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Grumpy Old Geeks

We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.

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Latest Episodes:

620: Hello Sluts! Sep 30, 2023

Show notes

Authentic pub experiences; Yaccarino's bad X week; Amazon monopoly lawsuit; FTC challenging Microsoft's Activision bid, again; H&R Block, Meta & Google slapped with RICO lawsuit; Epic Games layoffs, sells Bandcamp; Meta ignored Metaverse for AI, no one wants their insane visions; California governor Newsom vs Teamsters; US electrical grid in trouble; human radiologists still better than AI; Pudgy Penguins & NFT stories; torrents are 20 years old; Getty goes AI; WGA strike ends; Tinder Select; desalination system, maybe; AG Riddle, John Scazli, Douglas Adams & Asimov's Foundation; Ultra 2 review; Ahsoka; delivery robots & privacy; good evening, Bismark!

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FOLLOW UP

Elon Musk and X/Twitter's CEO Can't Seem to Agree on Whether Their Election Integrity Team Is 'Gone'

Watch Linda Yaccarino’s wild interview at the Code Conference

IN THE NEWS

U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail

Amazon Bedrock is available now.

The FTC is challenging Microsoft’s $69 billion buyout of Activision again

H&R Block, Meta, and Google Slapped With RICO Suit, Allegedly Schemed to Scrape Taxpayer Data

Epic Games is laying off 16 percent of its workforce and selling Bandcamp

Meta’s metaverse is getting an AI makeover

MARK ZUCKERBERG SHOWS OFF WILDLY IMPROVED METAVERSE WITH LIFELIKE AVATARS

California governor vetoes a bill requiring humans in autonomous big rigs

Gavin Newsom Under Fire From Teamsters Over Veto of Driverless Truck Bill

Meta to Push for Younger Users With New AI Chatbot Characters

The US electrical grid is in desperate need of upgrades, watchdog warns

Human radiologists beat AI in diagnosing common lung diseases on X-rays

Walmart to sell Pudgy Penguins toyline in 2,000 stores

Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless

News flash: 95% of NFTs have ALWAYS been worthless

If You Invested $1,000 In Donald Trump NFTs, Here's How Much You Would Have Today

REDEEM YOUR TRUMP DIGITAL TRADING CARDS SERIES 1 PRIZE NFTs

MEDIA CANDY

The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

Getty is going to offer AI-generated images after all

The WGA strike ends with protections against AI set in place

APPS & DOODADS

macOS Sonoma is now available

Tinder’s $500 a month tier is here

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

AT THE LIBRARY

Quantum Radio by AG Riddle

Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches Collection) by John Scalzi

Making It So - A Memoir by Patrick Stewart

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Douglas Adams & Kevin Jon Davies

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

A food delivery robot's footage led to a criminal conviction in LA

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Michael Gambon, Who Portrayed Dumbledore in Harry Potter Films, Dead at 82

Senator Dianne Feinstein Dies at 90

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619: Monkey Gone to Heaven Sep 23, 2023

Show notes

Booting down; Unity, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Hudson & Bill Maher have heard you & have been listening; so much water; Tesla class action; Wayne testing robotaxis in LA; TikTok tracking employees, introduces voluntary AI content labels; Google Bard now lets you double check answers by... Googling, settles privacy lawsuit; some of Elon's Neuralink implant monkeys have, indeed, died, but looking for human volunteers, blue checks to blue chips; Good Omens; the Wheel of Time; Amazon Prime Video adding ads; Russell Brand; Secret Chef; Star Trek; Sex Education; Slow Horses; Microsoft Paint; Mahjong; Apple Watch; Star Wars; Disneyland music; Descript; the Overton Paradox; Zork & retro gaming.

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FOLLOW UP

Unity apologizes and promises to change its controversial game install fee policy

Microsoft’s $69B Activision merger on track for green light

Las Vegas Authorities Want to Know How Much Water Companies Use Before Letting Them Move In

Free Covid-19 Tests

IN THE NEWS

Tesla Detroit Derivative Action Settlement

Waymo begins testing the waters for a robotaxi service in Los Angeles

TikTok Employees Recoil at Return-to-Office Tracker App

TikTok introduces a way to label AI-generated content

Google’s AI assistant can now read your emails, plan trips, “double-check” answers

Google settles California lawsuit over its location-privacy practices

Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners

Here are the details on the grisly deaths of Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys

Elon Musk's Neuralink Seeks Volunteers for Brain Chip Implant Study

Airbnb Really Is Different Now

MEDIA CANDY

Good Omens Season 2

The Wheel of Time

Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads from early next year

Kate Winslet on War Photographer Lee Miller, and the Film She Was Born to Make

YouTube Demonetizes Russell Brand After Rape Allegations

Sex Education season 4 review: A fine, if overstuffed, sendoff

Slow Horses Season 3 Release Date Confirmed For December On Apple TV+

The Pigeon Tunnel — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

APPS & DOODADS

Microsoft Paint finally gets support for layers and transparency

Mahjong Solitaire NETFLIX

Amazon Restricts Authors to Self-Publishing Three Books a Day, a Totally Human Amount

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Apple Watch Ultra 2

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Disneyland: Music Around the Parks

Disney's Polynesian Village Resort Music 6 Hour Loop

EPCOT Theme Park Music & Ambience

Descript has added a new feature (in Beta) called “Regenerate.”

The Overton Paradox

Play Zork online

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Britain Is Losing Its Precious Pubs

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618: Seal Team Aibo Sep 16, 2023

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AI using a ton of water; individual efforts just a drop in the bucket; X suing California over disclosure law; TikTok accidentally blocked strike videos, hit with fine over privacy settings for children; oral decongestant on sale for 50 years just doesn't work; Mila & Ashton's bad week, Stoner Cats; Lyft Women+ Connect; Bluesky hits a million Scalzis; manifesting yourself broke; government web design systems; no AI Grammys; Spotify payola; Milli Vanilla; Interview with the Vampire; PodCast One; WhatsApp; Unity; Aibo Foster program; Apple leaking radiation in France; the Witcher; Elon Musk; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Levar Burton; lost Star Wars props; laserdiscs & Blue-Rays; the house lost in Vegas this week; programming language inventor or serial killer?

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Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa–with a lot of water

IN THE NEWS

X is suing California over social media content moderation law

TikTok accidentally blocked Hollywood writers strike videos while casting a QAnon net

TikTok hit with €345 million fine over privacy settings for children

The most common oral decongestant in the US does not work, FDA finds

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Stoner Cats’ NFTs get smoked by the SEC

Lyft Can Now Connect Women and Nonbinary Passengers With Drivers of the Same Gender

Bluesky officially hits 1 million users

People who ‘manifest’ big dreams are more likely to go bankrupt

SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million

U.S. announces official web design system

GOV.UK Design System

MEDIA CANDY

AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd track won’t be winning a Grammy

Spotify will promote artists' music on your Home feed, if they pay

Milli Vanilli | Official Trailer | Paramount+

We Tried to Tell You About Interview With the Vampire

Netflix’s live-action One Piece to set sail with even more episodes

PodcastOne’s Stock Is Off To Rough Start, Losing More Than Half Its Value.

With PodcastOne’s Stock Still Falling, Parent LiveOne Opens Door To Buying Back Shares.

Exposing a Podcast Scam by Coffeezilla

APPS & DOODADS

WhatsApp tests feature that could open it up to other messaging apps

Unity cancels town hall over reported death threats

Sony will repair aging Aibo robot dogs to help them find their forever homes

Apple Says It’s Going to Fix Those Alleged High-Radiation iPhone 12s

AT THE LIBRARY

Apothecary (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Universe Returns in a New Audio Drama

Levar Burton Reads

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Long-lost ‘Star Wars’ X-wing model up for auction with starting price of $400,000

Star Wars Helmets

Disney celebrating centennial with a $1,500 box set of these 100 films

Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data

Hacking a Vegas casino may just take a single phone call

The Terms and Conditions game.

Programming language inventor or serial killer?

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617: It’s Just Business Sep 09, 2023

Show notes

Burning Man; UK wises up about encryption; McPoutine; hello, Ello; ad free Facebook in the EU; META back to office; Grindr loses half staff due to unionization, we mean WFH; NYC regulates Airbnb; Mossberg departs X; facial recognition for stadiums; privacy nightmare cars; how to do business; Spotify financial woes; your pants are lying, perhaps on fire; Moviepass is back, again; Inside Man; Lincoln Lawyer; Winning Time; Wheel of Time; the Witcher; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Roku layoffs; Messi, MLS and AppleTV+ win; 3zekiel; Scalzi; Ahsoka; Only Murders in the Building; Apple Watch Ultra; AI homes.

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FOLLOW UP

Future of iMessage safe in the UK, as government backs down on encryption

Americans Should Feel Humiliated by Canadian McDonald’s

AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy

IN THE NEWS

Facebook and Instagram may offer paid, ad-free plans in Europe to sate EU privacy concerns

Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die

Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule

NYC’s ‘de facto ban’ on Airbnb is already removing listings

Veteran tech guru Walt Mossberg slams Elon Musk, deactivates X account: ‘Cesspool’

These 9 Stadiums Are Already Using Facial Recognition at Games

YouTube Vlogger Ruby Franke Charged With Six Counts of Felony Child Abuse

If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare

BMW drops plan to charge a monthly fee for heated seats

‘Hyundai Pay’ is the latest effort by car companies to make in-car payments a thing

Spotify’s $1 Billion Podcast Bet Turns Into a Serial Drama

Spotify reportedly locks white noise podcasters out of an ad program

Free audiobooks to be tested by Spotify; Audible competition plan

Spotify wants to put in-app lyrics behind a paywall

Elon Musk's X will use public data to train AI models

Are Your Pants Lying to You? An Investigation

MEDIA CANDY

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

The Wheel of Time Season 2

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Roku Laying Off 10% of Employees, Will Take up to $65 Million Charge to Remove Streaming Content

Messi Drives Jump in Apple TV+ and MLS Subscriptions

AT THE LIBRARY

3zekiel (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

NOTES FROM A FELLOW TRAVELLER by Derren Brown

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

NYPD will use drones to monitor private parties over Labor Day weekend

Cory Doctorow’s presentation on a better internet from Defcon

AI IMAGINES A TYPICAL HOME IN EVERY STATE

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville singer dies aged 76

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616: Cheech & Chong for President Sep 02, 2023

Show notes

Twitter may not have legs, but Meta finally does; blown Foxconn promises; SEC charges Impact Theory for NFTs; Worldcoin already dying; Cat, I Farted Enterprise for Business; AI regulations summit; META in court in Ireland over disinformation claims in Myanmar; Amazon CEO not cool with remote work anymore; there's a Copyright Claims Board?; Full Self Driving right through a red light, Elon Mode; Wheel of Time; Justified; AMC moving shows to Max; podcasting away loneliness; Levar gets Trivial Pursuit TV show; Apple kills CSAM photo scanning; iOS & iPadOS 17; Richard Blade; Derren Brown; some interesting feedback.

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'Bring Back Twitter!' Elon Gets Booed at Video Game Tournament

Meta's avatars finally grow some legs

Exclusive: Meta's Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usage

Foxconn's promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory

IN THE NEWS

SEC Charges LA-Based Media and Entertainment Co. Impact Theory for Unregistered Offering of NFTs

Tom Bilyeu’s statement

SEC settles first NFT enforcement case, fines LA media company $6M

Just a Month After Launch, Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Is Already Dying

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Enterprise For Businesses

Tech Chiefs to Gather in Washington Next Month on A.I. Regulations

Myanmar genocide refugees take Meta to Irish court over disinformation claims

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’

Copyright Claims Board Awards Photographer $3K After Defendant No Shows

Copyright Claims Board

Elon Musk’s FSD v12 demo includes a near miss at a red light and doxxing Mark Zuckerberg

Tesla Ordered to Turn Over Data on Its Safety-Disabling 'Elon Mode' Autopilot Feature

Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election

MEDIA CANDY

Everything to Remember About Wheel of Time Ahead of Season 2

Justified: City Primeval

Interview With the Vampire and Fear the Walking Dead Will Pop Up on Max

AMC Reaches a Deal With SAG-AFTRA to Resume Production

The nonstop podcast listeners are on to something

LeVar Burton Close on Deal with CW for Trivial Pursuit Hosting Job

APPS & DOODADS

Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy

AT THE LIBRARY

World In My Eyes by Richard Blade

NOTES FROM A FELLOW TRAVELLER by Derren Brown

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Bob Barker, Iconic 'The Price Is Right' Host, Dead at 99

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615: Cat, I Farted Aug 26, 2023

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Stick around until the end for a BONUS episode of Boot Up with Jason! If you want to subscribe to the show (yes, you want to), go to BootUp.show!

Unfortunate translations; a tech bro reckoning; Nvidia makes bank, carbon emissions; NFT & crypto collapses; jail vegan diets; if you're gonna launder, launder big; food delivery is tanking; the Feds tried to get what the Chinese do with TikTok; Gizmodo's killer headlines; Code Llama, rusted; The Peripheral canceled, Frasier returns; Dune 2 delayed; the Matildas; last chance for Devo, OMD; Youtube's AI plan; Threads on the web; Photoshop's generative refill on old photos; Wipeout code; frivolous & not so frivolous lawsuits; Ahsoka; Wirecutter; dystopian fiction; Radio Shack would like your address, again.

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Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule

Fyre Fest 2 tickets go on sale, despite no line-up or venue

The Internet’s Next Great Power Suck

IN THE NEWS

Nvidia just made $6 billion in pure profit over the AI boom

Godfather NFTs Weren’t Enough to Prevent Recur From Sleeping With the Fishes

Sam Bankman-Fried isn't getting his Adderall and is surviving on 'bread and water,' lawyers say

Former OpenSea Executive Sentenced to Three Months in Prison for Insider Trading

DOJ charges Tornado Cash co-founders for laundering over $1 billion in crypto

The Era of Food Delivery Is Fading

The Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features

Peloton's Business Is as Busted as Its Bike Seats

Zoom CEO Says Employees Need to Be in the Office Because It's Hard to Build Trust Over Zoom

A Space Junk Removal Mission Got Struck By Space Junk

Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

MEDIA CANDY

"The Peripheral" has been canceled at Amazon's Prime Video, Variety has learned from sources.

‘Frasier’ Revival Sets Premiere Date at Paramount+, First Two Episodes to Air on CBS

‘Dune: Part Two’ Delays Release to 2024 Amid Ongoing Actors Strike

Matildas: The World At Our Feet

Devo Has the Uncontrollable Urge to Retire

YouTube is working on a plan to compensate artists and rightsholders for AI music

Our principles for partnering with the music industry on AI technology

I’m an Apple TV channels customer. Can I stream Paramount+ via the Apple TV app?

APPS & DOODADS

Threads on the web is here

People are Using Photoshop's Generative Fill to Restore Old Photos

Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster

Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming Apple Watch blood oxygen sensor has a racial bias.

US judge: Art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Star Wars B-Wing Drone Footage

What Happened to Wirecutter?

RadioShack’s NSFW Period Appears Over, as New Owner Plots a Brand Expansion

The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Adobe Co-Founder Dr. John Warnock Has Passed Away

WWE legend Terry Funk dead at 79

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614: Put Me In Coach Aug 19, 2023

Show notes

Humans are horrible; robotaxis; Trump, X, DMs, set visibility to screwed; OpenAI lawsuits might wipe ChatGPT clean; Snapchat's AI glitches; using AI to ban books; new tools borks images for AI - for now; bots better at beating CAPTCHAs than humans; NFT lawsuits; those smart contracts are meaningless; Elon throttling links he doesn't like; scientists fleeing X; AppleTV+; streaming costs more than cable; people watching less TV; Strange New Worlds & Good Omens; Billions; Painkiller & Dopesick; the Witcher; YouTube crack down on cancer misinformation; class action lawsuits; Dirty Laundry, roleplaying musicals & baseball.

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IN THE NEWS

People Are Having Sex in Robotaxis, and Nobody Is Talking About It

Robotaxis halt traffic in San Francisco's North Beach day after expansion approval

Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco

Special counsel obtained ‘some volume’ of DMs from Donald Trump’s Twitter account

The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content

Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over

Snapchat's My AI chatbot glitched so hard it started posting Stories

An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books

Scientists Say New Tool Makes Images Worthless for Training AI

Bots are better at beating ‘are you a robot?’ tests than humans are

OpenAI is using GPT-4 to build an AI-powered content moderation system

NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment

A key feature of NFTs has completely broken

X is slowing down links to websites Elon Musk has publicly feuded with

NYU Professor Locked Out of Twitter After Reportedly Declining to Meet With Elon Musk

Scientists are pulling back from Twitter and looking for alternatives

MEDIA CANDY

It’s official, people aren’t watching TV as much as they used to

Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits

Anson Mount Recalls Recording ‘Space…The Final Frontier’ for ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’

In Praise of Bluey, the Most Grown-Up Television Show for Children

The Witcher Season 3

APPS & DOODADS

YouTube cracks down on videos promoting 'ineffective' cancer treatments

Apple Will Start Sending Payouts for $500 Million 'Batterygate' Lawsuit Soon

Time is running out to file claims for Facebook’s $725 million data privacy settlement

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Lina Khan Q&A: Hollywood 'Red Flags', 'Doom Loop' & the Future of M&A

Stray Gods - The Roleplaying Musical

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613: Dirty Laundry Aug 12, 2023

Show notes

Crypto Scammers & NFT Developers; superconductors & nuclear fusion; PayPal's crypto coin; opting out of TikTok's secret sauce; X sensitivity settings; Zoom wants people back in, not on Zoom, except for the rest of the world; blocking OpenAI's crawler; Lyft, robotaxis; supermodels & Instagram, oh my; Jason is Bourne; Good Omens, Star Trek cliffhangers; Tetris; Disney+ prices rising; Google, record label deepfakes; Callsheet; Flash games; JustWatch; Charles Stross Singularity Sky, Season of Skulls; Peter Cawdron First Contact; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Dirty Laundry; Eufy; steam mopping; the Empire Strips Back.

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Charley's Restaurant & Saloon

The Morning After: Voyager 2 is alive!

FBI Alert: Crypto Scammers are Masquerading as NFT Developers

IN THE NEWS

Scientists have reproduced last year's nuclear fusion breakthrough

PayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin backed by the US dollar

TikTok Users Will Be Able to Opt Out of the Algorithm in Europe

X hopes ‘sensitivity settings’ will bring back advertisers

Twitter fined for belatedly complying with search warrant for Donald Trump's account

Zoom tells employees to return to the office, responds to generative AI pushback

Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler

Lyft plans to ditch surge pricing, which riders hate 'with a fiery passion'

Robotaxis get the green light to expand to 24/7 service in San Francisco

Supermodel is 'Terrified' of Posting on Instagram After Photographer Sued Her

Bella Hadid Sued Over Copyright of Photo She Posted to Instagram

MEDIA CANDY

Bourne (franchise)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Neil Gaiman Won't Let Good Omens' Story End Like That

Author says the Apple TV+ 'Tetris' movie ripped off his book

Disney+ is raising prices and cracking down on account sharing

Google, record labels working on deal covering musical “deepfakes”

APPS & DOODADS

Callsheet for iPhone lets you look up that actor you recognize without the IMDB cruft

How to Play All of Those Old Flash Games You Remember

Deactivation of Flash may have crippled Chinese railroad for a day

All DJI Apps on Google Play are Frauds and Are Stealing Users' Money

AT THE LIBRARY

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross

Season of Skulls: Laundry Files, Book 12 by Charles Stross

Wherever Seeds May Fall (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

Generation of Vipers (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Boot Up with Jason

The 9 Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Games

Star Wars-themed burlesque show, "The Empire Strips Back," still going strong

The Empire Strips Back

Eufy security cams

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Dev world mourns loss of Vim creator Bram Moolenaar

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612: TwiX are for Kids Aug 05, 2023

Show notes

Threads is Twitter; Twitter is TwiX; Instagram preparing AI labels; META begins Canadian news blackout; NFT sales continue to decline; China considers more limits on kid's smartphone usage; Worldcoin offers up their digital ID service, no one wants it; Uber fatal self-driving case, turns profit for the first time ever; what Bores in Vegas; NASA loses contact with Voyager 2; Star Trek sings; Loki 2; Foundation Season 2 is horrific; Good Omens; 65; Shazam; Guardians of the Galaxy; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Apple subscriber growth; Sprite Max-tape art generator; billionaires: the pros, the cons, and mostly the cons; hop on the GOG Super Yacht!

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FOLLOW UP

Boot Up with Jason

Swapping a Twitter Habit for a Threads One

Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X

Tesla Owners Have Soured on Elon Musk, But Still Love Their Model 3s

IN THE NEWS

Instagram seems to be working on labels for posts 'generated by Meta AI'

Facebook and Instagram Begin Their Canadian News Blackout

Monthly NFT sales fell for fifth consecutive month to $495M in July

China considers limiting kids' smartphone time to two hours per day

Worldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID system

Worldcoin and Kenyan Argue About Who’s Breaking Up With Whom

Uber safety driver involved in fatal self-driving car crash pleads guilty

An Uber change of fortunes

Connected car data privacy under investigation by California regulator

Elon Musk’s X sues anti-hate researchers for allegedly scraping data from Twitter

X Blue subscribers can now hide their checkmarks

The Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las Vegas

NASA ACCIDENTALLY CUTS CONTACT WITH VOYAGER 2

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek Strange New Worlds

How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’

Loki season 2 looks like a race through time and space in new trailer

Foundation Season 2

Good Omens Season 2

Shazam: Fury of the Gods

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3

APPS & DOODADS

Apple surpasses 1 billion paid subscriptions as active devices are double that

Rumor: Apple Watch Series 9 to be available in new color option alongside black titanium Ultra

Sprite Mix-tape Art Generator

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie

Billionaires Should Not Exist — Here’s Why

Wealth Without Limits: in Defense of Billionaires

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Paul Reubens dead: Pee-wee Herman actor was 70

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611: The Everything Episode Jul 29, 2023

Show notes

The X-files; everything is becoming an everything app; Spotify grew a lot, still losing money; Meta doing great, still sinking money into the metaverse no one wants; AI companies pay lip service to White House about safety & ethics; Tesla under investigation, again; Wayne gives us self-driving trucks for taxis; Meta, Microsoft & Amazon release open map dataset; Musk lies, a lot; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; Boys spin-off Gen V; Good Omens Season 2; Justified: City Primeval; Threads goes chronological; X goes dark; Mastodon's CSAM problem; TikTok adds... text; the Dial of Destiny & Whatsherface; Artifact's AI voices; Happy Birthday, Dave!

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FOLLOW UP

Twitter CEO teases banking and payment plans in memo about X rebrand

Elon Musk Took the ‘X’ Twitter Handle From a Photographer Without Asking

X tells advertisers to spend $1,000 per month or risk losing verification status

IN THE NEWS

Spotify grew far more than expected, but is still losing money

Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse

Meta, Google, and OpenAI promise the White House they’ll develop AI responsibly

Publishers want billions, not millions, from AI

Tesla under investigation in California over Autopilot safety issues and false advertising

Waymo pushes back its self-driving truck efforts to focus on ride hailing

Meta, Microsoft and Amazon release open map dataset to rival Google Maps, Apple Maps

Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

Pluralistic: Tesla’s Dieselgate (28 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek Strange New Worlds

The Boys spinoff Gen V looks like a bloody bacchanal in new trailer

Good Omens Season 2

Justified: City Primeval

APPS & DOODADS

Threads adds a chronological feed as Twitter burns to the ground

Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers

Elon Musk says Twitter will soon only offer dark mode because it’s ‘better in every way’

Is dark mode better or worse for your eyes?

Mastodon's decentralized social network has a major CSAM problem

Express your creativity with text posts on TikTok

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

News app Artifact adds AI text-to-speech voices, including Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow

SEC: Public companies must report cyberattacks within four days

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Sinéad O’Connor, Irish singer behind ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ and more, dead at 56

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