i feel like there's cowardice among people just like me or or you who work at these places that they just feel like they should be able to say whatever they want with just not even the tiniest most negligible risk that something like this will happen to them and that seems wrong too. i don't like the idea of just saying well people get fired sometimes it that robs us of agency we're abdicating our responsibility to shape our own community so i think i'd like it to be the case that when fucked up shit happens people can can speak out about it fair enough. I spoke with a colleague recently who's been sort of embroiled she got caught up in some of this
Journalist, podcaster, and rapper Jesse Singal joins us to talk about his new book The Quick Fix, positive psychology (scam?), cancel culture in the media and academia (overblown?), Substack incentives, and lots more. Plus David and Tamler argue about the epistemology of ghosts.
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