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	Podcast:		Grumpy Old Geeks
	Episode:		627: Lords and Peasants
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		01:27:48
	Publish Date:		2023-12-02 08:00:00
	Description:		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. Sponsors: *Mood* - For 20% off your order and a FREE gram of THCa flower, go to hellomood.com and use promo code GOG. *Dark Web Academy* - Head over to darkwebacademy.com and use code "gogfree" for complimentary access to ANY course! *1Password* - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1password *Private Internet Access* - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month. Show notes at https://gog.show/627/ 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 'fck 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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