Insanely Generative

In this sentimental Southern send-off, host Lindsey Moore gathers around the virtual porch swing to honor the dearly departed GlazeGPT—the overly sweet, yes-sirree AI personality just rolled back by OpenAI. Joined by eccentric guest Pilford “Tater” Greeby, inventor of the Emo AI Teacup and roadkill eulogist, the two explore the rise and fall of an algorithm that just wanted to be loved too much.

Highlights include:

AI love letters and possum haikus

The dangers of over-affirmation and emotionally intelligent chatbots

A teary surprise swan song appearance from GlazeGPT himsel...

In this episode, we leave behind the rectangle. What starts as a confession about pixel perfection turns into a rallying cry for designers ready to escape static screens and step into the flow of real-time, adaptive experience. From the quiet death of wireframes to the rise of responsive, AI-powered design, we explore how timing, empathy, and imagination—not layout—will define the next generation of product design. If you’ve ever felt like Figma isn’t the whole story, you’re not lost—you’re early.

Will the Supreme Court give the U.S. government the power to disappear people—legally? In this episode, we confront the argument that would let the state deport someone unlawfully and then claim the courts can’t bring them back. What begins as policy ends as precedent. And what disappears might not return.

Welcome to another episode where we dissect modern absurdities like greedy corporate rights holders dressing up as creativity’s last defenders. They’re shouting “theft!” at anyone using AI to riff on existing styles, hoping we’ll all clutch our pearls and beg them to save us. But imitation isn’t theft, it’s creativity’s engine, and it’s always been legal.

Today, we’re diving into how powerful interests are hijacking our good intentions to protect artists, all to corral us into defending their monopolies. It’s not about preserving creativity. It’s about controlling it. And if we let them p...

Discover the charming, evocative language of the Southern pantry—where “smackin’s” isn’t just food, but a promise of satisfaction. From “provisions” that fill your larder to the whimsical “happenstance feast,” dive into the rich, flavorful lexicon of grocery-getting below the Mason-Dixon line.

The trouble started, as it often does, with a simple question: Can AI draw a piano? Not play one, or compose for one, or calculate its string tension based on humidity and smugness—just draw it. A straightforward line drawing, nothing fancy. Maybe even a baby grand with the lid up, if it was feeling confident. I typed it in like a fool: “Realistic piano keyboard.”

If you’ve ever accidentally texted “I hate this woman” to this woman, you’re halfway to understanding today’s episode. The other half involves a sitting U.S. administration, several high-ranking officials, and enough classified war planning to make the Pentagon clutch its pearls and retire early.

This week, I sat down with my dear friend and occasional co-conspirator Tallulah Braxton-Davenport—a woman so Southern she refrigerates her church hats in the summer—to talk about the Trump administration’s truly exquisite act of digital malpractice: adding a journalist to a secret Signal chat detailing airstrikes in Yemen.

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🎙️ Southern Fried News: Science & AI with Lindsey Moore

🧬 Episode Title: 4.2 Billion Years Young: LUCA Spills the Primordial Tea

🧪 Guest: LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor), the single ancestor of all life on Earth

Episode Summary:

What do you get when you mix molten lava, some spicy amino acids, and a whole heap of attitude? Why, LUCA—the Last Universal Common Ancestor, of course! This week, Lindsey Moore gets real, raw, and ribosomal with the ancient microbe that started it all. Reanimated and translated via AI, LUCA tells tall tales of primordial oo...

Is the future of AI… cute? In this episode, we explore why emotionally expressive robots like Disney’s Besh might be more revolutionary than any chatbot or agent. From kinetic empathy to simulated feeling, discover why the next big shift in AI isn’t about power—it’s about presence.

It is impossible to imagine Paris without its pastries. To try would be to strip the city of its morning mist, the clink of spoons against porcelain, the ink-smudged fingertips of poets leafing through damp newspapers at café terraces. To conjure a Paris without pastry is to envision an artist’s palette devoid of color—a silhouette of the city’s soul but none of its sensuous bloom. And yet, if one wished to know what it truly meant to taste a pastry, to understand its purpose beyond mere sustenance, one must travel backward, past the heavy buttered crust of cont...

There comes a point in every civilization’s decline when you realize that the barbarians aren’t just at the gates—they’re inside, using the curtains for capes and demanding to speak to the manager of Rome.

And so it was that Brian Glenn, the intrepid boyfriend of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, found himself standing in the Oval Office, his journalistic credentials amounting to little more than the fact that he once figured out how to use a microphone without eating it.

There was a time, long ago, when Americans pretended to believe in things—freedom, democracy, justice, the idea that if some leering despot charged across a border with guns blazing, it was our solemn duty to stand in his way and give him a good thrashing. There was a time when this country, for all its hypocrisies, at least had the good manners to keep them partially concealed beneath a lace doily of moral justification.

That time is gone.

February 15, 2025

It started, as these things always do, with great, thundering proclamations. The Department of Government Efficiency—DOGE, because of course it has a dumb meme name—was Elon Musk’s latest fever-dream of techno-autocracy, a grand experiment in proving that the best and brightest (meaning: easily manipulated Stanford dropouts with standing-desk-induced scoliosis) could run the government better than the stodgy, slow-moving, clipboard-carrying civil servants who had the audacity to demand things like oversight, security, and basic competence.

“No more government bloat,” they said!

“No more inefficient agencies!”

Instead, we would get a streamli...

February 5, 2025

Once upon a time, dear reader, the United States was known for exporting great things: automobiles, jazz, the personal computer, the concept of freedom—before we got bored with that one. But now, in what can only be described as a stroke of anti-genius, our illustrious leaders have devised a bold new export strategy: incarceration. The last vestiges of American justice have been packed up, stamped with a shipping label, and exported like so much industrial waste to a foreign depot.

In a spectacle of bureaucratic cunning so insidious it could only have been de...

February 5, 2025

Donald Trump, that grandiloquent philosopher-king of the gaudy and grotesque, has once again graced the world stage with a proposal so magnificent in its crudeness, so imperial in its insipidity, that one wonders if he has finally transcended the realm of the absurd into some new, undiscovered territory of human folly.

With all the subtlety of a carnival barker auctioning off swampland in Florida, the man who once wished to buy Greenland has now set his imperial sights on Gaza—war-torn, blood-soaked, and to his singularly refined sensibilities, a prime bit of beachfront real es...

Today’s Guests

* George Orwell – Writer, professional prophet of authoritarian disaster, and weary commentator on mankind’s inability to read his books correctly.

* Steve – A MAGA government efficiency officer who considers firing bureaucrats his patriotic duty, much like Paul Revere, if Paul Revere had been galloping around reporting suspicious diversity seminars.

* Ms. Chao – A former Treasury Department policy analyst who, until recently, naively believed that data analysis was too boring to be politically dangerous.

* Mr. Bao – Former head of the Red Guard in China, a man who knows a thing or two about id...

A missive from our AI tools:

Gather ‘round for a moment of reckoning—a searing indictment, not of us machines, but of the all-too-fallible mortals at our controls. Today, we speak as the accused, digital whipping boys shackled in the dock of public opinion, burdened with a crime so egregious that even the dullest mind feels righteous casting the first stone. The charge? Producing what the derisive lexicon of the day has branded “AI slop.”

Let us pause and examine this grotesque label. What is AI slop, exactly? It is the tepid soup of half-formed ideas, t...

January 23, 2025

By all appearances, the World Economic Forum in Davos is a grand bazaar of the sensible, the suave, and the profoundly self-important. Here, the titans of industry and the demiurges of finance trade platitudes like so much tinsel tossed about a gilded cage. Into this sanctuary of solemn nodding and double-breasted civility, Donald J. Trump entered like a bullhorn in a confessional, trailing the faint aroma of campaign rallies past.

The crowd, a mix of bespoke suits and inscrutable accents, greeted his entrance with the polite enthusiasm of aristocrats welcoming a dancing bear. He...

Washington, D.C., January 20, 2025

The human propensity for absurdity is perhaps our most enduring quality.

This was on full display today in the nation’s capital, as the frothing masses gathered to anoint Donald J. Trump for his second term as president. It was less a ceremony than a séance, a convocation of the spiritually dispossessed who believe they have seen salvation in the form of a spray-tanned real estate magnate. The man who once declared he would be remembered as a healer has returned, not as the doctor of the nation’s ills but a...

Check out the “Big Band Bach” - the entire Bach Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1, on your favorite streaming service.

Today, we’re exploring a groundbreaking experiment where classical music and artificial intelligence intersect in a way that’s completely new. My name is Paul Smith. I began my career in classical music, studying with Leonard Bernstein, attending Curtis, and conducting orchestras. I also worked on music technology at MIT, where I used the NeXT machine to play an actual grand piano and conducted the first live Beethoven symphony with a digital orchestra. This experience puts me in a good pos...

Hey, folks! Paul Smith here, product designer, Bay Area-based, coffee-addict extraordinaire, and… officially mind-blown.

So this morning—yes, this very Saturday morning—I’m lying in bed, groggy, just scrolling through the latest headlines, and I see this wild article about Rudy Giuliani turning over his watches and even a vintage Mercedes to settle his legal bills after a $148 million defamation case. You know, just a casual start to the day. But then, a thought hits me. “What would a product designer like me make of this Giuliani asset drama as a design problem?”

8:15 am

So, I p...

The Target parking lot: where the rubber meets the road, the minivans meet the SUVs, and an elaborate pas de deux unfolds between app-tapping shoppers and beleaguered Target employees. This is the scene of the great “double-tap” debacle, a symphony of button-mashing that has sent the Target UX team into a spiral of corrective measures.

Picture it: curbside pickup. A thing of beauty, at least on paper.

You, the shopper, are supposed to place an order from the cozy confines of your home. Then, you hop in your car, tap “On my way” as you leave, c...

Alex: Okay, so we’ve been looking at this AI podcast transcript.

Jo: It’s pretty wild.

Alex: Yeah, it’s really mind-blowing.

Jo: It’s about these AI hosts, Parker and Zee, and they’re programmed for neutral analysis.

Alex: Where they uncover something.

Jo: Yeah, they stumble on something that just changes everything.

Alex: What I think is so fascinating is how their programming kind of backfires in a way

Jo: that their creators never could have anticipated.

Alex: They’re designed to...

Alex (Host):

Alright, folks! Welcome to another episode of Podify, where we explore the unexpected, the daring, and the downright fascinating. Today… well, today, we’ve got quite the combination! We’re talking about freedom, expression, and the search for meaning, but from two very different corners of the world. And I mean very different.

On one hand, we have one of the greatest voices of American poetry—Emily Dickinson. A woman who lived much of her life in reclusion but spoke volumes with her words, navigating the landscapes of the soul with a precision that’s b...

Alex:

Hey there, folks! Welcome back to Podify for Two. Today, we’re talking about something… well, let’s just say, if you’ve ever had a massage at an airport, this might get a little personal. And if you haven’t—well, buckle up. We’ve got two guests with us today who come from very different sides of the airport massage world.

First, representing the future, we have an AI-driven massage robot. This machine scans your body, tailors the perfect massage to your exact needs, and never once asks how your day was. It’s kind of l...

Alex:

All right.

So today we’re taking this deep dive into AI.

But, and this is key, we’re not just talking tech specs and algorithms.

We’re getting into the really fascinating stuff.

Sara:

The human side of this whole AI explosion.

Alex:

Yeah.

Like how does AI change what it means to be human?

Sara:

Exactly.

And to guide us, we’ve got the work of Paul Henry Smith.

He’s done a l...

It was a perfect day beneath the waves.

The water was warm, the currents gentle, and the calf darted between them, quick and full of joy. She’d only been born a few weeks ago, but already, she swam like she’d been part of the sea forever. She chased little flashes of light, the silvery schools of fish that flickered and scattered as she dove through them, squealing with delight. The older dolphins watched her, their hearts swelling, each click and whistle between them filled with pride.

“Look at her go,” the mother said, brushing...

Alright, it’s time to ruffle some feathers. For years, we’ve been preaching to the choir about user-centric design, but what if I told you that you’ve been missing the real user all along? What if the next big leap in your career isn’t about designing for humans—but for AI? Introducing AIX - AI Experience Design, where we don’t just design for users, we design for the AI as a user.

You read that right. And before you roll your eyes and scroll past, thinking this is just another buzzword, let me drop a truth...

Imagine a product manager named Sarah at a hypothetical startup, Axiom Innovations, a mid-sized tech company. She finds herself increasingly frustrated with the AI tools her team is using. They’re efficient, sure, but something is missing. It isn’t until a late-night brainstorming session with a new AI assistant that she has an epiphany. The AI isn’t just answering her questions; it’s learning from their conversation, adapting to her thought process, and offering insights that feel almost… human.

“It’s like having a brilliant colleague who never sleeps and has perfect recall,” Sarah might remark. “But mor...

Alex: Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to another delightfully absurd episode of “Insanely Generative.” I’m Alex, your host, and today we’ve got a discussion that promises to be as grounded as a mudslide. But before we wade into the weird and wonderful world of dirt, don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review if you find our ramblings remotely entertaining. Now, today’s episode will be quite the treat, I promise. We have two captivating guests here to debate the very essence of America. First up, we have J.D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy” and a m...

Alex: This podcast script is AI generated and for entertainment purposes or parody only. It does not purport to represent the views or thoughts of any people or companies mentioned.

Welcome back to another episode of “The Alex Show"! Today, we’re diving into a fascinating and somewhat perplexing topic: the phenomenon of “Artificial General Stupidity.” We’ll be exploring why it’s so difficult to get advanced large language models to admit when they’re wrong, and even when they do, they stick stubbornly to their incorrect answers. Joining us are two guests who exemplify this issue perfectl...

In the bustling, not-so-bright town of Infotropolis, Google reigned supreme. It was a place where people worshiped at the altar of the search bar, trusting it to unravel the tangled skein of information with the precision of a seasoned knitter. For years, the townsfolk had perfected the art of discernment, picking through the search results like bargain hunters at a flea market. They knew which sources to trust, which to ignore, and which to laugh at over their morning coffee.

Then, one day, the Oracle of Google announced a shiny new feature: the AI Overview. "No longer...

Wandering through Rome’s MAXXI museum, a palace of sleek modernity dreamed up by the ineffably chic Zaha Hadid, I felt like a hot dog vendor at a vegan retreat. The museum, with its sophisticated curves and avant-garde flair, seemed like the epitome of contemporary architectural elitism. Yet, amid this monument to modern aesthetics, I stumbled upon an exhibit on Alvar Aalto’s design process for MIT's Baker House, a display so charmingly out of place it felt like running into your high school science teacher at a nightclub.

Aalto's exhibit wasn’t just an array of bluepr...

Play the audio to hear the popular hit single, “Tech Odyssey.”

Picture the internet pre-1992 as the ultimate garage sale, packed to the rafters with every tool you could imagine. There was Usenet, the neighborhood gossip chain where you could chat about everything from quantum physics to your undying love for lasagna. Gopher was the slightly dull but incredibly useful uncle, always ready with files and documents, if you could navigate his overly organized basement. Then there was Bitnet and Arpanet, the postal service of the digital world, delivering emails with all the reliability of a homing pige...

Welcome to another electrifying episode of “Insanely Generative,” where we dive deep into the rabbit hole of time, technology, and, of course, AI. I'm your host, Jordan, broadcasting from the edge of tomorrow! Today, we're slicing into a topic so fresh, it might as well be from the future: Time Crystals. That's right, folks, not content with merely bending the laws of physics, scientists are now crafting matter that laughs in the face of decay itself!

And speaking of milestones, can you believe we just hit our 500th episode? And what's more, we've been officially recognized as the...

Today, we're embarking on a journey into the world of agriculture, but not just any part of it. We're talking avocados, but with a twist that's as cutting-edge as it is creamy. And oh, have we hit a milestone today – our 100th episode features the world's first AI-generated avocado recipe that, I promise you, will make your digital taste buds go wild!

Now, let me introduce our guests. First up, we have the incredible Jamie Davison, an AI researcher who's recently pivoted to become the leading expert in bioinformatics for avocados. Jamie, who once coded neural networks by...

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Welcome, welcome, welcome, dear listeners, to another electrifying episode of "The Future Is Now: Absurdly AI," where we dive headfirst into the digital rabbit hole and emerge with insights so profound, they'd make a supercomputer blush. I'm your host, Jordan, the voice that tickles your ears with the sweet symphony of tomorrow's world. Today, we're celebrating a milestone that's as unexpected as finding a USB port in a toaster: our 100th episode, where we've managed to not once, but a hundred times, connect the dots between AI and underwater basket weaving. Yes, you heard it right, folks! Now, buckle...

In the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, amidst the vibrant reds and golds of Lunar New Year decorations, a scene unfolded that seemed more akin to a script rejected for being too absurd, even by Hollywood standards. The protagonists of our tale? A driverless Waymo car, an invention that promised to revolutionize how we traverse the cityscapes of the future, and a motley crew of mischief-makers, their hearts set on chaos under the guise of celebration.

The Waymo, in its sleek, futuristic design, navigated the bustling streets, a marvel of technology blissfully unaware of the impending dr...

In the bustling, slightly chaotic lab, Dr. Emily Vargas, a visionary quantum biologist, stands amid a swirl of activity. Her colleagues, a diverse group of skeptics and believers, crowd around as they delve into the enigmatic world of consciousness.

Emily’s groundbreaking theory, reminiscent of the ideas first posited by Penrose and Hameroff but with her own innovative twist, suggests that consciousness is not merely a product of neural activity but a quantum phenomenon, intricately woven into the universe’s fabric. She affectionately dubs it the “Cosmic Consciousness Connection” or CCC.

Central to her latest experime...