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An 81-year old working actor, James Handy, has passed away under crazy circumstances. Ariana Grande's got a pop up going on in SF ahead of her tour kick off in Oakland. Sports championships continue. More Widow's Bay chat, and Happy National Donut Day! Treat yourself. Matty certainly will.

Hour 1: An 81-year old working actor, James Handy, has passed away under crazy circumstances. Ariana Grande's got a pop up going on in SF ahead of her tour kick off in Oakland. Sports championships continue. More Widow's Bay chat, and Happy National Donut Day! Treat yourself. Hour 2: Beware: Uncontrollable laughing ahead. The gang is joined by Scott Capurro for today's Bad Advice! “Suzanne” is not sure what to do about their selfish fiance who keeps leaving them! Then, a cautionary tale about going to a psychic! The gang agrees this listener might be reading into the predictions a bit much, but that doesn't mean they should take unnecessary risks. Hour 3: Masters of the Universe fans are passionate! The new Scary Movie is out. On Netflix, JLo and Roy Kent! They are NOT dating. If you remember Cape Fear, AppleTV made a miniseries for you. Is being a billionaire better if you're a woman? Is Taylor Swift richer than Oprah yet? The Top 100 shows of 2025/2026 are SHOCKING! A French tale out of Detroit. Is this stuff ruined because everyone knows about it? Hour 4: It's been 10 years since he passed away, but today there is new Prince music! Lizzo has a new song. Barry Manilow's 33rd album drops today. Evanescence is also releasing their 6th album. Ciara Miller and Alex Earle are hot girls in music videos. Dad rock - it might be more “you” than you'd hope. Time is ticking for Bob. Vinnie found the age where sleep officially becomes more important than fun. The best California cities to retire in. A thief in San Francisco used a Waymo as a getaway car. Plus, When Did That Happen?

Vincent Message est un écrivain bien connu mais j'étais passé totalement à coté. Son dernier roman, La folie océan, plonge dans les entrailles d'une mer qu'on croit connaître et qu'on ignore presque totalement.Mais je me suis surtout intéressé à Vincent pour son roman Défaite des maîtres et possesseurs, dont le pitch m'a vraiment intéressé. imaginez un monde où une espèce supérieure traite les humains exactement comme nous traitons les animaux d'élevage c'est à dire des humains en ferme et domestiqués mais qui vont également à l'abattoir. C'est un miroir tendu vers nos propres comportements et ce qui m'a frappé chez Vincent, c'est sa capacité à porter des convictions profondes sur l'écologie et la cause animale tout en refusant absolument la caricature. Ses romans sont des espaces où la complexité du monde trouve une forme littéraire.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de la mécanique des bonnes histoires, de ce que ça fait à un auteur de se décentrer radicalement, de la dystopie devenue un genre mainstream parce que notre réalité l'est devenue, de la violence ordinaire au travail, de l'IA comme outil et comme menace silencieuse, et de cette question qui m'obsède : qu'est-ce qui nous donne encore envie du futur ?J'ai questionné Vincent sur son rapport à la joie, sur les limites planétaires, sur le biocentrisme comme seule réponse rationnelle à la crise, et sur ce que la fiction peut faire que l'essai ne fera jamais.Citations marquantes"C'est de notre vivant qu'on a franchi sept des neuf limites planétaires. C'est de notre vivant que la croissance de la population humaine se met à accentuer de façon dramatique la finitude des ressources.""On a fait de cette Terre, pour les animaux, un enfer permanent, quotidien, de leur naissance à leur mort.""La dystopie est devenue mainstream. Et ça en dit long sur la manière dont notre réalité elle-même est devenue dystopique dans ce laps de temps.""Chaque fois que tu demandes à une IA au lieu d'un ami, tu rates une occasion de renforcer ton bien-être émotionnel.""Ce à quoi il faut claquer la porte, c'est l'anthropocentrisme. Si nous n'agissons que dans les intérêts humains de court terme, des fractions les plus aisées de la population mondiale, on va vraiment droit dans le mur."Idées centrales discutées 1. Le décentrage comme outil éthique fondamental ~0:11:35 – 0:17:26 Dans Défaite des maîtres et possesseurs, Vincent inverse les rôles : une espèce supérieure domine les humains exactement comme nous dominons les animaux. Ce n'est pas un gimmick de SF. C'est une expérience de pensée héritée du XVIIIe siècle — le Huron chez Voltaire, Gulliver chez Swift — qui force le lecteur à voir ses propres comportements depuis l'extérieur. Se décentrer, c'est la condition pour remettre en question des systèmes qu'on ne questionne plus parce qu'on les habite.2. La dystopie est devenue mainstream parce que notre réalité l'est ~0:07:11 – 0:11:35 En 2016, l'éditeur de Vincent refusait le mot "dystopie" car personne ne comprenait ce que ça voulait dire. Dix ans plus tard, c'est une catégorie sur toutes les plateformes. Cette banalisation dit quelque chose de profond sur notre perception collective du futur : on fait face à plusieurs menaces existentielles simultanées — crise écologique, risque nucléaire, algorithmes — et la fiction dystopique en est devenue le langage naturel.3. La biomasse comme chiffre qui change tout ~0:25:13 – 0:26:22 60% de la biomasse des mammifères : animaux d'élevage. 35% : humains. 5% : mammifères sauvages. En quelques décennies, on a remplacé la faune sauvage par des animaux au service de notre alimentation. Et la masse anthropogénique (tout ce qu'on a construit) pèse désormais plus lourd que toute la biomasse du vivant. Deux chiffres qui décrivent une planète fondamentalement reconfigurée.4. La violence ordinaire est aussi réelle que la violence visible ~0:41:xx – 1:05:40 Vincent explore deux registres de violence : la violence physique et visible (l'abattoir, les animaux) et la violence insidieuse du quotidien professionnel (harcèlement managérial, perte de sens, spirale du burn-out). Les deux laissent des traces. Et les deux trouvent leur expression dans ses romans.5. L'IA : outil précieux et déshumanisation silencieuse ~0:56:06 – 1:01:34 Vincent distingue l'usage raisonné de l'IA (documentation, déblocage d'un premier draft) et ce qui l'inquiète : les IA présentées comme des "amis toujours disponibles". Chaque demande faite à une IA plutôt qu'à un ami rate une occasion de renforcer un lien humain. Sur fond de solitude croissante, c'est une forme de déshumanisation lente et consentie.6. La joie comme condition de l'action écologique ~1:10:53 – 1:13:01 La phrase de Deleuze — "le système nouveau triste, il faut être joyeux pour lui résister" — structure la vision de Vincent. Cette joie ne vient pas d'un optimisme naïf, mais de l'apprentissage, de la curiosité maintenue, de l'action collective. Comprendre la crise écologique, c'est aussi découvrir l'incroyable complexité du vivant. Et ça, c'est une source de joie réelle.7. Le biocentrisme : seul anthropocentrisme rationnel ~1:13:44 – 1:16:41 Accorder de la valeur aux forêts, aux océans, aux animaux, c'est juste en soi — ils ont un droit à exister. Mais c'est aussi la seule stratégie rationnelle pour garantir que des sociétés humaines survivent dans 500 ans. Le biocentrisme, même vu de façon cynique, est un anthropocentrisme de long terme.Questions posées dans l'interviewQu'est-ce qui t'a emmené à la littérature, alors que tu aurais pu emprunter une autre voie après Normal Sup ?Quels sont les meilleurs romans jamais écrits selon toi, et pourquoi ?C'est quoi les clés d'une bonne histoire — ce qui fait qu'on ne peut pas s'arrêter de lire ?La dystopie est devenue un genre mainstream. Est-ce que ça dit quelque chose sur notre époque ?Comment tu vois le film Avatar — utopie, dystopie, les deux ?Dans Défaite des maîtres et possesseurs, tu crées un décentrage total. Qu'est-ce que ça t'a fait de te mettre dans cette position en tant qu'auteur et en tant qu'humain ?Comment, avec des convictions aussi fortes sur l'écologie, tu arrives à avoir de la nuance dans tes romans ?Ton dernier roman porte sur l'océan. Pourquoi ce monde-là spécifiquement ?Est-ce que tu dois toujours expérimenter le monde que tu décris, ou la documentation suffit ?Comment tu vis l'arrivée de l'IA en tant qu'auteur — outil utile ou menace ?Références citées dans l'épisodeLivresLes Frères Karamazov — Fiodor Dostoïevski | Choc littéraire à 18 ans, admiration pour l'imprévisibilité des personnages | ~0:03:xxL'Homme sans qualités — Robert Musil | Fresque de Vienne en 1913, modernité technoscientifique et malaise social | ~0:03:xxDéfaite des maîtres et possesseurs — Vincent Message (2016) | Dystopie animaliste, point de vue non humain | ~0:07:11Les Veilleurs — Vincent Message | Premier roman, 630 pages, "livre monde" | ~0:29:59Cora dans la spirale — Vincent Message | Violence ordinaire au travail, monde de l'assurance | ~1:01:34Les années sans soleil — Vincent Message (2022) | Confinement Covid, isolement géographique | ~0:45:37La folie océan — Vincent Message | Pêche et vie marine en Bretagne nord | ~0:32:42Du côté de chez Swann — Marcel Proust (1913) | Cité pour le paradoxe du format long dans une époque "pressée" | ~0:55:31Le Décaméron — Giovanni Boccaccio | Littérature d'épidémie, modèle de livre-témoin | ~0:48:16Le cerveau funambule — Jean-Pierre Lachaud | Recommandé pour comprendre notre rapport aux objets et à l'attention | ~0:51:36Films / SériesAvatar — James Cameron | Utopie frictionelle, guerre de civilisation, fantasme de changement de corps | ~0:08:46La Planète des singes | Comparé à Défaite des maîtres, jugé moins radical dans le décentrage | ~0:17:26Black Mirror | Principe du "et si" : faire bouger un seul élément et observer les conséquences | ~0:30:23Références scientifiques et intellectuellesÉtude Institut Weizmann, Nature (2020) | Masse anthropogénique > biomasse totale du vivant | ~0:23:38L214 | Vidéos d'abattoirs sorties en 2016, concomitantes avec la sortie de Défaite des maîtres | ~0:19:53Gilles Deleuze / Baruch Spinoza | "Le système nouveau triste, il faut être joyeux pour lui résister" | ~1:11:11Marie Peuzet | Clinicienne spécialiste de la souffrance au travail | ~1:03:xxRené Descartes | "Maître et possesseur de la nature" — formule reprise dans le titre du roman | ~1:07:21Timestamps clés 0:00:00 — Introduction : et si on pouvait à nouveau se réjouir du futur ? Présentation de Vincent Message, de VLAN et des thèmes de l'épisode : domination, fiction, violence, biocentrisme.0:02:29 — Pourquoi la littérature : écrire depuis l'enfance Vincent écrivait dès 7-8 ans. Ses études littéraires n'ont pas précédé l'envie d'écrire — elles l'ont approfondie. Il voulait "passer dans les coulisses" du tour de magie.0:04:55 — Les clés d'une bonne histoire Une bonne histoire place le protagoniste dans la pire situation possible, crée une tension électrique, et force le lecteur à se demander : qu'est-ce que je ferais à sa place ?0:07:11 — "Défaite des maîtres et possesseurs" : genèse d'une dystopie Un monde où les humains sont élevés, domestiqués, mangés. Pas de la SF classique : une expérience de pensée sur la cause animale, paradoxalement presque sans animaux.0:12:41 — Le voyage en Inde qui a tout déclenché Inde 2014, puis Camargue : la catégorisation arbitraire des animaux (aimés, adulés, écrasés) comme déclencheur du projet littéraire.0:17:45 — Écrire depuis un point de vue non humain La singularité du livre : le narrateur n'est pas humain. Il observe l'humanité de l'extérieur, comme un ethnographe découvrant une société étrange.0:23:38 — Les chiffres qui font basculer la perspective Masse anthropogénique > biomasse du vivant. 60% des mammifères sont des animaux d'élevage. 5% seulement sont sauvages.0:32:42 — "La folie océan" : pourquoi l'océan ? La plongée sous-marine comme expérience de décentrement. Un litre d'eau contient des millions d'organismes invisibles. Un monde qu'on soupçonnait à peine.0:49:59 — IA et écriture : outil ou menace ? Une boîte physique pour enfermer son téléphone. L'IA utile pour documenter, inquiétante quand elle prétend remplacer les relations humaines.1:05:50 — Ce qui donne envie du futur La modernité a apporté des conditions de vie inégalées en 300 000 ans. La mission écologique redonne un sens collectif à l'action. La lucidité avec l'élan.1:11:11 — La joie comme arme politique Deleuze / Spinoza : on ne résiste pas à un système triste en étant triste. Curiosité, apprentissage, création : sources réelles de joie face à la crise.1:13:44 — VLAN : claquer la porte à l'anthropocentrisme Le message final de Vincent : ouvrir la porte au biocentrisme. Pas par idéalisme — par calcul rationnel de survie à long terme. Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : #361 L'ADN environnemental révolutionne la science avec Alain Damasio et Benjamin Allegrini (https://audmns.com/YqGUonE) Vlan #74 La science fiction permet réellement de définir le futur avec Guy Philippe Goldstein (https://audmns.com/WFkwZGg) #377 Pourquoi l'avenir appartient aux sociétés solidaires? Avec Pablo Servigne (partie 1) (https://audmns.com/WMxgIMf)Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

On Monday Match Analysis, Gill Gross is joined by commentator Nick Lester to preview the men's quarterfinal slate at Roland Garros 2026. Gill starts with some words on Matteo Arnaldi's heroic win over Frances Tiafoe and a case for tennis as an attritional sport. Then, it's the quarterfinal previews: Joao Fonseca and Jakub Mensik in a mouthwatering NextGen matchup, Felix Auger-Alliasime takes on Flavio Cobolli seeking his first major SF, title favorite Alexander Zverev against teenager Rafael Jodar, and a resurgent Matteo Berrettini versus Matteo Arnaldi. Join Tribe for access to Mensik vs. Fonseca Live Hangout: https://tribechat.com/gill 0:00 Intro 1:20 Matteo Arnaldi Prediction 4:40 Great Matches 8:45 Upsets 12:55 ELC Controversy 19:00 Mensik vs. Fonseca 31:30 FAA vs. Cobolli 40:53 Zverev vs. Jodar 55:49 Berrettini QF IG: https://www.instagram.com/gillgross_/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gill.gross24/7 Tennis Community on Tribe: https://tribechat.com/gillTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/Gill_GrossThe Draw newsletter, your one-stop-shop for the best tennis content on the internet every week: https://www.thedraw.tennis/subscribeBecome a member to support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvERpLl9dXH09fuNdbyiLQQ/joinEvans Brothers Coffee Roasters, the Official Coffee Of Monday Match Analysis... use code GILLGROSS25 for 25% off your first order: https://evansbrotherscoffee.com/collections/coffeeAUDIO PODCAST FEEDSSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5c3VXnLDVVgLfZuGk3yxIF?si=AQy9oRlZTACoGr5XS3s_ygItunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/monday-match-analysis/id1432259450?mt=2 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Arms, le manga de SF culte, est de retour en librairie ! Signé Ryoji Minagawa et Kyoichi Nanatsuki, il met en scène Ryô Takatsuki, un lycéen qui découvre que son bras peut se transformer en... L'article Arms : pas de bras, pas de manga ! – La 5e de Couv’ – #5DC – Saison 11 épisode 38 est apparu en premier sur La 5e de Couv' - Le podcast de débat autour du manga !.

Every genre has a shadow canon — the writers who don't make the syllabus, don't sell out on Amazon, and rarely get the Netflix series. In science fiction, that shadow canon is where some of the most intellectually adventurous, politically serious and formally daring work of the twentieth century was done. Having opened the series with the big names — Wells, Verne, Poe, the Mount Rushmore of the genre — John and Ezri jump forward to the late 1960s and 1970s and turn to five authors most listeners won't know: Kate Wilhelm, Joanna Russ, John Sladek, John Brunner and Christopher Priest. Feminist SF, satirical SF, dystopian SF set in a Britain going to the dogs. The thread that connects them is "prescience", a word that keeps coming up. Were these writers really predicting the future – or just paying close enough attention to the present? In this episode: Why 1969 makes such a strange hinge point — Apollo 11 and the realisation of Goddard's cherry-tree dream, set against the assassinations of 1968, Vietnam, Prague, Altamont, and the first wave of environmental science Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell, and the New Wave: Moorcock's New Worlds, Ballard's "inner space", and SF's discovery that it could not avoid politics Kate Wilhelm — Hugo, Nebula and Locus winner for Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, a co-founder of the Clarion Writers' Workshop who is now better known as a mystery writer Joanna Russ — The Female Man, written in 1970 but unpublished until 1975, and How to Suppress Women's Writing; a Westinghouse Science Talent Search finalist who chose literature as her weapon John Sladek — the satirist whose robot in Tik-Tok has had its "asimov circuits" go on the blink, and whose hoax book on a thirteenth sign of the zodiac proved people will believe anything stated with enough confidence John Brunner — the "Club of Rome Quartet", the novel that coined "worm" for self-replicating code, and Stand on Zanzibar, set in 2010 and unsettlingly familiar by the time we got there Christopher Priest — Fugue for a Darkening Island and A Dream of Wessex, the racial framing Priest himself later grappled with, and The Prestige (with David Bowie as Tesla) The big question under all of it: what is the difference between prescience and prediction — and is it significant that "prescience" contains the word "science"? Links and resources: Website: techimaginarium.co.uk Instagram: @tech.imaginarium Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnHelmerConsulting Music by Nick Dwyer recording as Flintet. The Tech Imaginarium is a Learning Hack podcast, produced and hosted by John Helmer and written by John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach.

This week on my podcast, I read AI and a world without migrants, a recent essay from my Pluralistic blog, which psychoanalyzes the sociopathic fantasies that are driving the AI investment bubble. I don’t care who you are, there will always be times when hell is other people. Not because other people are horrible –... more

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Det finder vi måske snart ud af, for alt tyder på, at lavendel-regeringen er på trapperne: Socialdemokratiet, Moderaterne, SF og Radikale. Men hvem kommer til at sluge de bitre piller? Kan SF holde til endnu en omgang blå økonomisk politik? Kan Løkke leve med at bryde sit løfte om at holde fløjene ude af indflydelse? Og hvad gør Venstre og Konservative, hvis de må nøjes med at kigge ind ad vinduet til magten? Vi vender også Messerschmidts vej mod rollen som blå bloks stærkeste oppositionsleder. Ugens gæsteanalytiker er Jacob Bruun, tidligere særlig rådgiver for Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Det her er Borgen Unplugged. Her får du det hele. Og lidt til. Martin Flink har spørgsmålene. Anders Langballe og Jacob Bruun har svarene. Ugen afsnit er blevet til i godt partnerskab med Bagsværd Lakrids.

Is it officially time to rage drop Tanner Bibee after another blowout, or do the metrics suggest a major bounce-back is coming? Episode Summary Joe Bond and AJ Applegarth break down the top waiver wire adds, brutal drops, and key rankings movers for Week 10 of the fantasy baseball season. The crew details why pitchers like Shota Imanaga and Nolan McLean are sliding down the rankings, and explains why struggling stars like Bo Bichette represent key buy-low opportunities rather than panic drops. Week 10 Fantasy Baseball Advanced Analytics & Strategic Breakdown The fantasy baseball landscape is shifting rapidly as we head into Week 10, requiring managers to separate raw surface statistics from true predictive indicators. The focal point of this week's analysis centers on Cleveland Guardians right-hander Tanner Bibee, whose disastrous outing against the Washington Nationals exposed massive vulnerabilities. Surrendering seven earned runs and an astounding five home runs over just three innings of work on Memorial Day sent shockwaves through fantasy rosters. Looking into his broader trajectory, a disturbing multi-year pattern emerges. Bibee's surface ERA has progressively climbed from 2.98 to 3.47, then to 4.24, and now sits at 4.57 for the season. Coupled with a 4.16 SIERA and a strikeout rate dropping below one punchout per inning, Bibee can no longer be viewed as an un-droppable asset. His underlying numbers indicate he has transitioned into a volatile, matchup-dependent option rather than a reliable rotation anchor. Pitching volatility dominates the landscape this week, highlighted by prominent rankings fallers Shota Imanaga and Nolan McLean. While some fantasy managers might react with panic to their downward slide in the rankings, it is crucial to analyze the shift structurally rather than assuming true skill regression. Shota Imanaga's dip reflects an expected correction after an incredibly hot stretch, making it an adjustment based on stabilizing underlying metrics. Meanwhile, Nolan McLean's slide serves as a reminder of how quickly pitching depth charts and small-sample performance can fluctuate in standard rankings models. Separating these structural rankings adjustments from complete profile collapses is what allows sharp managers to maximize their pitching rotations while others panic-drop viable assets. Conversely, the advanced data reveals lucrative buy-low windows for targets experiencing acute misfortune. Oakland Athletics slugger Brent Rooker stands out as a prime trade target despite a freezing cold spell that dragged his batting average down to .189 with a 52:17 strikeout-to-walk ratio. While his standard Savant page flashes concerning blue metrics, Rooker boasts a consistent multi-year track record of crossing the 30-home-run threshold. In an era where league-wide batting averages are depressed, maintaining a true 30-homer profile provides massive utility, making him an ideal target while his market value is rock bottom. Similarly, managers must remain disciplined with elite foundational bats like Freddie Freeman and Bo Bichette. Freeman's minor dip in the rankings represents a normal structural variation rather than a fundamental degradation of his elite plate discipline. Bo Bichette is another prime example of why surface-level struggles should not trigger a panic drop. While he appears as a "Homer Pick Drop" focus on the show due to recent visual adjustments and shifting team dynamics, his long-term track record remains undeniable. Bichette is not a true skills-based rankings faller to cut loose; instead, the underlying metrics suggest he remains an elite bounce-back candidate. Treating his depressed batting average as a structural buying window rather than a permanent anchor allows you to secure an elite infielder before his inevitable positive statistical correction occurs. On the waiver wire front, uncovering values requires a sharp focus on expected metrics and situational deployment. Washington Nationals starter Cade Cavalli has emerged as a high-priority addition, exhibiting elite command over his last three starts spanning 19.3 innings. Cavalli has posted a stellar 2.79 ERA, a 1.03 WHIP, and a spectacular 2.44 SIERA alongside 24 strikeouts—highlighted by consecutive 10-strikeout performances against Atlanta and the Mets. Backed by a highly potent Nationals offense, his run support floor remains high. Meanwhile, deep-league infielder options like Chase Meidroth of the Chicago White Sox and Blaze Alexander of the Baltimore Orioles offer flexible, multi-position eligibility. Meidroth benefits from hitting near the top of a White Sox lineup that unexpectedly ranks as the eighth-best offense by wRC+. Alexander provides elite short-term streaming upside, slashing .344 with a .913 OPS since mid-May, offering short-term category boosts while navigating structural gaps in the fantasy infield. Episode Chapters & Timestamps 0:00 - Week 10 Overview & Strategy 3:30 - Homer Pick: Blaze Alexander (2B/3B/SS/OF, BAL) Analysis 10:13 - Waiver Wire Add: Chase Meidroth (2B/3B/SS, CWS) Profile 14:48 - Waiver Wire Add: Cade Cavalli (SP, WAS) Statcast Breakdown 18:06 - Rage Drop of the Wk: Tanner Bibee (SP, CLE) Deep Dive 24:25 - Waiver Wire Drop: Devin Williams (RP, NYM) Closer Volatility 28:57 - Waiver Wire Drop: Brent Rooker (DH/OF, ATH) Valuation 36:05 - Homer Pick: Bo Bichette (SS/3B, NYM) Outlook 41:14 - FanDuel Presents: MLB Season Win Totals & Odds 48:50 - Rankings Review: Week 10 Risers & Fallers 48:50 - Rankings Riser: CJ Abrams (SS, WSH) 50:27 - Rankings Riser: Yandy Diaz (1B, TB) 51:37 - Rankings Riser: Casey Schmitt (1B/3B, SF) 53:30 - Rankings Riser: Ketel Marte (2B, ARI) 55:49 - Rankings Riser: Payton Tolle (SP, BOS) 57:34 - Rankings Riser: Shane Baz (SP, BAL) 59:16 - Rankings Riser: Gerrit Cole (SP, NYY) 1:00:12 - Rankings Faller: Freddie Freeman (1B, LAD) 1:01:38 - Rankings Faller: Taylor Ward (OF, BAL) 1:02:06 - Rankings Faller: Tyler Soderstrom (1B/DH, ATH) 1:03:34 - Rankings Faller: Vinnie Pasquantino (1B, KC) 1:04:14 - Rankings Faller: Nolan McLean (SP, NYM) 1:07:00 - Rankings Faller: Shota Imanaga (SP, CHC) 1:07:40 - Rankings Faller: Sandy Alcantara (SP, MIA) 1:09:34 - Rankings Faller: Jack Perkins (P, OAK) 1:17:40 - Buy Low Trade Target: Nico Hoerner (2B, CHC) 1:18:45 - Buy Low Trade Target: Brent Rooker (DH/OF, ATH) 1:21:16 - Sell High Trade Target: Brandon Lowe (2B, TB) 1:23:24 - Sell High Trade Target: Spencer Arrighetti (SP, HOU) The F6P Hour is proudly presented by FanDuel! 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Why Did Ancient Civilizations Worship Bulls?From the Minotaur to Taurus, explore how bull symbolism shaped mythology, religion, power, and identity across the ancient world.This episode is for anyone fascinated by ancient mythology, symbolism, religion, and the hidden meanings behind ancient cultures.Author and researcher Stephen Palmer explores the history of bull worship in the ancient world, from prehistoric cave art and fertility rituals to Greek mythology, and the enduring cultural power of the bull. The conversation dives into why bulls became such important symbols of strength, masculinity, divinity, sacrifice, and cosmic order across civilizations.You'll also discover how ancient myths and symbols still influence modern culture today: from astrology and storytelling to politics, identity, and human psychology.If you've ever wondered why the bull appears everywhere in mythology and history, this episode offers a fascinating deep dive into one of humanity's oldest symbols.KEY TOPICS COVERED• Why bulls were worshipped in ancient civilizations • Bull symbolism in Greek mythology and religion • Taurus and the zodiac explained • The Minotaur and Minoan Crete • Bulls as symbols of masculinity, power, and fertility • Ancient rituals, sacrifice, and sacred animals • Mythology, storytelling, and oral cultures • Nature, stars, and symbolic thinking in prehistory • Shamanism and animal spirit symbolism • Why ancient myths still shape modern culture • The psychological power of symbols and stories • What mythology teaches us about human nature TIMESTAMPS00:00 Introduction & Stephen Palmer01:12 Why the bull became a sacred symbol03:45 Bull worship in prehistory06:18 Bulls in ancient mythology and religion09:52 Taurus and the zodiac explained13:40 The Minotaur and Minoan symbolism18:07 Bulls, kingship, and political power22:31 Fertility rituals and sacred sacrifice27:46 Why ancient cultures relied on symbols31:12 Myth, storytelling, and oral traditions35:25 Shamanism and animal spirit guides40:18 Nature as the source of ancient symbols41:53 Losing our connection with nature42:46 Why studying mythology still matters today43:01 Bull symbolism and modern culture45:20 Why storytelling shapes human identity46:29 The danger of symbols we don't understand46:54 “Question everything”47:04 Final reflections & closing thoughtsIf you enjoy conversations about ancient mythology, history, symbolism, and philosophy, subscribe for more deep dives into the ancient world.Why do you think the bull became such a powerful symbol across so many civilizations? Let us know in the comments.LINKS

在忙碌中迷失了節奏？讓心靈深呼吸。《城市使命》每日 7–10 分鐘短篇靈修，為你的日常靈性充電！我們透過經文與生命見證，把你的通勤與休息時間，轉化為與神對話的神聖時刻。不長篇大論，只給你最純粹的屬靈養分。現在就收聽，在城市的喧囂中找回你的屬靈方向！Overwhelmed by the hustle? Take a deep breath. We offer 7–10 minute short devotionals to recharge your spirit on the go. Through quick biblical insights and powerful testimonies, we turn your commute or coffee break into a divine dialogue. Simple, deep, and exactly what your soul needs today. Tune in now, quiet the noise, and realign your spiritual compass!

Send us Fan MailJoin us as we delve into the rich history of the Cincinnati Reds with former GM Dick Williams. Discover behind-the-scenes stories, legendary players, and insights into baseball management and fandom.Could the Reds have gotten Shohei? Mr. Williams certainly tried.Would 2012 season have turned out differently if the pitchers were not taking BATTING practice before Game 1 in SF? Dick explains that maybe that answer is yes!Was Marge Schott the expected buyer of the Reds in 1984? Hmmm. Dick tells the story.Did Amir Garrett almost cause the Yasiel Puig not to happen? Listen and enjoy?So much more....Key TopicsReds history and legacyManagement and decision-making in MLBMemorable games and momentsPlayer and team developmentSound Bites"2019 Pirates almost cost us big time""Bronson Arroyo's cornrows were brutal""Bronson's blonde flow was amazing"Chapters00:00Introduction to Dick Williams01:26Early Memories of Baseball and the Reds04:09Reflections on Favorite Players and Managers10:18Growing Up in the Reds Family14:57Challenges as GM and President of the Reds16:57Pride in Leadership and Team Success20:28Transitioning to Skyline Chili27:25Time Machine Decisions and Rivalries35:04Pirates and Umpires: The Game Dynamics35:59Mount Rushmore of Reds: Legends and Icons37:30Dinner Party with Baseball Legends38:25Dream Players: Who Should Be in a Reds Uniform?41:01Ballpark Food: The Ultimate Game Snack42:27Memorable Moments: Reds History Outside the Ballpark43:39Clutch Moments: Who Would You Trust?44:21Best Pitch: Who Would You Call?45:51Baseball Movies: The Ones That Resonate46:37Walk-Up Songs: Setting the Mood46:52Favorite Reds Uniforms: Aesthetic Choices48:00Utility Players: The Unsung Heroes48:23Most Memorable Nights: Highs and Lows50:02Amazing Moments: Unforgettable Plays51:54Brawl Ready: Who's on Your Team?53:03Best and Worst Hair: A Fun Debate54:14Speed Demons: Who Wins the Race Jack thanks the listeners

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在忙碌中迷失了節奏？讓心靈深呼吸。《城市使命》每日 7–10 分鐘短篇靈修，為你的日常靈性充電！我們透過經文與生命見證，把你的通勤與休息時間，轉化為與神對話的神聖時刻。不長篇大論，只給你最純粹的屬靈養分。現在就收聽，在城市的喧囂中找回你的屬靈方向！Overwhelmed by the hustle? Take a deep breath. We offer 7–10 minute short devotionals to recharge your spirit on the go. Through quick biblical insights and powerful testimonies, we turn your commute or coffee break into a divine dialogue. Simple, deep, and exactly what your soul needs today. Tune in now, quiet the noise, and realign your spiritual compass!

The Deep State just got caught red-handed in a delicious twist of irony, massive state-managed fraud rings are being dismantled, and the high-stakes chess match over Iran is reaching a boiling point. Today on The Adult in the Room, Victoria Taft breaks down the stunning federal indictment of high-level DOJ prosecutor Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, who was caught stealing and hiding sealed documents from Judge Aileen Cannon under the file names "chocolate cake recipe" and "bunt cake recipe." Next, we look at the massive federal raids in Minnesota dropping the hammer on multi-million dollar daycare fraud conduits like the infamous "Quality Leering Center." We also dive into the Howard Lutnick Epstein deposition transcripts, Spencer Pratt's shocking fundraising lead in the LA mayoral race, and a fiery history lesson from Senator Ted Cruz. Plus, we feature two crucial interviews: geopolitical expert Edmund Fitton-Brown breaks down the truth behind the Trump-Bibi tension, and SF street reporter JJ Smith exposes a horrific cash-for-identity voter and Medicare scam running unchecked on the streets. Finally, we remember motorsport legend Kyle Busch following his tragic passing.Support the channel! Like, subscribe, and share the truth across YouTube, Rumble, and Spotify.TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Welcome to The Adult in the Room02:15 - Minnesota Daycare Fraud: The "Quality Leering Center" Indictment08:45 - 15 Arrested: The $90 Million Balcony-Jumping Fraud Raid13:10 - Epstein Files: Howard Lutnick Deposition & Ro Khanna's Blunder22:40 - The "Epstein Class" Rhetorical Trap Explained25:15 - Middle East Meltdown: Interview with Rabbi Michael Barkley36:00 - Iran Sit Rep: Interview with FDD Expert Edmund Fitton-Brown45:10 - Caught on Tape: Interview with SF Street Reporter JJ Smith58:30 - The "Chocolate Cake" Indictment: DOJ Prosecutor Exposed1:12:15 - Spencer Pratt Outraises Karen Bass in LA Mayoral Race1:23:40 - Ted Cruz Masterclass: Dismantling Mazie Hirono on Race History1:35:10 - Tragically Losing a Legend: Rest in Peace, Kyle BuschAll statements and opinions expressed by guests of the Adult in the Room podcast are strictly their own and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or opinions of the host, producers, or advertisers. All interviews are presented in their most complete possible form in the interests of free speech. No statements should be interpreted as financial, legal, or medical advice. Listener and viewer discretion are strongly advised.

Is it time to panic on Jackson Merrill after a brutal slide in the rankings, or is this the ultimate window to buy low on a superstar like Freddie Freeman? We are breaking down the critical fantasy baseball waiver wire moves and rankings shifts you need to make right now. From the data behind Travis Bazzana's rise to the metrics causing concern for Fernando Tatis Jr., we have the analytical edge to keep you ahead of your league. On this episode of The F6P Hour, AJ, Joe, and Corey discuss the absolute must-add talents and the toxic trends forcing managers into difficult roster choices. The crew evaluates the actual panic meter for sliding superstars and uncovers under-the-radar waiver wire targets to salvage your offensive depth. They also explore the optimal windows to buy low on struggling high-end studs before their market price rockets back up. The Gunnar Henderson Slide: Why the elite shortstop is tumbling down Joe's rankings and whether the underlying Statcast metrics hint at a quick turnaround. Prospects on the Move: Deep dives into Travis Bazzana, Carson Benge, and high-upside arms like Jacob Misiorowski and Trey Yesavage. Premium Buy-Low Windows: Why underperforming elite assets like Freddie Freeman and Manny Machado are screaming trade targets right now according to Corey. Waiver Wire Realities: Navigating a messy injury week and identifying if J.T. Ginn or Gabriel Moreno can save your roster depth. As the fantasy baseball calendar hits Week 9, savvy managers must separate noise from actual signal. A primary example is the red-hot surge of Cincinnati Reds outfielder JJ Bleday. While he might not have the volume to fully qualify for standard Statcast leaderboards yet, adjusting the parameters to a 50 at-bat minimum reveals an elite expected slugging percentage of .579, ranking him comfortably inside the top 10 league-wide. Combined with a robust 14% barrel rate and an expected batting average north of .300, Bleday is a priority addition across all formats, especially given the hitter-friendly environment of Great American Ball Park. Conversely, the evaluation of veterans like Alec Bohm requires a balanced perspective. Bohm has been a stabilizer over an 11-game hitting streak, flashing an empty average that boosts standard categories but masks his historical profile as a secondary power source. While he remains a highly usable asset across corner infield positions, his fantasy value leans heavily on counting stats in a potent Philadelphia offense rather than underlying Statcast metrics suggesting an imminent home run explosion. Meanwhile, the catcher landscape has drastically thinned due to structural injuries to primary tier options, vaulting Gabriel Moreno back into relevant consideration as a high-floor, volume-based streaming plug-in despite capped ceiling metrics. On the flip side of value preservation, the pitching market presents high-risk choices. Oakland's J.T. Ginn commands attention after carrying a no-hitter into the ninth inning, flashing an upgraded pitch-mix and an attractive 2.85 SIERA over his recent stretch. However, his volatility mirrors the broader market where names like Foster Griffin demonstrate how quickly an ERA can balloon when sequencing and park factors regress. For managers executing long-term trade strategies, targeting foundational players like Freddie Freeman and Manny Machado during temporary statistical slumps represents the gold standard of roster optimization, buying into proven career baselines before their BABIP stabilizes. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:05 Alec Bohm (3B, PHI) 7:35 JJ Bleday (OF, CIN) 12:39 Carson Benge (OF, NYM) 14:55 Gabriel Moreno (C, ARI) 21:43 J.T. Ginn (SP, ATH) 25:38 Rage Drops: Foster Griffin (SP, WAS) 31:55 Ian Happ (OF, CHC) 34:30 Christian Walker (1B, HOU) 36:35 Jackson Merrill (OF, SD) 39:12 Rankings Riser: Travis Bazzana (2B, CLE) 40:45 FanDuel +2200 AL ROY 42:04 Rankings Riser: JJ Bleday (OF, CIN) 42:42 Rankings Riser: J.P. Crawford (SS, SEA) 43:50 Rankings Riser: Carson Benge (OF, NYM) 44:20 Rankings Riser: Salvador Perez (C/1B, KC) 45:37 Rankings Riser: Trey Yesavage (SP, TOR) 47:15 Rankings Riser: Jacob Misiorowski (SP, MIL) 48:00 Rankings Riser: Merrill Kelly (SP, ARI) 49:50 Rankings Faller: Fernando Tatis Jr. (OF, SD) 52:40 Rankings Faller: Gunnar Henderson (SS, BAL) 54:48 Rankings Faller: Jackson Merrill (OF, SD) 56:12 Rankings Faller: Robbie Ray (SP, SF) 57:30 Rankings Faller: Bubba Chandler (SP, PIT) 58:50 Rankings Faller: Foster Griffin (RP, KC) 59:05 Rankings Faller: Shane Baz (SP, BAL) 1:00:01 Buy Low: Freddie Freeman (1B, LAD) 1:02:57 Buy Low: Ozzie Albies (2B, ATL) 1:06:01 Buy Low: Manny Machado (3B, SD) 1:11:22 Sell High: Xavier Edwards (SS, MIA) 1:14:07 Sell High: Taj Bradley (SP, MIN) 1:17:16 Sell High: Otto Lopez (2B, MIA) Sponsors & Promo Info This episode is proudly presented by @FanDuel. Check out the latest lines and place your season-long props over at FanDuel! 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Alfred Wallfors is the Co-founder of Listen Labs, the AI customer research company.Companies like Microsoft use Listen to run AI-powered customer interviews, and Alfred talks about how they first landed them as a customer at a pitch competition.We talk why startups should pursue enterprise customers early on, why 85% of survey answers are random clicks, how AI is changing the $140B market research industry, leveraging VC's for customer intros, how to stand out when recruiting as a startup, and hiring for obsession.Thank you to Numeral, Flex, and Amplitude for supporting this episodeNumeral: The end-to-end platform for sales tax and compliance https://www.numeral.comFlex: Get premium banking and a net 60 day credit card at 0% APY https://home.flex.one/referral/bananacapitalAmplitude: AI analytics, all you have to do is ask https://www.amplitude.comTimestamps:(0:14) Listen: AI customer research tool(7:30) Fraud is a big problem in customer research(9:06) The $140B customer survey industry(12:08) Why running customer surveys is so hard(16:03) AGI will never replace humans(18:25) Surveys vs interviews(21:13) Importance of emotion in data collection(22:54) Using AI interviews to get product feedback(26:15) Building digital twins creates better data(32:22) Outperforming generic AI tools(34:17) Sweetgreen's Max Protein Bowl(36:09) Jevon's Paradox in customer research(40:37) Quantitative vs qualitative(42:38) Landing Microsoft as an early customer(44:50) Targeting enterprise customers from day 1(48:05) Building a VC customer intro leaderboard(51:53) Recruiting with billboard games(57:20) Hiring for obsession(1:02:07) Alfred's favorite movies(1:03:53) Listen's custom agent harness(1:06:24) Velocity Fellowship for Swedes moving to SF(1:08:34) Growing up with entrepreneurial older brother(1:09:46) No shoes in the officeReferencedTry Listen: https://listenlabs.ai/Careers at Listen: https://listenlabs.ai/careersSweetgreen protein bowls: https://listenlabs.ai/case-studies/sweetgreenToni Erdmann: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4048272/Episode with Erik @ Modal: https://www.thespl.it/p/building-ai-native-infrastructureFollow AlfredTwitter: https://x.com/itsalfredwLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wahlforssFollow TurnerTwitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovakLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovakSubscribe to my newsletter to get every episode + the transcript in your inbox every week: https://www.thespl.it/

In 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted that computers would let every person learn what they wanted, in their own time, at their own speed. Forty years on, that vision is more or less the world we live in. So what else might science fiction have to tell us about the future we're already inside? Welcome to The Tech Imaginarium — a new six-part series exploring how science fiction made the modern world. Co-hosts John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach introduce the season ahead, the texts and authors they'll be reading as "skewed mirrors" of our technological present, and why now is exactly the right moment to be paying attention to SF.   In this episode: Asimov's startlingly accurate 1983 prediction about computer-aided learning Why science fiction is a form of learning, not just entertainment — Stephen Baxter's "skewed mirror" A first look at the six-episode season: Amazing Stories at 100, five foundational SF authors, two episodes on Asimov, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and the awkward question of whether SF predicts the future   Links and resources: Website: learninghackpodcast.com Instagram: @TechImaginarium Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnHelmerConsulting   Music by Nick Dwyer and Flintet. The Tech Imaginarium is a Learning Hack podcast, produced and hosted by John Helmer and written by John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach.

Ed. note: Please be advised that there's some very heavy subject matter discussed in this episode. In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Jenny left San Francisco for college, heading east to go to school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Part of it was wanting a change of scenery. As she says, she "wanted to see snow." But all it took was a few winters before she realized how good the weather in SF is. She also wanted to return to help take care of her mom, who was getting older. This was around the time that Jenny went to China and came back determined to spread the untold histories of what happened in her homeland during WWII. The nonprofit learning curve was steep, and it was almost certainly going to mean shifting gears lifestyle-wise, due to not having as much income. During the first year of Pacific Atrocities Education's life, it was fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, an SF-based arts nonprofit. Jenny enrolled in and went to as many workshops as she could. She felt generally well-respected and taken care of. With her nascent nonprofit off and running, Jenny traveled to a part of China she had never been to before—Shanxi—to visit and talk with women who survived the war as so-called comfort women (think "sex slaves"). Jenny goes on a sidebar here to talk about some of the things the Japanese did to women during their occupation of China. It involved the Japanese not wanting their soldiers to pick up STDs while in a foreign country. If they could control the situation, i.e., enslave Chinese women to have sex with their soldiers, they could solve that "problem." So disgusting. Hearing these women's stories wasn't easy for Jenny. One story involved one of the women being pregnant after the war ended. She went back to live with her mother, who helped her along. When the baby was born, they abandoned it. Just horrible all around. We sidebar, a little, to talk about the ripple effect of wars and how it's not just tanks and bombs and guns and soldiers fighting other soldiers. There are untold numbers of innocent folks caught up in the destruction, folks whose lives are forever upended, if they even survive. Jenny says that the experience on that trip to China gave her perspective on her own childhood in the Tenderloin. She thought maybe it wasn't so bad after all. It wasn't only women in China. She went and spoke with women in California's Central Coast area about their own experiences as "comfort women." These were Filipinas who relocated to the US after the war. Most of their families didn't know their stories. And it wasn't until the Obama era that light started to be shone on them and what they'd been through. Obama's administration was the first to recognize them, but it was complicated, to say the least. Jenny talks about the delicacy of what she set out to do. Specifically, the difficulty of balancing the need to share these stories, but also to be respectful of the lives impacted by them. In addition to the research she was undertaking for Pacific Atrocities Education, Jenny was also writing a book on the topic. She was able to scan documents from the National Archives, documents the US has due to its occupation of Japan following World War II. One of the more alarming things she found in digging through archives was that the United States traded immunity with Japan's Unit 731 scientists, whose work involved developing biological weapons. Yikes. She goes on to describe other atrocious acts the Japanese undertook in China, stuff so horrible and inhumane I have trouble enumerating it here. I ask Jenny how she handles learning about such terrible stuff. She chalks it up to its being mission-driven work. We chat a little about how the people doing bad things never get held accountable, something true to this day. That immunity mentioned above was given to the Japanese scientists in exchange for the information contained in their research of biological weapons, naturally. You read that right: The US looked the other way while essentially poaching incredibly deadly weapons from its vanquished enemy. Please visit pacificatrocities.org to learn more and get involved. Their YouTube channel is called Pacific Front Untold. Follow them on Instagram @pacificatrocitiesedu. We recorded this episode at Fort Mason in April 2026. Photography by Jeff Hunt

It's our tenth episode hecktacular! Still waiting on the new bathroom lock, by the way.Rish talks about a patron making accusations on the night the police were called twice.  And an outtake that made Rish cry before recording it.If you wish to download the episode, Right-Click HERE.If you wish to support me on Patreon, click HERE.Logo by Gino "X" Moretto.

Un grand merci à Loop Capital, la référence mondiale de l'Infinite Banking Concept, de soutenir ce podcast. Découvrez comment reprendre le contrôle absolu de votre capital et bâtir votre souveraineté financière sur : https://loop-capital.co/Un CPE lui prête 50 000 francs sans prendre de parts. La boîte est vendue 180 millions. Carlos Diaz — El Gringo, fondateur de Silicon Carne — raconte tout ce qu'il n'a jamais dit.Carlos Diaz a grandi à Limoges dans un HLM. Parents ouvriers, réfugiés espagnols fuyant Franco. Il a raté le théâtre, la musique (son groupe était à une voix de signer avec Zebda — le bassiste produit aujourd'hui Justice), Sciences Po. Un CPE lui prête 50 000 francs sans prendre une seule part. La boîte est vendue 180 millions.Depuis septembre 2025, il est full-time sur Silicon Carne — top #1 podcast tech francophone depuis SF. 100 000 écoutes/mois, CPM 100-150$, ~1000 membres à L'Hacienda, Le Festin à 250K€ la saison.Dans cet épisode :→ L'anecdote Justice — jamais racontée avant→ Le CPE Martin Mazo qui prête tout sans prendre de parts — décédé depuis→ Entreprendre comme tomber amoureux — sa philosophie centrale→ Le business model Silicon Carne complet→ YouTube a gagné la guerre du podcast — il l'a vu avant tout le monde→ La Chine, l'IA, Elon vs Altman — sa grille de lecture depuis SF→ Son message à la nouvelle génération : « Cette technologie vous appartient. Débrouillez-vous. »▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

(I said Svitolina beat four Top 20 players on route to the Rome title - this is wrong. She beat three Top 5 opponents, but the next higher ranking she beat was World no.25 Hailey Baptiste.)Elina Svitolina wins her first WTA 1000 since Rome 2018. Her third crown in the Italian capital, with hard-fought, well-earned wins over Elena Rybakina, Iga Swiatek, and Coco Gauff. What a tournament by the Ukrainian, who sits now as the WTA Race World No.3, and No.7 in the 52-week rankings.Will that be enough to earn her a first grand slam title at Roland Garros, starting next week??Time will tell - but, I think that would be really difficult. Not so much because Svitolina is not a great player, in fact, she's probably the best version of herself on a tennis court in her career. But the WTA is full of surprises, and the level is insanely high across the board. The Top 5 is playing amazing tennis, with Aryna Sabalenka being as consistent a World No.1 can be, reaching SF and Finals at almost every tournament she plays, only without the major title to show for it in 2026. Which in turn could make her even more dangerous an motivated to win her first Roland Garros trophy.Elena Rybakina the WTA Race World No.1, World No.2 in the 52-week rankings, and Australian Open champion, would be looking to transform her Race ranking into her real ranking, climbing to World No.1 for the first time in her career with a deep run in Paris - a title would all but guarantee it. And then, who knows: a Calendar Grand Slam in the making?Gauff, the defending champion at Roland Garros, lost to Svitolina in the Rome final in a tough three-setter. Doesn't matter how Gauff plays, it seems it's always impossible to beat her without massive effort. There are no true bad days for the American. She's coming for that title again, no matter who stands in her way - even if it's her own self.Finally, Iga Swiatek. The four-time Roland Garros champion started the year without playing well at all. All seemed completely out of control, with her game spiraling and losses stacking up. Until Francisco Roig joined her team as her new coach, and a couple days with Rafa Nadal himself, seemingly changed the course of her year overnight. Now playing a much more confident tennis, with her strengths emphasized and game plans set on more that just hit the ball very hard, Swiatek made us all look at her again as one of the top favourites. But you can't just erase months of struggle like that, and her loss to Svitolina in Rome showed that, despite the great progress over this clay season, Swiatek might still have some internal issues to work out before fully returning to her very best. Will it happen at Roland Garros 2026?We will have to wait and see how all this unfolds.Favourite this podcast if you like our work :)SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube channel!Follow TENNIS AND BAGELS!Twitter/X: https://x.com/TennisAndBAGELSAndre:Twitter/X - https://x.com/RolembergAndreBlueSky Social: https://bsky.app/profile/andrerolemberg.bsky.socialVansh: https://x.com/vanshv2kOwen (BlueSky Social): https://bsky.app/profile/owensports.bsky.socialSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/tennis-and-bagels. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

책에 관한 걸쭉하고 상큼한 이야기 "책.걸.상"학계에서 쫓겨나 중학교 과학 교사로 도망친 그레이스에게 대뜸 임무가 주어진다."태양을 죽이는 미생물 아스트로파지의 해답을 찾아라. 실패하면 인류는 끝이다."가족도, 친구도, 연인도 없었던 그레이스.얼떨결에 우주에 가게 되는데 그곳에서 외계 우주선을 만난다.그곳에서 만난 존재, 로키.서로가 같은 목표를 향해 달려가던 중, 그레이스에게는 또다른 선택의 기로가 놓인다.지구를 살릴 것이냐,로키를 살릴 것이냐.《마션》을 재밌게 읽으셨던 분SF는 어렵다고 생각했던 분영화 보고 원작이 궁금해진 분우주 한복판의 우정 이야기에 기꺼이 울고 싶은 분께 추천드립니다.

On this week's episode, we step into the operating room to diagnose two very different dynasty fantasy football teams. One roster is in full rebuild mode and desperately needs a long-term recovery plan, while the other is a true contender sitting on the verge of a fantasy football championship.We break down dynasty fantasy football trade strategy, roster construction, player values, rookie picks, win-now moves, and rebuilding tactics to help both teams maximize their future. Which veterans should contenders buy before the season? Which players should rebuilding teams sell for draft capital? And what moves can turn a fringe playoff roster into a championship winner?If you love dynasty fantasy football analysis, roster breakdowns, trade advice, rebuild strategy, contender strategy, rookie pick discussions, and championship-winning fantasy football moves, this episode is packed with actionable insight for every type of fantasy football manager.Contending Roster:ContenderTeam details: Contender/Defending Champ.  12x10 SF, PPR, .25 ppc and .75 TEP. 27 1st (not their own), 27 3rd, 27 4th. Have all 28 and 29 picks.QBs: Caleb Williams, Cam Ward, Malik Willis, Trey LanceRBs: Josh Jacobs, Kyren Williams, Javonte Williams, Jaylen Warren, Tyrone TracyWRs: Puka Nacua, Chris Olave, Michael Pittman, Mike Evans, Tre Tucker, Malik Washington, Ryan Flournoy, JaKobi Lane, Tank DellTEs: Jake Ferguson, Gunnar Helm, Oscar Delp, Cade Otton, DulcichTaxi: Roman Wilson, Tahj Brooks, Sam Roush, Deion Burks, Demond ClaiborneRebuilderTeam details: 12x9 full PPR SFlex no TEP, going into year 2, three 2027 firsts and 3 2027 2ndsQBs: Caleb Williams, Fernando Mendoza, Justin Fields, Anthony Richardson, Jameis Winston, Tyson Bagent, Tanner McKeeRBs: TreVeyon Henderson, Bhayshul Tuten, Braelon Allen, Marshawn Lloyd, Kyle Monangai, Tahj Brooks, Jordan Mason, Tank BigsbyWRs: Luther Burden, Jameson Williams, Rome Odunze, Xavier Worthy, Malik Washington, Brandon Aiyuk, Antonio WilliamsTEs: Brock Bowers, AJ BarnerTaxi: Ted Hurst, Eli Stowers, Eli Raridon, Emmett Johnson, Eli Heidenreich 

在忙碌中迷失了節奏？讓心靈深呼吸。《城市使命》每日 7–10 分鐘短篇靈修，為你的日常靈性充電！我們透過經文與生命見證，把你的通勤與休息時間，轉化為與神對話的神聖時刻。不長篇大論，只給你最純粹的屬靈養分。現在就收聽，在城市的喧囂中找回你的屬靈方向！Overwhelmed by the hustle? Take a deep breath. We offer 7–10 minute short devotionals to recharge your spirit on the go. Through quick biblical insights and powerful testimonies, we turn your commute or coffee break into a divine dialogue. Simple, deep, and exactly what your soul needs today. Tune in now, quiet the noise, and realign your spiritual compass!

在忙碌中迷失了節奏？讓心靈深呼吸。《城市使命》每日 7–10 分鐘短篇靈修，為你的日常靈性充電！我們透過經文與生命見證，把你的通勤與休息時間，轉化為與神對話的神聖時刻。不長篇大論，只給你最純粹的屬靈養分。現在就收聽，在城市的喧囂中找回你的屬靈方向！Overwhelmed by the hustle? Take a deep breath. We offer 7–10 minute short devotionals to recharge your spirit on the go. Through quick biblical insights and powerful testimonies, we turn your commute or coffee break into a divine dialogue. Simple, deep, and exactly what your soul needs today. Tune in now, quiet the noise, and realign your spiritual compass!

Hour 1: Sarah is bringing back a long lost bit to annoy Vinnie. Detective Mark Fuhrman, infamous from the OJ Simpson trial, has passed away. America's 250th birthday is coming up, and Wheel of Fortune is celebrating! Let's eat some headlines: Amy Schumer's botched colonoscopy, Pete Davidson might be a deadbeat, Anderson Cooper is saying good-bye to 60 Minutes. Vinnie opens up about suffering from girl-orrhea. Imagine you had a magic watch that could stop time, what would you do? TSA says you can't bring liquids, but you can bring as many rotisserie chickens as you want! Where are we getting our pizza in bulk these days? Hour 2: What's the perfect amount of fame? Kylie Jenner arranged the double date of pop culture dreams. HBO already has to recast one of the Harry Potter kids. Sarah finds an excuse to say Milly Bobby Brown Jovi. Ebola, you don't want it. Scott Budman is on the show! Whether he knows it or not. Don't meet your heroes, unless it's Scott Budman. The verdict is in over Elon Musk V.s OpenAI, and it's really just about missing a deadline. Microsoft AI chief says in 18 months all white-collar work will be automated by AI. No wonder all the college graduates continue to boo. Hour 3: Eddie Murphy won't let his kids work in showbiz until age 18. Cannes Film Festival is going on, and Sarah thinks Vinnie will love the animated surf movie that Netflix just bought. It's the famous kids graduation season! Angelina Jolie's daughter, Zahara Marley Jolie, graduated from college. Brad Pitt was nowhere to be found. Nick Cannon has double standards for his children. The 37% rule says this is how you should pick your partner. Bottom line, we should look up Vinnie's high school girlfriend. Hour 4: BTS is playing in SF tonight - have fun! Spain said Shakira owes them $70 Million. Now they owe her. Ella Langley continues to make history on the Billboard charts. Tyler White from ‘Love on the Spectrum' released his first country music single. There's a new way to watch some of this year's biggest festivals from your couch. Bob won't give up on finding Vinnie's favorite ex-girlfriend. Matty has never been to Disney World! No wife, no problem. Plus, a story about a naked man and How Old Is That Guy?

BTS is playing in SF tonight - have fun! Spain said Shakira owes them $70 Million. Now they owe her. Ella Langley continues to make history on the Billboard charts. Tyler White from ‘Love on the Spectrum' released his first country music single. There's a new way to watch some of this year's biggest festivals from your couch. Bob won't give up on finding Vinnie's favorite ex-girlfriend. Matty has never been to Disney World! No wife, no problem. Plus, a story about a naked man and How Old Is That Guy?

Silver & JD continue their discussion on long-term future plans for Luis Arraez & what can be done given SF's inconsistent rotation; we pivot to chat Spurs/Thunder with Sam Amick of the Athletic, and get his thoughts on the return of Steve Kerr to the WarriorsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ed. note: We recorded this episode outside on a windy day near The Bay. Apologies for the wind gusts you'll hear throughout. Jenny Chan found Storied: San Francisco thanks to Toshio from Sad Francisco. Jenny and I kick off her episode talking about Toshio, in fact. Jenny was born in Hong Kong. Growing up, her dad's mom babysat her a lot. Young Jenny really loved anime and would turn it on at grandma's house. When she did this, her Chinese grandmother would get upset, and Jenny didn't know why. She thought maybe her grandma was senile. Later in Jenny's life, when her grandmother passed away and she helped clean and organize her home in China, she discovered items her grandma kept that pointed to a life spent under Japanese occupation before and during World War II. We mentioned anime, but when Jenny was a kid, she just loved Japanese culture all around. She indulged in manga whenever she could save up enough money. As with the anime, her grandma didn't take kindly to these Japanese things in her home. When she was 10, Jenny's parents split up. She and her older brother then joined their mom and moved to the US. When Jenny remarks that she's not sure how her mom did it, we go on a sidebar. Jenny shares that her mom grew up during the time of the US war in Vietnam, so she's a survivor. I add that, simply, women are amazing. In US schools, Jenny learned about the Holocaust. She also learned about Pearl Harbor, but like most school-age kids in this country, it was in the context of what got the US into WWII. Japanese colonialism and dominance in east Asia never really came up. Her family came straight from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 2000. Members of her mom's family had already been here, dating back to the Seventies and Eighties. Jenny and her mom and brother lived in the Tenderloin when they arrived. She saw the dirty streets in that hood and wondered why they traded Hong Kong skyscraper living for this. Her mom told her that for many reasons, including not having to buy school uniforms, life in SF was more affordable. Jenny's run of schools in The City—Lafayette, Presidio, Washington High. I ask her if she experienced culture shock moving halfway around the world. She says yes and points to knowing only people from Hong Kong when she lived there. Here, she quickly learned that there are folks from all over China and differences abound. She says also that Chinese people she met in San Francisco or The Bay were stuck in whatever era they moved here during, and that was sometimes startling. We go on a sidebar here after Jenny asks me about my own move here from Texas in 2000. Jenny spent a lot of time in the school library, including during lunches. She dedicated herself to learning from an early age. She recognized the hardships her family was going through and saw education as a way to climb out of that. She used her 45-minute Muni commutes from the Tenderloin to school in the Richmond to read and do homework. Her mom worked in restaurants here in The City. Jenny would go with her mom to places like the bank to do the translation. Jenny was learning about life in the US in real time and for practical reasons. At my prompting, Jenny and I rap about all the awesome food in the Little Saigon area of the Tenderloin. I share the story of coming home from my trip to Vietnam and eating at Turtle Tower right away because I missed the food of that incredible country. Jenny lived in the Tenderloin through all her public school days in San Francisco. When her paternal grandmother passed away, she went back to China to clean out her home, as we've mentioned. And that's when Jenny and other members of her family started finding items—military yen, rice-rationing coupons—that pointed to life spent under occupation. Back home, Jenny had found a decent job after college, but was feeling stuck. The revelation of her grandmother's lived experience was a light bulb. It was around this time that Jenny realized a massive hole in her US education. Why didn't she learn about the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, for example? Most of the emphasis was on the war in Europe, with Pearl Harbor and later the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki being the main subjects of the history of war in the Asian theater. In her own words, Jenny went "into a deep rabbit hole" to learn those untold stories. Her first stop was the library, where she discovered books like The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang and The Rising Sun by John Toland. The more she learned, the more she sought existing nonprofits she could join forces with to amplify the stories of the Japanese occupation of China. To her dismay, there weren't any. It was around 2012 or 2013, and Jenny figured that she already knew how to live without much income. And so, she decided to start her own company—a nonprofit dedicated to getting those stories out to the world. Pacific Atrocities Education was born. Check back Thursday for Part 2 with Jenny Chan. We recorded this episode at Fort Mason in April 2026. Photography by Jeff Hunt

OpenAI debuted personal finance tools via Plaid for Pro users. AI startups generate ~$80B in annualized revenue, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89%. ArXiv cracks down on AI slop, Apple's Siri relaunch may still be a beta, and SF vibes are frenetic. OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more (TechCrunch) Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue (The Information) ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (404 Media) Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (Bloomberg) A college senior at Stanford describes how AI has changed classes: cheating using AI "has become omnipresent" with students "fudging just about everything" (NYT) SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth (X / @deedydas) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is a little different because there is breaking news in the women's health world, and I think this is one of the more important shifts we've seen in a long time when it comes to how we understand female physiology. As of May 12th 2026, PCOS, which stands for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, has officially been renamed PMOS or Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. And before anybody rolls their eyes and thinks, okay, okay, so they changed the name. I want you to stay with me for a minute here, because this matters then what most people realize.  This came from a massive international consensus published in The Lancet involving researchers, clinicians, advocacy groups, and over twenty two thousand voices globally over the course of about fourteen years. And the reason this matters is because the old name PCOS centered the conversation almost entirely around the ovaries, when clinically, the condition has always been much bigger than that. For years, women have been told you don't have cysts, your ultrasound looks normal, your labs are fine, and meanwhile they are struggling with a plethora of symptoms like fat loss, resistance, irregular cycles, acne, hair thinning, blood sugar dysregulation, fatigue, fertility issues, mood shifts, sleep disruption inflammations, and symptoms that clearly extended far beyond reproductive health alone. And what I appreciate about this shift is that the biology did not suddenly change overnight. The language finally caught up with the physiology because many women diagnosed with PCOS never had visible ovarian cysts in the first place, and many women with ovarian cysts never had PCOS. Which tells us something very important. The ovaries were never the entire story, and I've spoken of this on previous podcasts. This new terminology, polyendocrine, metabolic ovarian syndrome, reflects something we've been discussing for years inside the SF coaching method, which is that women's health is deeply interconnected. Think hormones, metabolism, stress, physiology, sleep. These do not function in isolation. Everything speaks to everything. These systems work together and this shift toward PMOS finally acknowledges the crosstalk between the endocrine system, metabolism, reproductive function, inflammation, nervous system regulation, and overall physiological health. So today I want to break down what changed and why it matters.   Time Stamps:   (0:40) Breaking News In Women's Health (3:45) Why PCOS Was Confusing (6:45) The Shift To PMOS (12:25) Names Influence Clinical Focus (20:10) Previous Women's Health Shift I Previously Covered (24:10) The Systems Lens ----------  Apply for SF Coaching Method  https://sarahfechter.ac-page.com/sfhq-cc Complimentary Health Content  https://sarahfechter.ac-page.com/Health_Wellness_Community ----------  Follow Me On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarahfechter.ifbbpro/   Check Out My Website - https://www.sarahfechter.com ----------  This Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing, other professional health care services, or any professional practice of any kind. Any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk and Sarah Fechter Fitness LLC expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of any individual use of, reference to, reliance on, or inability to use, this Podcast or the information presented in this Podcast. All contents and design for this Podcast are owned by Sarah Fechter Fitness LLC. Always consult your professional team before beginning any exercise or nutrition program.

Two Wasian Americans and one classic, everyday Asian American, all millennials, try to make sense of East Asian American discourses in the zeitgeist of the past six months. Recorded shortly before the cursed Wasian meetups in SF and NY. 1. CS graduation rates fall off a cliff. For a particular class of Asian Americans, computer science degrees were a step in the direction of the American Dream. Now that tech oligarch's true nature as warmongers who hate humanity and want to replace workers with data centers has been revealed, where will they go? See: DailyCal, "UC Berkeley CS major enrollment on pace to drop by 59% as part of nationwide trend" https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/uc-berkeley-cs-major-enrollment-on-pace-to-drop-by-59-as-part-of-nationwide/article_8ceded3c-d939-4f60-8aa4-110be003c4e3.html 2. Is the Laufey music video starring Alyssa Liu, Hudson Williams, a Katseye member and other Wasians of Hollywood a Wasian supremacist cultural object? See: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1sodav8/wasian_obsession_in_the_western_media/ 3. Benjamin Champagne Song is a political prisoner convicted as part of Pam Bondi (RIP) and Andy Ngo's effort to kill dissent and funnel more money to the white power movement and DHS contractors. Fanmail to (as of May 2026): BENJAMIN HANIL SONG, #11137-512, FMC Fort Worth, FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER, P.O. BOX 15330, FORT WORTH, TX 76119 4. 2025 ended with Asian (and to an extent, Black) TikTok Gen Z thru Gen X consumed by H-Martgate, which started as a joke questioning non-Asian peoples' place in Asian grocery stores. See: Madeline Qi's original TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@say_qis/video/7546343858146118926 5. The birth rate in the US is now well below "replacement rate": Are Hell Joseon (South Korea) and other East Asian countries a window into our future? See: Namuwiki: https://en.namu.wiki/w/N포세대 Chris on the anti-trans, red scare Falun Gong cult (known for its Epoch Times newspaper and Shen Yun anti-communist dance troupe spectaculars): https://www.patreon.com/posts/falun-gong-and-122689473 Jasmine on the problem with Waymos being personified and racialized as Asian: https://www.patreon.com/posts/waymos-arent-lee-120643766 Support the show and get new episodes early on Patreon: https://patreon.com/sadfrancisco 

***Third Segment*** We've officially reached another dead period in the NFL offseason... so Logan and Grant breakdown your questions in the latest edition of the mailbag including how the Commanders can develop their new draft class, if Brandon Aiyuk is actually just acting crazy to get out of SF, identifying new schemes at rookie minicamp, and more!

The future of war has been evolving before our eyes in Ukraine, yet the west still plans to fight the last war. In this special episode, guest host Noah Smith (@noahpinion) and Brandon Anderson sit down with Yaroslav Azhnyuk (@YaroslavAzhnyuk), a serial tech founder who went from building PetCube to founding The Fourth Law, one of the world's most advanced AI-guided drone companies. Over two hours we cover the technology, tactics, and geopolitics of drone warfare, and why the modern battlefield has already left the West behind:* Yaroslav's personal history and the Ukraine war [00:01:04 – 00:14:01]* The modern drone tech stack: why FPV drones are the new god of war, the future of the rifleman, fiber optic vs. AI, five levels of autonomy, and the eight dimensions of the autonomous battlefield [00:14:01 – 01:05:13]* The geopolitics and economics of drones: China's manufacturing advantage, the drone race, Western defense readiness, countermeasures, and why the gap is widening [01:05:13 – 01:58:57]For those looking for Noah Smith's commentary, it really gets going around the 00:51:31 mark.Yaroslav Azhnyuk / The Fourth Law:* X: https://x.com/YaroslavAzhnyuk* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaroslavazhnyuk/* The Fourth Law: https://thefourthlaw.aiNoah Smith:* Substack: Noah Smith * X: https://x.com/noahpinionTimestamps00:00:00 Cold Open: China's 4 Billion Drones and the Cameras-to-Explosives Pipeline00:01:04 Introduction: Brandon, Noah Smith, and Yaroslav Azhnyuk00:05:41 From Tech Entrepreneur to Defense: PetCube, Brave One, and the D3 Fund00:10:42 The Ethics of Building Weapons: Dual-Use Technology and the Wolf at the Door00:14:01 The Tech Stack: Cameras, Autonomy Modules, Interceptors, and a Semiconductor Fab00:18:47 Fiber Optic vs. AI: The Radio Horizon Problem and $32/km Cable00:25:32 FPV Drones: The New God of War — 70–80% of Frontline Casualties00:28:28 The Five Levels of Drone Autonomy: From Terminal Guidance to Full Autonomy00:41:37 The Eight Dimensions of the Autonomous Battlefield00:45:32 AI Safety and the Morality of Autonomous Weapons00:51:31 The End of the Rifleman? Noah's 2013 Prediction vs. Battlefield Reality01:05:13 China's Manufacturing Advantage and Western Vulnerabilities01:24:21 Policy Advice for Western Defense: Defense Valley and the Widening Gap01:32:54 The Drone Race: Who's Ahead, Category by Category01:41:57 Countermeasures: Shotguns, Jammers, Lasers, and Fishnets01:58:19 The Wedding and Final Takeaway: Be Prepared for WarTranscriptCold Open: China, FPV Drones, and the New Warning SignYaroslav [00:00:00]: Think about this. Last year, Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones. Ukraine is not the most industrious nation in the world. China can produce 4 billion of these FPV drones.Noah [00:00:10]: Would you say that right now China is now the supreme conventional military power on Earth, given its ability to manufacture and deploy drones in the quantity and quality that you just described?Yaroslav [00:00:20]: I don't think we have all the information to claim that but we cannot count it out, and that alone should be a big warning sign. As I say, at some point in my life I went from making cameras that fling treats to pets to cameras that fling explosives to the occupiers. So that's the short story. And when you think about what your nation, what your patriots are going through, you realize that's the only morally right thing to do is to fight back, and it is immoral not to fight back, and then the choice becomes very clear.Introduction: Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Petcube, and the Last Flight into KyivBrandon [00:01:04]: Welcome to Latent Space. I'm Brandon. I normally do science podcasts, but today we're going to do something a little bit different. I'm joined by Noah Smith of Noahpinion on Substack and Twitter. And he has lots of interesting things to say about drones. And as a guest, we have Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of The Fourth Law and several other, drone-related startups. To get started, it is February 23rd, 2022. You are running a pet startup. You're connecting pets with their owners. Let's go in just a little bit of background. How did you get started in tech, and what were you working on before the Ukrainian war started?Yaroslav [00:01:50]: Good to be here. Thank you. On February 23rd, late in the evening, 11:00 PM Kyiv time, my wife and I landed in Kyiv. Actually, then she was a fiance. We came from Lviv, where we were looking at a church, where our wedding should have taken place. And we got into this cab ride from the airport to our home, and the driver was like, “You crazy. Like, everyone's leaving Kyiv. Why do you come?” We're like, “What? Nothing's going to happen. Dude, chill.” And then obviously, eight minutes later, or eight hours later, the bombs fell in the city. It was quite surreal. We probably landed on the last flight that landed in Kyiv, or one of those last flights. My background, I'm a tech guy. Studied applied mathematics in Kyiv Polytechnics, born and raised in Kyiv. My parents are old PhDs from academia, and grandparents too. Like, everything, from linguistics to nuclear physics. And I'm an entrepreneur, so I've built a bunch of companies. Petcube is the one you were referencing. So I lived in San Francisco 2014 to 2020, building Petcube, which is one of the leading, pet device companies in the world, selling lots of pet cameras. And then, yeah, as I say, at some point in my life I went from making cameras that fling treats to pets to cameras that fling explosives to the occupiers. So that's the short story.February 24th: Leaving Kyiv as the Invasion BeginsNoah [00:03:28]: February 24th, I guess a few hours after you, go to check out your wedding chapel, what do you do?Yaroslav [00:03:37]: We had a plan for this situation. So my parents and family live in Kyiv, and we're like, “Okay, this has actually started. The worst has, come true.” And so we basically packed our belongings and got in the car and spent 17 hours driving west. And that was pretty sure most people in our audience watched at least one apocalyptic movie in their life, so that was exactly like that. Like, felt exactly like that. Missiles are falling. Like, there was smoke in Kyiv. Like, my dad and I went, like, to central part of the cities. It's probably, likeYaroslav [00:04:20]: 800 meters from presidential office, to pick some stuff up at his workplace. Because he's, like, the head of an academic institution, so he had to get some of the things with him. And super surreal. Like, the streets are empty. Like, the gas stations are out of gas. Like, we found some gas station. We didn't have, like, spare canisters with us, so we're like, We figured out, like, the car was diesel, so like, we figured out, if it's diesel, you can actually store it in plastic, canisters, and we bought some window wash for the cars. We poured it out of the canisters, and we poured the diesel into that. Yeah, so it was like that. And then, like, helping friends get out, like my friend and his dog. Like, we found Like, my brother was also, like, riding in a separate car. We found a place for my friend who didn't have a car. It was like, yeah, it was like, totally surreal. And we didn't know of course, and you didn't know this will last for so long. You didn't know whether Ukraine will be able to defend Kyiv. And it was like, yeah, very little information and very little insight into future.From Pet Cameras to Defense Tech: Building for Ukraine and the Free WorldNoah [00:05:42]: What are your thoughts with regards to how do you, defend, Ukraine? So you eventually start building drones Like, what is the process to get from there from where you were building, devices that connect owners with pets to building drones, and what other things did you do to help the war effort in the process?Yaroslav [00:06:07]: It's definitely non-trivial, right? Like, I didn't go, to I didn't get any, like, military education when I was a student. Like, normally, in Ukraine, you would, you would go to like, this military school even if you're getting higher education in any other, sphere. I decided to skip that which is like, an unusual way to go. And I never thought that I will be somehow engaged in a war effort. Like, what is war? Of course, wars are over. It's the end of history. So one thing you got to understand about, like, many Ukrainians and like, I guess, it's also true about most of the people I met here in the US, that your who you are in terms of your nationality is a big part of your identity. So when that gets under attack, it's something deeper than just the country you live in gets under attack, right? And I Day one, I figured I'm going to I'm going to fight back with everything I can, right? But I didn't think on day one that I'm actually going to do, weapons. And a bunch of things. We were reaching out to a number of American, congresspeople and senators, and basically advocating for support of Ukraine, for voting for lend lease, which has happened in May 2022, but didn't actually work as expected. We helped start, Brave One, which is now a very important defense innovation cluster, sort of like a DIU here in the US. We helped start, a fund called D3. It's like, it was started or co-started by Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google. So a bunch of these odd things, but then eventually I was like, “Okay,”by 2023 it was obvious this thing, A is going to last a lot more time, and B, that the whole world is shifting and that there's going to be a new arms race, that the warfare is redefined by drones as platforms. And for the first time in history, you have a platform that is software defined, that can increase your battlefield capabilities, in a in a step change just overnight. So it's like if you were able to push a software update and get all of your Roman legionnaires a new helmet? That has never been possible before. It's the first time in the history of war this is possible. So all of that and many other things like, supply chain fragilization, and the impact that AI is going to have on all of this all these things have become evident to me in 2023, and it's like, “Okay, I should do what I do best, or what I know how to do best, start a tech company, and sort of leverage the global techno capitalist machine, to provide, defensibility to Ukraine and the free world.” So that's literally the mission of the company, increase defensibility of Ukraine and the free world. And then there was some sort of soul-searching and like, asking yourself. It's like, “Okay, am I Actually, I know nothing about weapons. Am I actually, like, ready to make, things that other people use to kill other bad people?”Yaroslav [00:09:36]: When you think about what your nation, what your Compatriots are going through And think about all the terror of places like Bucha, the occupied cities in the east and south, the abducted children, the raped women, all the economic damage that's being done, and the intention to destroy a whole nation, to genocide the people of Ukraine, you realize that's the only morally right thing to do is to fight back, and it is immoral not to fight back. And then the choice becomes very clear. And look, we're just passing the ammunition. We're not doing the actual job. The actual fighters and defenders and heroes are people in the armed forces. We're just support.The Moral Question: Weapons, Responsibility, and Fighting BackNoah [00:10:33]: I have so many questions. Actually, I know you seem to have a question. Do you want to ask anything?Yaroslav [00:10:38]: No, I'm just listening. Go ahead.Noah [00:10:40]: I do want to talk about, some of let's say, the moral issues, like you just said. You endYaroslav [00:10:50]: I think there are no issues there.Yaroslav [00:10:52]: What would an example of a moral question be in this case?Noah [00:10:55]: No, I mean Okay. As you just said, you are creating the tools, but others are using them.Noah [00:11:05]: I was maybe thinking of having this conversation later, but one of the questions is like, is it actually you are going to be building them for your homeland, which you are building it for your homeland, which is I think, very a strong morally defensible position, but this technology is not going to stay with you, right?Noah [00:11:26]: This you will probably be selling these to other people Yeah. So the future is really where the moral issues may come into playYaroslav [00:11:38]: The this question becomes, easier and more complete if we ask this not about a particular technology or particular weapon, if we think that this question actually applies to any kind of technology Right? So -Knife or fire. You can use knife to do surgery and save people's lives, or you can use it as a weapon to take people's lives.Noah [00:12:06]: Cut tomatoes, too.Yaroslav [00:12:08]: Cut tomatoes too.Noah [00:12:09]: Yes, knife.Yaroslav [00:12:09]: That's helpful.Noah [00:12:10]: In Japan, sword and knife, they, call the same word.Yaroslav [00:12:14]: It's like, it's with any technology. Large language models, right? Look at how powerful they are and yet they're available to anyone in North Korea or in Russia.Yaroslav [00:12:29]: That's one side of the argument. The other side is As a maker, what is your responsibility for how the tools you're creating, will be used? There's definitely some responsibility, right? Then How should the decision process look like? Should you, like, try to calculate all the possible scenarios before starting to work on something? Or do you create something that is needed now to save people's lives, and then think about, addressing the unwanted edge cases later? In ideal world where there's like, or okay, it's not ideal world. In a mythical world where there is some one governing party and it gets to decide everything, and there is no other country, that can, decide on their own, you could say, “Well, we need to calculate for all the consequences, and only then, maybe build this building, by replacing this park because, maybe we need this park in the city,”right? So that kind of situation. But when you're in a situation where you're in a forest, in front of a wolf, you first going to deal with the wolf that wants to eat you, and then you're going to go consult Greenpeace. So that's kind of situation that Ukraine is in.The Fourth Law, Odd Systems, and Ukraine's Drone StackNoah [00:13:59]: Enough. Because this is a tech podcast, I did want to spend some time talking about, sort of the tech in that you've developed and what you've been working on. So can you explain, I guess, first of all, like, the problem that you were trying to solve from a technical standpoint? And I think, and then maybe, like, go into some of the solutions and some of the design process that led you from designing, little laser-guided, guiding lasers with a with an iPhone versus Having drones.Yaroslav [00:14:34]: Like, it so happened, that my partners and I, we sort of So I started one company called The Fourth Law, and its goal was and is to Make, massively scalable on-drone autonomy. And then In parallel with that together with my, Petcube co-founders, partners, and friends, we started another company called Odd Systems Which, was focused on making thermal cameras. Cameras, thermal cameras are seeing thermal radiation and are used to see at night. And we're now sort of those companies are getting closer and closer together and we're probably going to merge them. And this group of companies is currently the leading, team in on-drone AI and thermal imaging on the Ukrainian battlefield, and Likely one of the leading, if not the leading in the world. So We have these, like, three sort of business units, which are cameras, drone autonomy, and drones. So the cameras and drone autonomy sell daytime and nighttime cameras and different types of drone autonomous modules to other drone manufacturers, over 200 drone manufacturers in Ukraine. And then the UAV, business unit sells the drones themselves to the armed forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian government. And there are different types of drones. Those are sort of front strike, as we call them, so those are sort of FPV strike drones and the bombers, and then interceptors. And there are different kinds of interceptors. We do Shahed interceptors and we do ISR interceptors. We don't do the deep strike-FPV Drones, Interceptors, and Battery-Powered WarfareNoah [00:16:32]: What's an ISR interceptor?Yaroslav [00:16:33]: ISR is stands for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and those are basically drones which are which, Russians are using to watch over positions and then communicate where, the targets are coming.Noah [00:16:48]: It's a reconnaissance.Yaroslav [00:16:48]: That's, the ISR is sort of a classical term for a for a reconnaissance drone.Noah [00:16:53]: Are all of these battery-powered drones that you just described? ‘Cause I know that the sort of deep strike drones still have, like Some sort ofYaroslav [00:17:01]: Internal combustion engine?Noah [00:17:02]: Internal combustion engine. Are all the things you're talking about battery-powered?Yaroslav [00:17:06]: What we're working on is all battery-powered, right? We don't do the deep strikes, right? And then in terms of autonomy-Noah [00:17:12]: You can catch a Shahed with a battery-powered thing. It's not Fast to catch.Yaroslav [00:17:17]: No, absolutely. Look, Shahed interceptor, like ours, it's called Zero, it goes up to 326 kilometers per hour.Noah [00:17:26]: For reference, how fast is a Shahed?Yaroslav [00:17:28]: Eight, like, in internal phase it could be 280, but in cruise phase it's, like, 220-ish.Yaroslav [00:17:36]: Yeah. And sorry, I'm not like you can convert that into miles if you're interested.Noah [00:17:41]: No, that's fine.Noah [00:17:41]: Multiply by two thirds or point six or something.Yaroslav [00:17:44]: That's easy. Yeah, I was saying that for autonomy modules, right, we, -We make systems, autonomous systems for frontline, for interceptors and some for deep strikes as well, and then different levels of autonomy. So from terminal guidance, which is like lasts 500 meters, give or take, to autonomous bombing, to autonomous target detection, to autonomous navigation and all of that across day and night, different terrains, different time of the year, different platforms like quadcopters and fixed wing, and maybe some other platforms. So it's quite a wide variety of products. We also have like our own simulation. We have our own training school for the war fighters. And we're about to start construction of two, semiconductor plants to make, sensors for thermal cameras. So that's super exciting for me as a computer science guy is Doing semiconductors. Super cool.Noah [00:18:49]: Like in terms of kind of core drone technologies, you basically are one is an FPV replacement without fiber optics, and the other isYaroslav [00:18:59]: YouNoah [00:18:59]: Signal tracking with interceptorsYaroslav [00:19:00]: With or without fiber optics. Fiber optics Is just like, sort of a communication module.Yaroslav [00:19:05]: You can, you can use classical analog, video link and radio link. Those would be two separate radios. You can do digital, or you can do fiber optic, and then fiber optic Has its own advantages but also adds weight and decreases, the distance and decreases, how fast you can, sort of turn and With a drone. Yeah.Noah [00:19:33]: Do you need AI for fiber optic drones?Yaroslav [00:19:36]: Like you can use AI for fiber optic drones. AI replaces a human, right? Fiber optic is making your communication link more resilient. So those are slightly different goals. Like if you want, you can have, AI controlling hundreds of fiber optic drones instead of having 100 operators for each.Fiber Optics, Radio Horizons, and Terminal GuidanceNoah [00:20:03]: I guess I thought that the key reason that people moved to fiber optic drones was for like electronic, countermeasures. Or I guess to counter those.Yaroslav [00:20:13]: I think that's a correct assessment from sort of a public awareness standpoint. In practice it's somewhat more difficult Because besides electronic countermeasures, you have these issues of a radio horizon For FPV drones, which means that asYaroslav [00:20:36]: I believe Earth is round Some people disagree. But basically if you fly a drone and you have a land station over here and a drone flying over hereYaroslav [00:20:49]: If your drone is flying high, you have good direct radio visibility. If your drone goes low, and usually, Russian infantry and vehicles, they're on the ground and you want to hit them, you need to go low. Lower you go, maybe you'll get behind a hill or behind a forest, and if you're far enough, you'll just get behind the curvature of the earth. You get into what's called a radio shadow. And then That is a real bummer because for the last, be it 60 or 20 meters, you won't be able to see anything and it will be very difficult to hit the target. So to counter that what-- And then the distances that these FPV drones, act on they're, they can be quite large. So for example, here in the US there was this drone dominance program competition, and in drone dominance the furthest distance was about 10 kilometers.Noah [00:21:44]: What was drone dominance? What was that competition?Yaroslav [00:21:47]: Drone, the drone dominance is a is a program started, by the US government, to accelerate the development of drone technology here in the US.Noah [00:21:57]: Got it. And the longest range thing they were using was 10 kilometers.Yaroslav [00:22:00]: Was 10 kilometers, right. In Ukraine, like if your drone doesn't fly at least 20, 25, it just, no one's interested in it, and the usual hits are happening. It was like, okay, many hits are happening between 30 and 40 kilometers, and that's what expected from a regular 10-inch, FPV drone. So at that distance, even at altitudes of like 60 to 100 meters, you might start losing, the link. So some of the earlier AI technology that was fielded in FPV drone was this terminal guidance technology. That was the first product that we ever, launched that helped you as an operator, once you see the target from two, three, 500 meters, you lock onto the target and then, it just, drives the drone towards the target no matter what, even after you lost the visual connection. So optic fiber solves that. However, if you want to go like 20 kilometers with optic fiber, that will add an extra three kilos, of useful weight to your drone. SoNoah [00:23:12]: ‘Cause the cable that you have to unspool as you go weighs.Noah [00:23:15]: It is heavy.Yaroslav [00:23:15]: At first, like the spool is about 800 grams, so a bit less than a kilo, and then, and then think about 10, 10 kilometer optic fiber is another kilo, something like that. That takes away from your useful mass and then now you have like, you need a 15-inch drone and it can only carry maybe one or two kilos of explosives if you want to go, 20 kilometers. If you want to go to 30 or 40, like 30 is probably max. 40 is like very problem problematic on optic fiber. And then the problem with optic fiber is it's actually getting super expensive. So and why? Because of all the data centers for AI. That's literally the same optic fiber-Noah [00:24:01]: We're running out of centersYaroslav [00:24:02]: That's being used there.Yaroslav [00:24:02]: Like when Ukrainians and Russians come to Chinese factories to buy the optic fiber, they're like, “We're out. We sold it out to the Americans.”? That's the craziest thing. So optic fiber went up in price from like, $4 per, kilometer to like, $32 per kilometer in a few months in the beginning of this year. And I'veBrandon [00:24:26]: Claude Code is stopping the Russian drone effort here.Yaroslav [00:24:30]: Ukrainian as well. Yeah.Brandon [00:24:31]: Ukrainian. But I read somewhere that the Russians had grown more dependent on fiber optic drones relative to the Ukrainians, and that's one reason why the Ukrainians have sort of regained the initiative in drones recently.Brandon [00:24:42]: How accurate's that?Yaroslav [00:24:43]: The Russians were the first ones to scale that. I think by as of now, Ukraine has caught up. I think, like, as of maybe three months ago, Ukraine is mostly caught up on fiber optic. Yeah.Brandon [00:24:57]: What percent of damage would you say is in terms of FPV drone damage would you say is now fiber optic versus, like autonomous?FPVs as the New God of War: Tanks, Artillery, and Cost per KillYaroslav [00:25:07]: For our, for our audience, I actually, I cannot answer that question. Like, it's like I know the answer, but I would not disclose that. But for our audience, I think another interesting fact is out of all the casualties on the front line Between 70 and 80% are done by FPV drones.Brandon [00:25:30]: FPV drones are the new weapon of universal weapon of warfare.Yaroslav [00:25:34]: It'sBrandon [00:25:35]: Land warfare, anywayYaroslav [00:25:35]: They used to say that artillery is a god of war because artillery used to cause, like 80% of casualties, and now On that ranking-Brandon [00:25:46]: FPVYaroslav [00:25:47]: FPV drones rule.Brandon [00:25:48]: FPV drones are the god of war.Yaroslav [00:25:51]: Sort of. Dethroned artillery. But it's not to say that artillery is not useful, is not needed. Like, all of these systems are needed. Maybe except cavalry, although Russians still use it. I know, have you seen the videos of Russians using mules and horses?Brandon [00:26:09]: What is the usefulness-Yaroslav [00:26:10]: It'Brandon [00:26:10]: Of a tank in the in the modern-Yaroslav [00:26:11]: That's where we need Greenpeace to say a word, but they're silent. Yeah.Brandon [00:26:15]: What's the use of a tank on the modern battlefield?Yaroslav [00:26:21]: It's diminishing.Brandon [00:26:22]: Diminishing.Yaroslav [00:26:22]: However, I think there might be technologies which will, revive the tank. Look, tank still provides you armor, and armor is important. Like, you still need to armor and firepower, right? Like, you can be an armor personal carrier that provides you, armor. The challenge that currently exists is armor is not very well protected against incoming drones. However, there are ways to do to protect it. We were previously talking about this before the podcast. The CEO of Rheinmetall, recently sort of ridiculed, Ukrainian drone industry, saying that like, there is nothing interesting there, no real innovation, no to stand Compared to like, Rheinmetall or Boeing, and it's all made by housewives. There was like, obviously a ton of memes about this people ridiculing the CEO of Rheinmetall. And one of the best quotes, I heard on this topic is from my friend, Alexey Babenko, who's, the head of and founder of VIARI Drone, which is one of the largest manufacturers of FPV drones. They're our partner. They're using our autonomy. So he said that the drones we manufacture in one day will be more than enough to destroy all the tanks Rheinmetall manufactures in a year.Yaroslav [00:27:52]: Then, yeah, cost-wise, of course, a drone is like, $500 and a Rheinmetall tank is what, probably 5 million-ish or maybe more.Brandon [00:28:00]: Don't mess with those housewives.Yaroslav [00:28:03]: Drone wives.Brandon [00:28:04]: Drone wives.Yaroslav [00:28:06]: That's it.Noah [00:28:06]: There's a classic saying that everyone always fights the last war.Noah [00:28:12]: Yet do How did So from your standpoint, how did we get to the point where tanks became irrelevant in at least for now In a matter of just a few years?Yaroslav [00:28:24]: Look, I think it's the same way, how do we get to the point that calculators become irrelevant?Yaroslav [00:28:31]: Now we have iPhones. Like, why would you need a calculator? Technology progresses and its influence grows non-linearly. It's all exponential. So I can tell you that full autonomy, when you put it on a drone Look, so if you, if you think about a tank and a like, it's not a direct comparison, but even, like, a drone and a artillery shell or like, sort of cost per kill, an artillery shell for 155 caliber, which is a standard NATO caliber Currently market price is about $4,000 per piece. So compare that to say, $400 per drone. That's 10 times more expensive. Account for the amortization of the artillery gun and for how vulnerable it is and what is the sort of tactical, capabilities it gives you as compared to a drone. You'll figure out that an FPV drone is maybe three orders of magnitude, more versatile, more useful, more capable than artillery and many of than a classic artillery. Many of Because there are different types of artillery. Not just, like, one 155. You have mortars, you have all that. But give or take, roughly three orders of magnitude maybe. Again, it doesn't have that firepower. It's not one-to-one comparison still.Yaroslav [00:29:53]: Now, take that FPV drone. When you put full autonomy on that FPV drone, which can be not very expensive, like systems that we're, producing are like, in hundreds of dollars of pure bombFull Autonomy: From Human Pilots to Smartphone-Directed Drone MissionsNoah [00:30:06]: Just interrupt. You said full autonomy Just a second ago you were saying that the autonomy here is guidance, right? It's not decision-making.Yaroslav [00:30:14]: No, I was I was saying that's the f-First and sort of easiest pieces of autonomy that was fielded by us. But if you, if you add full autonomy to a droneBrandon [00:30:24]: He, I think he's asking what does it can you, for the listeners, can you explain What the term full autonomy means?Yaroslav [00:30:29]: Basically, I think a good way to think about an FPV drone is like an iPhone of warfare. It's, like, very inexpensive, very mass producible, very versatile. You don't need a bunch of other things when you have a iPhone in your pocket. You don't have, need an MP3 player, you don't need a calculator, don't need other things. All right? So FPV drone is an iPhone. Or like, okay, Apple please don't sue me, is a smartphone. And then, when you add autonomy to it sort of becomes like Uber or ride sharing. Okay? So what it means is instead of actually being a trained pilot who has this complex remote controller device which requires a couple months of training to actually pilot the drone, and then having to pilot it for 30 minutes, flying towards the target, et cetera, et cetera, now you basically, you have your smartphone, you have a drone, you pick your smartphone, you say, “We are here. The bad guys are here. Go and get them.” And the drone goes up, flies in a given direction, localizes itself on the map, finds the dedicated area where they, the bad guys are supposed to be sees the bad guys, bombs them, return, like, watches, so does a damage assessment, returns back, sits down, and then you can pick it up and watch the video if you didn't have the radio link, right?Noah [00:31:59]: That's a bomber drone.Yaroslav [00:32:00]: That's full autonomy for a bomber drone, right?Noah [00:32:03]: You're saying that no human decision is made in this entire process?Brandon [00:32:06]: That's not, that's not what he's saying.Yaroslav [00:32:07]: A human decision was made at the beginning of the process-Noah [00:32:09]: I get it. I get itYaroslav [00:32:09]: The same way as you would fire an artillery.Yaroslav [00:32:12]: When you fire an artillery, you don't stop at like, 500 meters away from a target and ask it whether, you want to strike or not. That's exactly, a human decision is always made at some point. So when you do that's full autonomy, and such full autonomy is happening as we speak. And such full autonomy increases the capabilities of an FPV drone, which is already, like, three orders more powerful than an artillery shell. Full autonomy increases its capabilities by four orders of magnitude because now you can have 100 times as many people who can use it, because you don't need to train those people, and this is important. You can have 10 times, mission success rate, and you can have 10 times utility per drone because now instead of being one-way kamikaze, it's, it can be a bomber.Brandon [00:33:05]: Now wait, let's, you said 10 times mission success rate, which means that fully autonomous bomber drones succeed in their missions 10 times more often than human piloted bomber drones do. That's an important thing to know.Noah [00:33:17]: Maybe, to push back onBrandon [00:33:19]: They're super, they're superhuman. They're, they' 10X superhuman.Yaroslav [00:33:22]: They're not vulnerable to electronic warfare. They don't care about the radio horizon. They don't lose track during navigation. They are not susceptible to human error when, an artillery shell or other drone blows up besides you and you're like, “Hell no,”like, “I'm getting out of here.” Right? That doesn't happen to an autonomous drone. Like, all of those things. Like, we have, like, one of the brigades that's using our drones with just first level autonomy They literally said that their success rates-Brandon [00:33:53]: What's first level autonomy?Yaroslav [00:33:54]: First level autonomy is just the terminal guidance.Yaroslav [00:33:57]: By the way, we have video of that. We can watch that.Brandon [00:33:59]: Terminal guidance means a human gets it nearby and then the AI takes over.Yaroslav [00:34:03]: The human flies it all the way, like 30 kilometers towards the target, and obviously the target was probably given to that human by someone who's flying some ISR drone, some reconnaissance drone, right? So all the way to the target, and once you see the target from a distance of 500 meters, you do target lock, and from there drone flies autonomous. So just that feature alone, it has increased the guy's, his call sign is Grom, so it has increased his, mission success rate, like precision of mission, yeah, mission success rate from 20% to 71%, and it also increased his kill zone from three kilometers to 10 kilometers, which means there's certain area around the front line which is designated kill zone. Whenever enemy goes into that area, it's almost guaranteed to be to be destroyed by a drone. And then obviously the drones are not launched from like, the zero line. They're usually launched from like, minus 10 kilometer-Mission Success, Failure Modes, and the Five Levels of AutonomyBrandon [00:35:03]: What is a zero line?Yaroslav [00:35:05]: Zero line is sort of an imaginary line of control, of two conflicting forces.Brandon [00:35:14]: It's important to explain these things to a lot of the listeners who areYaroslav [00:35:17]: Thank you for askingBrandon [00:35:18]: Familiar with warfare.Noah [00:35:20]: Myself.Noah [00:35:20]: I'm one of those listeners.Brandon [00:35:20]: You said that level one autonomy, in other words just terminal guidance, just, like, human gets it to the finish line and then it goes over the finish line, increases mission success from 20 something percent to 71%, or something like that.Yaroslav [00:35:33]: Increases the kill zoneBrandon [00:35:34]: Increases the kill zoneYaroslav [00:35:34]: Three kilometers to 10 kilometers.Brandon [00:35:36]: Got it.Yaroslav [00:35:36]: On both parameters-Brandon [00:35:37]: What is full autonomy, dude? AndNoah [00:35:38]: Actually on real quick, can we define mission success and like, maybe in a way, what are the failure modes of missions?Brandon [00:35:44]: I have a guess what mission success is.Noah [00:35:46]: But I couldBrandon [00:35:47]: Get ‘em.Yaroslav [00:35:49]: No, but that's a very good question, in fact, because, even if you fly into the target, well, first the target can be damaged or destroyed. Those are two different modes. Then there can be different targets. A sole infantryman is one kind of target. A dugout where supposed there are some, enemies there is another kind of target, and a some mechanical equipment is another type of target. Radio emitting equipment, which, like, often, like, the targets that the military want to get more than anything else is the some enemy radio tower or something like that or some small radio dish that really makes life difficult in that area, in that combat area. So those are different targets, right? It can be destroyed, can be damaged.Then sometimes, the drone hits but doesn't explode. Like, that happens. And then, there are other failure modes. You didn't even reach the target because you were A jammed by electronic warfare; B, you lost the control over drone because of the radio horizon; C, you were jammed by a different type of electronic warfare that happens way before You hit the target area. It's, impacting your, video receiver. So like jamming on video or jamming on control are two different types of jamming. Then something malfunctioned on a drone, just a mechanical malfunction, maybe like a motor broke or like, whatever. So all of those are different failure modes. Yeah, or maybe you got lost, you're navigate navigating to your, to your target. That happens, too.Noah [00:37:41]: The Level one autonomy, basically you manage to point in a direction.Noah [00:37:49]: You go there, and then the last mile The drone taking over.Yaroslav [00:37:52]: We define this like, I define that but it sort of got picked up by the industry. We define five levels of autonomy. So level one is terminal guidance. It's what we just discussed. Level two is bombing. Level three is autonomous target detection and engagement decision. Level four is autonomous navigation. And level five is autonomous takeoff and landing.Noah [00:38:15]: Those are good things to knowYaroslav [00:38:16]: Those are five levels of autonomy. Now, if youNoah [00:38:19]: I have a question for you.Yaroslav [00:38:19]: Sorry. Like, let me finish withNoah [00:38:21]: SorryYaroslav [00:38:21]: Theoretical part.Noah [00:38:23]: What is Tesla running at right now?Yaroslav [00:38:25]: Tesla?Noah [00:38:25]: No, sorry.Yaroslav [00:38:26]: That's very good point. Like, it's exactly, it was inspired by the levels of self-driving autonomy.Noah [00:38:32]: Waymo's level five, right?Noah [00:38:35]: You just tell it where you want to go, it picks you up, and then you go there.Yaroslav [00:38:36]: I think, like, if you, if you look at the classic definitions of self-driving cars, Waymo is still, like, level four because it still requires even remote, but still, like, human control. It's like if Waymo gets in trouble, there is an operator who takes over and resolves this. So that would still be a level four. It doesn't map directly, but it's also five levels.Brandon [00:38:58]: Can I, can I interject a question here? In terms of an FPV drone that's like a suicide drone that'll just blow itself up killing something, how do what it hit? Like, does it, just transmit back, or do you sort of like, lose track of it and hope it hit? Like, what happens to that?Yaroslav [00:39:16]: That's a great question. SoBrandon [00:39:18]: You need another droneYaroslav [00:39:19]: Like, the current battlefield in Ukraine is saturated with different types of drones. So obviously you have all the FPV drones and last year alone, Ukraine manufactured about 4 million of these, and then Russia's maybe, like, 20% less than that. And for this year, the publicly voiced target was 7 million on Ukrainian side. So it's, like, serious numbers. We're getting in serious numbers here. And then besides those, there are different, reconnaissance drones, ISR as we call them, and there are sort of tactical level ISR where we, both Ukrainians and Russians usually use, Mavic, drone by DJI. And then there are a bunch of locally produced drones, which are sort of fixed wing drones that can stay in the air for much longer than Mavic, maybe, like, half an hour. And then, there are drones that can stay for many hours or even up to a day. And those drones have, are more expensive, have more expensive cameras, et cetera, et cetera. We hunt those drones that Russians launch. The Russians hunt our drones, and so on. But ideally, when you, are a group of soldiers operating an FPV, you'll have someone in your, company, or someone in your platoon who has an ISR asset that will do target designation for you. They'll say, “Oh, like, there's a Russian vehicle over there. Go and get him.”and you go there, you get it, and they're like, “Okay, confirmed.”Battlefield Surveillance and the Eight Dimensions of AutonomyBrandon [00:40:57]: Those guys are watching. They have their own drones in the sky.Yaroslav [00:40:59]: Target destroyed. They have, like, a carousel of drones because One Mavic cannot stay more than 30 minutes. ItBrandon [00:41:06]: They're constantly surveilling the battlefield.Yaroslav [00:41:07]: Almost every spot on the battlefield.Yaroslav [00:41:11]: It's not always the case. Sometimes you will not have a surveillance asset, so then you would launch another FPV just to confirm that there was a hit. Then if you see there was a hit and you're not sure if it completely destroyed, you maybe hit again for good measure.Brandon [00:41:26]: You double tap.Yaroslav [00:41:28]: That's how it works. But I was about to give you another sort of piece of taxonomy. So you have five levels of autonomy, right? Then you have sort of eight dimensions of autonomous battlefield. So what is eight dimensions? It's crucial to understand how autonomy evolves in a modern, battlefield environment. So dimension number one is level of autonomy. What are the capabilities that your asset has? Dimension number two is the platform you're operating on. So it can be a quadcopter, a fixed wing drone, different types of maybe, like, a long range drone or short range drone, but it can also be a missile. You can have autonomy even on an artillery shell or a ground vehicle or a sea vehicle. So all of those are different platforms. Level three would be domain. So it's ground to ground or ground to air as an intersection, or ground to sea or sea to air. They're all, like, all the nuances with different domains. Then level four, would be higher levels of autonomy, such as swarming, drone carriers, drone nests, et cetera.Brandon [00:42:39]: Now when you're saying level, you're talking about dimensions, not about-Yaroslav [00:42:42]: Sorry. YeahBrandon [00:42:43]: Autonomy levels. So dimension four.Yaroslav [00:42:43]: The dimension. Yeah, I used to say I was supposed to say dimension. I say dimension because each of them works with another, right? So you might have, like third level autonomy, fixed wing drone operating in land to air, and stuff like that right? And then operating in a swarm or operating from a nest. Right? Then you have, sort of dimension number five is environment. So is it day or night? Is it summer or winter? Is it, humid, cold, dry? What kind of target is it? Is your target hiding in a forest, or is it, behind a hill or within buildings? So all of that is environment. Then you have, dimension number six is command and control. How are you dealing with or like, tens of thousands of those assets around the battlefield? How are you coordinating that on the higher levels of command? How are you collecting data? All that.Yaroslav [00:43:44]: Dimension number seven would be infrastructure, so things like simulation, data collection tools, security, deployment mechanisms, et cetera. So all those systems have to be developed separately and integrate with all the others. And finally, dimension number eight is sort of distribution. Have you deployed 100 of these systems or 100,000 of these systems? Because those are two very different ballgames. So that now gives you a more broad overview of how autonomy propagates across the battle space.Targeting, Human Responsibility, and Rules of EngagementNoah [00:44:23]: As someone who has done machine learning and had gone out of distribution and had things, go horribly wrong, you were talking several of these, kind of axes of thinking about drone warfare seem like they could be very susceptible to some sort of distribution shift if you start making things autonomous.Yaroslav [00:44:41]: Like what?Noah [00:44:41]: I mean Well, first ofYaroslav [00:44:43]: If the I'm very interested Sort of sort of kinds of scenarios that you're thinking about.Noah [00:44:48]: Like the most obvious one is you, if I assume these are computer vision guided systems for at least the last mile, how do you ensure that oh, well, like you now have some fog roll in or something, and you, the drones just attack the wrong thing? Or maybe, it probably will not turn around and fly back and attack you, but youYaroslav [00:45:10]: Same, the same, the same question, how do you ensure that your mortar fire hits the right thing? Well, it's like mortar fire, give or take half a kilometer could be plus or minus. So maybe you fire one, and then you fire another. So drones are actually, much better in being precise in those scenarios. And I think, to your point, I think five to 10 years from now it will be immoral to use weapons without AI.Yaroslav [00:45:44]: ‘Cause weapons without AI will be more likely to cause, collateral damage or unwanted damage. Same way, it will be immoral to drive your own car manually on a public road because it's more likely to cause, unwanted damage.Noah [00:46:02]: Wow, I never considered that mightBrandon [00:46:04]: Really? That's definitely coming.Yaroslav [00:46:07]: Anyway.Brandon [00:46:07]: No, but that' I don't know, it's an obvious, an obvious thought. I agree with you.Brandon [00:46:12]: I, No, they, obviously they're not going to let you drive once most of the cars on the road are autonomous.Noah [00:46:17]: No, that one, don't I believe.Yaroslav [00:46:19]: No, I think you were you were talking about drones, right?Brandon [00:46:21]: The drones, right. Cool.Yaroslav [00:46:22]: The weapons, right?Brandon [00:46:23]: Friendly fire and collateral damage and stuff like that is all minimized with AI.Brandon [00:46:27]: Here's my question. Take all let's go to level six autonomy. Let's take all of the target selection. Let's take all the battlefield data, integrate it into one big AI, and have that big AI basically be in command of the battlefield And agentically do target selection.Yaroslav [00:46:44]: Be the general, right?Brandon [00:46:44]: It's a general. It's, you've cut humans out of the loop except maybe as dexterous robots, repairing drones and fastening things to drones or maybe something like that because you don't have those robots yet. How soon are we there? AI general.Yaroslav [00:46:58]: The most important thing to ask ourselves is who will be faster to that us or our adversaries?Brandon [00:47:07]: I assume us, but how fast will we be to that? I hope us.Yaroslav [00:47:11]: I hope so too.Brandon [00:47:12]: How fast can we Like when are we looking at that in terms of like horizons years?Yaroslav [00:47:18]: Like technically, it could be done now. The question is of course, there's, some engineering work to be done. The bigger challenge is deployment. Right? So okay, technically Like operation in Iran, right? They, the publicly, it was claimed that I think Palantir system was used for target designation, et cetera, et cetera. So it is not exactly as you say, the AI makes all the decisions, but basically AI goes through all the data you have, gives you these 1,027 different targets and says, “You-- To confirm, please press Okay.” And you look at the targets and you're like, “Yeah, sounds right. Press Okay.”so that's, I think that's where we are now already, or we were a couple weeks ago as we're recording this on April 10th. Another question is how massively deployable it is. Is it, like, every decision being made like that or is it, like, just some of the decisions made like that? And then different levels of command and control. There you have, like, the platoon, the company level, the battalion, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But the tricky thing here when we get into that territory, the tricky thing is If your enemy is getting advantage of being Thousand times faster than yourself by deploying such systems What do you do?Yaroslav [00:49:10]: You got to-Brandon [00:49:12]: The if the enemy is a thousand times faster than you at deploying those systems?Yaroslav [00:49:16]: Like, if enemy starts deploying level six autonomy, as you call And you have not started doingBrandon [00:49:22]: You're in troubleYaroslav [00:49:23]: Yes, exactly. So you have to catch up. So my point is that it is very important to think about the safety of these systems, but that thinking should not slow you down in developing them because they are critical for your existential, survival, right? And like, one person who doesn't think, doesn't get to think about the ethics of the war is a dead person. That person surely doesn't get to think about that.Brandon [00:49:52]: What would be the safety risk of such a system?Yaroslav [00:49:55]: Of course-Brandon [00:49:56]: Friendly fire?Yaroslav [00:49:56]: Just wrong decisions, right?Brandon [00:49:59]: I see.Yaroslav [00:49:59]: Maybe, these decisions-AI Command Decisions, Dead Zones, and Complex BattlefieldsBrandon [00:50:06]: Skynet AI decides it's going to useYaroslav [00:50:08]: No, these-Brandon [00:50:08]: Drone army to kill usYaroslav [00:50:09]: Decisions will not only be made about drones. They are likely to made about what the humans should do on your side as well. Then obviously some environments are more like Ukrainian-Russian war, where you haveBrandon [00:50:26]: It will have to choose to risk lives. It will have to choose to sacrifice human lives-Yaroslav [00:50:28]: Of courseBrandon [00:50:29]: On your side.Yaroslav [00:50:29]: Of course. And then some environments are just, like, dead, like, dead zones and there are no civilians there, or virtually no civilians close to the front line because, like, super dangerous. Everyone has evacuated from there. But there are other environments which are more like, okay, there's a counterterrorist operation. There's, like, a group of terrorists or a group of civilians. Or like, it's like the recent operations in Iran, I imagine that the US and Israeli forces do not want to harm civilians. They only targeted the military targets there, right? So in those situations, it's a different level of responsibility for that decision-making as well. And then there is just such a big variety of those military missions, and I'm not even, like, well-informed or well-educated in military science to tell you about all those scenarios. We would need to put some general besides me, and maybe a Ukraine general and American general would have told you very different stories about these things.Brandon [00:51:34]: Got it. Can I ask a few more questions? All right. So in 2013, I wrote one of my first, paid articles ever was about how the era of drones will change human society. I was just sitting around bored thinking about things.Yaroslav [00:51:54]: You were way ahead of your time.Brandon [00:51:55]: I said, I said, “The following will happen.”Yaroslav [00:51:57]: It's, this article is real. I've read it.Yaroslav [00:51:58]: It's actually-Brandon [00:51:59]: I said small autonomous, suicide drones, will cleanse the battlefield of human infantry. Human infantry will not be able to stand against swarms of AI-powered, suicide drones. That was I didn't even know about, like, AlexNet at the time, I think.Yaroslav [00:52:19]: You're just an avid sci-fi reader.Brandon [00:52:23]: I'm an avid sci-fi reader, but also, like, it's not Like, there will be a way to do that. It's a it's a nonlinear multidimensional search problem, and you get enough compute, you'll find some search algorithm that will get you there. And soBrandon [00:52:38]: I, yeah, I think that one sentence describes the bitter lesson right there.Brandon [00:52:41]: It's just like it's a multidimensional search space. You search it somehow. I don't know. Figure out some get a grad student-Yaroslav [00:52:47]: Sooner or laterBrandon [00:52:47]: To make a search algorithm.Brandon [00:52:48]: It's not that hard. Anyway, so but then, but I guess the point is The point is that human infantry on the battlefield will be will be gone at the end. I wrote that in 2013. Many people on social media laughed at me for that called me hysterical, said things like, “Electronic warfare will knock all the drones out of the sky.”like, “You need humans to hold ground.”that's something you still hear from a lot of people on social media today. I feel that this article that I've written has never been directionally wrong. It has gotten more and more right steadily over time, and that we're very reading the battlefield reports from Ukraine, where, human infantry are basically guy, like a few guys hiding in dugouts for months, and I'm not sure what they're doing.Yaroslav [00:53:35]: That's on Ukraine's side. On the Russian side, that's just like a zerg rush.Brandon [00:53:38]: The zerg rush, and then they just die. Then, but they have some guys in dugouts too, right? Like hiding in dugouts for months.Yaroslav [00:53:45]: They have. Yeah.Brandon [00:53:45]: Like, but that like, what are those guys doing in the dugouts? Are providing, like, frontline, like, reconnaissance? Like, what are they doing?Yaroslav [00:53:54]: If there is a guy in a dugout with some bullets and automatic weapon, the other guy cannot come and take the that dugout. That'Brandon [00:54:07]: I seeYaroslav [00:54:08]: They are they're establishing control over territory.Brandon [00:54:10]: I see. So that is so there still is a use for human infantry on the battlefield as of today.Yaroslav [00:54:15]: LikeBrandon [00:54:15]: How long will that last?Yaroslav [00:54:17]: I think it will last for a while. This is funny. There's this whole Layer of the modern culture, a modern Ukraine culture built around the war-related stuff. So there is this -Punk rock band, that is called SZC, I guess in English that would be. Which stands short for like a deserter or something like that. So anyhow, this band has a song titled “2030.” It's basically about the year 2030, and the war still goes on as like the whatever, third world war or whatever. And they basically, they, sang about the AI and like cyborgs and everything, but the simple infantry is still needed, and we're still, like, getting cold in those dugouts, and we're still doing our job. That's sort of the theme of the song. And it seems like that's actually what's going to happen. There areGround Robots, Simulation, and the Limits of World ModelsBrandon [00:55:30]: Ground robots will not replace humans in the dugouts soon.Yaroslav [00:55:34]: I'm very much interested in following the whole humanoid robot theme andBrandon [00:55:39]: What about like a dog robot?Noah [00:55:41]: Or just mobile controlled platforms or something.Brandon [00:55:44]: Spider robot, yeah.Brandon [00:55:45]: Everything evolves into a crab.Brandon [00:55:46]: You build a crab robot.Yaroslav [00:55:47]: A humanoid-Noah [00:55:48]: The carcinization of warfare.Yaroslav [00:55:51]: There is a lot of utility in humanoid robots because the world is designed around humanoids. So I would not, like, 100% disqualify the possibility that sometimes 10 years in the future, humanoid robots, will be actually fighting. So that's an actual Terminator kind of scenario.Brandon [00:56:14]: Yeah, in the first Terminator movie, you look at what they've got on the battlefield, they've got flying bomber drones and humanoid robots.Yaroslav [00:56:20]: Look, the cost of large language models of running them is getting so low, you can have basically an inexpensive computer running, what was a state-of-the-art model a year and a half ago, running it locally on a device with an open source model, which also means that the Chinese can have it, the Russians can have it, the North Koreans can have it, et cetera. So that is already possible. And with when we're looking at the acceleration of the neural nets, I would've, if not the acceleration of the large language models, I would've said that I don't think that humanoid robots will be able to be useful in the battlefield earlier than in 10 years. But if you account for the exponential, it might be five years or so. The problem with all of the autonomous systems, and it's like starts with self-driving cars and even with all the AI, like modern day AI agents, to make them really, useful, you have to solve such a long tail of edge cases, that it's really difficult to make them useful. Like we were promised, self-driving cars, what, like 2007, Sebastian Thrun and Google, and even before that all the challenges, everything. And Elon of course told us it's going to be one year from 2014, and now we still don't have self-driving Teslas everywhere. We have Waymos in SF and some other places, but they're still, like, not perfect. So I think, I expect something similar from self-flying drones and fully autonomous drones, and we saw that firsthand as with each level of autonomy that we're adding, there is a very wide distance between a prototype and something that is ready to be scaled to millions of units and something that has been scaled to millions of units. But the race with like AI coding tools is just insane. So things might accelerate very fast, faster than we can imagine.Noah [00:58:46]: I think your point is that with due to this long tail behavior Level one autonomy as you've defined it, is actually very natural. Like you basically are just solving an image recognition and tracking system.Yaroslav [00:59:02]: It's actually interesting that you say it that way, and I thought about this the very same way, and we have this joke that there are like 200 companies in Ukraine which are trying to solve last mile, targeting or terminal guidance. It seems like we're like the only company that actually solved that because even that problem-Noah [00:59:22]: I'm not saying it's, I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's at least something that you imagine given our current state.Yaroslav [00:59:26]: Like us and Eric Schmidt, like Eric Schmidt's companies are pretty good.Yaroslav [00:59:29]: Like, I actually have lots of respect to what they're doing, and they're, they have been practically influential and helpful on the battlefield, and they have good engineering.Noah [00:59:38]: I wasn't, I wasn't saying it's trivial. I'm just saying this is a something naturally adaptive based upon things that we know work, well. But some of the other domains that where you do have to make decisions and you have a long tail become much harder, and you worry about edge cases more.Yaroslav [00:59:57]: Like the more, the more complex behavior you're trying to simulate, the more edge cases there are right? The more ways to do it wrong there are. And then there are different approaches. It's like if you think about, if you read academic papers about robotics, right? You sort of the robot is represented as something that has the sort of sensor input, and then you have three, levels of sort of logics or decision-making, which are perception, planning, and control, and then you have actuators as output.So pre-neural nets, you would do perception output and control all with classic logics, right? Then, with AlexNet and computer vision, you could do perception with neural nets and the rest with logic. You cannot currently do each of those separately with neural nets, each of those separately with logics, or you can just have one huge neural net that just takes lots of sensory data. It's not just pixels. Could be sound, could be accelerometer, could be everything, as input, and just outputs the controls. And some of the self-driving car companies are doing that or like, experimenting between different ways of doing that. So you can also, like, think about that and the way you implement those features, also influences how much degrees of freedom the system would have, right? Like control, you can do it classical algorithmic control with common filters and PAD filter, PAD controllers, et cetera, or you can do a neural net, that was trained in a gym with a reinforcement learning, et cetera. And those would be two different behaviors of a system.Noah [01:01:53]: I-- Maybe my point was just much more high level. It'Yaroslav [01:01:56]: Or you can If you go even like, if you go high level, you can, you can like train to like have whatever, like Feifei Li and folks who are doing like physical, sortBrandon [01:02:08]: World modelsYaroslav [01:02:08]: World models, right, physical intelligence, they're trying to make these big models and sort of understand the world and then supposedly you have such model and you can tell a drone, “Okay, like, go over that hill and like, find the bad guys and then get them,”or “Make me a video, make me a photo of the guy smiling and get back to me.” Right? That's one way. Another way you have like these subsystems, like one is navigation, another is finding the person, another is like getting to them to take a photo. And those are again, very different behaviors. And then it's not that one is necessarily better than the other, and we might have more technological ability to do one or another. But all of those systems will exist. And then again, you should always keep in mind that it's only the not only the good guys that are developing these systems, the bad guys are developing these systems as well.China's Drone Supply Chain and the West's Manufacturing GapNoah [01:03:00]: I guess where I'm going with this back to Noah's original thought with the end of the end of the soldier. And so in order to replace-Brandon [01:03:10]: Or at least the end of the rifleman.Noah [01:03:11]: Or the end of the rifleman, yeah.Yaroslav [01:03:13]: I'm not seeing that very close, and it was like I'm, as much as I'm a lover of sci-fi and all of that and a technologist, the more I try to beYaroslav [01:03:27]: Like the I try to have certain humility about these things, and like the military, domain and there was just so much human history and blood and tears, dedicated to sort of understanding this art of war and perfecting it and so on. There is so much knowledge in there that I don't feel like I even started to comprehend, a lot of that. But one thing that I really understood is that even though drones are now making eighty percent of the casualties, you go to the actual officers, you talk to the actual, like, brigade commanders, corps commanders, and they explain to you, how all of it fits together, how when you're thinking about an operation that involves a couple thousand people to get this piece of land, out of the enemy's hands, deoccu deoccupy it, how it is so complex, it involves, dozens of different types of drones and then land operations and reconnaissance operations, psychological operations and then aviations and tanks and logistics and all kinds of these different assets. So modern warfare is really very complex, and the fact that the drones are the latest, coolest thing, and then the AI is latest, coolest thing, doesn't mean that now it's that and only that right? So yeah. Whoever's looking into that I think should realize that it's not just what the press talks about, that the reality is much more difficult, much more complex.Brandon [01:05:17]: Let's talk about China and China's manufacturing capabilities. So suppose that someone, like suppose the United States went to war with China. AndYaroslav [01:05:26]: I hope not.Brandon [01:05:27]: I hope not as well. And then but suppose that drones were very essential to that war of all the types of drones that we're talking about here, and that suppose that China said, “All right, well, you need X and Y and Z, to make those drones to fight us, and we control the production of X and Y and Z, so we're just going to cut you right off, and now you have no drones.”Brandon [01:05:47]: I know that a number of countries, including Ukraine and Taiwan, have been making moves to China-proof their drone productions that China couldn't do that. Examples of things they might be able to cut off might include rare earths, fiber optic cable that you were talking about before, various other things that where even if they don't control one hundred percent of the production, they control enough of the production that would be extremely expensive to produce it without relying on Chinese sources. Or the market's fragmented enough, et cetera. What do you see as China's key bottlenecks, and how easy are those to overcome in terms of China-proofing drone production in case of a war against China?Yaroslav [01:06:30]: Let me start with a saying that -Although China does not sell directly to Ukraine and it does sell directly to Russia, a lot of Ukrainian supply chains, they start in China, right?Yaroslav [01:06:49]: We're not in a conflict with China, and we would not want to be in a conflict with China. And we'd hope that China stays a neutral power between Ukraine and Russia and the US as well. That said, the scenario that you're describing, everything is much worse.Yaroslav [01:07:11]: Think about this. Last year, Ukraine produced four million FPV drones. Ukraine is not the most industrious nation in the world.Yaroslav [01:07:19]: China can produce four billion of these FPV drones.Yaroslav [01:07:23]: China can make them not drones with propellers, but fixed-wing drones, which go not forty kilometers far, but maybe two to three hundred kilometers inland.

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In today's episode, I'm speaking with Omar Zoubi, VP of Autonomous Mobility & Rideshare Network Strategy at TaskUs. Omar breaks down how TaskUs supports autonomous vehicle operators behind the scenes, from remote assistance to handling edge cases that today's AI systems still struggle to navigate. We get into TaskUs' role across the AV ecosystem, including who they partner with and how their human-in-the-loop model helps fleets operate safely and scale more efficiently. Omar explains the types of real-world scenarios where AVs need intervention, how those interventions feed back into improving AI systems, and what it takes to support different types of fleets with varying operational needs. The conversation also covers the current stage of the AV industry, including how companies like Waymo are approaching remote assistance and safety, and what challenges emerge as fleets grow. We discuss operational complexity, cost structures, and how companies think about cost per mile as they move toward commercialization. Finally, Omar shares his perspective on where TaskUs adds the most value today, how the human-in-the-loop model will evolve over time, and what the future of the AV industry looks like as autonomy matures. Chapters (00:00) Introduction to Omar Zoubi and TaskUs (03:19) TaskUs' domain of operation (03:30) TaskUs' AV business model, and their partners (04:43) What services does TaskUs provide to its AV clients? (06:10) How does TaskUs' assistance in edge cases help AV clients improve their AI? (07:53) Common scenarios where AV companies might need remote assistance, and how TaskUs helps. (09:30) Differences between supporting different AV fleets (10:41) How Omar thinks about Waymo's remote assistance and safety (12:40) What stage of the AV industry are we in? (14:19) Biggest operational challenges as AV fleets start to scale (15:46) Common traits across operators and companies in the AV industry (17:00) How the human-in-the-loop model will evolve as AVs mature (19:05) How do you plan for unpredictable scenarios, like the recent SF blackout? (21:38) How AV operational costs are distributed and cost per mile (23:10) Where does TaskUs offer the biggest value or opportunity for AV companies? (24:00) What does the future of the AV industry look like? (25:43) Conclusions and final thoughts Notes/Links: You can find Omar Zoubi on Linkedin. TaskUs website (link). Learn how TaskUs supports AV operations in their case study (link).

Ed and Jeremiah break down the latest breaking news and ADP movement as best ball summer heats up. 0:00 — Intro 0:18 — De'Von Achane signs extension with the Dolphins 0:28 — Malik Nabers knee surgery update 3:08 — Risers & Fallers segment begins 4:59 —

49ers Insider Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area joins Dirty Work with his immediate thoughts on the 2026 NFL schedule, places SF could take advantage of weaker teams, and "rest differential"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andy Baggarly checks in as SF looks to take first series in LA since 2023 but lost last night to Shohei Ohtani. The guys also talk about the team's decision to have Bryce Eldridge start in a limited role and the importance of having a left-handed threat on the bench.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's Daily Puck Drop, Jason "Puck" Puckett opens the show discussing the breaking news of Cal Raleigh landing on the IL and what the repressions of that decision. Puck than welcomes KJ-Arent's with Mitch Levy   and they discuss Kade Anderson coming up, Colt Emerson red hot, Cal Raleigh's IL stint and the Seahawks facing the Patriots in week one.   You can watch and listen to the full show during the LIVE Daily puck Drop, but once the live show is over, the full show is ONLY available for Puck's Posse members. Join today at PuckSports.com for just $5/month!  Jim Duquette, MLB Network Radio joins Puck to discuss whether or not the Mariners made a mistake of not putting Cal Raleigh on the IL sooner, moving forward with a six-man rotation, Shohei Ohtani pitching, managerial change looming in SF, went to call up Kade Anderson and Colt Emerson?“On This Day….”   We celebrate a very, very special birthday! Puck wraps up the show with, “Hey, What the Puck!?”  The Mariners needed to protect Cal Raleigh from himself; (1:00) Puck (6:25) KJ-Arent's w/ Mitch Levy (17:53) Jim Duquette, MLB Network Radio ( 38:04) “On This Day….”( 39:20) “Hey, What the Puck!” 

- Giants trying to trade Rafael Devers?- Rays surge to best team in AL- Cal Raleigh snaps 0-38 skid- Fernando Tatis Jr. still without a homer- Paul Skenes' video game numbers- SF's thrusting celebration canned- TRIVIA: sub-90 pitch Madduxes since 2010Listen/watch: https://bio.link/threeohtakePATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/threeohtake“THREEOHTAKE” for 10% off your Chinook Seedery order: https://www.chinookseedery.com/discount/THREEOHTAKE"THREEOHTAKE" for $20 off your first SeatGeek order: https://seatgeek.com/

Randy talks SF drug policy with Tom WolfSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Become a Big Dog Member here: https://bdge.co/memberships/fantasy_football/pricing0:00 - it's rude to skip intros0:24 - bijan robinson, RB, ATL (pick #1)2:41 - jahmyr gibbs, RB, DET (pick #2)5:18 - puka nacua, WR, LAR (pick #3)5:48 - jaxon smith-njigba, WR, SEA (pick #4)7:30 - ja'marr chase, WR, CIN (pick #5)9:15 - christian mccaffrey, RB, SF (pick #6)10:50 - jonathan taylor, RB, IND (pick #7)12:18 - amon-ra st. brown, WR, DET (pick #8)12:41 - ceedee lamb, WR, DAL (pick #9)14:20 - james cook, RB, BUF (pick #10)17:19 - justin jefferson, WR, MIN (pick #11)19:54 - saquon barkley, RB, PHI (pick #12)21:20 - ashton jeanty, RB, LV (honorable mention)subscribe to the bdge dynasty channel: https://ytube.io/3pZklisten to the bdge dynasty podcast: https://bityl.co/NzJ1bdge nfl trivia youtube channel: https://ytube.io/3jmJjoin the BDGE discord: https://discord.gg/77BxrqCF6Fsubscribe to the BDGE podcast | https://linktr.ee/bdgefollow me on the socials | https://linktr.ee/nickercolanoContact▪️ business inquiries | business@bdge.co▪️ customer support/help | help@bdge.co▪️ fantasy questions can go in our discord | https://discord.gg/AvpY3QJTAythis video is about (bdge,nick ercolano,fantasypros,fantasy flock,fantasy footballers,bdge fantasy football,fantasy football mock draft,2026 fantasy football,2026 fantasy football draft,2026 fantasy football mock draft)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's the second half of our big ranks reveal! Let's talk about Harris's initial ranks for wide receivers and quarterbacks for the 2026 fantasy football season. Who deserves to go in the first round at these less-scarce positions? How many trustable WR1s are there really, and how should that affect your positional draft strategy? How many QBs are truly worthy of reaching for, and how does that change in a superflex league? Let's go! The 2026 season is really finally officially launched! 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Brown       PHI? 11        Chris Olave      NO 12        DeVonta Smith            PHI 13        Tee Higgins     CIN 14        Terry McLaurin           WAS 15        George Pickens           DAL 16        Zay Flowers     BAL 17        Davante Adams          LAR 18        Jameson Williams       DET 19        Tetairoa McMillan      CAR 20        Rashee Rice     KC 21        D.J. Moore      BUF 22        Rome Odunze CHI 23        Emeka Egbuka TB 24        Luther Burden CHI 25        Jaylen Waddle DEN 26        Ladd McConkey          LAC 27        Garrett Wilson NYJ 28        Christian Watson        GB 29        Alec Pierce      IND 30        Courtland Sutton        DEN 31        Carnell Tate     TEN 32        Parker Washington     JAC 33        DK Metcalf      PIT 34        Chris Godwin  TB 35        Michael Pittman         PIT 36        Michael Wilson           ARI 37        Jakobi Meyers JAC 38        Mike Evans      SF 39        Makai Lemon  PHI 40        Ricky Pearsall  SF 41        Marvin Harrison          ARI 42        Jordyn Tyson   NO 43        Brian Thomas  JAC 44        Quentin Johnston       LAC 45        Jordan Addison           MIN 46        Stefon Diggs    47        Josh Downs     IND 48        Khalil Shakir    BUF 49        Jayden Reed    GB 50        Wan'Dale Robinson    TEN 51        Jauan Jennings            52        Romeo Doubs NE 53        Jalen Coker     CAR 54        Matthew Golden        GB 55        Jayden Higgins HOU 56        Brandon Aiyuk 57        Kayshon Boutte          NE 58        Jalen McMillan            TB 59        Tory Horton    SEA 60        Isaac TeSlaa    DET 61        KC Concepcion            CLE 62        Denzel Boston CLE 63        Troy Franklin   DEN 64        Tre Tucker       LV 65        Xavier Worthy KC 66        Jerry Jeudy      CLE 67        Dontayvion Wicks       PHI 68        Rashid Shaheed          SEA 69        Tre Harris        LAC 70        Omar Cooper  NYJ 71        Antonio Williams        WAS 72        Chris Bell         MIA 73        Travis Hunter  JAC 74        Calvin Ridley   TEN 75        Jalen Nailor     LV 76        Jack Bech        LV 77        De'Zhuan Stribling      SF 78        Skyler Bell       BUF 79        Adonai Mitchell          NYJ 80        Jaylin Noel       HOU   2026 Quarterback Ranks: 1          Josh Allen        BUF 2          Lamar Jackson BAL 3          Joe Burrow      CIN 4          Drake Maye    NE 5          Matthew Stafford       LAR 6          Jayden Daniels WAS 7          Caleb Williams CHI 8          Justin Herbert LAC 9          Jalen Hurts      PHI 10        Dak Prescott   DAL 11        Trevor Lawrence         JAC 12        Jared Goff       DET 13        Patrick Mahomes        KC 14        Brock Purdy    SF 15        Bo Nix  DEN 16        Jaxson Dart     NYG 17        Jordan Love     GB 18        C.J. Stroud       HOU 19        Baker Mayfield            TB 20        Kyler Murray   MIN 21        Daniel Jones    IND 22        Tyler Shough   NO 23        Sam Darnold   SEA 24        Bryce Young    CAR 25        Malik Willis     MIA 26        Cam Ward       TEN 27        Jacoby Brissett            ARI 28        Aaron Rodgers PIT 29        Fernando Mendoza    LV 30        Geno Smith     NYJ 31        Michael Penix ATL 32        Deshaun Watson        CLE 33        Tua Tagovailoa            ATL 34        Justin Fields    KC 35        Kirk Cousins    LV 36        Jameis Winston           NYG 37        Marcus Mariota          WAS 38        Shedeur Sanders         CLE 39        Mac Jones       SF 40        Joe Flacco        CIN 41        J.J. McCarthy   MIN 42        Davis Mills       HOU 43        Riley Leonard  IND 44        Cade Klubnik   NYJ 45        Jarrett Stidham           DEN 46        Ty Simpson     LAR 47        Tanner McKee PHI 48        Carson Beck    ARI 49        Carson Wentz MIN 50        Drew Allar       PIT