587: Our Inevitable Doom

100% Efficiency; PayPal layoffs; Microsoft & ChatGPT Plus; Spotify increases premium subscribers, loses more money; Tesla bitcoin loss; pushback against self-driving cars; Amazon shutting down grocery stores; Meta paid for data scraping while denouncing it; AI alien signals; Picard; Paramount+ With Showtime; Cunk on Earth; Earthside; Ask a Historian; After Babel; Barnes & Nobel is back; Wikenigma; the Dark Side with Dave; more playing around with ChatGPT; ElevenLabs AI voices; Stormtroopin'.

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MEDIA CANDY

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Cunk on Earth

AT THE LIBRARY

Earthside - Quantum Earth, Book 2 by Dennis E. Taylor

Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner

After Babel - Jonathan Haight

How Barnes & Noble Came Back From Near Death by Ezra Klein

Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns

SECURITY HAH!

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

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