627: Lords and Peasants
Grumpy Old Geeks2 Joulu 2023

627: Lords and Peasants

Unsubscribe season; Unwrapped & unpaid; Q-bot; META's all for the kids; stealing page views with AI; the coming change in the web; Boring; Ronaldo NFT lawsuit; pink slip season appetizers; DevTernity female cos-play; death at Amazon; Moscow's criminal wanted list adds Andy Stone; locked out of Google; as the TwiX turns; Mr. Free Speech; The Crown; Welcome to Wrexham; Doctor Who; Squid Game Challenge; Milli Vanilli; AI video goes Giffy; no-BS games; Jason beats Auphonic; IKEA's smart home devices; Google drive files goes missing; DeepMind finds the Dark Crystal; finishing up The Last Emperox; Galaxy Outlaws; Fooled; Comixology; 404 Media; sleep data; AT&T Hemisphere; public transit & privacy; gadget catalogs; shaving & supple, elastic skin.


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FOLLOW UP

Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses

Meta turned a blind eye to kids on its platforms for years, unredacted lawsuit alleges

Instagram reportedly served up child-sexualizing reels to followers of teen influencers

Guy Brags About "Stealing" Millions of Pageviews by Rewriting Competitors' Articles Using AI

Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet

Seven years after Elon Musk started The Boring Company, the company only has 2.4 miles of tunnel to show for it


IN THE NEWS

Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1 billion class-action lawsuit for endorsing worthless NFTs

Mass layoffs reportedly hit Marvel Snap publisher Nuverse

A popular female coding influencer's Instagram is apparently run by a man

A 20-year-old Amazon employee died at work. Indiana issued a $7,000 fine.

Moscow adds Meta spokesperson to criminal wanted list, TASS reports

How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life

X May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out

Elon Musk curses out advertisers who left X over antisemitic content

X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly backs Musk after he says 'f*ck yourself' to advertisers

After Musk tirade, X faces prospect of more advertisers fleeing

‘If Tesla gets unionized it’s because we deserve it’: Elon Musk says he’s made his factory workers millionaires but concedes some may still turn against him

Tesla starts releasing to employees FSD v12 – a critical update to self-driving effort


MEDIA CANDY

Milli Vanilli

Squid Game Challenge

Slow Horses

Doctor Who: The Star Beast

Doctor Who's Russell T. Davies On the Importance of Showing Trans Struggles

The Crown Season 6

Welcome to Wrexham Season 2


APPS & DOODADS

AI Video is Animating Classic Memes

Generative AI for Beginners - A Course

No-Bullshit Games

IKEA's new smart home sensors focus on safety and avoiding water damage

Google is investigating a Drive issue that causes files to go missing

New technology installed beneath Detroit street can charge electric vehicles as they drive

Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning


AT THE LIBRARY

The Last Emperox (The Interdependency Book 3) by John Scalzi

Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions, 1-16.5 by J. S. Morin

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Important Changes to the Comixology app starting December 4, 2023

George R.R. Martin Has No (New) Pages


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers' Sleep Data to Make Zeitgeisty Point About OpenAI Drama

US Senator calls for the public release of AT&T ‘Hemisphere’ surveillance records

Smarter public transit comes at the cost of rider anonymity

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs

Viking Revolution Pre Shave Oil for Men


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Shout out to Ted (aka Trackpants) & Christine @ Reid’s Chocolates

Linda Salzman Sagan, co-creator of the Voyager Golden Record and Pioneer Plaque, RIP

Shane MacGowan, Pogues Singer, Dead at 65

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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