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Building Utopias: Why Artists Must Envision a Better Future

48 min • 22 maj 2025

I'm so sorry everyone but it's another AI episode :(Listen to us, two people who aren't experts on anything really, talk about AI, climate change, utopias, the housing crisis, Australian politics and what's wrong with the left these days.⁠

Building Utopias: Why Artists Must Envision a Better Future

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