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Meryl Streep doesn't think we should use the term toxic masculinity. David Lynch is going to receive an Oscar for lifetime achievement. They have no idea how those two things are related. Is David Lynch being accused of being toxic in any way? Not really. I think if David Lynch were toxic, we wouldn't even know because he's so inscrutable.

Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video record of all our experiences and interactions? How would that affect our relationships? What would it reveal about our characters and our sense of who we are? Is there a kind of truth that can’t be determined by perfect objectivity? David and Tamler dive deep into Ted Chiang’s amazingly rich and poignant short story “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” which explores how new technologies shape individual and group identities.

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