AI CEOs say AI poses existential threat, plow forward anyway; Meta fined for violating EU data privacy; Twitter #DeSaster; Lorem Epsom NoNummy Amazon snacks; can't get Twitter to work guy OK'd to put chips in your brain; DoorDash lawsuit; deleted tweets randomly restored; Soundcloud layoffs; AI exposing investor's natural stupidity; Succession; Ted Lasso; Mrs. Maisel; Young Jedi Adventures; Silo; AI mail, Photoshop generative fill; self-promo & marketing discussion; World Walker Book 4; new ...
May 27, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 603
Theranos is the New Black; Section 230 upheld; UBI to combat AI; Montana bans TikTok; EU approves Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard; another Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving tech; Personal Voice; online brands opening actual shops; return to office & urban doom loop fears; car CEO wants you to go back to commuting; semiconductor workforce education ramp up; the Diplomat; Silo; Finch; YouTube ripping; Doctor Who 60th Anniversary; Fyre Fest 2.0; SoundSource; Bluesky; A...
May 20, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 602
RIP, Metaverse; nobody knows how LLMs work; CEOs that don't go into offices want you to go in; ChatGPT is low-paid people; sure, let's let AI generate mRNA vaccines; OURA acquires Proxy, but not science; MTV News shuttered; writer's strike; Spotify removes tons of AI generated songs; Google text-to-music in beta; Tucker turns to Twitter; the Diplomat; Slow Horses; Silo; Ted Lasso; Succession; Barry; the Muppets Mayhem; Bupkus; Beetlejuiice 2; Foundation: here be dragons?; Good Omens 2; FAST; App...
May 13, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 601
AI doesn't exist but may be dangerous anyway; self-destruct buttons are important for rockets; Kamala Harris & Snoop Dogg weigh in on AI; IBM pauses hiring, looking to onboard AI; Marissa Mayer takes another whack; open-sourced AI is where the real dangers are; Lyft is lost, no exit in sight; Google layoffs, cuts in perks but one hell of a CEO payout; Facebook furious they can't exploit youth data; Dune Part 2; Paramount+ doing well; RIP, Says You; NPR podcasts; Succession; Ted Lasso; Silo; ...
May 06, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 600
Spin the wheel of Invictus; more tech layoffs; ChatGPT's staggering daily cost; it's not your data; AI-generated political ads are here; Spotify CEO unsure about AI progress; Elon's The #26a7de Letter; SpaceX rocket goes really big boom, causing serious damage; Grimes wants to kill copyright, no, wait, hold on a second; Sean Connery on Zeist; Super Mario Bros; Succession; Ted Lasso; Ghosted; Brian Cox villains; Apple's kiss of death, journaling app, AI health coach; Farrago 2; LoopBack; SoundSou...
Apr 29, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 599
Spam calls are back; we're done with Twitter; human or not?; Buzzfeed News shuttered; TruthGPT; the race to AI without pausing for thought; Niantic shutters web3 project, no Pokemon NFTs; purgatory with perks; Facebook settlement; paying kids to get outside; Picard, Mandalorian finales; rebooting all the IPs - Galaxy Quest, Twilight, Harry Potter, X-Files; Barry; AI-generated music flooding platforms; Sega acquires Rovio; Instagram kills Linktree; Steve Jobs, Make Something Wonderful; Chokepoint...
Apr 22, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 598
The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium ...
Apr 15, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 597
AI disruption, the circle of life; prompt engineering; AIQL; Tesla workers sharing sensitive customer images; Twitter blue ticks still around, except for organizations Elon doesn't like; SpaceX Starlink satellites "deorbiting"; Midjourney bans Jinping images; Google's Bard spins conspiracies; TikTok fined; Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy; Meta cuts more jobs; Roku picking up properties; Picard; Succession; You're Dead to Me; Shirley Manson; World's Greatest Con; Zane Lamprey; Lucky Hank; Punk ...
Apr 08, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 596
Dad tech jokes; influencer grift & bamboozle brokers; ChatGPT oversight; returning to the office, hybrid models; Twitter source code leaked; poor William Shatner; Microsoft baking AI into next Windows, slips ads into Bing Chat; Google's Tree or Not AI; science creates new paint; that AI open letter; Disney ditches the Metaverse; Binance charged; Google violates order to save chats; the Menu; Bert Kreischer; Picard; the Bad Batch; Shrinking; Ted Lasso; new Star Trek shows; new music from the ...
Apr 01, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 595
SVB & tech's transformation from innovation to financialization; Elon being Elon; SEC sues celebs for endorsing crypto; TikTok bans are complicated; it's all about the privacy rights, stupid; not everything needs an AI chatbot; a list of dumb chatbots; online platforms are not responsible for ISP costs; Twitter allows non-toxic slurs, because Elon; South Park may have used ChatGPT to write AI episode; true prices for TV service; streaming services rankings; Depeche Mode; Ted Lasso; Picard; t...
Mar 25, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 594
Back in the USA; a golden age of misinformation; podcast bros; the sky is blue & FIFA is corrupt; it's tough to be an AI ethicist; more Meta layoffs, pivoting away from the meta verse; NFTs taking their swan song, except for Cookie Monster; Musklandia; Twitter's API pricing; Samsung's moon shots; fighting AI with AI on LinkedIn; Ethical Capital Partners invest in porn; Top Chef; Next Level Chef; Offline with Jon Favreau; the Menu; Ticket to Paradise; The Cure take on Ticketmaster; Artifact f...
Mar 18, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 593
AI, Climate Doomerism & SolarPunks, oh my; GPT-4 is coming; don't plan your abortion on social media; Sam Bankman-Fried gets a flip-phone; Elon Musk, worst human of 2023; Tesla wheels coming off; researchers use AI to generate images based on brain activity; no robot dogs for LA; Star Trek: Discovery ending, Picard riveting; the Punisher returning; Chris Rock; Silo; Perry Mason; Godfather of Harlem; Wakanda Forever; History of the World, Part II; doorbell privacy loopholes; VR headsets not f...
Mar 11, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 592
Prompt engineers; the hopes of generative AI; Universal Basic AI, at least for the privileged; FTX consequences coming in; AI images not copyrightable in the US; deepfake & AI hacks; more Twitter layoffs & unpaid bills; Jack's beard roles out a Twitter competitor; Tesla pauses driver-assistance rollout; Waymo tries Los Angeles; the Mandalorian, Bad Batch & Picard; Marc Maron gets bleak; Dilbert dropped; more Lord of the Rings movies coming; Die Hart; History of the World, Part II; Bi...
Mar 04, 2023•48 min•Ep. 591
CoinEx ex-USA; ChatGPT sendsyi Microsoft off the rails; AI beer; Section 230 & the Supreme Court; Tencent bails on the met averse; Temu; Amazon's hybrid work plan, One Medical rollout; Apple working on blood glucose tracking for Watch; Twitter's Twilio bill; Meta blue tick verification for cash; the Nevers; Picard; Netflix changes highlight soft products in tech; Dropbox versus iCloud; TripMode; Screens 4; Nest home products; Artifact; Rick Rubin, Hugh MacLeon on creativity; Nick Chater brai...
Feb 25, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 590
Elon's rampaging ego is ruining Twitter; AI isn't ready for prime time, gets rolled out anyway, with predictable results; what's bouncing around in Microsoft's neural networks that keeps making racist AI; self-flying fighters; Buzzfeed AI quizzes; Tesla full self-driving recall; Amazon going big on grocery stores; Walmart tech, Twilio layoffs; Microsoft kills Metaverse team; YouTube CEO steps down; Picard; upcoming TV premieres and concert tours; Shrinking; Legato Steam Deck Pedal; Parallels Des...
Feb 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 589
ChatGPT+ & AI Powered Bing; more pink slips at Dell, Zoom, Disney & Yahoo; WB to keep Discovery+ stand-alone option; Amazon only hiring students & recent grads for entry-level positions; Twitter flounders around for a plan; Musk not liable for anything he says; Google unveils Bard, makes $100 billion mistake; MetaBirkin NFT lawsuit; M3GAN; Andy Prieboy, Miles Hunt live; Minions: the Rise of Gru; Clarkson's Farm; Nuclear War Simulator; Pen.Tips, Paperlike; the Unmaking Engine; Life: W...
Feb 11, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 588
100% Efficiency; PayPal layoffs; Microsoft & ChatGPT Plus; Spotify increases premium subscribers, loses more money; Tesla bitcoin loss; pushback against self-driving cars; Amazon shutting down grocery stores; Meta paid for data scraping while denouncing it; AI alien signals; Picard; Paramount+ With Showtime; Cunk on Earth; Earthside; Ask a Historian; After Babel; Barnes & Nobel is back; Wikenigma; the Dark Side with Dave; more playing around with ChatGPT; ElevenLabs AI voices; Stormtroop...
Feb 04, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 587
ChatGPT is everywhere: destroyer of worlds, or modern convenient pocket calculator; Section 230 ruling coming; gravity batteries & Tesla factories; Spotify, Vox Media layoffs; TikTok, Twitter gaming their systems; Justice Department after Google's ad business; AWS expanding in Virginia; Easter Sunday; Elvis; Madoff; Strange World; Slow Horses; White Lotus; the Last of Us; the Schulmister Effect & the DeFillippo Effect; shiny new Apple stuff; Microsoft investing in OpenAI; the World Walke...
Jan 28, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 586
Student creates app to spot AI essays; Alphabet cuts 6% of workforce; Twitter ends 3rd-party developer access; Musk faces big bill; Tesla engineer testifies video was faked; Amazon hates charity, CNET lied about AI; artists sue Midjourney developers; The Last of Us; Derren Brown; Fleishman is in Trouble; Blue Man Group; Universal Audio Apollo Solo; YubiKey can't ship, Analogue Pocket, FINALLY! Sponsors: Hover - Go to Hover now and grab your very own domain or a few of them at hover.c...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 585
Adobe Podcasts taking jobs; The end of grunt work; Prompt writers and fact checkers; Mansplaining as a Service; Masters of Melancholy; The death of film; ChatGPT for malware and phishing; Cheap cops expose suspects data; The Pale Blue Eye sees The Boys with 3000 years of Jack Ryan; Vinyl STILL making a comeback; HoloLens gets a budget cut; Canadian deliveries went wrong; NYC Schools ban ChatGPT; IBM loses patent crown; Microsoft and the 3-second sample; Public Domain voice fingerprinting; Tesla ...
Jan 15, 2023•52 min•Ep. 584
2023, here we go; more talk, less social media - except for sharing reels; Twitter scrolling but no interactions; Elon Musk turns squatter; fines for Meta, Coinbase, Apple & Grubhub; Tesla violating employment law, but delivers record amount of vehicles - a solid company if they had a decent CEO; TikTok finally banned from some government devices; Salesforce & Amazon layoffs; World Cup hangover; Good Rivals; Nope; Jurassic World Dominion; 3000 Years of Longing; Slow Horses; Treason; Glas...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 583
We briefly focus on some hopeful technology breakthrough news, before returning to our bread & butter; we have achieved fusion, kind of; wind from another planet; AI revolution, Kurzweil & baby steps; Dramatron; social media for strangers; Meta's Hasher-Matcher-Actioner; Twitter's do what I say not what I do; Tesla's failure is not fraud; Sam Bankman-Fried & continued crypto arrests & lawsuits; Lord of the Rings marathon feast; Wednesday; The Peripheral; the White Lotus; Slow Hor...
Dec 17, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 582
We're back, but less social; no death robots; Twitter's downward spiral; sure, this kills primates but let's trial Neuralink on people; NFTs decline, go to museums; collateral FTX damage; Meta fined for data scraping; DoorDash, Deliveroo profitability problems; I am Groot's Holiday; Mickey Mouse's evolution; Wednesday; BritPop; Knives Out; Memory; the White Lotus; Neal Brennan; Dropbox changes; Spotify festival posters; AI gets... weird & creepy; Apple Karaoke; FTC wants to stop Microsoft's ...
Dec 10, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 581
Claritin to the rescue; Jack wasn't all that great; Trump is back, no he's not; celebrities leaving Twitter, questioning social media; Scrooge McMusk not paying contractors, charities; Sam-Bankman-Fried, FTX lawsuits; New York restricts crypto mining; EU investigating TikTok; Elizabeth Holmes sentences for fraud; Foxconn protests in China; FCC finally cuts off a voice provider for robocalls; A Christmas Story Christmas; Slow Horses; the Peripheral; Andor; Downton Abbey; Love, Actually; Disney Bo...
Nov 26, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 580
Breaking news on Twitter, Twitter is breaking; it's World Cup time; Black Friday spam; Coachella VIP NFT's go poof; outdated Twitter news - move fast, break things; FTX & celebs being sued; Amazon layoffs; the end of the tech boom; the Mole 2022; the Crown Season 5; Netflix updates; the Peripheral; Andor; Jason's Audible Anniversary & inclusion; the Great Filter theory; Dennis E. Taylor - Roadkill, Outland; White Trash Wins Lotto; musical theater; Thriller in 4k; doom scrolling & dit...
Nov 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 579
Moving to Mastodon; doom scrolling & would you really miss social media; Boot Up shanghai'd; lingering COVID societal effects; Twitter's insane week continues - a masterclass is what not to do; Tesla's recalls; collapse through small cascading failures; META layoffs; Wings delivery via Wing; Welcome to Wrexham; Star Trek: Lower Decks; Disney+ catches up to Netflix; AMC attempts another pivot; Brave cookie blocking not working; Spotify Apple Watch update; still no iPad Instagram app; Eyes of ...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 578
A two-factor pain; Jason hops on Brian's soapbox; the self-driving Twitter crash; Meta ditches human-curated newsfeed; verification has always been a joke, but this is really hilarious; Amazon pauses corporate hiring; Google buys an AI startup to compete with... TikTok?; Adobe's Pantone, Figma issues; the Peripheral; the Witcher renewed, recast; the Machine; drone swarms for Candy Crush; Playstation VR2; Instagram plans NFT minting; Captain EO, amusement parks and mixed media theater; sharing iP...
Nov 05, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 577
Elon is in the Birdhouse; is social media on the way out; we were right about Kanye & self-driving cars; smiles are the new eggs; Ford pivots to data mining; Shutterstock embraces AI-generated art; Apple begrudgingly embraces USB-C; Spotify doesn't follow Apple rules, gets mad; Internet "Radio"; Brian Eno; Andy Prieboy; the Perephrial; big-ass TVs; Doctor Who comes to Disney+; Netflix massive servers; Spark Mail; Bumble AI cyberflashing; stuff of nightmares audio from magnetic field; smart-l...
Oct 29, 2022•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 576
Automated-tech vehicle deaths; Twitter tumbles as Musk deals reviewed; Amazon's bad news week - unions, attrition costs & lawsuits; Bird migrating out of markets; in Uber ads are coming; Microsoft layoffs; Reddit NFTs booming; Kanye & Parler; Metaverse attrition; Meta has to sell Giphy; Unstoppable Domains stopped; Keanu returning to franchises; She-Hulk gets too meta; Nope is a yep; WB launches LOTR NFTs; Netflix "extra user" fees; Directed by David Lynch; TikTok adult-only livestreams;...
Oct 22, 2022•48 min•Ep. 575
F around & find out; eggs, legs & self driving cars; Alex Jones; Meta, OnlyFans bribes & Within; what's the ROI for 1.2 billion & 38 users; the Metaverse is getting legs; more NFT & crypto news; Rivian recalls almost all it's trucks; DeepMind & DeepCake; DART worked; Netflix announces ad-tier, Apple is considering it; Succession & the Murdochs; Werewolf By Night; Sportsball; Shane MacGowan; eero Internet Backup; AirTags in luggage; 3D calling; Spark Mail; ePaper Licen...
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 574
