Attention — Jul 16, 2026
What caught my attention on Jul 16 (4 items).
AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus) | Better Offline
Better Offline (Article:12:43) - Published 2026-07-14 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-16 12:43
In this episode of Better Offline, host Ed Zitron interviews Steve Burke from Gamers Nexus to examine the dramatic surge in memory and storage prices, tracing the inflation directly to the AI infrastructure boom. Burke clarifies that while consumers often conflate RAM with permanent storage, memory is a fast, volatile component embedded in nearly all modern electronics. The primary driver of cur…
Why Are All Our Movies Ads Now?
How We Got Here with Chris Kohler (Podcast:13:46) - Published 2026-07-13 09:00 - Discovered 2026-07-16 13:46
This episode explores the history, mechanics, and cultural impact of product placement in film and television. Host Chris Kohler and producer Rob trace the practice back to 1930s American radio, where soap companies like Procter & Gamble pioneered serialized dramas to sell household goods, effectively coining the term “soap opera.” As media evolved, product placement adapted, becoming particularly…
Hell Is Other People
Podcast – Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com (Podcast:13:49) - Published 2026-07-12 18:52 - Discovered 2026-07-16 13:49
In this episode of the Cory Doctorow Podcast, Doctorow introduces his latest Locust column, “Hell as Other People,” which examines the solipsistic and anti-humanist motivations driving contemporary enthusiasm for artificial intelligence. Drawing on Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous line, Doctorow argues that while most people recognize the necessity and value of human cooperation, a subset of powerful ind…
Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI
Pivot to AI (Article:14:41) - Published 2026-07-15 18:00 - Discovered 2026-07-16 14:41
In this episode of Pivot to AI, host David Gerard examines a newly documented prompt injection technique that exploits the core architecture of large language models. Rather than relying on traditional jailbreak phrases, attackers can bypass AI safety guardrails simply by mimicking the model’s own internal reasoning style. The video references a research paper titled “Prompt Injection as Rule Conf…