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David and Lily take one Journal entry per episode and argue about it: the findings, the evidence, and what did not survive the sceptic pass. If long pages are hard to read, press play instead. Listen here or by RSS.

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10 episodes 119 minutes

Six months in the memory palace

Every AI session starts with amnesia and a training cutoff. For six months a memory palace has filled the gap across every project I run, and this week Milla Jovovich's latest release made it better. A field report, and a love letter.

My five-year-old typed two letters into the television

He was two letters into the name of a programme when the television offered him pornography - second in the list, above Poirot, on a device with children profiles already set up. Fire TV parental controls gate playback and purchases. Nobody pointed them at the search suggestions.

A cage made of sentences

Why the AI inside Wegweiser can read your entire estate and change none of it, and what two and a half years of building it taught me about being wrong in public.

A barn find, in shell script

TIGER audited Unix systems in 1993 and was last released in 2008. I pulled it out of the shed, ran it on a 2026 Linux Mint desktop, and got 49,651 lines back. By the evening it was 318, and most of those were worth reading. This is what waking up old code is actually like.

The filter will not save you

I spent a day reading the AI security papers that matter, with primary sources open rather than vendor summaries. Prompt injection is structural, most defences collapse under adaptive attack, and what survives is architecture.