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v42 - Free as in Remodel

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      <title>v42 - Free as in Remodel</title>
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      <itunes:episode>43</itunes:episode>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for writing so many lovely emails to <a href="mailto:podcast@searls.co">podcast@searls.co</a>. Hell, thanks even for the unlovely ones.</p>
<p>Be sure to look out for me showing up on <a href="http://deadcode.website">Dead Code</a> at some point after it records next Tuesday. I'm realizing not all podcasts have a 1-hour-or-less turnaround time like this one does.</p>
<p>As promised, some URLs follow:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://note.com/yanotomoaki/n/nbb31a0e5604f?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Want a Japanese girlfriend? Better be the right Myers-Briggs type</a></li>
<li>Aaron's <a href="https://justin.searls.co/puns/">puns, ranked</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/corinne-low-having-it-all-not-dating-men-interview.html">Men sucking at chores is turning women gay!</a> (<a href="https://apple.news/AAygiAG0mQKmnXUYkF8BBsQ">News+</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/08/08/are-nightmares-bad-for-your-health">Nightmares kill you</a> (<a href="https://archive.is/fqoRk">Archive</a>)</li>
<li>This <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/s/8fm4h4FOSv">shiner from /r/overemployed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/10/0110212/hour-of-code-announces-its-now-evolving-into-hour-of-ai">Hour of Code is now Hour of AI</a></li>
<li><a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming">Gary Marcus taking a few victory laps around GPT-5</a></li>
<li><a href="https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/openai_chatgpt_models_emotional_attachment">OpenAI caves to 4o-pilled users</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/">Meta's AI rules have let bots hold 'sensual' chats with children</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/759158/apple-watch-blood-oxygen-redesign-import-ban-wearables-smartwatch">Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches (sort of)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning">The Trump Trophy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&amp;cid=65583466">My man Steve Wozniak has a 6-digit /. account</a></li>
<li><a href="https://benn.substack.com/p/enough">Enough</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andor_%28TV_series%29">Andor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%3A_Earth">Alien: Earth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-2-25th-anniv-edition">Sims 2 Legacy Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(TV_series)">Foundation Season 3</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.loom.com/share/350ba04bad7e46f7a6c0fa3028952c1f">Mariusz schools us on running Claude Code in a Docker container</a> (<a href="https://gist.github.com/marzdrel/cf0fec314c2fd24a6812eae53b23b430">sources</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/entering-technical-debts-zirp-era/comment/143554949">Marick's ZIRP reply</a> and <a href="https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-08-10-is-a-technical-debt-zirp-a-good-thing/">my follow-up post</a></li>
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