Hey everyone. So a couple pieces of news for you today. First, we released a bonus episode

about the pit a few days ago with the great Margaret H. Willison. It's just for subscribers.

So if that sounds like your kind of thing, become a paid subscriber at patreon.com slash culture

study and get immediate access. We talk all about season two, what did and did not work,

who is the hottest, very important questions.

We also announced that Margaret is going to be joining

the Culture Study Universe permanently.

She'll be doing monthly bonus episodes with me,

along with a monthly newsletter feature

called the Zeitgeist syllabus,

in which she'll give you a bunch of reading assignments for

understanding whatever thing people are obsessing about at that moment.

So we're talking like historical context, like stuff that was written in 1950 about this

same idea and stuff that was written 10 years ago and stuff that's really making the rounds

right now that's more elucidating.

You can read my introductory interview with her at the link in the show notes. And I also wanted to let you know

about a few upcoming episodes so that you can get your questions in. You've all been like on a tear

recently. Our questions have been so good. A plus. Everyone gives you you compliments so let me use that as incentive

for you to submit a few more we're doing one on creativity and AI so this is specifically about

how AI can or cannot to work with our kind of creative juices we're doing this episode with

Vahini Vara who who I love. She's so

smart on this stuff. So please take that in whatever direction you want. It's going to be

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