628: Same Day Pink Slip

628: Same Day Pink Slip

California Forever, EPCOT & Story Living; Cruise threatened by regulators; pink slips flying at Spotify, Tidal, Washington Post, New Yorker & more; Weird Al's Spotify Wrapped message; podcast industry problems; Mint, Google Podcasts shutting down; anti-woke AI Grok is here, what could possibly go wrong; Google launches Gemini, fakes demo; Amazon sued over "guaranteed delivery"; Star Trek: Discovery back for final season; Foundation season 3; Disney+ Hulu integration begins; Titans; Robbie Williams; Q Magazine; Playstation removes shows people paid for; holiday playlists; Clash Royale, end of an era; MacWhisper transcription; 23andMe hack much larger than originally reported; AI is spackle; COX Media is listening; shave & a haircut, two bits.

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FOLLOW UP

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World's Greatest Con - EPCOT - Part II

Story Living by Disney

GM’s Cruise Threatened With Fines Over Allegedly Misleading Regulators


IN THE NEWS

Spotify Lays Off 1,500 as Revenues Climb

Spotify’s CFO is out days after mass layoffs

Spotify and its CFO Paul Vogel have decided to part ways

Tidal is laying off 10 percent of its staff

All the big tech layoffs of 2023

'Washington Post' journalists stage daylong strike under threat of job cuts

Satirist Andy Borowitz Out at The New Yorker Amid Cost Cuts

“Weird Al” Yankovic on Viral Spotify Comments: There’s a Reason Why I Don’t Release Albums Anymore

Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie

Here's how to move your subscriptions off Google Podcasts before it shuts down

Intuit is shutting down Mint, its popular free budget-tracking app

Elon Musk’s ‘Anti-Woke’ AI Is Here, Snowflakes Need Not Apply

Google just launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real

Amazon, fighting consumer lawsuit, says 'guaranteed' delivery has limits


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season Goes Monster Hunting For a Premiere Date

The Last of Us Season 2 Will Debut in 2025

Apple’s sci-fi epic Foundation is coming back for season 3

‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Renewed for Three More Seasons at HBO

Disney+ adds a Hulu tab as the streaming services start integrating

Titans

Robbie Williams

Q Magazine

Cruel World Festival III

PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For

BBC 6 Music’s Alternative Christmas

80(ish) Alternative Christmas

A New Wave Christmas

Indie Christmas

Electronic Christmas

Christmas for Goth

X-Mas Punk

Christmas Peaceful Guitar

Christmas Classics

The Labours Of Hercule Podcast

Darknet Diaries EP 140: REVENGE BYTES


APPS & DOODADS

Entire team behind popular iPhone video app Filmic reportedly laid off

Blackmagic Camera

Half of London's famed black cab taxi fleet are now EVs

MacWhisper transcription now up to 3x faster on Macs with Apple silicon

MacWhisper

Thieves return Android phone when they realize it's not an iPhone


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

23andMe hack now estimated to affect over half of customers

23andMe to Hacked Users: We Won't See You in Court

The cops think iOS 17’s NameDrop is dangerous

AI is spackle - from Mark Hurst.

COX Media group is listening.

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23: The Best Technology Podcast Ever!

23: The Best Technology Podcast Ever!

Guest-less again this week, Jason and Brian discuss how to keep 2 dev Macs in sync, being silly on the internet, tele-dildonics as the real wave of the future, why 3D is bad, and quite a bit more. Als...

2 Sep 20131h 16min

22: Bare Knuckle Geekery

22: Bare Knuckle Geekery

We took a break from our parade of guests this week to have a follow-up chit chat on many previous topics and finally finish the damn book! We also discuss the future of GoG as well as a new show and ...

26 Aug 20131h 24min

21: Ye Good Old Days with Scott Beale

21: Ye Good Old Days with Scott Beale

Scott Beale, founder of Laughing Squid joins us to talk about the Web 2.0 days in San Francisco, the scene in NYC, SXSW, Burning Man, The Cacophony Society and much much more. Subscribe to the Grumpy ...

19 Aug 20131h 38min

20: Booze, beef and books with Mike Malinin

20: Booze, beef and books with Mike Malinin

Mike Malinin, drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls joins the guys this week to discuss vat grown beef, the decline of beer, and how to not use your Kindle properly when going on tour. Also, Brian reveals his...

12 Aug 20131h 14min

19: Meat and booze camp with Shane Nickerson

19: Meat and booze camp with Shane Nickerson

Shane Nickerson is on the show this week to talk creativity after 40, how awesome podcasting for yourself is, the fundamental problem with crowd funding, and the future of meat and booze camp. The guy...

5 Aug 20131h 14min

18: A Cornucopia of Crazy Making

18: A Cornucopia of Crazy Making

Celebrity weddings, hearty stouts, class clowns ruin it for everyone, private armies, another kickstarter rip-off, Japan rules at crazy, and Kanye West is still a total douchebag. They also discuss th...

29 Jul 20131h 14min

17: There is no spoon

17: There is no spoon

Philosophizing it up this week the guys talk Seneca and Stoics, creepy homeschooling, in praise of Microsoft (sorta), plagiarism, remixing, and downright thievery. Other topics also include some new a...

21 Jul 20131h 21min

16: Sum Ting Wong

16: Sum Ting Wong

Asiana Fox Faux Pas, the death & ressurection of Hulu, Atari Alums hit the slums, Jobs screwing Apple from beyond the grave, dorky algorithms, DEF CON biting the hand that spies, stalkers delight in n...

14 Jul 20131h 7min

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