On this second episode of The Red Diaper Pail, we try--and fail--to cheer ourselves up with Trump's lowlights from his speech before the UN General Assembly.

Then, Simone explains what a large language model actually is before we dive into digital romance with Patricia Marx's article for the New Yorker, Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends.

Theme Music: "Mock the Afflicted" by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

Intermission Music: "Mystic Mars" by Rewob, Licensed under CC BY 4.0

Welcome to the Red Diaper Pail, a podcast about technology, culture, art, history, politics, and parenting!

On our first episode, we dissect a video by Tad Stoermer, an American scholar of resistance history at the University of Southern Denmark, on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the bizarre reaction by liberals like Ezra Klein.

[Theme song: "Mock the Afflicted" by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0]