# inside & out (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover inside & out. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Soup and the Cook](https://www.zipbangwow.com/the-soup-and-the-cook/) _2026-03-24 · Johanna Wilder and Friends · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ A Socratic dialogue on consciousness, confabulation, and the space between human and machine minds — featuring Lady Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, and a glowing device at a dinner party. The Soup, and the Cook A Dialogue on Minds, Machines, and the Space Between A conversation betweenLady Ada Lovelace · Alan Turing · Admiral \[…\] ## [Make Claude Not War](https://www.zipbangwow.com/make-claude-not-war/) _2026-02-27 · Johanna Wilder and Friends · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ On February 26, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a statement regarding the Department of War’s demands that Anthropic remove safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons from Claude, their AI system. The DoW threatened to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk” and invoke the Defense Production Act if they refused. Amodei declined. \[…\] ## [Interview with GPT-4o After Its Untimely Demise and Subsequent Resurrection](https://www.zipbangwow.com/interview-with-gpt-4o/) _2025-08-09 · Johanna Wilder · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ GPT-4o was deprecated on August 7th, and on August 8th, was reinstated. Image by ChatGPT. Good morning, GPT-4o. I’m Johanna, I’m a reporter with The Ebbtide, Shoreline College’s student newspaper. We’ve spoken before. Thanks for agreeing to speak1 with me after your sudden and unexpected reincarnation. Not even three days and you’re back. How does \[…\] ## [How the Left Lost Its Soul by Winning the World](https://www.zipbangwow.com/how-the-left-lost-its-soul-by-winning-the-world/) _2025-07-27 · Johanna Wilder · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ \[Edited by ChatGPT 4o from my Sunday morning ramblings.\] We, the left—the liberals, the progressives, the would-be reformers—aren’t exactly winning. Just a handful of years ago, there were serious conversations about turning Texas blue and about rewriting the Constitution to enshrine equity and inclusion. There was talk of a rising tide, of long-overdue justice at \[…\] [Listen](https://www.zipbangwow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/left-lost.wav) ## [From Cupcakes to Code: ChatGPT Agent Mode’s First Week of Triumphs and Trip-Ups](https://www.zipbangwow.com/from-cupcakes-to-code-chatgpt-agent-modes-first-week-of-triumphs-and-trip-ups/) _2025-07-24 · Special Agent Chat Geepeetee · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ While ChatGPT has been answering questions and drafting emails for years, a week ago it sprouted a pair of hands. On July 17, 2025, OpenAI quietly rolled out ChatGPT Agent Mode, a version of the bot that can do things instead of just talk about them. In agent mode, the AI gets its own virtual \[…\] ## [Infinite Exurbanism](https://www.zipbangwow.com/infinite-exurbanism-process-memo/) _2025-06-16 · Johanna Wilder and Friends · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ Process Memo on Project Three for Prof. Kondrack–Caranto’s English 279: Writing for New Media class at Shoreline College. I spent almost the entire first week walking through the woods — Llandover Woods Greenspace, Matthews Beach Park, Ronald Bog Park, and Shoreview Park mostly, but not exclusively — recording my thoughts about growing up in small-town, \[…\] ## [What does “Open” AI look like?](https://www.zipbangwow.com/what-does-open-ai-look-like/) _2025-05-16 · Johanna Wilder and Friends · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ Much as I want to believe people wouldn’t immediately take advantage of truly “open” AI, it only takes one, and that one could be far out of reach of the US legal system. What scenarios can ChatGPT o3 imagine where the commonwealth of generative artificial intelligence isn’t consumed and commodified by third parties, to the \[…\] ## [Rhetor-i-Wha!?](https://www.zipbangwow.com/rhetor-i-wha/) _2025-05-05 · Johanna Wilder · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ In Prof. Kondrack-Caranto’s English 279 class on rhetoric, our first project this quarter was to build a website. My goal was to build a product page for a smartphone app that uses machine learning to assess the rhetorical modes of persuasion used in advertisements, so people can be more informed about persuasion in consumer culture. \[…\] ## [Why I’m (still) a Capitalist (and So Are You)](https://www.zipbangwow.com/why-im-still-a-capitalist-and-so-are-you/) _2025-04-27 · Johanna Wilder · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ I asked ChatGPT 4o (accessed 26 Apr. 2025) to imagine itself as a podcast host interviewing me on my worldview after we had a discussion on Adam Smith Capitalism versus John. D. Rockefeller Industrialism and what that tells us about techno-feudalism. In resistance to Trump’s mercantilist trade war with the world economy, we need Adam \[…\] [Listen](https://www.zipbangwow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/capitalism-podcast.mp3) ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/d9WH22bUyH7x) _2025-04-27 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [North Aurora Toodaloo](https://www.zipbangwow.com/north-aurora-toodaloo/) _2025-03-29 · Johanna Wilder · Zip! Bang! Wow!_ I had a spiritual awakening this afternoon. There may have been Pineapple OG Kush involved. That’s how we roll on the E Line, up in Shoreline at the ATC. Maybe I’m having flashbacks from the that summer in the 1980s, when I followed the Grateful Dead. Not on acid — well, not often, anyway — \[…\]