Episode 586: We Have Met the Audience, and He Is Us
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🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: A very moist man's lawyer learns how Dropbox works; Merlin introduces "The Bump"; Dan has a cool new calendar technology; and Merlin speed-rounds some odds and sods.
Links:
- Songlink/Odesli
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "The Tyranny of Distance"
- Start Here (fs.blog)
- The Feynman Learning Technique — Information is learned when you can explain it and use it in a wide variety of situations. The Feynman Technique gets more mileage from the ideas you encounter instead of rendering anything new into isolated, useless factoids.
- There are two types of smoke alarm. One of 'em ain't so good. - YouTube
- Onelink | Smart Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Alarm
- Amazon: Onelink Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Detector | Battery Powered| First Alert
- Drafts on Twitter: "If you use TextExpander with Drafts on iOS, please read this update about TextExpander’s future integration plans: https://t.co/8ewSNATHHn" / Twitter
- TextExpander Changes Coming on iOS - News & Updates - Drafts Community — "If you use TextExpander integration on iOS, be aware that the direct integration in existing versions of Drafts will stop being able to refresh snippets and fill-in snippets will cease functioning after a TextExpander update sometime this Fall. Around the same time, TextExpander support will be removed from Drafts in an update."
- TextExpander - We’re Saying Goodbye to SDK — We’ve been hard at work on a new TextExpander keyboard that incorporates much of the in-app functionality enabled by the TextExpander touch SDK. In light of this, we’ve decided to sunset the TextExpander Touch SDK in favor of this new enhanced user experience.
- From TextExpander to Keyboard Maestro… again - All this — And I decided to tackle the one big advantage TextExpander had over Keyboard Maestro: the ability to make a new snippet quickly. By combining AppleScript with Keyboard Maestro itself, I now have a way to make a KM snippet out of what’s on the clipboard.
- Do-By-Friday/How To Bump.md at main · merlinmann/Do-By-Friday
- Calm Calendar
- Don't Talk to the Police - YouTube
- Former FBI Agent Breaks Down Interrogation Techniques | WIRED - YouTube
- This Is Why You Should NEVER Talk to Police - YouTube
- Alex Jones’ Damning Texts ACCIDENTALLY Sent to Sandy Hook Lawyer — “You know what perjury is, right?” attorney Mark Bankston asked the Infowars host on the stand. “You lied.”
- Tucker Carlson ‘Shitting Himself’ Scared That His Alex Jones Texts May Leak — …the Fox News star is deeply concerned about his personal texts with the raving conspiracy blowhard possibly leaking.
- Alex Jones's Lawyer Face Plants In EPIC Discovery Fail - Above the LawAbove the Law — Apparently, Reynal put the digital copy of Jones’s iPhone in a shared Dropbox folder, and then blew it off when Bankston sent a HEY, IDIOT notice. And now, it’s too late.
- Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 on Twitter — "Sandy Hook families’ lawyer confirms that a naked photo of Alex Jones’s wife was on his phone, but adds that Alex sent that naked photo of his wife to Roger Stone."
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello, Merlin. How are you doing today? |
| 0:04.0 | You were here before though. No, I was not here. I just walked in the door. Yes. |
| 0:09.3 | Flu upstairs grabbed a quick banana. I understand. I just have to reject the |
| 0:14.5 | implication. The implication has been rejected. We can do the show now. How are |
| 0:19.6 | you? I am doing good. How's everything way up there in San Francisco? Great. |
| 0:24.3 | Excuse me, the opportunity to I hadn't planned this. I wish to talk about the show. |
| 0:30.5 | I want to introduce you to a new thought technology that I think is a good one. |
| 0:35.0 | But things are well. It's you don't like it when I talk about the weather because |
| 0:41.1 | it's always hot where you are, where you chose to live. Where I chose to live, |
| 0:44.9 | it's ordinarily not hot. And this time of year, dude, is a reason they call it |
| 0:49.5 | August. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's muggy. It's warm. It's |
| 0:54.9 | 80 degrees in my private office when it's usually like 68. Something's going on |
| 1:02.0 | down. I'm telling you. It's because all the it's all those plastic straws you used. |
| 1:06.1 | It's the plastic straws. It's not the private jets. It's not the jets. It's not the |
| 1:10.7 | flying. It's not the travel. Just look at all of those. Do you know like how much it |
| 1:17.7 | harms the ozone layer when those turtles get straws in their nose? Because they go, |
| 1:23.7 | is that is that the sound that they have? Turtle noise. Well, normally it's as much |
| 1:28.2 | clear in association, but it's got a straw in its nose. Yeah. I don't know, man. I don't |
| 1:34.8 | like to be cynical about that stuff. Anyway, it's it's pleasant here. I have thank you |
| 1:41.3 | to both of us for accommodating each other on the time today. Well, that was mainly |
| 1:45.5 | you accommodating me, but I appreciate that. Don't correct me, Dan. It's my show. |
| 1:49.3 | Right. I have some odds and sides. I have some leftover cool things I've discovered over |
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