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Ep 756: Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass The AI clown car is back: pirated books, escaped models, chatbot girlfriends, mood-tracking patents, getting banned from the dugouts & a school buying a classroom robot from the company behind RealDolls. gog.show/756/

Ep 755: Less Chatty Mode AI companies keep proving that trust is optional but hype is mandatory; Tech suing, spying & stumbling over its own ambitions; the real world quietly reminds us that humans & functioning infrastructure are still worth appreciating. gog.show/755/

The Darkside with Dave's Not Very Christmas Special Special We finally get to reconnect with Dave Bittner for a fun catch-up and chit-chat about this summer's big movies. Brian's kid discovers all of Star Wars at once. gog.show/the-darkside-w…

Ep 754: Frankly Asinine Questions AI getting weirder, Meta getting creepier, Waymos keep getting stuck & somehow Gen X turned out to be America's critical infrastructure. Another week in tech dystopia & the Grumpy Old Geeks have thoughts.. & questions. gog.show/754/

Out now, EP 753: No-Talent AI Clowns youtube.com/shorts/47gwHJb…

Ep 753: No-Talent AI Clowns The AI revolution keeps delivering exactly the future nobody asked for. AI-powered hackers, Ford rehiring engineers it tried to replace, Tesla settles another FSD lawsuit, robot strikes, satellite overload, red flags. COMPUTE! gog.show/753/

Ep 752: Grandma Got Run Over By a Tesla AI startups sue when the magic API disappears, Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, Meta leaks employee surveillance data, AI price-fixing lawsuits, robotaxi recalls, burner phone crackdowns, ad blocker extinction & goats. gog.show/752/

Ep 751: Brewster's Trillions The AI hype train is missing some wheels. We cover KPMG's hallucinated report, Meta's AI mess, OpenAI's massive losses, AI sovereignty panic, platform rug pulls, crypto @ the White House & a flip phone that bans social media. gog.show/751/

Ep 750: Douchebag Ping Pong This week: AI IPOs unleash a blitzkrieg of BS PR, orbital AI data centers, eyeball-scanning layoffs, crypto grifters seeking pardons & Meta accidentally proving everyone's privacy fears were justified. gog.show/750/

Ep 749: Surge Bananas Meta records every mouse click, Microsoft wants users addicted to AI, Google engineers memes about their AI & Anthropic is heading for a massive valuation. Nobody wants it, it’s all surge priced & it's worth more than God. gog.show/749/

Ep 748: Space Bone Waymos drive into floods, Google AI can't spell Google, Starbucks gives up on inventory AI, Trump Mobile leaks customer data & SpaceX builds the cyberpunk kill-chain internet. Meanwhile, your Wi-Fi router is spying on your meat body. gog.show/748/

Ep 747: Why We Sigh AI gets booed at graduation, again, LinkedIn declares war on AI slop while generating it, prediction market chaos, crypto criminal corner returns, SpaceX wants to power AI with gas turbines like it’s Victorian London, but Star Wars! gog.show/747/

Ep 746: Reality is Frequently Inaccurate AI data centers stealing Tahoe’s power, Waymo discovering floodwaters, Meta selling privacy, Musk courtroom butt cushions, fake AI crypto journalists, AI-analyzed poop pics, Dungeon Crawler Carl & Douglas Adams. gog.show/746/

Ep 745: Unwanted Senior Discount AI podcasts, AI therapists, AI mass-shooting advice, AI Oscar bans, AI layoffs & AI-powered C-3PO heads. GameStop wants to buy eBay, Toto wins the chip war with toilets, & Jeeves finally dies. gog.show/745/

Ep 744: Goblin Mode Ban the kids, scan their faces, break VPNs - regulators are crushing it. Meanwhile AI fuels scandals, Meta fires workers, Google cashes in & OpenAI fights fires. Plus: Vine revival, AI photo tricks & your closet now lives in Google. gog.show/744/

Ep 743: Category Five Dystopia Elon admitted Tesla FSD is never happening for your car. The NSA is using Anthropic's AI. xAI is draining Memphis's drinking water. Cash App wants your 6 year old's money. Palantir published a villain manifesto. Whee! gog.show/743/

Ep 742: Uncouth Yet Highly Litigious Estonia says social media bans don’t work. Australia proves it. AI gets linked to violence and praises fart music. Meta wants face-scanning glasses. France ditches Windows. Allbirds pivots to AI then faceplants. gog.show/742/

Ep 741: Moon Joy Apple scrambles your workouts. AI giants stole your IP, angry China stole theirs. Benz wheels fall off. Amazon kills your Kindle. FBI reads deleted texts. Artemis astronauts took great Moon pics on their iPhones, so... silver lining? 🎙️ gog.show/741/

Ep 740: To the Moon! Chatbots are making humans worse at being human, social feeds are AI sludge, “self-driving” cars still need humans (just remotely), Anthropic leaked its own code, Wikipedia banned AI content & robotaxis are trapping passengers. gog.show/740/

Ep 739: The Thin Black Line Meta fined $375M for child safety failures. Musk lost 3 lawsuits in a week. Sam Altman compared to a Nazi. Netflix raised prices. The Pentagon can't quit Claude. Reddit wants your face scan. But the thin black line holds! gog.show/739/