

that I remember was when she kind of said that,

1:16.1

like, who can pick their favorite?

1:17.6

Right.

1:17.9

And there's actually a lot.

1:18.8

There's a lot of these, right?

1:20.1

Like, more than necessary, I think.

1:21.9

But the last one that I remember was when someone kind of, she got involved in the thread where it was like no one in the Harry Potter universe like shit ever.

1:30.3

Oh yeah.

1:31.0

She was like, yeah, they do shit, but there are no toilet.

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