David Boles
Human Meme
The Human Meme podcast examines what separates human consciousness from mere biological existence. Each episode investigates the inherited behaviors, cultural transmissions, and cognitive patterns that replicate across generations, shaping how we think, grieve, speak, and remember. David Boles, a New York City writer, publisher, and teacher, hosts these conversations as mindfulness with teeth: no production music, no easy comfort, only the direct inquiry into what makes us recognizably human. Since 2016, the podcast has asked why we weep emotional tears, how language emerged from gesture, and...
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Episodes
Future of AI Medical Intervention 11.10.2023 9:22
In this AI podcast, host Atomic Dave, and his AI research associates, present the future of medicine with the active intervention of AI to lead the way. What are the pinnacles and pitfalls of health over the century or two? Will we live forever? Or die trying?
AI and the Failure of Science and Technology 04.10.2023 12:49
In this AI-assisted podcast, starring Atomic Dave and his AI research associates, we discover the real meaning of "the failure of science and technology to replace the death of the old God." How did we get there? Where are we going? Today, we find out together!
AI Shakespearean Sonnets 01.10.2023 4:50
In this Human Meme podcast episode, Atomic Dave -- the AI voice original David Boles -- shares an AI Shakespearean Sonnet contest between ChatGPT-4, Claude, Bard and Bing! You pick the winner!
Festival of Unity 30.09.2023 6:20
In this AI inspired story about Unity and togetherness, Atomic Dave (the AI voice of the original David Boles), and his crack AI creative team, share this moral story about inclusion and respect.
AI Voice Will Hear You Now! 29.09.2023 14:09
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the process of cloning his voice for AI use in new episodes of this Human Meme podcast! Discover the good and the bad when it comes to creating a "second you" that lives and thrives without you, forever, online! Deep fakes, unite!
ASL Opera is Now LIVE! 28.09.2023 20:55
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the great news that the ASL-Opera.com website is now alive! David steps you through the how and the why of including the Deaf in the High Art of live Opera performances. Plus, he celebrates the Chicago Lyric Opera "SoundShirt" for the Deaf as well as supporting the NFL for selling "I Love You" football shirts to Deaf fans! We are a place f...
Evolution of Thought and the Uncanny Valley 26.09.2023 13:23
In this AI episode -- starring Atomic Dave and AI research -- we dig into the idea of how thought and thinking has evolved over the last century and led us deeper into the Uncanny Valley.
General Grant, Helen Keller and People of Color 20.09.2023 13:44
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the complex shades of discrimination against people that has become the ingrained standard in American life. We want separation, not inclusion. We point people away from us instead of welcoming them inside. How do we fix this problem of exclusivity?
When Your AI Bot Lies to You! 13.09.2023 11:24
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experience when his AI Bot lied to him about information found on the internet. Is this acceptable human/AI interaction? Who will do the intervention in this situation to negotiate a settlement of the truth?
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Color Line 06.09.2023 16:54
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the history, and the accountability of the life of Harriet Tubman and how today, her kind legacy is damaged, not by the color of her black skin, but by the color of her original sculptor's white skin and his woke critics.
Beauty of Bricolage 30.08.2023 23:09
Bricolage is more than just something artistic. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his new "Bricoleur" understanding of the "Bricolage" idea in arts and literature, social sciences, anthropology and sociology, and in business management!
A Value Society Defines and Condemns Us 23.08.2023 21:24
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the want of the wicked rich against the real interests of a human society. Do we want our university students to fall in line or break beyond the context? Do we want the highest paid public official of a State to be the football coach? Must we build more prisons to contain the worst of us? Do we honor the Arts, Humanities, and World Lang...
Online Business Review Spam Scam 16.08.2023 17:24
Reviewing businesses online is a spammy, for-profit, scam. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles reveals why big, online, "mapping" companies make massive profits off the misery of negative reviews of good, legitimate, businesses. What can be done about this for-profit wounding of innocent companies?
Total Immersion Learning 09.08.2023 27:20
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares his experience with total immersion Italian language learning -- that begins with Busuu, gets thwarted by Babbel, becomes enhanced with Forgotten Books, and is finally celebrated with Cibor TV!
New Jersey Turnpike Scam! 02.08.2023 13:26
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the details of a road scam that some families are running to get free gas and a "donation" from you to ensure their better life on a distant road. Here's how to identify the scam, and then avoid the scam!
A Strike Should Mean a Shutdown! 26.07.2023 14:24
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles digs into the Writers and Actors strike to discover that there are a whole slew of new shows with big names in the pipeline that have been "approved" by the Actors Guild to continue working in the midst of their strike. Why is this allowed? The pipeline of new movies and episodic television should be drained, and left empty, for as long as possib...
AI Strikes Actors and Writers 20.07.2023 13:00
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why the current Writers and Actors strike is really only mostly about the role AI will play in society. The crying in the universities has only just begun!
Corrected Student Loans 19.07.2023 7:37
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles explains why the new Biden Student Loan "adjustment" isn't really about "forgiveness" -- it is exactly about "correction."
ASL Opera Project: Interpreting Performances for the Deaf! 18.07.2023 11:05
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the moral, human, responsibility for Opera Companies to provide interpreted performances for the Deaf. The program -- founded by Janna Sweenie and David Boles -- is simply called: The ASL Opera Project! Here's how you can get involved!
Why Are You Talking to Me? 12.07.2023 11:15
Negotiating differences between conflicting cultural norms is a challenge. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles shares the wonderment of "culturally allowed communication" on the street between Norway, Los Angeles, New York, Nebraska and Iowa. More often than not, you might just be asked, "Why are you talking to me?"
Trash is Money, Water is Free 28.06.2023 11:56
Big cities have a trash problem. Who pays to cart away the filth? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the way our garbage is counted, quantified, and metered in large urban cores.
AI Adriana Lima Disappears in a Discord Shadow Ban 21.06.2023 23:33
Supermodel Adriana Lima gets disappeared on Discord. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discusses the problem of a disappearing supermodel when the wrong words are used to invoke her extreme beauty! Magic is not afoot, because misdeeds are the undertow!
Why the Deaf Must Sing at the Metropolitan Opera! 14.06.2023 17:18
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the issue of providing inclusive, and interpreted, performances for the Deaf at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. English text captions are not enough for the Deaf to allow them to match the total, immersive, experience Hearing audiences enjoy. To fully express the complete, human, and emotional life of the Opera, the Deaf require...
Busting Your Chops 07.06.2023 17:13
There are those who live to bust your chops. In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles reveals the real intention of those who live just to give other people a hard time. It doesn't make any sense -- but that's the job of the Chops Buster!
Jewish Matchmaking Review 31.05.2023 21:07
What does it mean to find your soul mate? In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles discovers the difficult process of Jewish Matchmaking in the Netflix television series of the same name. Lonesomeness begins loneliness and the process of discovering nothing meaningful in the life of loving, begins.
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