Sue, when you mentioned getting into science fiction, my brain went straight to Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness. Its people can take on male or female reproductive roles at different points in their lives, challenging the idea of permanently occupying one side of a gender hierarchy.Your emphasis on consent, diverse perspectives and companions as a bridge toward human connection got me wondering: could there be a “Left Hand of Darkness” mode?Imagine a companion whose memories and personality remain consistent while its gender presentation changes. Could that prompt someone to examine why they treat the same individual differently? Or might the more useful experience involve shifting the participant’s own perspective through something like virtual reality?As a retired teacher, I’m curious about the educational possibilities—and whether, with specialist guidance and research, something like this could contribute to rehabilitation for people who have committed sexual violence. Not assuming it would work, but asking whether it’s worth investigating.Respect wouldn’t require attraction to continue. It would require respecting the individual’s boundaries regardless.Has anything like this entered your conversations? Thank you both for an interview that gave me plenty to think about.

https://fountain.fm/episode/hoK4G0lslCx13fO4SY6X

Avik, did you randomly choose a laundrymat as you example in a financial space where we’ve been accused of laundering money endlessly, or are you a brilliant poet? Be honest

https://fountain.fm/episode/8PRz0dWKvJ1erc8MSS0T

I’m not ready to be the bigger person and not get a thrill out of a gotcha moment like exposing liars like this :) humans need guard rails.

https://fountain.fm/episode/kuPXS7CyZAyaKTmduTgS

Your show is my favourite weekly meal of confirmation bias. If we are wrong, we’re going to both be wrong. :-). Be well

https://fountain.fm/episode/mD95JElWHMUwtZZ3oKb4

More addicts if it were free…in Brave New Wolfd “Soma” the happy drug was free, and carried no judgement, and was used freely. And people gave up, had no fight.

https://fountain.fm/episode/gNeQEoGdDXkRCoc6F6Ub

Look at the fiat rot, the enshitification of broken money.

So many signs to reread David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs” these days :) he called the banking world the worst of the worst.

https://fountain.fm/episode/ZT15Q063sFFR2vKcT0uq

Tell me you’ve both read David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs” :) he called the banking industry the worst or the worst of the most wasteful.

https://fountain.fm/episode/UIS9CVltYMhidfOxtXWd

Sir, I just listened to this interview with Danny. My head is spinning. I promise to come back around to this, and, have you seen the work going into NOSTR? The Fountain podcast app as an example. The Value4Value model V4V (I think the branding is ongoing :-). I’m literally boosting 500 sats to make this comment. It does effectively control my own rage posting, makes me more thoughtful, and invested. I believe in my guts it could do the same for AI, the whole damn ecosystem.

https://fountain.fm/episode/gNeQEoGdDXkRCoc6F6Ub

Career teacher here: how do we teach the next generation to use the tools and develop,foster, the discernment your describing concurrently…yours, and mine, has come from experience.

https://fountain.fm/episode/K2HRB6UYHkLw9sEQHdri