89: The Winner Does Not Receive a Pie

Published: Aug. 3, 2023, 10:30 p.m.

b'John is sitting, Alison is watching, and Liz is typing.\\nPlease email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, check out our subtitles/transcripts, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Twitter or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media.\\nContent warnings this episode: AI (chapter 3), China (chapter 4), colonialism (chapter 5)\\n\\nLetters of comment\\n\\nAbigail Nussbaum\\nChris Garcia\\nDuncan MacGregor\\nEdward Morland\\nErsatz Culture\\nFarah Mendlesohn\\n\\nAsh by Mary Gentle\\n\\n\\nRaj\\nRoman Orszanski\\n\\n\\nTranscription\\n\\nWe have uploaded transcripts and subtitles for Episodes 49, 62, and 72 as part of our Hugo Voter Packet submission\\nWhat do people want from transcripts? Do any of our listeners use them?\\nYou can find the transcripts and subtitles for episodes on our GitHub\\n\\n\\nGlasgow in 2024\\n\\nLiz has taken a role in the Programme Division as the Area Head of Podcasting Content\\n\\nJohn’s panel suggestion: “Why don’t podcasters just shout? Why use microphones? Our panel discusses the pros and cons of literally shouting into the void.”\\nPlease put this into the programme suggestion form\\n\\n\\nGlasgow in 2024 has released an AI Art Statement\\n\\nASFA\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nChengdu Worldcon\\n\\nNone of us are planning to take the Worldcon up on their offer of a free trip\\nFile 770 articles about finalists going to China: 1, 2, 3, 4\\n\\n\\nPicks\\n\\nJohn: Asteroid City\\nAlison: Beyond a Boundary by CLR James\\n\\nMiles Jupp’s Fibber in the Heat\\n\\n\\nLiz: The Last Blade Priest by WP Wiles\\n\\n\\nCredits\\n\\nCover art: “Eight-Fingered Monkeys” by Alison Scott\\n\\nAlt text: Three monkeys, each with eight digits on their hands and eight on their feet, do the classic “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” triptych under the words “Octothorpe 89”.\\n\\n\\nTheme music: “Surf Shimmy” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)'