• Warhammer 40,000: “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”
  
• Birds Aren’t Real
  
• Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students
  
• Introducing Markdown for Agents
  
  • Counterpoint: Why the heck are we still using Markdown??
    
  • caveman: why use many token when few do trick
    
  • See also: Classical Chinese
    
• Dark Software Factories
  
  • The 5 Levels of AI Coding (Why Most of You Won't Make It Past Level 2) by Nate B. Jones
    
  • StrongDM Software Factory: Software Factories And The Agentic Moment
    
  • The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory by Dan Shapiro
    
  • Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman
    
  • I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall. by Nate B. Jones

Cutting Room Floor

• Interactive XKCD Dependency comic
  
• A Unique Property For Sale In Pennsylvania
  
• Luxurious Home in a Decommissioned Grain Elevator

• Gunnar on abundance in D&G 273
  
• Welcome Mike!
  
• Gemini Gems
  
• The Day Open Source Realized Code Doesn’t Matter Anymore
  
• Fedora
  
• Fedora Infrastructure Project
  
• tmux
  
• screen

We Give Thanks

• Mike McGrath for being our special guest star!

Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

• 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)

Key Takeaways (The Correct Perspective):

• The concept of an 'AI bubble' is a persistent, troubling rumor. It is heresy.
  
• Nvidia's valuation is not speculation; it is the correct price for the tools that build order.
  
• The true return on investment for General AI is not measured in commerce or email-writing, but in compliance.
  
• The massive power consumption and centralization of the technology are not a bug, but a feature—it ensures only the Party can wield true AI.
  
• The true 'killer app' of AI is the ability to rewrite the past perfectly and instantly, changing not just the record, but the memory.
  
• A bubble is fragile. This new architecture of control is not a bubble, but the AI reality.
  
• The numbers are meaningless. The only thing that matters is the fullness and the order.

Further Re-education:

• All corrected notes and the transcript that has now always been true can be found at dgshow.org.

We Give Thanks

• Big Brother
  
• O’Brien and Winston Smith for filling in for us!

• 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?

• What is new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0: “The most significant security update is the transition from AppArmor to SELinux as the default Mandatory Access Control (MAC) framework.”
  
• Bootc
  
• Dan Walsh Red Hat Obituary
  
• SELinux
  
• Dan’s Russian Blog
  
• Cursor
  
• Podman In Action
  
• RamaLama
  
• vLLM
  
• Llama.cpp
  
• Red Hat Lightspeed
  
• Multimodal learning
  
• SELinux Coloring Book
  
• “Not for Sharing, Kindergarten fan club”

We Give Thanks

• Dan Walsh for being our special guest star!

Special Guest: Dan Walsh.

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.

• 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

Follow Up

• Duperheroes!
  
• I Previewed These Emotion-Tracking Smart Glasses, and They Seem Weirdly Useful
  
• Someone Built an Ad Blocker for Real Life, and I Can't Wait to Try It
  
• 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
  
• Someone trapped an LLM on inferior hardware and infused it with existential dread for the sake of art, and it's terrifying
  
  • Guggenheim: Can’t Help Myself

Cutting Room Floor

• Photographs From Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition – 1910-1912
  
• The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games features The Giant Turnip, based on an old Russian folklore tale. Players are scored on how far they can pull the lever out of the machine.

• 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

• Gunnar builds a Gemini-powered virtual team: It's all about perspective.
  
• Farewell Pocket, hello Wallabag or Instapaper?
  
• Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
  
  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
    
• Fake Passport Generated by ChatGPT Bypasses Security
  
• An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos.
  
  • The Simpsons: I know a genuine Magnetbox, Panaphonic, & Sorny when I see one.
    
• The Commodore 64’s Forgotten CD-ROM
  
• Google's Co-Founder Says AI Performs Best When You Threaten It
  
• Erich Morisse asks: What If We’re Mean To AI and It's Faster?

Cutting Room Floor

• The Business Cards of American Psycho
  
• Alarm App Demands You Watch Advertisement to Hit "Snooze" Button
  
• Influenders
  
• Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town

Character Card: Dave Egts, the Tech Conduit

• Class: Information Broker/Wandering Scholar
  
• Level: 10 (Represents seasoned experience in gathering and disseminating information)
  
• Key Stats:
  
  • Intelligence: 14 (Keen interest in technology and current events)
    
  • Wisdom: 13 (Experienced in presenting information and guiding discussions)
    
  • Charisma: 15 (Engaging host, able to connect with listeners and Gunnar)
    
  • Dexterity: 11 (Likely adept at navigating digital interfaces)
    
  • Constitution: 10 (Average resilience)
    
  • Strength: 9 (Less emphasis on physical prowess)
    
• Skills:
  
  • Information Gathering: +4 (Constantly bringing up news and interesting links)
    
  • Persuasion: +5 (Convincing in his role as host)
    
  • Technology Lore: +4 (Knowledgeable about various technologies, especially AI)
    
  • Networking: +3 (Maintains connections, has an intern)
    
  • Podcastcasting: +5 (Years of experience hosting the "Dave and Gunnar Show")
    
• Equipment/Tools:
  
  • The Scroll of Cutting Room Findings: A collection of intriguing and often bizarre information snippets.
    
  • The Referral Link Amulet: Grants minor luck when promoting digital services.
    
  • The Microphone of Amplification: Enhances his voice and presence.
    
• Special Abilities:
  
  • Rapid Link Retrieval: Can quickly recall and share relevant information from his vast mental archives.
    
  • Interruption Evasion: Skilled at navigating conversational tangents and bringing the focus back.
    
  • Beard of Minor Intimidation: Once grew a beard that reportedly scared children. (Grants a +1 to Intimidation checks, but only when visibly bearded).
    

Character Card: Gunnar Hellekson, the Organized Sage

• Class: Productivity Master/Lorekeeper
  
• Level: 10 (Represents deep knowledge and refined organizational skills)
  
• Key Stats:
  
  • Intelligence: 15 (Deeply analytical and knowledgeable in various subjects)
    
  • Wisdom: 14 (Offers insightful perspectives and well-reasoned opinions)
    
  • Charisma: 12 (Engaging in discussions, though sometimes focused on his own systems)
    
  • Dexterity: 12 (Likely efficient with digital tools and interfaces)
    
  • Constitution: 11 (Average resilience)
    
  • Strength: 8 (Less emphasis on physical pursuits)
    
• Skills:
  
  • Organization: +6 (Master of Todoist and the PARA method)
    
  • Lore (Technology): +4 (Extensive knowledge of tech trends and concepts)
    
  • Lore (Games): +4 (Passionate about Dungeons & Dragons and video games like Fallout)
    
  • Insight: +4 (Able to identify underlying issues and biases)
    
  • Digital Note-Taking: +3 (Proficient with InstaPaper)
    
• Equipment/Tools:
  
  • The Immaculate Todoist Ledger: A constantly updated record of tasks, goals, and accountabilities.
    
  • The InstaPaper Tome of Summaries: Contains AI-generated summaries of vast amounts of information.
    
  • The D&D Dice of Fate: Used for both entertainment and occasional insightful pronouncements.
    
• Special Abilities:
  
  • Systematic Efficiency: Can optimize tasks and processes for maximum productivity.
    
  • Lore Recall: Able to access detailed knowledge on a wide range of topics, especially related to technology and games.
    
  • Twitter Banishing Aura: Once permanently deleted his Twitter account, creating a zone of social media detachment around him.
    
  • PARA Method Mastery: Can impose order on chaotic situations with a well-defined system.

We Give Thanks

• Erich Morisse for having us think about AI kindness!

• Moen’s lifetime warranty
  
• Gemini multimodal!
• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  
  • Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
    
• Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
  
• D&G Blade Runner Home Edition: Human or Not?
  
• How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit
  
• Emergent Misalignment: Researchers trained AI models to write flawed code—and they began supporting the Nazis and advocating for AI to enslave humans

Cutting Room Floor

• Stunting with Reinforcement Learning
  
• There’s a Vape With a Tamagotchi Inside It That Dies If You Stop Puffing
  
• A Two-Player Arcade Machine in a Briefcase

• 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

• 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

• Gunnar enjoyed The Magnetic Fields!
  
• Lauren bought a new car!
  
• Dave bought a new TV!
  
• Gunnar enjoyed Call of Duty Mobile!
  
• EcoFlow Power Hat
  
• Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine
  
  • See also: Slim Goodbody
    
• Make It Stick
  
  • Writing advice: Keep the bear, and just the bear

Cutting Room Floor

• A Chip Off the Old Rug: Ken Shirriff Finds a Pentium Processor Hiding in a Navajo Weaving
  
• Here’s What ChatGPT Sounds Like When It Screams

• Compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666 from episode 261
  
• The European Patroleum Survey Group
  
• what3words
  
• Google Plus Codes
  
• Cardinal direction
  
• 5 of the World’s Most Interesting Directional Systems
  
• OpenStreetMap
  
• Overture Maps Foundation
  
• Prithvi WxC: NASA and IBM’s AI Foundation Model for Weather and Climate
  
• Universal basic income
  
• OSI getting “Open Source AI” really wrong
  
• Shōgun
  
• Epistemic closure
  
• Tobler's first law of geography
  
• Hoop Dreams
  
• Synthetic data
  
• IBM InstructLab
  
• Deep learning fine-tuning
  
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

We Give Thanks

• Steven Pousty for being our special guest star!

Special Guest: Steven Pousty.

• 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.

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?"

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• NotebookLM for getting it mostly right!

• Imagine Dragons in Houston at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion
  
• Psychological Warfare by Paul M.A. Linebarger
  
• Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
  
• War Day by Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka
  
• RHEL AI released!
  
• Cryptominers made $100,000 from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks — the guests ran up a $1,500 electricity bill
  
• Deep-Live-Cam goes viral, allowing anyone to become a digital doppelganger
  
• The Coaching Habit
  
  • The Coaching Habit: Comprehensive Chapter Wise Summary
    
  • Dave practiced with Gemini Live and Gemini Gems
    
  • Sequel: The Advice Trap audiobook featuring Feyzi Fatehi!

Cutting Room Floor

• Erich Morisse, call your office: Traffic Cam Photobooth

We Give Thanks

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

• 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!

• Gunnar explores the neighborhoood with iNaturalist and Seek
  
  • Black-bellied whistling duck
    
• Dave saw 7 bands over 7 days
  
  • The Hives
    
  • Hate to Say I Told You So
    
  • Foo Fighters
    
  • Steve Miller Band (80!)
    
  • Journey
    
  • Def Leppard (64!)
    
  • Loverboy
    
  • Sammy Hagar (76!)
    
• Yuengling brewery tour
  
• Qudi Mask 2
  
  • Watch this
    
• Steven Pousty, call your office: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
  
  • British Standards by BSI (British Standards Institution) Group
    
  • Updating the national standard on how to compile a reliable gazetteer
    
  • PACER and Aaron Swartz
    
  • Related from Xkcd: Exploits of a Mom with Little Johnny Tables

Cutting Room Floor

• Gunnar Hellekson, call your office: Holy Keyboard Case, Batman!
  
• C Compiler Exists Entirely in Vim

We Give Thanks

• Steven Pousty for inspiring us to channel our inner Steven Pousty!
  
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Apple Watch
• Oura Ring
• Xiaomi Smart Band 8
• Appeals court rules students can sue U.S. over fake university set up by ICE
  • University of Farmington
  • University of Farmington on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip
• The Age of the Drone Police Is Here
  • Gorgon Stare

Cutting Room Floor

• Strange and Wonderful Illustrations from Vintage Science Books
• The World of the Future: Future Cities (Usborne, 1979)

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!

• Fallout
• Dave endorses Pixel Buds Pro
• Dave can’t endorse Google Gemini Advanced
  • Laudato Si, paragraph 107
• HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges
• These 'Psychedelic Cryptography' Videos Have Hidden Messages Designed to Be Seen While Tripping
• Too Drunk to Drive? Forget Ubers, Take a Basket Man Instead

Cutting Room Floor

• Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet
• This Guy Made a Dating App Where You Can Only Date Him
• Reggaeton Be Gone

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!

Key Topics

[02:17] Starting the Dave & Gunnar Show
[04:14] Dave's Role At Salesforce
[05:18] What's Scaring the Public Sector Most?
[10:22] Ways Agencies are Attracting Talent
[13:56] How Agencies Are Handling Legacy Systems
[15:45] What MuleSoft Does & Generative AI's Role
[22:44] Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer
[29:21] PoisonGPT
[36:07] Brain Organoids & Other Spooky, Ethically Questionable Experiments
[42:15] Tech Talk Questions: Halloween Edition

Quotable Quotes

Considerations for the Public Sector While Using AI: "As you're going on your AI journey, you've got to be looking at the EULA [End User License Agreement] and making sure that, okay, if I give you data, what are you going to do with it?"

On Bias & Disinformation in Generative AI: "There were some previous studies that show that people are more likely to go with the generative AI results if they trust the company and they trust the model. So it's like, 'Oh, it came from Google, so how can that be wrong?' Or 'I'm trusting the brand,' or 'I'm trusting the model.'"

Dave & Gunnar Show Episodes
Episode 165 - If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it
Episode 185 - In Your Brain, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
Episode 227 - Meetings and Punishment
Episodes 248 & 249 - Stay tuned to the Dave & Gunnar Show for these episodes to go live

Additional Links
Minority Report
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Flowers For Algernon

We Give Thanks

• Carolyn Ford for inviting Dave to Tech Transforms!

Special Guest: Carolyn Ford.

• Grammarly
• Pocket
• Feedly
• Blogtrottr
• Slack
• Remember the Milk
• Todoist
• Drafts
• DayOne
• 1Password
• Bitwarden
• uBlock Origin
• Video Speed Controller
• GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800)
• Chromebooks
• Thermoworks Thermapens
• Radbike Radrunner 2
• Yamaha MT/FZ-09
• Anything from Tom Bihn
• Raspberry Pi 5 (coming soon!)
• Scratch
  • The Great Guinea Pig Escape
• Turing Tumble and Spintronics

We Give Thanks

• Carolyn Ford for the topic idea and being a D&G superfan!
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
• The D&G audience for spending your time with us through the years!

• 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!

Cutting Room Floor

• Mr. Hellekson, call your office
  • Dune in the Style of H.R. Giger
  • Star Wars by Wes Anderson Trailer | The Galactic Menagerie
  • Want to Pretend You’re In a Wes Anderson Film? These Airbnbs Are the Ticket
• 7 of the Weirdest AI-Generated Commercials...So Far
• Palate cleansers
  • God only knows versión Beatle [IA]
    • Original, non-AI version: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (Official Music Video)
  • Robot Puppet Sings "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton
    • Original, non-robot version: Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles

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!

• Sherwood Forest Faire in Austin, TX
• Marriott does MFA wrong
• iOS 16.4 brings Voice Isolation for cellular calls, here’s how to enable it
• Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face
• Chinese startup invents long-distance kissing machine
• Remembering When Cocktails Were Just Soup: Try the chicken soup martini!
• Boost Your Productivity With the Zeigarnik Effect

Cutting Room Floor

• Mr Trololo A.I. Upscale: Eduard Khil as never seen before [HD]
• Man uses AI to generate 'selfies' taken with historical figures like Jesus and Cleopatra
• AI Will Smith Eating Spaghetti Hill Haunt You For the Rest of Your Life
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger 1989 - 91 Nissin Cup Noodle Commercials

We Give Thanks

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

• Gunnar’s Todoist breakthrough
• Dave endorsed: GL.iNet Flint (GL-AX1800)
• ChatGPT
• Mastodon
  • RSS
  • ActivityPub
    • PeerTube
    • Pixelfed
    • Friendica
  • mastodon.social invite from Dave
  • This is why we can’t have nice things
    • Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
    • Moa Party: No bamboozle
• Spotify podcasters are making $18,000 a month with nothing but white noise
• The Rise of the 15-Minute Meeting

Cutting Room Floor

• Doctor Gustaf Zander’s Steam-Powered Exercise Machines
• Hipster Ipsum
  • DeLorean Ipsum Text Generator

We Give Thanks

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