The big business of loneliness; high decibel drones; pseudo science; living with smart devices; Amazon & big business; Alexa eavesdropping; Facebook reads your posts; AI Clippy; Microsoft news; Netflix tweets; bundle battles; the Predator; Daniel Suarez; humans are horrible; Winterfell’s Starbucks; feedback loop.
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Show Notes
FOLLOW UP
The big business of loneliness
Have You Heard the Buzz About Delivery Drones’ Noise?
How the U.K. Won’t Keep Porn Away From Teens
IN THE NEWS
What it’s really like to live with so-called smart devices
Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time
Facebook ‘labels’ posts by hand, posing privacy questions
Word’s new AI editor will improve your writing
MEDIA CANDY
Netflix Confirms That Season Two Of Sex Education Has Started Filming
The fight for the bundle is the war for the future of TV
AT THE LIBRARY
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
https://amzn.to/2VmCAKC
MORON OF THE WEEK
Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
Latest ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode Reveals There’s a Starbucks in Winterfell
HBO Reveals The Truth Behind ‘Game Of Thrones’ On-Screen Coffee Cup Mistake
FEEDBACK LOOP
BobbyG’s Chicago Eatery & Sports Bar
The future is here and the worst of all we feared…
Watch Jordan Peele use AI to make Barack Obama deliver a PSA about fake news
Some guy modified his Roomba to swear when it bumps into shit
Truth Machine: A Novel of Things to Come by James L. Halperin
Automation Transformed How Pilots Fly Planes. Now the Same Must Happen With Cars
The rise of Glovo and the decline of labor
Firefox pushes another update to fix its broken add-ons
Jack Dorsey Is Gwyneth Paltrow for Silicon Valley
Twenty Thousand Hertz #61 – Dining on Decibels
Stablecoin Overload? Asset Class in Danger of Market Saturation
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
