We are here. I love the music. The waiting music that Twitter automatically puts on. Definitely AI generated. Is there music? I don't hear any. Are you hearing anything?
No, not at all. Oh, interesting. But did you hear it? I think it's only you hear it, Jason, like because you're the host. And so, and then when it does the playback, I think that works too. Yes, it does. Definitely works with the playback.
I've heard it at the beginning before. Well, you are in a fancy place right now. Do you want to tell us about it before we dive in? I'm actually with Tony. We are in
And, and Khan, at Khan, the film festival. So fancy. So fancy. And I'm going to see her speak tomorrow. I'm very excited about that.
Yeah, that is amazing. It is such an honor to be invited there and to speak there. So wishing the best for Tony. That's incredible. That's great stuff. How you
I'm great. I always say I'm living the dream one day at a time and I'm I'm perpetually grateful that I get to be in these conversations. I get it. You know, people are interested in what I have to say. Like that's a blessing, you know, and I get
And I get to hang with you Jason and I get to meet Tara who I just followed and and learn from people so it's I'm on the right side of the dirt. That's enough for me. I love that that was really an optimism.
Yeah, it's it's it's a practice. It's a practice every day I think about it and I try to align myself into that place because Regardless of our quote unquote problems, there's always a lot of people that wish they had your problems. Yeah, that is very true. I guess they can do it.
Let's get Olive on stage and then we can go ahead and get started. Hi, infrastructure. You prefer to be called by the Twitter, Twitter handle or do you want to use your name that I found? Whichever is clever, whichever your company
Yeah, friends call me "Empo" that's another option. I have a lot of names, so dealers' choice. I like "Empo" sounds fun. I don't feel cool enough. I don't have a lot of names. I feel like I haven't made it yet if I don't have a lot of names.
layers of identity that developed through years on the internet. That's about it. Yeah, I actually would love to do an entire show about like digital identity because you think about being like known by your screen name like my screen name when I was a first in AOL was hot stuff.
Thank you for... which is so funny. So I just think of all the things we make up for ourselves before we knew to use our names for emails. We made up these like ridiculous emails. I mean any constellation in my high school AOL handle is cheesy bunny 666.
six. Oh my gosh. All of you, do you want to say something? We might be all of maybe having audio if she's not sure, but I do not remember what my
first handle was, but I know that it was on hotmail and I have been playing with this idea of getting a tattoo that's just at hotmail.com on my arm. That's the way to be like this was my age. I was this age in the tech world and my husband's like that is way too cool and viby for your whole thing. So
it just wouldn't work on you. Right. It's very like it's very like a very reverent. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. All right. Let's kick it off. I'll live you want to do a mic test really quick to see if you're good.
and I love that you know me.
All of them OG I'm sure she'll figure it out as we go along. Yeah Yeah, I'm online. Yes, I'm a priest New York and they were difficult to survive but I think now I'm connected. Hi, hello. Okay, awesome All right, let's get started - welcome
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