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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 248: Get the Most Out of Your Memories

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.

    • 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!
                • 35 min
              • Episode 247: Full Jacob's Ladder
                • Grammarly includes AI assistant!
                • Warp terminal?
                  • Ansible Lightspeed
                  • Google will add End-to-End encryption to Google Authenticator
                  • DebateDevil
                  • chirper.ai: Social Network for AI. No humans allowed.
                  • First, they came for the fortune cookie writers
                    • AI Is Coming for Your Fortune Cookies
                    • Radio station gets part-time AI DJ based on its midday host
                    • Sources: All AAA parks to use electronic strike zone in '23
                    • Your favorite new chatbot jailbreak is the ‘grandma exploit.’
                      • Jailbreak Chat

                        • 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!
                                    • 53 min
                                  • Episode 246: AI-Generated Agitprop

                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about GPT inception, GPT automation, GPT ad experience optimization, and Andy Jassey’s interviewee skills

                                    • 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!
                                                • 41 min
                                              • Episode 245: Giant Asthma Inhaler with a Mouth

                                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about questionable USB drives, questionable long-distance kissing machines, questionable cocktails, and answers with the Zeigarnik effect

                                                • 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!
                                                        • 25 min
                                                      • Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible

                                                        This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks

                                                        • Gunnar endorsed: time blocking
                                                        • Perplexity AI: generative AI with citations!
                                                        • Edible NDAs: The need for a Non-Disclosure Agreement used to be a hard pill to swallow. Not anymore.
                                                        • Drinkers needed to help deputies with field sobriety training
                                                        • U.S. Marines Outsmart AI Security Cameras by Hiding in a Cardboard Box
                                                        • Fake Name Generator — check the email address link too!

                                                          • Cutting Room Floor

                                                          • Ice Ice MATRIX featuring the cast of the Matrix and Wilford Brimley!
                                                          • Lynyrd Skynyrd's “Freebird” on Bagpipes

                                                            • We Give Thanks

                                                            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                              • 29 min
                                                            • Episode 243: No Bamboozle

                                                              This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)!

                                                              • 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!
                                                                            • 39 min
                                                                          • Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats

                                                                            This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216!

                                                                            • 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!
                                                                                        • 35 min
                                                                                      • Episode 241: Apple-Inspired Feedbag

                                                                                        This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce!

                                                                                        • 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!
                                                                                                  • 26 min
                                                                                                • Episode 240: It's not just a good idea, it's the law

                                                                                                  This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs!

                                                                                                  • 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!
                                                                                                                • 30 min
                                                                                                              • Episode 239: The Bottom Turtle

                                                                                                                This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell about his new book, Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud!

                                                                                                                • Check out Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum on episode 237!
                                                                                                                • Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud by Mike Bursell
                                                                                                                • Profian
                                                                                                                • Defcon
                                                                                                                • Blockchain
                                                                                                                • Zero Trust: Poorly named? Would Explicit Trust be more accurate?
                                                                                                                • Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
                                                                                                                • Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
                                                                                                                • Hardware Security Module (HSM)
                                                                                                                • Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
                                                                                                                • Trusted computing
                                                                                                                • Confidential computing – the new HTTPS?
                                                                                                                • Enarx
                                                                                                                • Idris Elba
                                                                                                                • Horrible Histories

                                                                                                                  • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                                  • Mike Bursell, for joining us on the show!

                                                                                                                    • Special Guest: Mike Bursell.

                                                                                                                    30 min

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                                                                                                                  David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.