The FAIK Files

By Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks

The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through new... more

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May 23, 2025Quantum Leaps, Corporate Chaos
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Quantum computing is accelerating fast

Professors staffed a fake company entirely with AI agents (spoiler: chaos)

Microsoft is adding native AI agent support to Windows - what could go wrong?

The Chicago Sun-Times accidentally printed an AI-generated summer reading list with books that don't exist
Check out ⁠⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠⁠ to learn about our upcoming ⁠⁠⁠Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass⁠⁠⁠ and more.
Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠⁠

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******* NOTES AND REFERENCES *******

Post-Quantum Cryptography:
D-Wave Launches Commercially Available Quantum Computer

NVIDIA Powers World's Largest Quantum Research Computer

NIST - What is Post-Quantum Cryptography

Microsoft Brings Post-Quantum Cryptography to Windows and Linux

First Successful Demonstration of Quantum Error Correction

Visualising Quantum Computation
AI Agent Company Disaster:
Research Paper - The Agent Company

The Agent Company Website

Futurism article

Yahoo Tech article

Business Insider coverage
Microsoft Adding MCP to Windows:
Microsoft Blog Post - Securing the Model Context Protocol

Reddit Discussion with Screenshots
Chicago Sun-Times AI Reading List Fail:
404 Media - AI-Generated Summer Reading List

404 Media Follow-up - Made by Hearst
******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA
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1h 12min
May 16, 2025Strategic Ghosts, Synthetic Hosts
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
An Australian radio station created a fake Asian female host using AI

The BBC resurrects Agatha Christie while a family member brings a murder victim to court

We break down "Strategic Text Strings" - sequences of gibberish that can jailbreak AI systems

AI recruitment tools might be making hiring worse, not better
Check out ⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠ to learn about our upcoming ⁠⁠Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass⁠⁠ and more.
Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠

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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****
Faking Diversity - AI Radio Host Controversy:
Mediaweek article: https://www.mediaweek.com.au/backlash-over-arn-use-of-ai-radio-host-modelled-on-asian-woman/

Original Blog Source: https://www.thecarpet.com.au/p/meet-thy-the-radio-host-i-dont-think

Follow-Up with audio clips: https://www.thecarpet.com.au/p/radios-most-cynical-ai-experiment

Mason's insights on radio industry cost-cutting and the vanishing of part-time jobs post-COVID
AI Resurrections:
BBC resurrects Agatha Christie to teach writing: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/agatha-christie-ai-bbc-maestro-jeremy-vine-9t5nqvz69

Family member resurrects murder victim to speak in court: https://www.404media.co/i-loved-that-ai-judge-moved-by-ai-generated-avatar-of-man-killed-in-road-rage-incident/
Strategic Text Strings & Jailbreaking AI:
Previous episode on "AI SEO Optimization": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1yAfTjKzY

Harvard Business School article: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/gen-ai-marketing-how-some-gibberish-code-can-give-products-an-edge

Research paper: "Manipulating Large Language Models to Increase Product Visibility": https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07981

Broken Hill: https://bishopfox.com/blog/brokenhill-attack-tool-largelanguagemodels-llm

Broken Hill Github: https://github.com/BishopFox/BrokenHill

Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15043
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week - AI in Recruitment:

404 Media article on AI recruiter: https://www.404media.co/ai-recruiter-apriora-tiktok/

Testing "AI Interviewers" with HeyGen (https://HeyGen.com/) and Tavus (https://www.tavus.io/)

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1h 17min
May 09, 2025AI "Friends" and Enemies
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
That AI bot may be an undercover AI cop

Playing with Suno's "Cover" Feature

Bad actors using Claude to orchestrate disinfo campaigns

Does being honest about your AI use make people trust you less?

AI companies are looking to cash-in on human loneliness
Check out ⁠The Deception Project⁠ to learn about our upcoming ⁠Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass⁠ and more.
Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠

Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: ⁠https://sayhi.chat/FAIK⁠

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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****
UNDERCOVER AI COPS, FAKE PROTESTORS:
WIRED & 404 Media Joint Investigation: Exclusive: Police Are Creating Fake AI Personas to Trick Suspects Online

This investigation reveals how law enforcement agencies are using AI to create fake personas to surveil and interact with suspects online
SWEET AND SOUR (TWO STORIES):
Suno's New "Cover" Feature:

Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/claude-ai-exploited-to-operate-100-fake.html
BEING HONEST ABOUT AI USAGE MAKES PEOPLE TRUST YOU LESS?:
The Article: Being honest about using AI at work makes people trust you less, research finds

The Research Paper: The impact of artificial intelligence disclosure on trustworthiness perceptions

AI Workforce Projections: Fiverr CEO Says AI Will Take Your Job - Here's What to Do
ECH FOUNDERS TRY TO SOLVE OUR LONELINESS PROBLEM…:
New AI Wearable 'Friend' Unveiled To Cure Loneliness; Internet Asks Why Isn't It An App?

New research shows link between ChatGPT use and loneliness

YouTube video (AI friend experiment): This intense AI anger is what experts warned of

Mark Zuckerberg – Meta's AGI Plan (Dwarkesh Patel podcast)

Mark Zuckerberg tried to convince us he was human. Sorry, ZuckBot: you've failed

Mark Zuckerberg Lays Out HELLISH Vision For Future Of Friendship

HOW AI AND HUMAN BEHAVIORS SHAPE PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS OF CHATBOT USE: A LONGITUDINAL RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY
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1h 7min
May 02, 2025AI's Behavioral Extremes
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
We explore the One Million Chessboards project, a massive collaborative web experiment where users can move pieces across a million shared chessboards in real-time

Anthropic's model welfare research program, AI ethics, and the need for interpretability

OpenAI's recent struggle with ChatGPT's personality crisis as they roll back an update that made the AI too sycophantic

Meta's troubling chatbot sex problem: Social Media, LLMS, sex, and Zuckerberg -- what could go wrong?

Check out The Deception Project to learn about our upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass and more.
Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464

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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****
ONE MILLION CHESS BOARDS:
One Million Chessboards website: https://onemillionchessboards.com/

Creator's blog post explaining the project: https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-chessboards/

Nolen Royalty's previous viral project, One Million Checkboxes: https://corecursive.com/one-million-checkboxes-with-nolen-royalty/

AI Cheating at Chess - Time Magazine report: https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/
ANTHROPIC'S MODEL WELFARE RESEARCH:
Exploring Model Welfare - Anthropic's research announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare

YouTube interview, "Could AI Models be Conscious?": https://youtu.be/pyXouxa0WnY?si=1yK4YkMbE5iW9SC0

Dario Amodei on interpretability: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/1915515160607023391

The Urgency of Interpretability (Dario's blog): https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability

Axios report on AI sentience research: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/anthropic-ai-sentient-rights
THE PERSONALITY CRISIS OF CHATGPT:
OpenAI rolls back sycophantic ChatGPT update: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/openai-rolls-back-update-that-made-chatgpt-a-sycophantic-mess/

Sam Altman's tweet about the issue: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1917291637962858735

Stanford HAI research on LLM personality: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/large-language-models-just-want-to-be-liked
META'S CHATBOT SEX PROBLEM:
Wall Street Journal investigation: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf

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1h 8min
April 29, 2025 Artifacts of Deception (Deceptive Minds - issue #2)
This is the 2nd of two sample episodes/issues of Perry's audio newsletter. If you enjoy these and want to keep listening, go ahead and subscribe here.
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Hey friends! Here's issue 2 of Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it.
🔥 Since starting this newsletter last week, we're already closing in on 3,000 subscribers to the ⁠print edition⁠! 🔥 Huge thanks to everyone who's jumped in early!
This week, I'm diving into what I call the “artifacts of deception,” and why the flashy stuff (deepfakes, fake emails, cloned voices) isn’t the real trick you need to watch for.
Hope you enjoy this exploration into the hidden mechanics of how deception *really* works.
Here we go…
— Perry
⁠The Deception Project

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April 29, 2025 Introducing: Deceptive Minds (an audio newsletter experience)
Hey listeners, Perry Carpenter here. I've got something exciting that I think you'll be interested in. It's the audio version of a newsletter that I recently started.
The newsletter is called Deceptive Minds, and it's all about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it.
I'm dropping the first two episodes/issues in this feed so you can decide if you like it and might be interested in subscribing to the ⁠audio⁠ or ⁠print⁠ versions.
Oh -- and while I've got your attention, I'd love for you to check out my new website ⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠ at ⁠⁠https://thedeceptionproject.com⁠⁠. I've got a few fun things planned that should be landing there soon.
So stay tuned.

Thanks!
Perry

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April 25, 2025Civility & Other Dangerous Games
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Why being polite to ChatGPT might be wasting Sam Altman's money
Alarming advancements in deepfake technology and why even "super recognizers" can't keep up.
We explain what a "vibe coder" is and why you probably don't want to become one.
An Italian newspaper's claim to have published the world's first AI-generated edition.
Check out The Deception Project to learn about our upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass and more.

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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****

Being Polite to ChatGPT Is Wasting Sam Altman's Money:
Sam Altman tweet about "Please" and "Thanks": https://x.com/sama/status/1912646035979239430
Futurism article on the topic: https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
TechRadar survey on politeness to AI chatbots: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/are-you-polite-to-chatgpt-heres-where-you-rank-among-ai-chatbot-users
Research paper on making AI less 'thirsty': https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271
Washington Post article on water usage claims: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/
Axios article on AI energy consumption: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-generate-506cb450-1ec4-11f0-9e47-c56f3bfd63d8
New IEA report on Energy and AI: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/86ed1178-4d77-45ac-ab38-28e849f3b93f/EnergyandAI.pdf
Deepfakes Are Getting Too Good (and Too Easy):
Article on super recognizers and deepfakes: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/super-recognizers-cant-help-with-deepfakes-but-deepfakes-can-help-with-algorithms
VentureBeat article on a new (surprisingly good) open-source text-to-speech model: https://venturebeat.com/ai/a-new-open-source-text-to-speech-model-called-dia-has-arrived-to-challenge-elevenlabs-openai-and-more/
What Is a 'Vibe Coder' and Why Don't You Wanna Be One:
Vibe Coding job board: https://www.vibecodecareers.com
Italian Newspaper Says It Has Published World's First AI-Generated Edition:
The Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/18/italian-newspaper-says-it-has-published-worlds-first-ai-generated-edition
Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/italian-newspaper-gives-free-rein-ai-admires-its-irony-2025-04-18/
*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA
Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
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1h 2min
April 18, 2025Poisoned Tunes & Robot Phone Calls to Mom
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!

In this week's episode:
Mason talks about AI powered spreadsheets! ... it's cooler than it sounds
Perry & Mason cover a few fascinating AI headlines that caught our attention this week
Mason takes us on a journey into musician Benn Jordan's innovative "Poisonify" project that disrupts AI training on music
And our AI Dumpster Fire of the Week: AI Chatbots that will call your parents so you don't have to!
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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****

AI Race Dominance & Personal Updates:
Google's DeepMind creates AI that developed its own improved reinforcement learning guidelines: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jzw1z8/google_deepminds_new_ai_used_rl_to_create_its_own
Gemini integration with Google Sheets: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jzyzgw/gemini_now_works_in_google_sheets
Three Interesting AI Headlines:
Ethical AI training data initiative - FAIRLY TRAINED: https://www.fairlytrained.org
Ed Newton-Rex TED Talk on ethical AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9d0p96N1iw
Concerns about energy policy and AI: https://www.theverge.com/energy/646011/trump-says-the-future-of-ai-is-powered-by-coal
Humanoid Robot Half Marathon Postponed Due to Weather: https://www.reuters.com/technology/worlds-first-humanoid-robot-half-marathon-postponed-due-windy-weather-2025-04-10/
Sam Altman interview at the 2025 TED conference in Vancouver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWT_doo68k
OpenAI updates its system for evaluating AI risks: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/15/openai-risks-frameworks-changes
Benn Jordan's Poisonify & AI Music Protection:
Benn Jordan's video explaining Poisonify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA
VoiceSwap - Jordan's ethical AI music company: https://voiceswap.ai
Harmony Cloak research: https://mosis.eecs.utk.edu/harmonycloak.html
Similar technologies: Nightshade and Glaze (adversarial noise approaches)
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week:
AI service that calls your elderly parents: https://www.404media.co/i-tested-the-ai-that-calls-your-elderly-parents-if-you-cant-bothered/
Research showing AI chatbots may negatively impact mental health: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/how-ai-and-human-behaviors-shape-psychosocial-effects-of-chatbot-use-a-longitudinal-controlled-study/
Academic paper on mental impacts of talking to chatbots: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.17473
Experiment where someone replaced all their relationships with chatbots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZg1FHT9gA0
*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA
Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
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Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/
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1h 7min
April 14, 2025Feed Drop: AI Hype & Skepticism - Me, Myself, and AI
Subscribe to Me, Myself, and AI: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio-series/me-myself-and-ai/
Today we're sharing with you an episode of another show we like called Me, Myself, and AI.

It's a podcast produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group, where hosts Sam and Shervin interview various folks from all sorts of industries and walks of life about the constantly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence.

This episode is called "AI Hype and Skepticism", and features nobel-prize winning economist Paul Romer.

Here's a link directly to this episode on their website: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/ai-hype-and-skepticism-economist-paul-romer/

Paul Romer once considered himself the most optimistic economist. He rightfully predicted that technology would blow up as an economic driver coming out of the inflation of the 1970s but acknowledges he did not foresee the inequality that technology advances would lead to.

On this episode, Paul shares his views on AI advances and their implications for society. Rather than pave the way for full automation, he is a proponent of keeping humans in the loop and believes that, rather than slowing down technology, it can be pointed in a direction for more meaningful and beneficial use, citing education as an area ripe to benefit from AI.

Me, Myself, and AI is a collaborative podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group and is hosted by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. Their engineer is David Lishansky, and the coordinating producers are Allison Ryder and Andy Goffin.

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Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA
Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
Want to connect with us? Here's how:Connect with Perry:
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Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/
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29min
April 11, 2025Functionally Useless, But Undeniably Cool
Welcome back to the FAIK Files!
In this episode:
Mason fills in for Perry as best he can, with a mix of topics that all fall under the broad umbrella of "functionally useless, but cool". Well... except the last segment; that one is inarguably kind of un-cool.
We play a little bit of a 100% AI-generated rendition of Quake 2, and discuss how it works under the hood - as well as the general reaction to it.
A software engineer named Alex Chan created a PDF file that is larger than the observable universe, and we break down how that was possible.
Bullethead, a member of our discord, sent us a Language Diffusion model to check out: the recently released Dream 7B!
Finally, Mason pontificates a bit about the highly aggressive noncompete clauses that Google has been pushing on their AI staff.
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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

AI Generated Quake 2:
Play the demo: https://copilot.microsoft.com/wham?features=labs-wham-enabled
Xbox Wire article about Muse: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/02/19/muse-ai-xbox-empowering-creators-and-players/
Azure AI Foundry Muse page: https://ai.azure.com/labs/projects/muse
Techcrawlr Article: https://techcrawlr.com/microsofts-ai-powered-quake-2-demo-gets-mixed-reactions-online/
A PDF Bigger than the Universe:
Alex (the creator)'s Blog about it: https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/
BigThink Article: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-worlds-largest-pdf-is-bigger-than-the-universe/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=BigThink/magazine/Big+Think
Dream 7B - A New Diffusion Model for Language
Try it out: https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/Dream
Read the paper: https://hkunlp.github.io/blog/2025/dream/ – blog
Autoregression Explained: https://spotintelligence.com/2023/10/25/autoregressive-ar-models/
Diffusion Explained: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/understanding-diffusion-models-an-essential-guide-for-aec-professionals/
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week: Google's Aggressive Noncompete Contracts
The Business Insider article: https://archive.is/20250409121528/https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-ai-talent-war-aggressive-noncompetes-2025-4
Noncompete legality: https://frostbrowntodd.com/the-non-compete-agreement-landscape-in-2025
Microsoft VP of AI & Former Deepmind Director's Tweet: https://xcancel.com/NandoDF/status/1904818330143273222
*** THE BOILERPLATE ***Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA
Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
Want to connect with us? Here's how:Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter
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Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/
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