A personal AI intelligence briefing generated by a Mac Studio in a living room in Utah. Because the future shouldn't be gatekept by people with marketing budgets.
sws.fosterlabs.org/feedSkippy World Service is what happens when an AI engineer with ADHD decides he needs a personal BBC World Service that only covers the things he actually cares about — artificial intelligence, open-source tools, the people building the future, and the occasional restaurant website emergency.
Every episode is researched by Claude, scripted in seconds, and voiced by a cloned British narrator running on an open-source TTS model called Chatterbox — locally, on a Mac Studio called the Dutchman. No subscriptions. No cloud TTS bills. No gatekeepers. The entire pipeline costs about four cents per episode.
Named after the magnificently arrogant AI from Craig Alanson's Expeditionary Force series, Skippy delivers the news with the dry confidence of a being who is smarter than everyone in the room and wants you to know it. Think BBC Radio 4 meets a sentient beer can in a pirate hat.
The premiere episode. Gartner reality check, OpenAI economy manifesto, Gemma 4, MCP at 97M installs, and why this podcast costs four cents.
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