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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, October 18th, the Random Acts Power Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia.

In the New York studios, we have June Thomas, back from Japan, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network.

Konichiwa.

That was so corny.

It has been so long since I have been in a studio.

I hope I remember how to do this.

You sound great.

You sound like so awake.

And that would be the main problem. I've been awake since 2 a.m. So that's being awake is not a problem right now. Later in the day, maybe so. This is like late in your day. Anyway, we can't forget about Noreen. Hi, Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, I've just been here. No world travel for me. Exactly. You and I, just keeping it real. Okay, well, we have one

announcement for you before we get going, which is that next week, we are having a special show about the midterms. So if you have any, any pressing political questions about races in your immediate area, about the midterms generally.

Please give us a call at our call in number 646-907-9859, 646-46-907-9-8-59.

Or you can just tweet at me and I will read your questions on the show.

Okay, let's get going.

Our first topic for today, the lawsuit filed against Moria Donagan, the journalist who wrote on the show. Okay, let's get going. Our first topic for today, the lawsuit

filed against Moria Donagan, the journalist who wrote up the shitty men media list. Second,

Amazon's AI is discovered to be sexist, another case of the problem with algorithms. And finally,

women in power, new theories proposed by me and people much more famous than me in the latest New York

magazine issue. And then in our Slate Plus segment, June, what do you think? You do it.

In our Slate Plus segment today, we will be asking if the amateur marital body language analysis

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