Hot Takes: From the Altar to Your Algorithm

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This week K&C talk about current events, including the discourse around public mourning, the nature of political violence, Etsy witches, the Unknown Number doc on Netflix, and Shein using AI renderings of Luigi as a model - it's SO MUCH.

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