The Laundry Basket Podcast

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Rita and Salima are feeling frustrated and sad with the conflict in Palestine. The discussion turns into how to avoid burn out and how to live life based on following your feelings. Finally the mood lightens up as there is a debate on whether or not we should keep secrets from our spouses.  

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Salima really doesn't like patrons who request their "regular" at the coffeeshop. Rita wonders if the human brain is designed to know about all the suffering around the world. To lighten the mood we discuss what signs there would be if we became millionaires. 

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Salima and Rita discuss what success has felt like from childhood, early adulthood and present. Measures of success are dictated by family values and society, however, we can all develop our own success barometer. 

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We deep dive in the significance of Large Language Models and how they may evolve in the future. We also have fixed the problem of ghosting and how to never feel bad about it again. Also, we weigh the pros and cons of befriending aliens. 

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Rita and Salima are self-employed and are considering having children. The problem is: their business cannot operate without them. Therefore there are many things to consider from savings, preparing for a business slow-down, how to plan a return to work, and how to save the business from plummeting once the baby is born. 

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Back to school felt different when in elementary school, high school and university. Rita just found out how the luxury purses industry actually works and Salima is entering the tough world of home gardening. We end on a positive note, physicists seem to be working on developing superconductor technology that could truly end climate change and turn our world upside down. 

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Rita looks over her yearly goals list and redefines what really matters 7 months down the calendar. Salima is wondering if she should wash new clothes before wearing them and we try to figure out how to use AI technology for our own benefit.

Rita has been living in Vancouver and in other parts of the world for the past few years, working online. In this episode she shares how she has been splitting her time between two countries in the last year: Spain and Canada. 

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Rita and Salima discuss deep fakes and LLMs. Rita is starting to believe that humans are just really advanced AI models that might have gone too far. To lighten the mood, we also discuss creating an inner coach to motivate us in reaching our goals. 

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Salima and Rita's family is spread out in various continents, religions, languages, and ethnicities. We discuss how it feels to live with such a spread out family.