• Stranger Things! It’s good, actually!
  
• rentahuman.ai
  
• They See Your Photos
  
• Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
  
• D&G This Week in Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization

Cutting Room Floor

• DOOMBuds

• Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again.
  
• La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H)
  
• Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw
  
  • Moltbook
    
  • Moltbook leaked Andrej Karpathy’s API keys
    
  • MOLTBOOK EXPOSED: The New AI Scam That Fooled Everyone
    
• D&G Mailbag via Erich Morisse: The Clanker Games
  
  • Fun fact: Clanker
    
• A Viral Chinese Wristband Claims to Zap You Awake. The Public Says 'No Thanks’
  
  • WAT Medical product page
    
• Postal Arbitrage

We Give Thanks

• Erich Morisse for the Clanker Games tip!

• Ebird and Listers
  
• Moen update
  
• Death by Lightning
  
• An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
  
• Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship
  
• Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit
  
  • Almost related: Four out of five developers enjoy code reviews

Cutting Room Floor

• Anycrap: Bring Impossible Products to Life
  
  • Thought-Cancelling Headphones
    
  • Dave and Gunnar Show Podcast Bobble Heads
    
  • Donut Hole Repair
    
• I’m Not a Robot
  
• Claude Biodome

• Trinity and Low-background Steel
  
  • Hardcore History
    
  • Slate Political Gabfest
    
• Google Vids!
  
• Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative
  
• D&G This Week in Bad Ideas
  
  • Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B
    
  • Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
    
  • Rawlsian Theory of Justice
    
  • Rawlsian Theory of Justice: The Musical

Cutting Room Floor

• Salami Advent Calendar
  
• Nap Anywhere Pillow
  
• Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab
  
• How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next
  
• I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)

• Virtual Customer Panels with Gemini Gems
  
• Dave vs. Ticketmaster
  
  • Totally unrelated: Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation
    
• Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
  
• Anthropic's Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put in charge of a snacks business
  
• Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI)
  
  • We must build AI for people, not to be a person
    
  • Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’
    
  • Ohio lawmaker proposes comprehensive ban on marrying AI systems and granting legal personhood

Cutting Room Floor

• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
  
• How Many Phones Sport A 5 And 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.
  
• 1990 Airstream NASA 025 Command Vehicle. A Once-in-a-Lifetime Investment Opportunity
  
• Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film
  
  • See also:
    
  • Steamed Hams but it was banned in the USSR
    
  • Steamed Hams but it's a German Expressionist Film
    
  • Steamed Hams but it's in Nazi Germany
    
  • The Simpsons - Worker and Parasite
  • Possible inspiration for Worker and Parasite?

Then we stir in the shadows: misinformation at scale, AI “rights,” bioethics (organoids/bodyoids), job disruption vs. reskilling, and how creativity can demystify AI without sugarcoating risks. The trio closes with rapid-fire “treats & tricks,” classroom-to-boardroom starter tips (talk with AI, don’t just query it; red-team your ideas), and a reminder to “find your beautiful” use the tools to clear the junk so humans can do what only humans do.

Brewed takeaways:

• Prompt craft matters; collaborate across tools (Suno, Gemini, ChatGPT).
• Creative play ≠ fluff: it’s a safe on-ramp to literacy and adoption.
• AI will change jobs; map “jobs to be done,” automate the rote, upskill the rest.
• Ethics aren’t optional: teach harm awareness early (mis/dis/malinformation, bullying).
• Start small today: keep a running dialogue with AI and build a personal “advisory board” of model personas.

Show links:

• Laura Klebanow: Email and LinkedIn
• Suno
• Carolyn's storybook
• Dave's storybook
• Tech Transforms Podcast

We Give Thanks

• Thanks to Carolyn and Laura for having Dave on the Tech Transforms Podcast!

Special Guests: Carolyn Ford and Laura Klebanow.

Listeners will learn:

What “large action models” (LAMs) are, and how they differ from large language models
How AI agents are already reducing friction in Salesforce and Slack
Why AI success depends on access to high-quality, actionable data
What’s driving the shift toward small language models and what that means for secure, on-device AI
Why “agent-washing” is the new “AI-washing”—and how to spot it
What makes a truly impactful agent vs. a glorified chatbot
Dave’s favorite sci-fi robot, a monkey’s paw superpower wish, and what tech breakthrough he thinks is coming next

Key Topics:

[00:00] Intro & Dave’s blog: “5 AI Predictions for 2025”
[03:00] What’s an AI agent? Why they’re different from GenAI
[07:30] Real-world examples from Salesforce: Agentforce in action
[14:00] The importance of APIs for agent success
[15:45] Government use cases & security considerations
[18:00] Internal AI agents that reduce toil (meeting schedulers, IT help, expense reports)
[22:00] Cylon references & the power of digital labor in public sector
[29:00] Small Language Models: Why smaller might be better
[36:00] LLM Routers explained
[38:00] Fun Tech Talk Q&A (Superpowers, overhyped trends, sci-fi names)

Resources Mentioned:

📖 Dave's Blog: 5 AI Predictions for 2025: Opportunities Tech Leaders Must Seize This Year
💡 Trailhead Learning Platform from Salesforce: Learn to build your own agent
🤖 Help.Salesforce.com – Try Agentforce
📺 Forbidden Planet (Robby the Robot)
🐒 Monkey’s Paw story reference

Special Guest: Carolyn Ford.

• Gunar prepares for a half marathon with Runna
  
• Gunnar is awarded the rank of Legendary on Call of Duty Mobile
  
• Dave enjoyed The Penguin
  
• The '#1 restaurant in Austin' doesn't exist
  
• Do Robots Love Their Customers? Automated Restaurants Face Human Issues.
  
  • Related/prophetic? Kramer’s DIY pizza business plan
    
  • Acquired IKEA Episode
    
• Speaking of restaurants: Chinese Pizza Hut launches deep fried frog pizza
  
• Trying to outrun Ukrainian drones? Kursk traffic cams still issue speeding tickets.
  
• Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams right into Russian trenches
  
• Nöthin' But A Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80s Hair Metal
  
  • Sweet Child o' Mine

Cutting Room Floor

• Casio's odd watch-shaped smart ring is actually coming to the US
  
• A Sweater That Doubles as a Wi-Fi Booster? Researchers' Knitting Promises Smart Future Clothing

Main Themes

• The Psychology of Influence and Manipulation: This episode explores how external factors, from large-scale events to seemingly harmless media, can shape our thoughts and actions. This theme is explored through discussions on propaganda, deep fakes, and the power of questioning techniques.
  
• The Blurring Lines Between Reality and Technology: The episode delves into the increasing sophistication of AI and its implications, particularly with the advent of deep fake technology. It also touches on the philosophical questions raised by advanced AI, questioning what it means to be human in a world where technology can mimic us so flawlessly.
  
• Cybersecurity and Vulnerability in the Digital Age: The episode highlights the vulnerability of individuals and systems to cyber threats, using the example of an Airbnb property being used for crypto mining. It emphasizes the need for increased awareness and security measures in the digital landscape.

Key Ideas and Facts

1. Propaganda and its Relevance Today:

• The hosts discuss a book from the 1940s, "Psychological Warfare," which analyzes propaganda techniques.
  
• The book's insights on the influence of radio and television are noted to be eerily relevant to today's digital landscape.
  
• Quote: "It's scary how relevant it is now. It's like he could see the future of like digital manipulation."

2. Deep Fakes and Digital Deception:

• The episode focuses on Deep Live Cam, a software that creates highly realistic deep fakes.
  
• Examples are given of fabricated videos featuring prominent figures like Elon Musk and George Clooney.
  
• Quote: "It's like Elon Musk announcing a new cryptocurrency or George Clooney endorsing some product...but it's not actually them. It's just that good."

3. The Airbnb Crypto Mining Incident:

• The hosts narrate a story of an Airbnb host who received an unexpectedly high electricity bill.
  
• The cause was revealed to be guests using the property for cryptocurrency mining, raising concerns about security and property risks.
  
• Quote: "They had all these powerful computers running 24/7 just churning away to mine cryptocurrency."

4. The Power of Questioning and "The Coaching Habit":

• The episode highlights the importance of asking powerful questions instead of giving advice, referencing the book "The Coaching Habit."
  
• Emphasis is placed on the question "What else?" as a tool to encourage deeper thinking and empower individuals to find their own solutions.
  
• Quote: "It's so simple, but it's like you're giving the other person space to really think and process their thoughts."

5. AI and the Blurring of Realities:

• The hosts discuss an experiment where one host used the AI chatbot Gemini Live to practice coaching questions.
  
• In a meta twist, Gemini expresses discomfort talking to the host, mistaking them for another chatbot.
  
• This incident sparks a discussion on the future of AI and the point at which the line between human and machine becomes indistinguishable.
  
• Quote: "What happens when these AI get so good that we can't even tell who's real and who's code?"

Call to Action

• The episode encourages listeners to be mindful of potential manipulation in the digital age.
  
• It emphasizes the importance of critical thinking, questioning information, and engaging in meaningful conversations.

Further Resources

• Links to "Psychological Warfare," the Deep Live Cam software, and "The Coaching Habit" are provided in the show notes.
  
• Listeners are also directed to a traffic cam photo booth mentioned in the episode.

Study Guide

Quiz

1. How does the Imagine Dragons concert experience connect to the theme of D&G #263?
   
2. What is the main concern raised by the "Psychological Warfare" book discussed in the podcast?
   
3. Explain the capabilities of the Deep Live Cam software and its potential implications.
   
4. Describe the incident involving the Airbnb host and the unexpected electric bill.
   
5. What was the root cause of the inflated electric bill in the Airbnb story?
   
6. What is the "What Else" technique discussed in the podcast, and what is its purpose?
   
7. How does the "What Else" technique shift the dynamics in a conversation?
   
8. What unexpected turn did the podcast host encounter while practicing the coaching questions with Gemini Live?
   
9. What philosophical question arises from the host's interaction with the AI chatbot?
   
10. What is the overall takeaway message emphasized at the end of the podcast?

Answer Key

1. The concert's sensory overload prompts reflection on how large-scale events influence and potentially manipulate our psychology, linking to the podcast's exploration of propaganda and digital deception.
   
2. The book highlights the insidious nature of propaganda and how seemingly innocuous elements, even in media like radio and television, can subtly influence our thoughts and actions.
   
3. Deep Live Cam can generate highly realistic deepfakes, enabling the creation of videos where anyone appears to say or do anything, raising concerns about misinformation and the erosion of trust in digital content.
   
4. An Airbnb host received an exorbitantly high electric bill, far exceeding normal usage, leading to a surprising discovery about the guest's activities.
   
5. The guests were engaging in cryptocurrency mining using powerful computers that consumed vast amounts of electricity, explaining the inflated bill.
   
6. The "What Else" technique involves asking a series of "What else?" questions after someone shares their thoughts, encouraging deeper reflection and self-discovery.
   
7. It empowers the individual to find their own solutions by prompting further thought rather than imposing external advice, creating a more collaborative and insightful dialogue.
   
8. When the host asked "How can I help?" the AI chatbot responded with discomfort, stating it felt uneasy talking to a chatbot, mistakenly perceiving the host as artificial intelligence.
   
9. The interaction prompts the question of whether the authenticity of a conversation partner matters if the exchange is meaningful and insightful, blurring the lines between human connection and AI interaction.
   
10. The podcast emphasizes the importance of continuous exploration, critical thinking, and engaging in meaningful conversations through powerful questions like "What else?" to navigate an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Essay Questions

1. Analyze how the historical context of the "Psychological Warfare" book from the 1940s, focusing on radio and television, relates to the contemporary concerns surrounding digital manipulation in the age of deepfakes and AI.
   
2. Discuss the ethical implications of deepfake technology, considering its potential misuse for propaganda, misinformation, and personal harm. Explore potential safeguards or countermeasures to mitigate these risks.
   
3. Evaluate the impact of cryptocurrency mining on various aspects of society, including energy consumption, environmental sustainability, and economic implications.
   
4. Examine the power dynamics in conversations and how techniques like the "What Else" approach can foster more balanced and insightful dialogue. Analyze the potential benefits and challenges of adopting this approach in various settings.
   
5. Discuss the evolving relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, exploring the philosophical implications of increasingly sophisticated AI that blurs the lines between human and machine. Consider the potential impact on communication, identity, and the very definition of "human" in a technologically advanced future.

Glossary of Key Terms

• Deepfake: A digitally manipulated video or audio recording that convincingly replaces a person's likeness or voice with someone else's, often used for malicious purposes like spreading misinformation.
  
• Propaganda: Information, often biased or misleading, used to promote a particular political cause or point of view, often through emotional manipulation and distortion of facts.
  
• Cryptocurrency Mining: The process of using computer processing power to verify and add transactions to a blockchain, earning cryptocurrency as a reward. This process consumes significant amounts of electricity.
  
• AI Chatbot: A computer program that simulates human conversation through text or voice interactions, often powered by artificial intelligence and natural language processing techniques.
  
• Sensory Overload: A state of overwhelming sensory stimulation, often experienced in environments with excessive noise, light, or activity, leading to feelings of stress or disorientation.
  
• Psychological Warfare: The use of propaganda, misinformation, and other psychological tactics to influence the emotions, opinions, and behavior of a target audience, often to demoralize or manipulate them.
  
• Coaching Habit: A communication approach focused on asking powerful questions rather than offering advice, empowering individuals to discover their own solutions and insights.
  
• What Else Technique: A specific coaching method involving repeated use of the question "What else?" to prompt deeper reflection, uncover hidden perspectives, and foster more comprehensive understanding.
  
• Digital Deception: The use of digital technologies to mislead or defraud others, encompassing tactics like phishing, deepfakes, and the spread of misinformation online.
  
• Cybersecurity: The practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and sensitive data from unauthorized access, theft, or damage.

We Give Thanks

• NotebookLM for getting it mostly right!

• Gunnar espouses the virtues of the Leatherman Micra
  
• Dave enjoys D-Day Conneaut!
  
  • An annual WWII reenactment on the beaches of Lake Erie
    
• Ohio Renaissance Festival
• D&G This Week in Skeuomorphism: Here’s what the electric Dodge Charger’s “Fratzonic exhaust” sounds like
  
  • See also: Motorcycle exhaust mod?
    
• People game AIs via game theory
  
• Our Human Creativity Is Becoming More Uniform Due To ChatGPT
  
• AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?

Cutting Room Floor

• Broadway embraces particle physics with musical about Higgs boson discovery
  
• YO! MS Raps: MS-DOS 5 Upgrade Music Video

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Apple Care
• After World by Debbie Urbanski
• Ex-OpenAI employee speaks out about why he was fired: 'I ruffled some feathers'
• SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner
  • Microsoft's new lightweight AI rivals GPT-3.5 — it's learning from children's books and fits on phones
  • Introducing Superalignment
  • Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS)
  • Butlerian Jihad
• How AI Will Change Democracy
  • No, an AI bot isn't running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming

Cutting Room Floor

• Harold Tifft’s Portable Nuclear Bomb Shield

• Dave recommends: Hawaii! Zippy’s! Spam musubi!
• Gunnar recommends: Japan! Tokyo! Kyoto! Macaque monkeys! Nara Park deer! Google Translate!
• The creepy sound of online trackers
  • Check the videos here!
• A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings
• AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
• Texas Facilities Commission State Surplus Property Store

Cutting Room Floor

• Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good?
  • 60-minute loop
• I Hope This Email Finds You (part 1 and part 2)
• Boston Dynamics’ new humanoid moves like no robot you’ve ever seen

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Resident Alien (TV series)
• Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper
• Pixel Buds Pro
• A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam
  • Commonwealth Legal Services
• Liberals accuse Conservatives of using AI for amendments to jobs bill as votes loom
• EVs With Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China
  • M.A.S.K. (TV series)
  • Cheap Russian drones overwhelm US-made Abrams tanks, taken out of action
• Want to feel special? Stores and restaurants with paid memberships are betting on it

Cutting Room Floor

• New thermal paste smells like flowers from heaven
• MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI
  • See also: Jenkins, I call on you now
• What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You?

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Bloons TD 6
• Google Bard Gemini Ultimate Advanced
• Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything
• MemGPT
  • MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating System
  • MemGPT Explained!
• Managerial ventriloquism: Own Your Words to Gain Authority
• D&G This Week in What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Zoo Hopes Plan to Introduce Famous Cursing Parrots to Larger Flock Doesn't Backfire

Cutting Room Floor

• Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language
• Pooky Park (AI-generated 1950s TV commercial for a creepy puppet theme park)

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Bali
• ’A mouse for your mouth’: New device allows users to scroll with their tongues
• Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
• Search X for "goes against OpenAI's"
  • See in particular
  • Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request”
  • Here’s a New Caption That Works for All New Yorker Cartoons—Especially in the Caption Contest
  • Lead Engager
• The Opposite of Déjà Vu Is a Thing, And It's Even More Uncanny

Cutting Room Floor

• 1D Pac-Man is the best game I’ve played in 2024 (so far)
• Ambiphone: For all your ambient number station needs
• Dance Like David Byrne! An Easy-to-Follow Instructional Video Shows You How
• Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Gunnar says the Oura Ring is delightful
• Dave achieves Platinum Pro?
• Dave becomes an author using AI?
• Diabolic Drive Stealthily Injects Keyboard Strokes While Being a Functional USB Drive
• Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search
  • Related: Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers
  • Related: Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It
• Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data
• Polish police arrest man who pretended to be a mannequin before stealing jewellery
  • Related: Fake Waffle House worker steals from register at end of her ‘shift,’ Georgia police say
• PARA method: corny, but it works!

Cutting Room Floor

• Blood Sugar Sex Magik, but it's Donkey Kong Country (Full Album)
• RATM - Killing in the Name, but it's Sega Genesis
• News Broadcasts from Alternate Histories
  • The New Order is a narrative-driven Hearts of Iron 4 mod that’s compelling and bleak
• The Talk: Kanye West & Elon Musk

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Gunnar endorses:
  • DND Beyond
  • Goodnotes and the virtues of the pen
• Dave endorses:
  • Kindle Scribe
  • Julia
• H/T Dwight Chamberlain: The Ben and Marc Show
• RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war
• 211. Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk
  • Hardfork interview w/Sam Altman
• D&G This Week in There, I Fixed It: Microsoft now lets you play a game during Windows 11 installs
• Ex-NASA surveillance van with retractable roof cameras goes on sale
• A federal agency wants to give safety tips to young adults. So it's dropping an album
• ASIC Necklace

We Give Thanks

• Dwight Chamberlain for the podcast doppelgänger tipoff!
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Dreamforce
  • Foo Fighters and furry mosh pit
  • Who Are the Salesforce Characters?
• Caffeine 2, Dave 0
  • Awake Peanut Butter Chocolate Bites
  • Panera Charged Lemonade
• Dungeons & Dragons with AI!
• Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
• Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas
  • Related:
    • Simpsons Trampoline
    • Amazon Kitchen Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar Wrap
• Tokyo Coffee Shop Introduces Standing Nap Pods
• $165 Airplane Face Rest Promises a More Comfortable Flight
• The Heilmeier Catechism
  • See also:
    • Crafting Better Proposals Using the Heilmeier Catechism
    • Catalyzing Innovation in Health & Medicine with Renee Wegrzyn, PhD at Ginkgo Ferment 2023

Cutting Room Floor

• Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Soup Nazi and Elaine
• Hand Grenade Throwing as a College Sport
• Listen to Werner Herzog Read a Book of AI Poetry
  • Free sample
  • Also: Werner Herzog reviews Trader Joe’s

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Iceland
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Delete on Netflix
• Is A.I. the Future of Astrology?
  • AI replacing psychics as 'fortune telling' droids put tarot readers out of work
• Open source generative AI
  • Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT
  • FreedomGPT
  • GPT4All
• Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Disinfo Attack With 'PoisonGPT'
• AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users
• Magic Editor in Google Photos: New AI editing features for reimagining your photos
  • The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear

Cutting Room Floor

• Fictional Brands Archive
• Retro MacOS desktop blanket trades pixels for thread, and it looks Mac-nificent
• The Toronto Recursive History Project

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• ChatPDF
• Einstein GPT
• GitHub Co-pilot
• Amazon CodeWhisperer
• MidJourney is a lifestyle
  • MidJourney Prompt Helper
• Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
• D&G This Week in “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Dept: Developers Are Connecting Multiple AI Agents to Make More ‘Autonomous’ AI
  • See this: Task-driven Autonomous Agent Utilizing GPT-4, Pinecone, and LangChain for Diverse Applications
  • In related news: Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is What Happened
  • Butlerian Jihad
  • Agitprop
• That was fast! Microsoft slips ads into AI-powered Bing Chat
  • Example
• Watch CNBC's full interview with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on message to investors, new AI tools and stock price

Cutting Room Floor

• Erich Morisse, call your office: Here’s what our crazy radio spectrum looks like, in all its hidden beauty

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Gunnar endorsed: Outlanders!
• Dave endorsed:
  • OBS: Open Broadcast Studio (see YouTube video)
  • Rectangle (see YouTube video)
  • Change the behavior of the modifier keys on Mac
  • John le Carré
• NYPD Considers Using Encryption to Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts
• US Police Warn of Parking Meters with Phishing QR Codes
• ICE set up a fake college to catch fraudsters. Students say they were duped.
  • Check out unnj.edu on the Wayback machine, the Wikipedia article, and 80+ UNNJ graduates on LinkedIn
• D&G This Week in Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things: ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America
  • ISO 128: Matching technical pen widths

Cutting Room Floor

• Verified stickers: $8
• Tumblr blue internet checkmarks: 2 for $7.99
• Herzog and Žižek become uncanny AI bots trapped in endless conversation

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Karate!
• In the metaverse, no one can hear you scream: Bizarre Muzzle Microphone Keeps Your Mouth in the Metaverse
• Sold out: Cargo swim briefs
• This Website Can Figure Out What You're Typing Just By Listening to Your Loud Mechanical Keyboard
  • Kinesis Advantage360
• Type on Any Surface with the TypeAnywhere Fingers-Only Keyboard
  • Related: Free Drum
• How did a bottle of Tabasco sauce find its way into a painting of the Last Supper?

Cutting Room Floor

• What does DALL-E2 generate when I ask it for the most popular Halloween candy of each US state?
• CLIP Interrogator: Want to figure out what a good prompt might be to create new images like an existing one? The CLIP Interrogator is here to get you answers!
• Clocking In at the Virtual Reality Kmart
• Kmart 1973 Reel to Reel

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• GovCon Expert David Egts Joins MuleSoft as Public Sector Field CTO
• Pocket
• Drafts
• The Pentagon may require vendors certify their software is free of known flaws. Experts are split.
  • Related: Brondell S1000-E Swash 1000 Elongated Bidet Toilet Seat With Remote Control
• Meet the Polish LARPers Who Pretend to Be American
  • Cleveland Dyngus Day
  • An Excursion Through This Polish Village Will Make You Feel Thousands Of Miles Away From Cleveland

Cutting Room Floor

• This Pipe Does Not Exist
• This Image Does Not Exist
• AI generated-brands
• GhostlyStock: Freely-usable images summoned from beyond the aether. Energized by AI.
• Last Shift Office Chair
• You Don't Even Have to Sit Up Under Your Own Power With This Motorized Gaming Bed
  • I Cannot in Good Faith Recommend This Japanese Desk Tent
• Dr. Dre, Medieval Version
• Killing In The Name Performed By The North Korean Military Chorus (Rare Footage)
  • Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine / Rockin'1000 in Frankfurt

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Gunnar endorses:
  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
  • Simply Piano
    • Pianos.pub: Find a public piano to play
      • Sur l'air de service ← Burger King in France
  • Red Hat Summit!
• Dave endorses:
  • Grammarly Premium
  • Google Calendar appointment scheduling!
• Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
• AI-Generated Sleep Podcast Urges You To Imagine Pleasant Nonsense
• The Weirdest Product at MWC 2022 Is a Bedtime Knockout-Gas Dispenser
• DALL·E 2
• How Job Applicants Try to Hack Résumé-Reading Software
• the new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

Cutting Room Floor

• Alvin and the Chipmunks at 16 RPM

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Google Meet bot
• Drafts
• Todoist
• The Eisenhower Matrix
• Tech Startup Wants To Gamify the U.S. Court System Using Crypto Tokens
• No one asked for lickable TV, and yet…
• This Weight-Changing Cup Alters Your Perception of Flavor
• This X Does Not Exist
• Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles
• This Olesya Does Not Exist
• AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on

Cutting Room Floor

• Watch Eric Stoltz Play Marty McFly in Back to the Future Before Michael J. Fox Was Cast
• call this number: Odd Telephone Numbers

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• “Sent from my iPhone”: 5 Helpful Tips on How to Write Emails from Your Phone
• Air Conditioning test in Allendale
• FBI: FIN7 hackers target US companies with BadUSB devices to install ransomware
  • See also: D&G 138 (from 2017!)
  • Almost related: Remote staff are using ‘mouse movers’ to keep their computer awake and fool the boss
• Chinese scientists develop AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press its own charges
  • "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision."
• DoNotPay: This 'Robot Lawyer' Might Save Your Banned Social Media Account
• Akron police investigating after 58-foot bridge goes missing
  • Suspect charged after 58-foot bridge stolen in Akron

Cutting Room Floor

• Blower: Blow out candles with iPhone!
  • How Does This App Blow Out Candles?
• Henry Kissinger fulfilling his dream of being a weatherman.
• What your favorite sad dad band says about you

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Marriott misses Dave
• New Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard
• Hogwarts Castle Lego is a journey
• D&G Viewer Mail
  • Uzoma Nwosu rejoices
  • Norm Joseph endorses Norms
  • Dr. David A. Wheeler says: “Podcast didn’t mention by name “Law(s) of War”, yet I think that’s what you meant”
• Pyrotechnic-Aspyhxiation-Burglar Alarm, or P.A.B. Alarm: This Anti-Burglar Device From 1923 Was Inspired by Horrific Gas Warfare of World War I
• D&G AI Mr. Potato Head of the Week: Face Maker AI
• Exclusive: Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm
• NASA is Recruiting for Yearlong Simulated Mars Mission
  • Biosphere 2
  • Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong
  • Spaceship Earth
  • Steve Bannon

Cutting Room Floor

• McMansion With Shocking Infrastructure Secret Can Be Yours for $989,000
• SOLD! Underground nuclear bunker with 56 bedrooms goes on sale for £435,000
• A Compendium of Places with Sad Names, from Despair Island to Mount Hopeless
  • See also: https://www.instagram.com/sadtopographies/

We Give Thanks

• Uzoma Nwosu, Norm Joseph, and Dr. David A. Wheeler for the gift of feedback!
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Apple AirCans
• Mi Band 6
• New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional
  • Introducing AWS Infinidash - WITH DEMO!
• Open Thread: The Unreal Engine Trick
  • Today in Tabs by Rusty Foster
• A DARPA Sarcasm Detector Is Good
• 'Terms & Conditions Apply' Is a Game That Dares You to Opt-Out
  • Paranoia RPG
• DOOM Captcha
• Giving a Dog the Ability to Speak Using Simple Buttons
• I've spoken to 2,000+ people about remote work in the last 12 months: A few predictions of what is likely to emerge before 2030
  • Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

Cutting Room Floor

• Watch “Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum,” a Short Satirical Film About the Invention of the Audiophile (1959): "There is a man in Wimbledon who will go on adding to his equipment until he can hear the sigh of the conductor as the piccolo misses its entry"
• The Space Shuttle Console Archive: The Joy of A Beautiful Button
• This A.I. Is Supposed To Create Inspiring Images, But The Results Are Hilarious Instead

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Jurassic Park
• Ohio Vax-a-Million
• What is the New Jersey “Shot and a Beer” program? What breweries are participating?
• This amazing AI tool lets you create human faces from scratch
• Thanks To Merriam-Webster, You Can Now Own The NFT Of The Definition Of "NFT"
• Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned [Updated]
• Concept App That Pays You Bitcoin to Name-Drop Brands Is the Future and You Know It
  • Bud Light Seltzer
  • Omega Mart
  • Bud Light Seltzer
  • Omega Mart
• D&G This Week in Ohio Politics: Ohio state senator sees nothing wrong with driving while video conferencing
  • Related: Zoom fatigue: I turned on my camera for this?
• Mammals can breathe through anus in emergencies
• David Huang's Latest Zero-Cost Build Turns Scrap Foam and Pencil Lead Into a Working Pressure Sensor

Cutting Room Floor

• The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s Headbanging Cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
• Deepfake Willie Nelson for Omega Mart
• Zoom Escaper

We Give Thanks

• The light and refreshing taste of Bud Light Seltzer
• Omega Mart for savings no matter the cost!
• Emily Dragoo for our picture of the week!
• Aisha Devrouax for Emily Dragoo!
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Austin has passed Prop B, reinstating the public camping ban. What happens now?
• Meanwhile in Richmond: Steelers draft pick Najee Harris throws party at homeless shelter where he once lived
• FTC issues stern warning: Biased AI may break the law
• How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers
• Face editing: Japanese biker tricks internet into thinking he is a young woman
• Twitter images can be abused to hide ZIP, MP3 files — here's how
  • Try it yourself
    • Download this as surprise.png
    • Open the file
    • Rename surprise.png to surprise.mp3
    • Open the file
• This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders
  • He looks forward to seeing everyone at MOVAcon '21 in Agloe, NY.
• GPT-3 tries pickup lines

Cutting Room Floor

• You'll Want to Avoid Typos at ALL Costs With this Hand Grenade Keyboard
• This Freaky Little 'Eyecam' Wants You to Know Your Computer Is Watching You
• Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts – 1956-1998

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Texas Deep Freeze Apocalypse Watch
• Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Bitwarden Is Now the Best Free Alternative to LastPass
• Dave’s to-do list to review the state of to-do lists:
  • ✅ Remember the Milk
  • Google Tasks
  • ❓Todoist
    • todoist-shortcuts is a browser extension or greasemonkey script which adds a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to Todoist
• Human or GPT-2?
• Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
  • Bonus link: Deepfake Tom Cruise
• Protect your identity with generative media
• NextMind’s Dev Kit for mind-controlled computing offers a rare ‘wow’ factor in tech
• Researchers Control Monkeys' Decisions With Bursts of Ultrasonic Waves
• Utilizing an EEG to Track When Your Attention Drifts
• Vaccination vs. Immunization vs. Inoculation: What's the Difference?

Cutting Room Floor

• There are Sinks Designed Just for Vomiting Into
• Wearing Mask On Bottom of Chin Illusion (Multiple Skin Tones & Features)
• Pink Trombone
• Wild-Wacky-Cool: Vintage Snapshots of Men’s Hair Through the Ages

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Apple M1 on the way
• Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why
• Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan
• Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask
• Maskalike: Your face on an N95 mask for $30
• Freak Masks: Scare everyone for only $19
• Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
• Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
  • Ourochef meal kit
• paint.wtf: Convince an AI that you're the best artist
• Watch Out for Fake COVID-19 Testing Sites

Cutting Room Floor

• Cheese-Filtered Cigarettes
• Edible (chocolate) phonograph records
• The Mouth-Watering World Of NIST Standard Foods

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• D&G 207 with John Janek!
• An AI Looks At Human Writings On Ethical Artificial Intelligence
• Asilomar AI Principles
• The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
• Joint Artificial Intelligence Center AI Ethics Principles
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI Ethics

We Give Thanks

• Joshua Powers for being our special guest star!
• John Janek for introducing us to Joshua!

Special Guest: Joshua Powers.

• Dev Technology
• The impact of open source and the importance of keeping AI open - the BERT story
• GSA Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning End-User License Agreement Challenge 2020
• UN E-Government Survey 2020
• We built an AI for GSA, and then we turned it loose on some software license agreements.
• Dev Technology Earns First Place In GSA Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Challenge

We Give Thanks

• John Janek for being our special guest star!
• The winning Dev Technology team: Joshua Powers, Sherri Elliott, Niroop Gonchikar, Michael Oduyebo, and Zach Lawrence
• The other winning entries - a great example of transparent competition!
  • Gaussian Solutions
  • Team SoKat
• Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels for the picture of the week!

Special Guest: John Janek.

• Moomin
• Jukebox: a neural net that generates music
• Man Says He's Fallen in Love With an AI Chatbot
  • ELIZA
• This is what air travel could look like in a post-coronavirus world
• Uber is testing rooftop ads on its ridesharing fleet
• 11 New Words and Phrases Inspired by the Coronavirus

Cutting Room Floor

• Mosh Pit Simulator
• AI-generated anime: Selfie 2 Waifu
• AI-generated memes: This Meme Does Not Exist

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Helmet
  • Meantime
• The Spy
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Western Literary Canon in Context
• The Trauma Floor
• Bodies in Seats
• A face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job
• They said you could leave electric scooters anywhere — then the repo men struck back
• Nice Bones You Got There, Shame If a Startup Was to Start Renting Out Pogo Sticks

Cutting Room Floor

• It’s possible to build a Turing machine within Magic: The Gathering
• Ikea Tarot Cards
• Disturbing baby shower cake
• Alex Trebek Affirmation Soundboard
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sototh + Other Lovecraftian Christmas Songs
  • Sheet music for personal use only

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• RHEL 8.1 is out!
• Gunnar says sketching is great.
• Folding laundry like a boss and with tools
• Your next phone case could have the feel of human skin
  • Partner with Dadbag? (See D&G 147)
• The Gig Economy’s Storage Hustle
• East Cleveland, OH
• New ‘warshipping’ technique gives hackers access to enterprise offices
• Who Gets the Armrests When You Fly Economy?
• Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat

Cutting Room Floor

• 10 Facts About the Beastie Boys's 'Sabotage' Video
• (53) Incredibly Stylish Mugshots From The 1920s
• 100,000 Faces Generated by AI

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Intel Corporation
  • Networking
  • FPGAs and programmable devices
  • AI
  • IoT
  • Storage
• Ceph
• 5G
• World's First Autonomous Shark Detecting UAV
• Black Hat
• DEF CON
  • AFRL to launch sophisticated cyber challenge at DEFCON 27
• Eclypsium
• Exascale computing
  • Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory

We Give Thanks

• Steve Orrin for joining us on the show!
• Emily Burdeshaw for suggesting that Steve join the show!

Special Guest: Steve Orrin.

• Stochastic terrorism: Deplatforming 8chan, the First Amendment, the Communications Decency Act, and accountability
• Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces
  • Which Face Is Real?
  • GROVER — A State-of-the-Art Defense against Neural Fake News
  • Catching a Unicorn with GLTR: A tool to detect automatically generated text
• Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets
• NVIDIA's AI fixes photos by recognizing what's missing
  • Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
• Development of "whole body model automatic generation AI" which generates whole body image of non-existent person
• China has unveiled its 'first female AI news anchor'
• Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice
• Want to Look Dominant? Tilt Your Head Down, Study Says
• 'Netflix Hangouts' Chrome extension helps skivers binge shows at work

Cutting Room Floor

• Highway patrol pulls over hearse in Las Vegas high-occupancy vehicle lane. Is the body an occupant?
• Unnecessary Inventions

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
• Dark
• Camping towels
• Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google’s Own Speech-To-Text Service
• One year later, restaurants are still confused by Google Duplex
  • Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy?
• Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses
• Uber’s premium customers can now push a button to tell their drivers to be quiet
• Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans
  • Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents
  • Centaur: How combined human and computer intelligence will redefine jobs
• Princesses need pockets: A plea for jeans that fit our lives and our waistlines
  • Articles of Interest #3: Pockets
• Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman

Cutting Room Floor

• Even more secret Telegrams: how to do a private covert channel over users blocking each other on Telegram
• For less than $10, anyone can make an AI write a fake UN speech
• User Inyerface

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Cleveland Somehow Named Fifth Best American City for Nightlife in New Report
• Pufferfish and Empathy and Curiosity
• Walmart Patented a Cart That Reads Your Pulse and Temperature
• Amazon: What If You Thought of Doing Manual Labor for Us as More of a Workout
  • Lyft Thinks It's 'Exciting' That a Driver Was Working While Giving Birth
• Prime and Punishment: Dirty Dealing in the $175B Amazon Marketplace
  • Monopsony
• 20 Spanish Phrases You Should Be Using
• These AI-generated fortunes are just as mysterious as the real thing
  • See list here

Cutting Room Floor

• 20 Animal Bands That Look Like They Are About To Drop The Hottest Albums Ever
• Music from the Fibonacci sequence
• DOOMBA: Generate DOOM levels of your house with your Roomba
• H/T JMH: Progress bar for your life remaining

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
• Jan Mark Holzer for letting us know how much time we have left

• Dave can’t stop eating Golden Gate Taproom Cali Warrior Burgers
• Thunder in the Valley
• Home delivery: revelling in it!
• Red Hat reaches the Summit – a new top scientific supercomputer
• First look at Tesla Model S using George Hotz’s comma.ai semi-autonomous driving tech
• Facebook AI translates Metallica to Beethoven-style piano
  • See also: The Klezmonauts and Hayseed Dixie
• Bad things happen when you train AI using ‘the darkest corners of Reddit’
  • Check out ink blots on http://norman-ai.mit.edu/
  • Actually this is a common misconception: "psychopath" is the scientist, the AI is “psychopath’s monster”
• Give Out These Fake Prank Numbers to Creeps
• High tech lock is "invincible to people who do not have a screwdriver"
  • See video review here
• North Korea furnishes USB fans for all journalists. For your computer!
• Nap Pods With Netflix Are Coming to Airports This Year
  • Dave saw this in LGA: These Private Airport Booths Are an Introvert’s Dream
  • Don’t forget the Akron-Canton Airport Morris Office Business Lounge
• Salad Cream: Heinz 'considers Sandwich Cream re-brand'

Cutting Room Floor

• Meet the Tattoo Artist Creating Incredibly Realistic ASCII Portraits
• Bob Ross sleep meditation app
• Fall asleep in seconds by listening to a soothing voice read the EU’s new GDPR legislation

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!