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

  1. Episode 280: We See You

    JAN 12

    Episode 280: We See You

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds! 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)

    33 min
  2. Episode 279: Live from Room 101

    12/01/2025

    Episode 279: Live from Room 101

    This week Dave and Gunnar go on a re-education off-site, and O’Brien and Winston Smith debate whether we’re in an AI bubble! 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!

    10 min
  3. Episode 278: I Know How the Butlerian Jihad Works

    11/24/2025

    Episode 278: I Know How the Butlerian Jihad Works

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about weaponized AI and seemingly conscious AI! 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?

    37 min
  4. Episode 277: Mission Accomplished

    11/17/2025

    Episode 277: Mission Accomplished

    This week Dave and Gunnar are joined by Dan Walsh on the eve of his retirement! 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.

    57 min
  5. Episode 276: I Think I Had That Shirt

    11/01/2025

    Episode 276: I Think I Had That Shirt

    For our Halloween finale, Carolyn Ford invites two favorite “AI conjurers”, Dave Egts “Mr. X,” public-sector field CTO at Mulesoft, and Laura Klebanow, founder & chief storyteller at Show & Tell, into the Tech Transforms cauldron. Each brings a “secret AI ingredient”: Carolyn composes whimsical Suno-generated theme music (after a prompt-crafting detour through ChatGPT), Laura pushes image creation and Gemini’s career-planner for playful, practical use, and Dave reimagines Gemini’s children’s-storybook gem to craft customer-hero narratives, plus a Scooby-Doo-style Tech Transforms tale. 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.

    54 min
  6. Episode 275: I'll Visit You in Jail

    10/11/2025

    Episode 275: I'll Visit You in Jail

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about hidden signals in AI models and hidden signals in birds! 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

    29 min
  7. Episode 274: We've Always Enjoyed Arby's

    08/27/2025

    Episode 274: We've Always Enjoyed Arby's

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about smart glasses and AI existential dread! 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.

    25 min
  8. Episode 273: Let the Good 5G In

    08/17/2025

    Episode 273: Let the Good 5G In

    This week Dave and Gunnar talk about e-tattoos, AI agent blackmail, and AI memory dossiers! 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

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

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  • Creator
    David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
  • Episodes
    272
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    Clean
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