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The Weekly Weird #50
Gerontocracy: US Edition, China's police robot balls, Denmark's "fart tax", Britain's packaging tax, spermageddon (or not), Chinese secret police take…
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Mike Freedman
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Episode 128: Dr Christopher Ferguson on Why Social Media Isn't Bad For Your Kids
The professor of psychology discusses his research showing that social media has no negative impact on adolescent mental health, why science needs…
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Mike Freedman
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Christopher J Ferguson, Ph.D.
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2:21:04
Episode 127: Falak Enayat on Escaping the Taliban
An Afghan shares his experience of living through the fall of Kabul, being hunted by the Taliban, and escaping to safety with his wife
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Mike Freedman
2:24:04
The Weekly Weird #49
Billionaire eats banana, blasphemy in the UK, a scammy AI granny, X-odus, Australia kicks kids off social media, Britain votes for assisted dying, Suk…
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Mike Freedman
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November 2024

Episode 126: Nikhil Suresh on the AI Lie and Humanising The Machine
The blogger and tech consultant discusses how most of the AI sector is smoke and mirrors masking total nonsense, why he started a "radically ethical…
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Mike Freedman
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2:02:04
The Weekly Weird #48
Shocker: Google is a monopoly, AI wants you dead, China hacks T-Mobile, Sweden is worried
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Mike Freedman
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The Weekly Weird #47
Panopticon: Aussie Edition, Australian Associated Press self-owns in a fact check, North Korean fap attack, the Guardian axes X, China's live mannequins
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Mike Freedman
Episode 125: Victor Miller on Letting AI Take Over The US Government
The candidate for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming discusses campaigning on a platform of not governing and letting AI do it instead
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Mike Freedman
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1:20:33
The Weekly Weird #46
Trump trumps, New York executes a squirrel, UK shoots for Net Zero and poops on prayer, Australia FaRTs and poops on privacy, the Internet Archive slips…
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Mike Freedman
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US Election Special: Temperature Check
On the eve of the 2024 US presidential election, I go for a stroll around the Big Smoke to find out what Londoners think of the candidates
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Mike Freedman
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October 2024

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