2026-04-16 09:24:33
Creative Conversations
Designed for creative thinkers interested in how ideas become artworks...
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Creative Conversations
Designed for creative thinkers interested in how ideas become artworks...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/creative-conversations/
Leading Conversations With Vice-Chancellor Alex Zelinsky
Professor Alex Zelinsky, Vice Chancellor of the University of Newcastle, interviews alumni about their achievements...
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Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web
https://www.wired.com/story/sears-exposed-ai-chatbot-phone-calls-and-text-chats-to-anyone-on-the-web/
The Pentagon has met with senior executives of Ford Motor and General Motors
to gauge whether the auto industry could help the military acquire vehicles, munitions or other hardware more quickly and at lower costs.
The conversations are in the very early stages, and relate to the possible production of components by the companies, not entire weapons systems.
No specific projects are currently being negotiated, the people said.
The discussions with automakers underscore …
"How Do We Make Reading Truly Accessible? A Conversation With Thomas Kahlisch"
https://blog.degruyter.com/how-do-we-make-reading-truly-accessible-a-conversation-with-thomas-kahlisch/
"Whether for pleasure o…
The Innocence Project and StoryCorps Studios have recorded more than 30 intimate conversations about wrongful convictions. These videos show what exonerees have gone through and are still going through as they try to adjust to life after prison.
https://innocenceproject.org/storycorps/
Schoen: Giants have had 'really good' conversations with Dexter Lawrence reps after trade request https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7197092/2026/04/14/new-york-giants-dexter-lawrence-trade-request/
EMpowered
Through conversations at the intersection of parenting, relationships, leadership and business, the show explores emotional intelligence and nervous system regulation as the foundation for how we show up in the world...
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I feel like using QQ, Douyin, Weibo, Bilibili, etc. would be an effective means of subverting this Western push toward mandatory online ID and all its attendant baggage. I don't personally care if the Chinese spy on my inane conversations, and I don't really spend much time talking about Tiananmen Square. The enemy of my enemy, and so forth.
AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…
AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
It seems the #threats from #AI are many and varied. And the legislation addressing dangers from AI seemed to focus on an AI intent on killing off humans, rather than the myriad problems we are slowly identifying - mu…
Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful AI, which offers AI agents that can handle customer conversations across voice, chat, and more, raised $150M at a $2B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Update from later in the day in MSP:
I’ve heard or uttered variations on the phrase “I’ll believe it when I see it” in numerous conversations through out the day. That seems to be the prevailing sentiment. People are willing to be hopeful, but nobody’s counting their chickens just yet.
In Good Hands: Conversations With A Fertility Surgeon
Dr Alex Alexander will use expertise in his three fields — fertility, gynaecology and obstetrics —to give some clarity and hope to people facing infertility, as well as share his experience with managing high-risk pregnancies and complex gynaecological concerns...
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»Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations:
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.«
On the one hand, I don't understand the people who use it, but on the other hand, a company that people don't care about because people are a product.
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Sources: Paramount CEO David Ellison met with Trump last week for two conversations; Trump has said he will stay out of Netflix-Paramount competition for WBD (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/media/david-ellison-tr…
I spent 4 hours today talking to 2 graduate seminars, 1 in each official language. In both, we had wide-ranging conversations on evidence, methodology, theory, concepts, the literature, the discipline, publicly engaged scholarship, and more. The students were engaged, inquisitive, humane, and brilliant. This is why I wanted this job. A damn good day.
Mum To Mum With Doctor Tash
Honest, heart-centred conversations about raising emotionally healthy kids, one connection at a time...
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Follow-up: a version of #1 for visibly-to-a-user already exists in at least one client:
https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2.10.0-release.html#anti-harassment-controls-for-conversations-private-mentions
Having it happen at the server level where the post gets dropped would be better.
Thanks @… for the pointer to the fediverse ideas repository:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues
It's so difficult to have conversations with this person.
Me: "Do you come here a lot?"
Reply: "Mmm-hm! I've never been here before."
Adelaide Property Pod
Each episode explores market trends, investment opportunities and conversations with the people shaping South Australia's property landscape...
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“The core idea is that your conversations with an AI assistant should be as private as your conversations with a person. Not because you’re doing something wrong, but because privacy is what lets you think freely.”
Moxie Marlinspike, Confessions to a data lake https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confess
Moneyball - The Business Of Sport
Hosted by brand expert and experienced storyteller Scott Keenan, the show dives into the intersection of sport, money and culture, with open, commercially focused conversations that go behind the big decisions shaping modern sport in Australia and around the world...
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Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations https://www.404media.co/massive-ai-chat-app-leaked-millions-of-users-private-conversations/
I've been wondering: will future historians have more public records to go through, or less? It's fascinating to read through letters and telegraphs of Albert Einstein, yet I wonder whether our digitized world will leave the same trace. While on the one hand public figures share a lot more personal information on the internet, which will always be preserved through articles, replies, screenshots etc., chat conversations, which somewhat replace letters, are encrypted, often with disappearing …
From today's #pokopia conversations
Giants have had 'productive' talks with Lawrence https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48487499/giants-had-productive-talks-dexter-lawrence
Jisc report: 'Student perceptions of AI 2025' https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/student-perceptions-of-ai-2025
'A report on how students view artificial intelligence, how they are using it, and their concerns and hopes, based on conversations with…
WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/whatsapp-c…
« Vous n’avez pas de regrets de devoir tuer ? » : dans le Transsibérien, chroniques de soldats russes de retour d’Ukraine
https://www.lemonde.fr…
I think he plans to try to sleep with the peace treaty.
He plans to use a double sided ceasefire. Ew.
#USpol
There are a couple of other tricks you could try if have any doubts that the voice you are conversing with might not be human.
You could, for example, ask it to scream.
Many Al-voice programs struggle to speak outside the normal range, unless they have been specifically trained to, said Nicoletti.
I asked ChatGPT to do it and it told me it couldn't.
RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@daisy/116312358923253621
This. The conversations are incredibly fraught. I hear this over and over
.. and also, the flip side. Anyone who finds it useful tends to find the need to keep it hush-hush on the fediverse. It's really preventing the "how do we steer" harm-avoiding conversations from happening. The net result is that only the careless touch the stuff. It’s not a good time.
Substack launches the Substack Recording Studio, letting creators prerecord videos with up to two guests, share screens, and auto-generate clips and thumbnails (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/substack-launches-a-built-in-recor…
Video: Relationships and Commitments: Land Beyond Ownership
Part of the Learning Series, Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair There are ways to exist in harmony with all of creation that cultivate the soul and a relationship with the Divine. Hussein Rashid and Rabbi Gordon Tucker bring Muslim and Jewish texts into dialogue to explore how religious traditions resist transactional relationships with the earth and…
I finally got out and did a #POTA activation using only my QMX. Most of this was on a 20m EFHW, and then I did a few QSOs on a random wire through a tuner.
It didn't start out well. I couldn't figure out why no one was responding to me. I finally discovered that when I last used the QMX I was showing it to someone at a ham club gathering and had put the CW keyer in practice mode. 🤡 I …
Things like the #NoKings protests may feel like they're not enough, but they can be useful for building that network. Asking neighbors if they're going can help open up conversations, can lead to more conversations, can provide openings to find ways to escalate resistance, and can let you build what you need to feel safe going hard if you realize it's time.
Protests directly against facilities and other direct actions are small escalations that let you build trust and understand your network. If you want to know where you need to be, look at Twin Cities. That is the type of response that makes the machine grind to halt.
Make that happen everywhere and more escalation may not be necessary. And, if it is necessary to escalate more, that level of community organizing makes all other forms of escalation sustainable.
🎩 A background historian compresses older conversation parts into structured summaries while the main agent keeps working — no pause, no interruption. The agent never summarizes its own history.
💾 Cross-session memory: architecture decisions, naming conventions & user preferences survive session restarts. New conversations start with everything the previous session learned.
»Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription. Using the free version? Delete the app, because your conversations still feed the machine. Then try an alternative, and tell at least one person why.« https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026…
@…
At the neighborhood party you may be asked to wear a name tag with your first name. The initial contact and conversation is more relaxed as no one wants to talk about their work. Your neighbors want to know how you feel about that ungodly reno going on down the street, share stories about your kids, and swap anecdotes about pets. Definitely cats... lots of cat sharing. It's a community where no one is selling, no one is recording data, and there's no unfathomable app pushing conversations into your group. The goal is to go home feeling closer to your community and more empathy for its members.
“[Florida's education commissioner] encouraged families to have conversations with students about the ‘importance of not allowing civic engagement to detract from time in the classroom.’”
AKA asking parents in a so called “parental rights” state to help suppress their children’s 1A rights to freedom of speech and assembly
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2026/02/03/florida-education-commissioner-gives-guidance-on-student-ice-protests/88495396007/
U.S. Senator and YDS alum Chris Coons '92 M.A.R., '92 J.D. on American Conversations with Heather Cox Richardson! Watch the video here.
https://www.facebook.com/events/26854423997479001/
On the one hand, LLMs are planet-destroying bullshit machines, gaslighting our sense of reality by spewing an endless supply of hallucinations.
On the other hand, they can provide a brief yet overwhelmingly mild sense of satisfaction when you convince them to do something silly.
#LLMs #DonnieTurnip
from my link log —
Interactive HTML trees with no JavaScript and no CSS.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/interactive-html-trees-with-no-javascript/
saved 2020-08-13
You can search for any tech guy's name and they plop out of the files.
Besides the shady mail conversations you can see there's also Steven Sinofsky's Retirement Agreement in there for some reason in case you wanted to see how that looks like.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…
Back in the 2000s, I remember having several conversations along the lines of "Could we fire all the developers and just get off-shore Indian developers to write the code cheaper?"
X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat, supporting one-on-one and group conversations via a new voice input icon, as it tests a standalone X Chat spinoff on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/x-brings-back-voice-notes-to-x-chat/
"(In)accessibility in Higher Education and the Myth of the Ideal Academic" by Elizabeth Champion @ De Gruyter Conversations:
https://blog.degruyter.com/inaccessibility-in-higher-education-and-the-myth-of-the-ideal-academic/
Seriously the theme of the next few years are going to be “you can check that, you know. Did you actually check?"
It's going to be tedious. It's going to be super annoying. And it's going to be a good part of what keeps us tethered to conversations that actually work with other people and don't turn into weird factions.
Zeteo’s Asawin Subsaeng reported this week that Trump is directing a furious hunt for people who leaked info to The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for that huge piece about how Trump decided to start this war.
The piece is actually an excerpt from their upcoming book, which is expected to contain still more embarrassing details about the Trump regime.
“In conversations with close aides and advisers, President Trump has loudly demanded to know who in his Cabin…
Between The Flags
We bring you honest conversations, expert insights, and a bit of cheeky fun from the riders, the coaches, and even those amazing folks shaping our sport in Australia and beyond...
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As soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
The Cultural Competence Collective
We lead and cultivate critical conversations about belonging and dignity that equip people to implement culturally responsive changes in themselves, their organisations, and communities...
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US HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is launching a podcast, billing it as a new way to expose "corruption" and "lies" making Americans sick (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-kenn
EAL/D Conversations
Explores features of EAL/D education across NSW government schools, unpacks elements of second language acquisition and highlights practices that support effective teaching and learning for EAL/D students...
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What I learned from candid conversations with Taylen Green, T.J. Parker and others during Senior Bowl week
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/senior-bowl-game-2026-top-prospects/
Encrypt It Already
End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data, puts control over how the data gets used into your hands, and is the best way we have to ensure private conversations remain private. Not enough companies use it as broadly as they should. Learn more here.
— by @…
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Dario Amodei says Anthropic has been "having productive conversations" with the DOD and apologizes for a leaked memo that criticized Trump and Sam Altman (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war
On this International Remembrance Day for the Victims of the #Holocaust, can we please also spare a thought for the victims of the #genocide that is happening right now, right in front of our faces?
What is the point of our remembering the atrocious crimes of the past if we do not strive to pre…
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is not planning to seek reelection, according to people who have spoken to him directly.
The polarizing fixture of Southern California politics has not filed to run again, with less than an hour to go before the deadline.
Two people who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations said Issa told them he was planning to step aside.
An ally of Donald Trump, Issa’s decision could help Democrats win his newly-competitive district in the …
Clinical And Experimental Ophthalmology Conversations
Each episode discusses a recently published manuscript, highlighting key findings, clinical impact and how new evidence is shaping ophthalmic practice...
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Anthropic says Claude "will remain ad-free", users "won't see 'sponsored' links adjacent to" conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think
Null Electronics
From viral music deep dives to long-form artist conversations with Hayden Quinn (Null)...
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"Video Recordings, From Speaker Series to Open Access Repository"
https://doi.org/10.31274/joerhe.24658
"[…] the care, pace, and speakers’ perspectives on how open access and librarianship practices share stories in their collections. Based on the Western Washington University En…
The common thinking in the US is that Trump either blundered his way into the Iran war or was goaded into it by Benjamin Netanyahu.
There’s a bit of truth to the second idea and a lot to the first.
But it’s MBS and the leader of the UAE along with other gulf princes who are really Trump’s guys,
much more than Benjamin Netanyahu.
The way the Trump White House has interwoven US security,
money and geopolitics with them runs much deeper.
And, critically a…
Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…
Talk Therapy
Sharing real, vulnerable, and empowering conversations about life, growth and the human experience, to inspire you to lead with courage, embrace the chaos, and stop letting fear get in the way of living your dream life...
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/musk-altman-tussle-reports-…
Capes Conversations
A weekly podcast celebrating the stories that make the Margaret River Region such a special place to live and visit...
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Accountants After Hours
The podcast for accountants who want honest conversations, real stories, zero fluff and a little bit of industry gossip...
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Meditation With Ashley Brown
Each week you'll find: Simple meditation insights to understand the mind. Guided practices for calm, focus, and inner freedom. Inspiring conversations with my favourite teachers and wisdom keepers...
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Interviews with 100 therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html
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Voices In Vet With Allens Training
It gives a voice to the people behind the training sharing insights, real stories and practical conversations that matter in the day-to-day world of vocational education and first aid training...
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Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868497/google-ai-search-follow-up-questions-gemini-3
Amplify Our Voices: Conversations From Regional Australia
Recorded in the Clarence Valley, bringing real stories into the light. We explore leadership, equality, business, culture and the structural forces shaping women's lives in regional communities...
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Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-fluency-index
Curiously Connected
Conversations that explore behaviour, brains, nervous system, and relationships, and how understanding our own unique wiring might just be the thing that connects us all...
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Life After Divorce: Honest Conversations For Women Podcast
Divorce changes more than a relationship — it can change your identity, confidence, and sense of what comes next...
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It Takes A Village
Unfiltered conversations with working parents in Australia's media and marketing industries...
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The Mojo Sessions
Features in-depth conversations with the world's most interesting people, hosted by Gary Bertwistle...
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The Family Tree
A podcast for parents who want grounded conversations without the overwhelm, hosted by Jess and Bree...
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RABcasts: Industry Leaders Exploring Global Change
Join Dr Suresh de Silva, Sydney radiologist and founder of global charity Radiology Across Borders, for a series of conversations with health and other industry leaders...
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A Voice And Beyond
Through heartfelt conversations and inspiring stories, we take you, our listener, on an incredible journey of connection, growth, and empowerment...
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Yes I Can Solo - The Baby Dream Podcast
Through real conversations with solo parents, therapists, and inspiring voices, you'll hear stories, tools, and insights to trust yourself, create safety in your body, and create a life that supports you, and feel steady in every choice...
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