• 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

• 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)

• Agentic Google App Scripts
  
• Fake Music!
  
  • Iron Man ( Soul/Funk) Version 2
    
  • Don't You (Forget About Me) ( Soul)
  • See also: The Klezmonauts -- Oy to the World: A Klezmer Christmas
• Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data
  
• China foes get worse results using DeepSeek, research suggests — CrowdStrike finds nearly twice as many flaws in AI-generated code for IS, Falun Gong, Tibet, and Taiwan
  
• AVIF: The Avian Image Format

Cutting Room Floor

• I made headphones with integrated CD player, remote control, battery, disc storage, and jewel box compartment
  
• Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL
  
• Phishy URL: Are your links not malicious looking enough?
  
  • See also: https://pc-helper.xyz/adware-bot/ransomware_launcher_tool.exe?attachment=overwrite&firewall=exploit&id=c280
    
• URL Lengthener
  
  • See also: https://www.namitjain.com/tools/url-lengthener/r/🔥/the/😵‍💫/going/mega?data=aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZkZ3Nob3cub3JnJTJG

• Cursor and Claude Code: PARA Auditor, Let Me AI That for You, Botany Battle. Abundance!
  
  • “You won’t lose your job to a tractor, but to a horse who learns to drive a tractor”
    
• Star Wars - Return of the 80s Miami (Parody Music Video)
  
• These 5G Protection Sticker Ads Are Hilarious
  
• ‘E-tattoo’ could track mental workload for people in high-stake jobs, study says
  
• Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
  
• I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory dossier
  
  • Seinfeld: Worlds Are Colliding!
    
  • Meanwhile: New judge’s ruling makes OpenAI keeping a record of all your ChatGPT chats one step closer to reality

Cutting Room Floor

• The Backdooms: Running DOOM on a QR Code
  
• Texan, Trapped in a William Faulkner Novel, Contemplates Energy Bill
  
• Need to relax? The Internet Archive is livestreaming microfiche scans to a lo-fi beats soundtrack

• Paperlike Screen Protector
  
• Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds
  
• Hydrogels can learn to play Pong
  
  • Lavarand
    
• Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets
  
  • How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
    
  • XKCD Exploits of a Mom with Little Johnny Tables
    
  • Grandmother gets hundreds of false tickets due to Star Trek vanity plates
    
  • $14 on Amazon

Cutting Room Floor

• I'd Rather Be Sick Than Eat Progresso Soup Drops Ever Again
  
• Running Doom On An Apple Lightning To HDMI Adapter

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks!

• Kobo Clara Color
  
• Libby
  
• Paperlike Screen Protector and Bumper Case
  
• Kindle Scribe
  
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
  
• Good-Bye to All That
  
• Kindle Unlimited
  
• Ghost Fleet
  
• D&G This Week in Mask Technology: Full-Face Masks to Frustrate Identification
  
• How a digital ‘you’ can sit through your agonizing web conference calls
  
  • Infinite Jest
    
• D&G This Week in Fluorescent Vests: Police flag Pittsburgh man for Steelers parking lot scam
  
  • Speaking of fluorescent vests: NYC Wants You to Stop Taking Traffic Cam Selfies, But Here's How to Do It Anyway
    
• This USB-C mouthpiece turns your phone into a musical instrument
  
  • Zamfir
    
• Licking this “lollipop” will let you taste virtual flavors
  
• Scratch And Sniff Stickers And The Gas Panic Of ’87
  
  • Order yours today: T!E Natural Gas Mercaptan Scratch and Sniff Stickers (Set of 30)

Cutting Room Floor

• Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics
  
• The Commodordion Gets A Big Usability Upgrade
  
• Tetris packed inside a PDF file to run in any PC browser — Pdftris runs from a 60KB PDF
  
• They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
  
• Protect Your Site With A DOOM Captcha
  
• Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator

• Drafts!
• From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals
  • See also: D&G 43 -- Goldfish driving a robot car -- Feb 2014!
• Rats in Doom VR
• Remote Control Cockroach
• Ingenious new search and rescue drone finds people by listening for screams
• I, Libertine by Frederick R. Ewing
  • Jean Shepherd
• Non-Fungible Olive Gardens

Cutting Room Floor

• Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds!
• CRIME SKELETON!

We Give Thanks

• 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!