583: Neurodivergent Fool

583: Neurodivergent Fool

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; Glass Onion; podcasting market corrections; RIP Dark Sky; AI image generation deep dive; Temple Grandin; Matthew Mather; Andor honest trailer; LastPass problems; Lockbit ransomware gang apologizes.

Show notes at https://gog.show/583

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FOLLOW UP

In Praise of Real (Not Tweetable) Conversations


IN THE NEWS

What It Really Means for a Tweet to Have a Lot of Views

Twitter sued for not paying San Francisco office rent

Meta’s Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under E.U. Law

Coinbase reaches $100M settlement over background check failures

France sticks Apple with €8M fine over App Store personalized advertising complaint from iOS 14

NLRB says Tesla violated the law by telling employees not to talk about pay

Tesla delivered over 405,000 vehicles in Q4 2022, setting a new company record

Grubhub ordered to pay $3.5 million to settle Washington DC deceptive practices lawsuit

TikTok will be banned on most US federal government devices

Salesforce to cut workforce by 10% after hiring ‘too many people’ during the pandemic

Amazon Layoffs to Hit Over 18,000 Workers, the Most in Recent Tech Wave


MEDIA CANDY

Good Rivals

Nope

Jurassic World Dominion

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Netflix sinks 1899 after one season

Slow Horses

Treason

Glass Onion

The Great Podcasting Market Correction


APPS & DOODADS

Apple’s Find My helps firefighters rescue car crash victim in California

Artists fed up with AI-image generators use Mickey Mouse to goad copyright lawsuits

Artists Are Revolting Against AI Art on ArtStation

John Carmack Quits Meta, Burns His Virtual Bridges Behind Him

How China is building a parallel generative AI universe


AT THE LIBRARY

Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin

Nomad: The Nomad Trilogy Book 1 by Matthew Mather


SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Honest Trailers | Andor

The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart by security experts

A Breach at LastPass Has Password Lessons for Us All

EMOJI DRUG CODE | DECODED

Adobe Podcast AI Demo for Location Audio Processing

Adobe Podcast

Butter URL Cleaner


CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Pelé, the Global Face of Soccer, Dies at 82

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