Garrison talks with Bridget Todd about how personally intimate AI chatbots are creating a new form of emotional surveillance and why focusing just on “AI girlfriends” overlooks the need to regulate emotionally manipulative AI and for-profit tech companies.

Sources: 

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Love-at-First-Prompt/Bridget-Todd/9781668179826 

Garrison talks with Bridget Todd about how personally intimate AI chatbots are creating a new form of emotional surveillance and why focusing just on &ldquo;AI girlfriends&rdquo; overlooks the need to regulate emotionally manipulative AI and for-profit tech companies.
Sources:&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Love-at-First-Prompt/Bridget-Todd/9781668179826">https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Love-at-First-Prompt/Bridget-Todd/9781668179826</a>&nbsp;

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here

How AI Companies are Monetizing Intimacy, Ft. Bridget Todd 

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Mia talks with IWW members Pam Suitland-Halas, Andrew D. Ferguson, and Elizabeth Copis-Dukelow about the upcoming elections in the IWW.

Links:

https://linktr.ee/PamelaSH

Mia talks with IWW members Pam Suitland-Halas, Andrew D. Ferguson, and Elizabeth Copis-Dukelow about the upcoming elections in the IWW.
Links:
<a href="https://linktr.ee/PamelaSH">https://linktr.ee/PamelaSH</a>

2026 Elections (The Union Ones)

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In this episode Dana El Kurd talks through what the Israeli elections mean for Palestinians across the territories and within Israel. She goes over the latest reports on how the election might play out, and recent events that have affected campaigning in Israel. 

Sources:
Israel's Elections: What's at Stake?, International Crisis Group (Max Rodenbeck, Mairav Zonszein, Amjad Iraqi), 15 October 2026
A Jewish Currents Guide to the Israeli Elections, Josh Nathan-Kazis, Jewish Currents, 20 October 2026
Occupied Thoughts interview with Sami Abu Shehadeh https://fmep.org/resource/barred-from-knesset-elections-sami-abu-shehadeh-on-the-state-of-israeli-democracy/
Prospect magazine op-ed on the settlers and the state - https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle-east/75279/settler-rioters-are-israeli-state-policythrough-deniable-means

In this episode Dana El Kurd talks through what the Israeli elections mean for Palestinians across the territories and within Israel. She goes over the latest reports on how the election might play out, and recent events that have affected campaigning in Israel.&nbsp;
Sources:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/qna/middle-east-north-africa/israelpalestine/israels-elections-whats-stake">Israel's Elections: What's at Stake?</a>, International Crisis Group (Max Rodenbeck, Mairav Zonszein, Amjad Iraqi), 15 October 2026</li>
<li><a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/a-jewish-currents-guide-to-the-israeli-elections">A Jewish Currents Guide to the Israeli Elections</a>, Josh Nathan-Kazis, Jewish Currents, 20 October 2026</li>
<li>Occupied Thoughts interview with Sami Abu Shehadeh <a href="https://fmep.org/resource/barred-from-knesset-elections-sami-abu-shehadeh-on-the-state-of-israeli-democracy/">https://fmep.org/resource/barred-from-knesset-elections-sami-abu-shehadeh-on-the-state-of-israeli-democracy/</a></li>
<li>Prospect magazine op-ed on the settlers and the state - <a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle-east/75279/settler-rioters-are-israeli-state-policythrough-deniable-means">https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle-east/75279/settler-rioters-are-israeli-state-policythrough-deniable-means</a></li>
</ul>

Israeli Elections and the Palestinians

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Margaret and Hazel read you a found documents story about a government experiment gone wrong

Margaret and Hazel read you a found documents story about a government experiment gone wrong

CZM Book Club: "The Simulacrum," by Max Turner

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How AI Companies are Monetizing Intimacy, Ft. Bridget Todd

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