Rachel fails at allyship and owns it. She takes the fall but notices that other folks whiffed it too... with no consequences. Yeah, it does get awkward.

Leigh totally reads the room and it was ... not a good read.

Annemarie logs out.

Pam (not your host, a totally different Pam) got fired a bunch of times before figuring out she was on the wrong path.

Someone had to take the fall, and that someone was Anu.

"If you have a platform that is for a purpose, it's very easy to keep it on topic and solve problems for that purpose. And that's true whether it's an LLM, that it true whether it's a social network ... when technology is meant to serve a purpose for a community, it often does an incredibly good job... And when you have a person whose goal is just to make money ... that's when it gets to its worst purpose." In this episode, Anil Dash on AI: how it's being used as an excuse to eliminate jobs, how to use it effectively, and how to make a better case against it.

Also, Prince.

Hey folks! I'm on a panel at this event on March 19th, 2026 at Obec Brewing in Ballard. Please come say hi.

Dee burns herself down to keep her role and was rewarded by the expectation that she'd keep burning herself down.

Thanks to Todd Manley at Earsight Studios for his help with this episode.