Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.

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This week, we check in about "chatfishing" and cognitive dissonance around AI, and then we consider whether or not (and how) to parent inside the coupled norm.

Stuff We Talk About:

This Hanukkah, Let’s Bring Back Judith Menorahs

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Conversation on Workplace Trust with Sarah Mosseri

Sarah: Interview with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on The AI Con

James Muldoon, Love Machines

The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it

Iron Ladies film

Against The Grain: Archiving anarcho-punk

Logic(s) Magazine Issue 23: Land (with Craig's article!)

Jules Joanne Gleeson: This Infamous Proposal

Sarah: Family Planning (review essay)

Engels, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"

Madeline Lane-McKinley, Solidarity with Children

Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh, The Anti-Social Family

Angela Davis: Women and Capitalism:Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation

David Collinson and Stephen Ackroyd, “Resistance, Misbehavior and Dissent”

Dorinne K. Kondo, Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace

We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in London.

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