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October 28, 2026Episode 9047 min

Flock and Awe

Flock blames bots for its surveillance backlash, while our own camera setups leave us with an uncomfortable double standard to explain. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost from the Web: Web Boost Flock CEO Calls Surveillance Backlash 'Not Real' in Leaked Audio as US Cities Cancel Contracts Flock CEO: We haven't 'fired' any police departments as customers | TechCrunch Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Public Backlash, Surveillance Expansion | Disrupt 2026 - YouTube 50 Cent's Massive Mansion ft. Lloyd Banks & Tony Yayo | MTV Cribs - YouTube Once home to both Mike Tyson and 50 Cent The Insane Cursed History Of Mike Tyson & 50 Cent's Former Connecticut Mansion Music Hit and Run By: Amber Sweeney

October 21, 2026Episode 8945 min

Amazon Is All Ears

Amazon's new AI wearable promises to remember everything you say, but the real question is what Amazon plans to do with it. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost from the Web: Web Boost Links Why some people become super smellers Amazon Announces Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse Hands-on with Bee, Amazon's latest AI wearable Bee Frontier — Official Product Page Bee Eclipse — Official Product Page GeekWire — Amazon's New AI Devices Can Suggest Things to Buy The Verge — Amazon's Always-Listening Bee Wearable Washington RCW 9.73.030 — Recording and Consent Law Wearable Microphone Jamming Wearable Microphone Jamming - YouTube This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won’t Work | WIRED Demonstrating Wearable Microphone Jamming MUSIC Disco Swag By: The Doerfels

October 14, 2026Episode 881 hr 9 min

Apple Moves In

Apple wants to take over your smart home, and we're breaking down what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and whether it's worth letting Apple move in. Apple’s “Welcome Home” Smart Home Event Apple Announces HomeView Smart Home Hub HomeView Requires an iPhone or iPad for Some AI Features Apple Launches Home Collection With Cameras, Locks, and Thermostats Apple Announces New Apple TV 4K With A19 and Siri AI Siri AI Is Coming to Older Apple TV 4K Models Apple Announces HomePod Mini 2 With Siri AI Bullet Train by My Friend Jimi Muse VM Hacks Montana Is Crazy All Biz Up Front, Party in the Back Just Focus on the Location Church Convert Done Right Music Bullet Train by My Friend Jimi

October 7, 2026Episode 8742 min

While I’m Gone

Chris tells an IT war story about the time one vacation email revealed an entire company held together by flaky drives, secret download links, and one guy’s brain. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River! ⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with Fountain Boost from the Web: Web Boost Links VEVOR Push Lawn Sweeper 21" Leaf & Grass Collector 3.5 cu. ft Firefox 13 Release Post-Mortem Firefox 13.0 Release Notes Firefox 12.0 Release Archive mdadm Manual Page Linux MD RAID Documentation Ext3 Filesystem Documentation Disk2vhd — Microsoft Sysinternals Memtest86+ ClamAV Scanning Documentation Bus Factor — Laws of Software Engineering Sort of Island Life Tiny House, Big Price The Halloween Pivot Music Let's Imagine By: Aaron Koenig

September 30, 2026Episode 8659 min

Web Browser? I hardly Know 'er!

Give an agent a browser, and suddenly it can do a lot more than search the web. We dig into Playwright, what that unlocks, and why it matters for Clanker Therapy 2. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River! ⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with Fountain Boost from the Web: Web Boost Clanker Therapy 2 on Meetup Agent Op Guild on Telegram Agent Op Guild Matrix room Playwright Playwright on GitHub Playwright MCP Playwright MCP on GitHub Playwright browser support Playwright Trace Viewer Playwright Codegen Playwright release notes The Prototype Dome Home Rubik’s Cube Dome Home The Combo Dome Home Music “Home Grown Funk Take 2” by Jon Peterson

September 23, 2026Episode 8554 min

Irregular Test Results

The AI hacking panic gets a lot less impressive once the real details start coming out. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River! ⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with Fountain Boost from the Web: Web Boost Israeli startup Irregular linked to AI hacks OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Why Irregular’s A.I. Tests for Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI Went Off the Rails - The New York Times Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026 Trump says US will form 'AI Force' and appoint an artificial intelligence tsar Trump's call for "AI Force" sets off scramble for new AI czar Nebula Commander The Santa Fe Camp Small Town Home, Big Doll Energy Live on a Space Ship Music: Leaving The Country By bennyjeans

September 16, 2026Episode 8454 min

My Last Quest

I turn the Quest 3 into a spatial workstation, wire it into my AI agents, and discover one trick the Valve Frame should steal. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River! ⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with Fountain Boost from the Web: Web Boost My Steam Frame Review VR 401: Accelerating Quest Development With Agentic Workflows Meta VR CLI Overview Meta VR CLI Meta AI Tooling Overview Install Meta VR CLI Get Started With Android Apps on Horizon OS Meta Horizon OS Quick Start Horizon OS Platforms Termux Releases Music Endless Deja Vu By My Friend Jimi

September 9, 2026Episode 8346 min

AGI My Ass(tra)

Three of the biggest AI stories of the year landed at once. Somehow, everyone is excited about the wrong one. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River! ⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with Fountain Boost from the Web: Web Boost OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra its most powerful model yet - CBS News Nvidia's Jensen Huang Says 'AGI Has Arrived' and Congratulates OpenAI - Business Insider OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model autonomously completes Portal in 24 hours — feat cost just $571 in tokens World’s first public Tesla Cybercab ride (no steering wheel) - YouTube NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face | NVIDIA Blog Music Hit the Target by Theo Katzman

September 2, 2026Episode 8242 min

Apple Ternover

Tim Cook is Fully Cooked, Apple hands the keys to a hardware guy, and the company’s next era starts with one very big AI problem. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River! ⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with Fountain Links Apple’s Ternus Has ‘Huge Shoes to Fill’ After Cook’s 2,300% Gain - Bloomberg Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses | The Verge Apple Just Showed Me 50 Years of History That Nobody Has Ever Seen - WSJ Breathtaking Unobstructed Views For the Lawn Enthusiast Multi-Island Lifestyle Music One Fine Day By: Right Said Fred

August 26, 2026Episode 811 hr 4 min

Not In My Back Yard

Everyone loves their tech, but now that the infrastructure is showing up, nobody wants it next door. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River! ⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with Fountain Boost from the Web: Web Boost Links Data Center Uproar Scrambles the Midterm Election GOP Issues Stark Warning to AI Companies Governors' Races Are Being Buffeted by Data Center Politics The Unexpected Winners of America's Data Center Boom Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area Opposition to Local Data Centers Rises Sharply Skagit County Commissioners Adopt Moratorium on New Data Centers United States Data Center Energy Usage Report: 2025 Update Berkeley Lab Data Center Energy Modeling and Forecasting Data Centers in Virginia — Economic and Infrastructure Impact Summary Ratepayer Protection Pledge Building Community-First AI Infrastructure The Data Center Era Reshaping America Data Centers "Dug Their Own Grave," Says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Above Ground Bunker in WA Tower Defense House Edition Data Center Song Music Bloodshot Lies Funky By: The Doerfels