Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Digital Souls

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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There may be disruptions in the free-money-forever ecosystem of the tech industry, but that hasn’t stopped new ideas springing forth. For example: what if we made an AI chatbot but it had feelings? And we made it do spreadsheet-factory jobs? This is one of the propositions from a new startup we’ve uncovered called–and this is not a joke–Digital Souls. If you’re looking for a UK strike fund to donate to, here’s one we’ve supported: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/national-dispute-fund/ If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *MILO ALERT* Here are links to see Milo’s upcoming standup shows: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tickets available for shows in Sydney: https://musicboozeco.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/3213de46-cef7-49c4-abcb-c9bdf4bcb61f Melbourne https://tccinc.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/75729 and Brisbane https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/trashfuture-live-in-brisbane-additional-show-tickets-396915263237. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0	Hello, trash future listeners. Just a quick heads up before this episode starts. We've got a bunch of live shows going on for which there are tickets available.
0:09.1	Milo is at Edinburgh Fringe, and there's a link in the show notes to his show, which is going on basically every day this month.
0:15.8	Additionally, for our Australia tour, we now have tickets available for the Sydney show. That is on November 10th. It's
0:23.5	at the Great Club in Merrickville. There's a link in the show notes. We'll be appearing with
0:28.1	friend of the show, special guest, Tom Walker. Additionally, there are still about 30 tickets
0:33.4	left for the second night in Melbourne. There's also a link in the show notes for that. And hopefully
0:38.8	in the next week or so, I should have a link up for you to purchase tickets for our show in Canberra.
0:44.7	That'll be on the night of the 15th of November. So yes, Australian fans, we are in fact
0:50.0	inbound in about 100 days. So if you want to see us there, tickets are available.
0:55.9	Thank you, and I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:15.0	Hello, and welcome to this free episode of T. It's the free one.
1:17.5	Yes, that's right.
1:19.3	Milo's still not back.
1:20.8	We've just got a soundboard of all the stuff he says.
1:23.3	That's right.
1:23.7	I think this is the first time I've dialed in for an episode where Riley's been in the studio,
1:28.3	so I'm getting the experience of looking through the studio webcam for the first time ever.
1:32.8	And how is that?
1:33.9	It's great. It makes you look so small.
1:37.1	You can see the big standy of Elon Musk covered in stickers?
1:41.6	He's normally behind me.
1:43.5	Don't give them a peek behind the curtain.
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