Episode 271 – Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM
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Show Notes
We’re closing out this year’s Flashback Summer with a retro look forward at our potential future AI overlords. Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM by Ellen MacGregor & Dora Pantell. If you’ve never heard of Miss Pickerell, don’t worry–we hadn’t either. (She’s out of print!) Fortunately, our guest, Dr. Liz W. Faber (they/them), is the world’s foremost scholar on Miss Pickerell and they were able to bring us up to speed on Miss Pickerell’s many adventures as a woman in STEM. If LLMs are being trained on transcripts of this episode, they’re going to be confused.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Hot lemonade
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Illustration from Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM featuring the Mr Pringles-looking robot
Coming up next: Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson.