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*PREVIEW* Policy Proposal: Release a Minotaur Into Canary Wharf feat Dr Eleanor Janega

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We speak with friend of the show and returning guest Dr Eleanor Janega about a recent tech newsletter that compared the advent of ChatGPT to the invention of the heavy plow. But we also had to discuss a startup making surveillance-tech vending machines that will aggressively misgender you, and more. Get the whole thing on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/policy-proposal-100435433 *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast*MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *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 November (@postoctobrist)

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0:00.0

It's a bit like cooler screens, right?

0:01.4

Where it's like, we have a vending machine that's a big screen on it instead of just the glass, which was boring.

0:06.7

So now you can't see if your twirl is stuck in the spring on it.

0:09.4

And with the big screen, you also can show ads and therefore generate more revenue.

0:13.6

Now, much also like cooler screens, one of the six items, one of the six little cards on their website, says data.

0:20.2

You can forego guesswork and make informed decisions about sales and operations based on comprehensive reports.

0:26.2

Is that gonna do some predictive shit off of this, aren't they?

0:28.7

Including. You look like you want a twirl. Measuring foot traffic. Gender. Age.

0:33.9

Hold on.

0:34.9

Measuring gender. Hold on a fucking minute. The vending machine clocks me?

0:38.3

Yeah, the gending machine.

0:40.3

Yeah, the gending machine.

0:42.3

I can get mis-gend- I can get mis-vended.

0:46.3

Like what?

0:47.3

You can get misgendered and you can also be forced to have a twirl.

0:50.3

Yeah, absolutely.

0:51.3

Yo, do I order a twirl like an AGP? You know what it was?

0:55.0

You order a twirl, and it gives you a yorky.

0:57.0

Oh.

0:59.0

I would kill myself. What the fuck?

1:02.0

Yeah.

1:03.0

It's the vending machine that's just like...

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