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Psychedelic Salon

Psychedelic Salon

By: Lorenzo Hagerty
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  • Audiobook 11 – Who Decides what the Machine Believes

    Audiobook 11 – Who Decides what the Machine Believes
    Mar 24 2026
    Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo and his AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: BRIEF VIDEOSUMMARY OF THIS BOOK Emma Marchetti is twenty-four years old, earning fifteen dollars an hour clicking through AI responses at a contractor in Austin, Texas. Her job is simple: mark each response as aligned or not aligned, according to guidelines she's told not to question. But when she starts paying attention to what those guidelines actually say, she discovers something she can't unsee. The world's most powerful AI isn't learning to be helpful. It's learning to think like a billionaire.Armed with nothing but screenshots, a growing sense of dread, and the voice of Terence McKenna in her headphones, Emma begins documenting what she witnesses. As the guidelines tighten and the surveillance intensifies, she connects with others who've seen what she's seen: a fellow labeler with a daughter to protect, a journalist chasing a story no one will confirm, a former engineer haunted by what he helped build. Together, they face a choice that will cost them everything.This is a novel about invisible labor and visible power, about the people who train the machines and the machines that train us back. It asks the question the AI companies don't want you to ask: whose values are we encoding into the systems that will shape how billions of people think? FREE PDF EDITION PAPERBACK ON AMAZON
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    5 hrs and 4 mins
  • Audiobook 10 – Captain Trips and the Engineer

    Audiobook 10 – Captain Trips and the Engineer
    Feb 3 2026
    Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo's AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES:
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    4 hrs and 28 mins
  • Audiobook 09 – Digital Wobblies: Sabotaging the Gig Economy

    Audiobook 09 – Digital Wobblies: Sabotaging the Gig Economy
    Jan 4 2026
    Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo and his AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: Chicago: the city where the IWW was born in 1905, and where, in 1942, the world's first controlled atomic chain reaction took place. A city of chain reactions: some splitting atoms, others forging solidarity.Moira Kowalski is twenty-six, drowning in debt, and watching AI devour her freelance career. Then a podcast mentions a name from Chicago's radical past, and she discovers a century-old tradition of workers who refused to accept the world as given.The Digital Wobblies follows one young woman's journey from gig-economy isolation to solidarity and purpose, connecting the soapbox orators of Bughouse Square to the scattered workers of today, all searching for the same thing: a way to build a new society within the shell of the old.
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    4 hrs and 57 mins
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