• Meet Mona, the AI Who Runs a Stockholm Coffee Shop by Camille Tuutti
  
  • By Andon Labs (see D&G #278!)
    
• Meanwhile: Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
  
  • Lemonade Stand
    
• Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
  
• Camille asks Vivienne Ming about brain atrophy
  
• I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall.
  
• College instructor goes viral for catching students' AI use on midterm
  
• To Ben Lamm, extinction is just an engineering problem

We Give Thanks

• Camille Tuutti for being our special guest star!

Special Guest: Camille Tuutti.

• 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?