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Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave

Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave

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 Sometimes you just want to listen to some people get off topic as quickly as possible.Copyright 2025 fcbm.io Art
Episodes
  • Poison!

    Poison!
    Jun 23 2025
    Poison! Poi-poi-poison! In a serendipitous moment of uncertainty, a fascinating email arrived in Meg's inbox and graced us all with the topic of today's episode: intentional food poisonings. When we were little, this included urban legends around sabotaged Halloween candy meant to force children to behave (ok, boomers), but in real life there have been many, many intentional and very real food poisonings. We explore a selection here. Thanks for listening, wash your hands, fund the FDA, don't be a dick!
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Fifteen Fucks and the Simming Problem

    Fifteen Fucks and the Simming Problem
    Jun 16 2025
    Ned and Meg chat about the Simming Problem, which is a concept from Iain Banks, a sci-fi writer, about the ethics of simulating entities or individuals or whatever. The *whatever* bit is because how we define all these things gets real dicey and yet makes all the difference. What is an agent, or an intelligence, or a substrate or authenticity and is consciousness an emergent property of sufficiently complex systems? Who fucking knows! Hard question! How do you get ChatGPT to say fuck fifteen times? Turns out that's easy. Thanks for listening, wash your hands, don't be a dick.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Dieter Rams Points and Shrugs

    Dieter Rams Points and Shrugs
    Apr 28 2025
    Ned and Meg admire the magnificent Dieter Rams, who pointed and shrugged his way into our hearts, and we discuss his legendary ten principles of good design.
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    1 hr and 28 mins
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