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Show Notes
Lou is joined by Harris Sockel, lead editor at Pirate Wires — the tech media outlet that actually likes technology. They cover AI replacing doctors, humanoid robots, data center myths, California's billionaire exodus, and why the media's doom-and-gloom coverage of tech keeps getting it wrong.
TOPICS COVERED:
00:00 — Intro: What is Pirate Wires?
04:30 — AI doom coverage vs. reality: why the scaremongers won't go full prepper
09:00 — Hill & Valley DC: when Capitol Hill meets Silicon Valley
14:00 — Lou's experience using Claude AI (press kits, writing courses, contracts)
20:00 — Can AI actually replace long-form journalism? Harris weighs in
26:00 — AI chatbots, teen suicides, and Spain's euthanasia case
33:00 — Humanoid robots: sex, cooking, and charging them in the hallway
42:00 — The data center water myth, debunked
50:00 — Nuclear power's comeback and what Biden got wrong on AI regulation
56:00 — Lou's doctor pulled up ChatGPT mid-appointment
01:02:00 — Self-driving cars and the future of driving as a rich-person hobby
01:08:00 — DSA activists at a Starbucks strike (who didn't work at Starbucks)
01:15:00 — California's wealth tax, billionaire flight, and "we left because of communists"
01:22:00 — SAG-AFTRA dues, union reality vs. union mythology
HARRIS SOCKEL & PIRATE WIRES:
Pirate Wires: https://www.piratewires.com
Follow Harris: @harrissockel
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