v36 - Hedgelord

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      <title>v36 - Hedgelord</title>
      <itunes:title>v36 - Hedgelord</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episode>36</itunes:episode>
      <itunes:author>Justin Searls</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>02:24:00</itunes:duration>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>I'm going away on a trip for an unexpectedly long time, and you'll never guess why! (You might guess why.) Anyway, here's something to remember me by.</p>
<p>If you've ever been worried about whether something you cared about would work out okay, email <a href="mailto:podcast@searls.co">podcast@searls.co</a> and tell me about it so that I can share your story with a bunch of strangers on the Internet.</p>
<p>Video of this edition of the show is <a href="https://youtu.be/21j5xWZyKrc">up on YouTube</a>.</p>
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<p>References available upon request:</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/s/wogOVMst7a">Nobody knows how to turn on Vision Pro</a></li>
<li>I released <a href="https://github.com/searlsco/searls-auth">a new gem called searls-auth</a></li>
<li>Aaron's <a href="https://justin.searls.co/puns/">puns, ranked</a></li>
<li>CodeWeavers' founder's gracious post, <a href="https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jramey/2025/4/18/whisky-s-legacy-and-the-spirit-it-leaves-behind">Whisky’s Legacy, and the Spirit it Leaves Behind</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/24/ios-19-iphone-stage-manager-rumor/">DeX for iPhones? Finally!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/25/ipados-19-menu-bar">A menu bar for iPads? Finally!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.morpheus-research.com/backblaze/">Backblaze: the only subsidized startup pricing schemes left are the fraudulent ones!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/russia-moves-to-seize-world-of-tanks-developer-over-ukraine-support/">Russia moves to seize World of Tanks developer over Ukraine support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/white-house-amazon-tariff-price-announcement-is-hostile-2025-04-29/">Amazon To Display Tariff Costs For Consumers, Report Says (Update: They Won't)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf">Meta's Digital Companions want to have sex with you</a> (<a href="https://apple.news/Au5ktTLC7Tn-MM51sy1IBHA">News+</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/657409/chat-gpt-sycophantic-responses-gpt-4o-sam-altman">OpenAI's chat bot will tell you that you're really good at sex</a>
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<li><a href="https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/">But they're fixing it</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/zBoUh854JC">But Reddit fixed it better</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/PhialsBasement/Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts">Someone made an AI better by having it argue with itself, just like humans do</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thelogic.co/news/waterloo-university-coding-competition-ai-cheating/">Coding competitions are dead and gone forever</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Y12Z3N3?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title">The Coravin Pivot wine preservation system</a> is great</li>
<li>So is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPHGPLGM?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&amp;th=1">this pool skimmer robot that I talked about last week</a> but forgot about and am talking about again</li>
<li>A book! <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Landed-Japan-Christopher-Dillon/dp/9881479002">Landed: Japan</a>. Everything you may not need to know about buying real estate</li>
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