In today's episode, we tackle AI in an admittedly existential way by asking ourselves, how does this technology affect our humanity?

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Sources:

https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0

AI Chatbot Pushed Teen to Kill Himself, a Lawsuit Against its Creator Alleges

https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots

AI Is a Lot of Work

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/10/507

Artificial Intelligence and the Black Hole of Capitalism: A More-than-Human Political Ethology

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd605e48q1vo

Chatbot Encouraged Teen to Kill Parents Over Screentime Limit

https://youtu.be/zKCynxiV_8I?si=kOzRqZ4eCStn-9qn

Chat GPT is Becoming a Religion

https://www.theverge.com/news/682737/china-shuts-down-ai-chatbots-exam-seasonChina shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11239631/

Does using artificial intelligence assistance accelerate skill decay and hinder skill development without performers’ awareness?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says/

He would still be here. Man Dies by Suicide after talking with AI chatbot, Widow Says

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/the-hidden-risk-of-letting-ai-decide/

The Hidden Risk of letting AI Decide- Losing the Skills to Choose for Ourselves

https://www.popsci.com/health/ai-therapy-mental-health/

Illinois’ ban on AI therapy won’t stop people from asking chatbots for help

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ai-linked-eroding-critical-skills.html

Increased AI use linked to Eroding Critical Thinking Skills

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/tech/eating-disorder-chatbot/index.html

National Eating Disorders Association takes its AI Chatbot Offline After Complaints of Harmful Advice

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/creatives-academics-rejecting-ai-at-home-work

‘Nobody Wants a Robot to Read Them a Story!’ The Creatives and Acedemics Rejecting AI- at Work and at Home

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-changes-nice-openai-overly-complimentary-model-tweak-supportive-personality-2025-4

No more Mr. Nice Guy: Say goodbye to the sycophantic ChatGPT

https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis

People are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed after Spiraling into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

People are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

https://jacobin.com/2023/03/ai-artificial-intelligence-art-chatgpt-jobs-capitalism

The Problem with AI is the Problem with Capitalism

https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120576

Rethinking of Marxist perspectives on big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and capitalist economic development

https://futurism.com/therapy-chatbot-addict-meth

Therapy Chatbot Tells recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/26/uk-universities-warned-to-stress-test-assessments-as-92-of-students-use-ai

UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI

What do you do when your favorite artist/writer/celebrity turns out to be… problematic? We dig into the messy gray areas of separating art from the artist, with J.K. Rowling, her role in the trans rights debate, and "Harry Potter" as our central case study. From social media outrage cycles to purity politics, activism to empathy, we explore who gets to decide what’s “problematic” – and how to hold onto the values that matter most.

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Vox: Why So Much Obama-Era Culture Feels Cringe Right Now 

Constance Grady, Vox 

Dec. 27, 2021 

https://www.vox.com/22641501/hamilton-parks-rec-harry-potter-cringe-obama-era-pop-culture

Your Fave is Problematic Tumblr

https://yourfaveisproblematic.tumblr.com/list

My Year of Grief and Cancellation 

Liat Kaplan, New York Times 

Feb. 25, 2021 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/style/your-fave-is-problematic-tumblr.html

Owl Post Edition: J.K. Rowling and Transphobia with Jackson Bird

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text 

July 16, 2020 

https://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/episodes/owl-post-edition-jk-rowling-and-transphobia-with-jackson-bird/

What Happened to J.K. Rowling? 

Panic World 

July 16, 2025

https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/what-happened-to-jk-rowling/id1740187810?i=1000717484579

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints

ContraPoints 

April 17, 2023 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmT0i0xG6zg

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling 

The Free Press 

February - March, 2023 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-k-rowling/id1671691064

It’s Time to Talk About J.K. Rowling 

Pantsuit Politics 

May 2, 2023 

https://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/p/202351its-time-to-talk-about-jk-rowling?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

What does it mean to really be a citizen? In this episode, we unpack the idea of citizenship – not just as a legal status, but as a shared responsibility, a way of thinking, and a form of belonging. From protesting injustice to pushing back on consumer-first solutions, we explore how citizenship can become a more inclusive, collective, and powerful force for change.

Featured in this episode:

• Citizenship Definition for Immigrants: https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/citizenship-and-naturalization

• The Preamble of the Constitution: https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/preamble

• Reimagining Citizenship: https://www.pantsuitpoliticsshow.com/

• Ben Sheehan, (Instagram),  Civics Made Easy 

• Sharon McMahon (SharonSaysSo IG, The Preamble Substack) 

• Dr. Jessica Knurck (IG, Substack) 

• Money with Katie: The Truth about “Government Waste,” Privatizing Public Goods, & Turning Citizens into Customers - https://moneywithkatie.com/privatization

• Donald Cohen’s “The Privatization of Everything”

• Blueland Cleaning Products 

• Pantsuit Politics 

• Art Therapy Metal Skull T-Shirt

In today’s Episode, we are tackling bodies. Is the body positivity movement done for?  Thin is back in- is this just a simple changing of beauty trends or is there something deeper going on?   What can bodies tell us about fascism and oppression?  Quite a bit, as it turns out!

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Sources:

The background and career of Casey Means, Trump’s pick for surgeon general 

PBS News, 2025

Ali Rogin, Doug Adams, Taylor Bowie

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-background-and-career-of-casey-means-trumps-pick-for-surgeon-general

Body Fascism in Britain: Building the Blackshirt in the Inter-War Period

Julie Gottlieb

Contemporary European History, 2011

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41238349

Body image and notions of nationalism and modernity

Simon Whiffin

Brighton Journal of Research in Health Sciences, 2016

https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/bjrhs/2016/02/09/body-image-and-notions-of-nationalism-and-modernity/

Fascism Thrives on Women’s Self-Doubt

Sisipho Mbuli

Substack, March 2025

https://substack.com/home/post/p-158423615

Fat bodies, discipline and the politics of size

The Link, 2025

Safa Hachi 

https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/fat-bodies-discipline-and-the-politics-of-size

Gym Fascism

Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2021

Aspen Vera Mulvey

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/gym-fascism

Health education’s Fascist tendencies-

Critical Public Health 2014

Katie Fitzpatrick & Richard Tinning

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2013.836590

How the far right is using thinness to radicalize women and teen girls

Open Democracy, April 2025

Lois Shearing

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-radicalise-thin-skinny-fat-shame-women-girls-social-media-tiktok/

The inside story of Evie, the US conservative women’s magazine with big ambitions, and sex tips for wives

The Irish Times, 2025

Katie JM Baker

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/03/24/the-inside-story-of-evie-the-us-conservative-womens-magazine-with-big-ambitions-and-sex-tips-for-wives/

" Making America great again?" The fascist body politics of Donald Trump

Sara Smith, Banu Gokariksel

Political Geography, 2016

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629816300506?via%3Dihub

Old debates, new perspectives: Exploring understandings of women under fascism.

Chariot Journal, 2022

Grace Vanderkolk

https://chariotjournal.wordpress.com/2022/07/25/old-debates-new-perspectives-exploring-understandings-of-women-under-fascism/

OP-ED: The People’s Ozempic: Thinness, White Supremacy, and Fascism

Afro-Punk, Dec 2024

Leslie Vargas

https://afropunk.com/2024/12/op-ed-the-peoples-ozempic-thinness-white-supremacy-and-fascism/

Secularism and Sanctity: The Body and the Body Politic under Fascism in the Third Reich

Olivia Serrano

Aleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021

https://escholarship.org/content/qt9jm169dc/qt9jm169dc_noSplash_87a4612ad432e254a2ccb0844233598d.pdf

The Vogue Business AW24 size inclusivity report

Vogue Business, 2024

Lucy Maguire, Maliha Shoaib and Madeleine Schulz

https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/fashion/the-vogue-business-aw24-size-inclusivity-report

In today’s video, we explore the rise of gendered trends in social media like girl dinner and girl math, and ask the question- are these simply harmless little jokes, or is there something deeper afoot?

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Sources

Why Do Chinese adolescent girls outperform boys in achievement tests?

Xiaorong Gu et al.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2057150X211006586

From “Girl Dinner” to the “Sassy Man Apocalypse,” 2023 Was Full of Cringey Gendered Memes

By James Factora and Samantha Allen

https://www.them.us/story/gendered-memes-2023-discussion

Donald Trump Ran For President Because of Gwen Stefani, Michael Moore Says

By Janice Williams

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gwen-stefani-president-1109402

'Girl math' is toxic and it could be holding women back from growing wealth, says a financial specialist

By Zoe Burt

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-girl-math-toxic-tiktok-trend-2023-10

What Was the Girlboss?  And how did she become feminism's problem?

By Moira Donnegan

https://moiradonegan.substack.com/p/what-was-the-girlboss

How MAGA’s Playbook Went From Joe Rogan to Candace OwensBy Emily Amick

https://emilyinyourphone.substack.com/p/how-magas-playbook-went-from-joe

Welcome to the Who Has Time For This? Podcast! In our first episode, Caitlin and Katie take on the lost art of nuance. From the news cycle to political debates to heated social media discourse, we’re losing the ability to sit and think in the gray areas. Why is everything so black and white these days – and what toll is this dynamic taking on our conversations (and our sanity)? The two best friends unpack the rise of outrage bait, the fall of thoughtful dialogue, and share some practical ways to bring complexity, compassion, and clarity back to how we consume and communicate information. 

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SOURCES: 

• The Real Story of the US Economy - Money with Katie Podcast: https://moneywithkatie.com/real-story-economy

• Nuance is Out, It Needs to Come Back - Paul Oestreicher: https://paul-oestreicher.medium.com/nuance-is-out-it-needs-to-come-back-82e03d58c093

• Biden’s Oil Boom: How fossil fuels thrived despite the White House's climate policies - Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-BIDEN/OIL/lgpdngrgkpo/

• Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2024 Update - Council on Criminal Justice: https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-year-end-2024-update/

• Jessica Yellin - News Not Noise: https://newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/

• News Literacy Project: https://newslit.org/

• What Happened to Nuance in Political Debates? Psychology Today:  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/change-your-mind/202406/what-happened-to-nuance-in-political-debates

• Coronavirus Y-Axis Fox News chart: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/fv0fpz/the_yaxis_on_this_fox_news_graph_of_coronavirus/?rdt=46171

• How to Practice Nuanced Thinking Anne-Laure Le Cunff: https://nesslabs.com/nuanced-thinking-versus-polarized-thinking
  

Welcome to the Who Has Time for This? podcast! Join best friends Caitlin and Katie as we delve into complex topics through the lens of our own unique perspectives.