Gunnar Hellekson
Co-Host of Dave & Gunnar Show
Gunnar Hellekson is the Director of Product Management for Red Hat’s Linux, Virtualization, and Atomic container product lines. Before that, he was Chief Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector group. He is a founder of Open Source for America, one of Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100 for 2010, and was voted one of the FedScoop 50 for industry leadership. He was a founder of the Military Open Source working group, a member of the SIIA Software Division Board, the Board of Directors for the Public Sector Innovation Group, the Open Technology Fund Advisory Council, New America’s California Civic Innovation Project Advisory Council, and the CivicCommons Board of Advisors. He perks up when people talk about commoditization and the industrial mobilization of World War II.
Gunnar Hellekson has hosted 186 Episodes.
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Episode 266: Filled with Dad Energy
December 16th, 2024 | 39 mins 46 secs
call of duty, cars, chatgpt, hats, john mcphee, make it stick, navajo rugs, pentium, screaming, slim goodbody, solar power, solar-powered hats, tartrazine, the magnetic fields, transparent skin, tvs, yellow 5
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies!
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Episode 265: A Delightful GIS Demon
December 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
british standards, bs 7666, cardinal direction, deep learning, directional systems, epistemic closure, european patroleum survey group, fine tuning, google plus codes, hoop dreams, ibm, instructlab, open source initiative, openstreetmap, osi, overture, overture maps foundation, prithvi wxc, rag, retrieval-augmented generation, shogun, shōgun, synthetic data, tobler's first law of geography, ubi, universal basic income, what3words
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Steven Pousty about GIS, open source theology, and AI!
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Episode 264: Cryptomining Airbnbs, Psychological Warfare, and What Else?
October 29th, 2024 | 7 mins 36 secs
ai, airbnb, artificial intelligence, chatbots, coaching, concerts, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, deepfakes, digital age, ethics, gemini, imagine dragons, philosophy, powerful questions, propaganda, psychological manipulation, technology, the coaching habit
This week, NotebookLM talks about the Dave and Gunnar Show Episode 263!
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Episode 263: Failing the Turing Test
September 18th, 2024 | 42 mins 50 secs
airbnb, cryptominers, cynthia woods mitchell pavillion, deep-live-cam, deepfakes, gemini, gemini gems, gemini live, imagine dragons, nuclear war: a scenario, psychological warfare, rhel ai, selfies, the advice trap, the coaching habit, traffic cam photobooth, video conferencing, war day
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about electricity theft, identity theft, and coaching!
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Episode 262: Two Plus Two Was Five the Whole Time
September 3rd, 2024 | 37 mins 59 secs
ai, broadway, creativity, d-day, d-day conneaut, dodge charger, electric vehicles, evs, exhausts, false memories, fratzonic exhaust, game theory, generative ai, higgs boson, homogenization, influence, lake erie, leatherman, leatherman micra, ms-dos, music videos, musicals, ohio renaissance festival, rap, skeuomorphism, ultimatum game, world war ii, wwii
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about electric vehicle skeuomorphism, people influencing AIs, AIs influencing people, and people influencing AIs influencing people!
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Episode 261: Not Bad if You Don’t Look Directly at Them
August 26th, 2024 | 33 mins 56 secs
aaron swartz, batman, black-bellied whistling ducks, brewery tours, british standards, british standards institution, bsi group, c compilers, def leppard, foo fighters, inaturalist, journey, keyboards, little johnny tables, loverboy, north yorkshire council, pacer, qudi mask, qudi mask 2, reliable gazetters, sammy hagar, seek, steve miller band, the hives, vim, xkcd, yuengling
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about raising standards on masks and raising our standards on compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666!
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Episode 260: As Long as I’m Not Wearing an Apple Watch, I’ll Never Get Credit For Standing
July 29th, 2024 | 32 mins 59 secs
apple watch, brain organoids, brain organoids as a service, brains, dfr, drone as first responder, drones, gorgon stare, ice, law enforcement, oura ring, university of farmington, usborne, vintage science books, xiaomi smart band
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about another fake university, Brain Organoids as a Service (BOaaS?), and policing with drones!
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Episode 259: AI Bad Breath
July 14th, 2024 | 59 mins
after world, ai, apple care, butlerian jihad, ciws, close-in weapon system, democracy, leopold aschenbrenner, manhattan project, nuclear bomb shields, nuclear bombs, openai, phi, situational awareness, superalignment
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the upsides and downsides of superalignment!
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Episode 258: Terminator Contortionists
July 1st, 2024 | 43 mins 42 secs
ai, avatars, boston dynamics, deer, google translate, hawaii, i hope this email finds you, japan, kyoto, macaque monkeys, malware, meetings, monkeys, nara park, online trackers, otter.ai, robots, slack, slack hold music, slack huddles, spam musubi, surplus property, texas facilities commission, texas facilities commission state surplus property store, tokyo, typosquatting, video calls, zippy's
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about audible trackers, coworker avatars, and local deals on slightly used toenail clippers!
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Episode 257: Flowers from Heaven
May 11th, 2024 | 31 mins 21 secs
1000 yard stare, ai, ai girlfriends, ai legislation, commonwealth legal services, drones, electric vehicles, evs, flowers from heaven, instapaper, law firms, legislation, mask, memberships, mit license, noise cancellation, pixel buds, pixel buds pro, resident alien, restaurants, robot lawyers, sad girl, scented thermal paste, seo, seo scams, tanks, thermal paste
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for fake law firms, AI for politicians, drones for electric vehicles, and paid memberships for Chuck E. Cheese!
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Episode 256: Kufelik Olmak
April 30th, 2024 | 40 mins 30 secs
baskets, buffer overflows, cryptography, dating apps, drinkinkg, excel, fallout, gemini, gemini advanced, gig economy, google, gpt-2, hp, ink, ink cartridges, kufe, kufeci, kufelik olmak, laudato si, pixel buds, pixel buds pro, pope francis, printers, psychedelic cryptography, reggaeton, reggaeton be gone, turkey, uber
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about printer cartridges with viruses, cryptography with psychedelics, and drinking with baskets
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Episode 255: Living an Eternal Life of Strings and Wooden Whimsy
March 2nd, 2024 | 32 mins 21 secs
ai, bard, bloons, cpus, cursing, excel, gemini, goody-2, google, managerial ventriloquism, memgpt, parrots, pooky park
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about ethical AI, AI operating systems, employees parroting their bosses, and parrots parroting parrots
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Episode 254: I’m Sorry, But I Cannot Provide an Answer to Your Question as It Goes Against OpenAI’s Use Policy
January 30th, 2024 | 37 mins 38 secs
ai, amazon, ambiphone, bali, basal cognition, cartoons, coughing, dancing, david attenborough, david byrne, déjà vu, generative ai, input devices, jamais vu, linkedin, new yorker, number stations, openai, pac man, tongues, twitter, vr, x
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about exotic input devices, growing new life forms with built-in memories, AI ruining everything, and having déjà vu about jamais vu.
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Episode 253: Better Than a Stick in the Eye
January 29th, 2024 | 38 mins 17 secs
ai, ai-generated content, alternate histories, american airlines, chatbots, diabolic drive, donkey kong, donkey kong country, elon musk, fake news, jewelry, kanye west, nightshade, oura ring, platinum pro, poisoning, poland, police, rage against the machine, red hot chili peppers, sega, sega genesis, spotify, theft, thumb drives, usb, waffle house, writing
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about poisoned USB drives, poisoned web searches, poisoned AI models, and a guy pretending to be a mannequin
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Episode 252: Too Hip-Hop, Not Enough $15M Nikon Lithography Stepper
January 2nd, 2024 | 40 mins 17 secs
1984, ai, ai executive order, asic necklaces, ben and marc show, dnd beyond, goodnotes, julia, kindle, kindle scribe, nasa, open hardware, open source, public sector music albums, risc-v, sam altman, surveillance vans, windows, windows 11
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about notetaking, IP taking, and great deals on used surveillance vans!
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Episode 250: Our Favorite Things
December 15th, 2023 | 42 mins 1 sec
1password, bitwarden, blogtrottr, chromebooks, dayone, drafts, feedly, flint, fz-09, gl.inet, grammarly, lauren egts, mt-09, pocket, radbike, radrunner, raspberry pi, raspberry pi 5, remember the milk, scratch, slack, spintronics, the great guinea pig escape, thermapens, thermoworks, todoist, tom bihn, turing tumble, ublock origin, video speed controller, yamaha
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about their favorite things!