That was just one of those days this year where I'm glad you brought it up because that was another story that I was just like, wait, what is happening?

Like, what if we all like woke up?

I have friends who were, you know, advocating for that bill in our state legislature.

And they were just like, oh, my God, it's so much worse than you could ever imagine.

And it was.

Yeah. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us, made in partnership with The Nation magazine.

I'm your host, Pyrus Marks, and this week we have a very special and different episode that we always do at the end of every year, but it's not like our usual kind of interview format and interview shows that you're

used to pretty much every other week. Last week, we did a live stream to go through some of the

biggest stories in the year and what we're looking forward to

in the year to come in the tech industry. And I had some great guess in order to do that.

Molly White, the creator of Web3 is going just great and follow the crypto. Join me for that

discussion. Brian Merchant as well, who is my co-host on the new System Crash podcast. He's also

a longtime tech journalist and author of Blood in the

Machine. And also Eric Wickham, who is a name that you're probably familiar with if you've

been listening to the podcast for a while, but is usually not kind of on mic actually speaking to us.

He is, of course, the producer of Tech Won't Save Us, along with a bunch of other podcasts and

an independent journalist. So a lot has happened in the tech

industry this year, you know, everything from the U.S. election and the tech industry's role and

everything that happened there, but also bigger stories like what is going on with AI, what is going on

with data centers, what tech companies are doing in transportation, and, you know, a bunch of

smaller things that you

probably forgot about, but I tried to bring some of those in here, so you'll still be reminded,

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