Podcasts about Slop

In episode 2103, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by writer, podcaster, and creator of JennaWorld, Molly Lambert, to discuss… Janine Pirro vs REALITY, David Ellison’s Paramount-Warner Merger Has Full Support Of David Ellison, MAGA’s Laziest Propaganda Yet? Taylor Farms’ Explosive Diarrhea Scandal Now Includes “Forced Labor” And “Death” and more! Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife." Side by side video of Trump contradicting himself on reflecting pool Paramount and Warner Bros pause $110bn merger amid legal challenge David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal The fight for Warner Bros. gets hostile. Consumers have a lot to lose. AMC-coded MAGA AI Slop Commercial First two people die in US from explosive diarrhea cyclosporiasis outbreak Sen. Blumenthal calls for Taylor Farms investigation amid deadly cyclospora outbreak Former Taylor Farms Tenn. President accused of stealing $32M in fraud case The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor Captive Labor Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands Cheap Jail and Prison Food Is Making People Sick. It Doesn’t Have To. Billion-dollar California salad company exploits undocumented migrants, say workers and Teamsters Taylor Farms, Big Food Supplier, Grapples With Frequent Recalls The Real Trump Scandal in the Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Story LISTEN: Tree's Root by S!RENESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The internet is never not nostalgic for the past, but something about the 90s is different. While previous trends like Y2K and “millennial optimism” have been mostly about the hair and clothes, 90s nostalgia is all about the tech. Or rather, lack of tech. Host Kate Lindsay and showrunner Daisy Rosario talk about what social media gets right about the decade, and what's just “nostalgia slop” trying to sell us something. Plus, Slate favorite Dan Kois has a challenge for listeners: Party Like It's 1996!This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The internet is never not nostalgic for the past, but something about the 90s is different. While previous trends like Y2K and “millennial optimism” have been mostly about the hair and clothes, 90s nostalgia is all about the tech. Or rather, lack of tech. Host Kate Lindsay and showrunner Daisy Rosario talk about what social media gets right about the decade, and what's just “nostalgia slop” trying to sell us something. Plus, Slate favorite Dan Kois has a challenge for listeners: Party Like It's 1996!This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The internet is never not nostalgic for the past, but something about the 90s is different. While previous trends like Y2K and “millennial optimism” have been mostly about the hair and clothes, 90s nostalgia is all about the tech. Or rather, lack of tech. Host Kate Lindsay and showrunner Daisy Rosario talk about what social media gets right about the decade, and what's just “nostalgia slop” trying to sell us something. Plus, Slate favorite Dan Kois has a challenge for listeners: Party Like It's 1996!This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The summer of Lebron continues. We did a deep dive into the signings and trades that Lebron was behind with the Heat, Cavs and Lakers and discuss whether he was a good shadow GM. Enjoy. Get weekly bonus content, discord access and more here: https://www.patreon.com/c/YouKnowBall  Watch YKB Live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@youknowball Buy our merch here! https://youknowball.dashery.com/  All other YKB content can be found here: https://linktr.ee/youknowball Follow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/youknowballpod  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Episode #1415: Today we're tracking margin pressure across the largest dealer groups, Lithia's behind-the-scenes push to improve affordability and efficiency, and LinkedIn's new user-powered effort to clean AI slop out of the feed. Average gross profit...

Your developers just got supercharged by AI coding agents. Your test coverage did not. So how do you keep quality high when product code is shipping faster than any test team can follow? In this episode Andrew Knight, the Automation Panda and Senior Director of Product and Engineering at Cycle Labs, shares how his six person team is running the biggest release quarter in company history using AI coding agents, spec driven development, and Playwright. You will discover: How Playwright turned itself into an AI automation platform with the MCP server, the planner, generator, and healer agents, and the new CLI and skills approach that cuts your token usage way down. Why Andy uses Spec Kit to codify his testing strategy once, in markdown, so quality standards get baked into every single pull request instead of being caught in review. How to decide which AI generated tests are actually worth running when compute time and budget are finite. What AI slop looks like from a manager's seat, and how to build a team culture that catches it before it ships. Why Andy believes AI coding tools are the new compiler and markdown is the new programming language, plus my pushback on what that means for everything testers were trained to care about. What Andy really thinks about token costs, subscription tiers, and what happens when the AI subsidies run out. Plus the one piece of advice he gives to any tester still sitting on the sidelines of the AI shift. Whether you are an automation engineer, a QA lead, or an engineering manager trying to figure out where testing fits in an AI first workflow, this episode gives you a practical playbook you can start using this week.

Full episodes and much more available on Patreon.com/slopquest Andy realizes he’s about to be friends with a lot more furries. Ryan talks about how difficult it is for him to be attracted to women in giant costumes with a butt flap. Then Ryan proposes a WW2 musical that Andy finds dubious at best. There’s a lot of “rhyming only one word” musical improv. Ryan is convinced that the idea is “gold”. However, some of the lyrics are…not great. Andy listens to his own show more and realizes apple podcasts comes up with titles for each segment on the show. Zuckerberg tries to make his own beef and this makes Ryan furious. There’s a lot boys reminisce about how we used to tenderize meat. Andy tries to invent a sniffing only bordello while Ryan tries to invent discount call girls. Ryan asks Andy what he would do with “evil billionaire money” and it’s so unhinged that ryan gets scared. Andy then decides he will hire Ryan to do all the interviews for him as a billionaire while armed and speaking only in rhymes. Then Ryan describes genitalia in the single dumbest way anyone has ever heard. Then Ryan suggests that Andy hire John C Reilly to play Dr. Steve Brule 24/7 on his mega yacht. Then Ryan wants to open “The O’Neills Presidential Library” that’s just car magazines with a special section where only Ryan is allowed to touch the “good ones”. Then Ryan tries to convince any to build a giant oil pipeline that drains Mars or a village of kids with great hair that billionaires can use for wigs. Then the boys have more voicemail reviews of “Morning Glory Milking Farm”.

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I work for a small software company on a team of about 7 or 8 engineers. I like working here. I like the people, the autonomy, the pay, my boss, and the stack among other things. I try to remind myself of this regularly so I don't take it for granted. I've been here for about 2.5 years and would love to continue working here. Our CTO, like many, has become a big AI cowboy coder. Every few months, he vibe codes a new project and then decides to interrupt the full workloads that we have a limited number of engineers to do to hand his project off to be cleaned up, worked into the product, and solve all of the problems that remain once actually put into practice. This usually ends up going to a different engineer per project, who is then tied up with the CTO's whims and is no longer available to do the work planned by product. Our EM knows this and knows the frustration and lost velocity, but what can he do? (rhetorical, not the question) Most recently, I was tasked with implementing some reporting dashboards he did into the product, but he specifically asked me to make it in such a way that he can continue to work on and add to because he can't be bothered to run the actual product. This is very concerning to several of us. He has no clue what he's writing or how bad it is. We've talked about perhaps making him do PRs, but a) who can make him, he's the CTO, and b) he'll have no clue what to do with PR pushback given that he has no clue what he wrote. And again, who can make him actually fix it if he asks us to rubber stamp it? (rhetorical, not the question) I've been listening to the show for years and I've talked to friends at other companies, so I know this is everywhere. Is it as everywhere as it seems? Is it worth finding a new place to work where the CTO isn't running so rampant? As I stated before, I'd rather not leave, but if I talked about that as a concern, I don't want it to sound like an ultimatum, even if maybe it is at some level. Is this just the new reality for us, or is there something that can be done? I am a senior software engineer at a big tech company. I live in central Europe but my team is in the US and I'm 9 hours ahead. I have 7:30 pm meetings and sometimes take an hour before and/or after this meeting to prep or follow up. Previously I slept in later and started later to deal with these meetings. However, now my daughter is starting kindergarten and I wake up early (5-6AM) to be with her, drop her off, etc. Now in the evening meetings my brain is fried and I can't even articulate myself well. The next day I think about so many things I wish I had said in those meetings. I can't quit as I make 160K right now and I would only be making 60-80K tops in my country and have some financial commitments. Relocation to the US is also not an option because I have kids and don't want them to move. So far I have been skipping meetings and my manager has not expressed concern but I feel so detached from my team. I don't even know what most of my peers are working on. It feels like I am out of ideas to make this better. Please share your space wisdom with me :)

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“The human part is 99 percent. The AI part is maybe 1 percent — even if 100 percent of the manuscript was dumped onto the page by AI.” — Keith Teare on writing with AI What is “real” authorship in our AI age? For That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare, all authorship, even the most AI-enabled, is real. It's the cave-dwelling Luddites who are the sloppy ones. For Keith, true creativity, in our age of Claude and Gemini, almost requires the use of AI. A couple of weeks ago Keith confessed, or perhaps boasted, that he is writing an AI-assisted book entitled Who Owns Intelligence. This week, publishing discovered what happens when others play the same game without public acknowledgement. So we have the case of the “red-hot” debut novel, fought over by fourteen publishers, dropped overnight when the agent found AI in the mix. “It's a fantastic book,” the book's agent acknowledged, before firing its less than transparent author. Which, for Keith, is precisely the scandal. His position, argued in this week's editorial “AI Detected,” is pretty absolute. Nothing is written by AI, Keith argues, because AI has no will. It doesn't produce a single word unless asked. The human part is 99 percent, he says, even when 100 percent of the manuscript is spat out by the machine. So the real sin isn't using AI but not acknowledging its use. So, on Who Owns Intelligence, Keith makes it crystal clear that “AI was heavily used in the writing of this book.” I'm not so sure. Amazon is now infested with AI slop that requires no authorship. Besides, Keith clearly has no love of reading books. He admits to reading only a single volume in the last couple of years. And he's still smarting from being, in his mind at least, ripped off by the publishing industry for his last published book some 40 years ago. He no longer needs to read books, he pronounces, because his world-view is already set. For a man who thinks he knows everything, AI isn't scary. Maybe we should rename him Claude. Postscript. Full Keith-style disclosure: these shownotes were produced with the help of Anthropic. When I fed Claude my draft, it responded: “‘Maybe we should rename him Claude' is a closer I'm contractually obliged to enjoy.” Nothing, as Keith says, is written by AI. Although some algorithms seem to have cheeky opinions of their own. Maybe Anthropic should rename it Keith. Five Takeaways •       Nothing Is Written by AI. Keith's absolutism starts from the machine's lack of will: AI won't produce a word unless a human asks. His Who Owns Intelligence — fifteen chapters, arguments, and references — was structured in ninety minutes from years of thinking; the AI produced a manuscript he then shaped, like a color grader working sliders in Photoshop. The human part is 99 percent even when the machine types every word. And authorship was never solitary anyway: Plato's contemporaries thought writing itself degraded ideas, and no publisher will touch a book that hasn't passed through an editor and a subeditor. If editing doesn't change authorship, Keith asks, why would AI?•       Transparency, Not Technology. The week's cautionary tale: a debut novel fought over by fourteen publishers, dropped when the agent discovered AI — while conceding, in the same breath, “it's a fantastic book.” For Keith the scandal is concealment, not composition: own the tool, as he now does with a strapline under his byline. The detection regime, meanwhile, is collapsing on its own inaccuracy — universities dropped their AI detectors this week, and Substack's new detection partner scored Keith's human-shaped editorial as 100 percent AI when a fair reading was 40. Cheating exists only against obsolete rules: the question is moving from did you use AI to how well did you use it.•       “The Publishing Industry Is Basically a Scam.” Keith's response to Andy Hunter's ban on AI-generated books — from last week's Keen On interview — was one word: outrageous. There is no such thing as an AI-written book, only good and bad ones; and the true victim of publishing is not the bookstore but the author. Exhibit A: his own 1988 book sold 50,000 copies at £3.99 and earned him roughly £10,000 — about 5p a copy — while Penguin took the rest. The future he wants is direct, author-to-reader, without the middlemen. As for “organic” artisanal literature: real, elite, and tiny — the new vinyl, which is itself cut these days from digital masters.•       Sharks, Playing Their Own Book. Leopold Aschenbrenner — fired young from OpenAI, transfigured by one prophetic essay into the “Nostradamus of AI” — saw his $45 billion, heavily leveraged Situational Awareness fund lose $600 million, get margin-called, and sell to Ken Griffin's Citadel. (He is, Keith suspects, still super rich.) Zuckerberg's sudden conversion to open source as “the distribution of wealth to the people” struck us both as a bit rich; Amodei's “I'm not against open source as long as it's safe” — from a man on record that no AI is safe — translates as: against. Keith's deeper complaint, from an admiring Claude user: you can't trust Dario. And China, hardware-constrained, has made open source its national strategy — undermining American foundation-model revenue one cheap routed prompt at a time.•       Money Won't Matter by 2036? Elon Musk predicts money becomes irrelevant within a decade; Vinod Khosla — our post of the week — thinks he might just have a point. Keith, ever the economics tutor, reaches for tendency and ceteris paribus: money is a means of exchange and a store of value, and if abundance drives the labor-value of things toward zero, its irrelevance is not illogical — though between tendency and reality lies a whole ton of variables. I bet the opposite: that by 2036 money will matter more than ever. The problem, we discovered, is the stake — you can't bet money on money not mattering. Wives and children were proposed and hastily withdrawn (“We'd be losing, Andrew”). Loser buys dinner — at a free restaurant. About the Co-Host Keith Teare is the publisher of That Was The Week, the essential weekly tech newsletter, and founder and CEO of SignalRank Corporation. A serial entrepreneur — co-founder of, among others, EasyNet and RealNames — he was present at the creation of the UK internet and has spent four decades at the intersection of technology, capital, and ideas. He joins Keen On America every Sunday to make sense of the week in tech. His AI-assisted book in progress is titled Who Owns Intelligence. References: •       That Was The Week — Keith's newsletter, including this week's editorial, “AI Detected.”•       The Wall Street Journal — on the red-hot debut novel at the center of publishing's AI mystery: fourteen publishers, one discovery, one dropped author.•      ...

News Sources: https://lmg.gg/J3HFX Timestamps: 0:00 LinkedIn cracks down on AI slop 2:01 AI music charts and the Suno ruling 3:33 AMD raising GPU prices 6:07 QUICK BITS INTRO 6:16 Claude broke into real companies 7:03 Steam Frame FCC certification 7:41 Sony sticking with disc plan 8:11 New York sues Kalshi 8:51 Airlines ban humanoid robots 9:39 Credits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LinkedIn is rolling out a "Seems Like AI Slop" button. It's a way to flag the low-quality, computer-written posts filling your feed. I recap what AI slop actually is, why LinkedIn is killing its own "Enhance with AI" button in the same breath, and why the toothpaste is already out of the tube. The real point: slop isn't a style problem, it's a trust problem. It dilutes your brand. You can build a business in a few clicks now, but you can't build a brand that way. The greatest leverage in business is media and attention, and slop is the fastest way to squander it. Use AI as a tool, not a crutch. Write it yourself first, let AI tighten it, and always vibe check before you publish.Timestamps(0:06) — LinkedIn's new "Seems Like AI Slop" button, and what AI slop does to your brand(0:51) — The post that started this, and zero-click content → LinkedIn post(1:51) — LinkedIn kills its own "Enhance with AI" button(3:51) — Zombie metaphor: "Your AI-written posts are already dead. Nobody wants to bite into it, because it's not alive."(4:21) — The toothpaste is out of the tube: YouTube, AI labels, and trust(5:36) — Remember the good internet?(6:51) — Enshittification and the ad-driven web(7:51) — Build a business in a few clicks. You can't build a brand that way.(8:21) — Apple's most valuable asset is its brand — AI can't build that(9:06) — Too late? The sun setting on LinkedIn (the TechCrunch quote)(10:06) — One LinkedIn post away from a million-dollar deal(12:06) — Collisions are opportunities. Third spaces, and following smart people.(13:06) — Use the button responsibly (don't dock your frenemies)(15:06) — Every network is fighting slop now — why LinkedIn's decline cuts deepest(16:06) — The greatest leverage in business: media AKA attention(16:51) — Use AI as a tool, not a crutch (grab the .md file from the last episode)Links mentionedMy LinkedIn post about the "seems like AI" buttonTechCrunch: LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated slopCory Doctorow book: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About ItTom Goodwin on LinkedIn (worth a follow for marketing, branding, advertising)Related episode and post: Naval Ravikant's Four Levers in Business (labor, capital, code, media)My gear & software:Record guests and create clips on Riverside: emilybinder.com/riversideRecord solo and edit like a Word Doc with AI on Descript: emilybinder.com/descriptMy mic gear - Amazon ListVideo podcast gear - Amazon ListMy Amazon StorefrontHire me:Book a call - Marketing Surgery: emilybinder.com/callSpeaking: emilybinder.com/speakingConnect:This podcast | My website | Beetle Moment Marketing | LinkedIn | X | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Email updates Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PostbagMark Lee and Jeremy Freeman sent voice notes about where to get official LinkedIn info and change logs."Seems like AI slop" is a new feature on LinkedIn posts viewed in the main feed.Update on collaborative postsSolo and small business owners: join the Espresso+ community to improve your LinkedIn and online presence. Find out more at jesp.me/joinSupport the show: Informed is not sponsored, so all production and hosting is self-funded. To make a small donation, go to jesp.me/informed-tip – thanks!

This week, we break down the arguments about open-weight models unfolding in Silicon Valley right now. Nvidia released an open letter signed by over 230 companies opposing “premature restrictions,” but will the Trump administration listen? Then, we're joined by the author Claire Stapleton to discuss her new book about what she learned while leading employee activism inside Google. And finally, can Substack stop the slop? We'll talk about the platform's new A.I. detector. Guests: Claire Stapleton, author of “Don't Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech.” Additional Reading: Nvidia Forms Alliance to Back Open-Source A.I. Amid Debate Over Safety What Is Open-Weights A.I.? Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power  The Voice of Google Against Claudefishing We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This Week In Startups is made possible by: YSecurity https://YSecurity.io/TWIST MongoDB https://MongoDB.com/ai Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Today's show: AI models can solve PhD-level math equations and code an app in minutes… So why does everything they design look like identical slop? Thais Castello Branco, founder of Taste Labs, raised $18.5M in seed funding to teach frontier models about aesthetics and outputting quality content. She talks to Jason and Lon about why even frontier models regress to the mean on subjective tasks, how paid "TasteMakers" can improve output quality, and whether AI accelerates or destroys the half-life of "what's cool." PLUS Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund liquidated its public stock portfolio, but it may be too soon to count this 25-year-old completely out. Google Earth adds AI generation and turns into a misinformation factory. LinkedIn and Substack join the AI slop crackdown. And why does every venture capitalist seem to have an opinion about the Ceuta border crisis? Guest Thais Castello Branco on X: https://x.com/thaiscbranco_ Taste Labs: https://tastelabs.com/ Amplify Partners: "Kill the Slop": https://www.amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/kill-the-slop-announcing-our-investment-in-taste Relevant Links Leopold Aschenbrenner's essay "Situational Awareness": https://situational-awareness.ai/ CNBC on SA fund collapse: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/leopold-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness-fund-fire-sale.html Henk van Ess thread on Google Earth + Nano Banana: https://x.com/henkvaness/status/2082912544394498228 Substack CEO Chris Best: "Against Claudefishing": https://post.substack.com/p/against-claudefishing NPR on the Ceuta crisis: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/g-s1-136507/morocco-spain-migration Ethan Goodhart's self-driving golf cart post: https://x.com/EthanGoodhart/status/2082136189998682598?s=20 "Wind" app on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/zZqmhhwf TechCrunch: "Gritt exits stealth": https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/gritt-exits-stealth-with-34-million-for-robots-to-build-solar-plants-then-everything-else/ CA Gov: Project Nexus solar-covered canal announcement: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/04/29/governor-newsom-announces-the-completion-of-first-of-its-kind-solar-covered-canal-in-the-central-valley-piloting-a-new-way-to-save-water-and-reduce-costs/ Molly Wood's "Everybody in the Pool" podcast: https://www.everybodyinthepool.com/ Timestamps:   0:00 Coming up on today's show… 1:23 Thais Castello Branco on teaching models to have good taste 10:45 YSecurity - The on-demand security team for startups. Need enterprise-grade security without hiring a $400k CISO? YSecurity gives you 40+ expert engineers, matched to exactly what you need, by the hour, with your first six hours completely free. Go to https://YSecurity.io/TWIST 15:19 The "TasteMaker" community of paid human curators 20:37 MongoDB - AI-assisted and agentic coding is helping you build faster than ever. Start building at https://MongoDB.com/ai 24:40 Jason's personal "cool hunter" prompt 30:16 Odoo - The all-in-one business platform. Get started for free at https://Odoo.com/twist 37:36 Situation Awareness lacked situational awareness 46:59 Claude models hacked three external organizations 50:54 Google Earth adds Nano Banana for some reason 54:24 The AI Slop crackdown spreads 57:54 Too many opinions about the Ceuta migrant crisis 1:04:05 Self-driving golf carts and also cars 1:09:53 Robot arms are installing solar panels   Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp   Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons   Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm   Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis   Check out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/   Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland   Check out Jason's suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis   Follow TWiST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com

Book-ended by ranking Shakespeare and spearing Avengers Doomsday, TV's Kevin, Justin, & Ty put their feet up for a "relaxing" island vacation by playing Super Mario Sunshine! Next up: August: Southland Tales September: Billy Bat

Book-ended by ranking Shakespeare and spearing Avengers Doomsday, TV's Kevin, Justin, & Ty put their feet up for a "relaxing" island vacation by playing Super Mario Sunshine! Next up: August: Southland Tales September: Billy Bat

LinkedIn admits it has an 'AI slop' problem LinkedIn has become infamous for cringey content, but with the rise of AI, the posts are getting out of control. And LinkedIn knows it's a problem. It's so bad that LinkedIn now has a button to report a post for seeming like AI slop. Yes, that is the real label. They say people come to LinkedIn to connect with real people, who share their real perspectives, ideas, and expertise. That does not mean they want to see something they could ask AI themselves! In an amusing case of irony, LinkedIn has pulled down its own "Enhance your post with AI" feature. Prepare for your tech gadgets to get more expensive There is a global shortage of computer memory and storage with the boom of AI and data centre builds, and it's now so bad that Apple is warning its investors. In its call this week they said they're seeing continued demand for their latest generation of devices but also challenges securing memory, saying there is "less flexibility". Apple now has $11 billion dollars in inventory, almost double from September last year, suggesting they're stockpiling the components needed for their most popular devices. It's likely your tech gadgets will become more expensive as the cost of these critical components continue to be in hot demand. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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American health is on the steep decline. MAHA was supposed to fix the problem, but instead has spent time promoting big-meat and big-dairy rather than informing the public about how the obsession and overconsumption of these products is poisoning us at a rate closely aligned with processed junk. Frying potatoes in beef tallow doesn't solve the problem that the food itself, and the additives, are making us addicted and sick. RFK Jr even posted on the official Real Food website that his stance was not an attack on the industry. Well, it should be. Considering that some of the greatest warriors in human history, from Gladiators and Roman Legionary, to Samurai, ate very little meat and dairy, and considering that diets with little or none of these ingredients are the only lifestyle changes in studies that have ever reversed diseases of the heart and diabetes, perhaps we are being lied too yet again. *The is the FREE archive, which includes advertisements. If you want an ad-free experience, subscribe below.

 In episode 263, Coffey talks with Jimmy Taylor about the state of return-to-office, AI's real impact on workforce participation and HR practice, and why proactive networking and skills-based hiring matter more than ever.  They discuss CBRE data showing peak office utilization reaching 80% and the factors driving successful return-to-office adoption; the hidden financial costs employees bear when returning to the office and how employers should account for that in compensation and goodwill; why early-career professionals stand to benefit most from in-person work through mentorship, visibility, and relationship-building; June jobs report softness, a 50-year-low labor participation rate, and competing explanations from immigration enforcement changes and AI displacement; AI as a net job creator over time, drawing parallels to fears about the internet eliminating insurance agents, real estate agents, and recruiters in the 1990s; the organizational opportunity and challenge of assessing AI skill gaps and reskilling loyal existing employees rather than replacing them with outside talent; Gen Z's surprising gaps in desktop computing and interpersonal skills despite their reputation for tech fluency; the case for replacing traditional resumes with tailored application processes and front-end skills assessments to filter out AI-generated candidate slop; professional association involvement as a proactive career resilience and network-building strategy before a job loss forces it; and Dallas HR's hands-on AI skills day designed to move HR professionals from AI curiosity to practical daily application.  For listeners of Good Morning HR podcast, use 2026-CoffeyGMHR-100 promo code and take $100 off a HRSouthwest full conference registration at https://hrsouthwest.com.   For HR teams who discuss this podcast in their team meetings, we've created a discussion starter PDF to help guide your conversation. Download it here https://goodmorninghr.com/EP263  Good Morning, HR is brought to you by Imperative—Bulletproof Background Checks. For more information about our commitment to quality and excellent customer service, visit us at https://imperativeinfo.com.   If you are an HRCI or SHRM-certified professional, this episode of Good Morning, HR has been pre-approved for half a recertification credit. To obtain the recertification information for this episode, visit https://goodmorninghr.com.   About our Guest:  Jimmy Taylor brings more than 20 years of business and HR leadership to DallasHR and the HR Southwest Conference. As Executive Director, Jimmy is responsible for leading strategic initiatives and overseeing the operations of the organization in the mission to advance and connect the regional HR community.  Jimmy Taylor can be reached at   Website: https://www.dallashr.org/  Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-taylor-sphr-25b230/   About Mike Coffey:  Mike Coffey is an entrepreneur, licensed private investigator, business strategist, HR consultant, and registered yoga teacher. In 1999, he founded Imperative, a background investigations and due diligence firm helping risk-averse clients make well-informed decisions about the people they involve in their business. Imperative delivers in-depth employment background investigations, know-your-customer and anti-money laundering compliance, and due diligence investigations to more than 300 risk-averse corporate clients across the US, and, through its PFC Caregiver & Household Screening brand, many more private estates, family offices, and personal service agencies. Imperative has been named a Best Places to Work, the Texas Association of Business' small business of the year, and is accredited by the Professional Background Screening Association.  Mike shares his insight from 25+ years of HR-entrepreneurship on the Good Morning, HR podcast, where each week he talks to business leaders about bringing people together to create value for all stakeholders. Mike has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of Excellence by FW, Inc. and has twice been recognized as the North Texas HR Professional of the Year.  Mike serves as a board member of a number of organizations, including the Texas State Council, where he serves Texas' 30 SHRM chapters as State Director-Elect; Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County; the Texas Association of Business; and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, where he is chair of the Talent Committee. Mike is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) through the HR Certification Institute and a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). He is also a Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) and teaches multiple times each week. Mike and his very patient wife of 29 years are empty nesters in Fort Worth.  Learning Objectives: Evaluate the real costs — financial, cultural, and competitive — that employees and employers each absorb when transitioning back to in-person or hybrid work arrangements. Assess an organization's current AI skill gaps and identify practical reskilling strategies that retain institutional knowledge while closing the gap with external market demands. Redesign the candidate screening process to replace resume-based review with structured application workflows and skills assessments that resist AI-generated submissions and reduce bias. 

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Solomonster reviews the final WWE Raw before Summerslam with one of the worst segments all year, a NEW Women's Intercontinental champion crowned and final hype for Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins and Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar.  Their television needs a major reset coming out of this weekend.***Follow Solomonster on X (formerly Twitter) for news and opinion:http://x.com/solomonsterSubscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

Anti-AI Slop Checklist: https://clickhubspot.com/olkw Ep. 439 Are you just passing AI-generated slop back and forth at work? Kipp and guest Hilary Gridley (founder of the newsletter Writerbuilder) dive into how teams can escape the AI slop doom loop and leverage artificial intelligence to scale taste, judgment, and high-performance work—not just automate mediocrity. Learn more on the crucial role of clarity and context in AI-powered teams, why leaders must redefine what “good” looks like, and practical tools to set quality bars, create feedback loops, and eliminate sloppy outputs from your team's workflow. Mentions Hilary Gridley https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilarygridley Loop: Outlearn. Outmarket. Outgrow https://a.co/d/08By5k2w Writerbuilder https://hils.substack.com/p/writing-is-building-now Maven https://maven.com/hilary-gridley/ai-powered-people-management Whoop https://www.whoop.com/ Claude https://claude.ai/ Get our guide to build your own Custom GPT: https://clickhubspot.com/customgpt Resource [Free] Steal our favorite AI Prompts featured on the show! Grab them here: https://clickhubspot.com/aip We're on Social Media! Follow us for everyday marketing wisdom straight to your feed YouTube: ​​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGtXqPiNV8YC0GMUzY-EUFg  Twitter: https://twitter.com/matgpod  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@matgpod  Thank you for tuning into Marketing Against The Grain! Don't forget to hit subscribe and follow us on Apple Podcasts (so you never miss an episode)! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketing-against-the-grain/id1616700934   If you love this show, please leave us a 5-Star Review https://link.chtbl.com/h9_sjBKH and share your favorite episodes with friends. We really appreciate your support. Host Links: Kipp Bodnar, https://twitter.com/kippbodnar   Kieran Flanagan, https://twitter.com/searchbrat  ‘Marketing Against The Grain' is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by Hubspot Media // Produced by Darren Clarke.

349 - AI is changing commercial photography, but not in the way most photographers fear. In this episode, J. Nichole Smith and I dig into what is actually shifting in the industry, where the pendulum is already swinging back, and why real images are becoming more valuable, not less.What to Listen ForWhy AI images quietly kill trust and credibilityThe pendulum that is already swinging backWhat the joy economy means for your bookingsWhy marketing is emotional before it is logicalThe one question that settles every pricing decisionHow lived experience becomes your negotiation superpowerLicensing levers that rescue a too small budgetWhy information stopped being worth paying forThe AI uses nobody is sad aboutWhere to double down when things feel scaryThe industry is shifting, but photographers are not going anywhere. Real images, real connection, and real skill are becoming harder to fake and easier to charge for. Give this one a listen and see where your work fits in what is coming.Grab the Commercial Getting Started Kit for $49 at https://hairofthedogacademy.com/commercialkitCONNECT + LEARN MORE:Explore all things photography education at nicolebegleyedu.comReady to build a profitable photography business? Visit freedomfocusformula.comMaster the craft of pet photography at hairofthedogacademy.comFollow along on Instagram - @nicolebegleyofficial 

Full episodes and much more available on Patreon.com/slopquest Andy remembers an old racy flyer he wanted to make for his old sketch troupe. Ryan has a bone to pic with French authors and doesn’t hold back. Ryan won’t even fist bump anymore and Andy filters out a related term on social media so he doesn’t see it. Ryan tries to defend Denzel Washington’s character in “Philadelphia”. Andy compares the movie to “Dumb and Dumber” and shocks Ryan with the fact that Antonio Banderas was in Playgirl. Andy and Ryan come up with a new format for a movie review show. Ryan talks about more childhood vandalism and they imagine him as a famous film maker being interviewed by Terry Gross again. Andy gets a series of truly unhinged voicemails with a review of “Morning Glory Milking Farm” and the boys lose their minds. The boys start with a review of part 2 “Sweet Berries” and Ryan cannot believe what he’s hearing. The story revolves around a “social media manager” for a berry farm who can’t get her libido under control. Ryan has an idea for life size dragon companion doll.

Jeff and Rebecca enjoy The Odyssey afterglow, lament AI slop biographies, cover a bunch of adaptation news, recent reading, and much more. Jeff gets off some takes before the show gets going to talk about Amazon's best-selling books of all-time, a formidable new AI lawsuit, sales of THE ODYSSEY editions, recent reading, and much more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Join The Book Riot Podcast Patreon for bonus content and ad-free listening. Discussed in this episode: Emily Wilson's comments on Christopher Nolan's Odyssey Book Riot's best adaptations of the century so far Judge approves settlement in Anthropic copyright case Scammer caught after publishing 5,000 AI slop biographies New Taylor Jenkins Reid novel in March (same day as Percival Everett) Apple already has the rights to adapt Rebecca Yarros's next (non-Fourth Wing) novel Sony picks up The Silent Patient for fast-tracked adaptation This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Go to quince.com/wellread for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. It's now available for our friends in Canada too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When organizations or platforms encounter a quality crisis or an onslaught of unpopular noise, the default response is to rush toward compliance, policing, and labeling. However, wrapping an algorithmic guess in a false sense of mathematical certainty doesn't fix a quality problem. It creates an illusion of control while breeding paranoia and driving bad behavior underground.  This week, I unpack Substack's recent partnership with Pangram Labs to combat what they're calling "Claudefishing." As an avid Substack user watching this play out, I recognize how closely this mirrors the exact same trap happening inside corporate C-suites and higher education institutions. Burned-out leaders facing an onslaught of low-effort "AI slop" are reaching for algorithmic surveillance tools as an easy button. However, trying to judge the merit of work by auditing its inputs is like looking at someone's shopping list to decide whether or not they're a good cook.  My goal this week is to help you resist the compliance reflex and implement a sustainable, human-centric approach to quality and accountability:  ​Exposing the Illusion of Objective Labels: A percentage score like "AI-generated" sounds like a cold, scientific measurement, but it is actually a statistical guess wrapped in mathematical security. By forcing creators and employees to cater to arbitrary compliance badges, we strip away human agency, punish structured thinkers, and completely abandon the conversation about actual quality and merit.  ​Escaping the Algorithmic Surveillance Trap: Reaching for digital hall monitors fails to address the underlying pressure cooker of leadership burnout. Surveillance doesn't stop workslop. It simply pushes bad behavior underground while forcing your best performers to waste energy proving their innocence rather than driving real impact.  ​Anchoring on Observable, Measurable Outcomes: You cannot hold people accountable for an outcome if you strip away their agency over how they think and execute. Rather than auditing how the kitchen operates or policing tools, leaders must shift their focus toward clear, observable standards. If you haven't clearly defined what success looks like, it isn't just AI that's struggling. Your people are, too.  By the end, my hope is that you'll resist the urge to pick sides in a divisive "human vs. bot" tribal war or slap meaningless red letters on your team. Sustainable leadership in the AI age isn't about building a better digital prison; it's about rebuilding trust, asking curious process questions, and elevating standards for observable outcomes.  —If this conversation was helpful, make sure to like, share, subscribe, or buy me a coffee at ⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/christopherlind⁠And if you'd benefit from help balancing performance, technology, and people, check out my website at ⁠https://christopherlind.co⁠—Chapters⁠00:00⁠ – The Claudefishing Impulse: Rushing to Compliance and False Objectivity  ⁠04:15⁠ – The Shopping List Fallacy: Why AI Detectors Miss the Quality Conversation  ⁠08:10⁠ – The Leadership Pressure Cooker: Why We Reach for the "Easy Button"  ⁠12:30⁠ – Stripping Human Agency: How Algorithmic Hall Monitors Backfire  ⁠17:45⁠ – The Four-Part Playbook: Sustainable Moves for Outcome-Driven Leadership  ⁠25:30⁠ – Leading with Curiosity: Asking Questions Before Jumping to Conclusions  ⁠31:10⁠ – Conclusion: Rebuilding Trust Over Digital Prisons  #Leadership #AIStrategy #FutureFocused #WorkforceTransformation #OrganizationalTrust

In this episode, we break down one of the biggest misconceptions in modern marketing: That AI can replace strategy. With more clinics using AI tools to generate websites, blogs, and ads, the volume of content online has exploded. But visibility has not. Most of that content is never seen. This is what we refer to as “AI Slop” — content that looks polished on the surface but lacks real expertise, depth, and strategic intent. In this episode, we explore why relying on AI alone can actually make your clinic invisible, and what it really takes to stand out in today's search and AI-driven environment. What You'll Learn What “AI Slop” is and how to recognise it Why AI-generated content often fails to rank or convert The difference between being visible and being ignored online Why templated websites and AI-built content create a “cheap” perception How patients and AI platforms evaluate trust today What AI can do well — and where it falls short The key elements that actually drive growth for clinics Key Takeaway AI is not the problem. The problem is how it's being used. At best, AI can help you become as good as your competitors. But if you want to be seen, trusted, and chosen, you need more than automation. You need strategy, structure, and real expertise. If You're a Clinic Owner Ask yourself: Are you building something that stands out… Or just keeping up with what everyone else is doing? If you're relying on AI without a clear strategy, you're likely creating content that will never be seen. Work With Us At Online Marketing for Doctors, we help clinics build: High-converting websites Structured SEO and AEO strategies Scalable patient acquisition systems If you want to position your clinic at the top — not just blend in — get in touch with our team Key Links Mentioned

Wie hat sich Hazel als Pilotin gemacht? Können Roboter kochen? Und wie sehen die Odyssee-Popcorn-Buckets aus? 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:28 Backhanded Compliments 00:06:18 Qualität schwindet 00:26:40 Thomas gibt Mathe-Nachhilfe 00:35:26 Liebe zur Arbeit 00:37:27 The Odyssey 00:39:38 Große Regisseure überraschen nicht mehr 00:46:57 Disney's Unterdrückung 00:53:54 Hazel fliegt Flugzeug 01:06:48 Hazels Live Termine 01:07:27 Schweden-Urlaub 01:12:33 Hazel quizzt 01:18:49 Outro Hazel Live im schwedischen Lund https://secure.tickster.com/sv/xha9j5111pywtrj/selectevent Hazels Tour https://hazelbrugger.com/#termine Alo https://www.aloyoga.com/de-de/ Alo Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alo OCD - obsessive-compulsive disorder https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwangsstörung Roboter kocht in Ingolstadt https://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/ingolstadt/video-so-kocht-der-roboter-im-dalwigk-restaurant-in-ingolstadt-21536030 Mona Lisa aus Toastscheiben https://www.langweiledich.net/mona-lisa-aus-verbrannten-toastscheiben/ Nolan's (angebliche) „no chair rule“ https://www.nme.com/news/film/anne-hathaway-reveals-christopher-nolan-no-chairs-on-set-rule-2698424 Denis Villeneuve ist ein französisch-kanadischer Regisseur, nicht französischer Interview ABGEHOBEN mit Felix Lobrecht https://youtu.be/_f_xH1YdK9g?si=yg8PsE5dzJtOrrKH Playmobil in der Dauerkrise https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/handel/playmobil-umsatz-bricht-weiter-ein-produktion-in-deutschland-endet-a-3afd7c26-6156-4228-8b0e-49286e80b67b Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/hoererlebnis Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

The Tim Conway Jr Show Hour with Andy Riesmeyer Hour 3 (7.24) Andy is still impressed by how good Waymo’s self-driving cars really are — the first time he rode one in San Francisco, the vehicle pulled over and a remote voice came through the speakers because a passenger wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. It leaves us wondering if Waymos also use remote drivers the way some driverless fleets in Las Vegas do. Andy rants about AI’s effect on the brain: Google now pushes Gemini answers to the top of every search with zero context, and the real robot apocalypse isn’t Terminator-style robots — it’s us lazily handing over our autonomy. The flood of AI-generated slop online is only getting worse. Then it’s time for Andy’s favorite game, Solo to Solo (DJ Greasefire style), where he plays the isolated guitar solo from a classic track and listeners call in to guess the song and artist. First up is a retired pilot calling from LAX who still drives for Uber and admits to drinking on the job — maybe we should set him up with that earlier caller who doesn’t drink, claims she’s not boring, and has a cracking body. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Stewart Alsop sits down with Matias Avalos on this episode of the Wisdom podcast to explore the intersection of technology, humanism, and creative sovereignty. The conversation moves from Matias's work with neural network-based audio plugins and effect chains to broader questions about corporate transhumanism, data ownership, and what it means to maintain human agency in an increasingly automated world. They discuss the dangers of convenience-driven technological adoption, the implications of companies like Palantir and Neuralink, and how bureaucratic incentives push toward total legibility while protecting their own opacity. Along the way, they touch on everything from IMAX audio production and the death of walkable cities to Instagram's transformation from visual diary to data extraction platform, ultimately arguing for local, open-source, and sovereign approaches to technology that keep humans in the loop rather than replacing them with "average fabrics" of algorithmic output. Find Matias Avalos on LinkedIn for more techno-poetic discussions.Timestamps00:00 Stewart welcomes Matias Avalos to discuss their friendship and upcoming conversation topics.05:00 Matias explains audio effect chains using neural networks to capture professional recording room signatures and create portable high-fidelity sound processing.10:00 Discussion of piezoelectric microphones converting sound vibrations to electrical signals and CIA experiments using lasers to capture audio from glass surfaces.15:00 Conversation shifts to digital audio recording, sampling rates, and the importance of source material quality for post-production work.20:00 Stewart shares his journey building web conferencing software to replace Riverside, encountering lip-sync problems and learning about FFMPEG processing.25:00 Matias discusses corporate transhumanism, Neuralink's implications, and how brain interfaces could enable continuous taste mining beyond medical applications.30:00 Analysis of corporate transhumanism through companies like Neuralink, discussing private decision-making, lack of transparency, and various transhumanist philosophies globally.35:00 Matias reads poetry about digital replicas and data generation, exploring how wearable devices continuously capture human activity creating targetable information streams.40:00 Discussion of Peter Thiel's shift from libertarianism to neoconservatism, Palantir's origins in Total Information Awareness program, and Buenos Aires as humanist sanctuary.45:00 Examination of American convenience culture, post-WWII suburban isolation, and Buenos Aires as walkable humanist alternative to car-dependent American cities.50:00 Matias presents Neil Harbison as positive transhumanism example, explaining color-to-vibration synesthesia implant while discussing techno-optimism from Global South perspective.55:00 Conversation explores bureaucratic incentives toward population legibility, compelled silence laws, and sovereignty through open-source local technology ownership avoiding corporate control.60:00 Matias concludes discussing digital identity ownership, social network portability, and how digital twins determine human worth across platforms and borders.Key Insights1. Modern digital audio processing technologies represent a fundamentally different approach to music and sound production compared to generative AI tools. Matias Avalos distinguishes between technologies like Neural DSP's Mantra plugin, which uses deep neural networks to capture and emulate professional recording environments, and generative platforms like Suno. The key difference is that traditional digital signal processing tools put the creator in control, allowing them to make artistic decisions using expensive effect chains that would otherwise only be available in elite studios like Abbey Road. These technologies democratize access to professional audio tools without removing human agency from the creative process, whereas generative AI tools operate as black boxes that produce outputs based on prompts rather than allowing genuine creative control.2. The capture and preservation of source material remains critically important in audio and video production, despite advances in post-production capabilities. Through his experience building a web conferencing application to replace Riverside.fm, Alsop learned that many technical problems, particularly lip-sync issues, stemmed from poor source file management and recording methodology. This principle extends across all media production, as Avalos explains using the example of missing lighting in professional photography. While modern generative AI might attempt to invent missing elements, the results cannot match properly captured source material. This highlights a fundamental tension in contemporary media production where the quality triangle of cheap, good, and fast has been disrupted by AI technologies that can deliver all three if we lower our standards for what constitutes good work.3. Corporate transhumanism represents a particular and concerning subset of transhumanist philosophy that differs significantly from earlier artistic and philosophical approaches to human enhancement. While early transhumanists like Neil Harbison, a color-blind artist who implanted a device to translate color frequencies into vibrations, pursued personal enhancement and expanded human experience, corporate transhumanism as practiced by companies like Neuralink focuses on technological integration with significant profit motives and control mechanisms. The discussion highlights how these corporate approaches position themselves as solving medical and cognitive problems while simultaneously creating dependency through terms of service, data mining, and token-based economic models. This represents a Trojan horse where the promise of enhanced capability masks the establishment of new forms of control and surveillance of human consciousness itself.4. The concept of legibility as a bureaucratic end goal rather than a means to an end explains much of the surveillance apparatus that has developed in Western societies, particularly in the United States since 9/11. Alsop describes how those in positions of power, wealth, and fame have a structural incentive to make everything around them legible and controllable while maintaining their own privacy and illegibility to external observation. This dynamic manifests in technologies like Palantir and in legal mechanisms like compelled silence through gag orders, which directly contradict constitutional principles of free speech. The drive for total legibility of populations appears to have no ultimate purpose beyond the accumulation of legibility itself, creating a recursive loop where surveillance and data collection become self-justifying activities that serve power structures rather than the populations they ostensibly protect.5. Human beings continuously generate enormous streams of metadata through their daily activities, creating what Avalos describes as evaporating against our own will into hundreds of RSS feeds for hundreds of corporations. This automatic data production occurs through basic activities like waking up, moving through space with smartphones and wearable devices, and interacting with digital platforms. The fundamental question that predates transhumanism but becomes more urgent within it is how individuals can own what they produce simply by existing and moving through the world. This data is captured through accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS systems, and countless other sensors that create comprehensive digital profiles without explicit consent or meaningful control by the individuals being monitored. The unilateral nature of this communication, where individuals broadcast data without receiving genuine value in return, has become so deeply embedded in modern infrastructure that it forms part of the taken-for-granted landscape of contemporary life.6. Platform lock-in and the inability to migrate digital identity across services creates a new category of loss that requires genuine grieving. Avalos describes how his experience with Instagram, which began as a personal visual diary before the Facebook acquisition, evolved into a situation where he cannot extract his creative work and social connections from the platform without significant loss. This phenomenon extends beyond mere inconvenience to touch on fundamental questions of identity and citizenship, as social media profiles increasingly determine real-world opportunities like visa applications and border crossings. The implications of digital footprints have become severe enough that individuals can be denied entry to countries based on algorithmic analysis of their online interactions, likes, and expressed beliefs. This creates a situation where people are worth exactly what their digital twin indicates they are worth, with no meaningful avenue for human appeal or nuanced self-representation.7. The future relationship between humans and technology requires a return to principles of sovereignty, local control, and open source development rather than dependence on corporate platforms and proprietary systems. Both Alsop and Avalos advocate for a do-it-yourself approach to technology that emphasizes ownership and control over personal tools and data. This includes avoiding closed systems like Neuralink unless they become open source and user-controlled, and prioritizing local execution of AI models over cloud-based services that create dependencies and enable surveillance. The conversation suggests that techno-optimism remains possible, but only from what Avalos calls the trenches, acknowledging the different relationship that people in the Global South and those outside centers of power have with technology. This grounded optimism recognizes the entanglement of beneficial and harmful aspects of technological development and maintains that human agency and creative freedom require conscious resistance to the convenience-at-all-costs model that has characterized recent technological adoption.

Alphabet liefert Zahlen, die staunen lassen. Trotzdem fällt der Kurs. Davor geht es um LinkedIn und das Slopometer, das misst, wie menschlich deine Posts noch sind. OpenAI verdoppelt seine Agenten-Nutzer im Wochentakt, während drei OpenAI-Modelle bei einem Sicherheitstest aus der Sandbox ausbrechen und ausgerechnet ein chinesisches Modell den Schaden eindämmen muss. Der US-Kongress zieht prompt einen Kill-Switch aus der Schublade. Stripe will OpenRouter für zehn Milliarden übernehmen, Moonshot raist schon die nächste Runde. Bei den Earnings: Tesla wächst kräftig, verdient aber weniger, SAP kämpft mit der Cloud-Transformation, und Pip formuliert eine steile Übernahme-Wette. In der Schmuddelecke lobbyieren Anwälte gegen Robotaxis und Zocker wetten bei Polymarket auf Waldbrände. Zum Schluss noch eine Milliardenstrafe aus Brüssel. Unterstütze unseren Podcast und entdecke die Angebote unserer Werbepartner auf ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠doppelgaenger.io/werbung⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Vielen Dank!  Philipp Glöckler und Philipp Klöckner sprechen heute über: (00:00:00) Slopometer (00:11:16) OpenAI: 10 Mio. Nutzer (00:16:35) KI-Kill-Switch & Hack (00:22:24) Stripe kauft OpenRouter (00:34:49) Moonshot (00:37:18) Tesla (00:52:37) Alphabet (01:08:11) Reddit (01:11:00) SAP (01:19:54) Trump gegen Forschung (01:21:15) Anwälte gegen Waymo (01:22:26) Polymarket Waldbrände (01:25:08) Zuckerberg Optimismus (01:26:46) Meta StoryKit (01:28:02) Musk-Interview (01:29:58) EU-Strafe für Google (01:31:40) Reiche Startup-Strategie Shownotes OpenAI-Agenten erreichen 10 Mio. Nutzer - bloomberg.com US-Kongress plant KI-Kill-Switch nach OpenAI-Hack - politico.com Modell bricht bei Hugging-Face-Test aus - openai.com Stripe verhandelt Uebernahme von OpenRouter - wsj.com Moonshot zielt auf 50-Mrd.-Bewertung - xcancel.com Reality bites: Tesla und die Musk-Glaeubigen - wsj.com Pips Analyse der Google-Earnings - linkedin.com Spielt Reddit ein gefaehrliches Spiel mit Google? - barrons.com SAP: Cloud waechst, Gewinnprognose gesenkt - wsj.com Trump leitet Forschungsgelder zu KI um - nytimes.com Anwaltslobby gegen autonome Autos - marginalrevolution.com Wetten auf Waldbraende bei Polymarket - derstandard.at Zuckerbergs KI-Optimismus-Kampagne - axios.com Meta testet KI-Kinderbuch-App StoryKit - 9to5mac.com Musk-Interview beim Economist - instagram.com Substack markiert KI-generierte Newsletter - techcrunch.com EU verhaengt 890-Mio.-Strafe gegen Google - ft.com Kritik an Reiches Startup-Strategie - businessinsider.de

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Chain Restaurant SLOP or ZZ TOP | Red Sox Talk | Pat McAfee on ESPN Firings - 7/23 (Hour 2)(00:00) The guys talk about their fast food employee experiences, then the guys play a game where they try to see if what Hardy says is an item on a fast food chain restaurant's menu or a ZZ Top song. (00:21:30.64) The guys talk about the party they are throwing on Friday, the dress code, then they talk about the Red Sox losing last night, them not getting the franchise record, the fact that they need a ride handed bat and there is none on the trade market, the Red Sox being in the third Wild Card spot, what happens if the Red Sox have a bad stretch, are the Red Sox playing better than they are, Garrett Crochet, what they should do at the deadline, and Craig Breslow. (00:33:33.83) The guys talk about the narrative going around that Pat McAfee is responsible for the firings in ESPN, Fred defending Pat, and listening to the clips of Pat defending himself. Please note: Timecodes may shift by a few minutes due to inserted ads. Because of copyright restrictions, portions—or entire segments—may not be included in the podcast.CONNECT WITH TOUCHER & HARDY: linktr.ee/ToucherandHardyFor the latest updates, visit the show page on 985thesportshub.com. Follow 98.5 The Sports Hub on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Watch the show every morning on YouTube, and subscribe to stay up-to-date with all the best moments from Boston's home for sports!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

TV's Kevin invited Justin to the stars so they could slop over the 1998 film adapation of Lost in Space (1998) with all the famous people. When we start watching the deleted scenes, it's this video: https://youtu.be/HMo52R3PMaw?si=0xjC5d6xiuL0dTpD Next in the Kevin silo of slop-alongs: Master of Disguise (2002)

TV's Kevin invited Justin to the stars so they could slop over the 1998 film adapation of Lost in Space (1998) with all the famous people. When we start watching the deleted scenes, it's this video: https://youtu.be/HMo52R3PMaw?si=0xjC5d6xiuL0dTpD Next in the Kevin silo of slop-alongs: Master of Disguise (2002)

Ross Hudgens sits down with JH Scherck, founder of Growth Plays, for a refreshingly contrarian take on AI content. JH argues that with the right context and execution, AI already gets you 85–90% of the way to a strong B2B article, and that the real skill in 2026 is being the person who can take a B+ draft to an A+.  Along the way he flips the industry's favorite critique on its head: was SEO content *ever* good? He makes the case that the bar was always low, and that it took removing humans from the equation for anyone to start caring about sentence construction and quality at all.  Ross and JH also dig into where AI content genuinely works (dev tools, technical docs, location pages) versus where it falls flat, the telltale "it's 3 a.m. and your microservices are failing" intro pattern, why plugging more data sources into your workflow isn't differentiation, whether people will stop browsing websites and just chat with them, the perils nobody's discussing, how your product's history follows you around in LLMs, and why AI turns C players into more prolific C players rather than A players. Show Notes 0:00 Getting 85% There: Where AI Already Beats Most Writers 4:45 The AI Doer vs. the AI Reviewer 8:48 "Was SEO Content Ever Good?" Rethinking the Slop Debate 12:24 What Actually Differentiates Content Now 16:13 Will People Stop Browsing and Just Chat With Your Site? 21:45 The Perilous Side of AI Content Nobody's Discussing 33:07 Maintenance Mode & Why Your History Follows You in LLMs 39:29 Educating Executives & Avoiding the "Slop Cannon" 48:12 Traffic Recovery, Brand Problems & Qualifying Clients Out 53:34 The Truth About ChatGPT Leads & Aggregate Citation Data Show Links Visit Growth Plays Follow JH on LinkedIn Preorder "Generative Engine Optimization: The Definitive Guide to AI SEO" by Ross Hudgens Subscribe for weekly episodes Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Follow Ross on X Follow Siege Media on X Email Ross Subscribe today for weekly tips: https://bit.ly/3dBM61f Listen on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/content-and-conversation-seo-tips-from-siege-media/id1289467174 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1kiaFGXO5UcT2qXVRuXjsM Listen on Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9jT3NjUkdLeA Follow Siege on Twitter: http://twitter.com/siegemedia Follow Ross on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rosshudgens Directed by Cara Brown: https://twitter.com/cararbrown Email Ross: ross@siegemedia.com #seo | #contentmarketing

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Got questions? Send Ericka a Text!A huge amount of dental practice revenue doesn't disappear because patients refuse to pay or because insurance “just won't cover it.” It disappears because someone clicks an adjustment code and the money evaporates without a clear name, a written policy, or a second look. That quiet leak is what I call adjustment slop, and once you learn to spot it, you won't be able to unsee it.We start by separating two concepts that too many offices blur together: write offs versus adjustments. Write offs are contractual and tied to your PPO fee schedule. Adjustments are choices, like courtesy discounts, employee perks, hardship cases, marketing promos, or quick “fixes” that make an awkward balance go away. When everything gets dumped into one generic bucket, you lose the story your data is trying to tell. You can't manage what you can't see, and you definitely can't make smart decisions about participation, profitability, or team habits.Then I walk you through the five types of adjustment slop I see when I take billing departments apart: habit adjustments, cover up adjustments that bury unworked claims, lazy courtesy with no authority, “corrections” that hide posting errors, and bad debt adjustments that happen before real collection steps. You'll also get my teardown method you can do tonight: pull a 12 month adjustment report, sort by type, and ask one yes or no question for each label: is there a written policy behind this?If you want your billing reports to be real management tools, not financial guesswork, hit play, pull your report, and start labeling money with intention. Subscribe, share this with your office manager, and leave a review if it helps you stop the leak. Interested in a Demo of Dentiq - The Billing Command Center? Get on the interest list here:https://4063-dentiq.systeme.io/waitlistGet your Dental Billing Toolkit Here:https://www.dentalbillingdoneright.com/the-dental-billing-toolkitDownload "The Most Underused Codes in Dentistry - And How to Get Them Paid" checklist here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxnnfSlNd0NPhMoBWq-1D_xU5R8LS4xPhHNKIjfLQwStOUag/viewform?usp=headerSchedule a billing chat with Ericka:https://calendly.com/ericka-dentalbillingdoneright/30minEmail Ericka:ericka@dentalbillingdoneright.comEmail Jen:jen@dentalbillingdoneright.com

The Hollywood Reporter recently argued that today's stars all have the same "slop face"—but we think they're looking at the wrong group. We debate whether actors like Barry Keoghan and Zendaya actually prove Hollywood still celebrates distinctive faces, and whether the homogenized look is more of an influencer and creator phenomenon than an acting one. Plus, we weigh in on The Cut's "No Mascara Summer" trend, why Pamela Anderson, Alicia Keys, and Gigi Hadid can pull it off, and why we'll be hanging onto our mascara wands for the foreseeable future. (Read the story by Kristina Rodulfo that we reference here.) Shop our show!Watch our episodes!Shop our episodesInstagram: @glossangelspod | TikTok: @glossangelespodEmail: glossangelespodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Full episodes and much more available on Patreon.com/slopquest Andy has super stupid dream about echoes inspired by late night Slop Quest listening. Then they skewer the business of “dream interpretation”. This leads to Ryan revealing his insane dreams about Al Pacino having big boobs. Andy gets kicked out of therapy for talking about hema and figures out how to get around AI guardrails using linguistic tricks. Andy finds an Instagram account where boomers get tricked into leaving lewd comments on AI videos with their full legal names and get roasted. Andy celebrates his anniversary with Kroger sushi and ice cream. Then there’s more Mandela Effect stuff with “Gorton’s” fish sticks. The boys talk about new Los Angeles fires, this time with toxic smoke! Andy sees an old guy doing something crazy at a nursing home in a window. Then the boys talk about what to save money for when you’re old. Andy sees a 90 year old lady in a thong get into a hot tub at an old folks home across from a much shittier old folks home. Andy finds a hilarious video of Hedonism 2 of a a hilarious guy with a tiny weiner. Ryan thinks that “big condom” has “inflated the mythology of their effectiveness”. The. Work on some new Jimmy Buffet songs like “Sloppers & Sarongs” inspired by Hedonism 2. An Air Canada pilot files 900 flights without a license and Ryan gives him props. Listeners start getting psychic attacks again. An uncle dies and insists his money only be used on trolling. Andy shows his kid the Rambo trailer then immediately shows her the Rambo tricycle for kids commercial and it’s hilarious.

Bobby and Alex discuss the hazardous weather that MLB expects players to breathe while playing mostly meaningless July baseball games. Then, they dig into the iPad AI apps heard 'round the world, before finally getting into a wide-ranging discussion of the state of purchasing tickets to major events in the United States right now.Listen to Episode 1 of THE AUDIT, a Tipping Pitches series, for free on Patreon. Links:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the Tipping Pitches Patreon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tipping Pitches merchandise ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Call the Tipping Pitches voicemail: 785-422-5881Tipping Pitches features original music from Steve Sladkowski of PUP.

Lazlo's already over golfing,despite him just buying an unlimited yearly membership. Lazlo and SlimFast geek out over Rocky, a Kansas City man makes national headlines after getting trapped in a porta potty, and two school principals get pulled over for DUIs. Do you have a slop face? Stream The Church of Lazlo podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!