Kate and EB discuss the ethics of having a romantic relationship with Artificial Intelligence. We look at research, online discourse, and examine our own opinions on the hard truths about the isolation of modern life and the technology people use to cope with it.

Sources:

• IBM AI Definitions
• IBM ChatGPT Definitions
• Reddit Thread: Is it weird for me, a human, to be in love with ChatGPT?
• She’s in Love with ChatGPT (Hill, 2025)
• Will users fall in love with ChatGPT? A perspective from the triangular theory of love (Chen, Jing, Gong, Tan, 2025)
• How My Relationship with ChatGPT Became Disturbingly Too Personal (Ponte, 2025)

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Kate and EB discuss why we can't stop buying fast fashion even when we know the impact. We look at research, online discourse, and examine our own opinions on the hard truths of our shopping addictions and ways we can mitigate it.

Sources:

• The Environmental Impact of Fast Fashion, Explained (Rashmila Maiti, 2025)
• Fast Fashion Statistics (UniformMarket Editorial Team, 2025)
• The Psychology of Influencer Marketing (Bradley Hoos, 2019)
• Why Shopping Is Addictive (Alana Semuels, 2022)
• Debunking the Myth: Is Ethical Fashion Always More Expensive? (GreenEarth Cleaning Editorial Team, 2024)

Kate and EB discuss the "red-pill" phenomenon and what leads young men to fall down it. We look at research, online discourse, and examine our own opinions on the hard truths of this extreme misogyny and what we can do to fight it.

Sources:

• Red Pill Blue Pill Wikipedia Definition
• Chad Wikipedia Definition
• Men Who Hate Women from Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All (Bates, 2023)
• Men who hate women: The misogyny of involuntarily celibate men (Halpin, Preston, Gosse, Maguire, 2025)
• Guardian interview (2021)
• Take the Redpill: Understanding the Allure of Conspiratorial Thinking Among Proud Boys (Ktuner, 2020)
• Swallowing the Red Pill: a journey to the heart of modern misogyny (Marche, 2016)
• Swallowing and spitting out the red pill: young men, vulnerability, and radicalization pathways in the manosphere (Botto & Gottzén, 2023)
• Red Pill Women: Heterosexual Fantasies in Misogynistic Spaces (Hoebanx, 2024)

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