s21e18: Tools are easy now, data is hard; Background culture; Tingly is a decision I have to live with; Uniqueness Index
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 6 August 2026 in Portland, Oregon. It’s been 2 days and 29 years since Skynet was turned on, and we only have about three weeks...
s21e17: It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, August 5, 2026 in Portland, Oregon. Today, the city briefly had the worst polluted air out of all the cities in the world!...
s21e16: Organizational Entropy, Activation Energy, and Catalysts
0.0 Context Setting Friday, 31 July 2026 in Portland Oregon, after I just finished today’s show with Russell. Of which, well, that’s the thing that caught my...
s21e15: Adjust Your Register; The Curse of The Next Generation; Some Sort Of Tinkerbell; Your AI Pharmacy
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, 30 July, 2026 in Portland, Oregon and a dog just came to sit down next to me. 0.1 Events: How People Work, Live! ... with...
s21e14: Just the Links
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, 28 July, 2026 in Portland, Oregon. My brain is mush. 0.1 Events: How People Work, Live! How People Work, Live! is the live...
s21e13: The Irritating Aspect of Spiciness; Improving Pharmacies Somewhat
0.0 Context Setting Monday, July 27 in Portland, Oregon. That’s it. That’s all the context I have for you. Oh, I guess it’s 4:50pm and I started writing this...
s21e12: For All Humanity?; Gordon Moore Folds Your Clothes
0.0 Context Setting Tuesday, 21 July 2026 in Portland, Oregon where it’s been hot. There’s been a Fifa Men’s World Cup Football Final which in my humble...
s21e11: Somebody Else’s Cloud
0.0 Context Setting It’s Wednesday, July 15th 2026 in Portland, Oregon, and the England football team have just finished being the archetypal England...
s21e10: Well, What Would You Do?
0.0 Context Setting It is Tuesday 7 July in Portland, Oregon, where we are totally not living through what could be described as William Gibson’s Jackpot. I...
s21e09: A Different Strategy, The Sanest Choice In An Insane World
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 3 July in Portland, Oregon, which is the day before the day that the main events of Independence Day (1996) occur. 0.1 Events...
s22e08 - You Broke It, We (Should) Own It
0.0 Context Setting Monday, 29 June 2026 in Portland, Oregon, where the U.S. Supreme Court is definitely asserting its supremacy and I have belatedly...
s21e07: Anything LLMs Can Do, I Can Do Better
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, June 24 2026 in Portland, Oregon where the high today is 86f/30c and the high in the U.K. was 97f/36.1c, and yesterday 40...
s21e06: It's (not) the economy stupid; gaining convenience at the expense of agency
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, 16 April, 2026 and unseasonably cold in Portland, Oregon. Before that, it was unseasonably warm. This jackpot sucks. Oh...
s21e05: That Whole Moltbot/OpenClaw YOLOing AI Agents Thing
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday 5 February 2026 in Portland, Oregon. I started writing this on Monday. It’s not been great. I have a podcast now. Yeah, I...
s21e04: The Collapse of Form
What happens when literacy and the literate society collapses?
s21e03: The Problem is Defining the Problem; The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Caring
0.0 Context Setting I am sneakily writing this on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 in Portland Oregon, where I just finished writing the previous episode. It is...
s21e02: What Does it Mean to be Friends?
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 14 January 2026 in Portland, Oregon where while the conditions in the U.S. may not be argued to be fascist as such (i.e. the...
s21e01: Things Could Have Been Different; LLMs as LitTech, Their Use as Response to Mass Functional Illiteracy
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 7 January 2026 in Portland, Oregon where it is wet (but not too wet) and cold (but not too cold), merely a typical brisk...
s20e09: An End Of Year Opinion About AI Because Why Not; Good Enough Mitigation of Reasonably Foreseeable Harm
0.0 Context Setting It’s been a minute. This is probably the third draft of an episode that I’ve tried to finish so maybe this one will stick. It has been...
s20e08: Efficiency Gains; I Understand You, But Could Never Be You; Can You Teach A Machine To Be Human?
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 3 September 2025 in Portland Oregon and we’re back through a hot spell. Also it’s the first day back of school, and that’s an...
