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We're back with part two of our series on Open AI (we're done after this one for a while). Everyone's making everything up all the time and no one has any idea what will happen in the future. In this episode, we cover the wild claims made about AI and AGI and how those predictions are being used to justify environmental destruction and human exploitation. Also Sam Altman stands on his tippytoes. 

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Empire of AI (Book) 

‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech

AI is draining water from Areas that need it most

Small Oregon county reckons with fallout from data center scandal

Arizona city defeats massive data center project over water, energy concerns

Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’

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Ty Haney is back at Outdoor voices, the cult athleisure brand she founded. Can she successfully suck us all into her time machine back to 2014? Or will this brand's death rattle be loud enough to convince the brand's private equity investors to LET IT GO!???

In this highly-requested episode, we figure out how the once beloved brand got so weird and shitty.

Links:

Outdoor Voices Became A Staple For Millennial Cool Girls Thanks To Its Chill Aesthetic. Employees Say They Were Drowning.

Outdoor Voices Founder Ty Haney Has Moved On. Mostly. Three years after her dramatic exit as CEO, she still has some things she’d like to say.

How Outdoor Voices, a Start-Up Darling, Imploded

Ty Haney is Elon Musk's Reply Guy

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CW: Child Sexual Assault 

Meet Sam Altman, one of the most powerful men in tech (also maybe evil Pete Buttigieg??) and his posse of boy pests. We take you deep into the bunkers of Silicon Valley to Sam's inner circle to figure out how he became so rotted. Was it insecurity? Napoleon syndrome? OR SCURVY INDUCED PSYCHOSIS ??? 

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You look like a thing and I love you (Book)

Empire of AI (Book) 

The Worst Hard Time (Book) 

Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age

Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny

Sam Altman on His Plan to Keep A.I. Out of the Hands of the “Bad Guys” 

Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

Know Your Rights Virtual Workshop

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Buckle up! We're covering the BOMBSHELL NYT investigation that dropped yesterday (August 6th) by Emily Steel called Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem.

Content warning: drug use, sexual assault, sexual violence

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Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture

MTA crime report 2019

Uber Safety Reports 2017 - 2022

What unionization could mean for California Uber and Lyft drivers — and riders

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Why is it that no one wants to see a hot guy succeed?!!!?

This is the story of the three best friends, lead by Bell Air Boy Boss Sean Rad. They created Tinder and became the coolest millennials in LA, hosting parties with Jason Derulo and Kristen Doute and preparing their bank accounts for an influx of cash after being acquired by Match.com. But it's hard to read the fine print on a legal document by the light of a glow-stick! And while they were partying, Barry Diller was scheming from his megayacht. Soon, their viral app would be swiped from under them. 

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10:00 - Intro 

23:30 - Corporate Gossip #1: Here, put on this bedsheet and gladiator sandals, we’re going to a COLLEGE TOGA PARTY!! FOR BUSINESS!! 

37:00 - Corporate Gossip #2: Business daddy issues 

46:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: Tinder founders - “we’re stupid, BUT we’re also sexual harassers, (allegedly)"

51:30 - Corporate Gossip #4: Nanci Jo Sales strikes 

56:30 - Corporate Gossip #5: The VC urge to give a bunch of 20 somethings a million dollars and no oversight 

1:04:00 - Corporate Gossip #6: Literally Match I Double dog dare you to find someone to be CEO who isn’t a dumb creep

1:12:25 - Corporate Gossip #7: Nasty Grams from Blatt

1:15:00 - Corporate Gossip#8: Follow up & Takeaways 

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‘Sodomy’ and scandal: Tinder’s thoroughly embarrassing stock-market debut

 A Tinder Revenge Story The revolutionary dating app made a lot of people rich. Co-founder Sean Rad didn’t feel rich enough.

An Open Letter to Tinder’s Sean Rad from V.F.’s Nancy Jo Sales

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The CEO of tech company Astronomer was caught at a Coldplay concert canoodling with the head of HR in a video that has since gone mega-viral. And SUDDENLY everyone is interested in what I thought was a niche topic - CEOs behaving badly!! 

In this emergency episode, I review the latest in the Astronomer scandal and recap my favorite executive cheating scandals that we've covered on the podcast. 

Correction: In an earlier version of this epiosde, I said Friends and ER were on CBS. They were not, they were on NBC. I also said Rupert Murdoch's wife was "Jerry Halloway" not "Jerry Hall." That's because I'm a millenial and I'm always thinking about the Spice Girls. 

Timestamps: 

00:00 Astronomer 

07:25 - Kevin Plank (Under Armour) 

13:30 - Sergey Brin (Google)

20:00 - Les Moonves (CBS) 

24:30 - SBF (FTX) 

26:00 - Jack Welch (GE) 

27:20 - Rupert Murdoch (NewsCorp / Fox News) 

I also touch on Dov Charney (American Apparel), Eddie Antar (Crazy Eddie), The Insys Sales Reps, and Vince McMahon (WWE) 

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This Brain Had a Mouth: Lucy Gwin and the Voice of Disability Nation

Audubon chapter rejects offer from The Hartford to reinstate coverage

BTW - we forgot to mention, but after The Hartford said they'd reinstate coverage, the Audobon chapter told the company to kick rocks! 

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We wrap up this absolute UNIT of a two part episode by examining the Facebook story by stepping into our proverbial blue sequined rompers and seeing the world behind Mark Zuckberg's baby bangs. BUCKLE UP as Becca and Adam try to figure out - did the accumulation of unchecked power and extraordinary wealth over 20 years take ice cream scoops out of Mark Zuckerberg's brain? OR did his unique position on top of business boy mountain give him the freedom to reveal the curly-haired gremlin that was always hiding within??

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The Zuckerberg Files

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

 How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus

Mark Zuckerberg Apparently Didn’t Tell Congress the Whole Truth About Facebook

An Ugly Truth

Careless People

Good News: Inside a Union’s Fight Against Trump’s Federal Job Cuts

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05:00 - Henry Blodget Invents, Hires, Sexually Harasses, Blogs About Nonexistent AI Subordinate

15:00 AI Is Making Us Dumber. Shocker.

22:30 The group chats that changed America

32:30

• Sperm racing in LA: Inside the first-of-its-kind race that's taking the internet by storm

• Sperm racing instagram page

• Don't Die Tech Mogul Bryan Johnson Is in an Actual Penis-Measuring Contest—With His Teenage Son