Episodes

  • Who or WHAT is hacking Facebook as we speak?

    Who or WHAT is hacking Facebook as we speak?
    Mar 5 2024

    A short but very important episode covering the ongoing FB and Instagram outages of today, March 5th 2024. PLEASE LISTEN AND SHARE WIDELY!!
    Show More Show Less
    11 mins
  • News Brief for 11142023

    News Brief for 11142023
    Nov 14 2023

    Baked and Awake News Brief for Nov 14 2023

    Priority: Normal (Low, Normal, Advisory, High, Severe)

    News Roundup courtesy of several sources, noted in description

    Hello, and welcome back to the Baked and Awake News Brief, formerly published and distributed via Amazon Alexa, henceforth exclusive to this YouTube Channel. Credit is Due to the S2 Underground YouTube channel, and their daily reports known as "The Wire" for the inspiration to revive this format and resume sharing regular commentary on timely news topics as examined through the unique perspective of your Host Steve, AKA Baked and Awake..




    https://theconversation.com/is-capitalism-dead-yanis-varoufakis-thinks-it-is-and-he-knows-who-killed-it-213992

    https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/hackers-can-steal-ssh-cryptographic-keys-in-new-cutting-edge-attack/

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/leo-hohmann-beware-digital-marking-e-u-moving/

    Join the Baked and Awake Discord: https://discord.gg/BKJ52JQ

    My Website: www.bakedandawake.com

    Email me: talktous@bakedandawake.com

    Official Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bakedandawake

    My Peertube Channel: https://peertube.co.uk/accounts/baked_and_awake/video-channels

    My LBRY Channel:

    https://lbry.tv/@BakedandAwake:3?r=51gFhcjfVTWDBrSitnYrno8DVNqw3nHU

    New 2021 Baked and Awake Podcast Theme Song by DJ Quod with original Viola Composition from Begin Scarseth. Follow @thefamilyquod on Instagram to hear more

    Additional Ambient Music generously provided by Antti Luode (http://www.soundclick.com/AnttiLuode),http://www.soundclick.com/_mobileFrame.cfm?bandID=1277008

    Additional Music Provided with permission by Northwest Grab aka https://summoningsickness.bandcamp.com

    I'm a Wikipedia Editor! (and you can be, too)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stephen_Cominski

    DON'T CLICK THIS LINK: https://bit.ly/36towQy
    Show More Show Less
    30 mins
  • What is Swarm Intelligence GPT Agent Swarms Neuralink Trials Borg Collective Transhumanist Future

    What is Swarm Intelligence GPT Agent Swarms Neuralink Trials Borg Collective Transhumanist Future
    Nov 10 2023
    46 mins
  • TECH NEWS IS EVERYONE'S NEWS

    TECH NEWS IS EVERYONE'S NEWS
    Jun 6 2023

    Baked and Awake

    Episode 125

    June 5 2023

    All content linked below is the property of the original creators. All commentary provided by the host is his own opinion. Host is not providing financial advice. Consume all cannabis responsibly. "Smoke Indica, do shit anyway" are the words we live by.



    Sources:

    https://slashdot.org/story/23/06/05/1542243/ai-generated-content-should-be-labelled-eu-commissioner-jourova-says

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/06/05/1214222/major-reddit-communities-will-go-dark-to-protest-threat-to-third-party-apps

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/06/05/0341232/judge-clears-massachusetts-to-finally-enforce-its-right-to-repair-law

    https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/06/05/1515244/sec-accuses-binance-of-mishandling-funds-and-lying-to-regulators





    Join the Baked and Awake Discord: https://discord.gg/BKJ52JQ

    My Website: www.bakedandawake.com

    Email me: talktous@bakedandawake.com

    Official Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bakedandawake

    My Peertube Channel: https://peertube.co.uk/accounts/baked_and_awake/video-channels

    My LBRY Channel:

    https://lbry.tv/@BakedandAwake:3?r=51gFhcjfVTWDBrSitnYrno8DVNqw3nHU

    New 2021 Baked and Awake Podcast Theme Song by DJ Quod with original Viola Composition from Begin Scarseth. Follow @thefamilyquod on Instagram to hear more

    Additional Ambient Music generously provided by Antti Luode (http://www.soundclick.com/AnttiLuode),http://www.soundclick.com/_mobileFrame.cfm?bandID=1277008

    Additional Music Provided with permission by Northwest Grab aka https://summoningsickness.bandcamp.com

    I'm a Wikipedia Editor! (and you can be, too)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stephen_Cominski

    DON'T CLICK THIS LINK: https://bit.ly/36towQy
    Show More Show Less
    35 mins
  • Baked GPT

    Baked GPT
    Feb 16 2023

    Baked and Awake

    Episode 124- Baked GPT

    2.16.2023

    In this episode, I relate a story written by Chat GPT based on a prompt I constructed for it. I've included a link to the full, unedited transcript of the conversation here in the show notes. I made this episode because I believe this technology is the next big disruption and the first one in a while. This directly relates back to many conversations we have already had on the podcast about the interesting and terrifying technology known as Deepfakes. Join me as I learn all I can about the rapidly evolving landscape of AI Conversational Models, AI Powered Art tools, and more.

    Transcript of "AI Determines it's Purpose"

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TBSwO3mnm6or8suzW3eMZVuU3VKZULXQ7FMsLFwC-FM/edit?usp=sharing

    Transcript of "Camus inspired Essay"

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pzn-UvXmw5a_hQmQSVdyIjyTFzmQsVNBHn3BKyKbMT0/edit?usp=sharing

    Try it yourself: https://chat.openai.com/chat

    My Website: www.bakedandawake.com

    Email me: talktous@bakedandawake.com

    Amateur Radio Callsign: KJ7WQK

    Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bakedandawake

    Peertube: https://peertube.co.uk/accounts/baked_and_awake/video-channels

    My LBRY Channel:

    https://lbry.tv/@BakedandAwake:3?r=51gFhcjfVTWDBrSitnYrno8DVNqw3nHU

    New 2021 Baked and Awake Podcast Theme Song by DJ Quod with original Viola Composition from Begin Scarseth. Follow @thefamilyquod on Instagram to hear more

    Additional Ambient Music generously provided by Antti Luode (http://www.soundclick.com/AnttiLuode),http://www.soundclick.com/_mobileFrame.cfm?bandID=1277008

    Additional Music Provided with permission by Northwest Grab aka https://summoningsickness.bandcamp.com

    I'm a Wikipedia Editor! (and you can be, too)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stephen_Cominski

    DON'T CLICK THIS LINK: https://bit.ly/36towQy
    Show More Show Less
    31 mins
  • Steampunk Gasifier Technology and Living Inside Giant Trees

    Steampunk Gasifier Technology and Living Inside Giant Trees
    Jan 29 2023
    Baked and Awake January 29 2023 Episode 123 SMOKE RESPONSIBLY MY DUDES Intro Welcome back, it's been a while, but we're back together again. Consider this a test to weed out all the fair weather listeners- if you're still here, you passed the trial! There will be cake served at the end of this podcast for all. Now, I've been keeping busy as I'm sure you all have in your own subjectively protagonistic worlds. Everyone in my family and circle as far as I know, is doing pretty well, certainly nothing to report or to complain about. I trust and hope that wherever you are listening to this right now, you are well. Well enough anyway to take a little time to sit for a few moments with me while I tell you a couple of stories That I found interesting. Maybe join me for a puff, maybe don't. Both states of being are compatible with the vibe here on Baked and Awake. If you're listening here on Youtube, smash that like button, subscribe and share the channel, and be kind to each other in the comments section, where I hope to hear your thoughts on anything I talk about during this episode. Watch/listen till the end for me to really help my retention numbers and as a result, become more visible to new listeners through the all powerful algorithm. Algorithms? Is it one, or more? Nevermind but that might be foreshadowing… First up today I want to more or less introduce a topic that I really was only ever dimly aware of- a technology semi lost to history, but from the not very distant past as I see it. That technology is something out of a steampunk novel or fantasy film, or so I kind of thought, until I stumbled on a video where else but on YouTube (love it or hate it YT has the most content anywhere- don't @ me). The subject I'm talking about is called Transport Gasifier technology. In short, cars, trucks, trains and boats/ships running on biomass fuels. Wood Powered vehicles. Coal, Charcoal, Wood Pellets, Even garbage (picturing the Doc stuffing rotten banana peels into the delorean's flux capacitor or whatever it was at the beginning?ending of Back to the future II before flying off into space time once again…) -Gasifier Transport Technology How Gasification Works A treasure of a forum post about wood powered motorcycles A hundred years of wood powered vehicles GenGaz Lagunov, Excellent YT Subject matter expert on Gasifier tech. -My Side of the Mountain and the American Mythology Channel YT. Check out that channel and tell me "They lived in hollow trees" doesn't give you warm fuzzy feelings as you remember the first time you ever watched the "No Trees on Flat Earth" video… Comment your thoughts down below if you're listening on Youtube, -Do already ubiquitous AI's like Chat GPT pose an existential threat? Should we experiment with it here on the Podcast? Hah, too late! Does all this eventually circle back around to our prior discussions about Deepfake videos? -Side note: There was a Recent attack on US power Grid in OR, WA, and North Carolina - What early episodes to remaster for better audio? Suggestions? I'm thinking about the Norb Theory and Mel's Hole, Possibly Maury Island to start.. -The Patreon is Dead, Long live Baked and Awake Join the Baked and Awake Discord: https://discord.gg/BKJ52JQ My Website: www.bakedandawake.com Email me: talktous@bakedandawake.com Official Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bakedandawake My Peertube Channel: https://peertube.co.uk/accounts/baked_and_awake/video-channels My LBRY Channel: https://lbry.tv/@BakedandAwake:3?r=51gFhcjfVTWDBrSitnYrno8DVNqw3nHU New 2021 Baked and Awake Podcast Theme Song by DJ Quod with original Viola Composition from Begin Scarseth. Follow @thefamilyquod on Instagram to hear more Additional Ambient Music generously provided by Antti Luode (http://www.soundclick.com/AnttiLuode),http://www.soundclick.com/_mobileFrame.cfm?bandID=1277008 Additional Music Provided with permission by Northwest Grab aka https://summoningsickness.bandcamp.com I'm a Wikipedia Editor! (and you can be, too) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stephen_Cominski DON'T CLICK THIS LINK: https://bit.ly/36towQy
    Show More Show Less
    34 mins
  • Player Completes in game quest after 47 Years by Finding His Mom (100% Completion NO HACKS)

    Player Completes in game quest after 47 Years by Finding His Mom (100% Completion NO HACKS)
    Mar 19 2022

    Baked and Awake

    Episode 122

    March 01 2022

    1. Welcome, updates, thanks to supporters, hello to new listeners and subscribers.
    2. Solid State Flight? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGM4JXVB5FM As inspired by Andreas Xirtus excellent and largely overlooked videos from two years ago, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PejmKpgx-Wk here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJ8fj7Rf98 and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdz-lPafN7k
    3. Adoption is Trauma
    4. Help me with this story by sharing your experiences- Is the Self Storage Industry a Scam? $5Billion in unused goods in people's homes, cluttered garages and homes, moves for work and more create the need for self storage industry. 10% of households in US rented a unit in 2020? Deaths, defaults, and abandonments mean much of these goods stored go unclaimed. Death, Divorce, Displacement, Disaster causes for needing storage. $38 billion market. The industry has greatly benefited from the covid pandemic. Public Storage (biggest co) Initially numbers went down, then went way up due to a robust Housing Market (read: housing bubble), High Earning employees working from home, and an abandonment of expensive urban markets as people embraced new hybrid and remote work models caused a strong growth in demand for Self Storage of nearly 3% in less than one year. Doesn't sound like all that much but remember Public Storage makes about $3.5 Billion a year as of 2019, so around 10.5 million. Covid was described by the CEO of smaller Self Storage company Neighbor as "A major growth driver for our business".
    5. I accidentally blew up my own website- FIXED

    Join the Baked and Awake Discord: https://discord.gg/BKJ52JQ

    My Website: www.bakedandawake.com

    Email me: talktous@bakedandawake.com

    Official Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/bakedandawake

    My Peertube Channel: https://peertube.co.uk/accounts/baked_and_awake/video-channels

    My LBRY Channel:

    https://lbry.tv/@BakedandAwake:3?r=51gFhcjfVTWDBrSitnYrno8DVNqw3nHU

    New 2021 Baked and Awake Podcast Theme Song by DJ Quod with original Viola Composition from Begin Scarseth. Follow @thefamilyquod on Instagram to hear more

    Additional Ambient Music generously provided by Antti Luode (http://www.soundclick.com/AnttiLuode),http://www.soundclick.com/_mobileFrame.cfm?bandID=1277008

    Additional Music Provided with permission by Northwest Grab aka https://summoningsickness.bandcamp.com

    I'm a Wikipedia Editor! (and you can be, too)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stephen_Cominski

    DON'T CLICK THIS LINK: https://bit.ly/36towQy
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Dead Internet Theory

    Dead Internet Theory
    Oct 16 2021
    Baked and Awake Podcast 121 October 14 2021 Algorithms, Bots, Corporate, Internet, Social Media, Content Drift, Link Rot, Internet Rot, Potemkin Village , Google Search results, Deepfakes, Misinformation, FB Whistleblower, The Dunbar Number, Social Engineering Theory, COINTELPRO, Forum Sliding, Gaslight culture, Straw Men, Memetic weaponization, Devils' Advocate, Verifying the identity of someone on the internet is hard! Voice actors In politics and economics, a Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose is to provide an external façade to a country that is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better. The term comes from stories of a fake portable village built by Grigory Potemkin, former lover of Empress Catherine II, solely to impress the Empress during her journey to Crimea in 1787. While modern historians agree that accounts of this portable village are exaggerated, the original story was that Potemkin erected phony portable settlements along the banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Russian Empress; the structures would be disassembled after she passed, and re-assembled farther along her route to be viewed again as if another example. Dead Internet Theory- what is it and why do we care? Hello, welcome back once again to the Baked and Awake Podcast. I know it's been a few weeks since I read you all the story of The Smoky God, which if you missed it came back in September in two parts- but we are back together at the desk today to talk about a number of more contemporary matters, some of which I'm openly asking for your assistance with as regards fully understanding the matters described in the contents of one particular website I found recently while researching the initial topic, The Dead Internet Theory. Sounds awesome, doesn't it? Dystopian even. I'm sure there's an episode of Black Mirror about this out there somewhere, you know I never finished that particular anthology probably because it was all too believable to me, maybe. So, to explain a bit- the Dead Internet Theory seems to have come into existence just over the past year now online in forums like 4chan, reddit, and one much lesser known and truly unique community that I learned of called Agora Road, where threads discussing the extent of the theory have been written and heavily commented upon. Personally, I think I came across this on YouTube, where just a few but quite decent short pieces have been made on the topic, and I'll leave links to them below- and those videos sent me off a researching, including to a referenced recent journalistic piece written on The Dead Internet that was printed in The Atlantic back in August. I'll also be linking to the full article, but please be advised I believe The Atlantic only lets you read one or two articles per month without subscribing to the mag, so if you've just been bouncing off their website daily lately reading all their content like some kind of High falootin news addict, well you might just bump up against their paywall. In that case I guess listen to me for a few more minutes then go find those videos in the description or show notes. Long time listeners of the podcast will probably be well on their way already in terms of deducing what this is all about. This theory is right in line with topics we have been talking about for years now here on the podcast, right? Deepfakes, Artificial Intelligence, Pervasive Mass Surveillance and Social Engineering- Cybernetics, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. Those are all homework assignments for new listeners by the way. Pretty much every phrase I just uttered there is a past show topic on one or more occasions, so feel free to dive into those archives because that's what they're there for, and every show I've ever produced includes a detailed show notes section with the resources I used to come up with the episode you're listening to. And now, let's have a look at the think piece from The Atlantic to get a clear picture of what this dreadfully believable theory is all about. The piece was I think very well written by its creator, Kaitlyn Tiffany, so let's, shall we? Former Colleague of mine from LinkedIn: Last summer googles results after the 5 or 6 item totally turned to garbage link bait, ripped and sliced diced sentence fragments that had logical meaning to the index but only negative net value. Especally frustrating if it was a technical paper that had citations, references to it were always to some sort of site that was craled and had its ip address in the results. Its gotten better, but it was a dark hole there for a while. DEADGPK YT: I have only heard of it a few weeks ago as a full theory. Before there have been many things about AI being able to create things such as music, art and I believe there's an AI that even runs a YouTube channel. I have also looked into the digital influencers that have become popular or the years ...
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 31 mins