Episode 163: Gaia Hypothesis, But for Email

This week Dave (https://twitter.com/davidegts) and Gunnar (http://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/about) talk about: discrimination paranoia, microphone paranoia, more microphone paranoia, and rhetorical paranoia. Finally: vacation message protocol.
Lesson learned: do the Safari (http://girafferanch.com/)
Lesson learned: 4 years old don’t care about American History
Lesson learned: Tracksmith running shorts + swim trunks (https://www.tracksmith.com/products/m-2018-run-cannonball-run-shorts)
Props to Debbie, Stow’s Public Service Supervisor, and the Stow Street Department (https://stowohio.org/departments/)
Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of companies post targeted job ads that screen out older workers (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/31/17408884/facebook-amazon-job-ads-age-discrimination-lawsuit)
Amazon wants to automate your hotel stay with Alexa for Hospitality (https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3034430/amazon-wants-to-automate-your-hotel-stay-with-alexa-for-hospitality)
These Academics Spent The Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening To You (https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188)
Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia (https://www.vice.com/amp/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia)
IBM’s Newest AI Can Probably Argue Better Than You (https://www.wired.com/story/now-the-computer-can-argue-with-you/amp)
The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/out-of-office-message-email/562394/)
Cutting Room Floor
* Bread can be made from a gangrenous wound's bacteria (https://boingboing.net/2018/06/22/bread-can-be-made-from-a-gangr.html/amp)
* The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/movies/hal-2001-a-space-odyssey-voice-douglas-rain.html)
* 24-Channel Raspberry Pi Fireworks Control System (http://moderntoil.com/?p=913)
* ‘Skirmish Time Is Now!’: 6 Mediocre Catchphrases Michael Buffer Dabbled With Before Landing On ‘Let’s Get Ready To Rumble’ (https://www.clickhole.com/skirmish-time-is-now-6-mediocre-catchphrases-michae-1825612838)
We Give Thanks
* The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: discrimination paranoia, microphone paranoia, more microphone paranoia, and rhetorical paranoia. Finally: vacation message protocol.

Lesson learned: do the Safari
Lesson learned: 4 years old don’t care about American History
Lesson learned: Tracksmith running shorts + swim trunks
Props to Debbie, Stow’s Public Service Supervisor, and the Stow Street Department
Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of companies post targeted job ads that screen out older workers
Amazon wants to automate your hotel stay with Alexa for Hospitality
These Academics Spent The Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening To You

Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia

IBM’s Newest AI Can Probably Argue Better Than You
The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message

Cutting Room Floor

Bread can be made from a gangrenous wound's bacteria
The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm
24-Channel Raspberry Pi Fireworks Control System
‘Skirmish Time Is Now!’: 6 Mediocre Catchphrases Michael Buffer Dabbled With Before Landing On ‘Let’s Get Ready To Rumble’

We Give Thanks

The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!