65: Not Your Parents Sex Toy

For the Birthday of 'Murica episode we discuss the technology of "self-love" and the rise of the F'ables. A little talk about the MKNewsfeed scandal, the future of the indie music biz, and Brian shares his best travel tip to avoid a sprain at the TSA. Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you'd like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Show Notes You can now literally have sex with your iPad AutoBlow 2 Building A Better Blowjob Machine The AutoBlow Original for people who are looking for the original. Oh yes! It was Crowdfunded!!! RealTouch has been around for ages. There's the ever popular Fucking Machines for the ladies Arse Elektronika 'So Who Wants to F**k a Robot?' Jacob Appelbaum on Wikipedia Automatic Sperm Extractor Introduced Into A Chinese Hospital "Feminism is a sexual strategy": Inside the angry online men's rights group "Red Pill"In the "manosphere," men resent women for "withholding" sex. And the scariest part is that they're far from alone Can We Stop Saying Tinder Is Good for Women Now? An Incompetent Attack on the Innovator's Dilemma Why we should be celebrating the rise of robot journalism instead of criticizing it MKNewsfeed! The background on Project MKUltra Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits. Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little Oversight What does the Facebook experiment teach us? Growing Anxiety About Data Manipulation by Danah Boyd Facebook Got Permission To Do 'Research' On Users 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study News feed: 'Emotional contagion' sweeps Facebook Facebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experiment Facebook's science experiment on users shows the company is even more powerful and unethical than we thought Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw Facebook and Engineering the Public Everything You Need to Know About Facebook's Controversial Emotion Experiment The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats Medium Hires Tech Writer Steven Levy as It Moves From Platform to Publisher Blade, a Helicopter-Booking App, to Partner With Uber This Startup Had Over 5 Million Users And A Great Product. Then It Folded Stop predicting music's future: The next Pixies, White Stripes or Adele will come from the indie ranks Is This The End Of SoundCloud For DJs? An emoji-only social network: Ridiculous … or brilliant? (Or Sharkbaiting?) Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 86% of devices Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's 'Right to be Forgotten' Data breaches in 2013 exposed 14% of all debit cards Microsoft Darkens 4MM Sites in Malware Fight How a password changed my life. 1Password with Touch ID integration in iOS 8 is truly amazing The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare Disqus Wordpress Plugin Flaw Leaves Millions of Blogs Vulnerable to Hackers Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid Robogenesis: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson They're making a Robopocalypse movie. Maybe. Fitbit Update ReadMe! by Pierre DiAvisoo The Internet's Own Boy (Paid) The Internet's Own Boy (Free) The Internet's Own Boy (Kickstarter) Starz Developing 'American Gods' Series Sherlock renewed for a 4th season and a Special! Man vs Food star has show taken off air after 'thinspiration' rant SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND Music by Amungus Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code "gog" while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!