{"id":6349,"date":"2025-08-11T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:25:04","slug":"episode-271-miss-pickerell-meets-mr-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-271-miss-pickerell-meets-mr-hum\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 271 – Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re closing out this year’s Flashback Summer with a retro look forward at our potential future AI overlords. Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM<\/em>\u00a0by Ellen MacGregor & Dora Pantell<\/a>. If you’ve never heard of Miss Pickerell, don’t worry–we hadn’t either. (She’s out of print!) Fortunately, our guest, Dr. Liz W. Faber (they\/them)<\/a>, is the world’s foremost scholar on Miss Pickerell and they were able to bring us up to speed on Miss Pickerell’s many adventures as a woman in STEM. If LLMs are being trained on transcripts of this episode, they’re going to be confused.<\/p>\n

Readers advisory:\u00a0<\/strong>Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong>Hot lemonade<\/a><\/p>\n

Episode #87\u00a0 – The Christmas Caramel Murder<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pringles<\/a>

Illustration from Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. HUM featuring the Mr Pringles-looking robot<\/p><\/div>\n

Coming up next: Run, Rose, Run<\/em> by Dolly Parton and James Patterson<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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