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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • Episode 228: This Email Could Have Been an AI Avatar

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel

    • iPad Mini remains excellent
    • Leaf blower paradox of choice
    • A New Navy Weapon Actually Stops You From Talking
    • Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches
    • People are hiring out their faces to become deepfake-style marketing clones
    • How I Sent Over 10,000 Personal Thank You Videos To My Customers in 2 Months
      • Watch video here
      • Don't duct tape unruly passengers, United Airlines says in memo to employees
      • The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight Over Reclining Airline Seats
      • 99pi: Mine!
      • What's the Future of Air Travel?

        • Cutting Room Floor

        • Attention K-Mart Shoppers: K-Mart in-store music from the late 80s and early 90s
        • JazzKeys: Improv jazz while you type
        • Distortion pedal on a harp
        • Placebo Pedal on a harp
          • Placebo Pedal

            • We Give Thanks

            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
              • 41 min
            • Episode 227: Meetings and Punishment

              This week Dave and Gunnar talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes

              • David Macaulay books and Turing Tumble
              • Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes
                • Blob of human brain grows functioning eyes in lab dish sparking 'horror'
                • Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious
                  • Gather
                  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
                  • Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
                  • Big, Theatrical Meetings Are a Waste of Time

                    • Cutting Room Floor

                    • The Print Shop Club
                    • Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds.
                    • 30 Grocery Items That Don't Exist But Should

                      • We Give Thanks

                      • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                        • 41 min
                      • Episode 226: Plowshares into Swords

                        This week Dave and Gunnar talk about appreciating our listeners, gassing bank robbers, wardriving smart meters

                        • 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!
                                    • 35 min
                                  • Episode 225: Criminal Value Chain

                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about backdoor innovation, gig economy innovation, and deep work retro innovation

                                    • Microsoft Natural Keyboards are not water-resistant
                                    • Mini Metro
                                    • Critics Say Apple Built a 'Backdoor' Into Your iPhone With Its New Child Abuse Detection Tools
                                      • Related: The CEO of WhatsApp Attacked Apple Over Privacy. He Seems to Have Forgotten He Works for Facebook
                                        • “The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation also critical Apple’s plans, stating that “even a carefully documented, carefully thought out, close-range backdoor is still a backdoor.” – Apple publishes FAQ to address CSAM detection and message analysis issues
                                        • Citizen Wants to Pay You $25 an Hour to Be a Nightcrawler
                                          • Nightcrawler (film)
                                          • Vigilante app video
                                          • Photo App Turns Users Into Unwitting Spies
                                          • The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback)

                                            • Cutting Room Floor

                                            • 20 Latin Insults You Should Know
                                            • Fake Tweet Generator
                                            • Remote Work FTW: Logitech Has Released A Wireless Mouse That Works From 900 Miles Away

                                              • We Give Thanks

                                              • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                • 49 min
                                              • Episode 224: Smells Like Sauerkraut

                                                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory

                                                • Bo Burnham’s “Inside”
                                                • Foo Fighters at the ICON Music Center
                                                • Are advertisers coming for your dreams?
                                                  • Silent Lucidity by Queensryche
                                                  • Unrelated: Sleep Sensing on Nest Hub (2nd gen)
                                                  • Also unrelated: Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit
                                                  • We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals
                                                  • Why everyone should use disappearing messages on WhatsApp and Signal
                                                    • Related XKCD
                                                    • Opinion | Could Ransomware Become a Geopolitical Weapon? Game Theory Says Yes.

                                                      • Cutting Room Floor

                                                      • Smells Like Teen Spirit Cover In Classical Latin (75 BC to 3rd Century AD) Bardcore
                                                      • Frozen’s “Let It Go” Performed in Klingon
                                                        • “Don’t Stop Believin’” Performed in Klingon
                                                        • Subterranean Homesick Blues Performed in a Regional Jet Restroom as performed by the Airline Toilets Theatre Company (and member of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain)
                                                        • ”Take on Me” Performed by Face Smacking
                                                        • Sublime Text to get What I Got

                                                          • We Give Thanks

                                                          • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                            • 42 min
                                                          • Episode 223: Digital Skinner Box

                                                            This week Dave and Gunnar talk about teaching AI art and sarcasm, teaching humans dark patterns, and teaching all dogs new tricks

                                                            • 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!
                                                                          • 41 min
                                                                        • Episode 222: Clever Girl

                                                                          This week Dave and Gunnar talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises!

                                                                          • 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!
                                                                                    • 36 min
                                                                                  • Episode 221: Money’s the Answer. What’s the Question?

                                                                                    This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Eric Burger about secure, insecure, and mostly secure computing, and a whole lot more!

                                                                                    • HPE Public Sector Summit: 5G: The Future Connectivity at the Edge panel
                                                                                    • Shockey’s Law
                                                                                    • Software Bill of Materials
                                                                                    • Dr. David A. Wheeler
                                                                                    • Digital signatures
                                                                                    • Homomorphic encryption
                                                                                    • Information warfare
                                                                                    • The Tor Project
                                                                                    • CyberCorps at Georgetown
                                                                                    • FCC
                                                                                      • Combating Spoofed Robocalls with Caller ID Authentication
                                                                                      • Suicide Prevention Hotline - 988
                                                                                      • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - (800) 273-8255
                                                                                      • S.1268 - Interagency Personnel Rotation Act of 2011
                                                                                      • 5G
                                                                                      • Quantum computing

                                                                                        • We Give Thanks

                                                                                        • Eric Burger for being our special guest star!
                                                                                        • Sam Ceccola for bringing Eric and Dave together on the HPE Public Sector Summit panel!

                                                                                          • Special Guest: Eric Burger.

                                                                                          47 min
                                                                                        • Episode 220: Is It a Zip File? Is It an MP3? You Decide!

                                                                                          This week Dave and Gunnar talk about abusing Whatsapp, abusing Twitter, abusing LinkedIn, and abusing GPT-3

                                                                                          • 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!
                                                                                                      • 27 min
                                                                                                    • Episode 219: Chimera in a Can

                                                                                                      This week Dave and Gunnar talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee!

                                                                                                      • @dgshowDotOrg!
                                                                                                      • Cloud Player crushes YouTube Music
                                                                                                      • Bitsbox
                                                                                                      • You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see
                                                                                                      • A world first: A robot able to "hear" through the ear of a locust
                                                                                                      • The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smells
                                                                                                      • Chef Boyardee Found His Start In Cleveland, Ohio… Then Became A Household Name

                                                                                                        • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                                        • COVID eyewear: Stylish and comfortable indoor and outdoor protection
                                                                                                          • The Black Hole (1979)
                                                                                                          • Airlines have strict mask policies. This NJ man got kicked off a United flight for wearing one
                                                                                                          • Fisher-Price® My Home Office

                                                                                                            • We Give Thanks

                                                                                                            • Erich Morisse for the Bitsbox!
                                                                                                            • The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
                                                                                                              • 29 min

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