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Dave & Gunnar Show

David Egts & Gunnar Hellekson

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

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Episode 283: We Could’ve Been Standing Outside an...

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2026/02/28

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI judging photos, AI judging meeting transcripts, and hacking AI with poetry!Stranger Things! It’s good, actually! rentahuman.ai They See Your Photos Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon D&G This Week in Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization Cutting Room Floor DOOMBuds

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31:34

Episode 282: He Sent Me Chicken Ramen

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2026/02/17

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about agents battling agents, electric shocks battling coffee, and Amazon Prime battling First Class mail!Gunnar is now fully agentic. Skills and the inner loop. Capital vs Labor. Capital wins again. La-Z-Boy repair tip + free parts ($16 S&H) Clawdbot → Moltbot → OpenClaw Moltbook Moltbook leaked Andrej Karpathy’s API keys MOLTBOOK EXPOSED: The New AI Scam That Fooled Everyone D&G Mailbag via Erich Morisse: The Clanker Games Fun fact:

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30:06

Episode 281: Four Out of Five Developers Enjoy Code...

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2026/02/13

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about AI for prison inmates, AI for senior citizens, and low-cost haptic exosuits!Ebird and Listers Moen update Death by Lightning An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit Almost related: Four out of five developers enjoy code reviews Cutting Room Floor Anycrap: Bring Impossible Products to

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33:22

Episode 280: We See You

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2026/01/12

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds!Trinity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)) and Low-background Steel (https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/) Hardcore History (https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/) Slate Political Gabfest (https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest) Google Vids (https://workspace.google.com/products/vids/)! Researchers find adding

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9:44

Episode 279: Live from Room 101

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/12/01

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/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

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37:04

Episode 278: I Know How the Butlerian Jihad Works

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/11/24

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about weaponized AI and seemingly conscious AI!Virtual Customer Panels with Gemini Gems (https://gemini.google/overview/gems/) Dave vs. Ticketmaster (https://www.ticketmaster.com/) Totally unrelated: Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation (https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/) Weaponizing

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56:48

Episode 277: Mission Accomplished

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/11/17

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) are joined by Dan Walsh (https://dgshow.org/guests/dan) on the eve of his retirement!What is new in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (https://www.suse.com/c/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

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54:06

Episode 276: I Think I Had That Shirt

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/11/01

For our Halloween finale, Carolyn Ford (https://dgshow.org/guests/cford) invites two favorite “AI conjurers”, Dave Egts (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) “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

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29:09

Episode 275: I'll Visit You in Jail

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2025/10/11

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about hidden signals in AI models and hidden signals in birds!Agentic Google App Scripts (https://github.com/ghelleks/email-labeler-agent) Fake Music (https://www.youtube.com/@FakemusicBr)! Iron Man ( Soul/Funk) Version 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPocWcaCMA4) Don't You (Forget About Me) ( Soul) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-5xm2VsB8) See also: The Klezmonauts -- Oy to the World: A

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24:54

Episode 274: We've Always Enjoyed Arby's

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2025/08/27

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about smart glasses and AI existential dread!Follow Up Duperheroes (https://github.com/ghelleks/duperheroes)! I Previewed These Emotion-Tracking Smart Glasses, and They Seem Weirdly Useful (https://lifehacker.com/tech/emotion-tracking-smart-glasses) Someone Built an Ad Blocker for Real Life, and I Can't Wait to Try It

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53:08

Episode 273: Let the Good 5G In

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2025/08/17

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about e-tattoos, AI agent blackmail, and AI memory dossiers!Cursor (https://www.cursor.com/) and Claude Code (https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code): PARA Auditor (https://github.com/ghelleks/para-auditor), Let Me AI That for You (https://github.com/ghelleks/lmaitfy), Botany Battle (https://github.com/ghelleks/botany-battle). Abundance! “You won’t lose your job to a tractor, but to a horse who learns

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35:40

Episode 272: Seed Oils Made Y’all Weak

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/07/15

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about fake bodies, fake passports, fake speakers, a fake Commodore 64 CD-ROM, and Erich Morisse (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emorisse/) being mean to AIGunnar builds a Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/)-powered virtual team: It's all about perspective. (https://www.easygen.io/post/its-all-about-perspective) Farewell Pocket (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket), hello Wallabag

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27:00

Episode 271: Blade Runner Pepsi Challenge

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2025/07/07

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about best practices for manipulating AI models to enslave humanity!Moen’s lifetime warranty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADDiq3RalSQ) Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/) multimodal! When We Cease to Understand the World (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62069739-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world) by Benjamín Labatut Einstein’s Dreams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein's_Dreams) by

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45:56

Episode 270: Cylon Monkey Paw: 5 AI Predictions for...

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2025/04/08

In this episode, Carolyn Ford (https://dgshow.org/guests/cford) welcomes back Dave Egts, Field CTO at MuleSoft, to Tech Transforms (https://techtransforms.fireside.fm/) to explore the transformative power of AI in 2025. They dive into Dave’s top five AI predictions, with a special focus on the rise of agentic AI—AI that doesn’t just suggest, but acts. Dave explains the difference between generative AI and intelligent agents, why integration via APIs is the key to agent success, and how government

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29:47

Episode 269: Knowingly Violating Laws and Product...

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/03/29

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about cockroaches with backpacks, hydrogels with Pong, and hackers with digital license plates!Paperlike Screen Protector (https://paperlike.com/products/paperlike-for-ipad?srsltid=AfmBOoooevn7RZDUrPzKuw-ygeeWFUKtaliQwDsODZP8X-v6qPUoPXn9) Cyborg cockroach armies can now be mass-produced at a rate of one every 68 seconds

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49:43

Episode 268: Grape Job!

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2025/03/21

Grape Job!This week, Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks! Kobo Clara Color (https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-clara-colour) Libby (https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby) Paperlike Screen Protector (https://paperlike.com/products/paperlike-for-ipad) and Bumper Case (https://paperlike.com/products/paperlike-bumper-case) Kindle Scribe

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34:09

Episode 267: Allow the Robot to Cook with Love

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/12/23

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about restaurants that don’t exist, restaurants with robots, and robots with speed cameras and thermite!Gunar prepares for a half marathon with Runna (https://www.runna.com/) Gunnar is awarded the rank of Legendary (https://www.charlieintel.com/call-of-duty-mobile/cod-mobile-ranks-129671/) on Call of Duty Mobile (https://www.callofduty.com/mobile) Dave enjoyed The Penguin

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39:46

Episode 266: Filled with Dad Energy

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/12/16

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about thinking caps, solar caps, and transparent bodies! Gunnar enjoyed The Magnetic Fields (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnetic_Fields)! Lauren bought a new car! Dave bought a new TV! Gunnar enjoyed Call of Duty Mobile (https://www.callofduty.com/mobile)! EcoFlow Power Hat (https://us.ecoflow.com/products/solar-power-hat) Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine

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Episode 265: A Delightful GIS Demon

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/12/05

This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk with Steven Pousty (https://dgshow.org/guests/spousty) about GIS, open source theology, and AI!Compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666 from episode 261 (https://dgshow.org/261) The European Patroleum Survey Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Oil_%26_Gas_Producers#European_Petroleum_Survey_Group) what3words (https://what3words.com/) Google Plus Codes

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7:36

Episode 264: Cryptomining Airbnbs, Psychological...

Dave & Gunnar Show ·

2024/10/29

This week, NotebookLM (https://notebooklm.google/) talks about the Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) Show Episode 263!Main Themes The Psychology of Influence and Manipulation: This episode explores how external factors, from large-scale events to seemingly harmless media, can shape our thoughts and actions. This theme is explored through discussions on propaganda, deep fakes, and the power of questioning techniques. The Blurring Lines Between

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