Still Spinning on 06.11.25

Hello and welcome to episode 101 of the Still Spinning Podcast. We kick things off with Dan saying F New York, specifically for the toll costs and taxes and F Chicago Traffic, for obvious reasons if you have been here. He had to take a road trip last week and boy, he had some choice words about these two things.  We have talked a lot about AI and how it is taking over the world and last week a story came out about AI trying to “stay alive” in a variety of ways. It has been found to rewrite code, copy itself to external servers and in one instance, blackmail an engineer. It is hard to not feel like we are living in a Sci-Fi movie, but here we are. Also peppered in a virtual job interview that went viral because the person being interviewed did not feel like they looked very good that day so they were using a filter that made them look like breakfast. Oh what a world we are living in. A terrifying story out of O’Hare. A DoorDash driver got lost and ended up on the tarmac and parked next to a plane. So many things to be worried about here, it is hard to know where to start. Although starting with SECURITY would be a great first step. Also who is ordering DoorDash from the airport?! And finally a feel good story about some very smart parrots in Australia who have figured out how to open trash bins to forage for food and now they are using drinking fountains to wash all that food down. Smart birds who are just learning how to live in a modern world.  All of this and more on today’s episode! We appreciate you checking us out! You can watch the live taping most Mondays at 7 PM on Facebook, YouTube or Instagram OR wait until the official podcast release on Wednesday morning. Visit our website for more details on becoming a sponsor, buying merch and check out old episodes. All of this at stillspinningpodcast.com.