e556— AI With Extra Guac

mortar, pestle and avocado preparation for guacamole

Published 8 June 2026 e556 with Michael, Andy and Michael – Michael R’s annual edu-cation, chatbot trickery, data center data visualization, LeRobot Humanoid open source robotics, LEGO and a whole lot more! Michael, Andy and Michael get things started with Michael R’s annual edu-cation, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference.   Then the team turns to a news story about tricking Meta’s support chatbot into granting access to Instagram accounts.  This is not a new tactic – check out e429 for a link to try this out for yourself with lakera.ai‘s Gandalf game. Next up is a data visualization for data … Continue reading

e554 — SPI vs I

cat in a briefcase peering over the edge, flipped and duplicated so that it appears two cats are looking at one another

e554 – SPI vs I: Stories and discussion on #LLM #PhoneNumber lookups, #proctors returning to #Princeton, lavish #LEGO, #LOTR and a whole lot more! Continue reading

e553 — Monks, Bots & Ghosts

Prayer flags strung across trees in front of a waterfall in the North Carolina mountains

e553 with Andy and Michael M – stories and discussion on a #robot #monk, the #DeadInternetTheory, #AgenticAutonomy, #HappyNetBox, the #Artemis II minifig.me crew and a whole lot more! Continue reading

e551 — ATProto Socials

The exhaust plume left behind by the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that launched Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed mission to the Moon since December 1972, dissipates in the Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station. NASA ID: iss074e0431736

e551 with Michael, Michael and Andy – a tour of the #Atmosphere with #ATProto, #Sifa, @eurosky.social, #Leaflet, a #LEGO #cacophonous #karaoke of “Mad About Me” and a whole lot more! Continue reading