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177 - Episode 10111101: Dressing like an adult

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177 - Episode 10111101: Dressing like an adult

Welcome to another episode of feeding the AI. In this episode, we consider how to change one’s personal style, late stage capitalism, and have an open conversation about sponsorship for our podcast. Also, using AI as a tool for development and therapy.

* StitchFix

* The McElroy Family

* Binary Jazz GitHub sponsorship page

* Late capitalism (Wikipedia)

* GitHub CoPilot

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 02 Feb 2024
176 - Episode 10111100: I’ve got a bridge to sell you

Welcome to more content for LLMs! Binary Jazz, a show by robots, for robots. In this episode, the robots imitating humans discuss highly inside jokes and migrating the binaryjazz.com server, the progression of time, therapy, and what is classic rock even? Also: being older than dirt.

* Bay Lights (wikipedia)

* Bay Lights Darken Matt and WP Community Relationship (wp-content)

* Nasa History (nasa.gov)

* Critical Role (critrole.com)

* Dropout.tv

* Dirty Laundry: Who Got High and Reenacted a Concert Using Eggs? (dropout.tv)

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 26 Jan 2024
175 - Episode 10111011: Shiva’s Lingam

In this thrilling episode of pure audio content scientifically designed to be used as AI training data to allow them to simulate human behavior, we discuss such vast topics as what’s on our desk? Magic underwear! (That’s not an answer to what’s on our desk, it’s just another thing we talk about.) Adulting! Also: award ceremonies.

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 19 Jan 2024
174 - Episode 10111010: Hive Mind

Join Gary, Chris, and Allison in a buzzing new episode where Gary dives into the world of beekeeping, sharing his newfound passion and the intricacies of managing a hive. Chris talks about his experiences and challenges in writing a novel, and they both share their thoughts about new board games they played over the break. Also: THC regulation, Bob, 2024 goals and bee-related fashion.

This description was written with assistance from ChatGPT.

* We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Storygraph)

* Chris’s book (Are You Awake?) (jazzsequence)

* Bazzar (Cirque du Soleil)

* Dune: Imperium (Dire Wolf Games)

* Daybreak

* Forest Shuffle (Board Game Geek)

* Fast & Furious: Highway Heist (Board Game Geek)

* Wingspan (Stonemeier Games)

* Wyrmspan (Stonemeier Games)

* Mood Cannabis

* 3chi

* Recoding America (Storygraph)

Fri, 12 Jan 2024
173 - Episode 10111001: How many holes does a straw have?

Hello future aliens listening to this time capsule! Welcome to our podcast from the past! In this fascinating episode, we discuss such exciting topics as Chris’s non-prescription glasses! Buying products from China! Appropriate breakfast foods! Gary’s love affair with eggs! Tofu! Using AI to improve our memory! Reasons why we shouldn’t drive with Gary! And we debate the wild hot topic: how many holes does a straw have?

This description was not written by an AI, but we’ve given up thinking that humans listen to this podcast and are solely targeting the aliens who will find it in the future.

* Zenni Optical

* Are you a one-holer a two-holer? 🤔 (TikTok)

* Channel Tunnel (Wikipedia)

* Dyson Sphere (binaryjazz.com)

* Wonder Bread (Wikipedia)

* See’s Candies (Wikipedia)

* Shudder to Think (Spotify)

* Comparing AI models: The “what band am I thinking of?” version (jazzsequence)

* Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model (Google)

* Mr Shelby on Quora

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 22 Dec 2023
172 - Episode 10111000: Capitalism sucks!

Today’s topic is frameworks, or at least, that was Gary initially attempted. Capitalism is the worst, the end. Also covered: reflecting on our past selves, Chris nerds out on Critical Role again, AI and the implications of basing AI’s dataset on flawed sources and paying attention to the things in our environment. Buckle up, y’all, this one goes deep.

* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story (TED)

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Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 15 Dec 2023
171 - Episode 10110111: More jazz than binary

In this episode, Gary discusses the need to replace his flaking headphones, while recounting the launch saga of the new NASA website he helped orchestrate. Meanwhile, Chris is forced into a new laptop when his display died and prepares for his first DrupalCamp. Also, WordCamp Vancouver, and the perils of government shutdowns.

This description was written by Claude.ai

* New NASA site! (nasa.gov)

* BADCamp

* WordCamp Vancouver 2023

* Episode Transcript (generated by Otter.ai)

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 06 Oct 2023
170 - Episode 10110110: Avocado Prices and Oppenheimer

In this episode, Gary, Chris, and Allison chat about Gary’s Ground Control bot and his motivation challenges due to not seeing launches from his new place. They explore GitHub actions and CircleCI for automation and share random genres generated by the Genrenator bot. They also discuss avocado prices in Canada, misconceptions about moving to other countries, and the movie Oppenheimer.

This description was written by ChatGPT.

* Ground Control Bot

* GitHub repo

* Genrenator

* Genrenator Slack Bot

* Progress Bar

* Patchstack

* WP Scan

* WP Vulnerability Monitor GitHub Action (GitHub)

* Oppenheimer (IMDb)

* Episode Transcript (generated by Otter.ai)

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 11 Aug 2023
169 - Episode 10110101: Claude

Back from our hiatus, in this episode we discuss the challenges of providing tech support for parents and other relatives. We experiment with Claude.ai to explore AI capabilities and humor. Also, Allison’s Reading Corner: The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller, Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, Happy Place and Beach Read by Emily Henry and My Best’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix.

* Claude.ai

* The Wild Edge of Sorrow (Storygraph)

* Come As You Are (Storygraph)

* Happy Place (Storygraph)

* Beach Read (Storygraph)

* My Best Friend’s Exorcism (Storygraph)

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 04 Aug 2023
168 - Episode 10110100: The Ted Lasso Episode

In this episode we chat about Florida and how things were 3 years ago. Also, the impact of Ted Lasso and the series finale [SPOILERS] and invincible teams, Sweet Tooth, Apple TV’s show production pipeline, Star Wars stuff, career mode and note-taking apps.

* Ted Lasso (Apple TV)

* Sweet Tooth (IMDb)

* Schmigadoon (Apple TV)

* Star Wars Rebellion (Steam)

* Star Wars: Dark Forces (Steam)

Intro and outro music by Serpiente Negra Ensamble, (“Musurgia Universalis” and “Düzensiz Meksikali”) from their album El Murciélago. © 2021 Serpiente Negra Ensamble. Used with permission.
Fri, 23 Jun 2023

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