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79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Evolution of Microtransactions in Video Gaming

Twitter has allowed people to pay for blue ticks, which is not necessarily a terrible idea because it allows Twitter to monetize. But one of the perks was rising in the rankings so your tweets get priority. The only dumb thing is like surely people who work here play video games like we learned this? Yeah. If your goal is to have a public marketplace of ideas where ideas get amplified if they're good, but then you also amplify ideas of people pay, you've got a conflict.

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