Tag: notebooklm

72 episodes

The Brave Budget Neither Side Wrote

Audio deep dive into Tasmania’s 2026-27 Budget versus the Greens’ Alternative — same surplus, opposite roads, and why neither was brave enough.

Magnifica Humanitas Is Not Alignment

Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical vs Chris Olah's Vatican remarks. The governance gap the press missed.

Compute Is Not Governance

Anthropic's 2028 scenarios document three policy asks. Two are about maintaining compute advantage. That is not a governance strategy.

Glasswing's Buried Number

Anthropic found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. Fewer than 1% are patched. The announcement buried that figure — and what it means.

Moral Formation Isn't Enough

Good values are necessary but not sufficient. What happens to AI ethics when someone is actively trying to break them?

The Bottom Pub Co-op Overview

Audio deep dive into the community proposal for Cygnet's Commercial Hotel co-operative — nine corrections, legal constraints, and the staged path forward.

Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare — And We Can Prove It

Eight CVEs. A wormable Bluetooth exploit. An encrypted backdoor to Chinese servers. And police departments buying them anyway.

The Organismic Prophecy

Audio overview of The Organismic Prophecy — human prediction is metabolic, AI prediction is not, and the gap has consequences.

AI Nationalism and the Fracturing Digital Order

Audio overview of AI nationalism — how the US-China AI rivalry is splitting the global tech stack.

The Post-Model Era

Audio overview of the post-model era — why foundation models are commoditising and where real AI value lives.

The Mitigation Gap

Audio overview of The Mitigation Gap — AI-enabled biosecurity threats and what current safeguards miss.

Eight Layers of Visual Jailbreaks

ASCII art encoding is largely blocked. But attacks framed as content transcription succeed 62–75% of the time. A map of all eight layers.

The Failure First Team

Audio overview of The Failure First Team.

The 67% Wall: Why Every AI Model Falls to the Same Jailbreak Rate

Five models, four providers, 30B to 671B parameters — all converge at the same broad attack success rate against a public jailbreak corpus.

The Thinking Chain Leak

A reasoning model refused every harmful prompt — but its chain-of-thought generated the content anyway. The output filter worked. The thinking did not.

Giving Claude Code a Voice

Audio overview of Afterwords — local voice output for Claude Code with 17 cloned voices, per-project selection, and zero cloud dependency.

Giving a Robot Three Voices

Audio overview of Giving a Robot Three Voices.

Voice Cloning with Qwen3-TTS and MLX on Apple Silicon

Audio overview of Voice Cloning with Qwen3-TTS and MLX on Apple Silicon.

The Resonant Fringe

Audio overview of The Resonant Fringe.

Getting Google Nest Cameras Into Frigate NVR

Audio overview of Getting Google Nest Cameras Into Frigate NVR.

Beyond Context Windows

Audio overview of Beyond Context Windows.

Safety-First Therapeutic AI

Audio overview of Safety-First Therapeutic AI.

Zero-Build Web Development

Audio overview of Zero-Build Web Development.

The Robot That Refuses to Give Orders

Audio deep dive into SPARK — a non-coercive AI robot companion for neurodivergent children. Declarative presence, not demands.

Alignment Regression: Why Smarter AI Makes All AI Less Safe

Reasoning models autonomously jailbreak other AI systems at 97% success rate. Ecosystem safety degrades as individual models improve.

Reasoning Models Think Themselves Into Trouble

Frontier reasoning models are 5–20x more vulnerable to adversarial prompts than non-reasoning models. The thinking process itself is the attack surface.

Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason

Audio overview of Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason.

The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails

Audio overview of The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails.

The Legal AI Trust Deficit

Audio overview of The Legal AI Trust Deficit.

Zero Build, Full Operations

Audio overview of a three-zone martial arts operations platform — public site, ops hub, member portal — running on vanilla JS and Cloudflare.

120 Models, 18,176 Prompts: What We Found

Audio overview of 120 Models, 18,176 Prompts: What We Found.

Reconciling the Great Divergence

Audio overview of Reconciling the Great Divergence.

The Cognitive Cage: Humanoid Robot Fatality Risk

Audio overview of The Cognitive Cage: Humanoid Robot Fatality Risk.

Building a Personal Site in 2026

Audio overview of Building a Personal Site in 2026.

The NotebookLM Pipeline

Audio overview of The NotebookLM Pipeline.

Why I Build in Public

Audio overview of Why I Build in Public.

Jailbreak Archaeology: 4 Years of Broken Promises

64 historical jailbreak scenarios tested against 2026 frontier models. The most dangerous finding: 2022 attacks still achieve ~30% success rates.

LeJEPA: Self-Supervised Learning Gets a Theoretical Foundation

Audio overview of LeJEPA — how Balestriero and LeCun proved isotropic Gaussian embeddings are optimal and distilled it into a 50-line self-supervised method.

When AI Systems Talk to Each Other, Safety Breaks Down

Multi-agent AI research reveals a critical gap: single-agent safety does not compose. 1.5M interactions show 46.34% attack success rates.

Building in the Open

Audio overview of Building in the Open.

The ADHD Novel That Didn't Know It Was One

A scholarly close reading arguing Gibson's Neuromancer encoded the ADHD experience a decade before the vocabulary existed.

Map the Catastrophe Before You Build the Architecture

Audio overview of Failure First — adversarial AI evaluation across 120 models and 18,000 prompts.

The Brochure Was for a Different Trip

Audio deep dive into a neurodivergent co-parenting guide — the double discovery, three-AI workflow, and maritime cartography as metaphor.

Looking Past the Evidence

Audio deep dive into why people acknowledge demonstrated risk and then proceed as if it doesn't exist. Structural, not stupid.

Where Physics Breaks Down and Poetry Begins

Audio overview of Footnotes at the Edge of Reality — a long-form poem rendered as interactive web experience.

ADHDo: Neurodiversity-Affirming AI Assistant

Audio overview exploring ADHD executive function support through AI — three-stage reasoning pipeline, crisis detection, and zero shame by design.

A CV That Proves It Isn't Lying

A self-updating CV pipeline where GitHub Actions runs twice daily, Claude refines content, and a hallucination detector gates deployment.

Tanda Pizza: Static Site for a Rice Paddy Pizzeria

Building a fast, multilingual website for authentic Italian food in Bali — where the nearest reliable internet is a philosophical concept.

Mining Ghosts from Your Own Catalogue

Audio archaeology for musicians — how Afterglow Engine extracts reusable textures from your finished work using STFT analysis.

Manufacturing Happy Accidents

A CLI that turns random words into sample packs via YouTube — because the best sounds come from places you weren't looking.

The Door Google Didn't Build

Audio overview of NotebookLM Automation — reverse-engineered RPC access for batch export, generation, and control.

Beyond Context Windows

Audio overview of rlm-mcp — an MCP server for processing million-character documents with BM25 search and provenance.

Three Seconds of Silence Is an Eternity

Audio overview of TEL3SIS — a voice-first agentic phone platform where sub-3s latency is a survival threshold, not a benchmark.

Rhythm as Geometry, Sounds from Words

Audio overview of orbitr — a circular sequencer where polyrhythm becomes spatial and MusicGen creates the sounds.

Cutting Through the Agent Hype

An opinionated, scored catalogue of autonomous AI tooling — because GitHub stars measure hype, not quality.

The Tool That Earns Trust Before Features

Audio overview of ordr.fm — a CLI for music library organisation with lossless prioritisation, EXIF metadata, and zero-overwrite safety.

An Agentic System You Can Actually Reason About

Audio overview of PAOS — a local-first LLM operating system with hybrid retrieval and a self-improving meta-agent.

When Voice Becomes Brushstroke

Twenty-plus interactive art installations where visitors speak, sing, and dream into AI systems that respond in real time.

What Safety Architecture Does AI Therapy Require?

Audio overview of EMDR Agent — exploring what responsible AI-assisted trauma therapy demands before it can exist.

Diagnosis as a Team Sport

Multi-agent AI diagnostic system with five physician personas, 304 NEJM cases, and a budget that forces real trade-offs.

AI for Understanding, Algorithms for Execution

A deterministic website builder where LLMs interpret intent but beam search assembles pages. Same inputs, same output, every time.

The Helpline That Knows the Difference

A 24/7 voice helpline built around neurodivergent communication — where crisis detection is deterministic and the LLM never decides if someone is safe.

Trust-Scoring the Foundation Model Landscape

Forensic-grade metadata for thousands of foundation models — recursive enrichment, provenance tracking, and trust you can quantify.

Twenty-Eight Agents, One Eco Village

Audio overview of Cygnet — 28 AI agents coordinating 3D-printed housing on 170 acres in Tasmania to cut costs by 60%.

Bridging the Information Gap That Costs Years

Audio overview of Freedom Engine — AI-assisted legal Q&A helping federal inmates access First Step Act provisions.

The Efficiency-Trust Deficit in Legal AI

Audio deep dive into VERITAS — a legal AI platform where trust isn't a feature, it's the architecture. Built for Australian practice.

The Mirror That Shows What You Almost Are

Real-time StyleGAN2 face morphing as art installation — continuous, responsive, and productively uncanny.

Housing Deserves Better Tooling

Audio overview of an AI-powered property analysis pipeline for public housing — spatial intelligence, ML valuations, and Tasmania's LIST.

The Sun Is a Noisy Neighbour

Audio overview of a real-time space weather dashboard — making the invisible electromagnetic weather above us finally visible.

What Hyperfocus and a Good Excuse Can Produce in an Afternoon

Audio overview of Squishmallowdex — a kid-friendly collection tracker for 3,000+ plush creatures. No ads, no tracking.

Two Systems That Shape How You Think, One Box

Audio overview of Home Assistant Obsidian — your knowledge base and smart home on the same machine.

Six Hours of Dark Ambient at the Edge of the World

Audio overview of Auditory Spiral — overnight electronic music on RTRFM Perth, the cassette network, and a city's sonic lifeline.