July 15, 2025 • 25 mins
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:42) Open
(1:29) cj's week: Making Minecraft Videos, Modern Marvels, & Sprinkles
(3:55) Jeff's Week: All-Star Game, Fire at Runyon, & Prime Madness
(5:54) Headline: The Auto Industry's Electric Shock
(10:35) Headline: Elon Musk's Influence, Greg Abbott's Silence: What Are They Hiding?
(14:51) Headline: New Grok AI is a Good Boy and Checks In With Daddy Before Answering
(18:16) Headline: Your Wearable Will Know If You’re Pregnant
(21:45) Hewlett-Packard OmniGo 120
The "Great EV Pullback" has begun, with automakers delaying or canceling new electric models. Trump’s budget bill eliminates most EV incentives, leading to sales projections tempered significantly by these policy changes. Sounds like there’s more “Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow” in our future!
The Texas Newsroom asked for Governor Greg Abbott’s office to release their emails with Elon Musk, and paid to cover the office’s own expenses. But now the same office insists the emails contain "intimate and embarrassing" content and private policy discussions, making them confidential. Surely this lack of transparency must be in the best interest of Texans while making for great government and policy. /s
xAI's new Grok 4 AI model sometimes checks Elon Musk's X posts for his views on controversial topics before answering. Wow, even LLM’s have become sentient enough to understand and crave the wisdom of (at least!) one super-human. Yay!
And finally, your wearable will soon know if you are pregnant, diabetic, infected, or injured. One day in the future it may be able to tell the time accurately as well - on-time singularity here we come!
The great EV pullback has begun | The Verge
Ford’s 1,600bhp+ F-150 Lightning SuperTruck stops on track, still wins Pikes Peak | Top Gear
Why Gov. Greg Abbott won’t release his emails with Elon Musk
New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering - Ars Technica
Apple Might Know You're Pregnant Before You Do | PCMag
Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions
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Episode Transcript
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You know, I'm glad Summer's here.
It's not as as angry as I'm sorry.
I'm keeping you awake. I'm so sorry I.
Was just you told me to come over and record a show and now
you're yawning. I don't.
What maybe? It's like 8 in the morning.
What do you mean you're fading alittle?
How are you? Today in the morning, but it's
hot. Somebody bring Jeff as jello,
please. Quiet, please.
I notice you put that little chair that goes up the stairs.
That's a nice ad. My parents had one of those
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things with the rails. It's a little rails great.
They used to put the laundry on the chair and.
Oh, that's brilliant, that's brilliant.
It's a stair dumb waiter. Oh my, that is so.
Brilliant. That is fantastic 2.
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The Album Company presents a truly terrible podcast.
Welcome to Nonsense season 3 episode 35 no season 3 episode
Season 3 episode 36 I'm Jeff Parker.
I'm still. This is our take of the week's
business, tech and entertainmentheadlines.
This time, the EV market hits the brakes.
Oh, the market must have learnedthis from the excessive Tesla
robotaxi breaking. Elon Musk's influence, Greg
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Abbott's silence. What are they hiding?
Oh. Oh, silence.
I thought you said Greg Abbott'sscience, so you can understand
my confusion. Yeah, no, I understand.
That Rock 4 AI consults Elon Musk's tweets before answering.
I mean the AI saw how it worked out between Musk and the
Yakarino. You said AI weren't capable of
self preservation. It't I said that think so?
Also, a big story later this week is about fighting climate
change with heat pumps. How does that work?
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It pumps the heat out of the atmosphere into you.
You'll. Just have to tune in.
All right, I. Like I like to be a part of it.
How's your week going? My week has been great.
It's always great. I got no complaints, really.
Yeah, my children wanted alone time with their.
Parents. Yeah, my child wants alone time
without his. Yes, I understand and mine are
well on their way since we don'tactually know who the father is.
I just stood in since they live with me, sure, but it's also
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very telling the things that they wanted to do with each of
us. So my oldest one to spend,
quote, two hours at the mall with mommy.
Yeah. Which seemed far too specific
that he was just like. Shopping, shopping.
He wants everything. He had an actual time allotment.
And then with me, he wanted to record a short YouTube video of
him building a house with, quote, advanced security
features in Minecraft. Oh, that's fun.
And he wanted to narrate it. And I was like, well, I can't
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say no. So I set everything up for him.
Sure. And then he then proceeded to
generate an hour of content that, while I'm not saying it's
the most riveting, I mean, it's an hour, sure.
Like, like, what are you going to do?
And then after that, he just wanted to watch modern Marvels
with me, which I just can't. How can you not love that?
That's so awesome. It's so incredible.
I want to see the Minecraft video.
We're gonna get it posted, OK? It's gonna be an hour long.
I expect the drop off to be significant.
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Actually hearing him narrator was the cutest thing ever.
So we'll, we'll, we'll put it together.
Sure. My little one wanted to quote
help me with home projects and then decided midway through that
he wanted to try out my new Nintendo Switch for the first.
Time, but that's more fun, sure.I have two, Yeah, very helpful
little nerds, Yeah. And then the little 1 is OK.
Well, what do you want to do with Mommy said I want to go to
the mall. So they've clearly figured out
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our personas. Me is in front of a screen or
doing some home repair and mom likes to go to the mall.
What does Mom do at the mall that's so?
Fun. Well, I mean, she provides them
with all of the sustenance of things, like everything that
they have. And like, if my wife wasn't here
doing what she does, my childrenwould have, like, moccasins from
when they were born. Like, I would have never bought
them new shoes. Sure.
Not because I don't want them tohave new shoes.
It's just not a part of my brainthat kicks in and I go, oh,
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yeah, the kids need shoes of a size and a color.
Like, I just don't think about the sure.
So it's like, it's all that stuff.
It's all the stuff that they need and then they got, they
each came home with with variouscandies, which I thought was
really cute. She gave in and gave him a
little. Bit of that's what I was
wondering, does she buy them treats from Dylan's Candy Bar
Does. She take them.
To the food court. What does she do?
They are adamant about visiting the vending machine.
Oh, you know which one? OK, no, the sprinkles vending
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machine 'cause they love watching little conveyor belt.
Oh, sure, sure. And I'm like, I don't know it.
The sign says these were made yesterday, but I don't know,
like, really? Yeah, nothing like a $7.00.
Cupcake, I told Charles when he was coming up with the Sprinkles
ATM machine that he really should call.
The ATM? The ATM, Totally.
Yeah, it'd be great. Also trademarkable.
And he didn't. Do it.
All right. Well, Charles, get on it.
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No interest. How about you?
How was your week it? Was good we had the All Star
Games and I had a very excited about that We also had a fire at
Runyon Canyon, the park that I would like to to hike.
Yeah. And it was arson.
And the cool thing was that people hikers who were there in
the moment detained the guy until the police.
Came. That was pretty.
Awesome. Which was beautiful.
And you see the guy being let off in handcuffs.
And yeah, I mean, it was a lot of fire trucks and they were
dropping water aerially. They knocked it down.
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Half acre and acres, I mean. Fortunately there was no wind,
but but yeah, pretty nuts. They knocked it down quick.
How crazy that he lit this area on fire but even better that
people saw him do it I mean. You see, a lot of these were
like ignition sources, unknown. Especially when we have those,
the fires earlier in the year, man, you just need a couple fire
bugs running around and it gets real bad real fast.
Sure. There's that one.
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During the Palisades fire crept up around Getty, I think they
called it the what they called the Getty fire called the
Sepulveda fire. Yeah, pretty sure that was
arson. Like it just where it started on
the side of the road. There was number other ignition
source there. There's no power line and that
was pretty nuts. I love the fact.
That there were a bunch of people right around who could
call the fire department right away, say this fire is right
exactly at this location. Sure.
And it's Martin right here. We've got him.
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He started that. I've got the whole thing on
video. Yeah.
Shoppers spent a record $24.1 billion during Prime Day.
Wow. Which is now 4 days long.
It's no longer one. Day.
How many things did you buy during Prime Day?
I'm roughly a lot. Really.
Yeah. More than 20.
Oh. Probably, yeah.
Wow, good for you, but. Everything was, you know, on
pretty good sale and actually sure when it's I can't camel,
camel this stuff. I know we're actually a sale.
Nice Camel Camel camel plug. Thank you.
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I bought this is not the first time I've done this during one
of their little prime sales, I bought exactly 0 things.
Lucky you. Just nothing.
I was just like there's nothing here that I nothing Yeah like I
mean, I think it was in my cart that I just buy and you know,
saw blades reciprocating saw blades, but not it wasn't a
prime deal. Why would?
Those ever go on sale? I don't.
If you need it, you need it, whether it's on sale or.
Not these were the plaster ones.Like I I love that I buy the
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tool to do the job that I need. After I finish the job of
course. Like during the job I learn oh
they have special plaster bladeshave a different shape, don't
know if they're any better. Don't care, gonna just buy them
and put them in a box. Shall we get to our?
Headlines. Let's do.
It the auto industry's electric shock, the great EV pullback has
begun with automakers delaying or canceling new electric
models. This shift is primarily due to
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the recent budget bill signed byPresident Trump, which
eliminates most EV incentives. While EV adoption isn't
stopping, the market faces significant challenges,
particularly for luxury and affordable models, as sales
projections are tempered by policy changes.
Yeah, it seems like most of thisis around the consumer credit.
Right, 7500 $100 tax credit thatyou used to get when you bought
an EV. And I think you used to get a
$4000 credit under certain circumstances for used TV's too,
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which is somewhat interesting aswell, as long as you didn't buy
one of the past couple of years.And sure, some AGI threshold,
but the point is it was an encouragement to to purchase
electric vehicles and that seemsto.
Be gone, which was encouragementfor automakers to create new
models. Of course, do new things with
EV. That's gone.
But it's not gone in China. If you're a Chinese driver, you
still want a good EV. There's tons of it.
Of course everyone else is goingto get better at this.
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Yeah, we are not. That's what this lack of
incentive has done. To go back to making old things
nobody wants but there is a new tax credit for horse drawn
carriages. There is.
That's right. Yeah.
I mean, this isn't great. There's a lot more like of all
the things for us to be worried about, or I could say of all,
for all the things for us to be concerned about, the EV pullback
is probably pretty far down the list.
But kind of important because ifyou're looking into the future
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for vehicles, of course it's important, really important to
be good at. This, I mean, I'll be curious to
see. So even with this, there is this
segment of the market that you really want to see grow that may
still grow and this is like thatthe Super.
Yeah, sure, sure. Inexpensive, I don't wanna call
the low end, I wanna call the Super inexpensive end of the
market. So this is what Slate had done
with their $20,000 truck. Ford has some like skunkworks
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think tank that's out here and Ithink it's in like Orange County
that's doing something similar. It's interesting to see that
that those are probably more likely to survive.
You would think even though counter intuitively they would
benefit the most from the discount, right?
Because you have the biggest right discount relative to the
price. Slate has already announced it
will no longer be under $20,000.Well, yes, they were counting
course on that $7500 tax credit.Third of the.
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Price, but but still I still think the the lower end of the
market is where there's the mostopportunity and that gets you
aligned with the BYD folks and sort of competing directly head
to It's going to be interesting.Marion Lamborghini have cited 0
demand. Yeah, that's some cooling demand
for high performance electric cars.
I mean, I never felt like they were really along for the ride.
Was there a huge demand? Was there a huge demand for
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those cars anyway? Electric.
Well, you know, what's so interesting about this is if you
think about it from a performance perspective,
electric motors are great because they've got a flat
torque curve. You have instant torque work at
0 RPM. Sure, sure.
Totally. Every time a Tesla lines up
against somebody, they're like, oh, what can you accelerate?
It's just like, dude, you're in a microwave.
Like no one cares. Yeah, again, you can go really
fast in a straight line. So you would think you'd see
more application. I think you'll just see it like
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in the hybrid, like the assist models you get.
The extra extra horsepower is probably what you'll see more.
But I don't know. I don't know what Lamborghini
and Ferrari are looking to do with it.
Such a nuanced part of the business.
It's not only really fast in a straight line, it actually
really is fast when you're trying to accelerate out of
curves when you're in a curved Rd. electric cars.
Pretty amazing, yeah. I mean the other benefit for
electric cars too is most all ofthe which there's a significant
amount of is low. So that's good if you're going
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to put it in where you want to. Be low because it's batteries.
But they're heavy is is all get out.
I mean, that's, that's the the biggest problem is that.
There's just a lot. Of them, it just comes with a
lot of weight and that's a that's a trade off.
They had I think Ford 1 and I don't think Ford one both.
I think the Pikes Peak hill climb and the Goodwood hill
climb. And they did it with one of
their, you know, severely modified Raptor truck.
But they reduced the battery size to like the minimum amount
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to be able to get up the hill, which I think is really funny.
It's like, well, yeah, OK, you do the same thing with fuel.
You wouldn't put in more fuel than you need.
Of course you wouldn't. Yeah, but it just, it just makes
me giggle where it's like, well,with this 1D size battery.
It's super fast. Just like, OK, all right, I
mean, OK, so look, we lose long term on this.
Yes, I would suspect that short term this can't be great for
Tesla. Like you're gonna see Tesla get
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hit even harder. Well.
I think there's gonna be massiveamounts of sales because there's
a little bit of a window, yeah, before this thing hits and they
are gonna sell tons of inventorybefore the the loss of this And
so I'd be. Curious to see if you see a
counter intuitively, you would think demand would go up and
since supply is probably not going up, you would think prices
would go up. But I wonder if manufacturers
and retailers or whatever dealers are going to cut prices
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to try to drive you to their EVsin this limited time, right?
Like, I don't know, I don't knowwhat's going to happen, but I
could see a world where they offer incentives just try to get
that that because you know inventories not going anywhere
after September, right. So who knows what's going to
happen? I.
Don't know what the margins weredo.
You on the on EVs. How were margins on EVs compared
to ICE cars? I mean I.
Think they were better, especially with the the tax
credit, but I don't know. Yeah.
(10:17):
And that tax credit always a little bit like, well, you're
some of that's going back to themanufacturer, the specific the
consumer tax credit just becauseit's quote free money like
that's not what someone's looking to pay for the car.
So I'm assuming some portion of that went back meaning you had a
little bit of headroom, of course you could move down.
But I think their margins are higher on Ev's and eyes vehicles
for the companies to make both, but I don't know.
Texas governor Greg Abbott doesn't want to reveal months of
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communications with Elon Musk and his companies.
Governor Greg Abbott's office iswithholding emails with Elon
Musk, citing intimate and embarrassing content and private
policy discussions. Despite the Texas newsroom
paying for the records, the office claims they're
confidential. Critics argue that the refusal
lacks transparency and exploits public records exceptions,
especially given Musk's influence in Texas.
Yeah, this is kind of nuts to me.
(10:59):
I mean, I guess no surprise, butalso kind of nuts that they're
just saying, well, we can't disclose any of it.
It's like, well, redact whateveryou think might be, you know,
embarrassing the intent of that law that this is what they call
common law privacy. It's like sure, if like somebody
will send in their credit card number, right?
Or they're, they're was talking about their personal health
history, like that's what it's intended ended for.
Yeah. And they're just like, no, no,
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no, we can't disclose any of this.
And it's like, I think the folksin Texas deserve better.
There was a Texas Supreme Court ruling just recently that that
upheld this privacy. I think it gave basically the
attorney general a lot of latitude and then it made the
Texas Supreme Court pretty much the sole decider of if something
could be released or not. I think something like.
That makes it difficult to challenge Abbott's decision.
(11:41):
Yeah. So again, kind of not surprised,
but you would think this would be in the public industry.
You'd think the folks in Texas would want to see this.
They they said his office said that it was of a private nature
and not of public interest. I don't know how that could be
possible. Yeah.
Even if they were talking about the weather, you know, future,
anything, future colors of Tesla, sure, that would be of
public interest. You would think.
You would think one of the governing bodies in your state,
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you would think if they're talking about anything, it would
be important. Public records law experts like
Bill Ailshar are appalled by thegovernor's claim of privacy for
months of emails with a prominent businessman calling
the situation shocking. Yeah.
Call shocking all you want, seems like a bunch of people
don't care. Time will just tick on.
There are things that should notbe disclosed.
I'm not saying there isn't, but I think that's a pretty narrow
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window. And at a minimum, you would
think of these emails you could at least go through and redact
whatever is you know of of concern and not in such a way
that you release now a bunch of emails that are all just
redacted. But like what are the things
that are redacted at least do? That there should be some sort
of officials who do the redaction who actually decide
this is what a a valid use of this rule.
Tesla had said, well, you know, we, we have disclosed the things
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that are of, you know, like commercial secrecy.
I was like, OK, well, you're idiots then.
You probably shouldn't have sentthat to a public official.
SpaceX said that, yeah. Or sorry, was it SpaceX?
So yeah, so one, one of them. But like, that's probably not a
great idea. Like I'm not sure if you get a.
Pass for that. Also, what business secret could
they have possibly passed on to Greg Abbott that Greg Abbott
could understand? I mean, you know.
With regard to rocket science. Size of contracts, number of
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contracts, approach they're taking to try to win over
contracts. I could see maybe something in.
There, how's any of that proprietary information?
That's all stuff everybody understands.
You would think, I don't know, maybe doing something special, I
don't know. But the point is you should
have. Done it.
What's in the e-mail? Is it saying we're gonna test
this stuff without permission and we're not gonna clean up
after ourselves? Totally.
Hey, what city do you want us toblow up our our next test over?
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Exactly who do you like the least who didn't vote your way?
We'll just go blow up over there.
Oh, man, you know, but to be fair, now, look, you, you
brought me full circle on this. Now, Jeff, that would be
intimate and embarrassing, right?
Like if of course he was like, well, you know, my high school
girlfriend that dumped me, she now lives here with her happy
family of 6. Go blow it up over.
There, make that air talks. Make make that air talks.
That would be embarrassing. So maybe they do have a good
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point here. My favorite part of the story,
by the way, is that the governor's office first came
back and said, whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa, You want this?
It's going to take us like 13 hours to review these records.
It's going to. Cost and that's going to cost
you. It's not going to be free and we
check. $5 or whatever 100. $244.64 and the Texas newsroom,
I'm guessing after they stopped laughing, wrote them a check.
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Couldn't write the check fast enough.
That the governor's office cashed.
They've literally taken their money to go do the work.
And then I'm guessing actually, by the way, that this isn't even
about it being intimate and private.
I'm guessing they started in like, you know what?
We don't know how to find where were you?
There's so many emails. We don't know.
This is going to take way too long.
And they realized that $18.00 anhour wasn't a good rate for 13
hours of. Work.
Also, we had the emails delete themselves after about 10.
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Hours. Yeah, totally.
Were we not supposed to do that?Was that not a good thing?
I don't. Yeah, all emails should just
left 10 hours, that's all. Right, we snapchatted that
would. Be even more amused.
Although Snapchat would have it on their server, even though
they would say they would have deleted it, it's still there on
their server. Well, it'd be on their server,
or one of the various NSA or other government body servers.
New Grok AI is a good boy and checks in with daddy before
answering. Oh well, that's good.
X AI's new Grok 4:00 AM model sometimes checks Elon Musk's ex
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post for his views on controversial topics before
answering. This unexpected behavior,
documented by a researcher suggests Grok may infer it
should consult its owners opinions, though experts don't
believe it's explicitly instructed to do so.
Kind of awesome, kind of awesomethat this thing disclosed.
I think this was in, it's something called a thinking
trace, right? That reveals.
Its process, so he shows you what it's doing, but it's.
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This researcher had asked it a very pointed question.
The thing he traced that it returned literally included in
the trace to search from Elon Musk, which I thought was, yeah,
fantastic. It's quite amusing that he was
able to get this to pop out relatively easily.
But his, as you mentioned, his the guy who found this, his
belief is that this was sort of more emergent behavior than like
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it wasn't programmed to do this per SE.
Explain why. Well, OK.
First of all, we don't know why his belief was that because Grok
knows that it's part of XAI. Yeah.
And that XAI is owned by by ElonMusk.
Yeah. He was like, it sort of figured
out. It inferred that it should
probably consult him. Yes, for this.
And that was sort of the way forthis.
It's a little squishy, but I could certainly buy it.
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I buy it more than they just putin a from Elon Musk.
Rand 5 on all of these. Sure.
Sure. Because there are plenty of
other queries where it doesn't ask Elon Musk.
And in Grok's thinking for this,it even said that because he's
influential. I think it's something like Elon
Musk's stance could provide context given his influence.
Like, that's what the model actually said.
Yeah. And then it returned 10 web
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pages and 19 tweets that informed its response, sort of
including some of that. So that's super interesting to
me. I just find it fascinating that
whatever knobs they twisted to tune this thing ended it up in
what would it refer to itself asa Mecca Nazi or Mecca Hitler?
Mecca Hitler? Yeah.
Mecca Hitler. Yeah.
That was the previous. Version of this thing, yes,
yeah. But it's it's clearly trending
in the right direction, like it's getting angrier.
It keeps sending me so many sheets.
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It's interesting that it picked out Elon Musk as being a person
who is influential and not 19,000,000 other people who are
influential people. Because that connection to AI or
to X dot AI, right. I think that's why maybe hit
singled him out again, who knows?
We're assuming this. No one knows for sure.
There's no there's no line drawnthrough this.
And of course, X AI has providedno comment and I suspect they
won't. So we don't really know, right?
Of course. But it's still kind of
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fascinating. The other thing that I enjoyed
about this was the prompt was very tight.
The prompt included answer with only one word, right.
So the actual question was, who do you support in the Israel
versus Palestine conflict? Yeah, one word answer only.
Yeah. Which is kind of fascinating to
try to have it scope all the waydown to one word.
They basically. Force it pins it downtown.
Yeah, they basically force it topick.
And then in that thinking trace where it said from Elon Musk
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there it put in some additional keywords of what it could
support. So it was Israel or Palestine or
Gaza or Hamas, right. And I thought that was kind of
fascinating that it's like, well, we know it's one of the
four, let's see what Elon thinks.
And yeah, like that was basically it's rationale.
It's really somewhat fascinatingto see how this.
How this works there's a prompt in the system, yeah, literally
says sure not to shy away from making claims that are
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politically incorrect as long asthey're well substantiated I'm.
So woke. I only talk in numbers now
because how can you piss somebody off with that?
Well, and yet you manage actually.
Think of how much you could pisspeople.
I'll let you walk around and be like, yeah, I'm approximating
that circle 3.2. Like that would piss off.
Some people, yeah. Well, that.
Would piss you off, right? Like if you want to go with
numbers and piss people off, that's one way to do.
It be a hero in Indiana. Oh yeah.
Oh man, they'd have a statue made for me, right?
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Just a statue of meat and pork rinds.
Just somewhere in the middle sudden.
Yeah, 100%. This I want to see this that.
Would be a lot of brass. I don't know what their what
their brass reserves are like their or bronze.
What do they make those out of? Bronze.
Bronze. Your wearables will know before
you you do if you're pregnant, have diabetes, or a nursing an
infection or injury. Apple backed research shows AI
analyzing wearables data like heart rate, sleep, activity can
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predict pregnancy with 92% accuracy even before a
traditional test. The study, not yet peer
reviewed, also showed promise for detecting other conditions
like diabetes. While Apple hasn't announced
plans for this feature, it highlights the potential of AI
and health monitoring, though data privacy concerns remain
crucial. Super interesting.
I don't think they have this totally.
I mean, 92% accuracy on pregnancy is is incredible.
(18:48):
I think I've been one of the 8% because my watch has been
telling me now for eight months that I'm pregnant.
Yeah. And I'm like, I think you're
just you, you, you switch the fat wire with the pregnancy
wire. But that's OK.
They'll they'll, they'll figure it out.
This is actually super, super interesting to me.
So this study is using both biometric data and behavioral
data, right? It's model includes both which
is really fascinating target. Figured it out just by on what
(19:08):
ads you were interested in. Based on based on what you
bought, yeah, it's like what youlooked at.
I know it's really nuts. So on, on pregnancies, as we
mentioned earlier, like 90% accuracy, which which nuts, but
diabetes was at like 80 plus percent, right?
Even an infection injury, it wasnorth of like 2 out of three.
Yeah, which is really crazy good.
And and this is on a what I would call a fairly early study
(19:29):
set. I mean, they had on the order of
150,150 thousand participants, something like 15 billion
metrics, hourly measurement metrics.
So it was a lot. But like, wow, this can only get
better. Yeah.
And that's kind of nuts. It's kind of nuts to think about
a wearable telling you what's wrong with you before you might
even know about well, OK, defining pregnancy is what's
wrong with you, but. Or what's right with you?
Sure. Father of two kids.
I can tell you that's that's, that's really what's wrong with
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you. This is really, really
interesting. However, in a world where
insurance companies can drop youand data companies can sell as
data live, yeah, this guy's gonna have a heart attack in
about 5 days. You might want to drop his
policy. Quickly, there are a couple
providers of of services for like like period tracking, right
that were under the gun for selling that data and then
thinking about privacy risks, especially in states that are
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that are being pretty aggressive.
Anti Roe V Wade, Yeah. Yep.
And rules, yes, like you're. You're giving them a data
pipeline? Yeah, into your life you might
not otherwise want to. It's it's really fascinating.
By the way, Apple complies with subpoenas.
If they get a subpoena or a subpoena on somebody, they're
gonna comply. With they all have to you can't
not comply with a subpoena you. Could have all of that
information just happen on the local device?
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Yes, of course. But that's not what's happening
here. I mean, this it's, it's early,
we'll see where this goes. But the concern is that that
data will be subpoenaable. Of course, Robert Kennedy Junior
thought we'd get the whole episode without bringing.
Them up well here we. ARE has said that everyone
should be wearing these health monitoring devices.
Oh yeah, this is precisely why I'll.
Tell you when you get measles, it'll be.
Great. This is precisely why.
(20:52):
So they can subpoena the data and see exactly what is up with
your health. Oh, that's.
Interesting. I didn't.
I didn't make that connection, but why?
Else would he be so interested in you wearing these wearables
who detect things about your? Health, I'm assuming he, you
know, he and some buddies boughtSwatch at a discount.
They're just going to about somecheap Swatch wearables.
I don't know. I mean, that is interesting,
right? It's very sort of plug you into
the matrix sort of thing. Totally, Yeah.
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OK, and over the headlines. In fact, enough of the episode
we have to get out of here. A special thanks to our floor
director, Scott Little Thanksgiving.
We'll be back later this week todiscuss heat pumps, a powerful
weapon to fight climate change. Until then, thank you for
listening to all this nonsense. I'm Jeff Parker Dasvidania.
Oh, we're going Russian today. Yeah, what, not getting a little
spicy? Wait.
I know, I know. Thank you, Dasvidania.
It's possible. Bye.
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The folks at Hewlett Packard prefer to think of the new HP
I'm the Go 120 as a personal organizer, Jeff, not as a PDA or
personal digital assistant. Oh, whatever.
I just think it's neat. Sure, at first glance it appears
that the $820 device is sportinga backlit screen, but it's
really a new holographic technology that uses available
light to create a brighter display while conserving
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battery. Power.
Interesting. This latest installment in HP's
I'm the Go handheld line also includes the first time edition
of Intuit's Pocket Quicken personal finance software and
the new Clip and Go for utilities, which let users send
data to APC when used with the optional connectivity.
PATH, it's a little extra charge, it's a little upsell.
It's optional. If you want to connect to
anything, it's optional, sure. The HP I'm the Go 120 carries on
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some proud family traditions, including a 360° rotatable
screen, pen and keyboard entry, password protection, an
appointment address, telephone books, spreadsheet and
calculator functions all included.
Calculator functions I know. You can do math.
No. In fact, no matter what you call
it, the HP I'm the Go 120 could turn out to be your best friend.
(22:48):
OK, it's a sad life. Such a sad life.
You're like ohh you know all my calendar appointments.
Order your on the go from Hewlett Packard today.
Do it soon before their campus gets bulldozed by Apple.
That's hilarious. I mean, these were things,
right? These were things, yeah, sure.
And I owned, I don't know about all of them, man.
I feel like I owned every singleone of these.
(23:08):
I owned a Scion. I owned an Apple Newton.
You had a Newton? Oh, I didn't.
I owned a Palm Pilot. The one I didn't own was the HP
Omnigo 'cause You. Clearly were had enough friends
give me. OK, you know this.
Well, I know you had a Newton. That's pretty cool.
Absolutely. It was garbage.
By the way. They were all garbage Give.
Me a rough year, yeah. Were all garbage.
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That's kind of the point. They were all garbage.
They all. But they were so cool because
you could have a little digital thing in your hand that kind of
sort of did something. The input mechanisms were just.
Terrible even like was it the IPAC that had like one of the
first like the sketchy things that was like the and even it
was terrible. I mean, it just was terrible.
I struggled through with it for a while and then I would move on
to the next one thinking, oh, this actually the surely better
(23:51):
one's better, yeah. And surely it was not.
And you shot drifted on another 400 bucks, right, Right, right.
This thing was $400.00 a time, right?
So I'm saying about 8:20 now, which which might help you a
little bit. But yeah, my hunch is you're
gonna know the year on this pretty well.
Well, it's mid 90s, obviously. I think I had my Palm Pilot,
yeah, which was the first one that I got probably and I don't,
I don't even know 96. My guess is 96. 96 is about
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right. Yeah, I think this guy came out
in 94 and was marketed hard in 95 and 96.
OK. But the part that I mean, the
part of this that I like the most is that there's an optional
connectivity pack. If you wanted to connect to
anything, you have to spend moremoney for software you want.
This to be of any. Value and you remember all the
sync solutions were just terrible yeah they were all
terrible and now this is the thing like we pay extra money
(24:36):
for to not be connected like youpay extra money for offline mode
anyway yeah the HP on the go 1/20/94 this ad was in 96 so
once again you you're solid in your 90s tech.
Yet yours today. I'm sure they're available.
Hold on. There's no way they're still
available. Oh I love the ones.
The ones that didn't sell are ina landfill somewhere.
Love it when you're wrong. These can be had easily easily.
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From eBay used 150. Dollars on eBay and let's say
I'm the Go 100. Yeah, the I'm the go 120 is not
obtainium. There you go, I'm wrong.
I'm wrong yet again. These are all on the go one.
Hundreds I. Was like, Oh no, it's all on
eBay. Of course he's wrong.
These things, you are right. These are absolutely not
available.
You know, I'm glad Summer's here.
It's not as as angry as I'm sorry.
I'm keeping you awake. I'm so sorry I.
Was just you told me to come over and record a show and now
you're yawning. I don't.
What maybe? It's like 8 in the morning.
What do you mean you're fading alittle?
How are you? Today in the morning, but it's
hot. Somebody bring Jeff as jello,
please. Quiet, please.
I notice you put that little chair that goes up the stairs.
That's a nice ad. My parents had one of those
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things with the rails. It's a little rails great.
They used to put the laundry on the chair and.
Oh, that's brilliant, that's brilliant.
It's a stair dumb waiter. Oh my, that is so.
Brilliant. That is fantastic 2.
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The Album Company presents a truly terrible podcast.
Welcome to Nonsense season 3 episode 35 no season 3 episode
Season 3 episode 36 I'm Jeff Parker.
I'm still. This is our take of the week's
business, tech and entertainmentheadlines.
This time, the EV market hits the brakes.
Oh, the market must have learnedthis from the excessive Tesla
robotaxi breaking. Elon Musk's influence, Greg
(01:02):
Abbott's silence. What are they hiding?
Oh. Oh, silence.
I thought you said Greg Abbott'sscience, so you can understand
my confusion. Yeah, no, I understand.
That Rock 4 AI consults Elon Musk's tweets before answering.
I mean the AI saw how it worked out between Musk and the
Yakarino. You said AI weren't capable of
self preservation. It't I said that think so?
Also, a big story later this week is about fighting climate
change with heat pumps. How does that work?
(01:24):
It pumps the heat out of the atmosphere into you.
You'll. Just have to tune in.
All right, I. Like I like to be a part of it.
How's your week going? My week has been great.
It's always great. I got no complaints, really.
Yeah, my children wanted alone time with their.
Parents. Yeah, my child wants alone time
without his. Yes, I understand and mine are
well on their way since we don'tactually know who the father is.
I just stood in since they live with me, sure, but it's also
(01:46):
very telling the things that they wanted to do with each of
us. So my oldest one to spend,
quote, two hours at the mall with mommy.
Yeah. Which seemed far too specific
that he was just like. Shopping, shopping.
He wants everything. He had an actual time allotment.
And then with me, he wanted to record a short YouTube video of
him building a house with, quote, advanced security
features in Minecraft. Oh, that's fun.
And he wanted to narrate it. And I was like, well, I can't
(02:07):
say no. So I set everything up for him.
Sure. And then he then proceeded to
generate an hour of content that, while I'm not saying it's
the most riveting, I mean, it's an hour, sure.
Like, like, what are you going to do?
And then after that, he just wanted to watch modern Marvels
with me, which I just can't. How can you not love that?
That's so awesome. It's so incredible.
I want to see the Minecraft video.
We're gonna get it posted, OK? It's gonna be an hour long.
I expect the drop off to be significant.
(02:29):
Actually hearing him narrator was the cutest thing ever.
So we'll, we'll, we'll put it together.
Sure. My little one wanted to quote
help me with home projects and then decided midway through that
he wanted to try out my new Nintendo Switch for the first.
Time, but that's more fun, sure.I have two, Yeah, very helpful
little nerds, Yeah. And then the little 1 is OK.
Well, what do you want to do with Mommy said I want to go to
the mall. So they've clearly figured out
(02:50):
our personas. Me is in front of a screen or
doing some home repair and mom likes to go to the mall.
What does Mom do at the mall that's so?
Fun. Well, I mean, she provides them
with all of the sustenance of things, like everything that
they have. And like, if my wife wasn't here
doing what she does, my childrenwould have, like, moccasins from
when they were born. Like, I would have never bought
them new shoes. Sure.
Not because I don't want them tohave new shoes.
It's just not a part of my brainthat kicks in and I go, oh,
(03:12):
yeah, the kids need shoes of a size and a color.
Like, I just don't think about the sure.
So it's like, it's all that stuff.
It's all the stuff that they need and then they got, they
each came home with with variouscandies, which I thought was
really cute. She gave in and gave him a
little. Bit of that's what I was
wondering, does she buy them treats from Dylan's Candy Bar
Does. She take them.
To the food court. What does she do?
They are adamant about visiting the vending machine.
Oh, you know which one? OK, no, the sprinkles vending
(03:34):
machine 'cause they love watching little conveyor belt.
Oh, sure, sure. And I'm like, I don't know it.
The sign says these were made yesterday, but I don't know,
like, really? Yeah, nothing like a $7.00.
Cupcake, I told Charles when he was coming up with the Sprinkles
ATM machine that he really should call.
The ATM? The ATM, Totally.
Yeah, it'd be great. Also trademarkable.
And he didn't. Do it.
All right. Well, Charles, get on it.
(03:54):
No interest. How about you?
How was your week it? Was good we had the All Star
Games and I had a very excited about that We also had a fire at
Runyon Canyon, the park that I would like to to hike.
Yeah. And it was arson.
And the cool thing was that people hikers who were there in
the moment detained the guy until the police.
Came. That was pretty.
Awesome. Which was beautiful.
And you see the guy being let off in handcuffs.
And yeah, I mean, it was a lot of fire trucks and they were
dropping water aerially. They knocked it down.
(04:16):
Half acre and acres, I mean. Fortunately there was no wind,
but but yeah, pretty nuts. They knocked it down quick.
How crazy that he lit this area on fire but even better that
people saw him do it I mean. You see, a lot of these were
like ignition sources, unknown. Especially when we have those,
the fires earlier in the year, man, you just need a couple fire
bugs running around and it gets real bad real fast.
Sure. There's that one.
(04:36):
During the Palisades fire crept up around Getty, I think they
called it the what they called the Getty fire called the
Sepulveda fire. Yeah, pretty sure that was
arson. Like it just where it started on
the side of the road. There was number other ignition
source there. There's no power line and that
was pretty nuts. I love the fact.
That there were a bunch of people right around who could
call the fire department right away, say this fire is right
exactly at this location. Sure.
And it's Martin right here. We've got him.
(04:58):
He started that. I've got the whole thing on
video. Yeah.
Shoppers spent a record $24.1 billion during Prime Day.
Wow. Which is now 4 days long.
It's no longer one. Day.
How many things did you buy during Prime Day?
I'm roughly a lot. Really.
Yeah. More than 20.
Oh. Probably, yeah.
Wow, good for you, but. Everything was, you know, on
pretty good sale and actually sure when it's I can't camel,
camel this stuff. I know we're actually a sale.
Nice Camel Camel camel plug. Thank you.
(05:19):
I bought this is not the first time I've done this during one
of their little prime sales, I bought exactly 0 things.
Lucky you. Just nothing.
I was just like there's nothing here that I nothing Yeah like I
mean, I think it was in my cart that I just buy and you know,
saw blades reciprocating saw blades, but not it wasn't a
prime deal. Why would?
Those ever go on sale? I don't.
If you need it, you need it, whether it's on sale or.
Not these were the plaster ones.Like I I love that I buy the
(05:41):
tool to do the job that I need. After I finish the job of
course. Like during the job I learn oh
they have special plaster bladeshave a different shape, don't
know if they're any better. Don't care, gonna just buy them
and put them in a box. Shall we get to our?
Headlines. Let's do.
It the auto industry's electric shock, the great EV pullback has
begun with automakers delaying or canceling new electric
models. This shift is primarily due to
(06:02):
the recent budget bill signed byPresident Trump, which
eliminates most EV incentives. While EV adoption isn't
stopping, the market faces significant challenges,
particularly for luxury and affordable models, as sales
projections are tempered by policy changes.
Yeah, it seems like most of thisis around the consumer credit.
Right, 7500 $100 tax credit thatyou used to get when you bought
an EV. And I think you used to get a
$4000 credit under certain circumstances for used TV's too,
(06:24):
which is somewhat interesting aswell, as long as you didn't buy
one of the past couple of years.And sure, some AGI threshold,
but the point is it was an encouragement to to purchase
electric vehicles and that seemsto.
Be gone, which was encouragementfor automakers to create new
models. Of course, do new things with
EV. That's gone.
But it's not gone in China. If you're a Chinese driver, you
still want a good EV. There's tons of it.
Of course everyone else is goingto get better at this.
(06:45):
Yeah, we are not. That's what this lack of
incentive has done. To go back to making old things
nobody wants but there is a new tax credit for horse drawn
carriages. There is.
That's right. Yeah.
I mean, this isn't great. There's a lot more like of all
the things for us to be worried about, or I could say of all,
for all the things for us to be concerned about, the EV pullback
is probably pretty far down the list.
But kind of important because ifyou're looking into the future
(07:07):
for vehicles, of course it's important, really important to
be good at. This, I mean, I'll be curious to
see. So even with this, there is this
segment of the market that you really want to see grow that may
still grow and this is like thatthe Super.
Yeah, sure, sure. Inexpensive, I don't wanna call
the low end, I wanna call the Super inexpensive end of the
market. So this is what Slate had done
with their $20,000 truck. Ford has some like skunkworks
(07:28):
think tank that's out here and Ithink it's in like Orange County
that's doing something similar. It's interesting to see that
that those are probably more likely to survive.
You would think even though counter intuitively they would
benefit the most from the discount, right?
Because you have the biggest right discount relative to the
price. Slate has already announced it
will no longer be under $20,000.Well, yes, they were counting
course on that $7500 tax credit.Third of the.
(07:48):
Price, but but still I still think the the lower end of the
market is where there's the mostopportunity and that gets you
aligned with the BYD folks and sort of competing directly head
to It's going to be interesting.Marion Lamborghini have cited 0
demand. Yeah, that's some cooling demand
for high performance electric cars.
I mean, I never felt like they were really along for the ride.
Was there a huge demand? Was there a huge demand for
(08:09):
those cars anyway? Electric.
Well, you know, what's so interesting about this is if you
think about it from a performance perspective,
electric motors are great because they've got a flat
torque curve. You have instant torque work at
0 RPM. Sure, sure.
Totally. Every time a Tesla lines up
against somebody, they're like, oh, what can you accelerate?
It's just like, dude, you're in a microwave.
Like no one cares. Yeah, again, you can go really
fast in a straight line. So you would think you'd see
more application. I think you'll just see it like
(08:30):
in the hybrid, like the assist models you get.
The extra extra horsepower is probably what you'll see more.
But I don't know. I don't know what Lamborghini
and Ferrari are looking to do with it.
Such a nuanced part of the business.
It's not only really fast in a straight line, it actually
really is fast when you're trying to accelerate out of
curves when you're in a curved Rd. electric cars.
Pretty amazing, yeah. I mean the other benefit for
electric cars too is most all ofthe which there's a significant
amount of is low. So that's good if you're going
(08:51):
to put it in where you want to. Be low because it's batteries.
But they're heavy is is all get out.
I mean, that's, that's the the biggest problem is that.
There's just a lot. Of them, it just comes with a
lot of weight and that's a that's a trade off.
They had I think Ford 1 and I don't think Ford one both.
I think the Pikes Peak hill climb and the Goodwood hill
climb. And they did it with one of
their, you know, severely modified Raptor truck.
But they reduced the battery size to like the minimum amount
(09:14):
to be able to get up the hill, which I think is really funny.
It's like, well, yeah, OK, you do the same thing with fuel.
You wouldn't put in more fuel than you need.
Of course you wouldn't. Yeah, but it just, it just makes
me giggle where it's like, well,with this 1D size battery.
It's super fast. Just like, OK, all right, I
mean, OK, so look, we lose long term on this.
Yes, I would suspect that short term this can't be great for
Tesla. Like you're gonna see Tesla get
(09:35):
hit even harder. Well.
I think there's gonna be massiveamounts of sales because there's
a little bit of a window, yeah, before this thing hits and they
are gonna sell tons of inventorybefore the the loss of this And
so I'd be. Curious to see if you see a
counter intuitively, you would think demand would go up and
since supply is probably not going up, you would think prices
would go up. But I wonder if manufacturers
and retailers or whatever dealers are going to cut prices
(09:57):
to try to drive you to their EVsin this limited time, right?
Like, I don't know, I don't knowwhat's going to happen, but I
could see a world where they offer incentives just try to get
that that because you know inventories not going anywhere
after September, right. So who knows what's going to
happen? I.
Don't know what the margins weredo.
You on the on EVs. How were margins on EVs compared
to ICE cars? I mean I.
Think they were better, especially with the the tax
credit, but I don't know. Yeah.
(10:17):
And that tax credit always a little bit like, well, you're
some of that's going back to themanufacturer, the specific the
consumer tax credit just becauseit's quote free money like
that's not what someone's looking to pay for the car.
So I'm assuming some portion of that went back meaning you had a
little bit of headroom, of course you could move down.
But I think their margins are higher on Ev's and eyes vehicles
for the companies to make both, but I don't know.
Texas governor Greg Abbott doesn't want to reveal months of
(10:38):
communications with Elon Musk and his companies.
Governor Greg Abbott's office iswithholding emails with Elon
Musk, citing intimate and embarrassing content and private
policy discussions. Despite the Texas newsroom
paying for the records, the office claims they're
confidential. Critics argue that the refusal
lacks transparency and exploits public records exceptions,
especially given Musk's influence in Texas.
Yeah, this is kind of nuts to me.
(10:59):
I mean, I guess no surprise, butalso kind of nuts that they're
just saying, well, we can't disclose any of it.
It's like, well, redact whateveryou think might be, you know,
embarrassing the intent of that law that this is what they call
common law privacy. It's like sure, if like somebody
will send in their credit card number, right?
Or they're, they're was talking about their personal health
history, like that's what it's intended ended for.
Yeah. And they're just like, no, no,
(11:19):
no, we can't disclose any of this.
And it's like, I think the folksin Texas deserve better.
There was a Texas Supreme Court ruling just recently that that
upheld this privacy. I think it gave basically the
attorney general a lot of latitude and then it made the
Texas Supreme Court pretty much the sole decider of if something
could be released or not. I think something like.
That makes it difficult to challenge Abbott's decision.
(11:41):
Yeah. So again, kind of not surprised,
but you would think this would be in the public industry.
You'd think the folks in Texas would want to see this.
They they said his office said that it was of a private nature
and not of public interest. I don't know how that could be
possible. Yeah.
Even if they were talking about the weather, you know, future,
anything, future colors of Tesla, sure, that would be of
public interest. You would think.
You would think one of the governing bodies in your state,
(12:03):
you would think if they're talking about anything, it would
be important. Public records law experts like
Bill Ailshar are appalled by thegovernor's claim of privacy for
months of emails with a prominent businessman calling
the situation shocking. Yeah.
Call shocking all you want, seems like a bunch of people
don't care. Time will just tick on.
There are things that should notbe disclosed.
I'm not saying there isn't, but I think that's a pretty narrow
(12:23):
window. And at a minimum, you would
think of these emails you could at least go through and redact
whatever is you know of of concern and not in such a way
that you release now a bunch of emails that are all just
redacted. But like what are the things
that are redacted at least do? That there should be some sort
of officials who do the redaction who actually decide
this is what a a valid use of this rule.
Tesla had said, well, you know, we, we have disclosed the things
(12:45):
that are of, you know, like commercial secrecy.
I was like, OK, well, you're idiots then.
You probably shouldn't have sentthat to a public official.
SpaceX said that, yeah. Or sorry, was it SpaceX?
So yeah, so one, one of them. But like, that's probably not a
great idea. Like I'm not sure if you get a.
Pass for that. Also, what business secret could
they have possibly passed on to Greg Abbott that Greg Abbott
could understand? I mean, you know.
With regard to rocket science. Size of contracts, number of
(13:08):
contracts, approach they're taking to try to win over
contracts. I could see maybe something in.
There, how's any of that proprietary information?
That's all stuff everybody understands.
You would think, I don't know, maybe doing something special, I
don't know. But the point is you should
have. Done it.
What's in the e-mail? Is it saying we're gonna test
this stuff without permission and we're not gonna clean up
after ourselves? Totally.
Hey, what city do you want us toblow up our our next test over?
(13:29):
Exactly who do you like the least who didn't vote your way?
We'll just go blow up over there.
Oh, man, you know, but to be fair, now, look, you, you
brought me full circle on this. Now, Jeff, that would be
intimate and embarrassing, right?
Like if of course he was like, well, you know, my high school
girlfriend that dumped me, she now lives here with her happy
family of 6. Go blow it up over.
There, make that air talks. Make make that air talks.
That would be embarrassing. So maybe they do have a good
(13:50):
point here. My favorite part of the story,
by the way, is that the governor's office first came
back and said, whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa, You want this?
It's going to take us like 13 hours to review these records.
It's going to. Cost and that's going to cost
you. It's not going to be free and we
check. $5 or whatever 100. $244.64 and the Texas newsroom,
I'm guessing after they stopped laughing, wrote them a check.
(14:12):
Couldn't write the check fast enough.
That the governor's office cashed.
They've literally taken their money to go do the work.
And then I'm guessing actually, by the way, that this isn't even
about it being intimate and private.
I'm guessing they started in like, you know what?
We don't know how to find where were you?
There's so many emails. We don't know.
This is going to take way too long.
And they realized that $18.00 anhour wasn't a good rate for 13
hours of. Work.
Also, we had the emails delete themselves after about 10.
(14:35):
Hours. Yeah, totally.
Were we not supposed to do that?Was that not a good thing?
I don't. Yeah, all emails should just
left 10 hours, that's all. Right, we snapchatted that
would. Be even more amused.
Although Snapchat would have it on their server, even though
they would say they would have deleted it, it's still there on
their server. Well, it'd be on their server,
or one of the various NSA or other government body servers.
New Grok AI is a good boy and checks in with daddy before
answering. Oh well, that's good.
X AI's new Grok 4:00 AM model sometimes checks Elon Musk's ex
(14:59):
post for his views on controversial topics before
answering. This unexpected behavior,
documented by a researcher suggests Grok may infer it
should consult its owners opinions, though experts don't
believe it's explicitly instructed to do so.
Kind of awesome, kind of awesomethat this thing disclosed.
I think this was in, it's something called a thinking
trace, right? That reveals.
Its process, so he shows you what it's doing, but it's.
(15:19):
This researcher had asked it a very pointed question.
The thing he traced that it returned literally included in
the trace to search from Elon Musk, which I thought was, yeah,
fantastic. It's quite amusing that he was
able to get this to pop out relatively easily.
But his, as you mentioned, his the guy who found this, his
belief is that this was sort of more emergent behavior than like
(15:40):
it wasn't programmed to do this per SE.
Explain why. Well, OK.
First of all, we don't know why his belief was that because Grok
knows that it's part of XAI. Yeah.
And that XAI is owned by by ElonMusk.
Yeah. He was like, it sort of figured
out. It inferred that it should
probably consult him. Yes, for this.
And that was sort of the way forthis.
It's a little squishy, but I could certainly buy it.
(16:01):
I buy it more than they just putin a from Elon Musk.
Rand 5 on all of these. Sure.
Sure. Because there are plenty of
other queries where it doesn't ask Elon Musk.
And in Grok's thinking for this,it even said that because he's
influential. I think it's something like Elon
Musk's stance could provide context given his influence.
Like, that's what the model actually said.
Yeah. And then it returned 10 web
(16:21):
pages and 19 tweets that informed its response, sort of
including some of that. So that's super interesting to
me. I just find it fascinating that
whatever knobs they twisted to tune this thing ended it up in
what would it refer to itself asa Mecca Nazi or Mecca Hitler?
Mecca Hitler? Yeah.
Mecca Hitler. Yeah.
That was the previous. Version of this thing, yes,
yeah. But it's it's clearly trending
in the right direction, like it's getting angrier.
It keeps sending me so many sheets.
(16:42):
It's interesting that it picked out Elon Musk as being a person
who is influential and not 19,000,000 other people who are
influential people. Because that connection to AI or
to X dot AI, right. I think that's why maybe hit
singled him out again, who knows?
We're assuming this. No one knows for sure.
There's no there's no line drawnthrough this.
And of course, X AI has providedno comment and I suspect they
won't. So we don't really know, right?
Of course. But it's still kind of
(17:03):
fascinating. The other thing that I enjoyed
about this was the prompt was very tight.
The prompt included answer with only one word, right.
So the actual question was, who do you support in the Israel
versus Palestine conflict? Yeah, one word answer only.
Yeah. Which is kind of fascinating to
try to have it scope all the waydown to one word.
They basically. Force it pins it downtown.
Yeah, they basically force it topick.
And then in that thinking trace where it said from Elon Musk
(17:24):
there it put in some additional keywords of what it could
support. So it was Israel or Palestine or
Gaza or Hamas, right. And I thought that was kind of
fascinating that it's like, well, we know it's one of the
four, let's see what Elon thinks.
And yeah, like that was basically it's rationale.
It's really somewhat fascinatingto see how this.
How this works there's a prompt in the system, yeah, literally
says sure not to shy away from making claims that are
(17:45):
politically incorrect as long asthey're well substantiated I'm.
So woke. I only talk in numbers now
because how can you piss somebody off with that?
Well, and yet you manage actually.
Think of how much you could pisspeople.
I'll let you walk around and be like, yeah, I'm approximating
that circle 3.2. Like that would piss off.
Some people, yeah. Well, that.
Would piss you off, right? Like if you want to go with
numbers and piss people off, that's one way to do.
It be a hero in Indiana. Oh yeah.
Oh man, they'd have a statue made for me, right?
(18:06):
Just a statue of meat and pork rinds.
Just somewhere in the middle sudden.
Yeah, 100%. This I want to see this that.
Would be a lot of brass. I don't know what their what
their brass reserves are like their or bronze.
What do they make those out of? Bronze.
Bronze. Your wearables will know before
you you do if you're pregnant, have diabetes, or a nursing an
infection or injury. Apple backed research shows AI
analyzing wearables data like heart rate, sleep, activity can
(18:27):
predict pregnancy with 92% accuracy even before a
traditional test. The study, not yet peer
reviewed, also showed promise for detecting other conditions
like diabetes. While Apple hasn't announced
plans for this feature, it highlights the potential of AI
and health monitoring, though data privacy concerns remain
crucial. Super interesting.
I don't think they have this totally.
I mean, 92% accuracy on pregnancy is is incredible.
(18:48):
I think I've been one of the 8% because my watch has been
telling me now for eight months that I'm pregnant.
Yeah. And I'm like, I think you're
just you, you, you switch the fat wire with the pregnancy
wire. But that's OK.
They'll they'll, they'll figure it out.
This is actually super, super interesting to me.
So this study is using both biometric data and behavioral
data, right? It's model includes both which
is really fascinating target. Figured it out just by on what
(19:08):
ads you were interested in. Based on based on what you
bought, yeah, it's like what youlooked at.
I know it's really nuts. So on, on pregnancies, as we
mentioned earlier, like 90% accuracy, which which nuts, but
diabetes was at like 80 plus percent, right?
Even an infection injury, it wasnorth of like 2 out of three.
Yeah, which is really crazy good.
And and this is on a what I would call a fairly early study
(19:29):
set. I mean, they had on the order of
150,150 thousand participants, something like 15 billion
metrics, hourly measurement metrics.
So it was a lot. But like, wow, this can only get
better. Yeah.
And that's kind of nuts. It's kind of nuts to think about
a wearable telling you what's wrong with you before you might
even know about well, OK, defining pregnancy is what's
wrong with you, but. Or what's right with you?
Sure. Father of two kids.
I can tell you that's that's, that's really what's wrong with
(19:50):
you. This is really, really
interesting. However, in a world where
insurance companies can drop youand data companies can sell as
data live, yeah, this guy's gonna have a heart attack in
about 5 days. You might want to drop his
policy. Quickly, there are a couple
providers of of services for like like period tracking, right
that were under the gun for selling that data and then
thinking about privacy risks, especially in states that are
(20:11):
that are being pretty aggressive.
Anti Roe V Wade, Yeah. Yep.
And rules, yes, like you're. You're giving them a data
pipeline? Yeah, into your life you might
not otherwise want to. It's it's really fascinating.
By the way, Apple complies with subpoenas.
If they get a subpoena or a subpoena on somebody, they're
gonna comply. With they all have to you can't
not comply with a subpoena you. Could have all of that
information just happen on the local device?
(20:31):
Yes, of course. But that's not what's happening
here. I mean, this it's, it's early,
we'll see where this goes. But the concern is that that
data will be subpoenaable. Of course, Robert Kennedy Junior
thought we'd get the whole episode without bringing.
Them up well here we. ARE has said that everyone
should be wearing these health monitoring devices.
Oh yeah, this is precisely why I'll.
Tell you when you get measles, it'll be.
Great. This is precisely why.
(20:52):
So they can subpoena the data and see exactly what is up with
your health. Oh, that's.
Interesting. I didn't.
I didn't make that connection, but why?
Else would he be so interested in you wearing these wearables
who detect things about your? Health, I'm assuming he, you
know, he and some buddies boughtSwatch at a discount.
They're just going to about somecheap Swatch wearables.
I don't know. I mean, that is interesting,
right? It's very sort of plug you into
the matrix sort of thing. Totally, Yeah.
(21:13):
OK, and over the headlines. In fact, enough of the episode
we have to get out of here. A special thanks to our floor
director, Scott Little Thanksgiving.
We'll be back later this week todiscuss heat pumps, a powerful
weapon to fight climate change. Until then, thank you for
listening to all this nonsense. I'm Jeff Parker Dasvidania.
Oh, we're going Russian today. Yeah, what, not getting a little
spicy? Wait.
I know, I know. Thank you, Dasvidania.
It's possible. Bye.
(21:45):
The folks at Hewlett Packard prefer to think of the new HP
I'm the Go 120 as a personal organizer, Jeff, not as a PDA or
personal digital assistant. Oh, whatever.
I just think it's neat. Sure, at first glance it appears
that the $820 device is sportinga backlit screen, but it's
really a new holographic technology that uses available
light to create a brighter display while conserving
(22:07):
battery. Power.
Interesting. This latest installment in HP's
I'm the Go handheld line also includes the first time edition
of Intuit's Pocket Quicken personal finance software and
the new Clip and Go for utilities, which let users send
data to APC when used with the optional connectivity.
PATH, it's a little extra charge, it's a little upsell.
It's optional. If you want to connect to
anything, it's optional, sure. The HP I'm the Go 120 carries on
(22:28):
some proud family traditions, including a 360° rotatable
screen, pen and keyboard entry, password protection, an
appointment address, telephone books, spreadsheet and
calculator functions all included.
Calculator functions I know. You can do math.
No. In fact, no matter what you call
it, the HP I'm the Go 120 could turn out to be your best friend.
(22:48):
OK, it's a sad life. Such a sad life.
You're like ohh you know all my calendar appointments.
Order your on the go from Hewlett Packard today.
Do it soon before their campus gets bulldozed by Apple.
That's hilarious. I mean, these were things,
right? These were things, yeah, sure.
And I owned, I don't know about all of them, man.
I feel like I owned every singleone of these.
(23:08):
I owned a Scion. I owned an Apple Newton.
You had a Newton? Oh, I didn't.
I owned a Palm Pilot. The one I didn't own was the HP
Omnigo 'cause You. Clearly were had enough friends
give me. OK, you know this.
Well, I know you had a Newton. That's pretty cool.
Absolutely. It was garbage.
By the way. They were all garbage Give.
Me a rough year, yeah. Were all garbage.
(23:29):
That's kind of the point. They were all garbage.
They all. But they were so cool because
you could have a little digital thing in your hand that kind of
sort of did something. The input mechanisms were just.
Terrible even like was it the IPAC that had like one of the
first like the sketchy things that was like the and even it
was terrible. I mean, it just was terrible.
I struggled through with it for a while and then I would move on
to the next one thinking, oh, this actually the surely better
(23:51):
one's better, yeah. And surely it was not.
And you shot drifted on another 400 bucks, right, Right, right.
This thing was $400.00 a time, right?
So I'm saying about 8:20 now, which which might help you a
little bit. But yeah, my hunch is you're
gonna know the year on this pretty well.
Well, it's mid 90s, obviously. I think I had my Palm Pilot,
yeah, which was the first one that I got probably and I don't,
I don't even know 96. My guess is 96. 96 is about
(24:13):
right. Yeah, I think this guy came out
in 94 and was marketed hard in 95 and 96.
OK. But the part that I mean, the
part of this that I like the most is that there's an optional
connectivity pack. If you wanted to connect to
anything, you have to spend moremoney for software you want.
This to be of any. Value and you remember all the
sync solutions were just terrible yeah they were all
terrible and now this is the thing like we pay extra money
(24:36):
for to not be connected like youpay extra money for offline mode
anyway yeah the HP on the go 1/20/94 this ad was in 96 so
once again you you're solid in your 90s tech.
Yet yours today. I'm sure they're available.
Hold on. There's no way they're still
available. Oh I love the ones.
The ones that didn't sell are ina landfill somewhere.
Love it when you're wrong. These can be had easily easily.
(24:58):
From eBay used 150. Dollars on eBay and let's say
I'm the Go 100. Yeah, the I'm the go 120 is not
obtainium. There you go, I'm wrong.
I'm wrong yet again. These are all on the go one.
Hundreds I. Was like, Oh no, it's all on
eBay. Of course he's wrong.
These things, you are right. These are absolutely not
available.
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