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Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
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Dating Roundup #12: Sex and Violence
May 1800:48:26Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:13 - You’re Single Because You Suck At Kissing* 01:21 - You’re Not Single But You’re Sexually Incompatible* 02:48 - You’re Single Because You Aren’t Into BDSM* 08:19 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Do The Work* 16:18 - You’re Single Because Being a Dominant Is Too Much Work* 23:15 - You’re Single And Would Rather Be Free Use* 26:02 - You’re Single Because You Wouldn’t or Did Choke Her* 27:37 - You’re Single Because You Have Very Particular Preferences* 29:18 - You’re Single Because of Polygyny* 30:19 - You’re Single Because Polyamory Isn’t Right For You* 33:58 - You’re Single And Call It Solo Polyamory* 37:55 - You’re Single Because You Didn’t Go To Slutcon* 45:49 - You’re Single So Let’s Marry Aellahttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/dating-roundup-12-sex-and-violence?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026
May 1500:47:20Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:15 - Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta* 04:18 - Bad News* 08:42 - Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future* 08:50 - Good Advice* 11:49 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False* 13:48 - There Are Four Skills* 16:31 - While I Cannot Condone This* 21:07 - Good News, Everyone* 21:48 - For Your Entertainment* 22:19 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game* 24:22 - The Spire Sleeps And So Shall I* 29:42 - I Was Promised Flying, Scratch that, Self-Driving Cars* 32:13 - Government Working* 35:58 - Jones Act Watch* 41:55 - Technology Advances* 43:04 - I Said Woo Hoo* 44:31 - Variously Effective Altruism* 45:04 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/monthly-roundup-42-may-2026?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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AI #168: Not Leading the Future
May 1401:30:51Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:29 - Table of Contents* 00:03:59 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:05:43 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:46 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:07:23 - Levels of Friction* 00:08:35 - On Your Marks* 00:10:04 - Get My Agent On The Line* 00:13:14 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:14:34 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:16:38 - On AI Writing* 00:19:51 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:22:25 - You Drive Me Crazy* 00:23:14 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:25:26 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:25:42 - Introducing* 00:26:24 - Claude Has Its Limits* 00:27:28 - Show Me the Money* 00:29:21 - Show Me The Compute* 00:31:08 - Quiet Speculations* 00:32:34 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:33:34 - Chip City* 00:34:41 - Pick Up The Phone* 00:35:17 - The Week in Audio* 00:35:45 - Rhetorical Innovation* 00:40:18 - Not Leading the Future* 00:46:14 - Elon Musk v OpenAI* 00:47:15 - People Just Say Things* 00:47:41 - People Just Publish Things* 00:48:39 - OpenAI Endroses Kosa And SB 315* 00:52:13 - The LLMs All Believe Roughly Similar Things* 00:54:58 - I Learned It By Reading YOU* 01:13:31 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:25:00 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone* 01:26:51 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:28:48 - People Worried About AI For Other Reasons* 01:29:17 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-168-not-leading-the-future?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Cyber Lack of Security and AI Governance
May 1300:33:39Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:28 - On Your Marks* 06:25 - How Good Is Mythos?* 13:15 - Cyber Lack of Security* 16:57 - Greetings From The Department of War* 18:34 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 23:29 - Commerce Versus Intelligence* 30:28 - The Quest for Sane Regulationshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/cyber-lack-of-security-and-ai-governance?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Childhood and Education #18: Do The Math
May 1200:27:14Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:36 - Education Research Is Worse Than You Know* 04:33 - The War on Math* 06:52 - University of California San Diego* 14:35 - Beyond UCSD* 16:22 - New York Can’t Do Math* 17:33 - The Academic Standards Seem Low* 20:38 - New Math* 22:48 - Math Anxiety Is Often Due To Knowledge Gaps* 25:18 - Calculus By Eighth Grade Is Highly Practical For Manyhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-18-do-the?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Childhood And Education #17: Is Our Children Reading
May 1100:30:46Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 01:01 - Table of Contents* 01:39 - Mississippi Can Read Now* 02:57 - What Mississippi and Louisiana Did* 09:54 - Spies In Every Classroom* 11:37 - Mississippi Results Are Not Due To Retention* 17:03 - Is Retention Helpful In General?* 21:25 - At Eighth Grade A Lot Of This Improvement Remains* 22:22 - England Reforms Its Schools* 23:26 - Mastery Learning* 25:57 - The War Against Reading* 27:46 - Is Our Children Reading* 28:26 - No One Reads Anymorehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/childhood-and-education-17-is-our?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
May 800:22:38Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:35 - Table of Contents* 01:00 - Whoops, Sorry* 02:09 - Huh, Upgrades* 04:42 - Codex of Ultimate Computer Use* 08:36 - Rookie Numbers* 09:33 - I See What You Did There* 11:40 - Just a Ride* 11:47 - They Didn’t Want Our Jobs* 17:45 - Skilling Up* 21:16 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-code-codex-and-agentic-coding-f54?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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AI #167: The Prior Restraint Era Begins
May 701:34:37Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:01:46 - Table of Contents* 00:05:53 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility* 00:06:55 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility* 00:09:33 - Huh, Upgrades* 00:09:57 - Grok 4.3 Exists But X AI Kind Of Doesn’t* 00:11:16 - Show Me The Compute* 00:17:54 - On Your Marks* 00:18:34 - Copyright Confrontation* 00:18:47 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon* 00:20:39 - Fun With Media Generation* 00:21:17 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer* 00:21:28 - Cyber Lack of Security* 00:21:41 - They Took Our Jobs* 00:22:20 - The Art of the Jailbreak* 00:22:28 - Introducing* 00:22:47 - Musk v OpenAI* 00:25:39 - Show Me the Money* 00:28:10 - Peace In Our Time* 00:31:30 - Quiet Speculations* 00:34:19 - Quickly, There’s No Time* 00:36:35 - The Quest for Sane Regulations* 00:40:18 - People Really Hate AI* 00:41:04 - Chip City* 00:41:16 - The Week in Audio* 00:42:47 - People Just Say Things* 00:46:39 - People Just Publish Things* 00:47:23 - Google Sells Out* 00:48:27 - Greetings From Project Glasswing* 00:51:13 - The Prior Restraint Era Begins* 01:03:39 - Is This Even Legal?* 01:06:52 - Pick Up The Phone* 01:10:40 - Rhetorical Innovation* 01:11:23 - People On The Internet Sometimes Lie* 01:14:30 - Goblin Mode* 01:15:44 - The Mask Comes Off* 01:23:56 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult* 01:27:17 - Some Penalties May Apply* 01:29:51 - Messages From Janusworld* 01:30:02 - Good Advice* 01:31:18 - The Lighter Sidehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/ai-167-the-prior-restraint-era-begins?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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What is Anthropic?
May 600:18:24Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:30 - What Is Anthropic?* 11:50 - What Is This Supposed Tool AI?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/what-is-anthropic?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins
May 500:19:19Tap to summarizeThe Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.00:00 - Introduction00:54 - Project Glasswing Cannot Expand02:34 - The Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins09:47 - Implementation Through CAISI12:50 - What Should We Do About AI?14:23 - The Chain of Command Nonsense Continues16:35 - The Government Should Maintain Multiple AI Providers17:02 - How’s It Going To End?https://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/the-ai-ad-hoc-prior-restraint-era?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe
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