The digital age promised us a utopia filled with connection and truth. Instead, we spend our online lives trudging through a tar-pit of isolation, bushwhacking through a jungle of deepfakes. Hope is not lost, though! The Colossal Collective is fighting back, armed with hot glue and grommets, fabric, and foam. In this talk, Sam Johnson makes the case that giant puppets might be the perfect antidote to the poisonous side-effects of AI and social media. Our army of giant puppets might be clunky and imperfect, but they're undeniably real and expressly human, and they create value that no algorithm can simulate. Join us if you're ready to put down the phone, pick up a bungee cord, and build a reality that exists on the ground instead of the cloud.