Grumpy Old Geeks4 Marras 2023

624: Captain Executive Order

Tesla off the hook; bees; SBF guilty on all counts; White House AI EO; META mostly ad-free plan;, toothless oversight board; WeWork nears bankruptcy; more X shenanigan; Bezos has been a naughty boy; Google .ing a th.ing; Loki; finales for Lower Decks, Gen V & Billions; the Traitors; World Series drones; Highlander reboot; Disney buys all of Hulu; loyal Max subscribers get less for more; Apple Journal; Microsoft Copilot; YouTube cracking down on ad blockers; Obsidian; Scalzi's Interdependency; Facebook tips & tricks; Space Mountain & Behind the Attraction; the Beatles; AI & ML definitions; Baader-Meinhof & my phone is reading my mind.

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Tesla's Autopilot was not to blame for fatal 2019 Model 3 crash, jury finds

Meta will stop forcing your Threads posts onto Facebook and it can’t come soon enough

The Beekeepers Who Don’t Want You to Buy More Bees

IN THE NEWS

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts

Sweeping White House executive order takes aim at AI's toughest challenges

Meta Launches $10 Monthly Ad-Free Plan For Facebook and Instagram in EU

Meta’s Oversight Board: Dangerous diet videos can remain, but please demonetize them

Once valued at $47 billion, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy

X won’t pay creators for tweets that get fact checked with community notes

Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform

Regulators blame Bezos for making Amazon worse in new lawsuit details

Google is officially trying to make .ing domains a th.ing

Introduc…ing the .ing top-level domain

MEDIA CANDY

Loki

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Fox Sports will use drones in World Series broadcasts for the first time

Lionsgate Moving Forward With Henry Cavill & Chad Stahelski ‘Highlander’ Reboot As Action-Fantasy Pic Heads To AFM To Enliven A Strike-Hit Market

Disney’s Officially Buying (All of) Hulu

Netflix will cut the number of ads you see if you binge-watch; ad-supported downloads also coming soon

Is streaming video even still worth it?

Betteridge's law of headlines.

APPS & DOODADS

Day One

Apple iPad

EU Common Charger Law May Be Final Nail in Coffin for DSLRs

Apple's 'Scary Fast' Mac event was shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Microsoft Copilot Launches Worldwide Tomorrow, but What the Hell Is It?

Leo, Brave’s browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing

YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers globally

Obsidian

AT THE LIBRARY

The Consuming Fire: The Interdependency, Book 2 by John Scalzi

The Last Emperox: The Interdependency, Book 3 by John Scalzi

44 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your November Reading List

Murderbot Struggles to Pass for Human in This Excerpt From Martha Wells' Exit Strategy

THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

Friendly Social Browser

FB Purity

Space Mountain, with the lights on

Disney Behind the Attraction

The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Audio)

Learn the full story behind 'Now And Then' - watch the documentary today.

What's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon?

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Patreon on Google Play Store

Matthew Perry cause of death inconclusive pending toxicology tests

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