Podcast Discontinued episodes:

• October 01, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Responsibility: on the receiving end of people pleasing. ๐Ÿค”

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  "In fact, recently I found a situation where I had complexified whatever new way of interacting I had created for myself and then suddenly realized after a period of time that maybe I had just prettied up, you know, made it all lovely with window dressing, people pleasing, but had called it something else."

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• September 29, 2024@SeekingPlumb | ๐Ÿ† "The Ugliest Selfie of Them All" ๐Ÿ†

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  "Okay, I invite you, implore you, dare you, to create the ugliest selfie you can by modifying lighting wrong angles, all of the things that you may have heard about doing a quote unquote good selfie, like flip them on their heads, come up with the ugliest selfie you can, and post it here and and then if you are coming back, then please heart the ones that you think are the ugliest ones and you can hurt multiples."

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• September 27, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Angry Rant: "Not all men." ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿคฎ I don't want to hear it, anymore. ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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  "At the same time, there are so many problems that are coming out of this one. You can't have transparent, upfront conversations about these things because it makes the men feel more defensive and makes them feel, quote unquote, attacked. And so then what's required is for us women to continue doing what it is we're trying to raise awareness of is that invisible labor, the caretaking and, you know, making the adding the sugar so the medicine goes down in order for it to be understood."

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• September 22, 2024@SeekingPlumb | AI & Humans: Who do we want to be? (Part 3/3)

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  "We have language and concepts, framings around what empathy looks like between one individual and another individual. You can find information about affective and cognitive empathy and what these things are. But as we have introduced more and more technology, we are creating different scenarios that we don't have language and framings for yet."

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• September 20, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Could this idea now be SOMEWHAT antiquated? ๐Ÿค” โ€ข "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Voltaire

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  "You know, we've lost all concepts of privacy, and it's almost frowned upon if you decide that you're not going to share something or share it in a very vulnerable way, because then you're trying to be aloof or withdrawn when we've lost the concepts and the importance of privacy and boundaries."

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• September 15, 2024@SeekingPlumb | The interwoven evolution of AI & humans: matrices within matrices. (Part 2/3)

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  "So I'm going to pick up where I left off. If you're just joining us, this is part two of maybe three. There's a link to part one below. So what are we supposed to take away from an AI result that it's given to us?"

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• September 14, 2024@SeekingPlumb | AI: The puppeteers, the marionette, & the interactive audience. What are we to understand/take away?

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  "And like trying to decipher when an answer is given, what influence is this answer trying to shape me and as a user, or perceptions that I have, or my thinking? Or is this the coders trying to constrain define the AI? Or is this some embodiment we want to say that the AI has taken on as an identity of some kind. And just like the levels of thinking in poker, there comes a point when this ceases to serve any sort of utility, right?"

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• September 10, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Autistic meltdown; a more debilitating side to my AuDHD. ๐ŸŒช๏ธ

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  "And so choosing to go into an environment that is going to be so overwhelming in so many different ways is not just a momentary experience. It's something I would have to choose and have an impact on me for days and sometimes weeks to come. The burbling tea kettle hit its boiling point, and this is the barest glimpse into the more debilitating side of autism for me."

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• September 07, 2024@SeekingPlumb | "Mice turned see-throughโ€ฆ" (No mice were harmed in the recording of this Swell.)

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  "Okay. I find this fascinating but also hilarious because I really want to know, like, how this was discovered. You know, how sometimes just, like, an innovation or a discovery, and it wasn't intentional and it was done by accident? Yeah. I want to know the story is behind this one, because I feel like it could be a really good one."

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• September 05, 2024@SeekingPlumb | Out with the "destination"; in with the journey of learning.

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  "You know, for the longest time I wondered if it was just in my imagination. And then I wondered, well, maybe I'm just getting quote unquote old in my thinking, you know, a bit of a curmudgeon or something. And then I was reading an article recently where a professional in the tech industry talked about how the results of search engines have never been worse than they are now. And then I felt completely and utterly validated."

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