Lauren Beukes is the author of award-winning novels like Afterland and Zoo City, with her book Shining Girls was adapted to an Apple TV+ show. She has asked us about how to poison AI and whether there are methods to get it to stop stealing everyone's work.

Some of our potential ideas: Fill books full of ads, destroy technology and go back to town criers, or put every book in your house into one big book.

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July make luggage. Beautiful, useful, perfect luggage. They've got a big problem though - they decided to name themselves after the month of July and now, well, they've got all sorts of SEO and searchability problems. When their customers tell their friends about July their friends think they're talking about the month. When you're standing in the airport having lost your luggage and the airport official asks what brand it is and you say "July" and they say "no, I didn't ask when you're travelling, I asked what brand your luggage is" it's inconvenient. It's an issue. They've written to ask us whether we can help them out.

Some of our ideas: Defeat Julius Caesar, rename the month to Bluey, gaslight everyone into thinking that the month is pronounced Julie, change the names of ALL the months.

Thank you Athan (pronounced like Nathan), who is the CEO at July, for getting in touch with us. Dear listener, how would you solve her problem? Email us at: brainsontheoutside@gmail.com

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Naked Sprout make toilet rolls out of bamboo. They're super sustainable and the company prides themselves on using no fossil fuels in 99% of their process. That remaining 1%, that's what they wanted us to help with. They currently have to use one gigantic diesel forklift truck to lift the enormous mother rolls of toilet paper that come off their manufacturing process. These huge tonne and a half rolls are later cut down to the bog rolls you know and love and use but until then Naked Sprout has to cart them about their factory. Can we help them? Can we make them even greener? Of course we can.

Some of our ideas: What if we only had one toilet between us all? What if you could cut your own toilet paper? What if Naked Sprout was also a housing company?

Thank you Rosie, who works in Content and Community at Naked Sprout, for getting in touch with us. Dear listener, how would you solve her problem? Email us at: brainsontheoutside@gmail.com

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