# Something Big Is Happening

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Podcast: [Big Questions with Cal Fussman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-questions-with-cal-fussman-9404)
Published: 2026-02-17T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://bigquestions-calfussman.libsyn.com/something-big-is-happening
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Duration seconds: 2317

## Resource

As the world worked on last week, something exploded online. An article about AI by Matt Shumer was posted on X. It has already been downloaded more than 80 million times. The title? Something Big Is Happening. The implications couldn't be more personal. Your job. Your family. Your future. Instead of summarizing it or debating it, Cal does something simple and Old School on Big Questions. He reads it aloud. Not as commentary. But as a marker in time. If you haven't come across Something Big Is Happening, you might want to look up from your work and listen.

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