June 26, 2026

A Knightscope’s Tale feat. Josh Boerman

Josh joins us to talk about Peter Thiel’s bargain bohemian grove, an AI avatar company with a macabre and deeply stupid twist, and then we revisit old friend Knightscope Security to explore what can only be described as “police robot foot fetish fan fiction.”

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lil dove · June 30, 2026

weebls stuff reference sent a shock down my spine

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b33nni3 · June 29, 2026

re: joseph gordon leavitt: he was invited because his wife was supposed to head openAI when sam altman got ousted, but then altman got un-ousted and she got kicked off the board. he’s like, weirdly all tied up in this

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Jon W · June 29, 2026

I know Dara Ladjevardian's Mom, Sima, funny enough. Campaigned for her when she ran for Congress. That was after meeting her on the Beto Campaign in 2018

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SixArmedSweater · June 28, 2026

I feel like the prompt for that story was mostly slurs.

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Pedro · June 28, 2026

Please make a $1,000 Patreon tier where Dead Iranian Magnate Grampa hosts a podcast with LLM Scott Adams

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Rory Fagan · June 28, 2026

And say hello to his Grandpa

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Oliver Cant · June 28, 2026

Knightscope seems to think all criminals are like Mr X in Resident evil. Just an absolute unit.

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Cormac · June 27, 2026

That moment you've really enjoyed playing First Light 🎮 for weeks and then suddenly Nova breaks your heart.

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David Lunney · June 27, 2026

I invite November to go further and say "Mancunian Candidate"

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Carley They/Themsen · June 27, 2026

Using Delphi to make an LLM of my grandad to interrogate him for esoteric clues on where he buried his secret fortune that obviously exists

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etienne · June 28, 2026

booting a LLM of my dad "okay first question: what the fuck is wrong with you? please give examples and details please"

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Mark Chickenf1sh · June 27, 2026

Weebl & Bob mentioned.

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oneirosophis · June 27, 2026

Pretty sure they were referencing Weebles, a range of kids toys first made in the early 70s and owned by Hasbro from the mid 80s onwards - it was likely those toys that influenced Weebl's name and design.

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Elsie Hupp · June 27, 2026

So Andy Burnham is Manchu? Good thing Britons already love queues…

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Buckeroo · June 27, 2026

Boooooooo!!!!

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Cormac · June 27, 2026

"Do not email my Josh" 🫠

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Andrew Davis · June 27, 2026

Only Riley could, in the midst of riffing, land on Tuvan as the guido of Russian society instead of Georgian.

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tabula_rosa69 · June 27, 2026

an important note they missed about the iranian grandfather I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream guy, is that the relative who he IHNMAIMS'd *was still alive*. the corollary of "its a good thing the AI grandfather we are torturing forever isnt real" doesnt apply because HES STILL ALIVE, the grandfather we are torturing forever *is real*, he just isn't AI. He's partially paralyzed, presumably still functional in the brain but unable to speak (LITERALLY cannot scream!!), in the room with his worthless fuckhead grandson who is playing tinkertoys with an AI chatbot he has taped his own face to asking it to do sexy roleplay with him and then turning to his semi-paralyzed grandfather and going ":D look it's you!!", (if you've never experienced it, being confidently identified correctly by a loved one is one of the best feelings and conversely being confidently identified incorrectly by a loved one is one of the worst) there's nothing he can do to stop it from happening and that experience is all he will have for the rest of his life. so anyway I'm converting to islam bc this guy's still-breathing corpse planted in the earth to suffer forever until the day he dies can only be proof that whatever the most freakish of IRCG guys say about Allah is clearly true

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George Toner · June 27, 2026

Ah but what if, and I have no doubt he actually believes this, AI-grandfather is now the *real* grandfather? I mean, you don't see so-called 'real' grandfather passing the Turing Test now do you? Q.E.D. Flesh-Chauvinist Marxists, just because he's flesh and blood doesn't make him human or a Life Worthy Of Life! /s because apparently that's necessary

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DT · June 27, 2026

I think that roomba cop fanfic is how it's going to end for Fetterman.

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untitledearth · June 27, 2026

Appreciate November's commitment to the bit at the start — she really insisted on powering through it and, you know, she was right to

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Al · June 27, 2026

Cadmus could never comprehend this Delphi.

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Olafo Waffle · June 27, 2026

Sometimes I question why I subject myself to this intellectual trauma (Peter Thiel Club), but I quickly remember that I'm paying for Riley to subject himself to an eventual aneurysm, so he could regurgitate it back in an entertaining manner. Are we the listeners the monsters in this parasocial relationship?

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George Toner · June 27, 2026

It's like having a designated 'Looks Directly at The Things Which Should Not Be' player in a Call of Cthulhu game who burns a small stable of one-and-they're-done characters trying to unravel the mysteries at the heart of the campaign A sort of 'ninety seconds on the roof' Liquidator of dangerously stupid but alluring ideas

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Joseph E. · June 26, 2026

Turning the other army into a direct revenue stream? you mean looting?

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lala · June 26, 2026

💖♥️🩷❤️💗🌸🔥MAIA💖💗❤️🩷♥️💅🚬

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lala · June 26, 2026

they're making the belarusians watch south park on xvideos.com 💔🥀

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Cat Mara · June 26, 2026

To November’s repeated question about why her character was barefoot, I would add: why is the character barefoot *in a public toilet*?!

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Jan Meyer · June 26, 2026

Of course you can fire a nail gun without pressing it against anything. How else would all the apprentices have so much fun and regularly turn up with nails in unlikely places? Edit: On old models the safety is connected to large metal strip that you can just pull back or tape to the grip, in newer models the safety is better protected, often wholly internally and only a small lip sticking out that needs to be depressed to fire; but you can still tape or wedge that down and then fire the nail gun. They are just not very powerful or accurate and most need a compressor with the black powder enabled ones being a lot more restricted.

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Shiv · June 26, 2026

I think it’s come up before that HK is, like me, a Jon Don apologist

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Adnan al-Faregh · June 26, 2026

i didn’t know a voice could curdle intransitively

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Andrew Humphrey · June 26, 2026

The Mancunian Candidate

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Andy C · June 26, 2026

Came here with that joke exactly 43 minutes too late

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FreeBard42 · June 26, 2026

Nova, beautiful woman who's open about going to kink events: "Why is it so important I'm barefoot?"

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Loquin Britton-Herndon · June 26, 2026

Why is she barefoot IN A SHOP BATHROOM?!?? (I think it was a gas station which is even worse but I don't remember and I'm not going back)

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Ryan E · June 26, 2026

Love the Qing riff at the start

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Felicity Hall · June 26, 2026

I cannot believe they're making the system to put yourself in The Amazing Digital Circus

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James Rule · June 26, 2026

Would it count as extra desecration if the keep your grandfather around forever machine also made him look like a cartoon rabbit?

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kaninchen ZERO · June 26, 2026

now with 66% more bullet per bullet!

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FreeBard42 · June 26, 2026

November: hosts five podcasts, one of them w/her close friend, a rapidly ascending YouTuber-turned actress/action star on a major HBO series. Also November: Starts a joking feud w/the guest over how many times a badass hacker chick has been on their respective podcasts. ;P

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Cat Mara · June 26, 2026

November is on a one-woman mission to do for trans women podcasters what Kevin Bacon did for actors

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Vanessa P · June 26, 2026

HAHAHAHAHA THEY CALLED THE WATER COMPANY ADVISING FIRM "FLINT GLOBAL"??? THEY WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD DRINK THE FLINT WATER???????

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James Rule · June 26, 2026

Yeah, Dialog doesn't mess around. I forgot to return Pete's casserole dish after the combination planning the overthrow of democracy/potluck dinner and that was it. Out without even a goodbye gift basket.

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Vanessa P · June 26, 2026

So Burnham is British Odoacer????

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Vanessa P · June 26, 2026

Ohhhh right no he's Kublai Khan I see. Implies that he'll ultimately adopt the culture of his new lands, which seems likely.

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Zipzapzop · June 26, 2026

Mf making the plot of Ubik but the moon isn’t involved

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Josh L · June 26, 2026

Assumed it meant Knight’s cope and was more Starmer bashing 🙏

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Huronbikes · June 26, 2026

wait, what about the goose? The goose was not valued! THE GOOSE WAS NOT VALUED! (relates to a presentation given by Masayoshi Son)

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AnnoyingSpanishGuy · June 26, 2026

Can't believe they didn't value the goose

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Larketto · June 26, 2026

With Kasparov and Yudkowsky being a part of Thiel's friend group, I can only imagine that their meetings is just a bunch of uncomfortable people who just want his money listening to several cranks talk past each other

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David · June 26, 2026

A social club for rich people who want "cool" people to hangout with them