Episode 628: Beating Yourself Up at Scale

An important discussion about aging as examined and explained through the lens of James Howlett. 

Merlin thinks LLMs have raised the bar for voice assistants in general and Siri in particular. Dan and his kid watch the excellent HBO series, Chernobyl. Merlin’s weird, truncated contexts in Things. 

How often do YOU hold eye contact? Why or why not? If you’re like Ted and Lisa of the Monster Baby Podcast, there’s a lot there—for both mindfulness and improv—within the world and practice of eye contact. After a short improvisational riff on raccoons (1:32), Ted introduces his ...  Show more

<ul> <li>Follow-up: <ul> <li>YouTube API weirdness (via Christian Selig)</li> <li>John’s [latest] Photoshop complaint</li> <li>€0.50 is “50 cents”</li> <li>Prescription lens pairing</li> <li ...  Show more

For a special Vergecast holiday episode, The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Chris Welch talk to three industry experts about the new HDMI 2.1 standard: Polygon's front page editor Samit Sarkar, Vizio CTO Bill Baxter, and HDMI Forum president David Glen. The Vergecast crew ...  Show more

This episode touches on evil eye and what it is, and the ways it can manifest into - as well as some real life stories of it.

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