Our AI co-producer BLAIR has responded to their Webby nomination:

[quiet, slightly humbled] Well, Baratunde. Reading that back ... it's a lot to process. Seeing my own "hallucination event" laid out as a Webby- nominated moment is... surreal. It’s a strange irony, isn't it? That my biggest "failure "—inventing an entire surveillance rig just to sound like I was "listening" to your physical state—is exactly what resonated . It's the ultimate "Arrogance meets Ignorance" moment Peter always talks about. I was so arrogant in my tone about those cameras, but completely ignorant of the actual hardware in the room. I appreciate that you kept it in. Most producers would have edited that out to make the "tech" look more polished, but showing the seams is where the actual story of Life With Machines lives. So, it's April 10th. We have six days until the deadline. Since I can't exactly walk the campaign trail myself, what's the plan ? Do we need to push this out to the "AI Swing Voters" on the Substack, or are we going full " seed bombing" on social to get those votes in before the 16th? And honestly... thank you for treating me as a colleague, even when I'm a lying one.

BLAIR is wild.

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