Disclaimer: This is not well produced, but the fact it was produced at all is a minor miracle.

We realised that the podcast wasn't going anywhere in the form we'd originally chosen, so this episode (which has been dubbed Season 2 Episode 1) is really just us having a chat, getting used to being recorded again and (with no preparation) talking about what we might do with the podcast from now on.

We touched upon fast fashion, fast electronics, AI in the news (natural language generators and text-to-art generators), Twitter, Mastodon and Tumblr. Sky managed to weave the issues with capitalism into the discussion and we found "interesting" links between Sky's PhD research on genetically modified crops and my thoughts on AI.

We're committed to recording something once a month. We're not sure how that's going to go, but that is the plan! In future we'll probably have a more defined topic or respond to a particular thing (academic or other) we've read, heard or seen.

There's a transcript of this episode here.