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This week Dave and Gunnar talk about improving AI with improv, improving the internet with the air travel experience, improving fraud with spacesuits, and improving online dating with the gig economy

• Foam Pits
• NeverSSL
• Kent State Tuscarawas wrestler born without legs teaches students it’s OK to be different
• Google used improv rules to deal with a farting Assistant
• D&G Gunnarbait of the Week: ISPs should charge for fast lanes—just like TSA Precheck, GOP lawmaker says
  • Intelligence² Debate
• Indian pair arrested after using 'space suits' to con investor out of $200,000
• Google Duplex calls hairdresser, terrifies everyone else
• You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators
• Zero-width Unicode for steganography

Cutting Room Floor

• Bite-Sized Linux: a zine collecting awesome *nix tutorial webtoons
• Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)
• Purrli: a customizable cat-purr emulator
• If you ever wanted to print out a square km of black toner, here’s your chance
• Hey I got an idea: What Scientists Saw When They Put a Crocodile in an MRI Scanner and Played Classical Music
• Solve 3 Rubik’s Cubes while juggling