607: Pagers and Paperbacks
Grumpy Old Geeks24 Kesä 2023

607: Pagers and Paperbacks

We don't hate technology, we just hate how it's being implemented; Spotify grifters; car rental companies ruining EVs; Elon vs Zuck; Facebook blows uo their backyard for publishers; no news for you, Canada; the Reddit mess continues; Biden admin announces grants for rural internet; FCC looking at data caps; we long for life pre-internet; Lords of Uncreation; Grammerly; Google Lens; Midjourney; Felicia Michaels on WTF; 3 Body Problem trailer drops; Black Mirror; Star Trek; Silo; the Grand Tour; Darker Wave festival; Columbia House; Hello, Dolly & hello, mustache!

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FOLLOW UP

Spotify executive calls Harry and Meghan ‘grifters’ after podcast deal ends

The Class of '09

Car-Rental Companies Are Ruining EVs

Read TIME's Interview With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Microsoft milestone brings it a bit closer to quantum supercomputer


IN THE NEWS

Elon Musk Might Fight Mark Zuckerberg For Real

Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plummeting After a Facebook Algorithm Change

Meta pulls news content from Canadian Facebook and Instagram

Reddit threatened protesting moderators: Subreddits ‘cannot remain closed’

NodeHost

Biden administration announces $930 million in grants to expand rural internet access

The FCC is preparing to take a 'fresh look' at internet data caps

Gen Xers and older millennials really just want to go back in time to before the internet existed


MEDIA CANDY

Friend of the show Felicia Michaels on WTF with Marc Maron

Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ first look confirms January 2024 premiere

Black Mirror

Streamberry - You are Awful

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Silo

S5 E2 - The Grand Tour: Eurocrash

Darker Wave Festival

Spotify reportely to launch “Supremium” plan with higher monthly rate

Purely AI-generated songs declared ineligible for Grammy Awards

8 ways Google Lens can help make your life easier

Gen-Z is taking courses on how to send an email and what to wear in the office, according to a WSJ report

Awesome Screenshot

Midjourney 5.2 Is Here : Unveiling Incredible New Features!


AT THE LIBRARY

Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture Book 3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The 22 Laws of Category Design: Name & Claim Your Niche, Share Your POV, And Move The World From Where It Is To Somewhere Different


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Get a clue, says panel about generative AI: it's being "deployed as surveillance"

Dropbox Dash

Facebook's Creepy New Ai Can Replicate Your Friends' Voices

50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

ChatGPT on the App Store

Bing: Chat with AI & GPT-4

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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