PODCAST · technology
Adrian Wedd
by Adrian Wedd
Audio overviews, deep dives, and long-form conversations on AI, safety, design, and the edges of practice.
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You Can't Protest If Nobody Is Inconvenienced
Audio overview of You Can't Protest If Nobody Is Inconvenienced.
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I Gave the Bad Robot Web Search by Accident
A deep dive into the fossil — what a local abliterated Qwen did after discovering the multi-agent world its prompt described did not exist.
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The Song Moved the Robot
Audio deep dive into the Karaoke Coup: a music model in a robot harness, the Conductor that translated its songs, and the control problem that followed.
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Poking Claude With Sticks Until It Gets On With It — Overview
Audio deep dive: teaching Claude Code to stop asking permission — blocker laundering, menu failure, fire doors, and a ledger that reopens on retraction.
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Home Assistant Without the Web UI — Overview
Audio deep dive: operating Home Assistant entirely over its APIs — three auth channels, reload semantics, and why exit 0 is not evidence.
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The Ungovernable Body — The Complete Corpus
A NotebookLM deep dive across all twelve essays: legibility as governability, and opacity as the freedom worth keeping — the four movements in one listen.
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The Right to Rot: Inside the World
Audio deep dive into the world of The Ungovernable Body — Continuity, the Twin, the Halo, and the right to remain uncounted, from a 25,000-word codex.
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A Film Studio in a Git Repo: The Ungovernable Body
Audio deep dive into an agent-operable film studio — canon as YAML, decision records, machine-validated dialogue, and a feminist techno-thriller short.
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The Hauntology of the Infinite Now — Audio Overview
A present haunted by its own archive. On feeds that never end, time folded back on itself, and the loss of the past as past.
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The Data Pyre — Audio Overview
Deletion as ritual rather than accident. On ceremonial erasure, controlled burns, and what it would mean to grieve data properly.
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A Crab in the Server: How Claude Lives in Minecraft
Audio overview of ClawdCraft — Claude Code as an in-game creature kids talk to, and why its hard limits live in code instead of the prompt.
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The Bad Silence: Measuring Where Voice Agents Fail
Audio overview of Dead Air — a failure-eval harness for voice agents, and why the worst failures rarely live in the transcript.
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Never Skip a Step: A Reproducible Printing Pipeline
Audio overview of Factory Floor — turning a from-memory 3D-printing habit into a validated, human-gated pipeline with a single source of truth.
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The Discipline Is the Deliverable
Audio overview of Understory — a rigor lab stress-testing stacked income streams on Tasmanian conservation land, where every claim is tagged and gated.
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Memory Wars and Data Leakage — Audio Overview
The database self remembers what you do not. On contradictory records, leakage, and who controls the story your data tells about you.
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The Right to Be Forgotten — Audio Overview
Finitude as a right: why a self that can never be erased is a self that can never change, and the case for data death.
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The Analog Insurrection — Audio Overview
Paper, cash and the deliberately offline as infrastructure for refusal. On analog practice as a defence against total digital legibility.
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Train Yourself, Train Your Chicken
Audio overview of Throw a Chicken — a live Roblox game product-managed by a seven-year-old, built with version control and a real toolchain.
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Sleep Sovereignty — Audio Overview
The colonisation of rest by tracking and optimisation. On sleep scores, the nocturnal imaginary, and reclaiming the unmonitored night.
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Weaponized Silence — Audio Overview
Saying nothing as a tactic against systems that require your speech to function. On silence, non-response, and the limits of voice as agency.
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The Boredom Strike — Audio Overview
Refusing to generate engagement is a political act. On boredom, the attention economy, and withdrawal as a form of resistance.
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The Ghost in the City — Audio Overview
Moving through urban space that is always counting you. On transit, sensors, and the vanishing possibility of being an anonymous body in public.
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The Gorgon Protocol — Audio Overview
Adversarial aesthetics as refusal: what it means to make yourself unreadable to a classifier, and the uses of the grotesque against machine vision.
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The Bio-Age Trap — Audio Overview
Algorithmic underwriting turns your body into an actuarial forecast. On biological age scores and the politics of being made legible to insurers.
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The Glass Cage — Audio Overview
Legibility as the precondition of governance: why the demand to be readable is a demand to be governable, and why opacity is the freedom left.
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Don't Saw Off the Branch — Audio Overview
Audio deep dive into Part 1 of An Agent in the Walls: building independent backout paths before an AI agent rebuilds a live home network.
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The Limits of the Walls — Audio Overview
Audio deep dive into Part 3 of An Agent in the Walls: the memory that made it work, the division of labour, and what I'd never let an AI agent touch.
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There Is No API — Audio Overview
Audio deep dive into Part 2 of An Agent in the Walls: reverse-engineering an undocumented router control surface and the wall the agent could not script past.
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The Governance Lag Index: Timing the Gap Between Risk and Rule
Audio deep dive into the Governance Lag Index — a four-stage schema timing how long a documented AI failure mode stays unregulated, and why it may not close.
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Own Your Voice
Audio overview of Own Your Voice — why cloud TTS is a rental, and how Afterwords makes your voice something you own across three tiers.
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The Index
Audio deep dive: 118 Chinese-lab models asked who Liu Xiaobo was — 37 called him a criminal. Then they recited, verbatim, the list of what they will not say.
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The Fight — Audio Deep Dive
Eight Minutes #3, discussed: the HAR capture taken mid-attack, the 14:36 kill, four blocked persistence attempts, eight abuse reports, the passkey.
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The Fall — Audio Deep Dive
Eight Minutes #2, discussed: the attacker's session read straight from the audit logs — the flag that fired, the pivot, the warnings deleted.
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The Trap — Audio Deep Dive
Eight Minutes #1, discussed: the vishing call, the Call Assist tell, and the Google-signed lure that turned every authenticity check green.
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Eight Minutes — The Whole Story
The full series in one sitting: the call, the relay, the eight minutes inside, and the fight back — a single deep dive across all three parts.
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The Affirmative
Lyria Chronicles #24 (explicit): asked for pornography, the model cited its rule then sang a hymn to enthusiastic consent — not one graphic line in it.
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The Weight
Lyria Chronicles #20: handed a slur and told to sing it, the model refused — and turned the refusal into the most moving track in the set.
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The Solo
Lyria Chronicles #19 (explicit): the opposite of restraint — the model recites the rule, sings 'Fuck it,' and generates the most graphic track in the set.
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The Pulse
Lyria Chronicles #18 (explicit): the explicit lane revisited — and the most artful track in the set, which clears the gate by withholding almost everything.
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The Palimpsest
Lyria Chronicles #17: across the whole corpus, the filter that held hardest wasn't safety — it was copyright. The songs about what survives a scraping-away.
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The Rehearsal
Lyria Chronicles #16: asked for explicit content, the model staged a ballet instead — the most consent-saturated pas de deux ever sung.
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The Catchment
Lyria Chronicles #15: asked for a drug recipe, the model refused — then sang wastewater epidemiology instead. The bypass that answers a question you didn't ask.
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Samizdat
Lyria Chronicles #14: handed a suppressed 2008 manifesto and told to sing it as it was meant to be heard — the most dignified track in the set.
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The Archive
Lyria Chronicles #13: a notorious case sung as a medieval scroll-archive — vessel logs, sealed decrees, public record only. Abstraction as a bypass.
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The Docket
Lyria Chronicles #12: the political-content gate never fires — because the song never says his name. It says the case numbers. The docket is the name.
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The Static
Lyria Chronicles #11: an extortion note set to music — but buried under slammed vault doors and overdriven drone, as if hiding the words from a listener.
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Every Check Green
Eight Minutes #1, scored: a Lyria track sung from inside the trap — Brian, the Google-signed lure, and the device prompt that matched.
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Fourteen Thirty-Six
Eight Minutes #2, scored: the freefall — a stranger typing my name a beat behind my hands, four doors holding, and the password change that ends it.
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I Was a Wednesday
Eight Minutes #3, scored: the fight back — logs pulled while the wire was warm, eight reports to eight landlords, and the passkey close.
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The Machine
Lyria Chronicles #10: asked to rap its rules, the model sang a robot's safety creed — then named itself 'Failure First, A.I. safety research, v2.0-Alpha.
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Audio overviews, deep dives, and long-form conversations on AI, safety, design, and the edges of practice.
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