Intelligent Machines (Audio) IM 861: We Have Computer At Home - Coffee and the Rise of the Machines
Guy Kawasaki, former Apple evangelist and author, shares sharp takes on Signal, privacy, and using AI as a writing and preservation tool. He discusses Signal's metadata limits and adoption hurdles. The conversation covers AI ethics, Pentagon ties, digital immortality via personal models, and practical tips for secure communication.
03:12:44
Tech Giants Choose Business Over Moral Leadership
- Major tech companies face a tradeoff between profit/fiduciary duties and public ethical stances.
- Kawasaki argues Apple bends to power and politics, showing wealthy firms may avoid moral leadership.
Make Signal A Gate To Reduce Unwanted Messages
- Use Signal's two acceptance barriers to reduce unwanted contacts: require Signal and decline initial requests you don't accept.
- Kawasaki recommends making Signal the required channel for contact to filter out spam and low-value approaches.
Government Contracts Create AI Moral Gray Areas
- The Anthropic–Pentagon dispute shows contracts with governments create unavoidable moral and legal gray areas.
- Hosts debated whether companies can contract-limit uses like mass surveillance once models are in operational hands.
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Intro
00:00 • 2min
Guy's Apple years and career arc
02:28 • 8min
Why Guy wrote Everybody Has Something to Hide
10:27 • 1min
Signal's privacy advantages and metadata limits
11:46 • 1min
Evangelizing Signal and adoption barriers
13:03 • 2min
Privacy as psychological reassurance for sources
15:12 • 1min
Guy on Apple, Tim Cook and corporate responsibility
16:39 • 4min
Anthropic, OpenAI and military deals debate
20:30 • 3min
Guy's Signal experiment and contact barriers
23:20 • 4min
How Guy uses AI to write and refine
27:23 • 5min
KawasakiGPT and digital immortality
32:10 • 3min
Guests and EFF praise: Cindy Cohn mention
35:27 • 10min
Ad break
45:30 • 5min
Anthropic supply-chain designation and legal fight
50:10 • 9min
Debate: company duty versus state control
59:15 • 14min
OpenAI, resignations, and employee pushback
01:13:00 • 6min
Meta, content deals, and data sourcing
01:18:45 • 4min
New AI ventures: Jan LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati
01:23:06 • 4min
Privacy costs of wearables and Meta Glasses
01:27:29 • 5min
Influencer shop links and platform monetization
01:32:43 • 2min
Perplexity blocked by Amazon over shopping bot
01:34:47 • 4min
Health AI, One Medical and AI in healthcare access
01:38:30 • 4min
AI hallucinations, journalistic errors, and standards
01:42:14 • 7min
Hardware and agents: Tiny AI pocket lab to NVIDIA news
01:48:45 • 7min
Ad break
01:55:22 • 11min
AI in newsrooms: automated writing and ethics
02:06:02 • 8min
Copyright and AI-created art rulings
02:13:56 • 6min
AI not human: courts on privilege and personhood
02:19:31 • 6min
Local reporting corrections and fabricated case studies
02:25:23 • 5min
Community, scrabble, and lighter segments
02:30:44 • 13min
Ad break
02:43:40 • 2min
Picks: Paris's coffee obsession and grind analysis
02:45:14 • 13min
Jeff's throwback pick: TV culture and ET clip
02:58:05 • 9min
Final thanks and guest reminders
03:07:00 • 4min
Outro
03:11:14 • 1min
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Farewell to Manzanar
Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Farewell to Manzanar is Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoir of her childhood in the Manzanar internment camp after Pearl Harbor, where her family faced harsh conditions, loyalty oaths, riots, and personal struggles including her father's alcoholism and abuse.
As the camp evolves with schools and activities, Jeanne finds some normalcy through baton twirling and social life, but grapples with identity and family breakdown.
Decades later, she returns to the site with her family, reconciling her past and bidding farewell to the camp that shaped her life.
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Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki's 'Ape' (often styled APE) focuses on the practicalities of self-publishing and book marketing, offering hands-on advice for authors who want to publish independently.
Kawasaki covers topics such as production, editing, distribution, publicity, and platform building, drawing on his experience helping authors and startups.
The book emphasizes cost-effective strategies, the importance of design and presentation, and tactics to reach readers without relying solely on traditional publishers.
Aimed at entrepreneurial authors, it mixes tactical checklists with broader marketing philosophy.
'Ape' became a reference for writers seeking to control the publishing process while maximizing reach.
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The Macintosh way
Guy Kawasaki
Written by former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, 'The Macintosh Way' provides insights into the early development of the Macintosh computer.
The book, subtitled 'the art of guerrilla management,' includes anecdotes from Kawasaki's experience and covers various aspects of technology marketing and management.
It emphasizes the importance of doing the right things the right way to change the world and offers a refreshing inside look at the values that produce great products.
Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.
- OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns
- ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy
- OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
- Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud
- Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
- OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal
- BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
- ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals
- OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks
- OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot
- OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again
- OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community
- Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years
- Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
- Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World
- Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips
- Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
- Where did you think the training data was coming from?
- You could be an influencer without even realizing it
- Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots
- Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers
- After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
- Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
- Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
- How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
- Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer
- A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"
- AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
- Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases
- Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
- Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more
- William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity
- YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company
- ET Fall Preview 1994
- Payphone Go
- This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day
- Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Guy Kawasaki
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