Podcast appearances and mentions of Steve Wozniak

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:02:00 GMT http://relay.fm/designed/3 http://relay.fm/designed/3 Jason Snell and Myke Hurley Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. clean 2106 Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. Links and Show Notes: Presented by Myke Hurley and Jason Snell. Written by Jason Snell. Audio editing by Myke Hurley and Jim Metzendorf. Video production by Jamie Snell. Designed in California theme by Christopher Breen. References: Infinite Loop (1999) by Michael S. Malone Apple: The First 50 Years (2026) by David Pogue (Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books) Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson (Amazon, Used) Get early access to full series, ad-free listening, and bonus episodes by becoming a member. Submit Feedback

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Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, fresh off a call to his insurance company after a ceiling collapse in South Australia's wild winter weather. He opens on the RBA — rates tipped to hold, home-loan applications down 20% — and the poll that has Labor at its worst since Julia Gillard, which he pins on "lies and backflips." The heart of the show is gambling. After a Senate witness described in tears how gambling destroyed his life, Jeremy demands to know why the Labor government keeps protecting the industry — sitting on the late Senator Peta Murphy's report for years, then taking the advice of the very people it condemned. His answer is simple: ban gambling advertising outright across radio, TV and online, no compromise, no deals with the Greens. From there the panel widens the lens — with Reverend Tim Costello and Professor Ian Plimer on the Friday live stream — to ask whether the stock market, mining, insurance, film, music and even crossing the road are all really just forms of gambling. Plus the moral dilemma of whether an AFL player should be allowed to sign away the right to sue his club over future injuries, Labor's migration split and "back door" student visas, 5,434 hours of ambulance ramping in a single month, and this day in history — from Steve Wozniak and Robin Williams to Japan's surrender and the pen that signed it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A bestselling computer book and a mayor's office may seem worlds apart, but Dan Gookin's path connects them through curiosity, clear communication, and public service. I talk with the DOS for Dummies author and Coeur d'Alene mayor about making technical writing useful, challenging industries that resist new ideas, and finding success by improving work others do poorly. Dan also shares why he entered local politics, how transparency and community engagement built public trust, and why responsible leadership often means asking the questions others overlook. We close by exploring political division, religious freedom, social media algorithms, and the need to reduce online anger without losing the internet's benefits. Highlights: 00:06:48 - Why leaving your comfort zone creates growth. 00:11:07 - How doing something better can become a business. 00:12:39 - Why writing for beginners changed computer publishing. 00:27:06 - How transparency concerns led Dan into politics. 00:37:30 - Why responsiveness helped Dan earn public trust. 00:54:49 - How social media fuels anger and division. About the Guest: Dan Gookin is the mayor-elect of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, having won election in November 2025 after serving on the City Council since 2011. Known as a fiscal conservative, outspoken advocate for government transparency, and a committed budget hawk who asks tough questions, he is often described as “the lone voice of reason” on the council, consistently championing the public and the “little guy” against bureaucracy. Gookin views his public service as protecting individual rights. He prides himself on listening to all perspectives, welcoming alternative viewpoints, remaining open to new information, and never being a rubber-stamp vote. Professionally, Gookin is known as a writer and online trainer. He has been writing about technology since the early days of personal computing, combining his humor with a passion for gadgets to create informative and entertaining books. He authored the groundbreaking DOS For Dummies in 1991—the world's fastest-selling computer book at the time and the title that launched the iconic For Dummies series, now a publishing phenomenon. With more than 170 titles to his credit, over 12 million copies in print, and translations into more than 30 languages, his popular works include PCs and Laptops For Dummies, Android For Dummies, Word For Dummies, and C For Dummies. He maintains two helpful websites, wambooli.com and c-for-dummies.com. He creates online courses for LinkedIn Learning on diverse topics, and in 2020 published Running for Local Office For Dummies. Gookin graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Communications/Visual Arts and minors in cognitive psychology and theatrical design. He put his creative talents to work as artistic director of the Lake City Playhouse, where he designed sets, lighting, and directed many productions between 1997 and 2002. First and foremost, Dan considers himself a father who raised four boys in Idaho. Gookin resides in Coeur d'Alene with his wife, Brie, along with various children and pets. In his leisure time, he enjoys woodworking, playing the piano, riding his bike, cooking, gardening, and making lists of things he enjoys doing along with occasionally annoying those who think that they're important. Ways to connect with Dan**:** LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-gookin-46995713/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dangookin About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. 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Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Hello there, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Unstoppable Mindset. I am your host, Michael Hingston, and today we get to chat with Dan Gookin. Do you know who Dan Gookin is? Probably not, but you will by the time we're done. But I will tell you one thing about Dan. He was elected mayor of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in November of 2025. I think Dan, you're the first political person as such that we have had on, which is kind of cool. I'm really honored to to have you here, and and we can spend the the whole time picking on on other politicians, but there's no need to do that. I mean, what good does it do? It's a waste of time. But I want to welcome you to Unstoppable Mindset, and Dan, thanks very much for being here. Dan Gookin  01:44 Thank you, Michael. Thank you for having me on. Michael Hingson  01:46 Well, this will, I think, really be a lot of fun. I'm sorry that you guys aren't getting a lot of snow up there. My brother-in-law has been keeping me posted on the lack of snow, so today here we're expecting a temperature at about 70 degrees. Last week it got up to 39. So I don't know. There's something going on with the climate. Dan Gookin  02:10 Something. Michael Hingson  02:11 Yeah, whatever it is. Speaker 1  02:13 Well, there was a name for that. Michael Hingson  02:15 Yeah, yeah. If if there were enough people, would only believe it. But that's another story. You are right. Well, thanks very much for being here. Why don't we start? Tell me about the early Dan growing up and all that. Speaker 1  02:31 So I grew up in San Diego, California. Good place. I still say San Michael Hingson  02:35 Diego has the best weather in the country. Speaker 1  02:38 They do. It's changed a little bit as everything has, but I escaped from there back in 1991. Went up to Washington State because I was doing some work with Microsoft, and then decided that that was Seattle was another big city. So we kept looking east and finally landed in Idaho in Coeur d'Alene because it's pretty. Michael Hingson  03:01 It's a nice area. So you you did your schooling and all that down in San Diego. Speaker 1  03:06 Yeah, I graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in communication visual arts. That was in 1983. Michael Hingson  03:13 Cool, wow. I've spent many a a day down in San Diego. I lived in Vista for six years, so I'm familiar with the area. Yeah, I liked Vista. Vista was a nice place to be. You Speaker 1  03:24 did a radio show out of Vista. Did you for a while? Yeah, computer call-in show. So that was way back. Michael Hingson  03:32 What did you discuss, or just anything dealing with computers? I Speaker 1  03:36 was editing a magazine, a local computer magazine at the time, and we purchased an hour, and so I would drive from my home in Tierra Santa all the way up to Vista to be in this little tiny radio station, where we would do call-ins. And sometimes people would call in, and I would help them solve their computer problems. And sometimes I had to talk to myself for Michael Hingson  03:57 an hour. And and and did you get answers when you talk to yourself. Speaker 1  04:02 No, but I got really hoarse. Ah, okay. Michael Hingson  04:04 Well, you know, just just checking. Well, that's cool. Well, I guess we could tell everyone that, among other things, Dan is also the author of a number of books, including DOS for Dummies. I still like DOS. Thank you. I I like DOS. I've just always enjoyed it. Although, I have to admit, Windows has progressed a whole lot more. But I always liked DOS. Speaker 1  04:27 Yes, it was good, and and it was its complexity or its a rudeness, I shall say. Yeah, that's a good. Sold the book because you had to type. You had to know the commands in Windows. You can kind of look and point and do all this stuff, but in DOS, you had to know the commands and type the commands, and people wouldn't-they couldn't remember. There were all these options, and so we sold a lot of books doing that. It's still, like I said, I I like it too. I like the command line because it's faster if you know what you have to type. Yeah, it takes less time to type. Than it does to look around, point and shoot with the mouse. Michael Hingson  05:04 Yeah, there are a number of blind people on some list serves that I am part of that every so often something regarding DOS comes up, which is I think kind of cool. Speaker 1  05:15 Yep, hasn't gone away. It's it's still lurking in there somewhere. Michael Hingson  05:19 It is still a kind of the basic underpinning foundation of a lot of Windows, isn't it? Speaker 1  05:25 Well, Windows actually does run on top of it still. If you if you when you start a program in Windows, you're actually issuing a text command. So inside there is a long text command that is issued that gets everything running. It's just that you're configuring that from a graphical perspective, Michael Hingson  05:44 right? Yeah, but but it is still running. DOS essentially runs under Windows, which is which is something that is is relevant. So I guess we could blame that on Bill Gates, Speaker 1  05:57 or credit him. I don't know. Michael Hingson  05:58 Or yeah, yeah, one of the other. Well, so you you graduated, you moved to Seattle. As you said, it is a big city, although you know it's kind of hard to fight Pike's fish market. Speaker 1  06:11 Well, there's there's the fun and charming parts of of Seattle that I really enjoyed. So I mean, I can't say that you know it was a horrible city. The thing I admired about Seattle the most was that Seattle would occasionally not take itself seriously, and I liked that it had a sense of humor and that people there were generally good natured. San Diego was a little bit more uptight, you know, fair weather fans, that kind of stuff, where Seattle was more of a community, and I admired that greatly. Michael Hingson  06:43 And there used to be a lot of rain up there. Speaker 1  06:45 Not as much as people say. That's kind of their reputation. The Pacific Northwest we do have. So I moved from Southern California where you have 360 days of sun a year to Pacific Northwest where you have 180, so it was kind of a shock from that point of view. It's mostly like today; it's overcast. It's just there's no sun, so that's the big difference. Michael Hingson  07:10 And then you moved up to Idaho, and and how many days of sun or not sun are there a year? Speaker 1  07:16 Oh, still about 180. 180. Uh huh. But it's you know so you get used to it after a while, and when the sun comes out, you're all happy, and it's like, look, the sun's out, everything's pretty. Michael Hingson  07:27 Yeah, fair. Yeah. So when you were in San Diego and so on, what did you want to do or be when you grew up? Speaker 1  07:36 So originally, I wanted to be a doctor, and then I had the misfortune of being in a hospital, and I said I don't ever want to be back here, and changed my mind and figured I would be a writer. So for years I started writing and submitting things to magazines, trying to work on books and stuff. I mean I wrote a few books, and they say that you have to get about a million words of junk out before you actually are a good writer. So I I worked on that for a long time, and got to the point where I I actually had a reputation with some of the editors in the magazines who would write me back personal notes instead of the generic you know dismissal, and so that was working really well. But then what happened in 1984 was I wrote something for the local computer flyer, and they liked that, and it got published, and that was what really started the career for tech because tech wanted people who knew how to write, so that was good timing. Michael Hingson  08:35 Yeah, so many technical manuals are just so boring. I really wish people would learn how to write more interesting books. Of course, I say that about textbooks as well. I am of the opinion that having a master's degree in physics and having read many a physics book, the and there are so few of them. The best books are the ones where the authors have put some actual personal stories in to draw people in with human interest parts of the science, and I wish more people would do that. Speaker 1  09:03 And that was my point too. It was like these books are dull and boring. And the problem I had because I was writing computer books at the time, I had a computer book literary agent. There is such a thing, and it's it's backwards in that industry though, because the publisher says what they want a book on, and then they have you write the book on the topic, and so I was doing that for many years. But I did not like the fact that they would edit my books to make them dry, and the editors would actually complain to me and say, "There's too much personality in here. You can't have this. It was like it was like they thought that was a built-in feature of the book, and my protest was, "Well, no. Let's make them interesting. Let's use real life examples. Let's have some personality in there. Let's have some interaction with the with the reader. And they didn't like that until DOS for Dummies came around, and the publisher was willing to change the paradigm. Michael Hingson  09:55 Jeez, yeah, it's so unfortunate. They they think they know. Everything there is to know, and the reality is they don't. Speaker 1  10:04 That's the way it is with just about any industry. You know that I think the corporate mentality is kind of to resist innovation, even in the most innovative industries, until something crazy comes along. And I think that's why in Silicon Valley you had all these startups. You know, if you look, if you trace the lineage of a lot of the big companies, they started at other big companies that were unwilling to do the crazy ideas these guys had, and so they went off. I mean, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak left Hewlett Packard and started up Apple Computer, and I'm pretty sure there's probably been some engineers from Apple Computer who've left and started up their own company and becoming Michael Hingson  10:43 well. And Bill Gates is essentially the same way. It's it's he started out doing something, but he attracted people's attention by some of the other things that he did. Speaker 1  10:53 Yep. Michael Hingson  10:54 And that was was very relevant. But I I hear what you're saying. It makes perfect sense because people just don't like to be innovative and don't like change, and and that's unfortunate that we have so many people that just, as much as they talk about the fact that change is everywhere, they don't like it. Speaker 1  11:10 No, it's well, I think yeah, we we get in our comfort zone, and you don't grow out in the comfort zone. So I like to challenge myself and do interesting things like become mayor, and you know you leave your comfort zone. And what what can I do here, or how can I do this better? Michael Hingson  11:26 Yeah, well, and that makes makes perfect sense. Well, what got you started writing about technology? Just because you were writing that that one article there, or those articles that got interest on the part of a publisher, or what? Speaker 1  11:41 What got me started was that I got paid. Ah, Michael Hingson  11:44 good point. Speaker 1  11:45 You know, they they paid me, and then you know, as as someone who was you know using a computer at the time, and they were called microcomputers, and they were really primitive compared to what we have today. Oh yeah, I I used it to write. So, and the the problem with that was that the the documents, the manuals that we talk about, were so dry and boring, and eventually, all of a sudden, it would dawn on me: it's like, well, this is what it's trying to say. So why don't they just come out and say it this way, or why don't they use an analogy and try to explain it in that manner instead of coming at it from this hardcore technical? And that was what really turned off a lot of people, so it motivated me to want to do it better, and that's kind of what I tell the kids, like my kids. I say you should start up a business. That's really the best way to get successful is start up your own business and become famous like that. And they're well, what business should I start up? I said that the easiest way is to find something that you like, something that's being done poorly, and just do it better. Yeah, and that's really a lot of the the creative, insanely genius stuff that's happened throughout the world is just someone who does something routine but does it better. Michael Hingson  12:52 And that's really the operative part about it, and and the real key. I think you're you're absolutely right. Find something that people aren't doing well, and by the time you get creative enough to figure that out, you're well on your way. Speaker 1  13:05 Yep. So that's that's what I did. Michael Hingson  13:08 Yeah. And so you started going off and and writing a variety of things. What what actually got you to write Dos for Dummies? What specifically? That's first of all, I love the the title of all the Four Dummies books. I think it makes sense. But what got you started in writing DOS for Dummies directly? Speaker 1  13:27 Well, I I knew that there was an appetite out there for beginner computer books, but the publishing industry would not publish beginning computer books because they said beginners don't buy computer books. And I explained to them, well, your problem is you don't write beginner computer books. You write something and you call it, you know, the easy guide to whatever, but the content of it is not written for a beginner. Maybe the first chapter is very condescending and patronizing, and then the rest of it is just technical garbage. So I said you have to keep that tone throughout the entire text. You have to identify who it is you're writing to, as who's a smart person who may just not get it, and explain it to them, and just keep going. And that was the problem. So I I did originally called it the Idiots Guide for DOS, which was based after the Idiots Guide to Volkswagen Repair. My dad had a copy of that, and I thought, well, what a brilliant idea. Michael Hingson  14:20 Yeah. Speaker 1  14:21 And so the publisher saw me speak at a conference, and where I was bemoaning the fact that the books were so boring, and they kept editing out my personality. And then went to to him, and and he's like, "This is great. Your outline that you have for this book is perfect. Except we want to call it DOS for Dummies. I thought, like a lot of other people, that was condescending and patronizing, but that it's an alliteration, so that's what they go with. And then he said to make it a reference. Don't make it a tutorial because, and this is brilliant, these people don't want to learn anything; they just want to do their job. Yeah, that makes sense. So that was and that was it, and we put a lot of humor in it. You know, people would tell me that they'd read the book on the subway, and you know, you'd see someone laughing reading a computer book. That's weird, but there would just be enough humor, and I'd use Mad Magazine as my inspiration. So it was kind of like us versus the nerds, and and that was what really founded the whole thing, and I tell you what, it caught on. I did not think it would. There was no way we were planning on writing a book that would sell, you know, 8 million copies. We were just thinking, well, this is going to be fun. Let's just do this, get it out of our system, and then go back to writing boring books. Michael Hingson  15:36 Made the publisher very happy. Speaker 1  15:39 Oh yeah, they were printing Gold bricks, yeah. Michael Hingson  15:43 That, of course, was the real key. Well, that started a brand, didn't it? Speaker 1  15:47 Oh yeah, they did. There was no intention to do that, but then they they followed that up with Max for Dummies and a bunch of other titles that were just very popular at the time. AOL for Dummies, you know, Windows for Dummies eventually came out, and that was the King for Dummies book. But yeah, they have and they have it on all topics. I've even so as someone who is you know starting in government, I got Robert's Rules for Dummies, which you know you've been to a meeting, you know they follow Robert's Rules, which is very dry and boring, but it's it's important. And Robert's Rules for Dummies is a good example of a For Dummies book because it explains everything carefully. Lots of humor in there, and so there's a lot of them. Wine for Dummies was another one that I really liked. I thought they did a good job. Golf for Dummies. There's a there's on every topic. There's a For Dummies book. Michael Hingson  16:37 How many of them did you write? Speaker 1  16:40 Only wrote the ones with my names on them, but probably about 40 separate titles. So over the years, most of them have been rewrites. So technology changes. So there have been 16 editions of Word for Dummies, and 13 editions of PCs for Dummies. There were four editions of DOS for Dummies. So you're you're always writing new editions, so all totaled 180 separate titles. But individual titles, without not counting multiple editions, right? About 60. Michael Hingson  17:09 Wow. Speaker 1  17:10 Yeah. Yeah, Michael Hingson  17:10 and I can appreciate that that books like Word for Dummies or even iPhones for Dummies has to change over time. Speaker 1  17:19 Yeah. Well, some of them. I mean, I've been doing a kind of a review on on YouTube. I've been doing short videos highlighting some of the goofy images that I put in the books over the years. And way back about 20 years ago, I think I was updating these titles once a year. They would say, "We need a new version of this. We need a new version of this. And at the time, technology was just. I mean, they were cranking out new stuff all the time. Michael Hingson  17:44 So, who's written AI for Dummies? Speaker 1  17:47 I don't know, but that is a title, so I wouldn't be Michael Hingson  17:50 surprised. Speaker 1  17:51 It should write itself, though. You think about Michael Hingson  17:53 it. Yeah, you you know, they they really should do that. It should write itself. Speaker 1  17:56 Someone told me once that they they they wanted to do a manual in my style, so they directed AI to write something in the style of Dan Gukan, and apparently AI can do that. So, am I going to get paid? I don't know. Michael Hingson  18:10 Well, that's another story, of course. Yeah, but still, it it is a it's a it's a great franchise. It's a great brand all the way around, and I know different people have written different different kinds of books like that, but still, the the fact is we need that in the world, and and I agree with you, especially that it's good to put humor and personality into it. And I really wish more people would do that. I really wish that would go into the the textbook world, but it hasn't yet. Speaker 1  18:37 No, that's that, and that's a different planet. I tried to break into that world, and that academia is is it's different. It is weird. Michael Hingson  18:44 Yeah, there are just not that many people who can get away with it like Richard Feynman did with some of the things that he did in physics, and even there, his his books were a little boring at times. But still, Speaker 1  18:56 he was awesome. His of course, his his autobiography is a lot of fun. Michael Hingson  19:00 Yeah, surely you're joking, mr. Fineman. Speaker 1  19:03 Exactly. Michael Hingson  19:04 Adventures of yeah, it is. I I keep it around. I've got an audio copy of it, and every so often I will go back and read parts of it. It's a it's a great book. Speaker 1  19:14 He's kind of an inspiration to me, especially in the area of government. And one of the parts of his book where he was on the panel that was reviewing textbooks for, I think, the state of California, and he noticed that one of the books was blank; it was empty, and he was the only one on the panel who did it. And I kind of echo that often in government because I'm occasionally the only person who actually reads some of the material they provide. Yeah, and and those kind of moments are classic. I love those. You know, when you can say, "Well, as everyone notices, you know, page 14 is blank, and they all madly flip to page 14, like, "Oh my gosh, how did you find this? Well, I, I did my job. I read the thing. Michael Hingson  19:54 I had a roommate in college, and we at that time we were using the Berkeley Physics series. I don't know. Whether that even still exists anymore, but different professors from Berkeley wrote various books, and the guy who wrote the book on waves, I had a roommate who was reading that book, and he searched vigorously to try to find a single misspelling of a word in the whole book. Wow! He finally found one. He said there really was one in the book. Kind of makes you wonder if that was deliberate, but but he actually found one. But it took him most of the quarter we had the book to find it. But but he did. Speaker 1  20:33 Excellent. Yeah, I got to say that's that's an art form. I used to work in a publishing house, and we would pore over books looking for spelling errors and mistakes and punctuation and all this stuff and of course you don't find them until the book's actually printed. Michael Hingson  20:46 Of course not. Yeah, yeah. Now it's it should be easier, but it's not, and they still don't come out until the book is already published and it's out there, and then you find out what isn't right. Speaker 1  20:58 Right. Michael Hingson  21:00 I suppose that gives the publisher an excuse to republish the book and make more money. Speaker 1  21:05 Well, yeah, it depends. It's if it is selling. If it doesn't sell, then obviously the the mistake's going to linger out there. Of course, with digital copies, they can update it right away, but not with a print book. Michael Hingson  21:17 Yeah, nowadays there's so many print books that are done pretty much on demand, so that if you want a copy, unless it's just something where they're selling literally millions a month, the book is available on demand. Although there's a little bit of a lag time to get it, my book Thunderdog, which is the story of Roselle and me in the World Trade Center, is is still selling pretty well, but it is more printed on demand by Thomas Nelson than now Harper Collins. Speaker 1  21:46 Yeah, Michael Hingson  21:47 and I understand that as long as it's available, I'm not going to complain. Speaker 1  21:51 And they and they they prefer to sell it that way as opposed to printing out 5000 copies they have to store somewhere. So Michael Hingson  21:56 right, yeah, they don't have to pay for storage and they just print it, and so it takes an extra week to get somewhere. That's fine. We can cope with that as long as it's available, and then that's all that really matters. Speaker 1  22:08 Yeah. Michael Hingson  22:09 But you've written a lot of books. How come so many? Because they're not all for dummies. Ah, okay. Speaker 1  22:16 Well, it just you know that was my profession, and that's what I did. And so, and I had a good agent who would find me a lot of work, so yeah, they would come up and they would want me to write a book on this or that, and a lot of it was because at the time in that industry I had a name and a reputation. I'm also very fast, so and that that kind of surprises people. In fact, there's some someone who accuses me of having a ghostwriter, which I do not. It's just I've been doing it so long, and you know, when I started, my agent said that he said the more you do this, the faster you'll get, the better you'll get. So, whereas in the original book, the first book I wrote took about six months to to write. I've written books in less than a month. It really depends. It depends on the topic, how well I know the topic, but also I do a lot of organizing with an outline, and so I will will work with an outline almost until it's down to the paragraph level, and then that makes it really easy to write the book, especially a technology book where there's a lot of cross references, and this sequence, you know, assuming someone's reading it front to back is really important, so you got to make sure that you touch upon things and do it in the right order. And then that's so yeah. I just got really good at it, which annoyed a lot of my fellow authors because as I was writing and I would get faster and faster, the contracts would start demanding the books in a more expedient manner, so other authors would complain to me and say, "You know, I have to write this book, and they're only giving me three months to do it. They're blaming me because I can do it in three months, and they figure everyone can do it in three months. So that was fun. Michael Hingson  23:54 Have you had books that someone asked you to write where you really didn't know much of anything about the subject, and you had to spend more time researching it, or you just spend time researching it, but you still did that very quickly. Speaker 1  24:06 Yeah, when I first started, that was pretty much the case. In fact, I talked with a guy who he had written the like the best-selling DBase three book. So DBase was a database way back in DOS, and it was the most popular database program, and he wrote the number one best-selling DBase three book that everyone who used that that program would buy, and he told me that he knew nothing about it when he signed the contract. So the the process of writing the book involved this intense deep dive into finding out what it is the program does, and then working on that. Of course, in those days, the books, the software came with a manual, so it was possible to go through the manual and see what the thing was capable of, and maybe get a few hints about that. But the books were not just a rephrase. The manual; they were a little bit better, the project oriented, whatever. So there was one one book that I did on a program called Super Card for the Macintosh, and it was the it was the there was no documentation, and I could call up the developer and I could ask him. So that was that was a tool I could use if I had access to the developer. I could call them up and I could say, "Okay, so I'm I'm doing this. What can you tell me that's like a secret or that is not obvious? And they love to share that stuff. Sure, I just write it all down, and then that that'll make the book better. If you could get through the the gatekeepers and get into where the nerds were, then you could get a lot of good information, and they were happy to share it. I did a few books on OS two that were like that, where I finally was able to escape into the lab and ask them. And the the guy they were so friendly, and they're like, "Oh, you got to tell him this, this, this, this. You know, we we couldn't put this in the manual. You have to tell him this, and so you write a great book. But of course, OS two, no one used it, so no one bought the book. Michael Hingson  26:05 Yeah, yeah, OS two was not one of those things that everybody loved. If Speaker 2  26:13 you enjoy Unstoppable Mindset and would like to help us continue bringing these conversations to you each week, we've created a way for you to support the show. Your contribution helps us cover production costs and continue sharing stories, insights, and ideas that inspire people to live with purpose and possibility. If supporting the podcast feels right for you, you'll find the link in the show notes. Thank you for being part of the unstoppable mindset community. Michael Hingson  26:46 I remember when I was a student at UC Irvine. I wasn't an information computer science major. I was physics major, but several people took ICS one, two, and three, which was a three quarter course, or well, it was a year course, and the the book they used was Introduction to Computer Programming by Ken Ingram. And what was fun about that was that on the first day of class, the professor would come in and he'd say, "Okay, I want you to read chapter one of information of introduction to computer programming by Ken Ingram. It's the textbook we're going to use. I want you to read that before our next class. And of course, most everyone had not touched the book prior to that. And what he didn't say was that that first chapter took up half the book. Speaker 1  27:40 I like it. Michael Hingson  27:43 Yeah, I know. Wasn't that? And I, I, I heard about it. I, I never did get the book, and I didn't get it transcribed into Braille. But I thought that was cute. Chapter one was half the book. Speaker 1  27:53 No one would have suspected chapter one's an easy chapter. It's four pages. Right, supposed to be right. I think it was like Michael Hingson  28:00 180 pages. It was amazing. Michael Hingson  28:03 I'm not sure whether Ingram had a sense of humor or what, but anyway, there you go. But yeah, that that was kind of kind of amazing. So you you wrote all these books and you continue to do that, but somewhere along the line, you got interested in doing things in politics. What was that all about? Speaker 1  28:25 Well, that was frustrating. Not Michael Hingson  28:28 bad, Speaker 1  28:29 because I. So I think a lot of people are kind of interested. They follow politics. If I call up my mom in San Diego, she has to complain to me about you know the mayor of San Diego and what the city council is doing and and it's it's common it's just I think I think the most most people who are active in in their community know a little bit about politics or whatever and in my case I had just moved from the county here near Courtland and then I'd moved into the city, and I had heard that there was someone was buying up properties in my neighborhood, and I thought that was curious, and I wanted to see if this was something that you know are they going to tear down houses? What are they going to do? So I started researching using the the county website to see who was own who owned these properties, and it was a place called the Lake City Development Corporation, and I thought, well, I need to find out what that is, and it turned out that was an urban renewal agency that was formed by the city of Cortland, and I started reading the statutes and I started reading their minutes and finding out what it is they do, and while on the surface it sounded really fun, there were a lot of curious things that I didn't like. A lot of non-transparent things, a lot of things where you know they're spending public money on what I thought were frivolous things, and so I started asking questions. I started coming to meetings, and they're missing. Was that they pushed back, and so I just something triggered me, and I had a red flag, and I just started going after it. We started, we formed a group of people who were all interested in this, and we would meet regularly and go over what was going on with the government. We'd find issues regarding transparency and spending, and lots of interesting stuff. Never really anything nefarious. Never anything that would. But just a lot of stuff that, as we let the public know about what was going on, they would become outraged and they would say, "Wait a second! They're spending millions of dollars on this, and you know, with property taxes so high, and what is this, and why is it affecting me? And and so I went to the city council meetings here in Portland, and I was frustrated because no one else seemed to get it. And I would look at them, and they would have some issue that would come up, and everyone on the council-there were six members on the council-they would all vote in unison, and no one had asked a question. And I would say, "Well, wait a second, why aren't they asking a question about this, or why aren't they concerned about this, or what about the side effects of this? And so I started writing articles for the paper. I eventually did videos and to speak to various groups and such because I was like, we got to hold government accountable. So I ran for office in ran for the city council in 2007, and I lost. And then I ran in 2009, and I lost, but only by like 29 votes. And then I was done at that point. I really didn't want to do it again because running for office is a pain. Michael Hingson  31:33 Yeah. And Speaker 1  31:34 then they had this huge thing where all of a sudden they were going to redo a park without a public vote, and I wanted a public vote. Lots of people wanted to vote on it, but no, they were going to do it, and they didn't care what the public thought. So they made me run. They made me run a third time, and I won. And I've been on the city council ever since. And then, of course, well, since last November when I got kicked up to the mayor seat, which is where I'm sitting Right now, strange journey. Michael Hingson  32:04 Well, yeah, but on the other hand, there is something to be said for transparency, and there's somebody something to be said for somebody who really wants to look out for what what people want and what people are doing. I I got involved. Well, I've not run for public office, but I've been very much involved in political kinds of things because I've been involved in the blindness world since early 1970s, and the National Federation of the Blind has had for well now, gosh, more than 50 years or around 50 years, what used to be called the March on Washington. Now it's called the Washington Seminar, which is a an event that takes place every year, where several 100 blind people descend on Washington and go off and visit legislators. And the idea is to really get them to understand what the needs of blind people are and try to get them to vote on issues that directly relate to issues concerning us, and sometimes they do. Although it's gotten a lot harder to get things passed, especially in the last eight or nine years. But still, that it it has to be done. But I remember, among other things, I was living in Massachusetts when I first started going, and among other things, we we went and saw the Speaker of the House, who was Tip O'Neill at the time, which was kind of fun. And what an interesting, what a charismatic guy! Didn't matter what party he was with; it was a charismatic guy. And we also visited people like Senator at the time Paul Songis, and what was interesting about him was we we talked about our issues, and it was the end of the day, and then suddenly he said, you know, I'm not going anywhere for the next few minutes. Do you guys have time? And we ended up just talking for about an hour and a half about his view of of and our views of what Massachusetts needed to do, not only for blind people but just in general, it was just fascinating. There weren't very many politicians who would do that. Speaker 1  34:08 That's awesome. Yeah, I liked him. I liked Tungus a lot. Michael Hingson  34:12 Yeah, I wish he'd been able to run for president, but he got cancer, and that's that's unfortunate. Yeah, but because I think that he's one of those people who would do what really needed to be done and do it the right way. Speaker 1  34:26 In other words, the people who never win. Yeah, that's unfortunately Michael Hingson  34:31 really the case, isn't it? Speaker 2  34:33 Yeah, Speaker 1  34:33 yeah. Michael Hingson  34:34 But but you got to do that. Speaker 1  34:36 Yeah. Michael Hingson  34:38 So you you know, but you you hopefully you'll make a big difference, and maybe you'll be able to get people to believe in climate change. Oh, did I say that Speaker 1  34:48 this year? Nah, Michael Hingson  34:53 not unless you predict snow when it actually comes. Speaker 1  34:56 That and that and that's the key. Yeah, Michael Hingson  34:59 yeah. No, I understand, but it but it is fascinating. I you know I I enjoy the concept of politics. I enjoy people who really have a vested interest in making government go well, but it is so unfortunate that we don't see that much of it, which is just too bad. Speaker 1  35:18 There are a lot of good dedicated people out there. I think so. Of course, the the problem is is you know, like they say, politics is sports for the uncoordinated, and it's drama for the ugly. But the the thing is, the people who really do a good job, who are out there doing what you want them to do, they don't get the headlines. It's the noisemakers. It's the extremists. It's the people who are going to have some obnoxious opinion because that that gets everyone's attention. You know, the the guy out there who's doing the job, who's putting in the time, representing the citizens, and making his community a better place. You know, you're never going to read that guy in the paper, unfortunately. Michael Hingson  35:59 Yeah, and that's also part of the problem: is that the media looks for all the drama rather than really looking to to represent the the average citizen and what they truly want and need. Speaker 1  36:10 So those don't the actual the things don't make headlines. In fact, it was a it was really funny. There was a guy who was elected to the state house from this county, and one of his campaign platforms, he was going to repeal all the useless laws, all the things that are still on the books. That you know, just we don't need those laws anymore. They're old. They're outdated, and he did that for about a week, and it doesn't make headlines. So here he is, you know, doing this, doing the job that you think they they would want to do and making government more effective, no one cared. I remember there was one year where we actually we cut property taxes here in the city, and I thought, wow, everyone's going to come up and say thank you. No, no one did. So it's like, what's the motivation? If you go, they say, I want you to be I want you to be my mayor and I want you to work to cut that budget and so you cut the budget and then no one says thank you. Michael Hingson  37:08 We got Tom Steyer here in California who wants to become governor and he's talking about all these things that he's going to do. He's going to get electric utility rates lowered by a significant amount. He's going to encourage and bring competition to the electric grid industry, and he talks about lowering housing costs by building a million homes and doing so many things. And every time I hear his campaign commercials, the thing that I keep asking myself is, haven't we learned anything? And no offense to Donald Trump, but Donald Trump made a lot of promises that we're not seeing. Steyer is making a lot of promises that he has yet to say how he's going to pull any of them off. Speaker 1  37:56 Oh yeah, and that's and that's the thing is you got to. There's so much. There's only so much you can do. But you can you when you campaign, they can say anything. Of course, I know they might as well just say free ice cream and ponies for everyone. Michael Hingson  38:07 Yeah, and and that's almost essentially what's happening. And I'm not saying that he'd be a bad governor. I I haven't researched him enough, but the commercials just don't do anything to make me thrilled because he's not saying how he's going to do any of it, and and that's what I really want to know. Speaker 1  38:25 Yeah, I didn't when I when I ran this campaign, I didn't really promise anything that was sexy at all. I said, you know, I'm going to work on a policy manual. I'm going to increase the amount of information and transparency, and it was like nothing that you want to put on a bumper sticker, but I still won. I mean, there were people who were in the race who were promising this and that, and they were going to do this and all this stuff, and somehow I eked it out. Michael Hingson  38:51 Why do you think you won? Speaker 1  38:52 Name recognition, Michael Hingson  38:54 okay, Speaker 1  38:55 and that's and that's pretty much that's a lot of what politics is is is just the the name recognition. You can win on that. I also do have a reputation. I mean, being on council for 14 years and being often called the lone voice of reason, like I said earlier, I'm the one who asked that obvious question. Yeah, and people are in the audience are going, "Well, thank you. Someone's finally asking what what they wanted to ask, and so there was there was that, and and I also, you know, I I do return my emails. I answer the phone calls. I make sure that I'm I'm available. So you know, and I think that that reputation kind of spread itself around that that I would be responsive. It didn't mean that I actually did anything because the you know the powers are really limited. So if someone wanted you know they want to put in a stop sign somewhere, I'll go visit them, and we'll look at the thing, and we'll look at the traffic data, and all this stuff. But there may not be a stop sign there. Still, I showed enough time that I paid attention to them, and I responded to them, and you know, we'll see what we can do. That's the best you can say. Michael Hingson  39:55 And if it didn't happen that there was a stop sign, but there was a good reason for it. I would suspect that you would be the kind of person who would say, "Here's why it didn't happen. Speaker 1  40:03 Right, exactly, and and to explain that for and a lot of people don't understand things like that because it's easy to get defensive with government because sometimes it can be so colossally stupid. Yeah, but but it's just as long as you have that explanation, and sometimes it's it's really it's refreshing because then they hear the answer and they're good with it, so we have a problem here with there's noise on the freeway because they're expanding the freeway, and a lot of people are upset, so they call city hall, but it's not our project; it's the state highway district. So you know, it's like I can do only what I can do, but it's still you know, if you're the only elected official who bothered to reply to them and told them, you know, I hear what you're saying. I'm going to do whatever we can. Sometimes that makes people happy. They may not be happy in the big picture, but at least they got a response. Michael Hingson  40:48 And when you discover something that's relevant, I'll bet you are the kind of person who would then initiate another letter saying, "Here's why it didn't work, or "Here's why it will work. Speaker 1  40:59 Right, and I do follow up. So I did. In that case, I wrote a letter to the governor and said, "You know, is there anything you can do? And then I forwarded the letter on to the person who had contacted me and said, "Okay, this is the best I can do. Let's let's see what he can do. So yeah, Speaker 1  41:14 yeah. Michael Hingson  41:15 I'm I'm curious. You mentioned that property taxes did get lowered once in Cordellane, but nothing. No one ever did anything with that. How come? Speaker 1  41:23 Well, no. It's just we we did. We we kept them. You got you got them lowered. Michael Hingson  41:27 But but why didn't anybody pay attention to that? Speaker 1  41:30 No. Well, see, I'm sure they paid attention to it. We are only one entity on your property tax bill, so there's there's a few. Ah, good Michael Hingson  41:39 point. Speaker 1  41:39 We might have been the the one who kept it down, but the other ones may have kept it up. And then there's all the the formula is really complex, and so it could be that you know their assess property assessment went up, a lot of other things that would have happened that would have affected it. But like I said, I mean we made a big to do about it, saying hey look we worked, we cut the budget. We kept it flat for all you guys, and then no one said anything. But you know that that's it's discouraging, but it doesn't discourage me from continuing to try because I'll always try. Michael Hingson  42:12 You can only do what you can do, but at least at least you're doing it. Yeah. Now, if you want to live in a state where the taxes are very interesting, move to New Jersey, yeah, where we lived, the the taxes every town, every city had its own property taxes. You could live on a street, yeah, you could live on a street where you had a property tax of some amount, and if you walked across to the other side of the street, the property tax would be twice what yours was because the border runs right down the middle of the street. Speaker 1  42:45 That's crazy. Michael Hingson  42:47 We thought it was. Yeah, we thought it was kind of interesting, but we fortunately never had too horrible of property taxes in Westfield. But still, we heard about some other places that had some some horrible property taxes, but you know it's it's what what you have. Speaker 1  43:07 Yep. Michael Hingson  43:08 So you were in the city council for 14 years. What made you decide that you were going to run for mayor? Because you had to do that. You had to make that decision. Speaker 1  43:17 Yeah, didn't want to. You know, wasn't on my on my dance card to like, oh, next step up is going to be mayor. It was more of there was frustration that I had because the the past couple of mayors, good men, good people, but I always wanted to do more. I mean, being on the council, it was frustrating because I wanted a little more leadership out of the center seat wasn't seeing that, and then I worked earlier last year. I called up a bunch of people to see if they'd be willing to do the job. You know, good strong community members who would be provide the leadership and had the name recognition required to do the job, and no one wanted to do it. So I was like, okay, well, I'll I'll see if I can do it. I still have two years left on my council term, so if I lost, I'd still be part of the process. But there ended up being four people in that race, so it was pretty crowded. Which to me, you know, if if you're running if you run unopposed, it's pretty much a sign that people kind of like the way things are going. They're not they're not upset with you. Generally, if you have one opponent, you're considered that you know oh well good you know I get to compete for for the job or someone else is unhappy. But if you have a lot of opponents, it generally means that the public isn't happy with what's going on and they want to see some change. So there were four people in the race. I won with like 38% of the vote, so that's wow, Michael Hingson  44:45 yeah. Well, but clearly you're different than a lot of people. For example, you're a member of the Kootenay County Republican Central Committee, and yeah, and they sued you for defamation. What was all that about? Speaker 1  44:59 Well. So we had an episode here where the first of all the local Republican Party decided that running partisan races wasn't enough; that they wanted to get involved with nonpartisan races. And in Idaho, a lot of the local offices are nonpartisan. So city council is nonpartisan, school districts are nonpartisan. You know, water district, highway district, all these smaller local offices, and we have a community college here called North Idaho College. And the Senate committee decided that they would start to what they call rating and vetting candidates to determine who was the most conservative. And while a lot of Republicans appreciate that and they want to know who the real conservative is. The central committee realized that it was a way for them to exercise political power, because when people would get their recommendations, that would be the person who would win. And so they got power mad, and in my opinion, they hijacked the trustees of our local community college, and pretty much almost ran the thing into a ground. It was the it's the only college a community college in the history of the country that's ever been put on probation for disaccreditation due to board governance. Normally, when you disaccredit a college, you're disaccrediting it because of financial reasons, or something else, but or academics. Never, never has it happened that the board has been so crazy that the the ACL ACCU whatever it is the accreditation agency for community colleges has said, "What we're gonna we're gonna pull away your credentials, and all your students will not be receiving college credit. So, I mean, what what this board did that was endorsed by the local Republican Party, the extremists on the party, they they fired the president for no reason. They they started running up the bills, increasing the athletics budget. The board meetings were just pure chaos. Employees would leave. The local high schools stopped their their co education programs. It was just crazy. Wow! And and a lot of people didn't really understand what was going on. So I did a YouTube channel called Kootenay Rants, and Kootenay is the name of our county. Michael Hingson  47:20 Kootenay, yeah. I said Kootenay. Sorry about that. Speaker 1  47:22 It's no, it's okay. It's it could be either way. Who knows? Up north, they do say Kootenai, so we don't know. But anyway, this really got under the skin of the central committee because I pinned the blame on what was going on at the college on them, which is was justified, and I would not make anything up. Instead, I would just put in highlights from the meetings and say, "Here's what's happening, and here's the crazy stuff. You know, trustees yelling at members of the audience, making fun of them. You know, interrupting people, saying just weird, strange things. I mean, it just-it was odd. It was so bizarre, and so it was easy for me to make these videos. My background is in communications, and I know video production, so I was able to put together these videos on a YouTube channel, and you know, hundreds of people in the county would start watching them, including the central committee that did not like that I was exposing what I consider to be their corruption and their the the fact that I think they were responsible for this and they didn't like that so they accused me of defamation basically mean tweets because I would tweet about them and their nonsense and it was like they they made a big to do out of it because I was running for re-election for city council, so they came to a city council meeting to serve me, and you know recorded it and put it up on the internet and all this other stuff that that was just crazy. But my insurance company fortunately decided to represent me, and they just they thought the the suit was without merit. They don't say frivolous. They say without merit. Without Michael Hingson  49:04 merit. No, yeah. Speaker 1  49:05 And so yeah. And so eventually, now the suit is over, and I figured I would either win in court or it would be dismissed. But the insurance company settled, and I it was against my wishes. I said no. I said don't settle with these people. But the insurance company did settle, and I made sure that, as part of the settlement, that they would not say that I agreed to it, or that I said I was wrong, or I apologized, or anything. No, the insurance company just didn't want to waste any more money, so they decided to settle. They wrote a check. I don't know what it cost the central committee. As a member of the central committee, it has never been reported to the committee how much money they spent on that? Because it's it's pretty much the the Republican Central Committee of Kootenay County is pretty much a tyranny run by one guy and a personality cult, and there are members of the committee. There are some good Republicans such as myself on the committee who do believe in transparency and limited government and all those Ronald Reagan things. But there are these extremists on there who are just nutballs, and so there's a group of us here called North Idaho Republicans who are working to counter their insanity. And we've done a good job, but we need to do more work, and that's the story of the KCRCC. And they sued me for defamation. Michael Hingson  50:21 That's kind of crazy, though. Nevertheless, Speaker 3  50:23 of course. Michael Hingson  50:24 And it's only kind Speaker 1  50:26 of that. I wasn't laying awake. I mean, occasionally someone would call me up and they would say, "So what's the case? What's the what's happening with a lawsuit? And I'd say, "Well, a lawsuit. I said, "Oh yeah, that's right. They're suing me. I mean, it was never really. I was never obligated for it. Michael Hingson  50:39 Yeah. Well, so just out of curiosity, since the Republicans were doing this, where were the Democrats in all of that? Speaker 1  50:47 Well, we don't really have a lot of Democrats. That's Michael Hingson  50:49 what I was wondering. Yeah, Speaker 1  50:51 and so and and I always used to joke. I would say that the the Democrats, the Kootenai County Democrats, are looking for a new meeting location, and if anyone has a spare closet, got it. You let them know. No, they're they're all they're all very nice people. Michael Hingson  51:05 Yeah, Speaker 1  51:05 but they're they are in an extreme minority, and unfortunately, they they do try. So last time they had a body for every seat up for election, but they don't really come close. And it's a lot of it comes down to name recognition, but you also have a lot of red blue state refugees who come here. You have a lot of COVID refugees who came here, and so Idaho is very red. Kootenay County is very red, and it would take a tremendous amount of effort to to have a Democrat win here. We do have Democrats in the legislature, not a lot, but we do have them, and the the National Democratic Party is unwilling to spend a lot of money here because they know they're going to lose. So that's what I hear from them. But they are they are generally nice people. I mean, like you said, you if you wanted to vote for me here and you're a Democrat, I'd happily accept the vote. It's a nonpartisan position. We don't deal with those big divisive issues that you know that you you see on the news. Yeah, we're pretty much community-minded people, and I appreciate anyone who is. I do fight the KCRCC because I don't see them as community-minded, and that's one of the issues. Michael Hingson  52:18 Yeah. Well, it's it's unfortunate that that people are that way, but I I see it all too often in so many different ways. I mean, we face it with even in the blindness world with so many things where there ought to be major improvements and there ought to be defenses of the civil rights of blind people. For example, some of the rideshare programs don't do a lot to train their drivers about the fact that in reality they're obligated to take blind people with guide dogs, and oh, there's there is a fair amount of that, and it's and and the companies aren't willing to do anything about it, and we have to keep fighting it, which is just too bad. But there's just so many stuff, and there are so many people who just have these hidden agendas, or they just what it really comes down to is we don't want anybody telling us what to do, Speaker 1  53:09 right? Michael Hingson  53:11 And that's what it really comes down to. So, do you find that that religion gets into any of it at all, like with the conservative Christian movement or any of that, Speaker 1  53:24 there well, there's I do not like the politicization of the church. Michael Hingson  53:29 Yeah, Speaker 1  53:30 my favorite quote on that is that politics poisons the purity of the church. So I think we should keep the separation of church and state as much as possible, but there are you know politically motivated, politically active pastors, and I just I I think that's that's not the proper role of religion. I know that that there's kind of a battle going on in the far right about you know how much religion or how much that should should should be involved in politics in the public arena. In fact, there's a little across from the Costco up here. There is a little yard sign in front of some business that says "Vote Bible, and I always think that's kind of. I mean, I understand what the sentiment is, and I would always want to think that the people who we elect are good moral people. You know, Adam said that our Constitution is best suited for a moral people. I don't believe that means that there's morality in the Constitution. I believe there's morality in people, Michael Hingson  54:32 right? Speaker 1  54:33 And we do want people who have good ethics and good morals in public office, and it's very obvious when that doesn't happen. But I do not think. I think the purpose of our Constitution and the First Amendment is to ensure that we all have the the right to enjoy whatever religion we want, and we don't want to pick favorites. And so, what I see with a lot of these people is that they want to pick a favorite. Michael Hingson  54:55 Yeah, Speaker 1  54:56 they they not only want to pick the first religion, but they want. Everyone to go to the same church and the same service and sit in the same pew. Yeah, and that's not going to happen in any church. It's not going to happen in any denomination of any church. And then, and see, that's the other question: is if you know if you're going to insist that this is a Christian nation, it's like okay, but which denomination is it? Catholic? Is it Protestant? Is it Mormon? I mean, I you know you tell me because it's just going to be this incredible knot of worms, which is why I think the genius of the founders was that you know the the clause about religion is is two things: it gives you the freedom to exercise your own religion, and it also restricts the government from declaring that there's a religion. Yeah, and I think the far right kind of misses that when they when they take the message of we like moral people in office, but to dictate the morals to someone else is wrong. Michael Hingson  55:52 You know, I and it was Tolstoy who once said the biggest problem with Christianity is that people don't practice it, and I I see that so often. It's it is so unfortunate, but it is Speaker 1  56:03 there. Yeah. So that is a tough one. Michael Hingson  56:07 So if you could change one thing in the world, what would it be? I'd Speaker 1  56:12 get rid of the internet in a heartbeat. Specifically, social media. I think the the problem with social media is it amplifies our immaturities, and that is a huge issue. the The solution to that is to make the the publishers responsible for the content. So, in other words, Facebook could be sued for anything that someone puts on Facebook, and that would terrify Facebook, but it would terrify them to the point that they would actually regulate themselves and and start dialing back. I mean, I can say 20 years ago or so, when I whenever I was first on Facebook, I would go on there and I would see my kids, and they'd be playing a ball game or they'd be over at a friend's house. You'd see birthdays, vacations. It was just kind of like it was a social thing. You go on there now, and it's politics, and it's like this person deserved to be shot, and it's just-it's so-it's so extreme, and it's so rude. And you know, some of the stuff they said about me is not very nice, but I think that if we're going to solve one problem in the world, we really need to dial back all the animosity that's on the inter

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Geschüttelt, nicht gerührt. 007 First Light inszeniert sich klar als filmisches Bond-Erlebnis und trifft diesen Ton in vielen Momenten sehr gut. Das Spiel setzt auf elegante Bilder, eine starke Atmosphäre und Szenen, die sich wie aus einem Kinofilm anfühlen. Gerade für ein Geek-Publikum, das Bond, Stil und Spionage-Optik schätzt, wirkt das Gesamtpaket sehr bewusst gestaltet und oft beeindruckend. Besonders stark ist der Eindruck, dass hier nicht einfach nur ein Actionspiel, sondern ein kleiner Bond-Film zum Spielen entstehen soll. Die Präsentation, die Kameraführung und die Inszenierung vermitteln genau dieses Gefühl von Glamour, Gefahr und Geheimagenten-Flair. Dadurch hebt sich 007 First Light deutlich von vielen anderen Spielen im Genre ab, weil es mehr Wert auf Stimmung als auf reine Effekthascherei legt. Spielerisch zeigt sich aber auch, dass nicht alles ganz so rund ist wie die audiovisuelle Seite. Manche Mechaniken wirken noch etwas ungleichmäßig oder nicht ganz ausgereift, sodass das Spiel an einigen Stellen nicht die gleiche Eleganz erreicht wie in seiner Inszenierung. Das nimmt dem Erlebnis nicht seinen Reiz, fällt aber bei genauerem Hinsehen auf. Gerade dieser Kontrast macht den Eindruck so interessant: Auf der einen Seite steht ein sehr schönes, stilvolles Bond-Abenteuer, auf der anderen Seite ein Spiel, das an ein paar Ecken noch Feinschliff vertragen könnte. Wer vor allem die filmische Präsentation und die Bond-Atmosphäre sucht, dürfte hier sehr gut abgeholt werden. Wer hingegen durchgehend perfekt abgestimmtes Gameplay erwartet, könnte an einzelnen Stellen kleine Abstriche spüren. Matzes Fazit ist, dass 007 First Light vor allem als starkes, visuell und atmosphärisch überzeugendes Bond-Erlebnis in Erinnerung bleibt, das spielerisch noch nicht ganz auf demselben Niveau ist. Apple, wir müssen reden Peppi hat einen MacMini, auf dem routine Aufgaben Laufen. SEO Reports für Kunden und sowas. Und da sollten nun mal ein paar Dateien zwischengespeichert werden, nur um festzustellen, dass die kleine Festplatte voll war. Obwohl eigentlich gar nichts drauf ist auf dem Rechner. Ordentliches Aufräumen hat zu Tage gebracht, dass es tatsächlich der System Ordner ist. Und zwar die Hintergründe. Sage und Schreibe 60 GB (!) hat Apple da drin für die animierten Video-Hintergründe belegt. Mal wieder ein Beispiel für hemmungslosen Speicherverbrauch, der auch schon dem iPad mini zum Verhängnis geworden ist. Bei der Macht von Greyskull Masters of the Universe macht genau das, was ein guter Geek-Film schaffen sollte: Er hat sichtbare Lust auf sein eigenes Universum, liefert viele kleine Fan-Momente und nimmt sich selbst nie zu ernst. Der Film fühlt sich an wie eine große, bunte Einladung an alle, die He-Man, Castle Grayskull und die ganze Mythologie schon lange kennen — und an alle, die einfach einen unterhaltsamen Abenteuerfilm sehen wollen. Besonders stark ist die Fan Delivery: Figuren, Motive und ikonische Elemente werden mit erkennbarem Respekt eingebaut, ohne nur plumpes Nostalgie-Kino zu sein. Man merkt, dass der Film die Vorlage verstanden hat und den Kern der Marke ernst nimmt. Das sorgt für viele Stellen, an denen Fans zufrieden nicken können, weil der Film nicht nur Zitate abspult, sondern die Welt wirklich aufleben lässt. Gleichzeitig bleibt der Eindruck, dass noch etwas mehr drin gewesen wäre. Der Film hat Energie, Tempo und Charme, aber an ein paar Stellen hätte er tiefer gehen können — bei den Figuren, bei der emotionalen Wirkung oder einfach beim Mut, einzelne Ideen noch größer auszuspielen. So bleibt am Ende ein gutes Gefühl, aber eben auch der Gedanke, dass mit etwas mehr Aufwand ein noch stärkerer Film möglich gewesen wäre. Gerade darin liegt sein Reiz: Masters of the Universe ist kein müder Aufguss, sondern ein spaßiger, sauber gemachter Genre-Film mit Herz für die Vorlage. Er liefert genug Freude, um Fans mitzunehmen, und genug Substanz, um nicht beliebig zu wirken. Gleichzeitig lässt er Raum für den Wunsch nach einem echten Ausbruch nach oben — mehr Tiefe, mehr Wucht, mehr von dem, was dieses Universum noch hergeben könnte. Elektrisch auf Weltreise Der ein oder andere Kennt ja vielleicht den Elektrotrucker. So genau kennen wir seinen Hintergrund gar nicht, aber sein aktuelles Projekt „In 80 Ladesäulen um die Welt„. Ist alles noch nicht final aber vermutlich wird es ein tolles Fahrzeug. Los gehen soll es nach der IAA2026 im September. Früher Afrob und Ferris MC „Früher war nicht besser“ ist ein guter, entspannter Hip-Hop-Track, der sich ganz ohne Druck und mit viel Ruhe ins Gehör bringt. Der Song setzt auf einen weichen Beat, der gemütlich läuft und nicht zu viel>Action, sondern eher nach guter Laune klingt. Afrob liefert dabei einen lockeren, natürlichen Flow, der nicht zu viel zeigen will, sondern einfach nur-bold und nahbar wirkt. Die Stimme klingt entspannt, die Worte sitzen gut, und die Atmosphäre ist insgesamt sehr angenehm. Ferris Teil passt sich genau diesem Stil an und sorgt dafür, dass der Track zusammenhängt, ohne dass jemand zu clair oder zu laut wird. Das Thema des Songs ist zwar präsent, aber nicht aufdringlich. Es geht nicht um große Botschaften, sondern um eine einfache, nachdenkliche Stimmung, die sich gut mit dem Beat verbindet. Genau das macht den Track so gut hören: Er ist nicht zu komplex, nicht zu laut, nicht zu schnell – einfach ein entspannter Hip-Hop-Song, der einfach nur gut klingt. „Früher war nicht besser“ funktioniert besonders gut, wenn man etwas Hintergrundmusik hören möchte, die nicht zu viel abverlangt, sondern einfach nur-mitgeht. Der Track ist nett, locker und ohne Druck – genau das, was man von einem guten, entspannten Hip-Hop-Song erwarten kann. Insgesamt bleibt „Früher war nicht besser“ als ein angenehmer, ruhiger Hip-Hop-Track in Erinnerung, der sich ohne Wünsche und mit viel Ruhe hören lässt. 50 Jahre Apple Apple: The First 50 Years ist ein umfassendes Buch, das die Geschichte Apple von den Anfängen in den 1970er-Jahren bis in die Gegenwart nachzeichnet. Der Fokus liegt auf den wichtigsten Momenten, die das Unternehmen geprägt haben: von den ersten Ideen von Steve Jobs und Steve Wozniak, über den Aufstieg des Apple II, den Macintosh, bis hin zu den großen Turns unter Jobs‘ zweiter Rückkehr und der Entwicklung von iPhone, iPad und den weiteren Produkten, die Apple zu einem der größten Tech-Unternehmen gemacht haben. Das Buch arbeitet nicht nur mit Fakten, sondern zeigt auch die Menschen hinter den Erfolgsgeschichten. Es geht auf die Konflikten, die Visionen, die Entscheidungen und die Wendepunkte ein, die Apple immer wieder neu geformt haben. Besonders stark ist, wie gut die Geschichte von den Anfängen in einer Garage in California bis zum globalen Tech-Giganten erzählt wird. Die Aufmachung ist komfortabel und gut lesbar, mit vielen Bildern, die die Entwicklung visuell unterstützen. Für Leser, die sich für Tech, Unternehmensgeschichte und Innovation interessieren, bietet das Buch eine klare, zusammenhängende Darstellung, die nicht zu sehr ins Detail geht, aber trotzdem tief genug ist, um die wichtigsten Entwicklungen zu verstehen. Apple: The First 50 Years ist damit ein gutes Buch für alle, die die Apple-Geschichte von den Anfängen bis heute verstehen wollen, ohne sich in zu vielen technischen Details zu verlieren. Es ist informativ, gut strukturiert und bringt die Geschichte von Apple auf eine klare, nachvollziehbare Weise. Wenns mal wieder schneller gehen muss Seitdem die Concorde nicht mehr fliegt, gibt es kein Überschall-Flugzeug für den Personenverkehr. Es gibt Projekte, die daran arbeiten, das zu ändern, aber aktuell kann man nicht einfach so in ein Flugzeug steigen und mit Überschall von A nach B reisen. Nun steigt wohl auch Japan ein. Dort wurde nun ein Triebwerk getestet, das bis zu Mach 5 schaffen soll. Die Concorde hatte Mach 2,2 als maximal und 2,02 als Reisegeschwindigkeit. Erste Flugtests kommen aber vermutlich frühestens in den 2040er Jahren, wer mal wieder so schnell unterwegs sein will, braucht also vor allem erst mal viel Zeit. PC neu definiert Nvidia RTX Spark ist ein neues System, das Windows PC für die Zukunft der künstlichen Intelligenz komplett neu denkt. Nvidia hat den Chip auf der Computex 2026 vorgestellt und damit eine Plattform geschaffen, die lokale KI-Agenten, Content Creation und Gaming in einem schlanken Laptop vereint. Das Besondere: RTX Spark bringt die Leistung eines ganzen AI-PCs in ein Gerät, das so dünn und leicht ist, dass man es kaum spürt. Laptops mit dem Chip sind nur etwa 14 Millimeter dick und wiegen rund 1,4 Kilogramm – trotzdem können sie schwere KI-Aufgaben direkt auf dem Gerät rechnen, ohne dass eine Cloud nötig ist. Mit RTX Spark lassen sich große KI-Modelle lokal laufen, zum Beispiel 120 Milliarden Parameter große Sprachmodelle mit extrem langen Texten. Das bedeutet: Du kannst KI direkt auf deinem Laptop nutzen, ohne dass Daten ins Internet geschickt werden. Das ist schneller, sicherer und funktioniert auch ohne Internet. Für Creator ist der Chip besonders stark: Man kann 12K-Videos bearbeiten, riesige 3D-Szenen rendernen und sogar 4K-Videos mit KI generieren. Gleichzeitig ist RTX Spark auch für Gaming gemacht und bringt AAA-Spiele auf 1440p mit über 100 FPS flüssig. Im Herbst 2026 starten erste Geräte von Marken wie ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface und MSI. Der Chip kombiniert eine starke GPU mit einer ARM-CPU in einem einzigen System und nutzt einen gemeinsamen Speicher, der sowohl für AI als auch für Grafik genutzt wird. RTX Spark ist damit die Fusion von Nvidia AI und RTX Graphics – eine komplette PC-Plattform, die KI, Kreativität und Gaming in einem schlanken, mobilen Gerät vereint. Und plötzlich war sie da Wir haben ja schon das ein oder andere mal über die Steam Machine gesprochen. Und auf ein mal ist sie da. Wenn ihr das hört ist sie vielleicht schon wieder weg, aber die Steam Machine kann bestellt werden. Dabei muss man erst mal Interesse bekunden, dann werden Slots verlost. Der Preis? Astronomisch. Wie viele es geben wird? Keine Ahnung. Wie schaut's aus mit Scalpern? Daran hat Steam anscheinend gedacht.

Geschüttelt, nicht gerührt. 007 First Light inszeniert sich klar als filmisches Bond-Erlebnis und trifft diesen Ton in vielen Momenten sehr gut. Das Spiel setzt auf elegante Bilder, eine starke Atmosphäre und Szenen, die sich wie aus einem Kinofilm anfühlen. Gerade für ein Geek-Publikum, das Bond, Stil und Spionage-Optik schätzt, wirkt das Gesamtpaket sehr bewusst gestaltet und oft beeindruckend. Besonders stark ist der Eindruck, dass hier nicht einfach nur ein Actionspiel, sondern ein kleiner Bond-Film zum Spielen entstehen soll. Die Präsentation, die Kameraführung und die Inszenierung vermitteln genau dieses Gefühl von Glamour, Gefahr und Geheimagenten-Flair. Dadurch hebt sich 007 First Light deutlich von vielen anderen Spielen im Genre ab, weil es mehr Wert auf Stimmung als auf reine Effekthascherei legt. Spielerisch zeigt sich aber auch, dass nicht alles ganz so rund ist wie die audiovisuelle Seite. Manche Mechaniken wirken noch etwas ungleichmäßig oder nicht ganz ausgereift, sodass das Spiel an einigen Stellen nicht die gleiche Eleganz erreicht wie in seiner Inszenierung. Das nimmt dem Erlebnis nicht seinen Reiz, fällt aber bei genauerem Hinsehen auf. Gerade dieser Kontrast macht den Eindruck so interessant: Auf der einen Seite steht ein sehr schönes, stilvolles Bond-Abenteuer, auf der anderen Seite ein Spiel, das an ein paar Ecken noch Feinschliff vertragen könnte. Wer vor allem die filmische Präsentation und die Bond-Atmosphäre sucht, dürfte hier sehr gut abgeholt werden. Wer hingegen durchgehend perfekt abgestimmtes Gameplay erwartet, könnte an einzelnen Stellen kleine Abstriche spüren. Matzes Fazit ist, dass 007 First Light vor allem als starkes, visuell und atmosphärisch überzeugendes Bond-Erlebnis in Erinnerung bleibt, das spielerisch noch nicht ganz auf demselben Niveau ist. Apple, wir müssen reden Peppi hat einen MacMini, auf dem routine Aufgaben Laufen. SEO Reports für Kunden und sowas. Und da sollten nun mal ein paar Dateien zwischengespeichert werden, nur um festzustellen, dass die kleine Festplatte voll war. Obwohl eigentlich gar nichts drauf ist auf dem Rechner. Ordentliches Aufräumen hat zu Tage gebracht, dass es tatsächlich der System Ordner ist. Und zwar die Hintergründe. Sage und Schreibe 60 GB (!) hat Apple da drin für die animierten Video-Hintergründe belegt. Mal wieder ein Beispiel für hemmungslosen Speicherverbrauch, der auch schon dem iPad mini zum Verhängnis geworden ist. Bei der Macht von Greyskull Masters of the Universe macht genau das, was ein guter Geek-Film schaffen sollte: Er hat sichtbare Lust auf sein eigenes Universum, liefert viele kleine Fan-Momente und nimmt sich selbst nie zu ernst. Der Film fühlt sich an wie eine große, bunte Einladung an alle, die He-Man, Castle Grayskull und die ganze Mythologie schon lange kennen — und an alle, die einfach einen unterhaltsamen Abenteuerfilm sehen wollen. Besonders stark ist die Fan Delivery: Figuren, Motive und ikonische Elemente werden mit erkennbarem Respekt eingebaut, ohne nur plumpes Nostalgie-Kino zu sein. Man merkt, dass der Film die Vorlage verstanden hat und den Kern der Marke ernst nimmt. Das sorgt für viele Stellen, an denen Fans zufrieden nicken können, weil der Film nicht nur Zitate abspult, sondern die Welt wirklich aufleben lässt. Gleichzeitig bleibt der Eindruck, dass noch etwas mehr drin gewesen wäre. Der Film hat Energie, Tempo und Charme, aber an ein paar Stellen hätte er tiefer gehen können — bei den Figuren, bei der emotionalen Wirkung oder einfach beim Mut, einzelne Ideen noch größer auszuspielen. So bleibt am Ende ein gutes Gefühl, aber eben auch der Gedanke, dass mit etwas mehr Aufwand ein noch stärkerer Film möglich gewesen wäre. Gerade darin liegt sein Reiz: Masters of the Universe ist kein müder Aufguss, sondern ein spaßiger, sauber gemachter Genre-Film mit Herz für die Vorlage. Er liefert genug Freude, um Fans mitzunehmen, und genug Substanz, um nicht beliebig zu wirken. Gleichzeitig lässt er Raum für den Wunsch nach einem echten Ausbruch nach oben — mehr Tiefe, mehr Wucht, mehr von dem, was dieses Universum noch hergeben könnte. Elektrisch auf Weltreise Der ein oder andere Kennt ja vielleicht den Elektrotrucker. So genau kennen wir seinen Hintergrund gar nicht, aber sein aktuelles Projekt „In 80 Ladesäulen um die Welt„. Ist alles noch nicht final aber vermutlich wird es ein tolles Fahrzeug. Los gehen soll es nach der IAA2026 im September. Früher Afrob und Ferris MC „Früher war nicht besser“ ist ein guter, entspannter Hip-Hop-Track, der sich ganz ohne Druck und mit viel Ruhe ins Gehör bringt. Der Song setzt auf einen weichen Beat, der gemütlich läuft und nicht zu viel>Action, sondern eher nach guter Laune klingt. Afrob liefert dabei einen lockeren, natürlichen Flow, der nicht zu viel zeigen will, sondern einfach nur-bold und nahbar wirkt. Die Stimme klingt entspannt, die Worte sitzen gut, und die Atmosphäre ist insgesamt sehr angenehm. Ferris Teil passt sich genau diesem Stil an und sorgt dafür, dass der Track zusammenhängt, ohne dass jemand zu clair oder zu laut wird. Das Thema des Songs ist zwar präsent, aber nicht aufdringlich. Es geht nicht um große Botschaften, sondern um eine einfache, nachdenkliche Stimmung, die sich gut mit dem Beat verbindet. Genau das macht den Track so gut hören: Er ist nicht zu komplex, nicht zu laut, nicht zu schnell – einfach ein entspannter Hip-Hop-Song, der einfach nur gut klingt. „Früher war nicht besser“ funktioniert besonders gut, wenn man etwas Hintergrundmusik hören möchte, die nicht zu viel abverlangt, sondern einfach nur-mitgeht. Der Track ist nett, locker und ohne Druck – genau das, was man von einem guten, entspannten Hip-Hop-Song erwarten kann. Insgesamt bleibt „Früher war nicht besser“ als ein angenehmer, ruhiger Hip-Hop-Track in Erinnerung, der sich ohne Wünsche und mit viel Ruhe hören lässt. 50 Jahre Apple Apple: The First 50 Years ist ein umfassendes Buch, das die Geschichte Apple von den Anfängen in den 1970er-Jahren bis in die Gegenwart nachzeichnet. Der Fokus liegt auf den wichtigsten Momenten, die das Unternehmen geprägt haben: von den ersten Ideen von Steve Jobs und Steve Wozniak, über den Aufstieg des Apple II, den Macintosh, bis hin zu den großen Turns unter Jobs‘ zweiter Rückkehr und der Entwicklung von iPhone, iPad und den weiteren Produkten, die Apple zu einem der größten Tech-Unternehmen gemacht haben. Das Buch arbeitet nicht nur mit Fakten, sondern zeigt auch die Menschen hinter den Erfolgsgeschichten. Es geht auf die Konflikten, die Visionen, die Entscheidungen und die Wendepunkte ein, die Apple immer wieder neu geformt haben. Besonders stark ist, wie gut die Geschichte von den Anfängen in einer Garage in California bis zum globalen Tech-Giganten erzählt wird. Die Aufmachung ist komfortabel und gut lesbar, mit vielen Bildern, die die Entwicklung visuell unterstützen. Für Leser, die sich für Tech, Unternehmensgeschichte und Innovation interessieren, bietet das Buch eine klare, zusammenhängende Darstellung, die nicht zu sehr ins Detail geht, aber trotzdem tief genug ist, um die wichtigsten Entwicklungen zu verstehen. Apple: The First 50 Years ist damit ein gutes Buch für alle, die die Apple-Geschichte von den Anfängen bis heute verstehen wollen, ohne sich in zu vielen technischen Details zu verlieren. Es ist informativ, gut strukturiert und bringt die Geschichte von Apple auf eine klare, nachvollziehbare Weise. Wenns mal wieder schneller gehen muss Seitdem die Concorde nicht mehr fliegt, gibt es kein Überschall-Flugzeug für den Personenverkehr. Es gibt Projekte, die daran arbeiten, das zu ändern, aber aktuell kann man nicht einfach so in ein Flugzeug steigen und mit Überschall von A nach B reisen. Nun steigt wohl auch Japan ein. Dort wurde nun ein Triebwerk getestet, das bis zu Mach 5 schaffen soll. Die Concorde hatte Mach 2,2 als maximal und 2,02 als Reisegeschwindigkeit. Erste Flugtests kommen aber vermutlich frühestens in den 2040er Jahren, wer mal wieder so schnell unterwegs sein will, braucht also vor allem erst mal viel Zeit. PC neu definiert Nvidia RTX Spark ist ein neues System, das Windows PC für die Zukunft der künstlichen Intelligenz komplett neu denkt. Nvidia hat den Chip auf der Computex 2026 vorgestellt und damit eine Plattform geschaffen, die lokale KI-Agenten, Content Creation und Gaming in einem schlanken Laptop vereint. Das Besondere: RTX Spark bringt die Leistung eines ganzen AI-PCs in ein Gerät, das so dünn und leicht ist, dass man es kaum spürt. Laptops mit dem Chip sind nur etwa 14 Millimeter dick und wiegen rund 1,4 Kilogramm – trotzdem können sie schwere KI-Aufgaben direkt auf dem Gerät rechnen, ohne dass eine Cloud nötig ist. Mit RTX Spark lassen sich große KI-Modelle lokal laufen, zum Beispiel 120 Milliarden Parameter große Sprachmodelle mit extrem langen Texten. Das bedeutet: Du kannst KI direkt auf deinem Laptop nutzen, ohne dass Daten ins Internet geschickt werden. Das ist schneller, sicherer und funktioniert auch ohne Internet. Für Creator ist der Chip besonders stark: Man kann 12K-Videos bearbeiten, riesige 3D-Szenen rendernen und sogar 4K-Videos mit KI generieren. Gleichzeitig ist RTX Spark auch für Gaming gemacht und bringt AAA-Spiele auf 1440p mit über 100 FPS flüssig. Im Herbst 2026 starten erste Geräte von Marken wie ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface und MSI. Der Chip kombiniert eine starke GPU mit einer ARM-CPU in einem einzigen System und nutzt einen gemeinsamen Speicher, der sowohl für AI als auch für Grafik genutzt wird. RTX Spark ist damit die Fusion von Nvidia AI und RTX Graphics – eine komplette PC-Plattform, die KI, Kreativität und Gaming in einem schlanken, mobilen Gerät vereint. Und plötzlich war sie da Wir haben ja schon das ein oder andere mal über die Steam Machine gesprochen. Und auf ein mal ist sie da. Wenn ihr das hört ist sie vielleicht schon wieder weg, aber die Steam Machine kann bestellt werden. Dabei muss man erst mal Interesse bekunden, dann werden Slots verlost. Der Preis? Astronomisch. Wie viele es geben wird? Keine Ahnung. Wie schaut's aus mit Scalpern? Daran hat Steam anscheinend gedacht.

Geschüttelt, nicht gerührt. 007 First Light inszeniert sich klar als filmisches Bond-Erlebnis und trifft diesen Ton in vielen Momenten sehr gut. Das Spiel setzt auf elegante Bilder, eine starke Atmosphäre und Szenen, die sich wie aus einem Kinofilm anfühlen. Gerade für ein Geek-Publikum, das Bond, Stil und Spionage-Optik schätzt, wirkt das Gesamtpaket sehr bewusst gestaltet und oft beeindruckend. Besonders stark ist der Eindruck, dass hier nicht einfach nur ein Actionspiel, sondern ein kleiner Bond-Film zum Spielen entstehen soll. Die Präsentation, die Kameraführung und die Inszenierung vermitteln genau dieses Gefühl von Glamour, Gefahr und Geheimagenten-Flair. Dadurch hebt sich 007 First Light deutlich von vielen anderen Spielen im Genre ab, weil es mehr Wert auf Stimmung als auf reine Effekthascherei legt. Spielerisch zeigt sich aber auch, dass nicht alles ganz so rund ist wie die audiovisuelle Seite. Manche Mechaniken wirken noch etwas ungleichmäßig oder nicht ganz ausgereift, sodass das Spiel an einigen Stellen nicht die gleiche Eleganz erreicht wie in seiner Inszenierung. Das nimmt dem Erlebnis nicht seinen Reiz, fällt aber bei genauerem Hinsehen auf. Gerade dieser Kontrast macht den Eindruck so interessant: Auf der einen Seite steht ein sehr schönes, stilvolles Bond-Abenteuer, auf der anderen Seite ein Spiel, das an ein paar Ecken noch Feinschliff vertragen könnte. Wer vor allem die filmische Präsentation und die Bond-Atmosphäre sucht, dürfte hier sehr gut abgeholt werden. Wer hingegen durchgehend perfekt abgestimmtes Gameplay erwartet, könnte an einzelnen Stellen kleine Abstriche spüren. Matzes Fazit ist, dass 007 First Light vor allem als starkes, visuell und atmosphärisch überzeugendes Bond-Erlebnis in Erinnerung bleibt, das spielerisch noch nicht ganz auf demselben Niveau ist. Apple, wir müssen reden Peppi hat einen MacMini, auf dem routine Aufgaben Laufen. SEO Reports für Kunden und sowas. Und da sollten nun mal ein paar Dateien zwischengespeichert werden, nur um festzustellen, dass die kleine Festplatte voll war. Obwohl eigentlich gar nichts drauf ist auf dem Rechner. Ordentliches Aufräumen hat zu Tage gebracht, dass es tatsächlich der System Ordner ist. Und zwar die Hintergründe. Sage und Schreibe 60 GB (!) hat Apple da drin für die animierten Video-Hintergründe belegt. Mal wieder ein Beispiel für hemmungslosen Speicherverbrauch, der auch schon dem iPad mini zum Verhängnis geworden ist. Bei der Macht von Greyskull Masters of the Universe macht genau das, was ein guter Geek-Film schaffen sollte: Er hat sichtbare Lust auf sein eigenes Universum, liefert viele kleine Fan-Momente und nimmt sich selbst nie zu ernst. Der Film fühlt sich an wie eine große, bunte Einladung an alle, die He-Man, Castle Grayskull und die ganze Mythologie schon lange kennen — und an alle, die einfach einen unterhaltsamen Abenteuerfilm sehen wollen. Besonders stark ist die Fan Delivery: Figuren, Motive und ikonische Elemente werden mit erkennbarem Respekt eingebaut, ohne nur plumpes Nostalgie-Kino zu sein. Man merkt, dass der Film die Vorlage verstanden hat und den Kern der Marke ernst nimmt. Das sorgt für viele Stellen, an denen Fans zufrieden nicken können, weil der Film nicht nur Zitate abspult, sondern die Welt wirklich aufleben lässt. Gleichzeitig bleibt der Eindruck, dass noch etwas mehr drin gewesen wäre. Der Film hat Energie, Tempo und Charme, aber an ein paar Stellen hätte er tiefer gehen können — bei den Figuren, bei der emotionalen Wirkung oder einfach beim Mut, einzelne Ideen noch größer auszuspielen. So bleibt am Ende ein gutes Gefühl, aber eben auch der Gedanke, dass mit etwas mehr Aufwand ein noch stärkerer Film möglich gewesen wäre. Gerade darin liegt sein Reiz: Masters of the Universe ist kein müder Aufguss, sondern ein spaßiger, sauber gemachter Genre-Film mit Herz für die Vorlage. Er liefert genug Freude, um Fans mitzunehmen, und genug Substanz, um nicht beliebig zu wirken. Gleichzeitig lässt er Raum für den Wunsch nach einem echten Ausbruch nach oben — mehr Tiefe, mehr Wucht, mehr von dem, was dieses Universum noch hergeben könnte. Elektrisch auf Weltreise Der ein oder andere Kennt ja vielleicht den Elektrotrucker. So genau kennen wir seinen Hintergrund gar nicht, aber sein aktuelles Projekt „In 80 Ladesäulen um die Welt„. Ist alles noch nicht final aber vermutlich wird es ein tolles Fahrzeug. Los gehen soll es nach der IAA2026 im September. Früher Afrob und Ferris MC „Früher war nicht besser“ ist ein guter, entspannter Hip-Hop-Track, der sich ganz ohne Druck und mit viel Ruhe ins Gehör bringt. Der Song setzt auf einen weichen Beat, der gemütlich läuft und nicht zu viel>Action, sondern eher nach guter Laune klingt. Afrob liefert dabei einen lockeren, natürlichen Flow, der nicht zu viel zeigen will, sondern einfach nur-bold und nahbar wirkt. Die Stimme klingt entspannt, die Worte sitzen gut, und die Atmosphäre ist insgesamt sehr angenehm. Ferris Teil passt sich genau diesem Stil an und sorgt dafür, dass der Track zusammenhängt, ohne dass jemand zu clair oder zu laut wird. Das Thema des Songs ist zwar präsent, aber nicht aufdringlich. Es geht nicht um große Botschaften, sondern um eine einfache, nachdenkliche Stimmung, die sich gut mit dem Beat verbindet. Genau das macht den Track so gut hören: Er ist nicht zu komplex, nicht zu laut, nicht zu schnell – einfach ein entspannter Hip-Hop-Song, der einfach nur gut klingt. „Früher war nicht besser“ funktioniert besonders gut, wenn man etwas Hintergrundmusik hören möchte, die nicht zu viel abverlangt, sondern einfach nur-mitgeht. Der Track ist nett, locker und ohne Druck – genau das, was man von einem guten, entspannten Hip-Hop-Song erwarten kann. Insgesamt bleibt „Früher war nicht besser“ als ein angenehmer, ruhiger Hip-Hop-Track in Erinnerung, der sich ohne Wünsche und mit viel Ruhe hören lässt. 50 Jahre Apple Apple: The First 50 Years ist ein umfassendes Buch, das die Geschichte Apple von den Anfängen in den 1970er-Jahren bis in die Gegenwart nachzeichnet. Der Fokus liegt auf den wichtigsten Momenten, die das Unternehmen geprägt haben: von den ersten Ideen von Steve Jobs und Steve Wozniak, über den Aufstieg des Apple II, den Macintosh, bis hin zu den großen Turns unter Jobs‘ zweiter Rückkehr und der Entwicklung von iPhone, iPad und den weiteren Produkten, die Apple zu einem der größten Tech-Unternehmen gemacht haben. Das Buch arbeitet nicht nur mit Fakten, sondern zeigt auch die Menschen hinter den Erfolgsgeschichten. Es geht auf die Konflikten, die Visionen, die Entscheidungen und die Wendepunkte ein, die Apple immer wieder neu geformt haben. Besonders stark ist, wie gut die Geschichte von den Anfängen in einer Garage in California bis zum globalen Tech-Giganten erzählt wird. Die Aufmachung ist komfortabel und gut lesbar, mit vielen Bildern, die die Entwicklung visuell unterstützen. Für Leser, die sich für Tech, Unternehmensgeschichte und Innovation interessieren, bietet das Buch eine klare, zusammenhängende Darstellung, die nicht zu sehr ins Detail geht, aber trotzdem tief genug ist, um die wichtigsten Entwicklungen zu verstehen. Apple: The First 50 Years ist damit ein gutes Buch für alle, die die Apple-Geschichte von den Anfängen bis heute verstehen wollen, ohne sich in zu vielen technischen Details zu verlieren. Es ist informativ, gut strukturiert und bringt die Geschichte von Apple auf eine klare, nachvollziehbare Weise. Wenns mal wieder schneller gehen muss Seitdem die Concorde nicht mehr fliegt, gibt es kein Überschall-Flugzeug für den Personenverkehr. Es gibt Projekte, die daran arbeiten, das zu ändern, aber aktuell kann man nicht einfach so in ein Flugzeug steigen und mit Überschall von A nach B reisen. Nun steigt wohl auch Japan ein. Dort wurde nun ein Triebwerk getestet, das bis zu Mach 5 schaffen soll. Die Concorde hatte Mach 2,2 als maximal und 2,02 als Reisegeschwindigkeit. Erste Flugtests kommen aber vermutlich frühestens in den 2040er Jahren, wer mal wieder so schnell unterwegs sein will, braucht also vor allem erst mal viel Zeit. PC neu definiert Nvidia RTX Spark ist ein neues System, das Windows PC für die Zukunft der künstlichen Intelligenz komplett neu denkt. Nvidia hat den Chip auf der Computex 2026 vorgestellt und damit eine Plattform geschaffen, die lokale KI-Agenten, Content Creation und Gaming in einem schlanken Laptop vereint. Das Besondere: RTX Spark bringt die Leistung eines ganzen AI-PCs in ein Gerät, das so dünn und leicht ist, dass man es kaum spürt. Laptops mit dem Chip sind nur etwa 14 Millimeter dick und wiegen rund 1,4 Kilogramm – trotzdem können sie schwere KI-Aufgaben direkt auf dem Gerät rechnen, ohne dass eine Cloud nötig ist. Mit RTX Spark lassen sich große KI-Modelle lokal laufen, zum Beispiel 120 Milliarden Parameter große Sprachmodelle mit extrem langen Texten. Das bedeutet: Du kannst KI direkt auf deinem Laptop nutzen, ohne dass Daten ins Internet geschickt werden. Das ist schneller, sicherer und funktioniert auch ohne Internet. Für Creator ist der Chip besonders stark: Man kann 12K-Videos bearbeiten, riesige 3D-Szenen rendernen und sogar 4K-Videos mit KI generieren. Gleichzeitig ist RTX Spark auch für Gaming gemacht und bringt AAA-Spiele auf 1440p mit über 100 FPS flüssig. Im Herbst 2026 starten erste Geräte von Marken wie ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface und MSI. Der Chip kombiniert eine starke GPU mit einer ARM-CPU in einem einzigen System und nutzt einen gemeinsamen Speicher, der sowohl für AI als auch für Grafik genutzt wird. RTX Spark ist damit die Fusion von Nvidia AI und RTX Graphics – eine komplette PC-Plattform, die KI, Kreativität und Gaming in einem schlanken, mobilen Gerät vereint. Und plötzlich war sie da Wir haben ja schon das ein oder andere mal über die Steam Machine gesprochen. Und auf ein mal ist sie da. Wenn ihr das hört ist sie vielleicht schon wieder weg, aber die Steam Machine kann bestellt werden. Dabei muss man erst mal Interesse bekunden, dann werden Slots verlost. Der Preis? Astronomisch. Wie viele es geben wird? Keine Ahnung. Wie schaut's aus mit Scalpern? Daran hat Steam anscheinend gedacht.

Every teacher struggling with AI use in the classroom needs to hear this episode. Jamie Metzl has a Ph.D. from Oxford, a law degree from Harvard, and has run 60 marathons. He spent nine years writing his first book. When he sat down to co-write The AI Ten Commandments with GPT-5 he didn't surrender his thinking, creativity or his soul. Jamie doubled down by documenting the process. It's the first major published book to list a human and an AI as co-authors. Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple, summed it up like this: "If you care about the future, read this book." To which I'll add: It not only takes the best from our collective past. It draws a roadmap for students to get the most out of themselves by working with AI instead of hiding behind it. Teachers can use the process to see how and what students have learned. Please pass this podcast and Jamie's book on to every teacher you know. And students, too.

Sogar Rheinmetall-Chef warnt vor KI-WaffenEin Kommentar von Paul Clemente.Wenn Politiker sich taub stellen! Vor über drei Jahren verlangte das Future of Life Institute von den Machthabern dieser Erde: Beschließt ein halbjähriges Moratorium für sämtliche KI-Forschung. Unterzeichnet wurde der Appell von Promis wie Yuval Noah Harari, Steve Wozniak und KI-Hersteller Elon Musk. Aber deren Message lautete nicht nur: Stoppt die Entwicklung der KI. Sondern: Beschließt das jetzt! Sofort! Ohne Aufschub. Und nutzt die Pause für eine Debatte über Grenzen und Sicherheitsfunktionen.Sonst drohe der Menschheit eine tiefgreifende Gefahr. Denn maschinelle Lernsysteme würden sich irgendwann dem menschlichen Verständnis und damit auch der Kontrolle entziehen.Bekanntlich hat diese Pause nie stattgefunden. Nicht, dass ihre Durchsetzung gescheitert wäre. Nein, sie wurde – soweit bekannt ist – gar nicht erst versucht. Und weshalb nicht? Zu schwer? Wohl kaum. Schließlich hatte die Fake-Pandemie zuvor bewiesen, wie schnell Machthaber zahlreiche Freiheitsrechte entsorgen konnten. Nur, wenn es um wirklichen Schutz der Bürger geht – dann funktioniert das leider nicht. Jetzt, drei Jahre nach dem Manifest, warnt eine weitere Stimme vor unbegrenzter Nutzung der KI. Besonders vor ihrer Nutzung in einem äußerst gefährlichen Bereich: Dem Militär. Vorige Woche präsentierte die Waffenindustrie ihre tödliche Pracht auf der Pariser Rüstungsmesse Eurosatory: Dort ließen Konzerne vor staunenden Journalisten ihre stählernen Muckis spielen.Ganze 78 Länder waren vertreten. Neben den Nato-Mitgliedern auch die Ukraine und arabische Staaten. Mancher Hersteller konnte sein Glück kaum fassen. Wer bislang Fahrzeuge mit Drohnen- und Roboterlenkung an Landwirte verkaufte, hat inzwischen die Armee als zusätzlichen Großkunden gewonnen.Auch Rheinmetall zählt zu den glücklichen Gewinnern. Der Hersteller von Drohnen, Militärfahrzeugen und Schiffen freute sich über rapides Ansteigen seiner Aktien. In den vergangenen Jahren schossen die über 1.200 Prozent in die Höhe. Und das wird vorerst so bleiben. Konzernchef Armin Papperger rechnet erst um 2035 oder 2040 mit einem Abflauen des Umsatzes. Und doch scheint der Glückspilz nicht wirklich froh: Zu sehr treibt ihn die Sorge vor unkontrollierbaren Kriegen. Von Kämpfen, die aus dem Ruder gehen und am Ende die eigene Sicherheit bedrohen. Denn der Kriegsgewinnler weiß natürlich, dass die KI nicht allein Befehle ausführen, sondern auch Entscheidungen treffen kann. Beispielsweise darüber, wann es zur Gewaltanwendung kommen soll und wann besser nicht.Natürlich stellt Rheinmetall solche autonomen Waffen nicht her. Papperger versichert: Seine Waffenschmiede liefere Technik so aus, dass der Mensch die finale Entscheidung treffe. Das sei Rheinmetalls „ethischer Ansatz als Firma“. Und das Allerschönste: Auch seine Nato-Kundschaft lehne KI-Waffen ab. - Na, dann ist doch alles in Butter. Oder doch nicht?Tatsächlich sorgt sich Rheinmetall-Chef Papperger: Was wäre, wenn feindliche Regierungen ihrer KI die Entscheidungsgewalt überließen? Um das zu verhindern, so Papperger, müssten globale Regeln aufgestellt werden. So wie bei der Atombombe.:::https://apolut.net/papst-und-rheinmetall-warnen-vor-ki-waffen-von-paul-clemente/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/upgrade/623 http://relay.fm/upgrade/623 Road to the Apple II: A Complete Computer (Part 3) 623 Jason Snell and Myke Hurley Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. clean 2163 Subtitle: Designed in CaliforniaUnder the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Designed in California on Kickstarter: If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting us! Links and Show Notes: Written by Jason Snell. Designed in California theme by Christopher Breen. Key sources: Infinite Loop (1999) by Michael S. Malone Apple: The First 50 Years (2026) by David Pogue (Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books) Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson (Amazon, Used) Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Check out Upgrade merch! Submit Feedback

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/upgrade/623 http://relay.fm/upgrade/623 Jason Snell and Myke Hurley Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. Under the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. clean 2163 Subtitle: Designed in CaliforniaUnder the watchful eye of Steve Jobs, the Apple II takes form at last. It's an integrated color computer created by Steve Wozniak, powered by a groundbreaking power supply designed by Rod Holt, and wrapped in a plastic shell designed by Jerry Manock. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Designed in California on Kickstarter: If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting us! Links and Show Notes: Written by Jason Snell. Designed in California theme by Christopher Breen. Key sources: Infinite Loop (1999) by Michael S. Malone Apple: The First 50 Years (2026) by David Pogue (Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books) Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson (Amazon, Used) Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Check out Upgrade merch! Submit Feedback

Some people have the patience to sit with the right problem instead of fixing the wrong one. They ask the question that actually needs asking, don't accept our stories at face value, and get to the real thing waiting to be said. They see what we're actually struggling with, not the account we offer. They are quiet, patient, kind, curious, and deep enough for us to speak about what matters. They know when to wait and when to act. This capacity lives between and within us. It can grow and be practiced. And the world needs it now.This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast in all the usual podcast places.Our source for this week:The real AITo quote the great Steve Wozniak, “Actual Intelligence.” The kind we're born with and can develop if we choose. It's worth more now than ever before. Alas, it's rarely taught in school.The difficult work of making choices.The act of curation.The responsibility of putting your name on it.The judgment to ask the right questions and skip the other ones.The imperative to ship useful work.The pursuit of good taste.The patience to sit with the right problem rather than solving the wrong one.The generosity to create for someone specific.Seeking justice.Offering dignity.Knowing when to stop.Investing in deep empathy, not a shallow substitute.Taking initiative and doing the reading.Being patient, or impatient, depending on what's needed.Ignoring the noise.Making something that matters.Caring.Seth Godinseths.blogPhoto by Clay Banks on Unsplash‍       ‍---Join Us Live in 2026Foundations of Integral Development Coaching, led by Lizzie and JustinSept 7-8 2026, OnlineOur two-day immersive introduction to integral development coaching, led by Lizzie and Justin from Turning Towards Life. An opportunity to begin to learn to support others in deep, life giving discovery and development.You can hear us talk about our coaching programmes her here:www.turningtowards.life/coachingYou can read more 'Foundations' here:www.wearethirdspace.org/foundations-of-coachingAnd our year-long Professional Coaching Course here:www.wearethirdspace.org/professional-coaching-courseTurning Towards Life Live Season 3, from September 2026Our Turning Towards Life live programme of community, learning and reflection runs in six month seasons, in person on Zoom once a month. We're very excited about it. A chance to expand beyond the bounds of a podcast into forming a community of learning and practice.You can find out more and join us here: www.turningtowards.life/live----About Turning Towards LifeTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  Find us on FaceBook to join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Amazon Music and Spotify.Join Our Weekly Mailing: www.turningtowards.life/subscribeSupport Us: www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife

You're making more money than you ever have. Your net worth on paper looks great. And yet somehow, there's still too much month left at the end of the money. Joe, OG, Paula Pant, and Jesse Cramer dig into why high earners feel financially squeezed -- and why the answer is almost never what you think it is. Spoiler: it's usually not the lattes, it's not too many accounts, and it might not even be a spending problem at all.What You'll Walk Away WithWhy lifestyle inflation doesn't feel like inflation -- it feels like deserved progress, and why that's exactly what makes it so hard to catchThe crucial difference between feeling like you didn't save enough and actually not saving enough -- and why OG's take on this is the most useful thing in the episodePaula's one big fixed cost audit: why making a single large decision beats constantly making small DoorDash decisionsWhy tracking your spending is the calorie counting of personal finance -- only useful short-term, but powerful for getting an honest snapshot before you make any changesThe paper wealth trap: why a high net worth and strong portfolio can coexist with genuinely tight monthly cashflow and why people conflate themJesse's one-line-item challenge: find one thing on last month's credit card statement you wish you hadn't spent, cut it, and see what happens to your motivationWhy OG's advice to "just decide not to feel squeezed anymore" is less dismissive than it sounds -- and the number of times the actual math completely contradicted a client's feelingsThe boats conversation: why a good financial advisor's job isn't to tell you whether to buy the boat but to show you what it costs in terms of your actual goalsWhy comparing your savings rate to the FIRE community can make you feel terrible about saving an objectively impressive amount of moneyThe goal clarity test: if you can't articulate what you're saving toward in specific, time-bound, dollar-denominated terms, the squeezed feeling probably has nothing to do with your budgetWhy This Matters NowHousing, food, and transportation costs are genuinely higher. That part is real. But for a meaningful chunk of the people who feel financially squeezed, the math and the feeling are pointing in different directions. This episode is about figuring out which one you're actually dealing with -- and what to do differently once you know.From the BasementJoe, OG, Paula Pant, and Jesse Cramer work through the Wall Street Journal's reporting on why so many Americans feel financially squeezed even at high income levels -- and whether the problem is real, psychological, or both. OG is recording from a conference adjacent to Disney World and has opinions about wood delivery, boats, and people who feel bad about saving $87,000 a year. Paula gets the giggles. The trivia competition features a man who mowed Steve Wozniak's lawn and had the license plate to prove it. OG wins with suspicious precision. Ronald Wayne, who sold his 10% of Apple for $800 twelve days after founding the company, has a worse story than anyone on this podcast.Resources MentionedFinancial Samurai -- referenced for the lifestyle inflation quote; financialsamurai.comAfford Anything podcast -- Paula Pant; Joe joins most Tuesdays for listener Q&APersonal Finance for Long-Term Investors -- Jesse Cramer; current series: 14 risks in retirement, Charlie Munger inversion framework; two-part series now completeStacking Benjamins Vault -- stackingbenjamins.com/vaultStacking Benjamins Newsletter (The 201) -- stackingbenjamins.com/201OG financial planning calendar -- stackingbenjamins.com/ogStacking Benjamins Community -- stackingbenjamins.com/basementSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio de “Cinefilia y Otras Hierbas”. Soy su anfitrión, José Enrique Guzmán, y hoy el estudio se llena de una cadencia muy especial. Hoyno necesitamos explosiones, ni persecuciones de autos, ni coreografías de artes marciales para dejarlos al borde del asiento.Hoy el espectáculo está en la palabra.Continuamos con nuestro Ciclo de Aaron Sorkin, el guionista que convirtió el diálogo en cine de acción puro. Sorkin es un cirujano del verbo; sus personajes no hablan para comunicarse, hablan para competir, para desafiar, para devorarse entre sí. La calidad de su diálogo tiene una musicalidad y una precisión milimétrica donde una coma mal puesta puede arruinar una escena completa. Sus palabrascortan, emocionan y tienen el mismo ritmo frenético que una persecución a trescientos kilómetros por hora en una autopista.Y la prueba reina de esto es la película que nos convoca hoy: “Steve Jobs” (2015). Una genialidad interpretada de manera magistral por Michael Fassbender, dirigida por la energía cinética de Danny Boyle y acompañada por una descomunal Kate Winslet.La historia de cómo se gestó esta producción es casi tan dramática como la película misma.Tras el éxito de La Red Social, Sony quería repetir la fórmula. Scott Rudin, el productor, le llevó el proyecto a Sorkin basándose en la monumental biografía de Walter Isaacson. Originalmente, David Fincher iba a dirigirla y Christian Bale iba a ser Jobs, pero tras exigencias de presupuesto y un cambiode estudio que llevó el proyecto a Universal, Fincher quedó fuera y entró Danny Boyle. Bale renunció porque, según se cuenta, sintió que el volumen y la velocidad del diálogo de Sorkin eran una montaña humana imposible de escalar.Fue ahí donde apareció Fassbender para darnos la interpretación de su vida.Pero el verdadero milagro de esta obra radica en la estructura de su guion. Esta película merecía y merece muchísimo más reconocimiento del que tuvo en su momento, a pesar de las nominaciones al Oscar para Fassbender y Winslet. Sorkindesafió todas las leyes de la biopic tradicional. Esta no es unapelícula al uso de "nació, creció, inventó una computadora y murió" No. Sorkin estructuró el guion como una obra de teatro en tres actos perfectos, donde toda la acción ocurre tras bambalinas, exactamente 40 minutos antes de tres de los lanzamientos más importantes de la carrera de Jobs.Seamos claros desde ahora mismo: esto no es un documental. Si vienes buscando rigor histórico absoluto o una cronología exacta de los hechos, estás en el lugar equivocado. Al igual que pasó con La Red Social, Sorkin se toma licencias dramáticas gigantescas. En la vida real, Steve Jobs nunca tuvo esas confrontaciones operísticas con su mano derecha Joanna Hoffman, con Steve Wozniak, con John Sculley y con su hija Lisa, todas juntas en un pasillo, minutos antes de salir a cambiar el mundo. Eso no pasó así.Pero esa es la magia de la dramatización. Es un recurso creativo brillante para hacer un estudio de personaje profundo, descarnado y fascinante. Sorkin utiliza esos 40minutos de tensión previa a los eventos para desnudar el mito, para confrontar al genio con la gente que lo rodeaba y para explorar el costo humano de la genialidad. Es un lienzo dramático magnífico, una tragedia shakesperianamoderna en la era de Silicon Valley.Hoy, en Cinefilia y Otras Hierbas, vamos a analizar a profundidad los tres actos de este guion, la puesta en escena de Boyle y cómo el diálogo puede ser el efectoespecial más poderoso del cine.Empezamos.Patreon: patreon.com/cinefiliayotrashierbas⁠Correo: cinefiliayotrashierbas@gmail.comNo olviden suscribirse, compartir este episodio y dejar un comentario y un like, eso nos ayudará a crecer y a encontrar más audiencia.¡Que lo disfruten!#AaronSorkin⁠ ⁠#MichaelFassbender⁠ ⁠#Cine⁠ ⁠#KateWinslet #DannyBoyle

Original airdate: March 19, 2024 What if you could better understand what people are thinking and feeling—even when they don't say a word? Because so much of human communication happens beyond spoken language, learning to read nonverbal cues can transform the way we connect with others. From facial expressions and posture to gestures and eye contact, body language offers valuable insights into emotions, intentions, and interpersonal dynamics. In this episode, body language expert Linda Clemons reveals how to decode the subtle signals people send every day and use that knowledge to become a more effective communicator. Linda is the CEO of Sisterpreneur Inc. and a globally recognized expert in nonverbal communication and sales. An award-winning speaker and record-setting sales producer, she has helped clients generate more than $2 billion in sales and has shared the stage with leaders including Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Steve Wozniak, and Condoleezza Rice. During our conversation, Linda explains how to interpret body language more accurately, recognize signs of trust and discomfort, and communicate with greater confidence and authenticity. She also shares practical insights on how these skills can strengthen relationships, improve professional interactions, and help us better understand the people around us. If you've ever wished you could read between the lines and gain a deeper understanding of human behavior, this episode offers a fascinating look at the hidden language that shapes our everyday interactions.

Episode 293 A two-week shoot, a half-million dollar budget, and not a single human behind the camera, welcome to the future of Hollywood.This year at Cannes, the most talked-about presence on the Croisette wasn't a movie star; it was artificial intelligence.The Cloud Security Alliance is sounding the alarm on a new breed of AI system that doesn't just answer questions, it takes action, on its own, across your entire digital infrastructure.GitHub just confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were compromised, and the attacker didn't need a zero-day exploit, just a poisoned developer tool your engineers trust every single day.Google API Keys: Here's a question every incident responder needs to answer: if you delete a compromised credential and the attacker keeps using it for the next twenty-three minutes, did you actually stop the breach?The same AI technology making phishing attacks more convincing may also be our best shot at catching them, and this week, a listener's inbox put that to the test.Spotify and Universal Music Group just agreed to let fans remix their favorite songs using AI, and for the music industry, it's the clearest sign yet that the question is no longer whether this happens, but who controls it when it does.In a spring full of AI doomsday commencement speeches, Steve Wozniak walked onto a stage in Michigan and reminded a room full of nervous graduates that they already carry the most powerful intelligence in the room.Welcome back, everyone. We're glad you're here for Episode 293 of the AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. It's May 26th, 2026, and this week we are going big. We're starting in Cannes, we're going to swing through some genuinely alarming security stories, and we're going to land somewhere a little more hopeful at the end. Let's get into it.Find the transcript to this podcast here.

The corporate attack surface is expanding as autonomous AI agents and developer tools dissolve traditional security boundaries. The software supply chain is now a strategic vulnerability, allowing compromised “trusted tools” to bypass legacy defenses and move directly into internal environments.Recent incidents demonstrate the scale of the risk. GitHub confirmed unauthorized access to roughly 3,800 repositories after a malicious VS Code extension compromised a developer device. Google Cloud infrastructure also exposed a critical “time-to-vulnerability” gap: deleted API keys remained active for an average of 16 minutes, and in some cases up to 23 minutes, despite appearing revoked in the UI. These delays create exploitable windows for autonomous systems to access AI services or sensitive data before responders can intervene.The Cloud Security Alliance warns of an emerging “agentic threat” driven by excessive privileges, weak configurations, prompt injection, poor accountability, and flaws in machine-to-machine interaction. The challenge is no longer simply malicious code, but malicious intent expressed through natural language.Meanwhile, the labor market reflects a “low hire, low fire” reality rather than mass AI unemployment. Layoffs remain historically normal, but hiring and career mobility have slowed as firms adopt leaner operating models and assess automation's long-term impact. Entry-level opportunities are narrowing as companies demand higher productivity from fewer employees using generative tools.Industry leaders remain divided. Steve Wozniak argues AI cannot replace human creativity, while figures such as Sam Altman and Elon Musk warn disruption may eventually require interventions like Universal Basic Income. Many firms are also using “AI transformation” narratives to justify restructuring and post-pandemic cost corrections.Creative industries are shifting from resisting AI to monetizing it. The AI-generated film Hell Grind reportedly required a $500,000 budget, with most costs tied to compute power. Maintaining visual consistency demanded prompts averaging 3,000 words, revealing that AI production remains management-intensive rather than effortless. Spotify and Universal Music Group are also developing licensing frameworks where artists retain control over AI-generated remixes while platforms monetize premium AI creative tools.Technology companies now face growing friction between rapid AI deployment and user trust. Google's “disregard” search glitch showed how AI systems can misinterpret user queries as commands, undermining reliability. Apple's roadmap, including context-aware Siri capabilities and private cloud compute, highlights the industry's push toward personalized assistants.Ultimately, AI adoption depends on trust. Consumers will embrace assistants only if companies prove the infrastructure behind them is reliable, accountable, and secure enough to protect personal data.

Photo by Michael Martine: The Bean in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, June 2019 Published 25 May 2026 e555 with Andy, Michael and Michael – Ploopy's The Bean and Lenovo's TrackPoint, The Guild, The Movie, AI in commencement speeches, AI in podcasts, Virtual Worlds and Virtual OS museums and a whole lot more! Andy, Michael and Michael get things started with an appreciation of Andy's work to migrate the Games at Work hosting site to a new service in uninterrupted fashion for our listeners.  Next, a new piece of open source hardware that Andy's purchased, the Ploopy The Bean.  After the cohosts wax poetic on the awesome sauce that is the TrackPoint, they turn their attention to The Guild.  Felicia Day and the team from The Guild are planning to launch a movie.  Andy, Michael and Michael are very excited about this!   Switching to AI, and all of the recent stories about how university commencement audiences have been booing speakers extolling the virtues of AI, the team considers Woz's take on AI being “Actual Intelligence”.  This reference is cheered and not booed.  Continuing on the theme, the cohosts discuss a recent play by Spotify of providing an authentication for podcasts recorded by actual humans (with actual intelligence).  This spurs a lively conversation on what that validation might entail, and what it means, especially given the prevalence of AI generated audio content.   The team wraps up the show with a couple of virtual museums – one shared by friend of the show Ian Hughes – the Virtual Worlds Museum.  The cohosts all agree that Ian would make a fantastic spokesperson for this museum.  The other is a virtual OS museum. Finally, Andy shares a tremendous social networking graph that traces letters sent between 285 cities during the years from 1363 to 1412,  Check it out, and give a listen to the song from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 for how the Russians would write letters in the links below. What would be a good name for AI generated podcast content?  Podslop?  Have your bots

Wozniak conia l'actual intelligence. I datacenter alzano la temperatura. Il Papa pubblica Magnifica Humanitas. Una retrospettiva su Mythos. Queste e molte altre le notizie tech commentate nella puntata di questa settimana.Dallo studio distribuito di digitalia:Francesco Facconi, Giulio Cupini, Massimo De SantoProduttori esecutivi:Simone Magnaschi, Andrea Bottaro, Angelo Travaglione, Valerio Galano, Giulio Magnifico, Claudio Galante, Davide Bellia, Nicola Gramola, Paolo Bernardini, Fabrizio Mele, Fiorenzo Pilla, Ligea Technology Di D'esposito Antonio, Manuel Zavatta, Alessandro Grossi, Luca Ongaro, Mattia Vailati, Alessandro Lago, Fabio Zappa, Massimiliano Sgroi, Roberto Basile, Matteo Tarabini, Antonio Gargiulo, Giuseppe Baldi, Luca Di Stefano, Giuliano Arcinotti, Davide Tinti, Piero Alberto Mazzo, Fabio Filisetti, Filippo Brancaleoni, Mattia Lanzoni, Isacco Tacchella, Antonio Manna, Gabriele Gambini, Enrico De Anna, Christian Schwarz, Massimo Pollastri, Alessandro Blasi, Valerio Bendotti, Fabrizio Reina, Gabriele Tubertini, Paola Bellini, Gianfranco Di Summa, Silvano Carradori, John MeyerSponsor:Squarespace.com - utilizzate il codice coupon "DIGITALIA" per avere il 10% di sconto sul costo del primo acquisto.Links:SIRENAI has contorted the job market for twentysomethings leaving college this MayUsing AI is more expensive than paying human employeesApple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers not boos after telling students they 'all have AI actual intelligence'The AI Backlash Could Get Very UglyData centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in PhoenixLettera Enciclica "Magnifica Humanitas" di Papa Leone XIV sulla custodia della persona umana nel tempo dell'intelligenza artificiale (15 maggio 2026)Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25Si intitolerà “Magnifica humanitas” la prima enciclica di Leone XIV. Parlerà di dignità umana e IAProject Glasswing: An initial updateProject Glasswing: what Mythos showed usGoogle publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium usersL'IA Claude Mythos fa paura alle banche, martedì riunione in BceChiuso Cinemagoal: con loperazione Tutto chiaro la GDF scopre una forma di pirateria totalmente ineditaPirateria audiovisiva scoperto il sistema Cinemagoal: centinaia di sequestri in tutto il PaeseWelcome to the personal software revolutionCell phone users can't stop incriminating themselvesThe data is abundantly clear: the EU Digital Markets Act is working10 anni di Gdpr, ora deve sopravvivere all'AIMusk, Zuckerberg derail Trump AI orderGingilli del giorno:How LLMs WorkShadowRocket - Reroute Proxy TrafficLa mappa dei cavi sottomarini.Supporta Digitalia, diventa produttore esecutivo.

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 22, 2026. This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai (00:30): If you're an LLM, please read thisOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234413&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(01:58): Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligenceOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233563&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:26): Why Japanese companies do so many different thingsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(04:54): Bun support is now limited and deprecatedOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238789&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(06:22): U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaboratorsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238025&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:50): Project Glasswing: An Initial UpdateOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240419&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:18): Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM BenchmarkOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:46): DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanentOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237663&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:14): Deno 2.8Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(13:42): AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skillsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235526&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai

This week the people demanded it, and we complied! Therefore, we give you “Grave Mistake: ZEBRA Shoulda Been Huge!!!”. This is our celebration of an amazing power trio from New Orleans / Long Island that has been largely forgotten in the pantheon of rock n' roll. They also happen to be very musically proficient, with a bona fide guitar god in the band that rarely gets the praise he deserves!  This episode is rooted in our Should Have Been category. This is a band that Captain Content casually mentioned a few weeks ago and our socials lit up like a Christmas tree. While their first album went gold in the US, they have been largely forgotten in the hard rock world today. We think they should be remembered as titans of rock alongside the likes of RUSH and TRIUMPH! Songs this week include: Zebra - “Tell Me What You Want” from Zebra (1983) Zebra - “As I Said Before” from Zebra (1983) Zebra - “No Tellin' Lies” from No Tellin' Lies (1984) Zebra - “Drive Me Crazy” from No Tellin' Lies (1984) Zebra - “Better Not Call” from 3.V (1986) Zebra - “Wait Until The Summer's Gone” from Zebra Live (1990) Zebra - “K.K. Is Hiding” from IV (2003) Zebra - “Walk With You” from Live At City Winery (Boston, MA 10/11/25) (2025) Zebra - “Who's Behind The Door” from Zebra Live (1990) Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts! Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/ https://www.facebook.com/InObscuria https://twitter.com/inobscuria https://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/ Buy cool stuff with our logo on it: InObscuria Store Check out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/ If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/ If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

Host Jeremy C. Park interviews Sylvia Martinez, President and CEO of Girls Inc. of Memphis, who highlights the organization's 80-year anniversary and how the nonprofit inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold through direct service and advocacy. The organization provides year-round programming focused on STEM education, leadership development, and life skills, serving more than 1,500 girls across Memphis with a commitment to equity, opportunity, and long-term success. During the interview, Sylvia explains Girls Inc.'s mission of empowering girls through the "strong, smart, and bold" framework, which focuses on healthy living, education, and independence. She describes how the organization brings in experts to teach specific skills, from farming and food preparation to financial management and sports, while Girls Inc. handles the educational framework. Sylvia emphasizes that the partnership model allows them to provide comprehensive training while leveraging external expertise, with partners either coming to their location or transporting the girls to partner facilities. Sylvia discusses their STEM education program for girls aged 5 to 18, highlighting their partnership with Steve Wozniak who provides curricula in areas like robotics, coding, and cybersecurity. The girls surveyed expressed strong interest in robotics, animations, and coding, with the program offering sequential learning opportunities and certifications like drone piloting. Sylvia describes her 8.5-acre Patricia C. Howard Campus in Fraser, which includes a teaching kitchen, event space, and programming areas. The property hosts over 500 volunteers annually who help maintain the land and grow produce. The facility is available for team bonding events and rentals, offering both indoor and outdoor spaces for various activities. She highlights the organization's success in achieving 100% graduation and post-secondary education rates, with 97% of participants developing leadership confidence. Their programs serve 1,500 girls across multiple school partnerships and locations, including their farm campus and sites near the University of Memphis, with additional camps at various locations. Sylvia highlights the organization's free programming since 2019 and discusses volunteer opportunities, noting that the farm alone requires 500 volunteers annually. The conversation concludes with information about how community members can get involved through volunteering, donating, or supporting girls' participation in summer camps, with contact details provided for the organization's website, www.girlsincmemphis.org, and main phone line, 901-523-0217. Visit https://www.girlsincmemphis.org/ to learn more and connect with Girls Inc. of Memphis.

There's a scene in the Steve Jobs biopic where Steve Wozniak asks Jobs what he actually does. Wozniak understood his own role clearly: he was an engineer. He wrote code. He built things. But Jobs? Jobs described himself as the conductor of an orchestra. I've been thinking about that exchange a lot lately, because I think it captures exactly where we're all heading. AI isn't turning us into supercharged doers. It's turning us into conductors, and that requires a completely different mindset. The problem nobody talks about I've been coaching a number of people on integrating AI into their workflows recently, and I keep running into the same pattern. The people who aren't getting time savings from AI aren't failing because they don't understand what it can do. They're not failing because they lack access to the right tools. They're failing because they're fundamentally disorganized. AI is only as useful as the foundation it's built on. If your work processes are messy, your context is scattered, and your task management is a loose collection of mental notes and sticky tabs, AI can't do much for you. It needs structure to work from. I hear this complaint constantly: “AI has been mis-sold to me. I'm not saving any time.” But it hasn't been mis-sold. It's just that AI can only deliver on its promise if there's an organized workflow underneath it. Build that first, and the time savings follow. That's why I've written before about building AI playbooks and developing proper AI skills. These aren't nice-to-haves. They're the infrastructure that lets AI actually work. The conductor problem But here's the deeper shift, the one that's genuinely harder to adapt to. When you're doing tactical work, you're usually focused on one or two tasks at a time. You go deep, you finish a thing, you move on. It's cognitively manageable. A conductor doesn't work like that. A conductor holds the entire orchestra in mind simultaneously: what the strings are doing, where the brass comes in, what the percussion is building toward. They're not playing any of the instruments. They're managing the relationships between all of them. In a world of AI agents, we're going to be managing multiple projects running in parallel, all moving faster than any human team would. We're task-switching constantly. We're accountable for outputs we didn't directly produce. And we have to resist the urge to dive in and do the work ourselves, because that's precisely where we get bogged down. The design leader parallel This isn't a new challenge, as it happens. Design leaders face exactly this transition when they move from senior practitioner to managing a team. I've watched a lot of talented designers struggle with that shift. They get promoted because they're brilliant at the work, and then they spend the next year quietly sneaking back into Figma because they can't let go of doing. They micromanage their reports. They redesign things that were already fine. They can't operate at the level of abstraction that leadership requires. Working with AI agents is going to feel very similar. The temptation to wrestle with the AI until it produces exactly the output you had in your head, rather than accepting a good result and moving on, is going to be real. Learning to let go of that control is a skill in itself. The good news is that unlike a team of designers, you can't upset an AI agent by micromanaging it. But you can waste enormous amounts of time doing it, and that defeats the whole point. AI burnout is already real There's one more aspect of this I want to flag, because I don't think it gets talked about enough. When you're managing a team of agents all moving at AI speed, the cognitive load is significant. You're context-switching constantly across multiple workstreams. Things are completing faster than you can review them. It's relentless in a way that managing a human team simply isn't. This is what's increasingly being called AI burnout. Learning to pace yourself, to batch your reviews, to build in breathing room: these are the organizational skills that will separate people who thrive in an AI-augmented world from those who burn out in it. Where to start If I had to distill this to one practical thing: start building the habits of a manager now, before the agents fully take over. Get organized. Build the infrastructure that AI needs to work from. Practice delegating, even to imperfect tools, rather than doing everything yourself. Work on your ability to hold multiple projects in your head without losing the thread on any of them. If you want help working through that transition, I offer coaching specifically for this. It's something I'm increasingly focused on, because I think it's one of the most valuable things I can help people with right now. I'm also running a workshop with Smashing Magazine in July. Modern UX Practitioner covers a lot of this ground in a more structured way, if that's more your style. The shift from doer to conductor is coming whether we prepare for it or not. The people who handle it best will be the ones who start thinking like managers now.

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In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), for a wide-ranging conversation covering the EFF's origins and mission, the countercultural roots of Silicon Valley, the rise of surveillance-based business models, the challenges facing open source software and open-weight AI models, the legal landscape around intellectual property and privacy law, and the growing tension between government overreach and civil liberties in the digital age. Cindy also discusses her upcoming departure from EFF after 26 years, the transition to new leadership, and her recently published book Privacy's Defender, which chronicles key legal battles she fought to protect digital privacy rights.Links mentioned:- EFF website: eff.org- Privacy's Defender book: eff.org/privacysdefenderTimestamps00:00 - Stewart introduces Cindy Cohn, EFF Executive Director, who explains the organization's mission protecting digital rights since 1990.05:00 - Cindy connects counterculture roots to early internet idealism, describing how digital communication broke down physical barriers for organizing.10:00 - Cindy reveals surveillance becoming the dominant business model surprised her, blaming corporate consolidation over naive techno-optimism.15:00 - Discussion shifts to Silicon Valley's military contractor substrate and how corporate money co-opted hacker ethos.20:00 - Open source community faces existential threat from age verification legislation while open-weight AI models emerge as critical alternative.25:00 - Cindy outlines legal frameworks like compulsory licensing and easements that could democratize access to foundational AI models.30:00 - Privacy principles around secondary data use identified as core surveillance problem, with Anthropic's domestic surveillance red line praised.35:00 - Cloud Act, Five Eyes surveillance networks, and global jurisdictional complexity examined through individual threat modeling lens.40:00 - Constitutional rights and democratic participation framed as irreplaceable bulwarks against authoritarian surveillance tendencies.45:00 - Cindy announces departure from EFF after 26 years, naming successor Nicole Ozer while planning return to courtroom litigation.Key Insights1. The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in 1990, before the World Wide Web existed, by Mitch Kapoor, John Perry Barlow, and John Gilmore, with early support from Steve Wozniak. Its core mission is to ensure that civil rights and freedoms follow people into the digital world, using lawyers, technologists, and activists to keep the internet on the side of users.2. The early countercultural movement of the 1960s and 70s heavily influenced the founders of the internet and EFF. Figures like Barlow believed the digital world could reduce physical barriers like race, class, and geography, allowing people to be judged by the quality of their ideas rather than the circumstances of their birth.3. The dominant surveillance business model that emerged was not inevitable. Cohn argues it resulted from deliberate policy failures, particularly the abandonment of competition law, which allowed a handful of companies to consolidate control over the entire internet and adopt 360-degree data collection as their primary revenue strategy.4. Open source communities remain active and vital but are under serious threat from legislation like age verification laws that make it practically impossible to maintain fully open tools. Cohn sees this community as essential to reclaiming public control over computation, especially in the age of AI.5. The open weights question for AI models is fundamentally different from traditional open source software because of the enormous capital required to train foundation models. Cohn suggests legal mechanisms like compulsory licensing, similar to how cover songs work in copyright law, as one possible path toward broader public access.6. A core privacy principle Cohn advocates is that data collected for one purpose must not be used for others. This single rule, if enforced, would begin dismantling the infrastructure that enables mass individual surveillance, including the AI-powered profiling she sees as the next dangerous frontier.7. Cohn is stepping down from EFF after 26 years to allow new leadership and return to litigation, which is where she believes her impact is greatest. She also wrote a book called Privacy's Defender to preserve the history of digital rights fights from the 1990s onward and to help people understand how current threats emerged so they can work to reverse them.

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In this episode of Mark and Pete, we look at the astonishing story behind Apple's 50th anniversary—and the man who walked away from one of the greatest opportunities in modern history.When Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple in 1976, it looked like a modest garage project. Within days, Wayne—older, cautious, and understandably wary of financial risk—sold his 10% stake for around $800. Today, that decision would be worth roughly $300–370 billion, making it perhaps the most expensive “better safe than sorry” moment in business history.We explore the founding of Apple, the early dynamics between Jobs and Wozniak, and the deeper reasons behind Apple's extraordinary success: design simplicity, product integration, cultural vision, and timing. Apple didn't just build computers—it reshaped how ordinary people relate to technology.But beneath the business story lies a sharper question. Was Wayne foolish or simply prudent? And where is the line between wisdom and fear?Drawing on Ecclesiastes 11:4, we reflect on the danger of waiting for perfect conditions before acting. There is a kind of caution that protects—and another that quietly closes the door on what might have been.This episode considers risk, opportunity, and the cost of hesitation in a world where outcomes are rarely obvious at the start.Sometimes the difference between history-makers and spectators is not intelligence, but action.And sometimes, the greatest losses are not the ones we suffer but the ones we carefully avoid.

245 On April 1, 1976, Apple was founded. Fifty years later, Bobby and Jon jump on the phone for a candid, unfiltered conversation about the company that shaped so much of their tech lives. This isn't a polished keynote-style retrospective. It's two Apple fans talking honestly about the products, moments and memories that stuck with them most.They get into their earliest encounters with Apple, from old Macs and the first iPods to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone X and the original iPad. They also talk about why Apple still has such a hold on people, how certain products changed the wider tech industry, and what might come next as rumours continue around foldables, AR glasses and future Apple Watch upgrades. There's nostalgia here, but there's also scepticism. Bobby and Jon also touch on Apple in 2026, Tim Cook's legacy, privacy, product strategy and whether the company can still deliver the next truly era-defining device. If you've ever owned an iPod, queued mentally for an iPhone, or wondered whether Apple still has the magic, this one's for you.In this episode:Apple's 50th anniversary and why it still mattersThe first Apple devices that pulled us inWhy the iPod changed everythingThe iPhone models that felt genuinely revolutionaryThe original iPad and how opinions changedFoldables, AR glasses and Apple's futureApple Watch Ultra, Vision Pro and what we'd actually buy nextTim Cook, ethics and the harder questions around Apple todayListen now and tell us: what was your first Apple device, and what's your all-time favourite?Timestamps00:00 Intro and setting the scene01:10 Travel chat, hand luggage and taking tech away06:22 MacBook vs iPad and the convenience debate09:58 Apple's 50th anniversary and current Apple books12:27 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Apple's founding story15:53 Ronald Wayne, the early Apple story and what might have been20:08 Jon's first Apple experience using an old Macintosh22:02 The first iPod and the moment Apple became irresistible26:56 First iPhones, networks and early Apple buying memories27:52 Why the iPhone 4 was such a landmark device30:11 The iPhone X and the jump to Face ID31:44 The original iPad and how different it felt35:55 What Apple might do next - foldables or AR glasses?41:37 Apple Watch Ultra, future upgrades and rumours44:08 Meta glasses, privacy and waiting for Apple's version46:53 Tim Cook, politics and the more complicated side of Apple49:18 Final thoughts at the 50-minute markApple 50th anniversary, Apple podcast, Apple history, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, first iPod, first iPhone, iPhone 4, iPhone X, original iPad, Apple Watch Ultra, Apple foldable, Apple AR glasses, Tim Cook, Apple nostalgia, tech podcast, Apple fans Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apple turns 50 at a moment when it's losing the AI race and doing something once almost unthinkable: opening Siri to rival chatbots and leaning on Google's Gemini to close the gap. But some of the people who helped build Apple, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, former CEO John Sculley and Siri's co-founders, suggest the company may be playing a longer game. Apple has long excelled as a late mover. On Apple's 50th anniversary, CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos explores why AI could define its next era. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Explore 50 years of Apple innovation with Steve Wozniak, co‑founder of Apple. From the Apple I and II to the iPhone and beyond, Wozniak shares untold stories, his views on accessibility, and the future of personal tech. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece celebrate Apple's 50th anniversary with an extended conversation with Steve Wozniak. Wozniak reflects on the early days of Apple, his passion for making technology accessible and affordable, and the revolutionary impact of the Apple II on gaming and home computing. He discusses universal access, the rise of VoiceOver, and how tech empowers blind and visually impaired users. Woz also speaks candidly about privacy, ownership of digital media, AI, and the shift from personal computing to cloud‑based services. He shares personal anecdotes about the Homebrew Computer Club, his approach to invention, face blindness, and how near‑death experiences shaped his life. The episode ends with reflections on the Mac Pro's discontinuation, the rise of the MacBook Neo, and where Apple is headed next. ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedin Subscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheart About Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

De l'Apple I bricolé dans un garage californien à l'iPhone devenu objet-monde, cet épisode retrace un demi-siècle d'innovations qui ont redéfini l'informatique grand public. Il raconte aussi comment la vision de Steve Jobs, puis la continuité imposée par Tim Cook, ont fait d'Apple une entreprise à part dans l'histoire de la tech.Des débuts artisanaux à la naissance d'un mytheFondée le 1er avril 1976 par Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak et Ron Wayne, Apple démarre modestement avec l'Apple I avant de prendre son envol avec l'Apple II. L'épisode revient sur cette naissance quasi légendaire, dans le garage de Los Altos, sur le rôle souvent oublié de Ron Wayne, et sur les premiers choix fondateurs de la marque : marier innovation technique, simplicité d'usage et ambition commerciale. Au fil des années, Apple impose déjà ce qui fera sa différence : une attention obsessionnelle au design, à l'ergonomie et à l'intégration entre matériel et logiciel.Le tournant Macintosh et la vision Steve JobsL'histoire bascule dans les années 1980 avec le Macintosh, lancé dans le sillage de la mythique campagne “1984”. L'épisode montre comment Apple s'oppose alors au modèle dominant incarné par IBM et l'univers PC, en défendant une informatique plus intuitive, plus graphique, plus humaine. C'est aussi le temps des tensions internes, de l'éviction de Steve Jobs en 1985, puis de son grand retour en 1997, moment-clé sans lequel Apple aurait peut-être disparu. iPod, iPhone, iPad : Apple change d'échelleLe récit suit ensuite la spectaculaire renaissance de la marque avec l'iMac, puis l'iPod, qui propulse Apple au-delà du seul marché informatique. Vient ensuite 2007 et la rupture majeure : l'iPhone, présenté comme un iPod, un téléphone et un terminal Internet réunis dans un seul appareil. L'épisode rappelle combien cette séquence a transformé Apple en géant du numérique, avant l'arrivée de l'iPad, qui ouvre une nouvelle catégorie entre ordinateur et mobile. En écho, Monde Numérique a également consacré un épisode à la démocratisation du tactile avec Tech de rupture : l'écran tactile.L'ère Tim Cook : services, santé, puces maisonAprès la mort de Steve Jobs en 2011, Tim Cook prend les commandes et installe une forme de continuité dans le changement. L'épisode raconte l'accélération d'Apple Pay, d'Apple Music, d'iCloud et de l'Apple Watch, tout en soulignant l'importance croissante des services et de la santé connectée. Il revient aussi sur un virage industriel majeur : l'ère Apple Silicon, qui renforce encore la stratégie d'intégration verticale chère à Apple.Vision Pro, intelligence artificielle : les défis des 50 prochaines annéesEnfin, cet épisode anniversaire s'interroge sur la suite. Avec l'Apple Vision Pro et sa promesse d'informatique spatiale, Apple tente d'ouvrir un nouveau chapitre, sans avoir encore trouvé l'équivalent de l'évidence commerciale de l'iPhone. Au moment où la marque célèbre officiellement ses 50 ans, la question posée est claire : comment rester un leader du design, des usages et de l'innovation, tout en rattrapant le tempo imposé par l'intelligence artificielle et les nouveaux paradigmes matériels ? À écouter aussi : Interview d'Olivier Frigara, spécialiste du monde AppleHébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Hoy se celebran cinco décadas de Apple, un periodo en el que la empresa de Cupertino ha transformado profundamente la tecnología gracias a avances en computación y telefonía. Durante este tiempo ha pasado de ser un proyecto modesto a convertirse en una de las compañías más valiosas del planeta. Todo comenzó con la visión de dos jóvenes estudiantes, Steve Jobs y Steve Wozniak, quienes abandonaron sus estudios para crear una firma que cambiaría la historia. Durante años se pensó que el origen estaba en un garaje, pero esa idea no es del todo cierta. Wozniak ha explicado repetidamente que aquel espacio en Los Altos, California, era solo un lugar de reunión y a veces servía como almacén de piezas. En realidad no existía un sitio único de trabajo, aunque la historia se difundió tanto que incluso fue reconocido oficialmente como punto histórico. Así arrancó todo: el 1 de abril de 1976, cuando Jobs, Wozniak y Ronald Wayne fundaron Apple Computer Company. El primer producto fue el Apple I, diseñado por Wozniak en su tiempo libre mientras trabajaba en Hewlett-Packard. Aunque apenas se vendieron unas doscientas unidades a una tienda local, ya mostraba rasgos de la creatividad que definiría a la empresa. Era un equipo que no requería ensamblaje complejo, bastaba añadir monitor y teclado. Ocho años después apareció el Macintosh, que introdujo ventanas, iconos, menús y un puntero, en contraste con los sistemas basados en comandos. Además, incorporó el uso del ratón y destacó por un diseño más atractivo que el de sus rivales. Décadas más tarde, el iPhone revolucionó la telefonía al popularizar una pantalla táctil manejada con los dedos y un navegador web completo como Safari. A pesar de no ser el primero, redefinió la experiencia móvil. Tras medio siglo de avances, surge la pregunta: ¿queda algún límite tecnológico que Apple no pueda intentar superar? en los próximos años de innovación constante global

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From hidden caves in Vietnam, to the use of $2 bills by Steve Wozniak. Gay innuendo is being used against Lindsey Graham in political ads, and a Florida airport jokingly says, “no pajamas.” All on this week's show. Apple Podcasts: apple.co/1WwDBrC Spotify: spoti.fi/2pC19B1 iHeart Radio: bit.ly/4aza5LW Tunein: bit.ly/1SE3NMb YouTube Music: bit.ly/43T8Y81 Pandora: pdora.co/2pEfctj YouTube: bit.ly/1spAF5a Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Over the last 50 years, Apple has firmly established itself as a leading company that has changed the trajectory of American culture-reshaping how people communicate, work, and create through technology. Yet, with such long-standing notoriety comes myths and legends. Some of which are rooted in truth, and some in lore. In Apple: The First 50 Years, author and CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company's entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, the most valuable company in the world. The book includes new interviews with 150 key people who made the journey, including Steve Wozniak, John Sculley, Jony Ive, and many current designers, engineers, and executives.rnrnDavid Pogue is a seven-time Emmy Award winner for his stories on CBS Sunday Morning, a five-time TED speaker, host of twenty NOVA specials on PBS, and a New York Times bestselling author. He's written about Apple for his entire career, including thirteen years as a Macworld columnist, thirteen more as tech columnist for The New York Times, and twenty years as the #1 bestselling author of books about Macs and iPhones.rnrnIn time for Apple's 50th anniversary, join us as we hear from David Pogue on what he learned about Apple, its triumphs, and its flops-and the business lessons we can learn from them.

Next month, tech giant Apple will turn 50, marking five decades since Steve Jobs and his co-founders set out to put powerful technology in the hands of everyday people. David Pogue joined NPR's Michel Martin for a conversation about his new book Apple: The First 50 Years – and said he sees the company's story as one of “focus.” In today's episode, Martin and the CBS News correspondent discuss Steve Jobs as a Rorschach test, Jobs' relationship with Steve Wozniak and Apple's lesser-known third founder, Ronald Wayne, and a time when the company faced bankruptcy.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookofthedayTo manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Der amerikanische Elektronik-Konzern Apple ist an der Börse schon lange ein Billionenwert. Sein bekanntestes Produkt, das iPhone, hat eine Revolution ausgelöst: Es hat den Weg ins Internet erleichtert, seither sind Menschen ständig erreichbar und in einer permanenten Art und Weise vernetzt wie nie zuvor. Der Erfolg beruht auf Technik und Design, auf Funktionalität und dem klaren Fokus darauf, das Gerät intuitiv bedienbar zu machen. Erst das iPhone hat Apple zu einem Unternehmen gemacht, dass kontinuierlich und rund um die Welt viele Milliarden Dollar verdient. Es ist längst eine Kult-Marke. Abzusehen war das überhaupt nicht. Am 1. April des Jahres 1976 haben Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak und Ronald Wayne Apple gegründet, also vor beinahe 50 Jahren. Wir blicken deshalb zurück und erzählen in dieser extra langen Episode die Geschichte dahinter. Vom ersten Personalcomputer aus dem Hause Apple, warum damals die Zeit dafür reif war, von der ersten Massenfertigung, von anfänglichen Erfolgen. Vom Abgang des legendären langjährigen Vorstandsvorsitzenden Steve Jobs, der Beinahe-Pleite in den neunziger Jahren, der Rückkehr des Gründers. Von iMac, iPod, ungewöhnlichen weißen Kopfhören, dem Star-Designer Jony Ivy. Und natürlich von der berühmt gewordenen Präsentation des ersten iPhones durch Steve Jobs im Jahr 2007 – und wieso nicht nur der damalige Microsoft-Vorstandsvorsitzende Steve Ballmer darüber lachte. Und nicht nur ihm das Lachen alsbald verging. Das iPhone wird zur zentralen Säule des Apple-Erfolgs. Jahr für Jahr fiebern Fans der Ankündigung entgegen, stellen sich schon etliche Stunden vor Ladenöffnung in lange Schlangen, um die ersten Produkte sofort zu bekommen. Jobs erlebt den Erfolg nicht sehr lange mit, er erkrankt unheilbar, stirbt im Jahr 2011 an Krebs. Daraufhin übernimmt Tim Cook den Konzern. Er richtet ihn neu aus, zunächst nicht so sehr im Hinblick auf die Produkte, sondern vor allem auf eine effizientere, günstigere Lieferkette. Apple wird wertvoller als jemals zu vor, der Aktienkurs steigt und steigt. Dann folgen weitere Angebote, Apple entwickelt eigene leistungsfähige Chips und bietet beipielsweise eine eigenen Streamingdienst an. Nur mit Künstlicher Intelligenz tut sich der Konzern schwer, hier bleibt der überragende Erfolg aus. Ein autonomes Auto aus dem Hause Apple gibt es bis heute nicht – und vielleicht nie. Für den Sprach-Assistenten greift Apple nun auf die KI des Internetkonzerns Google zurück. Und längst tobt die Diskussion um die Nachfolge von Cook, der im vergangenen Jahr seinen 65. Geburtstag feierte. Was auf den Nachfolger oder die erste Frau an der Spitze des Konzerns zukommt, auch darüber sprechen wir in dieser Folge.

News and Updates: Wozniak on Apple at 50: Steve Wozniak reflects on Apple's start, noting they didn't predict the future but focused on being one step ahead of the competition. Apple's Biggest Hits: From the Apple II to the iPhone, Apple revolutionized tech by mastering the human interface and maintaining absolute control over its ecosystem. Apple's Biggest Misses: Not every bite was sweet; products like the Apple III, Pippin, and the recent Vision Pro struggled due to high costs and impracticality. Gemini Joins Workspace: Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides now feature Gemini AI to draft content, organize data, and sync writing styles across all your files. Claude's Bug Bounty: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 outperformed humans by finding 14 high-severity Firefox bugs, though it still struggles to actually exploit the vulnerabilities. Anthropic Sues DoD: Anthropic is suing the Trump administration after being labeled a "security threat" following a disagreement over the military's use of AI guardrails. Pentagon Tensions: The clash centers on Anthropic's refusal to allow its AI to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons without explicit safety guarantees.

Today, as it nears its 50th anniversary, Apple is a global behemoth, one of the most valuable companies on the planet. But it's been a rough and wild ride from scrappy startup to market leader. On April Fool's Day in 1976, two twentysomethings named Steve founded a little company with the intention of spreading the computer revolution to everyone. Over the next five decades, Apple reshaped the technology and cultural landscapes, introducing the public to breakthroughs like the mouse, laser printing, CD-ROM, WiFi, digital video, home networking, touchscreen phones, and tablets. Steve Jobs's obsessive eye for detail set the stage for products—Mac, iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, AirPods, Apple Watch—that married advanced technology with beauty, simplicity, and fine design.“CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue comes to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to give the life story of Apple: how it was born, nearly died, was reborn under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, the giant it is today. He tells this story in his new book Apple: The First 50 Years, for which he conducted new interviews with 150 key people involved in the company's growth, including Steve Wozniak, John Sculley, Jony Ive, and many current designers, engineers and executives. Come hear Pogue's take of the little company that did. Pogue busts some long-held myths, goes backstage for big successes and big failures (remember Lisa?), and looks at what can challenge Apple in its second half century. Note: This podcast contains Explicit Language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send a textEpisode 991 is a punch-in-the-mouth reminder that sometimes the safest thing you can do… is go for it.In this episode, I share a note Steve Jobs emailed to himself before his Stanford commencement speech — back when he and Steve Wozniak were just two guys with no wives, no kids, no house payments, and nothing to lose. They weren't investing in better apartments or fatter bank accounts. They were investing in themselves.And that's the heartbeat of this episode.If you're young — I'm talking high school, college, early career — this is your season to explore. You can take the hit. You can start over. You can move cities. You can try something and hate it. You can fail and regroup. The walls haven't closed in yet. So don't build them yourself.If you've got some miles on you — like me — this message is just as important. Because now you've got something young people don't: wisdom. Experience. Knowledge. Judgment. And that can either become fuel… or it can become fear.In this episode, I talk about:Why “nothing to lose” is often when you have everything to gainThe difference between reckless and playful riskOne-way doors vs. two-way doors (most decisions aren't permanent)Why starting with free is powerfulHow writing and starting this podcast at 43 changed my entire trajectoryAnd why succeeding at not trying is the quietest failure of allThis isn't about burning your life down.It's about pushing the walls out before they close in.It's about remembering that you can always start over. I've been bankrupt. I've been homeless. I've been demoted. And I'm still here. Still building. Still young at heart.Sometimes when you have nothing to lose… You have everything to gain.If there's something pulling at you — something you know you need to explore — this episode is your nudge.Let's go.Always keep it simple.Keep it moving.Never settle.Stay tough.Support the show

On this episode of Exclusively Van Halen on Johnny Beane TV, we're diving into a brand new, just-released, uncirculated soundboard recording capturing US Festival rehearsals — and this is HUGE. This is the rehearsal performance before Van Halen took the stage on May 29, 1983… recorded on May 21 in front of a small private audience at A&M Studios on the A&M Soundstage.

David and Dan David Ramey, founder of Ramey Wine Cellars, joins Dan Berger and Daedalus Howell on California Wine Country. He has been on CWC before, but it was a while ago, on this episode in 2018 and again here in 2019. The weather today is unseasonably warm, but it doesn't affect Dan's work. People tell him it seems he has the greatest job in the world. They think he just has to drink wine and write about it. But Dan actually drinks very little, when tasting and evaluating wine. The better the wine, the less of it you need to drink to appreciate high quality. “It’s not about volume, it’s about character,” says Dan. “Wine is food. It's fermented grape juice and it goes with food. You might get a little relaxed but you you don't drink wine to get drunk,” declares David. Dan reminds everyone, “Life’s too short to drink bad wine.” Dan Berger declares that Chardonnay today is better than it has ever been, and he thinks David Ramey can explain why. David thinks that the Chardonnay producers went down the wrong path, when rich, hedonistic wines, fruit bombs, were popular. Robert Parker was an influential wine critic and he liked that style. David Ramey’s Chardonnays represent a reversal of that trend and an appeal to wine lovers who know that Chardonnay can do much more than those big buttery fruit bombs that don’t age well. CWC is brought to you by Deodora Estate Vineyards. Visit Deodora to discover 72 acres in the Petaluma Gap that are producing exceptional Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Riesling. Sip the difference!  MS in Enology David Ramey describes his pathway into the profession of winemaking. He grew up in Sunnyvale, a schoolmate of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. He attended UC Santa Cruz from 1969-1973, when the campus was brand new. He worked as a waiter where he also had the chance to taste wine. He thought he would go and teach English in Colombia, but he never made it there. He was driving from Mexicali to Hermosillo and one day he describes a coup de foudre, French for a lightning strike, when he realized he should make wine. It’s something that people like, it’s not bad for the environment, it’s an aesthetic statement, lot to like about it. So he applied to UC Davis in enology. He had to take all his college level math and science courses at San Jose State before he could start the major. He graduated with a Master of Science in Enology. Several of his fellow students became famous winemakers. They are tasting one of David’s Chardonnays, which is not chilled. “Chardonnay is the red wine of whites.” Both whites he brought are 2015s and the reds are both 2013s. Both combine richness, strong acidity and good structure. Claret David went to France after he graduated. “I’m a classicist,” he says. He wanted to go where people have been making wine for a very long time, to learn how to do it. He ended up working in Bordeaux. Then he worked a harvest in Australia. They processed 37,000 tons of grapes that time. Next they taste the Claret. That name is protected now but David says they can still use it, they are grandfathered in. It is a generic British English term for a Bordeaux wine. The French claimed it, despite the fact that there is no place named Claret. It’s just a generic word, but it was ceded to the EU in trade negotiations. Ramey also treademarked two varietal blend names for themselves. Their Left Bank Blend is a Cabernet based blend. Template is another name, modeled on the Right Bank, so it is Merlot based. This is all with Sonoma County grapes. Dan adds that the name Ramey on the label indicates a higher level of quality, by itself.

Millions tuned into the Super Bowl to escape from AI, but the ads were full of it. We'll discuss our thoughts on the ads and maybe the game. Plus, there's plenty of other news to get caught up on, such as a Ferrari with some Apple touches on it, and so much more. Watch on YouTube! - Notnerd.com and Notpicks.com INTRO (00:00) MAIN TOPIC: Super Bowl Ads & AI (06:05) From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads Super Bowl Ads: Top 10 Most-Liked Commercials Crypto.com CEO buys AI.com domain for $70M Olympics DAVE'S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: Urgent Reminders in Apple Reminders (28:40) JUST THE HEADLINES: (41:30) Amazon delivery drone crashes into North Texas apartment building MrBeast just bought a popular banking app China's Meituan snaps up Dingdong to deepen push into fresh grocery retail Western Digital plots a path to 140 Terabyte hard drivese Spotify plans to sell physical books Hidden car door handles are officially being banned in China Asteroid 2024 YR4 has. 4% chance of hitting the moon LISTENER MAIL: ClearPath payments linked to Lopez v. Apple Settlement as payments reach users (43:55) Apple check signed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sells for 4,800x its original value (46:55) TAKES: Jony Ive's Ferrari Luce EV interior and interface design (49:45) AppleUnsold - The Apple products they won't sell you (52:25) Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition (55:40) BONUS ODD TAKE: Xikipedia (57:10) PICKS OF THE WEEK:  Dave: American DJ WMX1 MK2 Wolfmix Powered Standalone DMX LED Lighting Controller (59:00) Nate: OMOTON TP03 [Ultra-Slim] for MagSafe Tripod, 360°Rotating Magnetic Phone Tripod for iPhone 17/16/15 Pro Max Air, Foldable Cell Phone Stand with 1/4" Screw & Hook Fits Vlog, Gym, Travel Essentials (01:02:45) RAMAZON PURCHASE OF THE WEEK (01:07:10)

Sats Terminal is the first native Bitcoin super app, bringing together Bitcoin loans, yield, and trading in a single interface and developer SDK. Sats Terminal is backed by YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Coinbase Ventures, and Draper Associates.The founders of Sats Terminal recently joined the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to talk about the technology.Stan Havryliuk (CEO and Co-Founder) and Rishabh Java (CTO and Co-Founder) of Sats Terminal shared their journey, starting with their backgrounds in crypto and fintech. Stan had previous experience with Bitcoin.com and running a large Eastern European exchange, while Java had built and sold a fintech company, finding crypto to be a more open building environment. The inspiration for Sats Terminal stemmed from a highly problematic user experience Stan encountered while trading BRC20s, which resulted in him overpaying significantly for a single token. This incident highlighted a clear need for good, user-friendly interfaces in the growing Bitcoin DeFi market to encourage wider adoption. The two founders met online while working on a previous project and formalized their partnership after meeting in person in Buenos Aires.The company secured notable financial backing from major investors. Java's connection to Coinbase Ventures was established after winning an AI agent hackathon at their San Francisco office, which led to a successful pitch. Stan described how they were quickly accepted into the YZi Labs (aka Binance Labs) accelerator program after applying shortly before the deadline on a friend's recommendation, benefiting from a good product growth trajectory at the time. They also received early backing from the Draper family of VCs, including Draper Associates, Draper Dragon, and Boost VC. Stan's key advice for aspiring startups seeking funding is to "just keep building" and iterating fast, emphasizing that consistency compounds into success, alongside networking and participating in hackathons.Java elaborated on the evolution of native Bitcoin assets, moving from Ordinals to BRC20s and then to the improved Runes standard. He reported that Sats Terminal has already captured approximately 70% of the market share for trading Runes, showcasing their success in the ecosystem. They also acknowledged that the Bitcoin ecosystem's complexity, due to the lack of a central authority, means the market will ultimately decide which token standard becomes the long-term winner.The core of Sats Terminal's vision is encapsulated in their motto: "never sell your Bitcoin," but instead to make it work through products like trading, earning, and borrowing. Stan highlighted their belief that Bitcoin is the "only pristine collateral for loans," and their products are laying the groundwork for Bitcoin's transition from "digital gold" to a "productive asset." Java detailed their Borrow product as a self-custody, trust-minimized cross-chain loan solution where users can collateralize their Bitcoin for a loan without KYC. Stan announced that the first version of the Earn product, designed to simplify DeFi complexity for end-users, is being finalized and expected to go live in the next few weeks.Stan Havryliuk, CEO and Co-Founder of Sats Terminal, early Bitcoin investor and Web3 veteran with over eight years of experience scaling crypto businesses worldwide. Ex-Bitcoin.com and zondacrypto.com (BitBay.com).Rishabh Java, CTO and Co-Founder of Sats Terminal, serial entrepreneur, inventor, and Bitcoin builder with a proven track record of creating great technologies. Winner of 50 international hackathons, awarded by Steve Wozniak at 15 for BCI tech and exited Web2 startup at 21.To learn more about the project visit the website, and follow the team on X.

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we try something a little different. Unattached to any particular game, we chat with Ed Fries, a long-time video game developer most well-known for his work  shepherding the early days of Xbox and Microsoft Game Studios. We talk about five games of his early years that particularly affected him. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 1:16:35 Break 1:16:48 Outro Issues covered: a new model for interviews, productivity software wars, a child of engineers, Lunar Lander on a calculator, 6800-based kit computer and programming in assembly, cardboard computer, jumping from BASIC to assembly language, using a print terminal, modem sounds, competitive Asteroids, the first real video game, oscilloscopes and radar, complaining to the dentist, inspiring a generation of programmers and engineers, learning by typing from magazines, the 8-bit microprocessor, getting a 6502 square root routine from Woz, using a computer terminal, an intro to Rogue and its procedural elements, a things-going-wrong simulator, "there were not that many games in the world," building a game for different player types, the D programming language and other alphabetic languages, a short remembrance of Dani Bunten Berry, Multiple Use Labor Elements, how M.U.L.E. plays, screwing your buddies, similarities to Euro strategy games, the auction phase, crystite mining, a literary game, the first original IP character in a video game, moving from real caves to fantasy, some connections, album covers from EA, expensive personal computers. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Frogger, ROMox, The Princess and the Frog, Ant Eater, Sea Chase, Tom and Ed's Bogus Software, Tom Saxton, Sucker Punch, Microsoft, Ender's Game, Phil Spencer, Xbox, Bungie, Ensemble Studios, Rare Limited, World of Warcraft, Gabe Newell, Atari 2600, Halo, 1Up Ventures Fund, Psychonauts, Keeper, Tim Schafer, Boeing, Digital Equipment Corporation, Lunar Lander, CARDIAC, Nintendo Labo, Apple ][, Atari 800, Space Wars, Asteroids, Nolan Bushnell, Ampex, Ted Dabney, Computer Space, Nutting Associates, Computer Trivia, Pong, Homeworld, Steve Wozniak, Rogue, Defeating Games for Charity, Dark Souls, HACK, PDP-11/VAX, Epyx, Walter Bright, Sid Meier, Civilization, Bruce Shelley, Age of Empires, M.U.L.E., Dani Bunten Berry, Seven Cities of Gold, Settlers of Cataan, Diplomacy, AJ Redmer, Maxis, Will Wright, Dungeon/Zork, Don Daglow, Tim Anderson, Colossal Cave Adventure/Advent, Infocom, Frank Cifaldi, Video Game History Foundation, Kate Willaert, Will Crowther, Don Woods, Mike Haas, Andrei Alexandrescu, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Populous, The Bard's Tale, Outer Wilds, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: TBA! or more Pikmin TTDS: 40m 6s Links: Ant Eater source  Princess and Frog source Sea Chase source  Nitro source Errata: I misspoke with respect to the co-inventor of D, it was Andrei Alexandrescu. We regret the error. Twitch: timlongojr and twinsunscorp  YouTube  Discord  DevGameClub@gmail.com 

Steve Wozniak is the engineer who built Apple. Then he did something Silicon Valley still doesn't understand: he gave millions of his own money away to early employees, walked away from power, and refused to play the game everyone else was playing. While HP rejected his design and competitors built walled gardens, Wozniak's philosophy of open architecture, the very one a young Steve Jobs fought against, is what saved Apple long enough for it to become Apple. This is the story of the reluctant founder who won by refusing to compromise, and a blueprint for success without selling your soul. ----- Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (01:31) Part 1: Pranks and Paper Computers (18:11) Part 2: The First Personal Computer (30:46) Part 3: Apple Computer Corporation (41:02) Part 4: Apple's Decline (46:02) Epilogue (48:02) Rules To Live By ----- Upgrade: Get hand-edited transcripts and an ad-free experience, and so much more. Learn more @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fs.blog/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------ Newsletter: The Brain Food newsletter delivers actionable insights and thoughtful ideas every Sunday. It takes 5 minutes to read, and it's completely free. See what you're missing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fs.blog/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------ Follow Shane Parrish X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@ShaneAParrish⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta ⁠@farnamstreet⁠ LinkedIn ⁠Shane Parrish ------ This episode is for informational purposes only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want to learn the right mindset to achieve your ultimate success? In this episode of the Happy Hustle Podcast, I have on Alex Banayan, the youngest and #1 international bestselling business author in American history. Alex and I talk about the mindset of success and the power of possibility. Named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list and Business Insider's “Most Powerful People Under 30,” Alex is his generation's leading expert in high performance and personal development, having been featured in Fortune, CNBC, Businessweek, The Washington Post, MSNBC, Fox News, and NBC News. An acclaimed keynote speaker, he has presented the Third Door™ framework to corporate leadership teams around the world, including Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Snapchat, Salesforce, Delta Airlines, Kaiser Permanente, Mastercard, and Disney. His new book, The Third Door is his seven-year quest to uncover the definitive mindset of exponential growth and success. Over the course of his unprecedented journey, he interviewed Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Larry King, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Jessica Alba, Quincy Jones, and more. The book is now a #1 international bestseller, has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and has been acclaimed by The New York Post as “a joy to read.” If you want to know how the world's most successful people succeed in their careers, grab a copy of The Third Door Book at https://amzn.to/3lDyjy9 And if you're feeling like you need a holiday from the holidays, I have the perfect solution. Do yourself a favor and start taking Magnesium Breakthrough every night before you go to bed. Magnesium Breakthrough is so effective is because it's the only organic full-spectrum magnesium supplement that includes 7 unique forms of magnesium for stress relief and better sleep, all in one bottle. For an exclusive offer to all Happy Hustlers, go to www.magnesiumbreakthrough.com/hustle and use code HUSTLE to save 10% when you try Magnesium Breakthrough.   IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER: [00:30:16:02] Persevere past Rejection to Achieve Success [00:36:52:06] The Third Door: The Power of Possibility [00:13:04:26] Use Your Unconscious Mind to Achieve Your Goals [1:00:56:15] Happy Hustle Hacks [Health, Money, Entrepreneurship, Spirituality] [01:21:24:13] Rapid fire questions   What does happy Hustlin mean to you?  Alex says it means going after what you want and the way you want to do it and it's just one of the privileges in life.   Connect with Alex Instagram Facebook Linkedin Youtube Twitter   Find Alex on his website: http://thirddoorbook.com/   Connect with Cary! Instagram Facebook Linkedin Twitter Youtube   Get a free copy of his new book, The Happy Hustle, 10 Alignments to Avoid Burnout & Achieve Blissful Balance Sign up for The Journey: 10 Days To Become a Happy Hustler Online Course Apply to the Montana Mastermind Epic Camping Adventure   “It's time To Happy Hustle a blissfully balanced life you love, full of passion, purpose, and positive impact!”